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Victor and I celebrated our 3 years this past week! YES THREE YEARS! TRES!!! It is crazy looking back at these three years, and everything that has happened! I sometimes find myself thinking back to the years BV (before Victor) and how I would have never thought I'd be where I am now. In these three years we learned a lot about each other, met each others family members and friends (and learned a lot about each one of them)  and took a huge step to moving in together! I remember being excited and nervous taking this huge step but now a little more than a year later I love it! I love our small studio, and even though I would like a bigger space I'm content with what we have. I love coming home to our home and coming home to him.

The day of our anniversary (November 7th) Victor surprised me at work with a 3 DOZEN rose arrangement! I could not believe it and I was so excited, that it was borderline nervous! My heart was pumping so fast and I was in shock. No one has ever done that for me and I have never been in that situation. If anything I usually am the one to bust something like that so it was such a wonderful feeling! Plus he got to meet some of my coworkers!

Later that night we celebrated by taking the train downtown to Bottega Louie, such a cute french restaurant and bakery. It reminds me so much of NY and a restaurant where Carrie Bradshaw would likely visit with her girlfriends. The food was incredible and so was our waitress Zoe. She was adorable! After dinner we walked downtown and stopped by one of Victors favorite spots "The Standard Hotel". Of course we took advantage of the photobooth! As soon as we got home we exchanged gifts and it was so funny to see that we kind of got each other almost the exact same thing. I gifted Victor one of Andy Warhols early work (illustrations for a children's book) and an instagram projecter from Projecteo that showed some memories of our 3 years. He gifted me a view master with some favorite photos of us! CRAZY! The surprise didn't stop there, Saturday he surprised me with an all day pass to the mini theme park "Pacific Park" in the Santa Monica Pier! 

Take a look at our photos below:

These gold glittered gift tags are avaiable on our Etsy shop: PALM TREE PUNK!

 p.s I just downloaded this super kawaii app called    Korawia and I am obsessed with it!

 
 
HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS ALONG THIS WONDERFUL TALENTED BEAUTIFUL MAN 

^ . ^

DIVA.

Our friend Tiffany (and ex coworker) came down from San Francisco, her new home, to visit us and have a photoshoot. She wanted some fun shots for her new blog that  she is about to launch; DOITALLDIVA.COM. I love the idea of her blog, she has some serious writing skills AND the whole feel of the blog is SO HER. DOITALLDIVA is inspiring for not only women but men as well; after all, all we want is EVERYTHING right ?!

The gloomy weather worked in our favor and Victor got some great shots. I shot some behind the scenes photos and even those look amazing! 

Check them out below:

P R O P S 

MAKE SURE TO GIVE HER BLOG A VISIT!

TRAFFIC.

This is a music video that I put together today (it's my first video ever) and I used an original song from Victor called "Traffic".  I woke up this morning with this song in mind, and have been wanting to create a music video for it. I shot all the footage today after work, and surprised Victor with the video once he got home. It isn't amazing and you can tell it's my first time, I have yet to learn tons more about video editing but I'm happy with how it turned out. I hope to make more videos soon, and hopefully shoot an editorial video for Victors blog or his music.

 THE VIDEO DOES LOOK A LITTLE BETTER ON MY VIMEO ACCOUNT, LINK IS BELOW: 

vimeo.com/bftoafashionblogger

CHISMETIME!

Here's a video from the funniest chica LA COACHA that sums up the Hello Kitty Forever Launch Party that Victor and I attended a couple weeks back supporting our good friend Onch! I could not believe that she was at the launch party. It's such an honor to open up this video with Victor and I singing her classic "chismetime" theme song! I'm such a fan of her and love her so much!

CHECK OUT HER HILARIOUS WEBSITE:

chismetime.com

MY MAN • MY MUSE

Just a quick blog post about today, it was my day off, and for once I actually enjoyed it to the fullest! I slept in (sleeping in for me is just a little past 7:00am and a little before 8:00am, naturally I hardly wake up past 9), hanged out with my little nephew Ceelo, and practiced sketching/drawing again. I've always wanted to try and dabble a bit with sketching but never put the time and effort into it so I am trying my hand at it and I love it! I think I've just found a new hobby, and need to buy a sketchbook to keep all my work. So far all the sketches I've drawn are of my boyfriend, he is my biggest inspiration and my muse after all. It's fun to make a drawing out of some of my favorite photographs of him or as I did today, draw him as I see him in my mind: cool, edgy, confident, bad ass, and as he calls himself "the prince of Los Angeles".

starting point of my drawing: 

pencil + ink

adding some color:

LA skyline behind him | 711 Big Gulp filled with Coca-Cola | platform sneakers | bold sunglasses | camera ready

finished product:

THE PRINCE OF LOS ANGELES

I wanted to save the drawing and frame it then surprise Victor with it in a couple of days but I was so happy and excited with how it turned out that I couldn't resist and gave it to him as soon as I saw him. I hope to get better at drawing and hopefully continue to draw him the way that I see him in my head. I'm still planning to buy a frame to frame my mini masterpiece.

Later in the day we went out for hot wings at Bastards Sports Bar in Downey CA, and once the sun went down a bit we took photos of a good friends son for his upcoming bday party. This is such a cute picture of a picture: 

Victor taking great shots of Aiden.

I'm so glad I got to enjoy my day off. Fun times surrounded by special people. Now off to bed I go like the grandpa that I am.

• Buenas Noches •

STUDS

Today was a nice beautiful summer day in LA, I spent some time with my boyfriend (Victor), went to eat at one of our favorite hot wings chain restaurant, and did some local shopping. Our afternoon began with a trip to a local thrift shop in Bell, California. We usually like to go thrifting in hopes of finding some Etsy worthy clothing.  Clothing that is either timeless and classic, able to be reworked, or expresses pop culture. Our thift shop trip proved to be a successful one, Victor found some great pieces that are now for sale on his Etsy store. Two of my favorite items that he purchased today was a bright red Lacoste cardigan, and a Britney Spears '09 Circus tour tee (I might just buy it for myself!).

Studs are very in today, so I helped my boyfriend revamp the Britney tee along with two other tees, and give them a punk rock spin by studding the sleeves.  The tee shirts came out great and I'm sure they will sell quickly.

Taking a walk to 7/11.

To check out the Lacoste cardigan, as well as the Britney tee and much more visit my boyfriends Etsy shop: www.etsy.com/SHOP/VICTORGO