NYE 2012

We filled a room at the Hotel des Arts downtown with confetti, color, champagne, and friends. Each room at the hotel is decorated by a different artist, and we stayed in an awesome suite painted by Shepard Fairy and Tricia Choi…which meant really cool floor-to-ceiling Obey wheat pastings and crazy color explosions. Multicolored crepe streamers composed a rainbow wall, giant balloons and mylar stars floated about, and we toasted until the bottles were empty.

Some of us continued the climb up Nob Hill to a masquerade party, where we rang in 2012 under colored balloon ribbons, pizza and ostrich feathers. It was a lovely way to send off 2011, and I’m excited to see what adventures the new year will bring.

Before it Was Sewn: Bri’s Art Show at RGB

I am so very proud of Briana! I am lucky to be surrounded by genuinely talented, passionate, and beautiful people–of which she is a favorite. Her group show was fun (I always enjoy art, pear cider and fashion) and I was so glad to be in attendance. Now I just have to get my commissions in before she gets famous and expensive…

Check out Bri’s work on her website here.

Halloween Wrap Up: Cruella De Vil (better late than never edition)

I had varying degrees of costume intensity for this one (work party/crowded gay bar/actual Halloween) and I loved them all. It was very fun to embody such a fierce and evil woman, and I kept catching myself with my chin in the air, fake smoking out of an empty cigarette holder, and tapping my wicked pointy nails. Polka dots go so well with dalmatian blood and crazy hair! At work I wore a vintage beaded/glitter top with sheer sleeves and a sensible pencil skirt. For the house party and mischief with Joel I opted for a crop top and spotted tights.  And for the actual night of Halloween I had my makeup done at Sephora (a real treat let me tell you), and wore this amazing dress from ASOS. We danced the night away in the Castro and some of it is a blur, but I’m certain I squeezed every last drop out of Halloween this year. Now what to be in 2012…

Halloween: Saturday | Twin Peaks Triple Feature at The Roxie

I loved everything about this. Midnites for Maniacs packed the little theater with Twin Peaks enthusiasts. Tickets came with vintage trading cards, David Lynch movie trailers and Julee Cruise music videos played before each film, and the curator Jesse spoke on recurring themes, film noir, fun trivia and Lynch’s influences. I was the log lady, Patrick was Bob, and Jaz sported an eyepatch to shoutout Nadine. I had damn fine coffee between the first and second act, and when Jaz came back for the third show she smuggled in a warm cherry pie.

The show started with Laura, a brilliant film from 1944 that was a point of inspiration for Twin Peaks. It was not only an amazing movie, but it was fun to pick up on names and style references. You so rarely get a breadcrumb trail with David Lynch. This was followed by the two hour show pilot, and then a midnight showing of Fire Walk With Me. So perfectly creepy and fun for Halloween. We then walked the streets of the Mission as the bars overflowed with costumed revelers, strobe lights flashing in our brains.

Halloween: Thursday | Creepy Karaoke at Jack’s

So much fun! Stripes, dots, and glitter shoes. The usual singing, climbing furniture, air guitar, sax-accompanied dance party antics…except this time we threw glitter all over everything during Edge of Glory. Because that’s how we live our lives.

Halloween: Wednesday | Aunt Charlie’s Drag Show Spooktacular

A little local color in the Tenderloin with Joel and Kara. Filled with pink neon, twinkle lights, truckers, and relics of another age. Spooky for so many different reasons.

Pumpkin Party Part Two

Pumpkin Party Part One

This is by far one of my favorite parties ever. It combines all of my favorite things: pizza, crafts, friends, decorating and Halloween! So much fun. People were carving in every inch of Jordan’s house. We had a ton of pumpkin beer, glitter and guts flying all over, a fully-stocked craft bar, good knives, bad knives, knives that broke and an award ceremony with paper prize ribbons.

Sunday San Francisco wandering.

Fashion’s Night Out, San Francisco

Fashion’s Night Out, San Francisco

Union Square, rock candy, sequins, champagne, bang trims, Real Houswives of New York, glitter shoes, live models, wind and fog and animal print!

Also: Amanda, Jordan, Candace, Sade, Tara and her friend Dominique.