AIGA-KC: Homegrown Fashion

Happy Friday!

Last night I had the privilege to attend AIGA-KC's event Homegrown: Fashion for my friend Sarah Nelsen. It was a really nice event to attend after a long day at work and to support the local fashion industry in Kansas City. There was a panel of local fashion and design talent that spoke about the collaborative process of design in the fashion industry. http://kc.aiga.org/event/homegrown-fashion/

The different speakers did a great job of explaining what their company is and each speaker spoke for about 10-15 minutes on their different clients/jobs/design process. The AIGA did a really nice job organizing this event and the event space in River Market is beautiful.

AIGA KC

Our Fashion Panel

Moderated by Molly Bingaman of Ladybird Styling

Sara Cramer | Handmade by Sara Cramer

Morgan Georgie and Carrie Kiefer | Ampersand Studio 

David Lloyd | Method, Kansas City 

Sarah S. Nelsen | studio será será

Jenny Wheat | Wheat Photography

Robbie and I met the ladies from Ampersand Studio and bought a new print to add to our apartment. It's bright neon pink so I'm not exactly sure where we are going to hang it but I'm sure we will find it a nice home. Be Present. I love that saying. Here are those cute ladies at Ampersand Design Studio:

XOXO

JADATO

RAW Artist KC-Voodoo Lounge

Hey readers,

Last night I went out on a school night to Voodoo Lounge to support my friend Sam Levi's RAW Natural Born Artists KC. She has really great work and I was proud to be there for her. Her booth looked amazing and I bought one of her small prints to the left. Check her website out here: http://samanthalevi.com/

Sam Levi Photo

Sam Levi Photo

I forgot to mention they had a swank photo booth option that any girl will flock to. The photo booth was even kind enough to tell you what poses to do. Photo 1: Cheerleader, Glasses, and Blue Steel. Photo 2: Love, Freezing, and favorite animal pose. My amazing friend Sarah Nelsen is the pretty short haired lady in the first photo with me and you should check out her work here: http://sarah-nelsen.com/

 

We had a lot of fun and were ready to call it a night around midnight. Again please check out my friends websites as they are super talented women in KC.

XOXO

JADATO

Haircut Inspiration

Hi readers!

I got my hair cut yesterday and was very tempted to cut it short but I got a trim instead. I have a obsessive compulsive nature to get a haircut that I had in London back in 2005 when I studied abroad there. No one has been able to get it quite right and I have ended up with an ugly mullet a few times. When someone cuts my hair wrong too I turn into that girl that shows all her emotions on her face and vow silently to never return to said salon.

Browsing the Internet for hair inspiration I got annoyed at the amount of celebrity haircuts in Google's search engine. I mean there has to be other people in the world besides celebrities that have good hair. I found a random hair model picture that I loved and I did end up loving one celebrity's hair Lily Allen. Look how pretty her hair is, her makeup, her skin is glowing, and I just love her. I will take picture tomorrow of my haircut when I don't have it pulled up in a high-pony and show you how bouncy it turned out. I realized scanning back through my old photographs that I've really kept short hair for a while. Here's to growing it super long still and taking new photographs to prove I did it!

XOXO

JADATO

Arizona Trading Company: Lawrence, KS

GOOD MORNING!

This morning is that morning where I desperately want ok NEED a Redeye coffee. Who wants to bring me one? :) I went with my friend Chelsea to Lawrence Sunday for a cheap girl date and to go eat/thrift store shopping. She had only been there one time before so we had fun just doing a girl Super Bowl date, rather than wearing sweat pants around the house eating pork grinds.

We stopped by Free State Brewery for a few brewskys and some beer battered onion rings. Can you believe we ate a full order of those things? I tried two beers that were new to me on tap: Lupulus Maximus and Fireside Imperial Pils. Chelsea had their Oatmeal Stout and another one that I don't remember the name. Here is evidence of the beers we tried and the HUGE onion rings. We also ate dinner at The Burger Stand which my friends Simon Bates and Codi Bates own and they have crazy delicious food. (See the burger picture below)

Before eating the burger the size of our head's we stopped by Arizona Trading Company to search for some cool thrift clothing. They had a Winter Coat Sale Rack in the front and I found this badass leather jacket. It's streamlined and really simple so I had to snatch it up. The best part is is was only $18.75 and was in perfect condition so I snatched that up ASAP. I bought this other amazing BCBG dress for only $5.00 and I dug for it in those trash bins you see below. I am not above digging for a deal by any means; I will post pictures of the dress at the event I attend tomorrow!

Jacket Brand: Live a Little

XOXO

JADATO