PASADENA FLEA MARKET, GINGERBREAD, AND MOCHI

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: NOVEMBER 5–11, 2018! (PASADENA FLEA MARKET, GINGERBREAD, AND MOCHI)

New pottery pieces finished, holidays at Disneyland, plants and second-hand finds at the Pasadena Flea Market, shooting more recipes for the amwa cookbook, and seeing friends and family before prepping to leave for Denver.

Enjoy!

Morning! Here at work early to help a coworker with some prototype testing.

Love this sweater, originally Alyssa’s that I accidentally kidnapped for so long she let me keep it.

First day at work since the time change, and it’s now super dark when we leave.

Lights down the freeway

Trying some wider and taller shapes at pottery studio

Some successes and not so successes that were finished up from last week.

Zeen too kind, always trying to compliment my pieces even when they are clearly very shitty.

Tuesday, Election Day in the States. Did my duty.

Wearing my sticker at work.

Another beautiful sunset evening after work, couldn’t help it.

Getty Research Institute by night

Home

Gobbled up some takeout Vietnamese

Went out to see Mystery Science Theater at LA Live. Watched a movie called “The Brain” it was truly silly and bad and great all at once.

Just wanted to get some better shots of the pieces I like in the daylight. Forgive meee.

Still love this cup, I want to try to make more of this design if I even can.

My herbs are still alive!

Oh yeah, we got this little cart that fits in the narrow space between the oven and the wall. Holds all the cooking oil and stuff.

Helloooo. Been a busy week, just getting ready for a conference we had the next week (currently here now in Denver!)

Trying to get my skin back into shape, but somehow also trying to tell myself that this little constellation of stars on my cheeks is cute too.

Tristan helping me with some important last minute xerox zine making for a conference thing.

BLESSED to have come home from a long day to a friggin cheese board. A+ effort on all fronts. Some cheese choices we may need to rethink for next time, but overall WAHH so grateful for cheese. It heals all.

Pastaaa

Friday, got a comp day so decided to mentally escape and go to Disneyland which happened to be the first day of the holiday season decorations and stuff.

Already bright and sunny in the morning

Went to the Jolly Holiday bakery to get a breakfast and of course scope out the treats. I don’t even love sweets, but I love just seeing what is offered.

New friend

Croissant with ham and cheese inside

Tried to take a photo but then all the napkins blew away

Derp

Disney duck

Wandering around

Why on earth is there Star Wars Ep. 3 merchandise

Blurry at the Temple of Doom

Who looked into the eyes…

Casual excavation

Wore the band shirt to the concert

Ugly but smiling

Wandering around the candy shop

To California Adventure

Love a weird Mickey

Popcorn buckets waiting to be fed popcorn

There was a special festival of the holidays food fair thinggy, we tried the pork belly adobo.

A curry cauliflower soup (SO good)

And of course Zeen cannot resist queso.

Lil’ beers

Donald has somewhere to be

Tigger with ears too small and a head too big

Carsland

Hidden Mickey

Fake nature

Adorable Snowman Frosted Treats. I tried the lemon one…yummm.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Sun starting to set, lights starting to get all twinkly

Incredicoaster

Beautiful gateway to the restrooms

Angerrrr

Feliz Navidad celebration with Mickey and Minnie

Beary cute

Wandered back into Disneyland down Main Street to see everything lit up

Not bad. Goodnight, Disneyland

amwa cookbook shoot (almost coming to the end of these shoots) today, a mochi dish and a dish called bai.

Sneaky preview of this dish.

Trying the mochi! Happy faces.

Highly professional shoot

Moving on to shooting the second dish

The best part of these shoots is sitting together and eating and talking about food and food memories and family history. Very pleasant.

The light was so red and warm from the fires and smoke over the skies in LA. It was like a beautiful horrible sign from the sky.

The city is unwell 😦

Saturday night glam

Taco truck on a Saturday night

We’re trapped in a ball

Bundled up and ready to head out to the flea market on Sunday morning

He’s always touching up against something I’ve worn recently. Maybe that means I should probably not leave my stuff around.

The air is still bad

Pasadena we are here

Rose Bowl Flea Market!

Somehow we spent almost 4 hours wandering around the Flea Market. It was great! I still felt like there was more I didn’t see.

Lamp

We shared a pulled pork BBQ sandwich and some garlic fries

Snatched up some new plants

Some of my haul

Everything fit

Trying to protect my lamp with my beanie

Yay! After a looong wait (many years) and a long process prepping everything, my parents updated their kitchen! New tile and counter and sink!

They still have a little more to do, but overall they are so happy and excited. Congrats, parents!

Bye Tubby, bye parents

Moved all our plants to the kitchen window because a few of my orchids were unhappy.

New additions!

Hung him here for now

Yay! New stool for the bathroom. I was looking for something to stack towels or clothes while showering.

Trying out some arrangements of paintings and stuff. We still haven’t truly 100% unpacked but I like seeing stuff on the walls.

My gorls came over and we made some garlic avocado toast, pasta, etc.

Riceball Tweedy

I managed to successfully pack up my clothes for my trip to Denver the coming week.

Thanks for reading!

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Some questions that you may or may not feel inclined to answer? I normally borrow some from old Livejournal surveys, but these are just random ones. Let’s do it. I invite you to answer in the comments:

1. What’s the best thing you’ve thrifted or purchased second hand?
2. Are you an overpacker or an underpacker? What’s your packing strategy?
3. What’s your favorite street food? If it’s tacos…what’s your order?

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1. What’s the best thing you’ve thrifted or purchased second hand?
   My favorite was actually a gift from a local deli that Zach and I loved so much that closed. Zach got me two punny deli figurines in their closing auction (they had these punny deli/celeb sculptures on their walls), and I’m counting that as second hand.
2. Are you an overpacker or an underpacker? What’s your packing strategy?
   If the trip is to a place that seems ‘nearby’ to me, I tend to be an overpacker because I’m like, hey no big deal lugging this thing around. But if it is far and I perceive it as a farther than usual, I strive for underpacking to make room for souveniers, gifts, etc.
3. What’s your favorite street food? If it’s tacos…what’s your order?
   I’m going with my taco order since I ate at a taco truck this past week. Al pastor, green salsa, yes plz.

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Much love friends. Hope you are all safe, happy, healthy.