So being at grampies and being able to flip through old photos made me reminiss about all the good times I had growing up.

Me with my spike collar and bleached hair was so much fun. I really loved that period of my life. Definitely worth all that experimenting with all my styles. Was able to get out all that rebellion.

When it comes time for me to have kids I won’t put up a fight because expressing yourself is so important.

So after doing some research on Tandy leather I found out that it’s super easy to dye your own leather. They make these special dyes that make it easy to dye veg tanned leathers.

After you dye and polish the leather it makes it super shiny and the dyes penetrate the leather with lots of depth. It’s really amazing.

So I’m thinking to gift to a blogger and then make a few and start an etsy shop. Really enjoy making things. It feeds my creative needs and makes me so happy to be able to use and have people appreciate my designs.

1. Start with Vachetta in natural color.

2. Moisten w water and then apply dye.

3. Cover with the dye at least 4-5 coats on all sides.

5. Buff and polish all surfaces with a soft cloth.

7. Stitch together and this is the final result.

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So this year I celebrated my 31st bday with Adam, Lolli, Kyle and B.

They took me to Pylos for dinner. This really cute Greek restaurant in the east village.

The food was really good. I’m really lucky to be blessed to have sweet nice friends. Throughout the years I find that it’s harder to make real friends. I hope that I end up keeping the friends I have.

I feel like in doing pretty well for someone that’s 31. I support myself financially and am a homeowner and already a design director. Also I am in a committed relationship with the hopes of taking our relationship to the next step.

I am truly thankful for everything I have been given.

So tonight b took me out to Collichio and Sons.

This is the second time I have been to one of his restaurants.

He took me to the Tap room which is more low key and chill.

The food was excellent. I got this beef brisket dish over this creamy sauce. Was so delicious. B got this really good shrimp dish.

For desert we got two desserts. My favorite was the ginger snap ice cream and the little doughnuts. The food was so amazing- would definitely go back.

My bday gift was my beautiful miansai bracelet. Sterling silver with calf leather trim. Super chic and really nice. I tried it on at Patron of the new and fell in love. So thankful- your the best baby!!!!

So last night marked our official one year anniversary for our JG store.

We had a great turnout and we sold quite a few bags which was great.

The party was also a celebration for joys Bday. We all chipped in and got her a Margiela bracelet which she loved.

It was fun to be hanging out with people at work but in a fun environment. We ended up staying till 9:40 ish.

So this night started out to be an amazing night.

The opening band called Alpine was amazing.

Pore of the sun started and they were so amazing. They had really good performers. At certain times during the concert I was taking pics and videos of the performance because I really wanted to capture this cool moment.

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Towards the end of the concert b was getting annoyed that I was Playong w my phone and then shortly after he said “you’re pissing me off!” I was so shocked he was so mad and that totally ruined my mood. For the rest of the night I just shut down and was so angry at him that I wanted to leave.

Anyways he ended up just leaving me there. I tried to catch up to him but hw was rushing out so fast that I have up and instead took a long time to get home to vent out my frustration. I have never been that angry at him before. I even slept on the couch and barely spoke to him the next day. And for dinner that day I ate out alone. We ended up kind of talking along time on the phone. I ended up forgiving him the next morning only because I had to. I wanted to forgive him and I hate being mad at him.

So that was the story of our concert event. #drama but the concert was worth it. Really loved them live. Amazing energy.