We went to the last game at Texas Stadium.
Now they're gonna tear it down.
The Cowboys lost.
It made us frown.
We'll miss our suite,
It was so damn sweet.
Enjoy the pics...cuz i said so. (sorry couldn't make that rhyme)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Last Game at Texas Stadium!
We went to the last game at Texas Stadium.
Now they're gonna tear it down.
The Cowboys lost.
It made us frown.
We'll miss our suite,
It was so damn sweet.
Enjoy the pics...cuz i said so. (sorry couldn't make that rhyme)
Reunion Pics
Ok...so we had a mini high school reunion tonight.
It was basically only people I liked.
But isn't that how it should be since i arranged it, right?
If you didn't come, you missed out on a big fight.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Filmed Segment for "Road Trip Nation"
Filmed a segment about being a designer for Roadtrip Nation today. Was interviewed by 3 lovely girls from Shepton High School in Plano about Fortune Denim and how I started the line. Check out these photos taken during the taping in our showroom.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Roadtrip to the Middle of Nowhere....
Ok...so me and Renee (aka "The Piglet") took a roadtrip to Hobbs, NM to visit our Grandma this weekend. It went something like this...1. Eat Dinner at Cattle Baron (tons of meat), 2. Hang out in the Mariott Lobby talking to people from the Netherlands, 3. Eat Lunch at a Chinese restaurant that WAS NOT CHINESE at all, 4. Hang out at my Grandmas listening to stories about our crazy great-grandpa and finding out that we were 1/8th Cherokee (where was this info when we were applying to go to school..it coulda been free..), 5. Looking at photos of our dad (check the one here - total Joaquin Phoenix, right?, 6. Eating dinner (i mean "supper") at Bovine & Swines (..more meat...), and busting loose.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Fortune Denim Trunk Show at Circa 2000
Circa 2000 hosted a trunk show for me tonight at Shops at Legacy. The Fortunetolotots were there and we recruited several new Fortune Denim devotees. Check out these photos of me and Abi Ferrin and my friend Yi-An (from elementary school!) at the event. Oh...and the bracelet im wearing, it's called BYKR Metal Works and they are designed by Kim Beyer. Kim was kind enough to gift me a super cool one! You can pick up BYKR Bracelets ($250) and Fortune Denim ($215) at Circa 2000 in the Shops at Legacy.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
First Showcase Rehearsal
We had our first showcase rehearsal last night! I danced in heels for 3 hours! Check out these photos of Cocolush and Keith (my choreographers) and the dancers! I could do this all day everyday.....
D Magazine's "10 Most Beautiful" of 2009
Just went to D Magazine's "10 Most Beautiful of 09" party at Saks. I was one of the winners this year! Check out these photos from the event and my feature in the magazine. D Beauty will be on newsstands next month. Be sure to pick one up to check out all of this years winners. (***Note - I am not 38 years old! That was a misprint and there will be a retraction.)
My Story
If you would have told me 10 years ago that I would be living the adventure that is my life today, I wouldn't have believed you.
I grew up dancing and singing in a choir, and I loved fashion and the performing arts. I wanted to perform, to be a designer, to create. However, I came from a family that encouraged me to focus on academics and stressed the importance of having stability and security, so I ended up in law school.
At the time, I thought it was the right thing to do, because everyone around me was so happy about it. I was happy knowing that they were happy, but at the end of my first year in law school I started to realize that I couldn't spend the rest of my life as a lawyer. I started having internalized panic attacks and felt like I was living for someone else, on borrowed time, trying to figure out what I was going to do - and then it happened.
The moment that changed my life. I moved into a new apartment that was contaminated with toxic mold, and over a 3 month period I went from being completely healthy to extremely ill, bedridden, emaciated, and in physical pain every waking moment. My entire face and 50% of my body was covered in an excruciating rash. I was diagnosed with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) and Environmental Illness and had to medically withdrawal from law school. I spent the next several years in treatment for being more or less poisoned by toxic mold. I lost virtually all my possessions. The health department would not let me take my personal items from the apartment, and they were taken to an incinerator and burned. The entire apartment community was shut down and gutted. I lost nearly all of my friends. They just stopped calling.
I look back now though, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Why? Because it made me fearless. It gave me time to reassess my priorities. I prayed to God that if I could be well and normal again, I would live my life to the fullest, the way it was meant to be lived, and my prayers were answered.
As I began to heal, I developed a new perspective on life. I realized that with my health I could do anything. I stopped caring what people thought about me. I developed more compassion for other people, and I started to develop a plan-- a detailed plan in writing of all the things I wanted. I looked at the plan every day and believed that I was going to get it, and took massive action to manifest it. As my values and priorities shifted, my life changed dramatically.
In 2005, I recorded a record in Mandarin for the overseas Chinese (Taiwan) market. That deal didn't end up being what I expected it to be, but it was a great learning experience.
In 2006, I decided to start my own fashion line, which I had been developing for some time. I called it Fortune Denim. I had no design background and knew no one in the fashion industry, but I believed I could make it happen though hard work and persistence. Fortune Denim is now carried in over 300 stores in the US and distributed in a number of other countries. It's an incredible creative outlet for me and I'm so blessed to be able to work with the people on my team.
A year later, I decided to write and produce my own record. It was important for me to have complete control over the writing and producing. I wasn't sure how I was going to do it, because I had never written any of my own songs before. I bought a couple of song-writing books and read them. I started working on the record a little each day, and it started to become a reality. Around the same time, I was fortunate enough to be introduced to a record producer named Chris Salmeron. He really got what I wanted to do and we decided to team up and do this record. Since then he has become one of my closest friends, and I am so grateful to know him.
Chris did all the beats, and I wrote the lyrics and melodies. Sometimes Chris would give me a CD of beats and I would write to them. Sometimes I'd come up with something in my head and he'd work the music around it. I wrote most of the songs in under 30 minutes. "Torture Me So" was written and arranged in under 10 minutes. Anything that took me over an hour was scrapped. I wrote the songs alone while driving in a circular route on the freeways of Dallas. A few more were written driving around Los Angeles.
All of my songs are about real experiences I've lived, feelings I've had, or people I've known. The emotion is raw, and I know we've all had similar experiences. Maybe you'll just love dancing to the beats. They're all very intimate to me, and I sincerely hope that you will connect with them. Thank you for taking the time to visit my website and taking an interest in what I've created.
I still hold true to the dreams of my childhood and I hope you do too.
Karen
I grew up dancing and singing in a choir, and I loved fashion and the performing arts. I wanted to perform, to be a designer, to create. However, I came from a family that encouraged me to focus on academics and stressed the importance of having stability and security, so I ended up in law school.
At the time, I thought it was the right thing to do, because everyone around me was so happy about it. I was happy knowing that they were happy, but at the end of my first year in law school I started to realize that I couldn't spend the rest of my life as a lawyer. I started having internalized panic attacks and felt like I was living for someone else, on borrowed time, trying to figure out what I was going to do - and then it happened.
The moment that changed my life. I moved into a new apartment that was contaminated with toxic mold, and over a 3 month period I went from being completely healthy to extremely ill, bedridden, emaciated, and in physical pain every waking moment. My entire face and 50% of my body was covered in an excruciating rash. I was diagnosed with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) and Environmental Illness and had to medically withdrawal from law school. I spent the next several years in treatment for being more or less poisoned by toxic mold. I lost virtually all my possessions. The health department would not let me take my personal items from the apartment, and they were taken to an incinerator and burned. The entire apartment community was shut down and gutted. I lost nearly all of my friends. They just stopped calling.
I look back now though, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me. Why? Because it made me fearless. It gave me time to reassess my priorities. I prayed to God that if I could be well and normal again, I would live my life to the fullest, the way it was meant to be lived, and my prayers were answered.
As I began to heal, I developed a new perspective on life. I realized that with my health I could do anything. I stopped caring what people thought about me. I developed more compassion for other people, and I started to develop a plan-- a detailed plan in writing of all the things I wanted. I looked at the plan every day and believed that I was going to get it, and took massive action to manifest it. As my values and priorities shifted, my life changed dramatically.
In 2005, I recorded a record in Mandarin for the overseas Chinese (Taiwan) market. That deal didn't end up being what I expected it to be, but it was a great learning experience.
In 2006, I decided to start my own fashion line, which I had been developing for some time. I called it Fortune Denim. I had no design background and knew no one in the fashion industry, but I believed I could make it happen though hard work and persistence. Fortune Denim is now carried in over 300 stores in the US and distributed in a number of other countries. It's an incredible creative outlet for me and I'm so blessed to be able to work with the people on my team.
A year later, I decided to write and produce my own record. It was important for me to have complete control over the writing and producing. I wasn't sure how I was going to do it, because I had never written any of my own songs before. I bought a couple of song-writing books and read them. I started working on the record a little each day, and it started to become a reality. Around the same time, I was fortunate enough to be introduced to a record producer named Chris Salmeron. He really got what I wanted to do and we decided to team up and do this record. Since then he has become one of my closest friends, and I am so grateful to know him.
Chris did all the beats, and I wrote the lyrics and melodies. Sometimes Chris would give me a CD of beats and I would write to them. Sometimes I'd come up with something in my head and he'd work the music around it. I wrote most of the songs in under 30 minutes. "Torture Me So" was written and arranged in under 10 minutes. Anything that took me over an hour was scrapped. I wrote the songs alone while driving in a circular route on the freeways of Dallas. A few more were written driving around Los Angeles.
All of my songs are about real experiences I've lived, feelings I've had, or people I've known. The emotion is raw, and I know we've all had similar experiences. Maybe you'll just love dancing to the beats. They're all very intimate to me, and I sincerely hope that you will connect with them. Thank you for taking the time to visit my website and taking an interest in what I've created.
I still hold true to the dreams of my childhood and I hope you do too.
Karen
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