sunday funday bunday

my dearest friend and fashionita, rider monisouris is 7 months preggers! labor day weekend me and the lovely lissa moon had the greatest honor to throw her a beautiful baby shower. throwing this shower meant the world to me and i cant wait to see our frisco family grow. watch out francois i think you have a future girlfriend in the works.

after becoming obsessed with all the baby and party planning blogs i thought it would be very appropriate to go with a circus themed shower and since moni was having a baby girl: pink and white stripes everywhere.

i approached the talented veronica and she made some adorable invitations. i teamed with my girl amy, had some last minute help from sabah and went to town with the circus tents and mom and me elephant icons. we created envelopes, cupcake toppers, game templates, drink labels, the works. i found a bunch of DIY craft ideas for banners, decorations and animal cracker party favors. crafting, party planning and friends? i couldn't be any more happy. (ps. graphic designer friends last forever)

 

the setting itself, staged it up as it took place at the amazing medicine agency. we set up a craft area, candy bar, served mini sandwiches and all i had to do was let "mama anne style hands" put her finishing touches. trust, anne will turn any mess into magic. 

check out moni's and kara's post on the shower. after all my pictures would not have been possible (as lazy usual). i also posted some of the crowd photos on my flickr as well

sunday funday bunday indeed. congratulations mansy. we love you.
xoxo.

dear summer

...you've been beautiful. when you ride with a bunch of banging ladies, you tend to commit to a fabulous amount of birthday weekends. this summer held true to a few (america included). 

here's to our summer birthday riders (the catch up blog edition)

the summer started with kara's dirty thirty vegas style. vegas is no joke and although it is NOT our usual playground, the buffets and magic shows were awesome. as usual if you ain't following finaforevs then you don't be knowing. but the day by day, play by play: here and here

we rolllled right into anne's birthday for a special fourth of july tahoe summer jumpoff weekend (special loves of course to slava's and joshy's dirty thirty as well). where we night hiked, rented pontoons, had an insanely stocked fridge, did some major smashing on the living room dance floor and pool partied it up in our over chlorinated indoor pool. belle's photos here

then we celebrated rachel's birthday. and on a very spooky friday the 13th, our dearest ladywere slash maryann packed it up and left us for the emerald city! don't worry we threw a special witchual and had a proper sf bonfire in her honor.

 

from sonoma critical mass to sweet berry wine pyramid schemes, the one that topped it off was the lovely ann taylor. one of the best rider diy ideas ever, we decided to "riiide riiide wine" it out for her birthday by renting bikes in napa for a wild women on wine tour. and finished it with a relaxing spa day at the gorgeous indian springs in calistoga. and of course the day by day, play by play here, here and here (and i've already done a shout out but you best be knowing about vittoria's new lady8ers blog roll on the rebel8 site)

introducing the lady8ers

aka vittoria's new blog!

they say behind every powerful man lies a strong woman. and this couldn't be more true when it comes to one of our top riders: vittoria. although we havent rep'd rebel8 enough on this blog, mainly because i never update this shit and rebel8 definitely holds its own and doesn't need much introduction, the company has recently updated a sick new website and has paved some new waves to the LADY8ERS.

anyways, just like our lovely finaforevs and monisouris, vittoria will be holding it down for club rider diy. so be sure to check her shit on the daily.