What a great weekend! A friend of mine, Anya Lloyd opened her boutique, Chicle de Anya, on Houston’s most eclectic street in the Heights. I met Anya in our Fashion Sketching class a little over a year ago. She’s an amazing artist with a good eye for funky style that works. I was so impressed with her store front and the over all feeling of her space. She is selling her own creations as well as stocking her boutique full of fun, youthful fashions that are all grown up at the same time– its a great balance!
If that isn’t enough to make you want to check her store out….then go for the cool styles she imports from Japan that you won’t find any where else in H-town!
Way to go Anya I am so stoked for you!
Me & Anya
Chicle de Anya store front
I’ve never been so excited about a sport before, although I must have felt the same way about tennis when I was 8 cause I’m still playing it today! Its been a little over a year since I started surfing and well I’m proud to say I’m an advanced beginner. I don’t know if advanced beginner is a surfing term, but for those of you who are tennis players you know exactly what an advanced beginner is. I’ve played tennis close to 22 years and I kind of forgot the feeling of ripping a backhand down the line for the first time. I guess I forgot the newness of being a beginner and progressing to the next level. Surfing is reminding me, in a very humbling way in fact. You see the errors I’m used to are balls in the net, balls flying out, mis-hits which is all very frustrating……but trying to get through a breaking wave, getting slammed by the lip, almost hitting the jetty…..sharks….. a whole new way of doing a sport—it’s awesome and humbling!I think surfing has helped me be a better teaching pro, especially when I teach beginners……I guess remembering when I wasn’t so good myself is giving me new insight…..
