swine, hog, and boar flu

i don't know what the heck i have...all i know is it's kickin' my bootay...like no other flu I've had before...
usually after you don't feel good for a day or two, but this seems to be gettin worse...
I have fever and chills all night long, then in the day sinus pain that makes me just want push all over my face real hard so it'll go away....a cough that now makes my chest and abs hurt...and no medicine is seeming to work!
ahhhhhh..my teeth hurt...ok, enough of my list of symptoms...ha ha ha ha
Yesterday I felt like complete yuck-ness, I fell asleep trying to type a blog on the couch with my computer on my lap...and after that the rest of my night was taking a nap with my little guy..trying to make chicken noodle soup, that I put WAYYYYYYY tooo much salt in....showering....and hoping my Tylenol Severe Cold/Flu Nighttime med would kick in....
and right now, I'm typing this from the lower bed of my little peeps bunkbeds...while we might watch "Enchanted" for the 5th time....I love that movie!
off to go drink more fluids...oh, yeah, and hopefully facebook with let me log on again, I had to send them copies of my driver's license and everything...apparently they thought I was an "imposter" of myself or something! So if you guys want to post something on the fan page telling everyone what's happened, why I haven't been on there, please do!
huge love and I hope you all are well!!!!!
kandee and her tissue box and medicine

Romantic Western Ball Gown 2010

Romantic  Western Ball Gown 2010
Romantic  Western Ball Gown 2010

Every bride is longing to have the perfect romantic wedding dress for her wedding, wedding dress is the showpiece of any wedding. Wedding dress is more than just a simple dress that displayed by the bride. This is the symbol of a lot of love, purity, and happiness are waiting for the bride in the future with the groom. Preparing for the wedding ceremony is as important as finding the perfect wedding dress.

kandee: is in a relationship

the first boy to ever kiss me
I met a cute brown eyed boy sometime when I was little...his name was Bobby Wilson.
My mom always said how cute he was...
We tried dating/hanging out a few times in the last 10 years...(we've never fought or anything)
but now, he is officially my boyfriend...(well, not right now, we've been together for a while)
he told me I stole his heart back when we were 12...
he makes my heart melt when he smiles at me
I love the sound of his laugh
he sings to me and i love it....
he's so thoughtful...(the last search on his phone was for a florist for me!)...
he has stayed up for hours to help me go through my hundreds of thousands of emails on youtube...
watches video reponses on youtube with me, and has sat with his arm around me in a hotel lobby while I typed a blog until late in the night...
Bobby is one of the sweetest, most thoughtful and loving, happy, and easy going people I've ever known...he smiles just as much as me, and laughs as much too!
He has the most gorgeous smile...and face!
When he holds my hand, it feels like fireworks in my heart...
he adores me...
he is so patient and great with the kids...(and mine love him!)
We've known each other, and each other's family since we were small...and his family is wonderful!
He loves his mama...and she is beautiful on the outside and in her heart! She sends us and the kids presents all the time...she is wonderful!
random fact about my bobby:
he races cars
he was a surf instructor (and was on a reality tv show on MTV because of it, too)
he lived in Hawaii, (his sweet mama still lives there too) 
he paints and draws really well...
..too many things to list I could be here all day.....
to sum it all up....I love him...and he leaves me texts like this:
"I thank the Lord for my awesome lady by my side. I love love love you my sweet one. can't wait to see you this evening. smooches to my dreamy one" ....and my heart melts....





Used wedding gown

Used Wedding Dress

If you are on a tight budget you may be considering purchasing a used wedding dress. If you leave your options open and allow plenty of time for used dress shopping, you can wear the wedding gown of your dreams while saving several hundred dollars.

Used   Wedding Dress

Be aware when you buy used -- or any gown that isn't straight from the designer -- that it may be in less than pristine condition. Expect to have it cleaned or to make minor repairs.
Before looking at used gowns, research the various designers' styles so you know which brands tend to have "your look." While you are doing this, also decide what features you want your wedding dress to have. For example:
- What general style do you prefer (a-line, mermaid, etc.)?
- What color will your gown be (ivory, white, pink, etc.)?
- What necklines are acceptable to you (sweetheart, halter, etc.)?
- How long will your gown be and will it have a train?
- What type of detailing will it have (seed pearls, rhinestones, beading, etc.)?

Used Wedding Dress

Also, like everyday women's clothing, sizes vary depending on the brand. Each designer publishes a measurement chart. Using those charts, figure out your size in each of your preferred designers' gowns (Remember that in all likelihood your wedding dress will need to be altered, whether you purchase it used or straight from the designer).
After completing your research, you are ready to begin looking for a used wedding gown. There are several places to find used gowns. You'll want to set up notices, put in requests, and monitor each of them:
- Consignment stores can be a good used gown source. If you are lucky enough to have a local used formal wear store, alert the owner that you are looking for a dress.
- Craigslist is a very active used-goods marketplace. Find your local Craigslist, open a free account, and make an "item wanted" post. Do searches for the terms "wedding gown" and "wedding dress" in the clothing section -- and monitor new listings often -- to see what is currently being sold.
- There are several Websites that specialize in used wedding attire and/or create a buyer/seller marketplace (hint: search "used wedding dresses" or something similar in your favorite search engine).
- Buy at auction. By far the largest auction site is eBay, and they have an extensive bridal gown section. Many were worn once or are sales samples.
- While not technically "used," bridal store floor samples are a great bargain. Most stores sell their last-season samples for $99 and up.

Used Wedding Dress

Designing your own Gown

Custom Made Wedding Dress

Custom Made Wedding Dress

The wedding gown is the top priority for most women when it comes to their marriage ceremony. Everything else might be perfect but if the dress doesn't cut the mustard, then it's pointless. So what do you do if you've searched high and low and yet you cannot find that dream wedding dress?

You can custom create your own. Most brides-to-be are much too busy with their wedding plans to spare any time in designing their own wedding dress, and the majority just don't have the design flair to do such a thing in the first place. This is where you might want to look at hiring the services of a designer to create your ideal dress (just be prepared to fork out a decent sum of money to make your dream come true).

The advantage of designing your own dress is knowing for sure that everything fits you perfectly and it is precisely how you want it to look, down to the very last detail.

You might be wondering how you're going to afford such an expense. Well there are ways around this such as cutting certain costs from your wedding, such as having a more simple honeymoon, or having a smaller reception perhaps - there's definitely ways around this if you desire it badly enough.

Depending on how far ahead you plan your wedding (or how last minute), you would be better off hiring a designer that other friends, colleagues or family have used before. The worst thing is being stuck with a terrible designer who doesn't take your wedding dress designs as seriously as you do.

If you're a bit artistic, you might like to do a few first-pass sketches of how you'd like your wedding dress to turn out, but most of the time you needn't worry as a good dress designer will normally work beside you to get the preliminary sketches done. You may also use several wedding dress magazines here to get some additional ideas or use it as a source of inspiration.

This is where you will want to go crazy and describe the type of style of dress, fabrics you want included as well as any particular accessories you might want to have on during the day (just to make sure the dress matches the jewellery perfectly).

Custom Made Wedding Dress

Custom Made Wedding Dress

Corset Wedding Gowns by Pnina Tornai

Pnina Tornai, Israel's best-kept secret. She bases her designs on every woman’s most flattering (and uncomfortable) friend, the corset. Then she makes a hand embroidered, sensual, eye-popping masterpiece from the best fabrics in Europe. Pnina Tornai currently resides in Tel Aviv and commutes from Israel to New York to meet with brides and work on her amazing collections for Kleinfeld Bridal in Brooklyn.




Marriage Ceremony garments

Wedding Dresses Designers

Marriage Ceremony garments are of immense importance for any lady, women or ladies as they get the appearance and look of the highly essential qualities of the special day. Marriage dresses covers dresses for brides, bridesmaid, future mother of the bride-to-be and others. There are a number of trademarks and producers working night and day in the design of wedding clothes. Every designer differs from just the other in the feel of cloth, various forms and features, wedding clothes accessories as well as different prospects. If any brand is renowned for its tea length wedding dresses, it may be not preferred by a large number of brides for tea-length marriage dresses.

Wedding Dresses Designers

Though it is unthinkable to list and recommend all the wedding dresses designers, but some actually deserve to be mentioned, like Alfred Angelo, Bonny, Forever Yours, Eden Bridals, Impression, Jasmine, Romantic Bridals and much more. These brands have some truly quality and lovely marriage dresses and have a big variety which makes it capable of covering nearly every bride on earth.

Alfred Angelo is took as one of the top most and major wedding clothes manufacturer. They have a real large kind and a number more expensive rate. Their typical collection is contained of classical silhouettes and awesome points. Most each size and color of wedding clothes can be found at this line. Ivory and crystal bead contributes a glorious look to the dress and directly to the bride-to-be. Fabric dresses are likewise obtainable with a lot many wedding garments from the line of Alfred Angelo. Wedding Clothes of A-line skirt and chapel check with lacing up corset back costs you simply $449.00 which is much smaller than the other dresses from the same brand.

Vinci is good another in the line of thousands of marriage garments designers. They plan some really brilliant and attractive wedding clothes. A quality red strapless gown with extremely raised bodice and dropped shank is offered at simply $553. The dress is full of handmade embellishment which adds up the valuable of any wedding dress to a larger extent because it gives and exceedingly magical appearance. Similarly A-line unbraced dress has pleated bodice and turned fabric banding takes you simply $485.00. Terms, choice and variety are those things which make these parties lead the wedding dresses lists.

Wedding Dresses Designers

Leaving Los Angeles...

I'd like to welcome you all to...visions of leaving Hollywoodland...


Randy's Donuts....an LA landmark near LAX airport...if I wasn't so worried about all the junk I had to take on the plane and being late, I would've stopped to treat my tastebuds...it smelled so good!
can you find my luggage on the airport shuttle?!? ha ha ha
my glittery card-wallet, out to buy a hot mint tea at Starbucks...
still lovin' my manicure, from my friend, Kym from the Luxe Beauty Team at the LA Warren Tricomi Salon...click here to see what colors she used...
me and my posse of animal print carry-ons....purse (click here to get your paws on one too)
my zebra computee bag to carry my laptopper...
and my ZUCA bag to carry all my make-up on the plane, the last time I checked my make-up on the plane, I landed with a powdery mess of broken shadows and blushes! (click here to find ZUCA bags)
me and my always ready photographer (myself), taking in fine photo in the LAX airport...I think people think I'm weird taking pics in the bathroom, pics of my bags....but I do it all for you guys, so you can feel like you came with me on my trip! so here we are in the bathroom..ha ha ha
view from my window of the LA tarmac...after we were in the air the stewardess asked if a doctor or nurse was on the plane, a little old lady needed some medical help...we had to wait to get off the plane for the Emergency Medical Team to get on the plane and help her....poor little lady.
my boyfriend, was there when I came down the escalator with a dozen beautiful roses, with red-tipped petals...(insert my heart melting..hee hee hee)
and after a trip to Whole Foods to buy groceries, a Synergy Kombucha drink, and eat a bacon & cheddar stuffed burger.....I'm back in my room...with crazy hair from my shoot the other day...and still wearing my new addiction....these amazing feather earrings from Cardi Beutler....email her at:
cardibeutler@hotmail.com
she is so nice...and makes the most beautiful feather earrings....the feathers are from "molten feathers", no birds were harmed or killed for their feathers too...

and that was our trip...did you have fun?

mission of the day: treat yourself to an inspiration moment....buy yourself a hot tea, wander through some fun art of fashion magazines, sit in a coffee shop and right your dreams, or if you can....make art....create.....design....a necklace, paint on a canvas to your favorite music....or just sing in your car!

typed with love and a box of kleenex next to me.....your kandee!
have the best day today....may your heart sing songs of joy to you all day long!

SICK!

so here's my outfit of the day...
I feel yucko....my head hurts, sinuses are being mean to me....I have a cough that sounds like I'm gonna hack up a small cat...and I just want to curl up and watch a movie and sip tea...but no such luck little, Kandee!
man, i wish i could just go sleep! And facebeook hasn't resolved my "disabled" facebook issue! I wrote them 2 letters yesterday and nothin'! I feel so weird without my facebook, like I've lost connection with my little "kandee krew"!!!!
so before I go drink 57 buckets of "throat coat" tea, here's what I had on....with my big crazay hair.

*white tank - Hanes men's tank top from Walmart (hee hee hee)
*Black (awesome zip long shirt) from Beullah (I got it at Cosmo's store SPEED on Melrose (323)  655-8498
* grey zebra leggings ( i got these at Kohl's a long time ago, but American Apparel has them in white and black)
*boots- Doc Martens Triumph boot ( i get so many "i love your boots", in these!)
and my super cool earring feather from Cardi Beutler (who is such a super cool girl) you can email her at: cardibeutler@hotmail.com  (i am in love with these earrings!!!!!)

i'm gonna try to go rest...and get better...cuz i feel like poo-dizzle!

mission of the day: compliment someone on something, and don't worry that they'll think they are too cool...you will just make their day!
huge love and boxes of kleenex, kandee

I've been hacked!

sorry guys..someone has hacked in to my facebook and shut down my fan page and my regular page....check back here until I fix it....if it can be fixed!!!!!

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

tutu's, tiara's, and a tricycle....

this is just a sneek peek of the shoot we did last night from 6pm- til 1am! It was B-A-N-A-N-A-S!!! Wait to you see the real ones!!! I can't even show you all of them!!!! IT was like Willy Wonka meets the 80's!
here's some sneek peek pics....
My friend, (we both started our careers out at the same time...with the weirdest job....watch the youtbe video that i'll be posting from the shoot...where we talk about it..hill-air-ree-us!!) MARC CARTWRIGHT. click here to see his site: www.marccartwright.com
and find him on facebook here: http://facebook.com/marccartwright, he took my photos...and man, what a a shoot we had!

We're gettin' crimpy! We're gettin' crimp-ay!
  Gettin' my hair crimped (A crimping iron hasn't bedazzled my hair since prolly' 1991!)
Thelma Macias from Barracuda Salon on Melrose, gave me the most awesome hair!
If you have a photo shoot or anything where you need awesome hair..call Barracuda and ask for her:
(323) 852-7179
the ever fabulous COSMO, from Melrose (from my shopping videos at his store SPEED on Melrose) styling me...he is so fab in his sequin leggings! He made the corset I'm wearing, and let me borrow all the clothes from his store! Thank you sooooo much Cosmo, mwaaah!!!!
you can have him make you fab too...call him at the store:
(323) 655-8498 and ask for Cosmo (he's so fun!)
 
 fixing my "tiara"...how amazing is this jewelry...Cosmo's friend (and now mine too!), made the jewelry! Fergie buys her jewelry, and Rihanna (who I love), just shot the cover of a magazine wearing her jewelry...check it out at: www.glynnethbjewelry.com
I flowerin' love all her jewelry...I screamed with joy at each piece she showed me!!!

And my sweet friend, Kymberly Newble, gave me a "kandee-bubble-gum-ice-cream-parlor" manicure....call her if you're in LA, she even will come to your house...and it's not crazy expensive like you'd think.....thanks Kym!!!
call the Warren Tricomi Salon and ask for Kym: 323-651-4545 (you might even see a celebrity or 2)
or find her on FACEBOOK (click here)

my zoolander!
after we finished this shoot at 1am....found the man with the keys to my car in a parking lot in downtown LA, loaded up my car with all our stuff, dropped of Thelma, ate my second meal of the day (from some delivery service...ravioli in pesto sauce and 3/4 of a chocolate mousse dessert), checking emails and emailing everyone about today's shoot...I went to sleep at about 4am....I woke up to slamming doors, someone rehearsing for their live music show in their hotel room, and all night long, I can hear someone in a room next to me...SNORING...so stinkin' LOUD...all this started at 7:15am!!! I haven't been able to sleep...if I hear one more cleaning cart roll over the tiles outside my room door!!!! ha ha ha ha ha
I have to go shower and wash all my "crimping" out...boo hoo hooo!

be bold, be fierce, be fabulous...and don't let anyone rain on your style parade!
If you like it, wear it with confidence....dress with a purpose- to be uniquely you...
walk with a purpose...command those steps as everywhere you walk becomes your runway....
smile and people....and make them smile back...
shine the love of your heart with the world....it needs it!

huge love and even bigger smiles and hugs....the Crimpette

things I'm in love with....

this "kissable" feather earring....it's blue feathers...and 'i wore it all day and lost it!!!
I called up Cardi that makes them, and she's gonna whip me up another one! she's wondy-ful!
If you wan t to fall in love with your very own feather earring....email her at:
cardibeutler@hotmail.com

I also love my Miz Mooz boots, which I seem to wear everyday....

I love the silver hoop earrings my mom gave me the other day too....

I love HOT PINK lipstick right now....I put CHERRY RED lip liner from MAC, and then HOT PINK lip liner from Make-Up Forever----absolutely NO GLOSS...we want matte, velvety HOT PINK lippies!

And I also love a nude eye with just black pin-up style winged liner!
LOVE MISSION & QUOTE of the day: 
...courtesy of my friend Teresa in a text this morning:
Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet, and make their day for having seen you.  Say "Thank You" at every turn!

let's sunshine it up today my sweet Kandee family!!!!

your sunshiney guru..ha ha hah a
sending you so much love you need to unbutton the top botton of your heart, kandee

a day in the life...

outfit of the day:
white Hanes men's tank top
pants -old pants from urban outfitters (got them like 6 years ago)
boots- Miz Mooz
black shredded things- no name things from Marshall's
purse- www.baghaus.com (the melie bianco leopard bag)
I found this awesome girl, Cardi Beutler, at the Melrose Trading Post today, that made the most amazing feather earrings!
I love them, and she makes them from feathers that weren't from birds that were killed for their feathers...she was so sweet and she hand makes them! Love them..if you want one contact:
Cardi at cardibeutler@hotmail.com, tel her Kandee told you about them! You'll love them!!!
this is my new best feather-friend earring!

I've been Ray-banned from wearing these!
(i took this picture to send to my sister...this is exactly what my mom looked like circa 1986!)

Below, i fell in love with these benches...this sweetest man, makes them by taking different chairs and making them into one bench! The colors were like candy, and I would use them as seating all over, if I could fit them in my suitcase! ha ha ha ha
(if you live in the LA area and want one, go the Melrose Trading Post on sundays, and he is there! Tell him Kandee said hi! He's so nice, you just want to hug him, like a big teddy bear!)

 
this was my favorite chair-bench, i wanted to eat that color green! I would love this on my porch....or in my enchanted garden patio, that doesn't exist yet, except for in my head!
my mom in the dressing room at Forever 21!

and it wouldn't be a blog post without a self portrait from my ever-ready iphone! (and my twirl at a Forever 21 dressing room shot!)

mama leaving Forev 21...
i was enchanted by the "water bottle" flower display in the window of the Anthropologie store...it's jam-packed with painted and cut water bottles...i love this recycled art!
me and my precious mama at The Grove, ...i had such a funtastic day with her...she is my best friend...and I will treasure this day forever! I love you Mama!!! My mom has called me "sunshine" since I was little, because she said I was her little sunshine, but she is really the sun to my whole world!!!
I love her....it is now after 2am, so much for trying to go to bed early...typed from the late-night blogger.....ha ha ha...huge love, kandee

BEfore & AFter

me and my mama....are having the best time in LA!!! I am doing a complete pimp-my-mom video....so I'll show you everything we did to my mom yesterday in a video...(so fun for my mama!!! she never does anything for herself)...but here's what we did in the hotel room this morning...
BEFORE
AFTER
all dolled up and ready to go eat breakfast finally.....been making this video and starving my poor mama!!!














And my OUTFIT of the DAY from yesterday....
dress/shirt thing...from Macy's by VELVET (don't really know that brand, ha ha ha)
Pink earrings...FOREVER 21
and my super awesome, favorite boots, that I got asked a bajillion times yesterday "where'd you get your boots?!?!"....I got them in Soho, NY at Miz Mooz (i know, funny name...killer boots!) ..they are so comfy and I'm wearing them again today!!!

off to feed my mama.....typed with love...your kandee
black shiny leggings with rouching on the sides from FOREVER 21
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