Bottega Louie

Made a visit to Bottega Louie last night.  I have only had their sweets before and never dinner, so Billy and I decided to make it a date night.  It's so pretty in there with the pastries and confections lined up and displayed so nice and beautiful.  I love the color way and the special bows and boxes everything comes packaged in.
My favorites of the night were the duck prosciutto appetizer and and the oh so pretty desserts (I can't just choose one).  We took home a few raspberry beignets and a box of macaroons.

Desserts displayed at Bottega Louie.

Box of macaroons: salted caramel, vanilla, pistachio, and I don't recall (I had the gentlemen helping us choose his favorite).

Thanksgiving Week

Thanksgiving week was very busy this year. My friend Antanice is getting married so we drove to the Palm Springs area to look at venues and check out possible vendors for her and her fiance's big day!

While we were there we discovered this amazing cafe, Palms Cafe.  It was the best pancake I have ever had and I'm not big on pancakes.  The blueberries inside were nice and soft, I didn't even need butter or syrup!  It was delicious!

Antanice loves nail polish and she has discovered the Sally Hansen nail stickers, they are great! She prefers them over regular nail polish.  There are a lot of cool designs, it even comes with a little wooden stick and file for you so you can do it anywhere!  Antanice did my nails which you can see down below.  I love them.  I am terrible at painting my nails so this may be a better alternative for me since the sticker comes in a nice nail shape.

On Thursday I flew to see my family.  I love visiting my family; I always eat well and seeing my dad's new clothes is always a joy.

Below are pictures of only some of the food I shared with my family.  I was too busy eating to take pictures. 

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday week...the season is upon us...Happy Holidays!

Blueberry pancakes, bacon, strawberries from Palms Cafe.

Sally Hansen nail stickers

Thanksgiving dinner (Mom made everything from scratch.)

Vietnamese Dinner: Lobster with noodles and Seafood soup

Cupcake Fundraiser

A church nearby was having a bake sale fundraiser.  $ 0.50 for this yummy treat, I couldn't resist.  

Free People for Hurricane Sandy

My favorite line is doing something great for the victims of Hurricane Sandy and for those of us who love Free People.  Everybody wins! Thank you Free People.  Even if you don't want to shop, all donations help.

Photo:Free People

Culture Swimwear BTS

Our friends at Culture Swimwear shared this today...We had a friendly fluffy visiter on our shoot.  He's coordinated with our model. =)

Webiste is up!! VanessaDoan.com

Hi everyone!
My website is finally here!!  A very special thank you to my lovely friend, Hope Reiners, who is also the creator of Culture Swimwear.
On the website is photos and videos of my work, a list of some people who I have had the opportunity to wok with and greatly admire, professionals from the music production to photography along with some other information about me.
Please check it out! I would love to hear from you and possibly do some work together.  Here's a screen shot of the home page.

Sparkly!

Saw these on instagram today...how fun would these be for the holiday season? I love them!
Wear the set together or separate...there are lots of options for these.  I would certainly wear sparkly hot pants with matching bralette.  These are from Motel Rocks.

Photo: Motel Rocks

The Voice Season 3 Live

Have you all been watching?  I have the amazing opportunity to work on this show recently and it has been so much fun!  All the contestants are very talented and everyone on the crew is great to work with!  I am having a blast.
Did you catch the live shows last week?  It was my first time working on a live show and those 2 hours go by very fast.
Here are a few pictures from my first night doing a live The Voice show (Monday, November 5th). 
More pictures can be found on the website at THE VOICE website.

 Photo Credit: nbc.com/thevoice, Trae Patton/NBC

Welcome!

Yay! My site is almost launched!  It has been a long time to get all the pieces together... On the website you'll be able to find what I'm currently working on and lots of pictures of my work.  On the blog will be things I see and want to share with you...from pictures at work to any other interesting things I see in the streets.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you come back!