FLY. by Tina Gold on the Runway! Miami Fashion Week 2010

Check out my friend and business partners jewels on the runway! FLY. by tina Gold Jewels were featured in the Ed Hardy and True Religion Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swimwear Miami 2010! Jewels are also sold exclusively online at my store secrteserenity.com ! Check out her blog at flybytinagold.blogspot.com!










to purchase visit : http:/www.secretserenity.com

RIP - ICONS

At a loss for words right now...i was fans of these two people...who were iconic in my childhood...so surreal........cherish life and your loved ones....xoxo

Groove Mixer and Showcase

Friday my friend and partner in crime Tina Gold participated in an event called The Groove Mixer and Showcase in downtown La. I helped style and the girls wore Tina's FLY JEWELS (flybytinagold.blogspot.com)....More pics to come! Good Times....




Here's a pic of myself, Julio (designer extraordinaire), and Tina (artist extraordinaire)

Im wearing..an Insight Tee from KIN BOUTIQUE, Sequin Skirt from Urban, Vintage Sweater, and Trashy.com Platform boots, Chanel bag.........xoxo

KIN BOUTIQUE

Kin Boutique on Sunset Plaza in Hollywood has amazing clothes! We hung out at a boutique mixer and celebrated my friends Jewelry placement in the store! Good Times....Later in the night my friends and I turned the party into a soultrain line and ended up dancing all night!

Summer Lovin :)

This summer has started off with a bang! Good friends, family, and fun!

Laker Finals Fun!







Reggae Fest

Honey Collective Standard Rooftop

F21 Jumpsuit


Karen Walker Oversized Sunglasses and FLY. by Tina Gold Earrings


Karen Walker Oversized Sunglasses and FLY. by Tina Gold Earrings


Monica Payne of Honey Collective and Tina Gold

Kiss N Grind

Finally had a night out! My fave pic of the night with my buddies! Mor epics to come!

Lovelies wearing lovelies!

I haven't posted in a while..much less about fashion! I have been on a different journey in life lately. BUT I have noticed these ladies givin me a run for my money! Looking hot!


Tank by J. Brand jeans, YSL cage boots, a Valentino bag and a fedora hat....


Beyonce rocking Grey Ant shades, Dsquared top, Blue Notch Birkin jean, and ysl platform pumps....

Loving her style lately! Could it be because our b-days are a day apart?


Ooohh look at these Balmain crystal studded stilettos!!!!!



And dont ya just love Mr. Kerry baby in her Jeremy Scott and Adidas - JS Wings

A Difference A Day Makes

Yesterday I was so depressed. I have been having the hardest time coming to terms with my grammys tragic death and also learning that my fathers cancer has come back as well. I was in a slump. My brain has been foggy and I havent been able to meditate. I was pulling things online about the grieving process and loss and even considering a grievance counselor. I even wrote a blog note that I didnt publish, but just wrote to vent :/ I have been trying to stay strong for my mum and family, but its hard. Even trying to put up my strong face in front of my friends.

Well, I have a dear friend who just returned from Austalia where he practiced intensely with a guru. When I saw him he was so full of light on Monday :) Out of the blue he texted me yesterday to come do some yoga and meditation with him. He mentioned he had been shining a light on me and thinking about my healing in Australia. I had also told him the previous night that I was having issues coping (the only person I told). When a friend of mine and I arrived to her house, he had cleansed the house, lit candles and set up an alter. He took us through yoga salutations and then thru deep meditation. It was the first time since my grammy past that I was able to meditate and completely opened up. There was one candle that I focused on and it kept twittering. I even felt my grammys presence as I meditated and saw images of her in the different phases of her life. I felt her STRENGTH as I performed the salutations. I cried and smiled and in the end I feel so amazing. I am so grateful for having special people in my life and even more grateful that my feelings of depression, anger, and sadness have been curbed (what a difference a day makes). I am still figuring out this coping thing. Sometimes it feels like Im shot full of novacaine and Im just wondering what will happen when the numbness goes away...if it ever goes away. You see I dont want to ever forget my grammy or get over her (as some people say), but I do want to heal from losing her. It has only been a month and I know time heals all wounds.

For now I'm realizing my blessing and grateful to have my friends and family by my side :)

What's With The Hair?

The truth is I dont know! I just let it do what it do baby! Most of the time, I absolutely adore my hair, but I don't know how it evolved into this! The texture of my hair has changed over the years and before I dyed and highlighted it. And when the color grew out my hair was wavier and my curls were straighter. As I have gotten older my curls tightened and their doing a curly sue thing! Im enjoying it and Im kinda curious where it's gonna take me next! Im thinking Im gonna just grow it out and just have lotsa lotsa curls :/ I get so many questions as to how I get my hair to look like this and I have no answers. Sometimes I wake up and just puff it out and go, other times I wash and condition it in the shower and cream and gel it and sommmmmeetimes I just lightly condition it and go. I love to experiment with different products. My core being Redken's Fresh Curls line. And my curls do all sorts of things depending on how I style em. I can even Afro it out but wow its a BIG one!

Heres to curly moments :/ What do you dig about your hair?









"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

My Grammy Elle

My first blog post ever referenced how strong my granny Elle is. For the past two years she fought and survived every critical illness brought to her plate. In December of 2007 my grandmother went into the hospital to have her gallbladder removed. As a result of the surgery, she was not able to walk. She was sent to a rehabilitation center where she would be able to learn how to walk and come back home. Well since my grandmother has been there, she has been in and out of the hospital. She got a bad infection called C-Dif which almost took her life, docs prepared us but guess what, she survived. She went in several other times...docs told us to stop meds and she wasnt gonna make it. Guess what..she proved them wrong. Just this past January she had uncontrollable bleeding from her colon and they wanted to remover her colon, she said no way and made it thru a 9 quart blood transfusion.

On March 14, 2009 at about 3:00 pm, my mother and I were preparing to visit my grammy (my mom saw her everyday, ate and watched Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy with her) and bring her fried zuchinni from H-Salt (her fave) when we received a call from the hospital that my grammy was in the er and fell. We thought it strange because she doesnt walk, so how did she fall. We arrived in the ER and unlike the other times, we were sat in a conmference room, where we were told that my grandmother was being transported on a gurney and was dropped. She had head trauma. The neuro surgeon said even if he operates, she probably wouldnt make it. I told him to do what he could, make it happen, she has fought everything and could fight this. My mom (a nurse) said different. My grandmother was in a coma and her pupils were dialated which means she was technically brain dead.

Walking in and seeing her bruised eye, head, shoulders, hands, and body was so upsetting. "Look what they did to her". My precious, strong, grammy was lifeless. The docs moved her to CCU pretty much for us to say goodbye. The docs kept telling my mom to give her morphine (to make her go quicker) but my mom wanted to wait for my brother to arrive so he could say goodbye.

A friend of my grammys came and prayed over my grandmother at 6:30pm. She left and my brother, mom and I walked over to my grammy. I put my Buddah bracelet on her and my brother put a crystal in her hand. No sooner as my grammy's friend prayed over her, my grammys heart rate went from 120 to 0 and flatlined. Even though she was on a machine, she left us at 6:40pm ..........

I will never forget the moment my mom, brother, and I held her and all watched the monitor.......at first my brother and I didnt understand and then we got it.....

It was my grammy's time to go. I am still trying to deal with how she went. How she fought EVERYTHING only for someone else to take her life. She was such a feisty woman, and loved to do crosswords all day and everyday. She also had a penchant for cussing, people, the tv, and doctors and nurses out. I miss her so much. She was gone just like that! I had a breakdown about 15 minutes ago and needed to write this...

If anyone has had any similiar experiences or pain, please let me know how you got thru it or are working thru it now. I am trying my hardest to deal with the loss, with my moms pain, and trying to not be angry.....

RIP Grammy Elle --- I miss you soooo much

and remember ....NOTHING IS WORTH MORE THAN THIS DAY

tonialexis
xoxo

Los Angeles Theatre Marquee: Gen Art & Boxeight

On Friday the 13th of March, more than 1,000 Gen Art members, guests and industry fashionistas attended Gen Art’s LA Fall Fashion Show kicking off Boxeight’s Fashion Week at the beautiful Los Angeles Theatre featuring Fall Collections from Grai, Raquel Allegra, and Society for Rational Dress. Here are some pics I took from the show!

GRAI

SOCIETY FOR RATIONAL DRESS







RAQUEL ALLEGRA





There was an afterparty then a Swimwear by Sonia Vera fashion show. More afterpartying and bands after! My battery on my camera went kaput and so the only other pics I had was this one from my camera phone!

AKAWELLE / Secretserenity.com Charity Event

The event was a success! Pics to come! Thanks to Darrell for this one :)

Jeans Galore at Secretserenity.com!

Lot's of denim in stock for Spring! Get it while it's hot!













Kunna Denim - Made in Japan








BLANK NY


Blank Denim NYC

Recessionista Chic

Wow! It has been a while since I have blogged! This year has proven to have brought so many blessings! My store secretserenity.com sponsored several Super Bowl events in Tampa! We flew out and had a ball! FLY. By Tina Gold Earrings and Jewelry Accessories were placed in gift boxes! They were a big hit...More events lined up Oscars...Tampa Bay Fashion Week....














I am now working on a shopping soiree with my partners that is sure to dazzle! Check out the details and if your in the Los Angeles area come by! Check out details at shellstogold.com

Back in Time

So a friend of mine always says I am late. I told her I go by my Blackberry time. Well it seems everyone I know who has a blackberry (in California) is 5 minutes behind time wise! My Crack um Blackberry broke yesterday ( I cant even tell you how distraught I am) and (I cant even tell you how distraught I am at myself for being distraught over a phone ). Well I got a crappy loaner that is the right time. I got into my car and hmfffff it was five minutes behind.......I am happy to say I have set all my clocks to the correct time...Although I am a firm believer of not even paying attention to TIME! I mean imagine how life was before people had clocks. Im sure life was so less stressful and peaceful.

The first way that people could tell the time was by looking at the sun as it crossed the sky. When the sun was directly overhead in the sky, it was the middle of the day, or noon. When the sun was close to the horizon, it was either early morning (sunrise) or early evening (sunset). Telling the time was not very accurate but Im sure it was a hell of a lot better than a DEADLINE or being 5 minutes late!

So since you can tell I am not the type of person who likes deadlines or even shows up early, I thought I would pick some cool watches available at Asos to ease my weary timeless soul and avoid depending on the phone company for time :/



FOR THE LADIES!

Marc br Marc Jacobs Silver Zip Pendant Watch (also comes in gold)
£97.88


Marc by Marc Jacobs Skull Pendant Watch
£122.35



Just Cavalli Snake Embossed Fob Bracelets Watch
£141.92


Betsey Johnson Black Heart Ring Watch
£83.20


Asos Faceted Stone Charm Bracelet Watch
£17.62


FOR THE FELLAS!

Kenneth Cole Multi Dial Brown Face Watch
£122.35


Nixon - The Murf Watch
£264.26


Tokyo Flash Silver Barcode Watch
£116.47


Black Dice Guru Watch
£59.00

Necklush

Check em out on Etsy....lots of colors and designs available!

necklush.etsy.com

(and a sidebar...everytime I use the link option it never works...any suggestions?)

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year! So excited about love, happiness, and success with my family and friends in the new year! I leave you with one of my favorite shoots of 2008. Ashley modeled this VaVa Voom dress in my backyard and the results are magnificent! Dress is available at secretserenity.com





Photo Cred: Yours Truly

xoxo ;)

Secretserenity.com Wishlist

Fumblin Foe Watercolor Dress


FLY by Tina Gold Peacock Earring


Yerrrrp Tee


Buddha Necklace


Cheap Monday Liquid Leggings


Vintage Knit Dress


Diane Von Furstenberg Gatta Dress



One Man Shy Lamp!

Mac Photobooth Fun

Holiday Party + Mac Photobooth = 150+ pics