Friday, June 19, 2015

Coming Soon: new businesses opening up, growth & development


This post is to share my excitement for progress and advancement in my hometown, Bellevue, and also my other favorite city, the neighboring Seattle. There is a lot of construction going on in both cities. New, modern, and innovative buildings are being built for offices, retail, and apartments in both cities. 

Slowly but steadily, popular international retailers are finally opening stores in the Puget Sound such as Zara and Uniqlo. Talks of Aesop the renowned Australian skincare brand and Dutch clothing line, G Star Raw, are also planning on setting up shop sometime soon in Seattle. Local and new restaurants, boutiques, and housing are popping up everywhere. There truly is always room for growth.
  
According to the downtown Bellevue news network, years down the road a station for the monorail will be built in downtown Bellevue connecting to Seattle and making it easier for people to travel from the East side to Seattle. 

 The economic expansion and business growth in the Puget Sound is exciting to spectate. I can't wait to see the improvement and change. I hope for the same improvement and change to keep on happening with my own personal life. I'll make sure to update you guys in what's going on with me and some of my future goals. I will also write a post on why this blog even exists. Until next time then my friends! 

Keep in touch!

~Tiff 

Thursday, June 4, 2015

The SonderWonder Style & Fashion Side







#3!- Tomorrow is Friday! This week went by fairly fast. My cousin is in town and I'm gonna take him out and around Seattle today and basically for the rest of the weekend up until he leaves next week! This calls for a weekend packed with fun and adventures. I'm super stoked and I haven't seen him until last year. We're both finally 21 and I get to show him how the Seattle night life and bar scene is! 

I'll keep you guys updated via Instagram on our foodie adventures and just explorations around Seattle, both touristy spots and other interesting places we end up at. 

This post is the third and final post of the most recent and updated fashion pics and outfits I have done in the past couple of months. All were taken in the Pacific Northwest from the Eastside to Seattle. The last picture is a picture I shot as a shout out photo on my purchases from the Nordstrom's Magic Hour Pop Up shop, and also to work on my photo-editing and visual creative direction skills. I want to work more and enhance my techniques and skills in photo editing and hopefully those improvements will be evident in my future pictures and posts. 

I recently went to the new pop up shop that Nordstrom is having, called Pool Side, and also shot a picture of my purchases from there! {To see the picture click on the Instagram link above when you hover over the word.}

I really enjoy taking pictures of random and what are deemed small things, such as food. But in the end something as simple as a great meal with great company, adds up. It is another precious memory to hold on to, either to get you  through the rest of a not so good week or just a minuscule reminder to try and enjoy and love your life, even if it seems as if everything is against you or going wrong. I personally just enjoy these moments and when I look at these pictures I remember that specific event and cherish even more what I do have and am extremely grateful for it. 


Anyways enough with my ranting, I will have a feature post sometime soon by this weekend or next week of exciting new business growth mostly in the city that I reside in most- Downtown Bellevue, but I'll also include some news for Seattle! I want to share news about where I live and my home because I am so excited to see new things happening, including economic growth. To see your home change overtime and to be able to physically spectate the progression of  how advanced, modern, and new it is becoming is truly a site and a sort of proud feeling to have, especially having lived nowhere else. 

Further along, I will include a post about who or what is Sonder Wonder? Why did I choose this name? Is there a meaning to the name or does it just sound catchy? These questions will be answered next week with a post on why I blog, what is behind the name, and what this is all about. 

Keep in touch and see you all soon! If I don't get to post anything for the rest of this week, I hope you guys all have an awesome fun filled/relaxing weekend jammed with many adventures and excursions of your own. Ttyl.

~Tiff 




Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Road Tripping Outfit Photos

LA

AZ- Arizona

LA

SF

SF

Post #2- These were the outfits I wore on my road trip! The weather was windier in San Fran and the warmest in Arizona. LA was decently warm and humid. The further inland and south I went on the coast, the warmer it got which meant less layers. 

This week I'll post a couple of old pics of outfit pictures I took from awhile back that I haven't yet shared. Also, I will upload a post on new businesses that are opening up around the Seattle and Bellevue area from what I've heard or speculated. I'll explain more in detail about the sources in the post. 

I hope you guys are having a great week! The weather is getting hotter and sunnier each day with less consecutive days of rain, yay! 
Anyways, I'll catch you guys up soon and keep you guys posted! Meanwhile, stay in the loop through my IG! From my pic of the dam I visited on Sunday to what I ate for breakfast yesterday- and soon what I'm gonna eat for lunch today, you can see what I'm doing instantly while i'm on the go! 

To give you guys a little tidbit of personal info, I'll definitely have a post about me showing my cousin around town since he will be visiting this week. Also, my grandma will be visiting my family and I from the motherland, overseas. But  by next week, I will have a mini city guide or tourist guide post from all the adventures I will have around the Puget Sound area with my cuz. Keep checking the blog for new posts and stories!

I'll see you guys soon.
~Tiff