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Monday, March 31, 2014

Emerald City Comicon

I love doing a walk through the Convention Center on Comicon weekend. This was by far my favorite thing that I saw this year. Stunning. I didn't have my camera with so I took a photo with my phone.

Jessica Pirruccio | 5th & Pike

Madeline

Remember that maternity photo shoot I did a few weeks back...

Welcome to the world Madeline.

I was so happy to get this announcement in the mail today. Mike and Debbie put together a beautiful card to send out using the photos. Perfect!

I really loved getting to documenting both the pregnancy and these newborn photos. What an honor to be entrusted with capturing such an important time.

Comicon 2014

It's Comicon weekend. After getting this picture last year I'm pretty sure I am going to be swinging by the Convention Center tomorrow...

April Pride at The Four Seasons

APRIL PRIDE designs clothing and accessories for women who love vintage silhouettes with modern styling. Choose your piece. Choose your fabric. Made-to-order in Seattle.

Month two of FLOOR 2 at Four Seasons continues next week. The schedule is as follows-
March 31 (10am-6pm)
April 1 (10am-9pm)
April 15 (10am-6pm)
April 18 (10am-6pm)
April 21 (10am-6pm)
April 22 (10am-9pm)
April 28 (10am-6pm)

You can schedule a time or walk-in.

99 Union, Ash Room 2nd Floor

And look who modeled these new designs for AP, it's Claire!

Danielle Hammer | Elegant Simplicity

It is very rare that I snap a photo without asking permission but these two just looked so lovely and I didn't want to interrupt them. I felt like it wouldn't be the same photo if they knew I was taking it.

Sebastian Hwang | Broadway & John

Georgette Knox | 11th & Pine

Seth Marney | Coat Layering

Eastern Washington Taco Crawl

Don had to go to Kennewick for work over the weekend so I decided to tag along. We had all afternoon Saturday to make our way back to Seattle so we decided to turn our trip back into a little self guided tour of eastern Washington taquerias. There are so many over there and you can really cover the range of authentic mexican food styles by going to different towns.

After leaving Kennewick our first stop was Prosser, WA. We made our choice completely based on which storefront was most intriguing. We knew that there was a taco truck in Yakima that we would be stopping at so we decided to go to something different from that. We ended up at a little spot right off the freeway on Wine Country Road called Garcia's Tex Mex.

We got two beef tacos which came with guacamole and one of their larger sized fajita tacos which was on a big doughy tortilla. The small tacos were good but I wouldn't order large taco again. We saw some other people eating the $5 grilled burritos and they looked amazing. But we were on a taco mission... Maybe next time.

There were a few towns after Prosser like Grandview and Zilla and that looked promising for taquerias but we decided to head to Yakima for a couple of places. First up in Yakima was Taqueria Los Primos. We had been here before years ago and remembered really liking it.

Carne asada, adovada, polla and carnitas tacos with lots of fixins from the salsa bar that is set up on the side of the truck where you would usually find bottled sodas. They also had a heated pot of freshly cooked self-serve pinto beans to put on your tacos. The tacos here were better than Garcia's and the adovado was my favorite in our order.

Next we headed across the street to Taqueria El Rinconsito. These guys have several locations all over Washington. We went to the Yakima location on 1st.

These were the best tacos of the day. We ordered carnitas, pollo, asada and barria and we ordered avocado on the side. The tacos come with a grilled onion and jalepeno and there is an expansive salsa bar. The barria was our favorite at this stop.

On a previous trip through Yakima we ate at Antojitos Mexicanos and loved it. I would recommend that as a sit down restaurant if you are passing through the area.

It is amazing to me how much Washinton changes once you cross over Snoqualmie Pass. It is like two totally different worlds. I'm definitely a western Washington kind of person but, geeez... the mexican food over in the east is so good!

Danny Dodge and Shauna Faye | Fremont

I caught these two on their visit to Seattle from Portland. Danny is part of the band The No Tomorrow Boys and Shauna is a stylist at Venus Allure Salon & Spa.

Tara Patel, Nicole Edwards and Alana Hopper | Proctor District, Tacoma

After I took Alana's photo she ran into her sorority sisters. I had to grab a picture of this accidentally stripe themed gathering. So cute! All three are students at University of Puget Sound down the street.

Noelle Logan | @Littleflowerrr

You can find Noelle on instagram @littleflowerrr

Welp, it's officially super springy out there. It's so fun seeing everyone out enjoying the sun. The streets are full, patio seating is set up and people just seem really happy.

Alana Hopper | Proctor District, Tacoma

I was down in Tacoma the other afternoon and I went for a walk in the Proctor District. What a nice neighborhood. It kind of reminded me of downtown Edmunds or West Seattle. I ran into Alana as she was leaving the florist. She is a student at the University of Puget Sound nearby.

Annika Anderson | 15th Ave

Annika blogs at jimnicricket.tumblr.com

2014 Thrift Shop Showdown Winners!

Thank you to everyone who entered this year's contest. We had so much fun looking at all your thrift store finds. It is always so hard to choose the finalists.

See videos of the three winners and learn more about what their thrift shopping tactics on The Seattle Times' Arts blog. The Times did a great spread in the Arts section of today's Sunday paper featuring these three as well as several other entries that caught our eye.