My Auntie Dia (pictured left) was my Mom's best friend since around the time I was born. They worked together, traveled together, did all the best friend-y things together. My Auntie designed amazing jewelry and was always connecting with other amazing designers, and my mom (pictured right), being the bubbly personality that she is, would take her jewelry on the road selling to specialty boutiques across the East Coast.
I used to tag along with my mom sometimes to her trade shows or sales calls and I used to always say I'd never be in sales...and wouldn't you know. I ended up not only in sales, but in sales for accessories designers, just like my mom. I even work a few times a year in the same convention center (the Javits Center, for you New Yorkers) in New York City that my mom and my Auntie Dia used to work in twenty years ago!
I don't know if this photo was taken when they were in New York for work, or if they were here for play. Either way, I love this image of them both - beautiful, looking happy, and having fun together in the city.
My mom is coming to visit me next month, and we looked up Forlini's last night...it still stands in Chinatown, so we've decided to have a go at it one day and find it to eat there and re-experience the place that she visited twenty years ago (on the dot next week!) with Auntie Dia! How cool would that be?
I used to tag along with my mom sometimes to her trade shows or sales calls and I used to always say I'd never be in sales...and wouldn't you know. I ended up not only in sales, but in sales for accessories designers, just like my mom. I even work a few times a year in the same convention center (the Javits Center, for you New Yorkers) in New York City that my mom and my Auntie Dia used to work in twenty years ago!
I don't know if this photo was taken when they were in New York for work, or if they were here for play. Either way, I love this image of them both - beautiful, looking happy, and having fun together in the city.
My mom is coming to visit me next month, and we looked up Forlini's last night...it still stands in Chinatown, so we've decided to have a go at it one day and find it to eat there and re-experience the place that she visited twenty years ago (on the dot next week!) with Auntie Dia! How cool would that be?
**PS - Today is the last full day to enter the LODIS Handbag giveaway...such an amazing bag, and could be yours for free. There's no reason to not enter, so get to it!
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What an amazing photo of your Mom and Auntie...I absolutely love it. You can tell that there is genuine happiness in their expressions. So glad your Mom is coming to visit you, and what a fabulous idea to return to the restaurant. I want to see a new picture soon of the two of you :)
Hope all is well, darlin! Miss you much...
What a great picture! I'm diggin' the clothes and the hair! I love that you ended up working in the exact same industry! So funny how when we're young, we want nothing more than to be the exact opposite of our mothers...then what do you know, we all turn out pretty similar. :o)
your mom looks like Landry in this photo!!!
Love pictures like this one, and the stories behind each and every single one. ;) And yes, you should totally re-experience the place and take pictures again. Back then, and today! :)
How cool would that be!!! I love this!!
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