Alicia B. Conway » san francisco

making creativity look easy

alicia — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:53:21 +0000

inspired by an earring she saw at the vintage street fair the weekend before, cooke gets to hammerin’ – always love to see her create.

vintage, vino, and a pregnant rockstar

alicia — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:44:01 +0000

pretty much my favorite day in and around san fran with cooke, wine … and some of her closest west coast buds. a definite highlight was her 9ish month pregnant friend who was filling in as lead singer for her friend’s band – “just crossing something off my bucket list, so be kind.” this. momma. rocked!

worlds collide: shabnam at the hub!

alicia — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:33:47 +0000

shabnam (of DDD and cambodia fame) was in SF at the hub to participate in the unreasonable institute’s west coast pitch fest. and she rocked it. she’s now traveling on the teach tour. what is it, you ask? i’m so glad you did. from the mouth of shabnam herself:

The purpose of the tour is to both explore education at the root and to interview grassroots innovators creating products and services targeted at base of the pyramid market. The end goal is to create a trend analysis on the failures that have occurred and to use these trends to create best practices for potential new entrepreneurs in both education and the development sector as a whole.

weekend vintage pursuits, now with more hugs

alicia — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:30:31 +0000

a typical day in contocooke land – at a downtown SF vintage/craft/cupcake market …

tahoe, cute pups and ‘kalicia, party of two’

alicia — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 21:49:53 +0000

thanks to b lab’s CTO, his wife and their two hugely adorable dogs – kate and i had a mandatory escape-to-tahoe weekend. after our morning walk, we explored downtown truckee, starting with breakfast at the Squeeze In, famous for their “best omelets on the planet.” i, of course, got french toast – but i did try kate’s cream cheese and fruit omelet (quite fantastic, indeed).

b lab audit 4 of 8 – indigenous designs

alicia — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:24:22 +0000

we should have known that indigenous designs was going to be a cool place when we were greated by the adorable office dog, indy. or, perhaps when the owner showed us to his favorite local vietnamese restaurant for lunch and i had the best grilled pork vermicelli plate of my life. yeah, that was the clincher.

in all honesty, though, indigenous is about way more than cute dogs and great lunch suggestions. the company is pioneering some really amazing things within their supply chain. and, for what it’s worth, i will be buying one of their winter hats.

hub and blue bottle

alicia — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:52:44 +0000

got to the hub early to catch some before-hours world cup action. then met kat for some super swankay coffay at blue bottle cafe.

unc in sf is always good

alicia — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:10:20 +0000

met up with emily for some mexican, beer and a good chat (not necessarily in that order).

unexpected pride and a mini reunion

alicia — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 05:54:22 +0000

a 2/3rds lexington ave reunion (lora, you were missed). met one of my former cambridge roommates (and one of the most creative bartenders i know) along with two of his friends at a bar i could picture him owning. since it was a sunny san fran day, decided to walk there, and literally ran into copious pride festival celebrations – it was colorful and awesome.

terry was on his way to a mini bar tending contest (small contest, not small bar). so, we caught up a bit and then helped him plan out the two concoctions that were undoubtedly going to bring him the gold.

decided to walk home, too – because hey, why not?

from new home to new home

alicia — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:30:11 +0000

photo of my new chapel hill street. how is it possible that i just met it and already … i am in love? then … breakfast with lysandra before she drove me to the airport in her new fancy red car. on the other end of my flight? san francisco, my bestest bud, her comfy couch, some wedding craziness, and pizza.