Customize your Adidas with Instagram Pics

How cool is this news?! Adidas has created an app, launching in August, that will let users make a fashion statement by printing any photo, including Instagram pics, on a pair of sneakers!

This technology is part of the relaunch of 'mi adidas', the shoemaker's customizeable-sneakers program. You'll be able to print you pics on the ZX Flux shoes. Go and check out the video on adidas' Instagram post here.

Being a fan of both sneakers and Instagram - I am definitely intrigued! How about you? What do you think about wearing your filtered Instagram creations on your feet? So really, you can soon take a selfie and print it - on your sneakers! : )

I have over 1,400 pics so far on instagram, btw, please go follow me! Check out some of my Instagram pics below that I would consider printing on my sneakers.....

iPhone TV Ad - Photos Every Day

Just wanted to share this latest great TV ad from Apple, I just LOVE it! It's for their iphone.

For those who knows me - knows that I love to take pics (with my iphone of course) of anything and everything. I could so see myself in this ad? lol Now,why wasn't I ask to be in it?! : )

'Every day, more photos are taken with the iPhone than any other camera.' I believe that.

Please follow me on instagram to see what kind of stuff I'm capturing these days - thanks!

Umbra - Facepaper Contest Winner: Me!

I'm a big fan of umbra stuff. They're cool, modern, original, and affordable product for the home. I'm pretty sure you like me own something from umbra. Maybe a frame or two?

Well, umbra had a Facepaper Contest back in January where we can submit photos for a chance to be in an umbra frame sold worldwide. If that's not enough, the chosen ones also get a $50 umbra gift code to shop online. How cool, right? And guess who won? ME!!! lol

This was my kind of contest. People who knows me know that I LOVE taking pics and sharing them on instagram : ) Check out all of them here and please follow me.

I'm so happy! Umbra chose not just one but TWO of my photos!! That's right, look out for my winning photos in frames this fall! I'm super excited!

I was told that they sorted through hundreds of photos and picked a total of 10 winning shots. Check them out below - all very nice images! Congrats to all the winners!

My winning photo taken at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institue.

My second winning photo taken at this year's Interior Design Show.

Can't believe it, my photo will be 

in an umbra frame like these!

Here are the other winning photos.

Hickies - Elastic Lacing System

Have you heard about Hickies?

To be honest, I haven't either until they reached out to me. And I'm so glad they did since I love sneakers. After seeing my outfit postings, I guess they noticed the many sneakers I own. (FYI - If you're on instagram, follow @stardchiu and search #dchiuoutfit.)

They contacted me to asked if I would be interested to give Hickies a try, and without hesitation I said yes. Thank you so much Hickies! I tried and love them! Pics of them on my sneakers coming soon.

So, what exactly is Hickies? Hickies is an elastic lacing system that replaces traditional shoelaces and lets you easily slip in and out of your shoes while keeping them snug and secure. Never tie or untie your shoes again! What a great idea, right? Check out this video to see how to use Hickies.

And it comes in so many cool colours! You can get rid of the boring bow and customize your footwear! Be creative and stand out from the crowd. They're so simple and fun = they're great stuff!

To read all about Hickies, check out their website. While you're there, definitely go and order some too.

Please comment below, I would love to hear what you think of this idea/product. 

Stay tuned. Make sure you're following me on Twitter and 'Like' me on Facebook.....

Because, thanks to the kind people from Hickies, I will be doing a giveaway very soon. One reader will have a chance to win a pack of Hickies!!

My Outfit Postings

If you're on my Facebook, following me on twitter or instagram, I'm sure you've noticed my instagram outfit postings. I was kinda inspired by other bloggers and postings I follow. I figured why not start showcasing my style/outfits.

I love fashion and shopping. And I think I have a pretty good sense of style - you guys can let me know : ) I enjoy putting outfits together and like experimenting/being adventurous with clothing. My style is pretty clean looking. I tried to look for pieces that have unique details. I do like trends but don't go overboard. I like fitted pieces and not afraid of wearing colours; yellow pants, pink tops - bring them on. Lastly the outfit has to be comfortable!

I love and collect lots - shoes/sneakers, watches, bags/backpacks, t-shirts, etc. I like to get items in a wide range of styles/colours - let just say I like to have a variety. Yes - I may have an issue, lol. Plus I really need a bigger closet! FYI, I also included where I got the pieces I'm wearing. You might notice, I am a big fan of H&M.

I would like to thank you my great big sister for taking most of my outfit pics. It's not easy - I'm pretty picky. Thank you for her patience and being a great photographer!

To check out my outfit postings, there's a couple options: follow me on twitter (on the left), follow me on instagram. If you're on instagram, you can also do a search #dchiuoutfits. I am also thinking of doing more detail posting of my outfits here, so stay tune.

I hope you guys enjoy my outfits/postings, I have fun posing/modeling in them. Hopefully it will give you guys ideas ie. what colours works together, how to mix patterns, how to wear certain pieces, etc. and inspire you to have fun and experiment with your outfits. Looking for a stylist? Let me know! : )

Happy Movember!

If you have instagram - please help me win the Movember Photo Contest (courtest of blogto and PKG) by liking this photo. The photos with the most likes at the end of the month wins. Simply follow me @stardchiu, find this photo and like it. You can also search for #blogTOmovemeber. Thank you!!!

For more info about Movember - check out their website here.

My Instagram - stardchiu

As I mentioned before from my earlier posting about Instagram, here are some of my instagrams.

If you have an account, please follow me at stardchiu.

To view more, please click here. For those who doesn't have a smartphone = no instagrams, no worries, you can still check out my pics at this link http://instagrid.me/stardchiu/

Happy Instagram!! : )

Instagram = US$1 Billion

I'm sure you all heard: Instagram, a mobile photo-sharing app was bought by Facebook for 1 billion dollars! I wonder what will Facebook do with it - hopefully not too many changes.

For those who's not familliar with Instagram:

It’s a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your photos with friends and family. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram. Share to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr too – it's as easy as pie. It's photo sharing, reinvented.

FYI - Instagram only started up 17 months ago and is now worth a billion dollars?! So crazy!

I'm a fan of it and started using it about 4 months ago. (btw - my profile pic to the right is an Instagram) I am loving it! It's fun - sharing your pics, picking a filter to match your image, being creative and it can sometimes turn your not so good pics into better one - who doesn't like that? I will share some of my instagram pics in the next posting.

Check out this Instagram Timeline Infographic created by Visually. Lots of interesting facts of how it progress to its current position.

In the infographic ‘Instagram: The Timeline’, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger raised US$500,000 to fund their app in March 2010.

In November 2010, the app was released in Apple’s app store.

In December 2010, the Instagram community hit 1 million users.

Hashtags were then added in January 2011—for people to discover photos or each other.

In June 2011, the number of users hit 5 million.

In August 2011, the 150 millionth photo uploaded onto the app.

A month thereafter, live filters, tilt-shift effects, and high-res photo options were added.

In September 2011, the community hit 10 million Instagram users.

In April this year, the app released Android version of its app, which hit 1 million downloads in a day; and got the app 30 million users altogether—which then brings us to Facebook buying Instagram for US$1 billion.