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Fresno Hmong International New Year and more!


I wish I had taken more photos of the booths in the Fresno Hmong International New Year to share with you guys!  This is my outfit I bought this year for the Hmong New Year.  It is a variation of the Chinese style Hmong outfits.  The Chinese style is typically designed with strings of beads versus silver money.  Their hats usually matches with the color of the outfit, however when I bought mine it did not come with the hat nor the matching skirt.  The vendor I bought it from assured me that it would be fine with the stunning silver hat and white skirt, and she was not wrong!  
Here is the second outfit I wore this year.  My cousin and I are sporting two similar yet very different Thai outfit.  Hers have a more braided clothe covering her shoulder with a set of gold beads.  Mine is simply laced beaded with small gold beads.  I had worn the outfit in a previous year with my hair down.  This year I changed it up and decided to style my hair in a simple up-do topping it off with gold accessories.




There were so many booths and vendors at the Fresno Hmong International New Years this year.  This is the first year where there were a lot diversity to the booths.  A cousin of mine opened his booth, Knotty Pretzels, which sells soft pretzels.  He may be attending other local events so go support him!  Some other new booths I saw were funnel cakes and a Korean BBQ food truck.  The one booth I was really excited to go into was the Maa Vue Booth.  +Maa Vue is a Hmong celebrity with a strong and powerful voice.  I recently attended one of her concerts and was so in awe of her performance!  Her voice sounded exactly like the recording in her album.  Please go check her out on Youtube and yes her album is on ITUNES!  We bought matching shirts (ABOVE) to support our celebrity.

 Here is the famous Maa Vue below :)



Happy New Year !!!  

2016 was an amazing year for me.  I graduated and started my credentials program at Fresno State.  I cannot wait for what 2017 brings me!  I hope everyone has a happy New Year and do not forget the New Years Resolution you all made.  When we start something, we need to go through with it to the end.  










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  1. UnknownFebruary 5, 2017 at 3:27 PM

    Can't wait to see what you are going to where next year for Hmong New Year

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