Saturday, November 3, 2012

SANDY

This has been a tragic week for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, as well as Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas and the D.R.  In general, the most effective way to help is to donate money to reputable relief organizations with a local presence in the affected area. Please consider making a donation to the Red Cross, or directly to one of the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy:

Red Hook/ South Brooklyn-
Sandy Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Red Hook Recovers
Red Hook Initiative

Breezy Point, Queens-
Donations for Breezy Point and the Rockaways
Friends Devastated by Sandy

Staten Island-
Staten Island Recovers

Long Island-
Sandy Relief Donation Opportunities

New Jersey-
Hurricane Sandy Relief

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Such Great Heights

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Crate storage = great storage!

Saturday, April 21, 2012

I'm back



...and engaged!

The trip to SF and Big Sur was pretty freakin awesome.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Highway 1 Revisited

On Friday my beau and I are taking off on a long-awaited West Coast vacance. We're spending a week in sweet old San Francisco, sprinkled with a couple nights under the stars in Big Sur. These views make me wish I could blink my eyes and be there already...

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Doug Johnston





It was love at first sight when I came across Doug Johnston's line of cotton cord accessories. That tote! It would make such a perfect summer carryall for bike rides to the beach. And the trivets and baskets are so clever and naturally beautiful.


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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Coconut Ganache Bourbon Balls

I made Coconut Ganache Bourbon Balls for my valentine last week. These no-bake bon bons are a feast for your taste buds and a tipsy topsy good time.






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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Audrey's deer


Just when I thought she couldn't get any more delightful, I discover that Audrey Hepburn owned a pet deer!


Named Pippin!


Geeeez.

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Monday, February 13, 2012

The 1929 Michigan Theater

...now serves as a parking lot:


I spied this image on Pinterest and was surprised by my own emotional reaction to it...so hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking. At least the structure is still standing?

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Saturday, February 11, 2012

San Valentin


'Tis the season for red roses, chocolate kisses and love notes. If I had my way, I would surprise my boo with a big smooch, a heart-shaped breakfast, and a rocking chair built for two:



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P.S. In the mood for a love contest? Steven Alan is offering up a sweet prize...

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Paris vs. New York: The Book

You've probably glimpsed Vahram Muratyan's beautiful graphic comparisons of Paris and New York during your travels around the interwebs. But have you seen the book?





J'adore. T'would make a great gift. The postcard box is pretty great, too.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Scale it Back


Thanks to my awesome Tuesday/Thursday yoga teacher and her scrumptious class playlists, this song has been on repeat all weekend long:

Scale It Back by DJ Shadow featuring Little Dragon on Grooveshark

God it's good. Doesn't the intro sound like T-Boz??

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Monday, January 23, 2012

12 for '12: Purify



Intention #12: purify with plants!
Living practically on top of the BQE gives us a nice, calming lull to fall asleep to at night. It also provides less than optimal air quality and a nasty layer of soot on all the windowsills. But rather than enlist the help of a machine to do some purifying, I'd like to fill our apartment with pots and pots of plants! I want to hang them in the windows, stack them on the 'sills. I want to fill our entire fireplace with all of this redeeming greenery.

If you'd like to do the same, these are just a few of the best air purifying plants...

Weeping Fig

Spider Plant

Snake Plant

Golden Pothos

Bamboo Palm

Areca Palm

Rubber Plant


Here's to a happy, healthy, refreshing new year ahead, friends. XO

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

12 for '12: Bizness


Intention #11: Stay focused on entrepreneurial endeavors; set aggressive but achievable milestones.

It seems soo so easy to be distracted by other ways to spend my free nights and weekends (yoga with amigas, brunching with boo, ebay surfing). But I will make a conscious effort to create, and stick to, a timeline that helps me to push things along (and allows for a little fun).

To my friends who are in the midst of building small businesses (there seem to be so many of you): how do you balance business planning, a full-time job and, uh, life?

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Monday, January 16, 2012

12 for '12: Bettering


Intention #10: Be a better friend, daughter, sister and boo to all the loves in my life. I think this might mean picking up the phone more often, making impromptu plans (avoiding 'penciling in' 5 weeks in advance), writing love letters, and spending some time on the west coast (happening! see paragraph #2 of intention #7).

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Friday, January 13, 2012

12 for '12: Crafts pt.III


Intention #9
Lately I've had this huge urge to take a ceramics class. I would love to make my own mugs, bowls, plates and vases. Do you know of any great studios in Brooklyn/ NYC?

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

12 for '12: Get outside


Intention #8: Hike more. Swim more. Ski more. Bike more.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

12 for '12: Sleep under the stars


Intention #7
Travel is always near the tippy top of my to do list for each new year, but this year it's looking like most vacation days will be spent stateside, which I am totally cool with. There are approximately 800 places I would die to visit in the U.S., so I plan to cross at least a couple of them off my list. I'd like to try something off the beaten path in 2012 and sleep out under the stars and among the forest canopies in...a treehouse! You may have noticed that I've been daydreaming of treehouse vacations for years. I think this year my little dream will finally be realized.

Thanks to my boo, sometime this Spring we'll be visiting our City by the Bay, after almost two long years away. My mind is already spinning with visions of favorite people to see, places to visit, and foods to eat (and eat and eat and eat). I'm also thinking this might be the perfect opportunity to burrow into a Human Nest in Big Sur, or climb into a sky-high suite at Post Ranch Inn.

In the midst of my obsessive searching, I also discovered these amazing treehouse hotels in my own home state. Yes ma'am!

Have you ever slept in a treehouse hotel? One of my good friends lived in New Zealand for a year and always raved of these stargazer huts she would stay in - they had large windows above the bed where you could peer out into the night sky...dreamy.


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Friday, January 6, 2012

12 for '12: Crafts pt.II


Intention #6: Learn to sew. I'm sooo serious about this one. I'm actually taking a class next week and cannot wait to conquer my fear of the big, bad sewing machine. By the end of the year I'd like to have a few projects completed...

*a curtain for our bathroom window
*something supercute for my ever-growing baby niece to wear
*something supercute for me to wear
*tea towels!
*hand-stitched stationary
*an oven mit or two

Do you sew? What have you whipped up lately? I'm on the hunt for inspirational (and easy) projects :)

I'll keep you posted on my progress...

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

12 for '12: Mostly plants



Intention #5: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." I recently read Michael Pollan's Food Rules around the same time that I did my very first 3-day juice cleanse. I felt uhhhmazing at the end of the 3 days - lighter, clear-minded and more energetic than usual.

So, in 2012 I plan to maintain a plant-rich diet including stalks and stalks of...kale! I have a slight obsession with this leafy green. I love adding it to quinoa salads, burritos, pastas, etc. But lately I've been eating kale as a salad green topped with mushrooms, radishes, avocado, olive oil and lemon juice. Try it, it's so good. Know what else is good? Sweet potatoes.



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