Where Have You Been?

Hello Friends, it has been awhile, awhile, awhile since I blogged and honestly there has not been much more than a day that has gone by in which I didn't think about and miss my old hobby. Yes, I have intermittently posted a few things about dresses I like or good old Mary-Kate Olsen, but this little place used to be where I documented what was actually going on in my life. The truth is I was uninspired and sad for a few months and didn't have the desire to share much of it or even the fun and distracting things I still managed to do. Then that lifted (it's amazing how that happens!), then I got a new job and my melancholia was replaced with excitement, happiness and a whole lot of work. But now that I am starting to wrap my head around a full-time schedule after almost three years of freelancing, traveling and blogging, I am trying to get back here. Hello. So what exactly did I do these last couple months worthy of sharing...well I:


Biked to Brighton Beach and Drank Beer

Crashed a Law School Prom Dressed as Brenda Walsh 

Bussed it to Boston for a Weekend at a Real House

To be continued...

A New York Day Trip: Governor's Island

Since yesterday I shared a New York day trip with you and since I have a little free time for the first time in a couple months, I thought I would post some photos I promised I would put up a long time ago from our trip to Governor's Island this past August. It was an amazingly hot summer day (in which it was predicted to rain) and Whitney, Rachael, Megan, Julia and I got all dressed up in 20s garb and took a ferry to attend the annual Jazz Age Lawn Party. It is something I had wanted to do since seeing all the pics on the Sartorialist and other street style blogs (we spotted Bill Cunningham there snapping away) year after year, but finally found the motivation to actually do it. And oh was it worth it, everyone in attendance was decked out in costume, not a better place in the world to snap photos and people watch. And although I did spend a lot of time scoping out the scene from our blanket, watching (and critiquing) everyone that walked past as I sipped on a summery cocktail, I seemed to have only taken photos of my friends. Ooops. Next year I will make a point to branch out a bit, but for now, here was one of my favorite summer days...

And a little tragic love story acted out on the water...

A New York Day Trip: The Dia Beacon

This past weekend was my last in the city for awhile, so I decided to take full advantage of it. Luckily the weather was absolutely perfect, reaching up to the 80s, and Mary, Megan and Julia were game to take the train to Beacon, a little town on the Hudson River just over an hour North of Grand Central Station and home to a beautiful light-filled museum in an old printing factory. In all my seven years of living in New York this was my first trip to the Dia Beacon and it certainly made me question why. The space is phenomenal and perfect for photography — ironically, they don't allow photos, but I managed to sneak a few good ones in and took a bunch outside and in Beacon itself, a quintessential East Coast Americana town with churches, pottery shops, people riding Harleys and hanging flags on their front porches. After a few hours in the museum, which includes work from the 1960s on, we ended the day with Mediterranean food and white wine at a little restaurant with a darling backyard filled with flowers and other people probably escaping the city. And such a nice escape it was. Actually, it wasn't really a needing to escape New York kind of day, more so the let's take advantage of all the things New York has to offer kind...

I'm wearing: Ralph Lauren T-shirt Dress (Thrifted), Military Jacket (The Gap), Black Booties (ASOS)