Cozy

I've been feeling pretty nostalgic lately. Like warm candles and cider and airy music should be a part of my everyday {they might be}. Life has been a bit nuts recently as i'm transitioning my business to focus on some more specific things. Exciting times but also that means seeking paid gigs are on hold until that is all sorted. Being a grown up is gross. Hence the nostalgia of easier days I suppose.. so here you go. A little bit of me on this fall-spring Brooklyn-can't-make-up-it's-mind kind of day. 

photo: JOHN KERNICK

Pendelton via DesignSponge

Izola NYC

Jose Gonzalez

The tale of the turquoise cart

Remember that beverage cart that I wanted to make? Well...I recently succeeded in that DIY mission. Here is the story: There was recently a community stoop sale {it's like a yard sale but on people's stoops} in our neighborhood and someone was selling an Ikea wooden beverage cart that I had been looking at, for only $15! However, I had already made plans to go meet a friend in the Burg to checkout Strangeways. So I planned to get caffeinated and come back to get the cart. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that it wasn't what I wanted because it wasn't like the metal ones that I posted here, but I was just excited to have a new project. When I returned back to my hood the cart was sold and I was disappointed but I had a feeling that we would find something better soon. That night when I was walking Jack I thought that I should cross the street and check the things on the sidewalk because it was recycle day and there are often things left out that people don't want to carry. TADA!! Right across the street was this little beauty:

Rough right? It seemed like someone had used it for outside plants or something because it was rusty and very dirty on the bottom but we had a vision and I knew we could make it cute. Naturally we decided to get started right away...okay that might have been my idea{sorry for the bad lighting on the first pics} I was just so excited I had to start that night! We tried to give it a turquoise color using the paint we already had in the house, but it ended up being way brighter than what we wanted and was still wet hours later.

 

The next day it was still wet so we walked over to Lowes to find a quick drying spray paint{i have no idea why we didn't do that in the first place} and we found this pretty light turquoise color that suited our kitchen much better.  

 

 

If ever in doubt.. just buy the spray paint. It was SO fast and easy and dried within about an hour. Here is our almost finished product. We painted the wheels gold and added a handle. I'm excited to add a few other touches, like a tea towel soon! 

 

The Burg

Happy Thursday! Today feels like Friday. The weather was lovely and I spent it wandering around with a good friend in Williamsburg eating veggie sandwiches {with coffee, of course} at the cutest little hidden gem called House of Small Wonder and then we hit up Space Ninety Eight. Which is some brilliant person's plan of an Urban Outfitters mash up in a warehouse style venue. It is completely catered to the local Williamsburg lover and the hipster in all of us. It features local Brooklyn designers on the first floor, an Adidas floor on the bottom, a very cleverly displayed product area where you can try out things like sea salt hair spray and lightly tinted animal safe lip balm, and also a rooftop restaurant. Needless to say it is becoming one of my favorite places to hang out at when we are in the Burg. 

Photo by: House of Small Wonder

Photo by Driely S. for Racked

Were also brainstorming some new shoot ideas, stay tuned for BTS pics. Happy almost weekend! 

Spring... or Naw?

Hello friends! I hope this lovely spring-ish weather has been treating you well. It definitely hasn't been feeling very spring-y here in Brooklyn but I'm embracing the sunshine as it comes. I have had some pretty life altering things happen in the past few months. Too much to go into detail over here but all you really need to know is that I am back with a passionate plan to regularly post on the blog and to share what's going on in my world. 

I plan to utilize this blog to feature my work as a stylist, show you cute ideas and tricks I am learning about fashion/beauty/nesting, and things I've thrifted/flipped. I believe it will be a wonderful 2014 and a lovely journey and I hope you will join me! Heres to all that is to come and 4 of my favorite things right now: 

{links}

Nobody puts baby in a corner

Here's what I've been up to lately:

Me and my boo {I don't really call him boo} rocking my favorite colors for summer: 

mint and turquoise. 

Working with this awesome guy

{thats me on the right & Michael's shirt that he's wearing}. 

Building up our camera collection through thrifting and the streets of Brooklyn. 

This little buddy is on our list!

We spent the past week hanging at the place where Dirty Dancing was filmed: Lake Lure, NC. 

and I worked on a bunch of new goodies for my etsy {shameless plug}. 

Can't wait to share them with you!