Saturday, December 24, 2011

December 22, 2011 ( Twas Two Nights Before Christmas)

Twas two nights before Christmas, and all through the apartment house, all the creatures were stirring, even my kinda-sorta-spouse.

kissmas tree

The stockings were hung... err, placed... by the tree with care... (except my stocking didn't arrive in the mail until the day after, thanks Vistaprint! so we used one of my REAL stockings...) in hopes that Mr. Bradley would soon be there.

stockings

glitterball

penguin guy

snowman

bulb


Wednesday, December 21, 2011

December 18, 2011 (Sushi Making)

For our anniversary, Brad gave me a sushi-making kit.

For the record, sushi making is extremely high maintenance.

cukes and carrotts

sushi chef supplies

Besides all the chopping and prep work, making the rice involves such steps as "fanning for two minutes" (which we did with the iPad because we're bougie like that) and "letting rice cool in a drafty place"... seriously.

high maintenence rice

rice on the outside

It was also incredibly messy (but Brad cleaned that part up!)

mess

Ta da!

christmas sushis


Thursday, December 8, 2011

November 25, 2011 (Scenes From My Parent's House)

My Mother doesn't consider herself a decorator, but I love my childhood home. All the pretty light and details...

bathroom

art and leaf

travel books

curtains

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011 (Friend's Thanksgiving)

Brad and I hosted friends at our house for the traditional Friends Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of the year!

matt throwin' back wine

turkey and candle

martine

food and drink

pie

dixit

dixit

chris and janet

Saturday, November 12, 2011

November 11, 2011 (New York City)

I decided to spend my Veteran's Day in New York City visiting Nuri. We started out the day at Dough in Bed-Stuy and then headed over to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. From there, we went to TKTS to snag Broadway tickets. We landed tickets for Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and then took the subway over to Chelsea to check out Co. pizza and the High Line. Not satisfied with our day of skyline admiration, we took the Roosevelt Island Tram (inspired by Alice of Lingered Upon). Finally, we watched our show, had a mcnugget snack and fell into bed. Best day ever.

11 a.m.
bed-stuy

noon
dough

dough dounuts

blood orange donut from Dough

1 p.m.
dough chef

bridge in brooklyn

2 p.m.
brooklyn bridge

brooklyn bridge 2

3 p.m.
nyc taxi

4 p.m.
pizza from Co.

5 p.m.
high line at dusk

apartments and chrystler

6 p.m.
roosevelt island tram incoming

manhattan from tram


7 p.m.
traffic from tram

59th street bridge

roosevelt island


and later...

third avenue heart break