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photo from the moderns cinco de mayo party for emeco
taken by the lovely cassie

i have the best friends and family. on my first day of work i woke up from text messages from some of my best buds wishing me good luck. my roommate jess even sent me on my way with a warm cookie in hand.

on thursday, the moderns had a big cinco de mayo party. after a long and busy day getting everything set up, i was so happy to see nick, kent and zack. they all showed up to hang out with wes and i. i couldn't have been happier to see them! they loved the moderns beautiful space and of course the free food.

i have the best little support group right here with me in new york.

puppy love

miss molly on an easter egg hunt

i love our family dog, miss molly. she is so sassy and so much fun. but i wasn't ever really sold on having a dog of my own until we came to new york in march. everyone has dogs here. and you remember that scene in 101 dalmatians, where they are walking through the park and everyone looks like their dog. well that honestly isn't too far from the truth people. 

there are currently four main pups in my life:

sawyer: the little beagle puppy i live with

griffin: the moderns mascot pooch

itty bitty: the resident pomeranian 

florence: the french bulldog that works next door but loves to come visit

i cant want to show you how adorable these guys are!

win win win

three things that get a thumbs up from me

eric gill's an essay on typography

win win

koronet pizza

the goods

today i had another day to myself.

so the adventures continued. today i walked around greenwich village and visited nyu. columbia sure has the better campus though. i eventually made my way to soho where i of course bought a few things.

muji

i love this store so much

pen

& notebook

uniqulo

this place is awesome. such well made clothes for an amazing price. the place to go to stock your closet with the basics.

pants

cole hann 

this place has customer service down. and i can actually walk in this thanks to nike air technology

ballet flat

mango

spain hits another home run with mango. thank you spainards for zara and mango

pants

oh and i got a shirt from one of those cheap ghettofab stores

ya know what i'm talking about

but i think i'll have you fooled with this 6 dollar find

after walking around and exploring all day i was famished so i gobbled up another slice of koronet pizza. i never cease to amaze myself. 

in the evening i went to see an independent film called win win. one of the things i was looking forward to in new york was the opportunity to watch a lot of independent and foreign film. tonight i went to the angelika film center in soho. aside from all the language i thought win win was a great film. the whole theater was laughing out loud at points but i was also a touching film that i think had an uplifting message about the happiness and love that can be found in family. 

tomorrow i start work! wish me luck.

pucker up

my nose looks quite large

i have always always been a lip gloss queen. one birthday in high school i got 50 different lip glosses as presents. and slowly but surely i used them all up. although i loved the gloss, i was not a fan of bright color. lately though i've been loving the bright fun lips i've been seeing. i have even heard that some boys don't like kissing waxy, sticky lips. and my momma says that glossy lips are out. so its time for a change.

in march, when we (meaning bfa kids) were in new york, we visited mac (as in mac cosmetics design office) and i walked away with two very colorful lipsticks (fo free). they have been in my bag since along with all the shades of lipstick i have accumulated as part of clinque free gifts each year. nick dared me to try out all my different shades this summer in nyc. and i've taken him up on the challenge. yesterday i rocked a deep dark red that seemed to be a hit with the men in east harlem. although, i'm pretty sure most of those men are fans of anything that walks their way.

today, i'm trying coral.
and if you're a ginger fearful of rocking a rad lip, click here for some motivation.

may second

do you spy abraham lincoln

so today, i had the whole day to do just whatever i wanted.

my roommates are the early to bed, early to rise kinda gals, so i am hoping that habit will rub off on me this summer. although i'm sure the bfa will break me as soon as i get back to provo. bfa = no sleep. but at least for today, i woke up early and went for a run along the hudson through riverside park. it was so gorgeous.

later i decided to take a walk up to the cathedral of saint john the divine. on my walk there i stopped at a little bookstore and bought my new york moleskin. i have been waiting to buy that sucker for so long. when i first saw them i told myself it would be a little gift to myself if i got an internship in new york this summer. and that i did. so now there's a new notebook in my purse. the cathedral was stunning. can i just tell you that i absolutely love the neighborhood around my apartment. the cathedral is so close to columbia university campus so i couldn't resist taking a stroll through. i do think byu has a pretty campus. but columbia's amazed me.

moleskin's biggest fan

next i was en route to the new york public library. do you know what a new york address can get you? a new york library card. i am so excited to use it. while i was in the area i popped my head into zara, h&m and sephora where i bought a new perfume: chloe. i think its a perfect summer scent. im still searching for the perfect pleated skirt though.

by the time i made my way back home, i was starving, so i decided to go the a pizza place my roommate had pointed out. koronet pizza, 3.75 for a slice that is as big as the food tray is. but somehow i ate it all. actually i wasn't really surprised. and to top it off, i stopped at westside market and bought myself three delicious looking grapefruits. one of which i plan on having for desert.

pretty pretty princess

everyone was all a buzz over the whole royal wedding affair. some just couldn't figure out why it was such a huge deal. it made me think about how i begged my mom to buy us the pretty pretty princess game. growing up watching disney princess movies and playing princess games, it's no mystery to me that kate middleton's real life fairy tale appealed to so many people. kate's dress was amazing. i loved the bodice; that lace is so elegant. she looks so beautiful. kate designed the dress herself and it was sophia cranston that made her dress dreams come true. and shanshan loved pippa's dress. it's such a shan dress, designed by sarah burton at alexander mcqueen. sista sista. i think shan and i might get in touch with the middleton sisters when our respective days arrive.