A Weekend According to my iPhone

1// Strolling around High Falls on my lunch break.

2// New editions of Interior Design and Dwell for April.

3// I have this thing for large trees in open spaces - one of my favorites from Highland Park.

4// A weekend well spent with my momma.

5// Started my second job at Boulder Coffee Co. and I'm lovin' it.

6// Lazy snuggle times with this little fur ball.

7// Signs of spring finally springin' up everywhere.

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1// Snap from a Saturday afternoon stroll through Rochester's High Falls.

2// Finally made it to 123 Sesame Street.

3// Watched some butterflies flutter by at the Strong Museum.

4// Snuggle sessions with a little brat cat.

5// Ignoring adulthood at the Strong Museum with Nils by playing with fake sinks.

6// Play is our brain's favorite way of learning...a day well spent at the Museum of Play.

7// Scored some entertaining CDs from this grab bag at Record Archive.

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1// Friday Fling on letterpress, paper making, and book binding.

2// Learning about letterpress at the Genessee Center for the Arts

3// Getting all inked up to print.

4// Amy making paper with purple paper pulp.

5// My weekly trip to the Rochester Public Market.

6// Made some tissue paper pom-poms to fill up some blank wall space.

7// Color-coded my bookshelves because I'm cool like that.

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1// Checkin' out the street art near the Rochester Public Market.

2// Hanging with my grandma in ROC.

3// The Farmer's Daughter from The Owl House = absolutely DELICIOUS.

4// Me and dad and Van Gogh at brunch.

5// Finally perusing the aisles of Record Archive.

6// Fuller bookshelves thanks to my mom and Keary (sorry we didn't get a picture!)

7// Seen in the courtyard at Village Gate.

Currently

attempting to create a general schedule of events for my evenings to avoid couch potato-ing.

buying '642 Things to Draw' for a little inspiration.

dreaming about owning my own coffee shop.

drinking a glass of Coppola Merlot.

fearing the impending doom that is my first student loan payment.

learning about LEED core concepts for the Green Associate exam.

listening to 'Zombie' by The Cranberries.

looking forward to seeing friends in Rochester & Syracuse this weekend.

making more time to read every night.

thinking about going back to school...eventually...after working for a few years.

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1. Drinks at a local speakeasy with a friend from work.

2. Partaking in all things autumn.

3. Carving pumpkins with Moriah.

4. Actually having time to make myself a decent breakfast.

5. Lazing about with Piper baby.

6. The owls are not what they seem...the finished product.

7. Hanging out with toddlers at the pumpkin patch.

September in Review

Just like that, another month has gone by. Here's a taste of what I did this month:

*Above image from http://adultingblog.com/ *

    This one's for all of my recent graduates out there...or you know, anyone who feels like they      

    really need to get there s#!t together. Kelly Williams Brown's tips on "adulting" are simple, useful, 

    and quite comical. 

   With autumn in full swing, I was in desperate need of an actual bed set with a comforter and lots 

   of fluffy, joyful things. Plus, being an interior designer the lack of color in my bedroom was 

   depressing me. 

*Above images are original album art, not mine*

   Songs on Repeat:

   Soon We'll Be Found by Sia: I can't stop listening right now, check out the awesome video here

   Songbird by Fleetwood Mac: One of my favorite songs, ever 

   About this Map by The Tragically Hip: My go-to driving song lately. Give it a listen

   Mouthful of Diamonds by Phantogram: A great song to get work done...calmly

*Still from Frances Ha...image does not belong to me*

    A friend and I watched this movie one Sunday evening this month. The entire movie is in black        & white but is set in modern NYC. Super quirky, super relatable, and super good.

   Spent the day with these really cool kids, picked some apples, ate some cider donuts, drank some     hard cider. Basically, we did autumn right.

    It  somehow took me two months of living here to get to this place, but I'm in love. I sincerely miss working at a coffee shop and this place makes me feel right at home. Plus, I made friends with one of the baristas. Yeah, I'm a cool girl now.

A Weekend According to my iPhone Sept. 28

Silver & Gold

A Weekend According to my iPhone Sept. 21

This Week's Flowers Sept. 18

Me, Myself & I

This Week's Flowers Sept. 9

On Being a "Real Person"

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1. First weekend in quite some time where I didn't travel or have visitors.

2. Got bored and painted my interior doors bright blue.

3. Proof that I finally washed my poor car like a good adult.

4. Saturday afternoon glamour shot sesh for Piper.

5. Getting my cappuccino fix at Pour Coffee Parlor <3 p="">

6. Girls' night with lovely ladies from the arch department.

7. Loving all of the tree-lined streets in my neighborhood this autumn.

Silver & Gold

For some reason, being suddenly and violently cast into adulthood has made everything from childhood way more awesome and cool than I thought even as an over-excited ten year old. Call it nostalgia or call it denial, but there's just something wonderful and familiar about getting home from work, throwing on your best 90s boy band playlist and creating a masterpiece in a jumbo Toy Story coloring book. Don't even try to act like you're above that - we all know better...

Anyway, a rather unfortunately large part of becoming a fully employed and productive member of society tends to involve letting go of things. Sleeping in becomes a thing of the past, having a massive network of locally centralized friends becomes harder to come by, and even binge watching entire seasons of Friends in a night can seem like a tall order when all you want to do after the 9 to 5 grind is have a glass of wine and go to bed.

You remember the song, Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other is gold? Yeah, that's another one of those things I distinctly remember singing while wearing my totally 90s, kick ass, OshKosh B'Gosh purple corduroy overalls (I know, throwin' it way back). Well, that little blast from the past has been at the forefront of this whole keeping my cool in the big bad world thing.

If you've ever moved somewhere without knowing a soul, you certainly know that it can be frustratingly difficult to meet people. Sure, you have your work circles, but that doesn't always translate into much of a social life. However, if you're smart like I am you've planned ahead for this and got yourself a feline friend to hang with. Regardless, I've found that one of the easiest and most forgotten about ways to keep your sanity is to pick up the phone and call your friends - or email/Facebook message them...if you're into that type of thing. Chances are pretty good that hearing from a friend is exactly the type of thing that'll make their day too. Catching up over more than a few blips on a phone screen is fantastic, and just might be the reminder you're not completely on your own in the big bad world. (:

And with that in mind, here's a wonderful video that my not-cousin-Matt (as I like to call him..don't worry about it) directed and produced. It's called Call Someone You Love, and it's one of three great pieces you can see on his website here.

Call me!

A Weekend According to my iPhone

1. Maple apple pie from scratch

2. Spending the weekend with this cool kid

3. Lazy Sundays and eggocados

4. Exploring Durand Eastman Park

5. The finished product (see photo 1) 

6. Piper as a furniture model

7. Sunny skies in the ROC

This Week's Flowers

I spent the better part of an afternoon browsing through a few of my favorite blogs the other day. I just love reading about how people spend their days - what their reading, writing, tasting, doing...you get the idea. One particular blog I've always enjoyed is Elephantine - she always has the most beautiful photographs and pieces of writing. She also dedicates one post every week to photographs of flowers - how cute, right? Anyway, I've been buying myself a little bouquet every week or so I figured I'd take a page out of her book and do the same. Here's this week's...with an additional kitty bonus!