I’M BACK!!!

After a very very eventful summer, Tim and I are back in New York, ready for our final year in this crazy city!  We just moved in to our new apartment so we are living in a bit of a mess right now, and so to procrastinate on the cleaning I thought that I would post a few pictures of what I did over summer.  I realized that so much happened, from St. Tropez with the family that I work for, to celebrating our honeyversary in Palm Springs, to my best friend’s wedding, to my cousin’s bridal shower…so much going on!  So I’m going to spread out the posts over the next couple of days.

First up: South of France!

So Busty!

I encourage all of you to go buy the June/July ’10 issue of BUST Magazine (my girl Zooey is on the cover) and flip to page 15.  Or just look at these pictures :)

Happy Mother’s Day

Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mommies out there!  A special shout out to my own stylish Mamasita and GG <3  Love love love!

Mom: 1966

Grandma Gwen: 1945

Sunshine warms my face and my heart

Spring has arrived!  It is here and it has smacked me right across the face with the fiercest love slap imaginable!  The sunshine, the leaves on the trees, the chirping birds, the peonies! Oh god, the peonies!  What a happy happy girl am I!

It’s been a while (story of my life) so I thought I would give an update.  This might seem a bit boring to some of you, but for people like my mom who check this thing daily to see what I’ve been up to, well this is for you :)

Two months ago I quit my job as a nanny for one family and became a nanny for another MUCH BETTER family.  Goodbye five-year old jerk who slapped me across my face on my last day…goodbye three-year old mental exhaustion who wants to play dolls all day and tell me what my doll has to say.  Hello nine-year old genius who wants to speed home from school so that she can read…hello seven-year old love bug who has the cutest laugh on the planet…hello four-year old comedienne who makes up her own hilarious stories with soundtracks to go with them.  These girls are brilliant, they are incredibly funny, they love the Beatles!  It’s a match made in heaven!

A couple weeks ago I went home to California and spent a beautiful week at home with my family.  My cousins came over and we shared beautiful conversation over delicious food…being at home is truly the best all-inclusive resort!  Thrift-store shopping (goodies in the shop SOON, I promise!), sitting on the patio around the fire, Korean spa day, delicious strawberry-rhubarb pie, questionable vegan lemon squares…heaven.

This past weekend Timmy and I went to Brooklyn for the cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.  Unfortunately, the flowers had already bloomed and fallen to the ground, but it was such a gorgeous day and we stayed as long as we could before the allergies started kicking in.  After the gardens we walked around the adorable neighborhood of Park Slope and bought lemonade for 50 cents from a sweet lemonade stand and shopped around in a really cool antique shop and stopped by a handmade craft fair.  All in all, a beautiful spring day!

Another really exciting thing for us is that our photography business Sweet Little Photographs is really taking off!  We got a mention on Daily Candy as well as on Green Wedding Shoes and ever since then we’ve been having trouble keeping track of our inbox!  We have a few weddings booked, many many more in the process of being booked, and lots of great conversations with wonderful clients happening.  I’ve been working on my photography skills and with a teacher like Tim pretty soon I’ll be AMAZING ;)  I am so happy with the way our life is taking shape, this is an incredible journey that I am so excited to start!

Here’s a piece of news for everyone: Tim and I will be in California for all of June and July…except for the two weeks in July that I will be in St. Tropez with the family that I work for (I TOLD you they were amazing!!!), so for all of you that wanted to come visit us in New York, you’ll have to wait until after August to do so!

The end!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I have always loved Valentine’s Day, from the elementary school days of making cards out of red construction paper and elegant white doilies to the middle school days of sending Backstreet Boys valentines…and of course all of the chocolate!  When I was a sophomore in high school, I got a bouquet of roses and some delicious goodies from my first real valentine, and every year since we have found a wonderful way to tell each other how much our love has grown.  This particular holiday has a very special meaning for us now…last year my darling proposed to me and exactly four months later we got married!  This will be our tenth Valentine’s Day together.  He is my first and only valentine <3

New Year

It is January 1st.  Isn’t that absolutely incredible?  I mean like…UNBELIEVABLE!!!  This year came and went so fast, but was filled with so many wonderful things.  I am looking forward to 2010 with all of my heart.  I have so many projects that I am going to dedicate myself to and I am going to work hard to see them come to fruition.  Here are some of my resolutions:

1. Work hard on Sweet Little Photographs and try to put ourselves out there more to build up a wonderful reputation.
2. Get going on Sugar Babies because this stuff is so cute you guys wouldn’t even believe it!
3.  Join a gym and get in shape just for the benefit of boosting my self-esteem and self-image.
4.  Be more aware of the foods I eat and how they affect my health/the world.
5.  Read more books.
6.  Take more time for myself.
7.  Smile at everyone.

This year is going to be great and I wish you all a very happy, healthy, and successful 2010 filled with love, laughter and new adventures!

Tofurkey

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving!  My first Thanksgiving as a wife and my first Thanksgiving as a hostess with the mostess.  The husby, our good friend Scott, and I will gather together in our humble 275 square foot apartment and sit on the couch and lonely chair with our plates in our laps and enjoy cruelty-free mashed potatoes, green beans, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and celebration roast, followed by a (hopefully!) delicious dessert of tea-poached pears in a chocolate sauce topped with candied pecans.  YUM!!!!!!  I can’t wait to put on my apron and start cooking!

Speaking of the holidays, I’ve been working on some sweet Christmas onesies for Sugar Darling:Sugar Baby and I even set up an etsy shop!  There are only a few items so far, but custom orders are my specialty!  Here are the two designs that I’ve stitched up so far.

Autumn in New York

I have been ignoring my computer for the past month, just completely ignoring it.  I come home from work and we have so many shows to catch up on, or I’m at a really intense part in my book and I don’t want to put it down, or I’m just down right exhausted after ten hours of chasing a three year-old!  But for some reason, it makes me feel guilty that I don’t keep up the blog as much as I should.  So here’s a nutshell run down:  my mom’s visit came and went (highlights include Mary Poppins, a cocktail at The Boathouse, cheese platter at the St. Regis hotel, and plenty of much-needed mom time), Tim and I celebrated our 9 year anniversary with a Broadway binge (West Side Story, Wicked, Phantom), and IT’S AUTUMN!  The streets are littered with the fallen leaves, the trees are starting to get naked, and everyone is walking around town like they’re in a freaking GAP commercial.  The tights, the scarves, the boots, THE COATS…heavenly.  I want to go to there.

Sweet Little Photographs

My updates have been few and far between for quite a few reasons…we’ve had a constant flow of houseguests, we got a little sick and just wanted to sleep all day, AND we started a new project that we are super duper excited about!!!  I didn’t want to say anything about it until it became a reality, but Tim and I have decided to start our own wedding photography business!  We were so inspired by Mark and Candice that we wanted to make other couples feel just as amazing as they made us feel.  We’ve been working really hard on a name and a logo and all the little details, but we are so happy with the results and now we are just keeping our fingers crossed for success!  So without further ado, we present to you Sweet Little Photographs!

where have you been all my life!?

Hi hi hi hi!!!!  Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend and that you are all ready to start a wonderful new week!  I have had an extremely busy September and am just here to catch you all up on my many adventures!

First of all, Scottie is here!  He moved here about two weeks ago and has been staying with us while looking for his own fabulous New York apartment.  He came just in time for Fashion Week, which we celebrated by attending a fashion show for New York Couture!  Tim and I both worked with the designer Cassie a while back when we did the photo shoot in the poppy field, and we’ve stayed in touch with her ever since.  She invited us to the show and put us on the VIP list so we were able to have access to super exclusive fun times!  We watched the models strut their stuff on the runway from the balcony of Webster Hall, so we had a fantastic view of the whole show.  Each piece was a ridiculous candy-coated acid trip that made my head swirl with madness…it was just awesome!  Please please PLEASE go to her website and look at all the fun photos!

Second of all, Ryan is here!  He is in town for a few auditions and hanging out with some of his NY friends, but he’s staying in our apartment so I’ve been able to get some quality time with him too.  He’s been catching me up on the world of Disney that I’ve been missing out on and filling me in on what’s happening in his life.  It’s been very nice having people I love come visit me in my new city.

Third of all, Tim and I have become completely serious about staring our own wedding photography company.  We were just so inspired by Mark and Candice and we want to make that magic happen for other couples.  We’ve already shot a few engagement sessions and they were just so much fun to do.  Tim has been teaching me all about using the camera and so that I’ll be an amazing photographer too!  We’ve been thinking of names for the company and we’re throwing a couple ideas around, but we haven’t come to a conclusion yet.  As soon as we do, we’ll have a website up so that we can start showing our portfolio and hopefully get more clients and really make this happen!

Oh, aaaaaand…we have a new dress up  in the shop!  It is so sweet and lovely that I just want to keep it for myself!  Head over to the shop and make it yours.