I Heart NYC

 

So after 30 years of life I finally made it to the Big Apple. This was my first trip to the big city and it was every thing I thought it would be. I’m ready to go back.

My husband and I made a long weekend trip for my big 30th b-day. We stayed at the ultra nice and hip Tribeca Grand. The hotel was awesome. The rooms are small but stylish (stainless steel sink and white noise speakers). Staff super helpful and friendly (said hi every time we walked in the door) and a very cool lounge/restaurant/club The Church downstairs ($15 martinis, but what the hey, we’re in NY).

We saw some great art at The MOMA, ate a hotdog, went to Central Park, saw the Rockefeller Center, went to see XANADU (yes, the very silly Broadway take on the horrible Olivia Newton John movie from the 80s) But it was great. 

Oh, and also spotted my only pseudo-celebrity while riding the subway! It was Austin Scarlett - the flamboyant style maven from Project Runway (or at least I thought it was him. he had on huge sunglasses and a big straw hat).

Third Day we were kind tired (damn you $15 martinis!) and decided to be lazy tourists and take a double decker bus around town (I thought this might be a quick, easy way to see the sights of New York). Maybe this was not the best idea. After standing in line for about an hour just to get on the bus we quickly figured out we could’ve just walked to the first stop on the route and hopped on there (duh).

We hopped off the bus and did a little shopping in SOHO and then hopped back on later to catch a few more sights. We eventually ditched the bus and walked through China Town and Little Italy (where I snacked on an Italian ice) and wound back at our hotel.

On the night of my birthday we took a night sail on the Hudson River. It was a really awesome way to get a view of the skyline and The Statue of Liberty at night.

It was an awesome trip (save the horrible plane travel to and from, but that’s another post).

Like I said, I’m ready to go back and see and do even more!!

 

 

My Moo Cards

This week I received my custom order of Moo minicards. If you don’t know Moo, it’s a cool UK-based printing company that lets you upload any image and they will print it for you on a variety of items like note cards, greeting cards and stickers. I really don’t know why they call themselves Moo, but I like it….it’s how cows say, “hi.”

I grabbed a few images off of Everystock, tweaked them on Picnik and voila, my own customized biz cards (the images also can be found on my header here and on my about pages). Moo prints the cards in batches of 100 and you can choose various images to come in a batch (I chose 3). These cards are not the typical size of your run-of-the-mill business card, but pretty nifty at half the size (about the size of a Band-Aid). I think they stand out a little more from stodgy old business cards. I also ordered a cute little felt holder to keep them in. 

Not feeling creative? Moo has lots of designers who have ready-made products with tons of cute designs. Happy Mooing!

Cheese, a Friendly Cow, Mojitos and More…

Thanks to Travel Obsession for the fun photographic survey. It’s a fun little game and a good time killer.

Just follow the simple rules below.

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name? 

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite color?

5. Who is your celebrity crush? 
6. Favorite drink? 
7. Dream vacation? 
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up? 
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you. 
12. Your flickr name.

A Rare night

My friend Kristi and I enjoyed people watching, networking and noshing on free food and drinks during a night out at a magazine party on Sunday. The magazine is Rare, a cool little glossy that I write for from time to time. If you live here in Austin check out this month’s issue which I write about the Continental Club and Bahaia, a belly dancer but she’s not any of these interesting people in the photo below.

 

Anyways, the rooftop party celebrated the Rarest of Them All issue and brought together all types of vendors like the people from Emerald City Press below, artists, dancers, musicians and all-around hipsters. We soaked up the beautiful skyline views and stalked waiters passing around yummy little bites of food.

What a great night!