
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Know What's Important

Thursday, April 23, 2015
Easter Recap
Often, it's equal parts excitement and pressure for me when people visit New York. The city has this larger than life reputation that makes putting together the perfect agenda stressful. Thankfully, I never really feel like this when my family visits. After four years at Fordham, their trips to the city are a breath of fresh air in terms of planning. I happily sit back and let my sister and parents tell me exactly what they want to do, and at most, I'll suggest a restaurant or arrange our activities in logical geographical order. For this reason, and the fact that we hadn't been all together since Christmas, I was super excited when my parents, sister, and grandmother decided to spend Easter weekend with me in New York.
Easter came and went so fast, but below are just a few highlights I wanted to share from our weekend itinerary. We had the best time together which included amazing food, lots of laughs, and 3 of the 5 boroughs!
1. The Brooklyn Bridge

2. Eataly

3. Lafayette
Getting a brunch reservation in New York for Easter Weekend can be an absolute nightmare. Luckily, we were able to find one at a favorite restaurant of mine, albeit at an early10:00am. Lafayette is absolutely perfect. The interior is french inspired and absolutely everything on the menu is amazing. I especially love sitting outside when it's warm in the summer.
4. The Mandarin Oriental
After brunch, we had drinks in the Lobby Lounge of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. This is definitely worth a visit just to enjoy a few cocktails with an unbelievable view of columbus circle and central park!
For the rest Easter, we my sister and I took a walk through the village before we all made our way back up to the Bronx for dinner on Arthur Avenue's Enzo's. It's always nice to spend time with my family, especially in the city, and we definitely had the most wonderful weekend.

Sunday, April 12, 2015
Pretty Busy
1. Stay Adorable
2. Stay Informed
3. Stay Pretty

Friday, April 3, 2015
Eggceeding Eggspectations
Hello, April! It's crazy how quickly these past few months have flown by, but I'm 100% ready to
welcome spring with open arms. I'm especially looking forward to Easter this year because my parents, grandmother and sister are spending the weekend with me in NYC! Our weekend plans include exploring the city and brunching, which of course, I'm all about.
On Tuesday, in an attempt to get a little festive and celebrate the start of Easter break, my roommates and I decided to plan a fun egg dying night! The evening consisted of 6 different dyes, 24 hard boiled eggs, sequins and lots of wine. We couldn't find any of those cute egg dying children's kits in the Bronx, so we basically went "little house on the prairie" with this one, and made the dyes ourselves.
Side Note: Did they even have food coloring on the prairie? Questionable. I'll look it up and get back to you.
Anyway, these instructions were super helpful.
I used gel food coloring with water and vinegar for each color. Mixing blue and red food coloring together created a purple dye that resulted in a really beautiful but unintentional speckle effect on the eggs. In hindsight, I wish we had mixed more colors like this because I love the look so much!
I'm currently obsessed with light yellow nails for spring! I suggest trying this shade from butter London.

I attempted to add sequins to an egg with a hot glue gun and while it worked, I don't know that it's worth the hassle. I personally concluded that I like the simplicity of only dye.
Each of our personal favorites!
The beautiful finished products!
Side Note: I did not strategically place this newspaper, but I can not tell you how ecstatic I am that the cultural section was displayed with "Keeping it Minimal this Spring" as the prominent headline. It just looks perfect. However, I can't say the same about the "Marijuana Leniency" headline in the top left, but I'm over it #CantWinEmAll.
So as I see it, there are 3 top takeaways from this post:
1. You're never too old to dye Easter eggs.
2. It's actually a lot more fun with wine.
3. A day that starts with eating rainbow hardboiled eggs cannot be bad.

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