OpenSky

Happy Friday All! Big weekend plans? We have grouting in the kitchen and closet cleansing to get to! Last night we were super excited to be invited the Open Sky's pop-up shop launch party in New York! It was such a fun time! If you aren't familular with Open Sky, here's the deal...

Celebrities and notable each curate sales for the public, which are hugely discounted for a limited time. Each person who joins get's to pick which celebs they follow. Each item is an actual hand pick from the celeb! It's a super fun and unique way to shop! And they have people who specialize in food, design, health, and fashion. 

Some of my favorites that I follow are this handsome guy above, Tyler Wisler, Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Alicia Silverstone, and Emily Henderson is soon to be added!

I wasn't asked to write this or paid in any way, it's just a really cool concept that I think you would like to know about if you don't know already! The perks of being a DIY blog! If you want to join the fun train, here is an invite!

Wu-Hoo!

I wonder how many of the 19 bloggers who Brizo had join them for fashion week titled their blog post the very same thing. I was not one of the 19 amazing and deserving bloggers to group this past week, however I was given the invitation to the #BrizoFW after party. I was stoked. Just a few short months ago the fine people at Delta invited Joey and myself to join with eight other bloggers in Indiana to learn more about Delta, Brizo, their products and their people. We work with a lot of companies on various project, but these guys kinda took a piece of our hearts. Seriously an exceptional group of people producing seriously beautiful and useful products. At this time they mentioned the amazing Fashion Week events they have held and I was just about drooling. Jason Wu designs. for their Brizo line and together they make magic happen. Look, here he is:

He's a funny guy. So creative. So young. Gotta love him. The event was held at a penthouse in NYC, and was super fun. Jason got to see his show (just hours before) from the view of the audience, answered some questions, and made us laugh. Additionally the challenge Brizo gave the bloggers were presented by the designers, and winners were selected. 

Guess who won? Yep. Miss turban wearing Emily Henderson and her team. She's making brassy classy people. 

Not too far behind, Tyler's team came in second. 

It looks like everyone had a really great week! Big up's to Delta/Brizo for throwing a successful event, yet again!

Last Days of Summer

Maybe it's our inner child taking over, but we are really in the mood to slow down and enjoy life lately. With Joey's 30th birthday yesterday, we totally took the last 72 hours off to celebrate him entering his 30's and ignored the massive mid-project mess our house is this very moment. We started the celebration early Friday with a small group of old friends, and even a couple new ones. The place? A bar called Home Sweet Home in the Lower East Side. It just seemed so....fitting.

So with doughnuts from Doughnut Plant, our friends and some drinks, the fun began. After a few hours of hanging out and avoiding the rain outside, we headed to Freemans for some yummy food and stories.

The next morning (a wee bit hung over) we somehow accomplished to get up and drive to Philadelphia where I had arranged a fun day via Living Social Adventures. We were to show up and meet a group at a bus to drive to the Delaware River by 12:15pm for a fun day of tubing + pub party. Keep in mind that's a two hour drive from Westchester and I was on 2 hours of total sleep. Somehow we made it and had a great time being lazy on the river and met some pretty nice people along the way. It was a long day. We didn't get home until almost midnight. Lucky us, we got a little tan.

Sunday we totally expected to take it easy and celebrate quite style as it was Joey's actual birthday. Seems we had a little spark left in us, so we headed to Williamsburg, Brooklyn with some friends. We had lunch at Fornino's, which looked really good but I stopped eating three bites in because it seems a spider committed suicide in my watercress. Appetitelost. After that we shopped around and Joey picked up a tambourineand I got some light cages (so we can turn them into something, of course) and met up with more friends at a bar we use to go to all the time, Levee. We then ended up at our friends house where I cooked us dinner and we watched bad movies for the rest of the night.

It was nice to take some time "off". Almost like a vacation. So what ever happened to the guest room? Lucky us, our friend rescheduled, but here's where we are at:

Super close! I had to order more of that chevron fabric to make more curtains and today I am on "mission-wood-collection-at-all-costs". We have to be done by this weekend, so hang tight! We will have finally finished our third room in the house!