What I Saw: Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

Pretty gorgeous day on Saturday.  The Brooklyn Botanic Garden was open for free in celebration of their new visitor center.  It wasn't too crowded or too hot and the garden was the perfect spot to spend a lazy afternoon.  It's always nice to find a spot that lets you forget that you're in the heart of Brooklyn, even if just for a moment.  

The Weekend

Slightly blurry from earlier this week - at Maison Premiere

One of best parts of living in New York during the summer is the plethora of events and activities happening all across the city.  This weekend I'll be catching Tune-Yards at Terminal 5 with Lisa.  I'm excited to see them live again but am almost more excited to see Micachu and the Shapes.  I've been hearing amazing things about them for years but have yet to see their live show.  Saturday I'll be heading over to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for their June Jubilee.  They are celebrating the opening of their new visitor center, complete with free admission to enjoy the gardens that will hold a solar-powered sound installation.  After that I'll be walking over to the Brooklyn Museum to finally see the Keith Haring exhibit.  Admission is free after 5pm as it's already time for another Target First Saturday.  Sunday I plan on catching a screening of Pee Wee's Big Adventure at Nitehawk Cinema, happening at noon.  I'm also hoping to check out the Bushwick Open Studios, happening all weekend.  My friend is participating and I want to check out her latest work.  Hopefully the weather will be nice enough to ride my bike to these events.  We'll see!

Enjoy your weekend!

Summer Updos

Last Summer under the Highline

Right now my hair is up in braids, pinned up and off my neck to help ease the humidity of summer.  I've been looking through some summer updo tutorials and want to post them in order to have them all in one place for easy referral.

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From Joanna Goddard - All of her hair tutorials.  This mermaid tail braid is on my to-do list. 

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From Refinery 29 - Lots of great tutorials, including a messy ballerina bun, 4 braided styles for rookies, a double knot updo, Victory roll chignon, and this gorgeous twisted updo (video tutorial). 

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From A Beautiful Mess - Creative and retro flair hair tutorials.  I especially like the messy top knot (my hair needs to get a little longer before I can pull this off), the low bun, and summertime twist.

Have you seen any hair tutorials lately that you love?

What I Saw: MoMA

My friend and I have started this thing we like to call Museum Sundays.  I'm sad to admit that I had yet to go to the Museum of Modern Art until this past Sunday.  I was totally blown away by the collection and especially enjoyed the Cindy Sherman exhibit.  The Cindy Sherman exhibit is only up through June 11th so if you haven't seen it yet I recommend you get there soon.

The Weekend

After some zydeco and two stepping thanks to Celebrate Brooklyn.

There is a lot going on this long Memorial Day weekend and it looks like the weather is actually going to be clear and sunny.  Finally, a reprieve from this crazy rain we've been having all week.

My plans include a stop down to the 8th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day taking place at the City Reliquary, a trip to MoMA to finally see the Cindy Sherman exhibit,  drinks with friends at my new favorite neighborhood bar, brunch with a friend who will be in town from Ohio, and a trip to Chinatown with Jon. 

Enjoy your weekend!  More soon.  xo

Chinatown Treat

Another photo from the Chinatown photo shoot

A couple of weeks ago I brought my friend with me to the Asian American International Film Festival photo shoot wrap party.  There was a raffle for those of us who attended and my friend won two gift certificates to the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory.  She very sweetly gave them to me with instructions to take Jon out for ice-cream.  I haven't been there before but have passed by the store several times.  There's always been a line out of the shop and on to the sidewalk so I'm guessing all the good things I've heard about this place are true.  I'm pretty spoiled as far as ice cream goes after coming from the birthplace of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream.  I'll let you know how this place measures up.

What I Saw: New York Dance Parade 2012

Saturday a group of us headed into the city for the New York Dance Parade.  The weather was perfect and the dancers were enthusiastic, diverse, and so much fun to watch.  Definitely going again next year.  You can see more photos here.