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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Friday the 13th continued...

After vintage shopping, I met up with my girls and had a lovely dinner in the garden of Kif, a low-key Mediterranean restaurant. We sipped rose and nibbled on lamb burgers, got bit by mosquitoes and saw a rat or two... ah New York.

And then an unexpected fortune happened...

Terri found a $100 on the ground as we were leaving! Whoa - Friday the 13th style!

Friday the 13th

Yesterday I had a half day from work so I went over to my old hood, Bushwick, to do some cheap vintage shopping. Specifically I was on the look out for a denim jacket I can turn into a denim vest. For those of you who don't know Urban Jungle, it's exactly like its name. There was a moment, when rummaging through the racks with no a/c, I thought - why am I here?!?

However my persistence paid off in the end. I found 3 gems and spent only $18! I'll show you what I do with the jacket tomorrow...

Friday, October 14, 2011

the Apartment Vol.1

It has taken some time, but our apartment is finally coming together. The first completed area was the living room/dining room/sewing room. We are still waiting for our sectional, so I'm just going to show you the dining/sewing area. It doesn't look like we did a lot of work to change the space... but it feels like we did a lot of work. Here are the before photos...

There were pretty sizable gaps between the floor and the foot of the molding, so we tore them out and replaced them with new ones.

I love the amount of light we get and the details of an older building. I usually go for grey or white walls, so this time I went for aqua, but chose a grey color as well to balance. I say "I" but Mr. Z of course had a lot to say about the colors as well ;-P. I think the painting was the hardest part. It was never ending because we repainted all of the molding too!