☆*:・ﾟ Watching the final season of Game of Thrones with friends. Georgina and I have been inviting Victoria over to our apartment on Sunday nights for dinner over GoT, using Victoria’s boyfriend’s HBO account. Last week we had Chipotle, and this week (yesterday) we made tteokbokki. We also had strawberry shortcake to celebrate Georgina’s birthday.
Hi friends, it’s been a hot second. It’s not that I haven’t found the time; I haven’t found the words.
In February, I looked forward to a Jacob Banks concert. In April, I’m looking forward to a Tom Odell concert and Bruno Major concert. In between those months — March — I didn’t think I would have much going on. But it’s turned out to be the most eventful month yet: I did a photoshoots with three local Philly bloggers, my mom visited me in Philly, Jennifer visited me in Philly, I met up with three groups of friends over one weekend in NYC, and I started a new project (see next section!!). And it doesn’t stop there. On the last day of March, I flew out to LA! The occasion is my youngest brother’s spring break. I’ll be in LA until Saturday (April 6). So yeahh that’s why I haven’t been super active in the blogosphere this month. I’ll be working on replying to comments and catching up on Bloglovin’ throughout this week, and hopefully I’ll be caught up by then!
March has been a busy month for me and I haven’t spent as much time on the blog as I would have liked (despite all the time I blocked off for it on my ideal schedule, which I have yet to stick to for even a week lol). I want to catch you up on everything I’ve been up to, but seeing as it’ll soon be April, I’ll save that catch up for my March In Review. For now, I want to share about an awesome, inspiring space I visited three days ago that I think deserves its own post: The Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library.
Published by Penguin Press on 12 Sep 2017
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother – who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the alluring mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
When the Richardsons’ friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town and puts Mia and Mrs. Richardson on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Mrs. Richardson becomes determined to uncover the secrets in Mia’s past. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs to her own family – and Mia’s.
I had a shoot scheduled with a local Philly blogger one weekend, but due to an unforeseen personal emergency on her end, we had to postpone it. I was already at the cafe we decided to meet at, and unfazed, I continued to slowly work my way through my cappuccino, read a book, and had quality time to myself. After awhile, I looked up what was in the neighbourhood and found that a cafe I had been meaning to check out for some time was nearby, so I finished up my cappuccino and then went on a short stroll to my next cappuccino at Milkcrate Cafe.