Making Brooklyn Bloom

I'm super excited about Making Brooklyn Bloom, Saturday, March 13 at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens! If any other Brooklyn bloggers attend, we should meet up & get to know each other :)

Linnaean Libation League & Flatbush Farm

Last night I attended my first event at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens that I read about in 

a Brooklyn Based email. The Linnaean Libation League hosted a celebration for gin and 

the herbs/plants it takes to grow & flavor that delicious poison. The fashion direction 

was 1960s Palm Springs so not only did I enjoy amazing the Gin "Garden" Martini's, but 

everywhere I looked I saw amazing vintage & vintage-inspired outfits. Afterwards we 

had dinner on the other side of the park at Flatbush Farm - an old favorite of mine. 

I insisted everyone play the fun game of "pass the camera around and take a photo of 

your dish."

Ekovaruhuset (House of Organic)

Sunday morning my friend and I visited this shop in the Lower East Side - Ekovaruhuset which means House of Organic. So lovely! The woman in the shop told us lots of the products come from her friend who has a bunny farm and every 3 months she cuts the bunny hair and spins it into yarn and makes beautiful hats & scarves. The third picture down is an example. 

Valentine's Day

Better late than never right? Brunch at  Spitzer's - an old favorite in the Lower East Side, and then just wandered around the East Village, enjoying a Sunday in the city. 

Tompkins Square Park at dusk:

Iris Cafe

After a crazy week at work it was so nice to sleep in Saturday morning. I got up and strolled through Brooklyn Heights toward the new Iris Café. Lots of snow still on the ground, and the grey skies seemed to enhance all the colors around me. I had the BEST oatmeal ever - spiced apples, a drizzle of caramel, and steamed milk. 

Pre-work coffee at Peddlar

(Let's just pretend this was posted Wednesday afternoon because that was the intention). 





After hearing about all the blizzards in DC & Baltimore in previous weeks, it was finally NYC's turn to get in on the drama. Imagine a heavy summer rainstorm - now imagine that instead of rain pounding down by the bucket, that its snow - that was what we experienced all day Wednesday. However, this didn't stop Ashley & I from enjoying a pre-work coffee at Cafe Peddlar in Cobble Hill. This place has become my new obsession, despite taking a good 10-15 minutes to walk down there, order my coffee, and then 10-15 back to the subway.. nothing can keep me from Cafe Peddlar's Stumptown Americanos!

(bottom 2 photos by Ashley Norton)

Shana Tabor of "In God We Trust"

So funny, my friend was just talking about the boutique In God We Trust and today my Brooklyn Based email included an interview with the owner, Shana Tabor. She just opened a shop in Manhattan in addition to her 2 other successful shops in Brooklyn. Super inspiring - read it here.





Love the artwork on the homepage of In God We Trust:

January 31, 2010 in photos.

Brunch at James in Prospect Heights:

Visit to the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, very romantic even in the dead of winter:

Brooklyn Museum to see the Rock & Roll Photography exhibit. It was AMAZING!!

Dinner at Vini e Olii in Clinton Hill:

Ended a perfect day with roses, cake, champagne, & hot tea. 

aaaannnd now my birthday is officially over :)