Greater Homes & Gardens Stylemaker Event

What per week! It appears to be like like yesterday I was saying I couldn’t think about it was already September, and now proper right here we’re already in October. This yr has handed by ridiculously fast!

Wednesday morning, I wanted to face up at 3:30 am for a 6 am flight to NYC for the Greater Homes & Gardens Stylemaker event. it’s an early flight whilst you get to take a look at the daybreak correctly into your flight!

Our event was actually held in Brooklyn at 1 Lodge Brooklyn Bridge. The lodge was utterly engaging, and the views of the city had been utterly beautiful! I’d see the Statue of Liberty and Freedom Tower from my room!

The rooms are fairly small (as is often the case in NYC), nonetheless I beloved the stylish rustic design and the wall of house home windows looking to the city helped the home to essentially really feel rather a lot larger!

The rooftop bar had even increased views of the city and the Brooklyn Bridge. I spent some time up there each of the three days I was there because of the local weather was engaging and the vibe was so good. It’s resembling you had been inside the metropolis nonetheless at a distance, so it was just about peaceful!

Shortly after I acquired to the lodge, I had lunch on the rooftop with a number of of my associates. It was actually inside the mid-80’s at this stage so, between the heat (due to this fact the pulled once more hair) and the way in which drained I was it isn’t basically probably the most flattering pic. Nevertheless, I wanted to share because of I had rather a lot gratifying with these women all day. Pictured: Haneen from Haneen’s HavenChelsea from Two Twenty Oneand Charlotte from At Charlotte’s House (beforehand Ciburbanity).

Charlotte, who lived inside the metropolis a lot of years up to now, took the 4 of us all through the bridge by the use of taxi to Washington Sq. Park.

From there we walked by the use of a farmer’s market, went to Dylan’s Candy Bar after which had drinks at ABC Cocina sooner than hitting up the infamous ABC Carpet & Residence retailer.

My $4 bag of candy (their candy is $8.99 per half pound) and our image e ebook pictures. I really feel the gross sales area was made for very infants, not 4 adults 😉

The grapefruit margarita at ABC Cocina was so good!

After we acquired once more to the lodge, we headed once more as a lot because the rooftop bar the place all the present arrivals had congregated. We hugged associates we hadn’t seen for awhile and liked drinks and appetizers. I’ve to think about there aren’t many views which might be increased in all of NYC!

By the purpose I headed to my room to range for dinner, the photo voltaic was setting and it was such a fantastic view from my room!

That night I went to dinner at Atrium with seven completely different bloggers. It was a quick 5 minute stroll from our lodge, and the meals was good!

Thursday was the exact event. Greater Homes & Gardens hosted about 75 bloggers for a day of inspiration and finding out. This was my second yr attending, and it always proves to be such a gratifying event!

Lunch from Bertolli pasta – so many yummy pastas to select from!

What I wore:

Two of the sweetest operating a weblog gals I do know: Bree from Z Design At Residence and Erin from The Sunny Aspect Up. Proper right here we’re critiquing all the photos that had been taken of the three of us. Evidently, I vetoed all of them for the weblog other than this one 😉

After a full day of conference supplies and breakout lessons, there was a cocktail reception for the attendees. I’m pretty optimistic I was the one specific particular person on the event that didn’t buy a model new costume for the cocktail event that night. I opted to placed on the costume I wore in April to completely different operating a weblog conference since I had however to placed on it as soon as extra.

My good buddy Heather who happens to be one amongst my favorite people ever. We always deal with to have virtually an similar outfits at every event we attend collectively.

Me and Chelsea. This woman always retains me laughing!

That’s what most blogger conversations seem to be. Kidding! Nevertheless I actually like that we utterly all get each other’s need for photos and content material materials 😉

After the reception, I headed to dinner (at Atrium as soon as extra) with my associates Rebekah and Jessica.

There have been so many alternative associates I meant to get footage with nonetheless then one issue ends in one different, you’re talking an extreme quantity of, and it merely doesn’t happen. I’m hoping I get one other good decisions when the expert photos come once more!

My flight on Friday didn’t go away until after 8 pm, so I took profit and slept in after which ordered room service. It was perhaps type of lame to be in NYC and sit in my room half the day, nonetheless it was so stress-free!

I ordered the pancakes with lemon ricotta cream and rosemary maple syrup from room service. It was all insanely good! I forgot merely how excellent and stress-free breakfast in mattress is!

Since I had to try at noon, I then headed once more to the rooftop to profit from the gorgeous local weather and seize some lunch. It was so good to easily sit exterior inside the peace and quiet for just some hours! I sat on the Brooklyn Bridge side this time so it was gratifying to range up the view a bit.

I actually like this event rather a lot because of it comprises a number of of my favorite bloggers on the planet and I always go away feeling impressed and motivated. Such an uplifting conference and an honor to be invited as soon as extra this yr! I plan to share just some additional photos as quickly as the images from the expert photographer come once more.

Saturday, I continued to work on sanding the partitions in our customer mattress room. I’ll be sharing a full tutorial (hopefully subsequent week?) nonetheless I’m not gonna lie. This mission is one amongst my least favorites ever. The stripes have been ridiculously exhausting to remove, and I’m nonetheless battling them even after sanding by hand after which sanding with my electrical sanders. Nonetheless engaged on it, nonetheless hopefully I’ll have some good progress shortly!

Saturday I seen just some random buds on my hibiscus bush. Kurtis swore there was no attainable means they may actually bloom this time of yr. Nevertheless, yesterday I appeared out and observed all these new blooms! Take that, October 1st!

We actually sat out by the pool yesterday for about an hour. It was near 80 ranges out, nonetheless the clouds obtained right here and went. The view has positively modified now that I’ve pulled most of my annuals and so many timber have started to lose their leaves. Nevertheless, we had to absorb the view for our remaining time in 2018. We’re formally closing the pool on Tuesday. Insert most important sad face proper right here 🙁

As we had been heading once more inside, we let the cats out (or barely, they pushed their means out). They’re so horrible about consuming grass though so we put them on the desk. It lasted about two minutes sooner than we had been chasing them after which ushering them once more inside 😉

We started watching VEEP remaining night. We truly need a lighter/a lot much less extreme current after watching a number of of our latest assortment. We solely acquired three episodes in so I’ll maintain you posted if we stick with it!

After this week, and my time in NYC, I’m feeling impressed and motivated to kind out a bunch of initiatives on my to-do report. I’ll be sharing additional later this week about what I’m hoping to carry out over the autumn and winter months!

Now that October is true right here and our pool is being closed Tuesday, we’re once more to the grind and forcing ourselves to eat increased and get once more into increased habits. I truly wish to start determining as soon as extra, so the plan is to start within the current day. We always uncover it is so rather a lot easier to eat increased inside the colder months, so we’re going to be hitting it exhausting. I’ve talked about thus far that I’ve had luck with 30 Day Shrednonetheless we moreover very rigorously adopted the Jillian Michaels consuming plans on the time and it made an infinite distinction. We re-enrolled in this program because of it’s pretty fairly priced and largely because of it’s a easy choice to get a meal plan and grocery report each week to make procuring a breeze! I’ll maintain you posted on our progress.

Benefit from your week!

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