G O V N R ' S I S L A N D

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this weekend we took our bikes over to governor's island...a quick (sort of) ride on the free ferry from brooklyn bridge park. there's so much to see and it's so fun to see everyone peddling around or laying about on the grass with the most amazing views of downtown manhattan. 

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C O N G R A T S . . .

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...to our awesome architects abruzzo-bodziak who were one of the selected winners of the New Practices New York 2012 Competition! Be sure to swing by the AIA and check out the work.

"Seven promising and pioneering new architecture and design firms working in New York were chosen as the New Practices New York 2012 competition winners. To qualify for the competition, practices had to be founded since 2006 and be located within the five boroughs of New York City" 

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S T A L K E R P A R T 2

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ok, i've stalked this house before, ogling their window-boxes this past winter ... in true stalker style i rode by recently and they're just as cool, modern, and fabulous in spring. swoon.

the winter version

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I L O V E L A M P

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as our living room evolves so must our lighting in this room...please! while it's great during the day that we have 6 and a half foot high windows...at night it can be pretty dim with just the one lamp (and i'm turning into a 'good lighting' fanatic). so we're on the hunt for the perfectly sized lamp to go on the metal cabinet. Know what else would be great? If it complemented out green chair color and geometric pattern. have i found the 'needle in the haystack' with this robert abbey lamp? We'll see when it arrives from lampsplus.com! 

a ton more colors available as well!

here's where it would go...after some re-styling

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T H E H U N T

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we've been in the hunt for a while now for a lamp for our living room...thought they had some nice ones at mitchell gold & bob williams but they turned out to be just too big. i'd never been in the store though, and really loved some other things they had like some really excellent art, and a couch i'm totally smitten with.

cute but just too big :-(

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G O T J U N K

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this past weekend was the carroll park flea market....a great opportunity for us to get rid of some junk...a necessity when you're trying to keep up a somewhat clean, minimal home. we got together with some friends and combined our junk, sold some junk, then donated the rest of the junk. a good time was had by all...especially when it involved a brunch platter for us to chow down on in the early morning hours.

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