City Love: Pittsburgh Edition

As you all may remember from my last post, I spent the last weekend in Pittsburgh and had an amazing time. I was not expecting to like Pittsburgh as much as I did. The views were beautiful, the food was fantastic, and the coffee was nothing short of amazing. 

 View from Darren's porch. How cute are the arches?

 Cathedral of Learning - where Pitt students can study and take class. It looks like Hogwarts!

 They had these adorable red doors everywhere.

 BEST. COFFEE. SHOPS. EVER.

 Darren being silly.

The walls were green! :)

 Lee and Darren

 Beautiful view from the restaurant where we had lunch.

 Amazing salad. :)

 All in all, it was an amazing trip and even though it was a sad goodbye as my friend doesn't come back for 27 months, I'm happy I was able to see him before he's shipped off to the other side of the world. :)

Sunday Sights

Hello all. :) I just got back from the computer lab where I have spent the last 6 hours or so and I'm exhausted to say the least. I wanted to share with you guys my weekend in pictures since it was actually semi-eventful. On Saturday, my roommate and I randomly decided to go to Greenwich Village for some thrift shopping. Unfortunately, we barely made it to one and became sidetracked. Either way, it was an awesome day. We froze to death later on and it took about 2 hours to defrost, but the trip to NYC was worth it. Where did the taste of spring go? :( The 60 degree weather has definitely gone away and winter has come back with a vengeance.

 I love the character the West Village has. How cute is the Vespa? It matches the house perfectly. I wonder if the owners planned that. Well, I guess they must have. It's too perfect. In the future, I'll own a cute little brownstone and a matching Vespa in the West Village. I'll make it happen somehow. Maybe just the brownstone part. :)

 

I went to the mall today and decided to pick up this lovely thing. It's called Metro Chic. One of my roommates has the nail polish and I decided to paint my nails that color two days ago and fell in love. I couldn't stop staring at my nails and knew I had to get it.

 

The scarf was purchased in a random boutique in the West Village and it fits in beautifully with my vast collection of scarves. The shop was filled with an incense smell and the scarf still smells like the store. I probably looked so weird to those who saw me sniffing my scarf every now and then.

 I love pocket watch necklaces and when I saw this lovely one on Etsy, I didn't think twice about buying it.

And there you have it, random musings on a Sunday night. I hope all of your weekends have been a bit warmer! :)

Weekend in Pictures

It's quite unusual for me to post two days in a row but I have some catching up to do because of the holidays and getting snowed in. So this is my weekend in pictures.

My family celebrates Christmas Eve while my boyfriend's family celebrates Christmas day so we're lucky enough to celebrate two Christmases. =] I'm already obsessed with all things Christmas so having a double dose of it is heaven to me.

First Picture - The boy and I at my aunt's house
Second Picture - A candid shot of the family.
Third Picture - Our umteenth attempt at capturing a girl's shot. This came out sort of decent regardless of Brett's face right smack in the middle of the picture. The other pictures were way worse because the boys kept ruining our pictures and would capture all of us cracking up in the background. My family is predominantly women so we take "Girl's Only" pictures every holiday.

The next day we left to Brett's house where we found out the northeast was going to get hit with 10-13 inches of snow. Figuring the weathermen were lying (because they usually are), we didn't make much of it until we took a look outside the next day and found snow everywhere! His town didn't even get as much as my town did. We got TWO FEET! Now I'm all for snow, but two feet might be a bit excessive. One good thing is that snow makes for a beautiful background.


The first two pictures are the views from my boyfriend's house and the third picture is just so funny. He looks ridiculously silly and a bit like he's scheming something which he probably was. I was later ambushed with snow and I came back into the house soaking wet. His mother even gasped. Haha. All in all, it was an awesome, relaxing weekend. It's weekends like this that make me happy.

And there you have it, my weekend in pictures? How were your holidays lovelies?

Weekend in Pictures

Hello there loves! How have your weekends been? I apologize for my small hiatus but I'm back and ready to blog. Haha. First and foremost, I would love to thank Toni from ssssht for featuring me on her Blogloving Friday. You can see the post here as other bloggers and I talked about our Christmas wish lists. My weekend was pretty awesome aside from one hiccup. My mother fell down some stairs and sprained her ankle but thankfully she's alright. She was a trooper though as she went into the city with us anyway and went to Macy's on 34th St. I didn't want to make her walk all the way to Rockefeller Plaza to see the tree as it's quite a walk from 33rd because that would be just cruel but I'm glad she was able to go into the city with us and enjoy the Christmas decor as it adorned the streets and inside Macy's. On Friday, I went to the mall to finish Christmas shopping with Brett and on Saturday, we went into the city with my mom. On our way there, we saw a tree in my town made out of plastic bottles and it looked so cute on display.

I love that they had a picture of John Lennon under the tree. =]

From there, we took the train to see the Macy's windows. It was hard to snap pictures because of all the people that crowded the displays but it was so cute! It told the story of Yes, Virginia as she wanted to know the truth about Santa Claus.

The detail that goes into these windows is just insane. I apologize for the terrible quality of the picture by the way. It was difficult to get a good shot.

We then went into Macy's to see Santa's Land on the 8th floor but the crowds of people made it nearly impossible. I did manage to get a picture of the beautiful decorations in Macy's and some of the stocking stuffers that were on display.
I've always wanted a huge lollipop like the one above but knew I would never be able to finish it. Luckily, I was able to get a picture with it. =] It was from Dylan's Candy Bar.

Due to the ridiculous amounts of people that crowded the streets, we took one last shot and went home to watch a movie and eat homemade pizzas.
I love this picture with Brett even though he was freezing and not really in a mood for pictures but the picture captures how beautiful the lights were near 34th street.

All in all, this weekend turned out to be just what I needed. It ended too quickly and I was unable to see friends from home that I would have liked to see but I'll be home in 3-4 days for three weeks so I'm sure I can make it up to them. =] How were your weekends?

Weekend in Pictures

Hello all! =] How have your weekends been since we last caught up? Mine was productive but not too exhausting. I decided to post before I am off to the library for the rest of the night to complete 3 papers. Ugh. The joys of being an english major. So here was my weekend ...



Thanksgiving was amazing. There was so much food as you can tell from the picture above. After we ate, we all just gravitated to the couch and stood there telling stories until 3 am. I love my family.



On Black Friday, my cousins and I decided to wake up relatively early (10 am really which is nothing in comparison to how early other people woke up to go shopping) and headed over to Union Square for lunch and for shopping. There was the cutest Holiday Market taking place in Union Sqaure Park and it was adorable to walk through and see all the handmade decorations and treats. All of the tents above are different things people were selling. I love the holiday season. I came home exhausted from all the shopping though.



On Saturday, my mom and I decided to walk around Downtown Jersey City which has the best views of New York City (it might be tied with Hoboken but I'll say it's the best since I'm a Jersey Citian). However, it was freezing so we did not stay long but I did manage to capture this beautiful shot of the skyline where the World Trade Center used to be before we left to go home.



I ended Saturday night by going to a movie and a dinner with my friends from home who I had not seen in so long. It's always so amazing to catch up with friends from home. =]

How was your weekend dolls? Stay tuned as I show what I got from my Black Friday Shopping and as I blog about one of my favorite things in my closet, my trench coat.

xoxo.