Would you believe me if I told you the dress that I’m wearing is actually too small for me? Didn’t think so! Turns out, all you need is a safety pin and a little creativity to MacGyver’ your way into an outfit.
Ever since our trip to Nice at the end of last month, James and I have been laying low and spending the last few weekends of summer in New York. I’ve loved being able to stay at home, snuggle up in the comfort of our tiny apartment and visit our favorite neighborhood spots, but that doesn’t mean the travel bug has gone away. In fact, with the arrival of our new luggage set from Ricardo Beverly Hills, the wanderlust is back in full force with a full list of places that I’d like to visit in the next year or two.
Five years ago today, I moved to New York with two oversized suitcases and no job. I said goodbye to my then-boyfriend, now-husband behind while he finished his last semester of grad school in Arizona and moved in with a random Craigslist roommate for two months. After a month and a half of unemployment, I landed a job in marketing and communications – also from a Craigslist ad. Two months later, Hurricane Sandy rolled through and our apartment was without power for ten days (to give you a perspective of how much that sucked – I lived on the 17th floor and there was no way to get up except by climbing the stairs). In the first few months of living in New York, I wondered how long I could actually last here.
