all is never lost

I’ve begun the process of re-scanning and re-uploading my old film photos to a new Flickr account. Starting with some of my favourites from a trip to New York in 2013...

 

“I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 

‘What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?’

‘The way I want it?’

‘Yeah. The way you want it. Don’t you want it to be something more than what it is?’

‘What’s the point? I can’t change it.’

‘That’s the point. If you don’t, it will change you and it’ll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.’

‘Mess it up how?’

‘Forgot it.’

‘Forgot?’

‘Forgot it was mine. My life.’” 

―Toni Morrison, Jazz

sun and ocean blue / life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue

things i love lately:
♥ Sofia rosé – I thought I hated rosé until I tried this one.
♥ Lush twilight bath bomb – pretty pink and baby blue that turns the water glittery dusk-violet.
♥ TonyMoly & Peripera (and South Korean cosmetics & skin care products in general). AmorePacific’s Future Response products are crazy expensive but crazy effective – i.e., 100% worth it if you can afford it, especially this one (and it smells divine, like a green tea latte).
♥ Aritzia’s blanket scarf.
♥ Pinning dream-like architecture & interiors on Pinterest.
♥ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal. I don’t really have words for how magical it was. I took a lot more pictures.
♥ essie’s winter 2013 collection. I missed out on buying them in winter 2013, but recently found all six shades at TJMaxx for less than half of the original price – they are the most perfect colours!
♥ Lunar New Year – I was born in the year of the sheep, so I was particularly excited about this one. I spent the day and night in airports, but I got a fortune cookie from Panda Express that said “Avoid unchallenging occupations—they waste your talents.”

New York, last day + trip in review

—Sunday, March 9th: Chelsea; Antiques Garage; Niketown; the Plaza Hotel; Amsterdam Ave; can of Sofia Blanc de blancs
—Monday, March 10th: Capezio; Yumiko; Grishko; Soho shopping; Union Square; ballet class at The Ailey Extension
—Tuesday, March 11th: morning ballet class at Steps; Columbus Circle; beautiful weather (no jacket required) walk through the bottom of Central Park, from the zoo to the Reservoir; Café Lalo (cheese plate and coffee); Riverside Park; dinner at The Hampton Chutney
—Wednesday, March 12th: (my birthday!) Cort Theatre for Waiting for Godot starring Patrick Steward and Ian McKellan; Ladurée Soho (espresso, almond-cherry religieuse, a box of macarons to go)
—Thursday, March 13th: Grand Central (for pineapple and Zaro’s rainbow cookies); a day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Rodin’s Orphée et Eurydice ♥)
—Friday, March 14th: Bloomingdales; Uniqlo 5th Ave; Rockefeller Center; ballet class at Broadway Dance Center (my favouite!)
—Saturday, March 15th: Herald Square shopping (Macy’s, etc.); Strand Books; Washington Square Park; Battery Park; Century 21 (Bloch flats!); beautiful taxi ride along the FDR drive (bridges a night, full moon)
—Sunday, March 16th: Canal Street; Chinatown (green tea pocky and Japanese candies); lunch at Café Gitane; Diptyque Paris and Fjallraven; Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Irish Outsiders tour); Katz’s Deli
—Monday, March 17th: avoiding midtown because of the parade; Upper West Side (Zabar’s and Lincoln Center)

New York, days 7-9