Project 365: Days 83-89

83/365: My uncle and I had breakfast at Tom's and browsed the Egypt galleries at the Brooklyn Museum.

84/365: This little monster "helped" me pack for Florida.

85/365: We went to The Ringling in Sarasota and toured Ca' d'Zan, the art museum and the circus museum (which houses the World's Largest Miniature Circus!).

86/365: Beach day! I managed to stay mostly un-sunburnt, which is a remarkable feat when you're made of tissue paper, as I am.

87/365: We took a mini-road trip to the Orlando area, including Gatorland and a mandatory stop at Orange World.

88/365:  Souvenirs from our short, but lovely trip.

89/365: This building on 86th Street is currently empty and I worry that new tenants will eventually remove this beautiful lettering.

Project 365: Days 76-82

76/365: We took a work field trip to MOMA, and Claes Oldenburg's big soft sculptures always make me happy.

77/365: We went cross-country skiing again and conditions weren't ideal, but we persevered and had fun anyway.

78/365: I haven't figured out how to display this mannequin head I impulsively bought recently at a thrift store, but I love it so much. And I just realized that this photo shows that I binder clip my curtains because they're too long for my weird window size ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

79/365:

Breakfast for dinner almost every night when I'm left to my own devices—these hideous plates came with the apartment so don't think I willingly bought them.

80/365: Current jacket pin spread (DOGGGSS | Shining twins  | glow-in-the-dark, jointed skeleton | cat hair courtesy Mozart)

81/365: When my uncle is in town, we see shows.

82/365: I took the day off to go to the NYBG Orchid Show (for the fourth year in a row!) with my uncle, and we saw Glenn Close's tour de force performance in Sunset Boulevard.

Project 365: Days 69-75

69/365: It was a snowy morning which made for a pretty lunchtime walk through Central Park.

70/365: My mom and I went on a "tour" of the Museum of Interesting Things, which is located in Denny Daniel's East Village apartment.

71/365: We toured Sagamore Hill, Teddy Roosevelt's "Summer White House," and finally made it to the Big Duck, the holy grail of novelty architecture.

72/365: I hung up my new Pee-Wee print (of the best movie scene ever) and I just love it so much.

73/365: We had a snow day off work, but the "blizzard" wasn't as apocalyptic as predicted.

74/365: Crazy eyes.

75/365: Good morning, moon.

Project 365: Days 62-68

62/365: This ridiculous stock photo finally got used in a real campaign.

63/365: We explored the abandoned Kings Park Psychiatric Center and took advantage of having a car for the day by rewarding ourselves with roast beef sandwiches for dinner in Sheepshead Bay.

64/365: We had a four-course brunch (!!) cooked by my friend Trent, who runs this mouth-watering Instagram account where he posts about cooking his way through allof Ina Garten's recipes.

65/365: Sometimes she's OK.

66/365: I cleaned out my desk at work and found this photo strip from the photobooth at the Ace Hotel in New Orleans.

67/365: A souvenir from the previous night spent having fancy drinks at the 21 Club (where we tried to tip our server and she gave our money back to us, which was mortifying).

68/70: Souvenir mug from my friend Jim's recent visit to PA (that smoke curl though!).

Project 365: Days 55-61

55/365: I forgot to take a photo on day 55¯\_(ツ)_/¯  I'm trying to get better at this, I swear.

56/365: My thoughtful dude knew that I had just murdered my air plant, so he brought me back two from Florida. I'll try my best not to kill these *fingers crossed*. (Dinosaur planter from here, tooth planter from the insanely generous Kaylah of The Dainty Squid and the cow skull was a Christmas present from my super cool dad)

57/365: I had a Jersey City / Hoboken adventure day, including an anxiety-inducing stop at the White Mana Diner.

58/365: Curiosity cabinet scene. I found that "Mother" casket plaque at an Ohio antique mall for seven dollars and later saw a similar one at the now-closed Morbid Anatomy Museum for $60. Oh how I miss thrifting anywhere but New York.

59/365: We left these giant googly eyes on our fridge after the Halloween party, and they make me laugh every day.

60/365: I finished Another Country and started this hilarious book. I've already laughed out loud multiple times while reading this on the subway, which isn't a good look but oh well. Also, how great is this cover?

61/365: This idiot.

Project 365: Days 48-54

48/365: Mozart, forever trying to figure out how doors work.

49/365: Cross-country skiing upstate on a beautiful, 50-degree day with my main squeeze.

50/365: My mom and I explored the abandoned New York City Farm Colony ruins.

51/365: I wandered around Greenwich Village for a few hours before meeting Jim for our usual at Caliente Cab. I walked right by Alec Baldwin filming what looked to be a commercial, which was one of my wish-list New York celebrity sightings.

52/365: My haul from browsing the dollar section at The Strand, aka my addiction.

53/365: This dummy.

54/365: This breakfast towel makes me smile every day.

Project 365: Days 34-47

34/365: An ad I designed wrapped the cover of the New York Metro. It's not my most inspiring design, but it was still neat to see stacks of them in the subway station.

35/365: We arrived in Charleston on a somewhat spontaneous trip (we got a great flight deal with Jet Blue for $96/roundtrip).

36/365: We had a delicious, proper Southern breakfast at Hominy // we explored the small but charming downtown historic district of Charleston.

37/365: We rented a car for the day for a few delights outside of walking distance, including a plantation, the Angel Oak, church ruins and a roadside pie stand.

38/365: We spent our last afternoon in Charleston exploring cemeteries and stuffed ourselves sick with soul food at Martha Lou's.

39/365: I removed my skeleton's Santa hat after Christmas, but he's still dressed for winter.

40/365: New York got a pretty substantial snowstorm and I wandered through Central Park after we got out of work early.

41/365: Good morning, Brooklyn.

42/365: I took a glorious snowy walk through Green-Wood Cemetery.

43/365: I failed to take a photo on this rainy, icy day, but we saw I Am Not Your Negro from the front row of a sold-out showing at BAM and it was an incredible movie that I won't stop thinking about for a long time (hopefully not ever). Inspired by his words, I've just started my first-ever Baldwin book, Another Country.

44/365: I made chocolate-covered strawberries for my Valentine (and ok, for me too).

45/365: I tried to help my dude prepare a Valentine's feast, but the cuteness of the brussels sprouts derailed me. He made the most amazing steak I've ever tasted and I'll be thinking about this meal for the rest of my life, probably.

46/365: I finally finished The Last Tsar, which was a fascinating story told in way too many pages filled with way too many Russian names that all contain the same five consonants.

47/365: I'm forever making food choices based solely on packaging design.

Project 365: Days 27-33

27/365: Obsessed with drug-store candles (apple cinnamon only, please).

28/365: My mom and I ate a very delicious breakfast at Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop, a lunch counter-style diner that has been across from the Flatiron Building since 1923.

29/365: I marched once again, this time against Trump's muslim/Syrian refugee ban.

30/365: We celebrated the birthday of a very special dude.

31/365: I look at this plaque (a gift from my very good friend JMP) every morning when I'm getting ready // Not only have I not killed this plant at work, but it's flowering!

32/365: Turns out calligraphy is really hard, but I'm enjoying the challenge.

33/365: We went to Delmonico's (open since 1863 and the birthplace of baked Alaska) for restaurant week.

Project 365: Days 20-26

20/365: My new backpack finally arrived in the mail—just in time to fill it with snacks for our 12:30 am bus ride to Washington D.C.

21/365: We marched on Washington with 500,000+ other women, men and children and I've never felt more proud to be an American, a citizen, a woman and a human.

22/365: My D.C. metro card arrived in the mail after I got back from the march and it's inauguration themed (barf).

23/365: Some of my favorite things: baby head vase | chicken nugget planter | flag from election night | witchy cat print | my mom's senior picture | log vase from Anthropologie (many years ago)

24/365: A rainy day view of Flatbush Avenue from my bedroom window.

25/365: I laughed as I passed our recycle bin at work // I went to my first calligraphy class at 92Y and made a friend.

26/365: So back in November I started running a few times a week. I've hardly told anyone that I'm doing it because I don't want to become that annoying exercise person, but I've really been enjoying it (after the part of every run where I'm convinced I'm dying). I took a week off because I was sick and it really bummed me out, so I'm glad to be getting back to my weekly routine.

Project 365: Days 12-19

12/365: We ate at a restaurant famous for melting cheese over everything (at your table!) // We walked from the East Village to 57th and 7th Avenue (5+ miles) because the weather was nice and the company was A+.

13/365: After midnight dollar pizza on St. Marks after a work happy hour and a birthday party.

14/365: I got a new lens and tested it out on my favorite photo subject (in my very dark bedroom).

15/365: We explored the Fieldston and Riverdale neighborhoods of the Bronx.

16/365: My dude and I went to check out a new shopping complex in Sunset Park and I found this holy grail soda of my childhood at World Market // We wanted to go bowling but didn't have enough time—Melody Lanes is a total time-warp though, and I hope to go back very soon.

17/365: I finished the very excellent Rules of Civility and started reading The Voyeur's Motel (I'm ahead of schedule on my reading challenge for this year—let's be friends on Goodreads!).

18/365: Mozart plays with these snakes that I received in a Halloween package and they still scare me every time I see one on the floor.

19/365: Sick day (those ugly floral dishes came with our apartment).

Project 365: Days 1-11

I decided to do Project 365 again this year, after skipping last year for no particular reason. I did it first in 2015, and I really loved looking back on that year's photos. I tried briefly to do the one-second-a-day video thing last year, but only lasted until February before I gave up. I just don't think in videos (or really know how to edit them) and I wasn't really having fun. Still photos just make so much more sense to me, so this year I'm back at it.

1/365: We celebrated 2017 by going to Coney Island, where one of us took the Polar Bear plunge while the other held his towel (and we found this New Year's hat on the beach).

2/365: Well it didn't take long before I forgot to take a photo (maybe this is why I don't make New Year's resolutions), but January 2nd was rainy and I mostly spent it inside—but I did take this screenshot of a young and impossibly beautiful Meryl Streep, and I make the rules around here so I'm going to say that counts.

3/365: I took the fresh and clean Second Avenue subway home for the first time and my commute hasn't been the same since—I always get a seat and the Q takes me just steps away from my apartment.

4/365: I had a dentist appointment (PSA:floss those teeth!) but I got to walk to work from the west side through Central Park, which I've missed deeply since I moved to Brooklyn.

5/365: I wrote out thank you notes on my lunch break—my dear friend Shannon gave me these lovely gold foil kitty cards for Christmas and it was almost painful to send most of them away.

6/365: My apartment isn't perfect but sometimes I just sit on my bed and stare at all of my stuff and think how lucky I am to live in New York and how much I love curating my own spaces and collections.

7/365: We got our first major snowfall of 2017 and I frolicked in Prospect Park for hours.

8/365: Is there anything better than egg and cheese on a bagel? Nope.

9/365: This delightfully strange Christmas gift from Francesca fits right in (there's no question that I'm the "weird" roommate).

10/365: I woke up to the most beautiful sunrise.

11/365: I continued to be enamored with the Second Avenue subway and my super chill evening commute.

Project 365: Days 345-365

345/365: Still Life With Cat.

346/365: Super into this print from Burrito Breath, which I'm definitely leaving up all year long.

347/365: I hosted my third-annual Christmas Vacation viewing, with nog in moose mugs, of course.

348/365: This Queen.

349/365: We went to Dyker Heights to see the Christmas lights and grabbed some cannoli to go.

350/365: I wrapped my first gifts of the season.

351/365: Francesca and I exchanged gifts and she got me these incredible (and real!) glass eyes. When she handed them to me, she said "I got a good deal on them because they're cloudy."

352/365: Obsessed with this new pin, also from Francesca.

353/365: I wrapped the rest of my presents.

354/365: My mom bought me this awesome head vase, and I bought a little display dome to hold my glass eyes.

355/365: Jim and I exchanged presents and he got me the coolest record player (!!!) and the best record (Bridge Over Troubled Water).

356/365: I found a great manhole cover on my lunch walk // my dude and I exchanged gifts and he got me this wonderful bag that will be perfect for my camera (the bottom says Warning: Not for Transplanting Human Organs), and some other excellent gifts.

357/365: The fog that cancelled my mom's flight back to Ohio in the morning, and mine at night.

358/365: After my one-hour direct flight got cancelled, I traveled 7+ hours the next day and finally arrived in Ohio to spend Christmas Eve with my family.

359/365: All I wanted for Christmas was for my sister to accidentally pack her dogs (but especially Penny) in my luggage.

360/365: My sister suggested we go to Swenson's for lunch before seeing Sisters, which was the best idea she's ever had.

361/365: I tried (unsuccessfully) to sneak Penny into my purse // We went antiquing and found some real gems.

362/365: I basically commuted to work in New York from Ohio and took a super early flight into Newark.

363/365: All of the travel / lack of sleep / crappy eating / holiday stress caught up with me and I spent the day sick in bed—Nurse Mozart was indifferent to my suffering.

364/365: Day 2 of trying to rest out my cold.

365/365: I unpacked this casket plaque that I found antiquing in Ohio and I think it fits in quite nicely.

See the entire 2015 365 Project here.

Project 365: Days 338-344

338/365: Went to my mom's to steal her Christmas tree (she gave it to me, I'm not that terrible) and I grabbed some very necessary books that I had left behind when I moved out.

339/365: It's getting pretty Christmassy in our apartment even though it still feels like spring outside.

340/365: We hiked up a mountain and creeped on some ruins along the way.

341/365: My first Christmas card this year (thank you Grandma!).

342/365: Francesca and I went to a lecture on grave markers at Green-Wood Cemetery.

343/365: We took a work field trip to the Cooper Hewitt Design museum and I made some spooky and delicious wallpaper in their interactive wall exhibit.

344/365: I did some after-work Christmas shopping and had some gifts expertly wrapped by Todd Oldham and the incomparable Amy Sedaris at Fishs Eddy.

Project 365: Days 317-337

317/365: Wild Friday night with this idiot.

318/365: We went to see this year's Canstruction competition and I took a detour into Trinity Cemetery on my way to the train.

319/365: We went on a trek through Forest Hills Park and found the most adorable flyer for detective work "at a reasonable price" and an abandoned set of tracks.

320/365: The sweetest gift from the sweetest man.

321/365: Morning scene // Tried Ample Hills for the first time—Peppermint Patty ice cream FTW.

322/365: The design department at work stayed for a talk by the grumpy and great Milton Glaser.

323/365: We ate lunch at Schaller's Stube which has all of the sausages.

324/365: I took my annual November 20th selfie in DC, where I took the train to meet my uncle for a weekend of cultural delights.

325/365: We toured the incredible collections (and beautiful grounds) of Marjorie Merriweather Post's Hillwood estate.

326/365: We saw some excellent DC sites, memorials and the installation pieces at the newly-opened Renwick Gallery.

327/365: I said goodbye to DC and marveled at the space-agey Metro.

328/365: We saw the last show on Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life tour at Madison Square Garden.

329/365: Someone in my apartment building ordered a ferret house (thankfully not any of my roommates).

330/365: Jim and I ate Thanksgiving breakfast (is that a thing?) at a half-empty Tom's and passed an excellent Texts from Hillary stencil.

331/365: We walked around the always-beautiful Green-Wood Cemetery, which was approximately 1,000 x better than fighting crowds on Black Friday.

332/365: I spent most of the day being lazy on the couch (with a break into the real world to go see Hunger Games), so I didn't take a photo but here's a still from a video I made of me reenacting this hamster video.

333/365: I met my mom for breakfast and we toured the holiday windows on Lexington and Fifth Avenues (Bergdorf's were the best, followed by Saks).

334/365: I tried to make a gif of my wonderful Kit Kat Clock, and it's not perfect but I still love it.

335/365: Very into this new patch acquisition.

336/365: I did a little Christmas shopping after work at Fishs Eddy, which has nothing I need but everything I want.

337/365: A thing I designed for work is currently in the 86th Street subway station // One of Barney's holiday windows contains a real live human carving crazy-intricate ice sculptures.

Project 365: Days 310-316

310/365: I had to see a doctor, and their office is right on Gramercy Park. I resisted the urge to ask if they had use of a key, but I did stop to admire the beautiful leaves near Calvary Church.

311/365: We walked to Prospect Park and passed my favorite flower shop sign and the beautifully gloomy Green-Wood cemetery.

312/365: Another beautiful cemetery in the fall—Jim and I finally got into Woodlawn.

313/365: A thing I helped illustrate at work was printed, featuring this cool dude.

314/365: I'll be so sad when it's no longer Honeycrisp (or, Honeycriap) season.

315/365: Made a special dinner for a special dude.

316/365: Spent two days at work obsessed with Shia LaBeouf and #allmymovies. As Francesca said "I'm trying to not be sad that it's over, but happy that it happened at all."

Project 365: Days 296-309

296/365: Francesca and I went to Warby Parker at lunch to try on glasses and this photo was definitely an accidental capture, but there we are.

297/365: Francesca took this cheesy senior/tourist photo of us sitting on hay bales in a Sleepy Hollow median.

298/365: Lazy Sunday with this lazy kid.

299/365: Sleepy Hollow souvenir inventory: floaty pen with Headless Horseman? CHECK.

300/365: I met Jim at Cooper Union for a really interesting lecture on the history (and future) of the NY subway map. We left before they started on the future, however, since we only care about the past. Side note: HOW did we already get to day 300 of this year / why is my life speeding by so fast / help I'm old already.

301/365: Top-secret costume work that is no longer top-secret since Halloween is over. Having a mannequin head is surprisingly helpful when I'm trying to be crafty.

302/365: Senior pictures to celebrate National Cat Day.

303/365: I wasn't feeling well so I stayed home sick with this idiot, who likes to stare at the curtain instead of the interesting world of Brooklyn.

304/365: I got up super early to prepare for my second annual BOOzy Brunch.

305/365: I know this probably doesn't count as a photo since it's a screenshot, but I was so wiped from my party (and walking in the Halloween Parade/riding the subway with a heavy ice cream cone on my head) that we just lounged around and watched movies all day. First Beetlejuice, which I had never really seen and then Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which made me realize that Pee-Wee and I have the exact same aesthetic and share a love of the absurd.

306/365: My Mister Softee bowtie was put on permanent display.

307/365: Daylight Savings time changes are the worst, but the light during my lunch breaks has been especially pretty this week.

308/365: I started a new book based on a recommendation from Trent about James Garfield and it's way more interesting than it probably should be. I also continue to be amazed that I can walk into the library and take books home for free.

309/365: Still obsessed with Mad Men and even more obsessed with Glen and Betty—I want an oil painting of this screenshot to hang above my couch // I heard fireworks and looked out my window just in time to catch the finale.

Project 365: Days 289-295

289/365: A Queen reigns atop Pillow Mountain.

290/365: Jim and I got a peek inside of the magical Four Seasons restaurant, the National Arts Club and City Hall for Open House New York weekend.

291/365: I creeped around the newly-renovated Kings Theater in Brooklyn on the second day of OHNY weekend.

292/365: Mozart has been causing me a lot of grief lately, but then she does something so undeniably sweet—like rest her hand on my shoulder while we're laying in bed—that I can't be too mad at her.

293/365: I got a pretty new iPhone but I think I'm even more excited about my pretty new case.

294/365: My man suggested we start watching Mad Men, and I'm 100% obsessed, like I knew I would be (aka the reason why I haven't written a blog post all week :| )

295/365: Very into this new (to me) book, and the cover glows in the dark.

Project 365: Days 280-287

280/365: Jim and I started our roadtrip to Ohio in an adorable Fiat with mandatory stops at Wendy's and Sheetz.

281/365: We stopped to pay our respects to Frank Lloyd Wright and took tours of Kentuck Knob and Falling Water.

282/365: I took Jim on a tour of some of my old Ohio haunts, including the mall // Katie got married like the successful adult she is.

283/365: We arrived in Pittsburgh, went to the Andy Warhol museum, ate Primanti Bros. and walked some bridges.

284/365: We rode the Duquesne Incline // I'm still having a hard time comprehending the weird and wonderful Roadside America, billed as the "World's Most Famous Indoor Miniature Village."

285/365: I couldn't resist this souvenir from the Incline.

286/365: Not the best photo, but look at this ferocious creature.

287/365: Hi, let's be friends.