Month In Review: July 2014...

♥ Attending the Stars & Stripes Festival at Belmont Park thanks to America's Best Racing.

♥ Booking a hotel in New York City for the wedding.

♥ Going Upstate for Phil's annual rafting trip.

♥ Finally seeing the end product of my Little Free Library project.

♥ Spending time in New York City with my sister, Lisa, etc.

♥ Ordering my wedding band.

♥ Spending a wonderful afternoon in Coney Island with Justin.

♥ Getting tickets to Sleep No More for my bachelorette party.

♥ Taking off the first 23 days in September for my wedding and honeymoon.

♥ 99 Questions Tag

♥ Stars & Stripes Festival At Belmont Park

♥ Engagement Photos

♥ The Purge: Anarchy

♥ Annual Rafting Trip Recap

♥ Little Free Libraries

♥ Trying To Give A Dog A Bone

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Meant To Instagram Edition

♥ Listening To The Radio

♥ Greek Vacation Wishlist

♥ Engagement Ringless

♥ Wedding Check List

♥ Forgotten Photos From My iPhone

♥ Home Away From Home ♥

♥ Manger ♥ 

♥ Gala Darling ♥

"Black Widow" by Iggy Azalea & Rita Ora

"Latch" by Disclosure feat. Sam Smith

♥ Dean & Tori's Backyard Bash (2013) ♥

♥ Extant (2014-Present) ♥

♥ Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London (2014-Present) ♥

♥ "It" by Alexa Chung ♥

♥ "Extra Virgin" by Gabriele Corcos & Debi Mazar ♥ 

♥ "Living in Style: Inspiration & Advice for Everyday Glamour" by Rachel Zoe ♥

♥ "My Paris Kitchen: Recipes & Stories" by David Lebovitz ♥

Little Free Libraries Inspire...

As you may or may not know I was recently able to complete my pet project and got my library, in conjunction with our city, to put up Little Free Libraries on the local boardwalk as a community outreach project -- Which you can read about here. But what I didn't mention was that the Little Free Libraries were featured in some newspapers and on various community Facebook pages.

Since the articles were printed we've been getting a lot of positive feedback from the community but nothing compares to what I just heard. I literately just received a phone call from an elementary school teacher in Brooklyn who had seen the newspaper article and was so inspired by it that she wanted to contact me to ask me how she could do the same thing in her community.

After explaining to her that Little Free Libraries are a thing and that like her, I had seen a newspaper article on one and felt compelled to make it a thing in my community, I told her how long it took me, how much they cost, how many people I had to go through, etc. And I let her know that I'd provide her with any information and/or support she needed to make her Little Free Library dreams come true and that when she gets hers I will be in Brooklyn to see it.

I cannot tell you how amazing it was to get that phone call today and to be able to help another person who feels as strongly as I do about being able to give to the community and have books available for those who might not other wise be able to get their hands on them.

I feel so awesome right now.

Forgotten Photos From My iPhone: Meant To Instagram Edition...

Little Free Libraries...

For the past seven or so months I've been working on getting the library, in conjunction with the city we are in, to install Little Free Libraries on the local boardwalk as outreach and I'm excited to announce that it's finally happened.

After months of annoying my Director, me threatening to annoy our City Counsel and subsequently my Director annoying the City Counsel and the Library Board of Trustees, we have four library sponsored Little Free Libraries on the boardwalk.

I'm so excited to have my pet project come to fruition and hear all of the positive responses that the community has had to them in the few days they have been operational.

I'll keep you all up-to-date on how they are doing and if we end up get more.