Friday Five

1. New on the desk. How cute is this little guy? I've always wanted a little wooden manikin... not sure why, I just really like how they look lol.  Plus you can move his arms and legs. He has already mastered a couple of ballet poses and dabbed here and there. 

2. Natural gas was finally installed in my house yesterday. I moved in the beginning of April and have not been able to use my stove or oven because I had to re-new all of the gas piping in my house and put in a meter.  Essentially, I had my stove sitting there looking pretty but I couldn't use it. I had been cooking out of a portable electric pan which worked well but really limited what I could cook.

It was a long, annoying process & I could've just stuck to using an electric stove but I really had my heart set on a gas stove/oven, plus it's more energy efficient.

I've already cooked on it (not just the coffee lol)  and OH MY LORD where has this baby been my whole life?  I never knew how much one could love an appliance until now. Let's see if this will inspire me to make some food posts.

3. Say hello to the newest member of the family. My brand new Fiddle Leaf Fig. My mom bought me this beauty yesterday and I'm already in love. This is my second fiddle leaf, the first one I had unfortunately caught a bug and despite many attempts to save it, it just wouldn't prosper. Let's hope everything goes smoothly this time around.

I already ordered a stand for it, now I just need to find a nice planter. I'm really trying to get out of my terra-cotta plant pot comfort-zone and venture out to a nice white ceramic pot but so far I haven't really found one that I like that isn't ridiculously overpriced, its a freaking plant pot for crying out loud!

Let's see what I end up with.

4. If you saw my May Favorites video you would've seen me talk about the halo top birthday cake flavored ice-cream. Well, I went grocery shopping this week and the publix by my new house is pretty much halotop heaven, I genuinely gasped when I opened the freezer. I tried the peanut butter cup flavor and If you guys like reeses's peanut butter cups... STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING & go try this stuff out.  Thank me later, I'll wait right here.

5. This has been my quote of the week.. or a lifetime. #realism.

See you all next week. xx

Staycation

This passed weekend my boyfriend & I decided we needed some kind of get-away after what seemed like the roughest summer of my life (could've been worse but for the sake of dramatization... ) basically I spent the majority of it studying, & by "majority" I mean a total of one week out of 3 1/2 months without studying... for 1 exam. Needless to say, I needed this, whether it would've been for one day or a weekend I just wanted needed to cool the sizzle I had created on the entirety of my brain, yes, the sizzle.. it was sizzling.

Any-who,  we decided to stay at the Croydon on south beach at the very last minute only for the weekend. I had never heard of it before but it was a great price for the cutest boutique hotel & the reviews were awesome.

On sunday we had lunch at Cecconi's in the Soho Beach House & let me just say before I stepped foot in the place I knew I was going to swoon over everything & I did, I definitely did.  Martin Brudnizki (interior designer of Soho House Miami & Cecconi's) did what he does with the place, give the man a mule & he will return some kind of unicorn, I'm convinced.

It's refreshing to find places that depart you from the regular chaotic-ness that you find in Miami & even more-so for someone who appreciates decor .. along with food, like myself :) If you like fairy gardens with hints of teal & all-you-can eat brunches you might enjoy this place as well.

After too-short-of a weekend we came back home & I prepared myself for the fall semester of my last year as an undergrad.