Six Things Phoenix Might Probably Need I think

Phoenix has really come quite a long way and it's getting cooler and cooler each day. I mean, I'm totally stoken on Filmbar, we've got the awesome market, lots of good coffee shops, the lightrail zippin through, and food trucks running rampant. Here's some other stuff I think we might probably need.

A super cute flower shop.

Flower Girl, NYC.
To turn the old buildings into hip, multiuse living spaces and storefronts, restoring the original architecture. (ie: not tearing em down to start from scratch and not letting aASU snatch em up to build parking structures on. And P.S. we don’t need any more new, stucco, blah places k? Why build from scratch when we've got architectural gems standing empty?)

Luhrs Building, Downtown Phx.

An awesome bakery or two.

Babycakes, NYC.
More vegan restaurants and options (maybe a vegan ice cream shop or something rad like that, eh?).

Yes, this Cheesy Mac and Rib sandwich is vegan. Mmmm.

KindKreme, LA.

Greenspace.

Unpack a park. Whaa? RAD.

Some cool boutique hotels.

Hotel San Jose, Austin, TX.

This all reminds me of the old argument- which came first- the rad downtown? or the rad folks inhabiting it? Do you invest time and money into it hoping the right folks will stumble upon it or do you get the right people's interest before you invest?

What are some things you LOVE about your home town? What are some things you'd like to see different?

AZ Blogger Meet-up (PART 1 // IMAGE HEAVY)

Woot Woo!

The AZ Blogger Meet-up was this past weekend. And it was suuuper fun. It was so awesome to see old and new faces, and get to know some online friends in "real life".
Here's how my day went down. I woke up early, got ready and buzzed over to my buddy Andrea's house. After I picked her up, Andrea and I ran to the store where we picked up some supplies- water bottles, flowers, bananas, raspberries, bagels and tofutti cream cheese (supplies = breakfast apparently, lol). We ran to the GROWop to get everything set  up and lookin all purdy. After we ate our yummy breakfast, we were amped and ready to conquer the day- we began by picking lots of flowers so our blogger buddies could create flower crowns : )

Andrea with her bounty.

Prettyness. After everything was set up, I texted Chelsea to find out where the group was at and Andrea and I zipped over to the Phoenix Public Market.

Me and my favorite- the funniest blogger I know, Kara of Sunshine Cupcakes.

My buddy Kristen of Llena de Moras. (We worked at Anthro together : )

Mandy of Dash it All.

(P.S. Do yourself a favor and watch this. It's so cool I'm prob gonna make a whole seperate post about it.)

Courtney of Phoenix is Haute and Dolly and Boy Jewelry and Kristen looking adorable of course.

Yay! Chelsea of Tea Talk and me.

Katy! of Katieverga.com

We walked from the Market to Mercantile where I got a really rad ring for only $8.

At Vintage by Misty.

My buddy Scott, bein awesome and stuff.

There's more coming : )

Today was crazy!

I was so so happy when I went for my walk this morning. There were these huuuge, dark clouds and the wind was blowing and I almost needed a sweater! It was amazing. Then at lunch, the storm got intense- the roads turned to rivers and it dropped like 20 degrees! It was hailing like crazy and water was leaking into the restaurant where we were eating. (I should also say that up until now we have been stuck with triple digit temps still!).

When we got back to work it was CHAOS! The roof on the north side of the building gave it from the weight of the water. There was water everywhere and most of the office workers and most of the managers from the shop were working at getting the water out- sweeping, squeegeeing, wet vac-ing.

It sucked, of course, but it was really great to see everyone working so hard for our little family like company. The guys from the shop even had a little pizza picnik after all the clean up.

It's still raining. I kinda love it but here in Phoenix folks don't know what to do when these things happen- we get tons of wrecks and things like that. So I suppose I'll stay in for the rest of the night! I hope you had an eventful day : )

Today is the day...

Today is the day of the Grand Avenue Festival here in Downtown Phoenix. I'll be busy today helping to get all the models decked out and lookin good. I've never done this before so I am really excited to see our "vision" come together and head down the runway. Fashion shows begin at 7pm at Bragg's Pie Factory. Stop by if you are local and say hello!

Danielle posted this on her blog yesterday and I loved it (especially the "Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them" part : ). I thought it was a nice little sentiment to start the weekend off with. I hope you all have a lovely, Fall-y weekend!