A jump in the 20' at Governors Island

So here it's how we celebrated our multiple anniversaries:
- Sushi night
- Red Roses surprise
- ... and dance! We went at the Governors Island Jazz Party, surrounded by people that took the dress-up process reeeally seriously!!

 

Our costumes were way less sophisticated:

 

... But we had so much fun dancing and rolling around on the dance floor!

There will be another Jazz party at Governors Island this August... Guess who is going again?!
:-D

Celebration Time!

It's anniversary week!

In the 9th of June, 9 years ago (9 YEARS AGO?! Seriously?!), we met by accident along the street and walked together under a warm summer sky, chatting and laughing. We kept going back and forth from my house to your house (luckily we lived 3 blocks apart, ah!) until dawn arrived and I finally went up to my apartment, feeling exhausted, happy and a little bit sad.
That night we didn't exchanged phone numbers, we didn't tell each other "let's meet again". That night we didn't kiss, we didn't even hug... But that night is when it started, and we both felt it.
(The next day you found my phone number on the white pages... I suppose walking each other back and forth in front of our houses helped a little with the research... and invited me to see a terrible movie, but that's another story!)

On the 11th of June, 6 years ago, we got married in our city council. I was too nervous, I don't remember the ceremony, but I do remember the party. We celebrated with a picnic in the park, our friends brought guitars and music, my dad pulled out from the canteen a flask of his home-made red Barbera wine, your family baked a dozen of cakes shaped like harts... and we danced barefoot in the grass.
It definitely wasn't the Italian"traditional wedding celebration"... but still, I wouldn't change a thing :)

And I love  that, to celebrate our anniversary, this weekend we will go dancing barefoot in the grass again.
May we keep dancing, mì amor!

Wednesday = Brooklyn Botanical Garden!

For this summer, Wednesday is officially our "picnic night".

So today we grabbed our pasta, packed our chocolate (you can't have a picnic without chocolate, it would be terribly unprofessional!) and caught a spot to listen to some free live music, smell some amazing beautiful roses... and get a pic at some original/silly/weird... hats!

It looked like a party at the Mad Hatter Garden!

 The children created their personal hats, and they held a little parade around the cherry esplanade...

 Some just created some amazing pieces of wearable art.

 Roses and hats... It was like jumping right into a page of Alice in Wonderland...
We loove the Brooklyn Botanical Garden!!

Spring is in the air...

Because nothing screams spring more than a sunny late afternoon in the park!

Sketchbook Project!

Do you like doodling? You usually sketch squiggly and silly faces while talking on the phone? You like to catch your thoughts and dreams on paper?
Then you may consider getting into the Sketchbook Project for the Free Art Library!
It's  a traveling collection of sketchbooks where you can find the drawings and the words of thousand of strangers, normal-average-crazy people like me and you... And if you want you can put your personal one in the collection!

The main home of the sketchbooks, where they rest in shelves between one travel and the other around the country, it's Brooklyn!

We  went there yesterday...

And we spent a big chunk of our rainy afternoon browsing through pages... Some were simple, other were so intricate! Some were funny, other desperate, many were really beautiful and original...  and many were very personal and intimate.
It's amazing how many things can fit in a tiny book, and how much you can personalize it!

Here are some of my favorite ones...

watercolors, treads, paint, pop ups... wow!

 

I loved the sketchbooks with presents and secret messages...

It was like having a glimpse at the life of hundreds strangers... We read thoughts, we found photos, drawings, quotations, pieces of memories...

Simple, sweet and minimal, with photos and quotations...

   

                                                 

A looking-through Sketchbook!

     

     
 
The library card it's free, and many of the books are "digitalized", so you can find them and read them online.
Also, every time you request a sketchbook you get an extra one, a "surprise" randomly selected for you.

The authors are encouraged to personalize the cover and the book as much as they want... they can paint over it, cut it, add more pages... as long as it can fit in the bookshelf.

A 3D Dictionary of simple things.  This was amazin

Although my writing and my drawings always disappoint me, I am thinking of starting a sketchbook and get on board with the project...  wanna join me?!


... Maybe my sketchbook and your sketchbook will keep each other company along the road!

NYC walls

One of the things that I love of this city is that it can be stressful, it can be loud, it can be crazy... but it will never be boring!You can walk on the same street every day, and you will always notice something different...

... Even the walls are always changing!

I LOVE the subway map building!

More than zombies what terrifies me are subway's rats!!

..

WE ARE ONLINE!

Ok, we know it, the journey it's still long and we have a long way ahead, but...
But today we can't stop dancing, and it feels like the whole planet is dancing with us :)


:)