Pink Ink Blog

Yesterday was brilliant. I got to go to Mood in the city! There are so many fabric shops out here, and it seriously makes me wonder why I am just stuck with Jo-Ann’s in Orlando. I am seriously contemplating opening up a fabric shop.

Anyway, I got some amazing vintagey and asian-inspired fabrics that you will see in execution later on after I get back home. While at Mood, Becca decided she wanted to make some chokers out of trimmings, and we of course had to try them all on.

Then we walked through times square for the obligatory “I’m in Times Square” photo. Since we happened to be right across from Sephora, we did that for about an hour then proceeded to my new favorite part of NY — Williamsburg.

We had an amazing dinner of sangria made with Cava, cheese and more cheese. My sandwich came with something the restaurant (Blackbird) calls Beet Tzatziki, but it didn’t taste much like beets. So, instead it was the perfect shade of pink — making that my standard for all tzatziki in my life moving forward.

Oh, and by the way — thank you Joshua Darling for posting the link to your network, because I reached an ALL TIME HIGH of 50 visitors yesterday.

Today was another amazing day in NYC. We had UNLIMITED MIMOSAS at some bar/restaurant — yeah, I said unlimited. And on top of it the food was fabulous 123. Crab Cakes with Hollandaise and eggs, etc. (Sorry, I forgot to take pictures) Oh, and the restaurant was called…Libations. Come on.

Anyway, I also got to experience a photoshoot from the beautiful and famous Joshua Darling at Coney Island. The only memory I have of Coney Island is from the movie Uptown Girl — but it was amazing.

We finished the day out with some of the best 4-cheese, thin crust pizza — where one of the cheeses was bleu. Amazing.

Lastly. the evening is ending with dirty martinis…no, I mean REALLY dirty, back door martinis — and Dream Phone. Does life get much better?

My friend Susan and I went over to this cute boutique in Orlando (Sweet Boutique) during lunch last week to look for a dress for her to the AAF 4th District ADDY Awards. Unfortunately we came up short, but I did find these amazing earrings.

In the past, I’ve not been too impressed with the feather/peacock movement in fashion — but whatever bird these feathers came from is hot in my book.  Check out the pics below for the bird in action — and my friend Jim Clark’s Company (who joins me in the pic)

NOTE: No animals were harmed in the writing of this blog post.

JIm Clark and MySelf at the 4th District ADDYs

As some of you know, I’m pretty active in Orlando young professional advertising club (Ad 2 Orlando).  In fact, we just launched our brand new website — check it.

Well, every other month, Ad 2 has a social where we all get together, drink, network, drink, dance, drink, etc. And this month — there’s a theme.  Let me give you a hint.  The name of the event is The Situation.

Mmhm, it’s Jersey Shore.  I’ve decided to take a toned-down, Snooki approach to the evening, resembling this quote from Vinny — minus some of the more obscene parts (remember this a professional networking event people). lol “Snooki’s outfit is crazy, she looks like a birthday cake, she’s all decorated, dressed up, with the pink, boobs all out up in her face, I guess she wants to go out with a big bang, literally.”

Pics to come later.  It’s okay, you can be jealous.

Also — a quick shout out to the Ad 2 Orlando Socials Committee — great job with designing the flier!

Dear Blog…

I am very sorry for neglecting you for the past 3 months, allowing spam comments to collect in your CMS, have visitors visit you to only think you’re a part of the statistic of blogs that get created and then forgotten.  I am very sorry for that.

Dear Readers… (all five ten of you out there)

I have a very important update for you.  When I started this blog, I thought I would just write about office supplies, and other pink items, and life would be great.  Well, made apparent by my neglect — not the greatest idea.  If you continue to follow my blog, or even visit from time to time, prepare yourself to see all that is me.  It may be office supplies, PR rants, social media talk, chihuahua outings, Barbie, makeup and more.

When I started Pink Ink, I thought of it as a pink pen.  Now I am thinking of Pink Ink more literally, in a way, where it is a pen full of pink ink writing my story, sharing my personal brand and life with all of you.  I hope you enjoy.

What’s your favorite animal? If you know me, mine is obviously chihuhuas — however I enjoy pengawins as well. If either of them came naturally in pink, I’d be in heaven.

Girl of All Work has brought us these adorable note pads for your desk. “Each block includes three different themed patterns, and is die cut with the animal’s shape. Choose from Bird, Cat, Monkey, Pig, Puppy.”

Now, let me start this blog out with the fact that I am NOT a UF Gator fan.  I tolerate them, because my significant other tends to be obsessed. Anyway, regardless of the subject matter these thank you cards are too cute to not share.

They remind me of when I was in a ceramics class in college, I created a pencil holder that had 3D triangles all over it and I had glazed the whole thing purple (I don’t think they had pink glaze). My teach came over and goffed at the fact that I glazed the whole piece ONE color, until she turned the piece to see the one triangle I glazed green.  It was genius after that.

Get these at Swoozies – one of my fave places on the web.  I can’t help by smile to look at their color scheme.

This cute notepads from Swoozies (my new fave site – sooo cute) helps plan out meals with style.  I try to plan out my meals a week in advance in order to avoid the lazy nights (like last night) where me and my boyfriend resort to pizza.

That’s all I have for now. Short, Sweet.

If you know me well, which many of you don’t, you’d know I am obsessed with penguins.  Not as crazy as I am about pink, but it takes second place.

This #PinkPick is not exactly office supplies – but I think it works.  Plus, it’s my blog and I make the rules. So check this awesome product out from William-Sonoma (or at least it’s sold at William Sonoma).

“This eco-friendly soda charger quickly transforms ordinary tap water into fresh sparkling water. It’s fun and easy to use: Simply fill the reusable glass carafe with water, insert it into the Penguin and press the carbonating “beak. When depleted, the carbonator cartridges can be easily returned to Soda-Club USA for refilling.”

I thought this looked pretty cool, as with most #PinkPicks, I have not tried this…but I very well might.

It is a rollerball pen (I usually go with gel), but it allows you to change up the colors — Which I love. Too bad it isn’t like those old school pens where you just click a button for a new color.  The changing I would go through seems like it would be a little involved. My mood changes by the minute.

The refills come in purple, light blue, green, pumpkin, and (of course) pink.

Check it out at one of my favorite sites/stores, Franklin Covey — However I am angry at them for not carrying the Cutaway Daily Notes Pages in my Covey design (Kaleidoscope).