Love the Design Events!

I'm so excited that my friends are here interning for the summer! We have had fun at all of these design events.

Design Week in the Meat Packing District

Annual Alpha Awards

Opening Night at the Architects & Designers Building

Spring is Here!

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SPRING!!!

WE DID IT!!!

Tyler and I graduated from Utah State this weekend. It was such an amazing weekend. We are so excited for some free time!

It was so fun to graduate together. I am so proud of my honey! He worked so hard and it was so rewarding to celebrate this accomplishment together.

The weekend wouldn't have been the same without the support of our friends and family! It was so fun to spend time with our loved ones.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Website!

A website of my work from school is now up and running!
www.whitneylynch.com

My First Project!

This is my first project that was all mine, from start to finish. I am so excited that it is done. I mean, there are a lot of things I would still like to do (walls!! artwork, accessories, etc.) but this is as far as the clients wanted to go at this point (thanks economy!) This is a very different Drake look but its what the clients asked for. Love my job!!

Foyer

Living Area

Dining Room

Nursery

Master Bedroom

A Design, Music and Eggs Weekend

Tyler and I traveled to Utah for a fun-filled Eaweekend. I have been looking forward to this trip for months. The USU Interior Design Senior Exhibit is when the seniors design an exhibit that displays their work from the past 4 years at USU. Since I chose to do my senior year in NYC I wasn't able to display my work with my classmates but this event is so important that I couldn't miss it. I had to see all of my friends and celebrate their work with them. It was so fun seeing everyone!
My mom bought tickets to Wicked in Utah last year when we didnt know we were going to be living in NY. It has been hard to justify flying to UT just to see Wicked so when we realized our tickets were for the same weekend as Sr. Exhibit it was a done deal. I am so glad it worked out that way and that I could see Wicked again with my whole family. The traveling cast was great, I actually preferred a couple of the actors over the cast in NY.
I lost my camera at a design event this week. Thanks to my friend's tagging me in facebook photos, I have some pictures from the amazing weekend but not my own :( I dont have my pictures of Tyler and I with our new nephew Kruz. I am so sad. Good thing we are going back in a couple weeks for graduation so we can get some more.

Surprise!

I got a text Friday afternoon that my cousin Kelsey and Aunt Debbie are in the city for a choir festival this weekend. So we met up tonight and chatted over dinner. She lives in Arkansas so we dont see each other very often so it was such a pleasant surprise!

We Love Visitors

Our good friends Devin & Shalise came to play in the city for a few days. Even though I had to work we were able to meet up at night and had tons of fun. Luckily Tyler didnt have to work so he touristed (I think I just made that word up) around with them.

The first night we toured our neighborhood a little. Walking out on the pier is our favorite thing to when people come to visit. Its not a part of the "normal" NYC vacation so we feel like its our little gem of the city.

The next night we met up and dove into Time Square. We had dinner at my favorite diner, Ellen's Stardust Diner. With the singing waitstaff and killer milkshakes its always a good time.

On Tuesday we met up in Little Italy for dinner at this tiny little restaurant that was so so good! We wanted to get gelato but "my gelato shop" (to which i am extremely loyal) was not very convient to where we were so when we stopped at Grand Central on our way home to see the beautiful station we got some gelato there. I have to admit that it was good but L'arte Del Gelato is still my favorite.

The last night we went to a Knicks game. It was so much fun! Devin & Shalise were so nice to buy us all tickets and we thought we were getting a deal with $40/ticket but when we picked the tickets up right before the game they were only $10 tickets. StubHub won on that one. The arena at Madison Square Garden was constructed brilliantly in that there is not a bad seat in the place. We could see the game great and had so much fun (even though the Knicks lost)

Thanks Devin & Shalise for a fun week!!

New York Design Center Hospitality Event

Interior Design Magazine and The New York Design Center hosted a hospitality event where the New York Design Center's showrooms opened their doors to designers, architects and the hospitality industry to frame the NYDC as New York's top hospitality design resource and to present a networking opportunity for the design community. Over 1,500 people filled the nearly 100 showrooms to see products and hear from various speakers. One of which was Jamie Drake (the boss man). It was so fun hopping from showroom to showroom meeting lots of people and nibbling on all the goodies.

The pre-party started in the cab.

Hayley, Darrin and myself (we work together)

The boss man doing his thing and the beautiful Michael Tavano showroom that hosted us.

Natalie, Hayley and me enjoying the event!

Our Weekend in DC

When Tyler and I started thinking about what we wanted to do for Valentine's Day we went from a nice dinner to a night at a bed and breakfast upstate somewhere to a 3 day trip to DC! Go big or go home right?

We left on Feb. 14 at 10:00 am. After a short 4 hour drive we were in the Nation's Capital. We saw the capital building and then went through the National Air and Space Museum.

This is us standing in front of a heat sensor. Apparently we are both "hot headed"

Then we went to Union Station which is a train station with lot of shopping and restaurants. I hate to admit it but it blew Grand Central Station in NYC out of the water.

The next day we saw the rest of the memorials, monuments and museums.

I have the strongest husband in the world! He can pull out the Washington Monument with one hand! :)

The architecture was amazing in Washington DC. I was expecting a lot of historic buildings which there were but i didn't expect the contemporary architecture as well. It made the city even more impressive.

These pictures show where each of our "hearts" are. When asked where we're from, I said New York and Tyler said Utah. hmm....

The White House was beautiful. I was disappointed that we couldn't get closer.

This pic is for my friend April Toone. She told me about this restaurant, saying it was one of her favorite. We went there for dinner and it was fabulous! The best pizza crust I've ever had! Thanks for the tip April!

On our way home we stopped in Philadelphia. I have always wanted a picture with this infamous "love statue". I'm not sure why but I was under the impression that it was a lot bigger.

Even though we paid over $50 in tolls, we really love living on the East Coast. There are so many great places to go and things to see. Everything is relatively close so we are able to get a lot out of a weekend away.

Parties and Cancer!

Tyler was working in Texas for a couple weeks in January. I usually am very lonely but this time my work friends kept me busy. There were a lot of design events that I went to. Michael Tavano
(a custom clothwork company) hosted this month's Design Exchange Event. This event is for designers to get together and network. A couple days later Tai Ping (a carpet vendor) hosted a Chinese New Year Party which was fun, they had their showroom all decorated for the event. This last week Tyler had a chance to go to one of these parties with me! Alpha Workshops threw a Valentine's Party. Designers such as Larry Laslo, Vicente Wolf, Guy Clark and yours truly, Jamie Drake, donated one of a kind Valentine creations which are then auctioned off in a silent auction. It was fun to have Tyler there, it was definitely not like any party he'd been to before :) but we had fun!
Jamie and our architecture team redesigned the Marriage Bureau at City Hall. It made the front page of the New York Times when it opened, which is cool because not many designers can say they've made the front page of the NYT. A bunch of us from the office wanted to check it out so we went for a private tour one Friday after work. It was so nice, the nicest city offices I've ever seen. Jamie treated us to dinner afterwards at a fun restaurant at South Street Seaport. It was fun to spend so much time with my co-workers, outside of work. I love my job!

Ok so by now you might be thinking whats with the cancer part of the title? Well I had an appointment with my Dermatologist while Tyler was away. I went in to get a new skin cream and had my doctor look at a couple of new moles that I have noticed in the last couple years. To say the least she sort of freaked out at some of my moles and removed a couple on the spot for Biopsies. This last week i went in for a full body exam and learned that one of the moles that was removed was skin cancer. I was pretty surprised and freaked out but she said that we got it all. It was on my breast which obviously doesn't see the sun so she said it was a direct result of fake tanning. Of course just my mom telling me its bad wasn't enough, I had to get skin cancer to learn my lesson but i am here to shout it out there (Attn: K.A.D) FAKE TANNING IS NOT WORTH IT! This is the only time I'll ever say this but i am grateful for zits that took me to the doctor so i could catch and remove that cancer!

I have killer pics of these wounds but will spare you :)