I have learned something about myself...

Our good friends are moving soon and they threw a BBQ so we could all get together before they leave. Great weather, great food, great company! It was such a good time. I came home and was excited to post about how much fun we had. And then I realized that for some reason almost all of the pictures I took were with kids. I swear i'm not that baby hungry and I do have grown up friends. But I do love my nursery calling and the cute kids that i've been able to get to know.

(We tried to go to a Mets game later that night...
6 people+Memorial Day=no tickets. Bummer)

Date Night in Times Square

My friend since 4th grade, Chelsea and her husband Nick are vacationing in the city this week so we got together on Saturday night. It was so fun to visit with them! I feel guilty saying that this was the first time we all got together since they were married 2 years ago. So it was way fun for our spouses to get to know each other.

I love date nights!

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!

I...

LOVE...

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!