Summer '0Neon To-Do List

Today was another wonderful day at rag & bone. Stopped off at Milk Studios to drop something off for David Neville's high-profile makeup artist wife Gucci Westman at a China Vogue shoot. Very cool!! Too nervous to stay and chat or even process who the cutie Asian model in the chair was. Boo. Spent the rest of the day sketching inspiration looks for the Spring '10 collection!! Hopefully I'll be able to post them when I finish them, but they may have to remain a secret until after the show in September. On that note, have I mentioned that there's a good chance that I'll be assisting at the show??? Ok I don't want to jinx it, so I'm putting it out there that NOTHING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED and I MAY NOT work the show after all. But I think I will!! Can you even imagine the models I'll be dressing?!?!? SASHA!! FREJA!! STAM!! COCO!! LILY D!! It might be too good to be true!!!!!!

Anyway, so the point of this post is to start my summer to-do list that Alex and I have been discussing for what seems like years. So here, in no particular order, are the things that I'm planning to do to keep Summer '0Neon (like the name?? hee hee) as fabulous as it has been so far:

1. Tea time and Neon Tea Party photo shoot at Alice's Tea Cup, which leads me to...
2. Read Alice In Wonderland (already started it--just gotta finish it!!)
3. Picnic in Central Park with my favorite ladies.
4. Go to Cape Cod with the BUCrew - date set for 4th of July weekend!!
5. Check out the John Lennon exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Amy.
6. Headband making workshop at M & J with Alex!!
7. Finally do the Landmark Forum! (You should too!!)
8. Read. A lot. (Just finished I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie!! Now reading High Fidelity.)
9. Cook. A lot. Planning to make: lemon ricotta pancakes with blueberries, quiche, lots of pesto, flatbread pizzas, homemade raviolis, and oh so much more!
10. Lunch dates with Avery and Allie V at the Condé Nast cafeteria.
11. Go to the beach and get some color!! (with SPF 30 of course! cough cough Allison Cohen...!)
12. Host dinner parties at Amy's and my Gramercy apartment!
13. Shop for antique tea cups at flea markets.
14. Play in the sun at Battery Park.
15. Explore Brooklyn.
16. Try cupcakes from babycakes.
17. Make bracelets.
18. Study French so that I'm not totally clueless when I go back to school in September.
19. Practice guitar and learn lots of new tunes.
20. Visit Boston and finally explore the South End. And bring Misha along!!
21. FINISH THE BUZZ MOCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (This really should be #1 on the to-do list!)
22. Celebrate the birthdays of some pretty amazing people: my mom, Mish, Alex, Amy, Avery, Liezy, and from afar: Morgan (she'll be in Paris), Vilde (Norway), Cory (Hawaii)
23. Try fish and chips from A Salt and Battery--actually on this week's to-do list, as it's around the corner from my office and I want it for lunch!!
24. Resist buying more clothes. I've come to the realization that I have more clothes than life. But maybe not as much as Rachel Zoe. Okay, maybe I'll buy a thing or two from rag & bone-- how can I not?!
25. Play soccer! (I think I like soccer...)
26. Last, but not least, travel to Cali to explore San Fran and LA with Allison and Alex!!!!!

I just want to make it clear that I am such a lucky little girl to be able to do all of these things. I've been extremely reflective and appreciative lately and want to put it out there how utterly blessed I am to have the most amazing family and friends, to create the most amazing opportunities for myself (with the help of said family and friends, of course!), to possess such an amazingly happy and healthy mind, and to now live in the most amazing city in the WHOLE world. Life is, well, AMAZING!

Peace, Love and Neon,
Marisa