Sweet Spot Festival

The Sweet Spot Festival is a FREE family friendly event series, bringing Harlem’s increasingly diverse community together to celebrate it’s rich historical legacy. Its purpose is to promote music, culture, art, and commerce. Here you will find an eclectic range of musicians, DJ’s, performance & visual artists, a mouth watering array of food & dessert vendors, kids activities, workshops and to-die-for vintage & jewelry selections.

Sponsor Jet Blue will be raffling 8 free flights to anywhere in the world that Jet Blue flies.

Rock The Vote will be hosting a voter registration drive to ensure Harlem comes out strong and VOTES this year!

Old School classics, soulful disco and dance hall tunes provided by celebrity DJ D-Nice, Herbert Holler of the infamous Freedom Party & reggae DJ Max Glazer

The market of vendors will have a great selection of yummy and unique finds.

Reserve a picnic table online, bring your good spirits & Dance! Music! Shop! Relax!

Check out: http://sweetspotfestival.com/

Twitter: @SweetSpotFest

This is HARD

The most (Fill with synonym for terrible) activity that will wear on your self esteem is interviewing.    The #1 question asked is "Why did you leave teaching?" The truthful answer is not one you tell a potential employer you are trying to woo into seeing your fabulousness, and the politicly correct version of the answer isn't one I have perfected yet.  My usual answer is "I'm looking for a paster paced, dynamic position that allows me to utilize my project management skills and allows me room to grow." Which is very true.  I hit the ceiling teaching in more ways then one and I had no interest in becoming a Vice Principal or Principal at all.

Here are my current Goals:

1. Find a job that oils my creative juices and lets me blast through the roof.  (see #2)

2.  Get license to become a nail technician and find an agency to hire me (or freelance)

3. Go back to school for photography

4. By my 31st Birthday have all this done.

Ambitious? Maybe.

To check out my own nail art look at my Tumblr page and follow or click the link at the header of the page. I also pin tons of ideas on my Pinterest page ;-)


See ya soon!

Stay Nifty ;-)

Fashion's Night Out 2010

As I'm sitting at the computer doing my usual morning work with my cup of coffee, I suddenly feel it..... FALL!! She's blowing through my window, finally!!  Blazers, jeans, long-sleeves, layers.... I feel it just around the corner. I'm not a fan of winter but I adore New York City in autumn. The end of summer is always bittersweet but not this year.  With record highs in July, I will not miss melting in my apartment with the A/C on at all.  Thoughts of fall usually remind me of "back to school" but I no longer have that problem.  This year, I can actually plan what I would like to do for Fashion's Night Out and hop around like I did 2 years ago.

I didn't get to go last year because I was stuck at work and then came home to do more work! This year It will be me and my Rebel (and maybe a friend or two) taking on Manhattan.

I really wish there was a way I could get paid for being at FNO this year. I want to somehow save money to get a better camera lens, but I will make sure with my 50mm and my 35mm lenses. My goal is to really get a feel for the fall trends and use my existing wardrobe to reflect what's going on as much as possible.  I want style but on a budget. I can sit for hours on end and look things up online, but I rather see it and experience it for myself.  I am a visual/tactile person, so most of my inspiration comes from what I can see and touch.

Here are a few shots from my last experience. Did the Columbus Circle area and the Upper East Side.  Had a blast meeting up with old and new friends and grabbing freebees where ever we could.

Calvin Klein 2010

Donna Karen 2010

Passerby 

Street Style 

Stay Nifty ;-)