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Last Days in New York…

by Carly Jacobs
Our last few days in New York were spent on the Upper West and Upper East side, where we caught the subway and walked all the way back to Chelsea. Twice. I could crack walnuts with my butt cheeks, they are so firm right now. To celebrate our last night in NY we had a muggy midnight walk, drinking Snapple and window shopping.     Things I Will Miss About New York Eavesdropping in the street There is a Read the rest!
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New York, Day Thirteen – The IFB Conference.

by Carly Jacobs
Do you ever have those days when you meet a guy who looks familiar and then you realise he was in one of your dreams? That’s what today was like. I attended the Independent Fashion Blogger Conference in New York and the whole day felt like one giant glitch in the Matrix of my brain. The first person I met when I walked in the door was Wendy Brandes. We’ve been reading each other’s blogs for f Read the rest!
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New York – Day Eleven and Twelve and My Four Year Blog Birthday.

by Carly Jacobs
The past few days have been very busy work wise for us so we’ve been hanging in our Chelsea apartment, eating homemade ham and cheese bagels and drinking litres of unsweetened ice tea. We did have time to do a rainy cruise around the Statue of Liberty, shop in Bloomingdale’s (my favourite department store so far) and today I got to catch up with one of my most gorgeous readers who took me thrift shoppin Read the rest!
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New York – Day Nine and Ten

by Carly Jacobs
The last few days have been a blur of work and activity. After spending each morning powering through our respective freelance work, we spent most afternoons doing fancy things in old NY. On Friday we walked the High Line, which is an abandoned train line that was landscaped in 2009 into a scenic walk. It’s incredible. You walk above the streets, past the most amazing buildings and gardens. I had a salted car Read the rest!
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New York – Day Seven

by Carly Jacobs
Day seven was spent at the Top of the Rock, Rockefeller centre. Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to grab a hotdog with my girl Tina Fey, but maybe next time. It was incredibly overwhelming seeing New York from up there, it made everything seem huge and tiny at the same time. There’s no official frozen treat eating to report for today but I did drink several litres of a variety of different diet iced te Read the rest!
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New York – Day Six

by Carly Jacobs
  Yep. All I do in New York is eat frozen treats. Today’s damage was done at Pop Yogurt in SoHo. Not as great as Tasti D-Lite or Pink Berry, I have to say. Obviously we spent the afternoon in SoHo and yes, Uniqlo, Muji and All Saints are just as spectacular as you would have imagined. Even more weird shit about the US and NY. Their currency is like Australia’s in 1989 They have pennies. I canno Read the rest!
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New York – Day Five

by Carly Jacobs
  Today’s awesome New York day consisted of shopping, followed by Pink Berry. I got chocolate soft serve with chocolate swirls and yogurt chips, in case you’re wondering. We then had an amazing spicy Thai dinner with dragon fruit cocktails, which was easily the best cocktail I’ve had on the north side of the hemisphere. Oh and the cocktail was lovingly made by the prettiest Lady Boy I Read the rest!
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New York – Day Three and Four

by Carly Jacobs
I’m dedicating today’s post to Things That New York Offers Me That I Didn’t Know I Wanted. Chopped Salad I found a salad bar where they toss together whatever ingredients you want to form a custom salad and when they had finished putting it together the guy said ‘Do you want that chopped?‘. I was under the impression that the salad was already chopped but, no. The guy got all samurai Read the rest!
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New York – Day One and Two.

by Carly Jacobs
I had this giant plan of doing a day by day New York posting schedule for you but the moment we arrived in NY, we were told to stay inside until Hurricane Irene blew over. Cue 24 hours of horizontal cable watching and 2 minute noodle eating. So far, NY isn’t that different from when I have my period. I do have a few anecdotal foreigner tid bits to share though, because travel wise, I’ve only seen Times Read the rest!
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Last night in New Zealand – Daily Style

by Carly Jacobs
I’m currently lying on the bed of our uber cool hotel in Christchurch. It’s called So and it’s an old office building that they converted into a hotel. The room is tiny but so so cool. We are up at 4.30 tomorrow to catch our flight back home to Australia. I’m horrified that there is another 4.30 in the day. I thought there was only one 4.30 and that it was for drinking coffee and eating ora Read the rest!
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