Cocktails, cupcakes and couture. What more could a woman ask for?! Smashing Darling and PR Couture hosted a fun event last night on Mulberry Street.
It was great to see Mo and Trish Darling. Yuli Ziv, who just gave a great talk about fashion and twitter at the 140 conference was there as well as Bob from Brooklyn Royalty and Pamela from Market Publique
I met Mellie Davis, founder of The Fat Apple and her wonderful friends who seem to be in the know of all the parties in the city that even I don’t know about.
The goodie bag was like opening presents on Christmas Day. I got a beautiful necklace made by April Torres of Isabella Grace Originals as well Burt’s Bees lip gloss, a $25 gift certificate from Charlotte Russe, Mad Gabs lip balm, a gift certificate from Edun and a cute T-shirt.
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Matt and Me at Touch
TWITTERERZ 4 LIFE @niche and @mcaldecutt
The Triumvirate: The Three Nichelles
Me, Nichelle Gainer and Nichelle Pace of Stylemom.net at a 140 conference party at Touch.
I Am @The 140 Conf Today
Today is day one of the 140 Conference. Since twitter is having an outage for an hour right now, I figure I would blog since I can’t tweet. Today I hung with a lot of cool people I know and I met a few new ones. Talking to Pat Kiernan was cool, as well as meeting Kwanza Hall, the City Councilman from Atlanta’s district 2. I’m glad I seeing some diversity. There are women. There are a few African Americans. There are people from other cities and other countries all around the world. However, I just read Kelly’s Mediapost column, and there are people who should be here. People like her dad. People who work in industries that are dying. People who are passionate about things but don’t have an online community to share their passions. People who are looking for jobs in the new media who don’t use social media. People who need to know how to brand or re-brand themselves. I love these conferences. I just hope that these conferences don’t become a circle jerk or echo chamber.
The Week in Links (Books, Facebook, Cupcakes)
Monday, I saw David Byrne at Prospect Park. He danced. He sang. He wore a tutu.
I finished reading Danzy Senna’s family memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night? It is excellent. Now I am reading Ben Greenman’s latest novelPlease Step Back.
Wednesday, I went to see Food Inc, a powerful documentary about agribusiness and the commercial food industry. I highly recommend seeing it and getting involved locally.
So I was one of the reported 500,000 people who got their Facebook URL at midnight Saturday. It’s kinda silly, but I have it. http://www.facebook.com/nichellestephens [Note: You have to be logged in for it to work.]
Saturday afternoon, Cupcakes Take The Cake held its third annual picnic. It rained off and on but we ate cupcakes and cupcake kebabs!
Sunday, I went to see The Hangover and the movie theatre was packed. It was funny, but they never explained how the chicken got into hotel room. I think that was “stunt casting”.
Cupcakes, Internet Week and Twitter
It’s Wednesday, and I am knee deep in Internet Week with all the conferences, panels and parties.
Today, I am quoted and Cupcakes Take The Cake is linked in a fun article in the LA Times about cupcakes.
BTW, I will one of the 140 characters at the 140 Character Conference on June 16/17. Everyone who is attending on twitter, uses twitter, loves twitter. It will be tweet.
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Memorial Day Weekend
It was the quietest Memorial Day Weekend for me in many years, but I liked it. I didn’t attend any drunken rooftop parties. I didn’t drink out of a red Solo cup.
I ate lots of risotto at the 2nd Annual Risotto Cookoff.
I bought a pretty pink chain and pearl necklace from Issy Salomon.
I went to a surprise birthday party.
I sung karaoke.
I watched “Wendy and Lucy” on DVD.
I made a sardine, feta cheese and chickpea salad.
I went to Kitty Nights Burlesque.
I walked around Prospect Park.
I went to see “Duplicity”.
The Week In Links (Scones, Parties, Crafts)
Sunday, I made scones for the very first time. Inspired by a recipe I saw in Parade, I altered the raisin scone recipe and include fresh cherries. Yum!
Saturday, I volunteered at Junior Achievement. Talking to high school kids was great! They have both hope and hustle.
Friday, I did Jelly co-working at Winter Garden. It has been years since I have been there. I used to work at Deloitte and Touche at World Financial Center, and I still get a little anxious even though I wasn’t in NYC on 9/11, but I had worked there until May 2001. Tried to walk across the skywalk was impossible for me. My heart started racing just walking up the stairs, and I feared a panic attack was coming on. I took the long way walking across the busy West Street which is more precarious because of the traffic. Anyway, I had fun at Jelly, and actually got some work done.
Thursday, I did a bookkeeping talk at New Work City. Here’s the outline of my presentation.
Wednesday, I went to the Curator’s Reception for the NY Photo Festival.
Tuesday, I partied with fellow Foodbuzz bloggers at David Burke Townhouse.
Monday, I cupcake-crafted at Etsy Labs.
Weekend Wonderful
Went bowling today at Melody Lanes.
Had dinner at Bar Toto.
Had drinks at basement bar that has not officially opened.
Saw great performances by Misnomers and She Dick.
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The Mid-Week O’ Links
I am either getting off schedule or trying to blog here twice a week.
Yesterday, I attended the New York Tech Meetup. There were great presentations by Apture, Behance’s Action Method, ExZact, BeamMePitch Sesame Vault and Zemanta. BTW, I am using Zemanta to write this blog post.
I am on the community committee so feel free to contact about upcoming meetups and the big Demo Pit that will take place during Internet Week.
Monday, I shopped a little at New York and Company which always something I love.
Sunday, I flew back from Durham after some quality time with my family.
I recommend checking out Sugar Stacks to find out how much sugar is in what you are eating. I try to save my sugar intake for cupcakes. Speaking of cupcakes, there’s the Cupcake Social on Thursday and Cupcake Crafting at Etsy Labs on Monday. Join the Cupcakes Take The Cake Meetup Group to get the scoop.
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