Happy Friday, my darling readers! What do you have planned for the next couple of days off? I’m excited to check out a new pizza joint with my favorite pizza-loving pals. Wishing you a wonderful and relaxing weekend ahead. Here, to get it started right, a few happy posts from around the web:

A beautiful piece about this self-styled hoarder.

Love this DIY watercolor paint chart.

Reinventing Tom Cruise (did you see his lip sync battle?).

This one-pan dinner idea looks delicious.

The rise of celebrity brands.

How cool is the Pantone café?

New Yorkers and the overstuffed tote.

Such happy news!

The most brilliant dog.

A case for GIFs.

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Have you read any good books lately? These two are next on my list:

1) My Paris Dream by Kate Betts. The author is a former editor for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. This book chronicles her early days living in Paris after college when she set out to become a glamorous foreign correspondent — and master French slang, style and savoir faire along the way.

2) In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume. In this highly anticipated novel — her first in 17 years — Blume revisits a time she directly experienced in the early 1950s when three planes crashed over eight weeks in her hometown.

And because it’s absolutely one of my favorite books ever, I’ve decided to re-read Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple. I read it two summers ago and couldn’t put it down.

Would love to know what’s next on your summer book list!

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So, you know all about my obsession with paper planners. Good news: I just found the perfect one! It’s made by — you guessed it — the one and only Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co. and it has all the qualities this paper-loving girl could ever want.

First, it’s not massive (sorry, Day Designer, I gave you a whirl, but you are just too heavy to carry all over town!) — I can slip it in my purse unnoticed which means I don’t have to run around town with an extra bag just to have my planner with me at all times.

Second, it’s beautiful. Anna’s illustrations are tough to top. It makes me want to write all my plans in my fanciest cursive and only use the most elegant pens.

Third, it’s a planner that’s well-planned. The layout leaves ample room to write out appointments and agenda items without going overboard and wasting space. You can also see the week at a glance, which (in my book) is essential for properly balancing out the week.

Last — and most importantly — it’s affordable. At $34, it’s the cost of a manicure/pedicure.

Do you prefer paper or digital these days for keeping track of your schedule? To be quite honest, my life uses a blend of both, but writing out my week on paper will always be a guilty pleasure of mine.

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Have you been to the new Whitney Museum? Truth be told, this would have been one of the things at the top of my summer bucket list except that Matt and I finally made it over a couple of weeks ago. The original location was just a few blocks from my old apartment on the Upper East Side, so I used to go frequently. While I loved the intimacy of the old address, the new Renzo Piano-designed space is stunning.

My most favorite part of the design is how you can move from floor to floor via exterior stairways. It’s the best way to take in the sweeping city views. We started on the top floor, then worked our way down until we landed at this Mary Heilmann exhibit filled with sculptural (and colorful!) chairs arranged to make it easy for museum visitors to hang out.

In all honesty, we left feeling like we barely scraped the surface — a feeling we never used to have at the UES location. There, you could see all the art in an hour — two at most.

Have you been to the new Whitney Museum yet? Do you have a favorite work of art?

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This weekend, Matt and I started researching plans for Labor Day. Labor Day. I immediately got freaked out and suggested we make a list of all the things we need to fit in before summer is over and it’s time to bust out our puffer coats yet again. My plan: We’d create a summer bucket list.

The idea came to me via Megan over at the Fresh Exchange. I really like her suggestions for how to build a realistic list, but also one that challenges yourself to try things you’ve never experienced before. Also important to think about (per Megan): Your intentions. What’s the end goal of your bucket list? Is there a feeling you hope to find? Something new you hope to learn so that when September hits, you’ll look back and say, wow, now that was a great summer.

Okay, so here we go. My intention: To get to the end of summer and feel like I experienced a couple of new New York-y things, but also devoted time to savoring my favorite summertime classics (movie night in Brooklyn Bridge Park, ice cream from Blue Marble, riding bikes on Governor’s Island). We’re still brainstorming our list (via shared Google doc), but here are a few things that are at the tippy top:

1) Visiting the Cloisters. It’s a picnic-perfect extension of the Met and I’ve never been. How is this possible after living in NYC for 7.5 years?

2) Hosting an outdoor BBQ in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Those grills + that sunset = the best place ever to entertain in the summer.

3) Watching High Fidelity (or Goodfellas) under the stars. Yes, there’s SyFy Movies with a View, but I’m super intrigued by this new film series in Red Hook. Have you been?

What’s on your summer bucket list?

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