Friday Faves Archives - A Side of Sweet

Friday Faves // 10

It’s been so long since I did a collection of my Friday Faves! Unfortunately I have what we call in residency a “Black Weekend” this weekend. That means I’ll be working all day both Saturday and Sunday. We have a lot of black weekends in residency, but after three hard months with lots of weekends I’m so excited to have two full months ahead where I have every weekend off. Just in case you were wondering, we call those sort of weekends “Golden Weekends”. I’m basically going to be Queen Midas up in here. Sorry for the bad joke, I couldn’t resist.

In other news, I’m looking forward to San Francisco Fashion Week next week! After watching my Instagram feed fill up with snaps from New York Fashion week I’ve been having a terrible case of FOMO. I’m so excited to be hosting an event at SFFW! I hope you’ll join me at Fashion Bloggers Connect on Thursday, September 25th. Get more information and find tickets here.

Click through for more things I’m loving, after the jump!

Friday Faves // 09

This weekend Pat and I are headed to Chicago to see my beautiful sister-in-law get married! It’s going to be so nice to catch up with family and friends. I love weddings! You can catch pics from our trip back to the Midwest in real time on Instagram.

This also marks the end of my first year of residency. I look back and I can’t even believe how much I’ve grown in the past year. I’m looking forward to the upcoming year because we have more responsibility and the patients are more complicated. I start out with two months of pediatric oncology patients, which should be intense and challenging.

Things I’m Loving / 04

Happy Friday! I was charmed by this article in the Huffington Post about a mother and her daughter who create gowns out of construction paper. When I think back to what I was doing at age 4, well, this little gal is way ahead of the game! Check it out and see their Instagram feed at @2sisters_angie.

Here are some more things I’m loving from around the web:

Thin mint ice cream sandwiches – just in time for St. Patty’s Day.

Or maybe I will make these instead.

I love any dessert (or anything for that matter) that features rosemary.

Humans as Pantone colors – gorgeous.

P.S. – Have you seen President Obama on Between Two Ferns? I’m dying.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama

Friday Faves / 04

What are your thoughts on selfies, friends? Too much self love or a positive way to share what you’re up to with the world? I definitely feel awkward every time I’m in front of the camera instead of behind it. I have to admit I’m super envious of all those big-name bloggers out there who past tons of selfies where they look so at ease and beautiful! I just can’t seem to get there myself, even though I have posted a few selfies on Instagram over the past several months.

Rolling Stone magazine recently featured Ezra Koenig, lead singer of Vampire Weekend, in an article where he talked about being pro-selfie. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Koenig is firmly in favor of selfies. “I’m definitely pro-selfie,” he says. “I think that anybody who’s anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn’t people take pictures of themselves? When I’m on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I’m like, ‘Thank you.’ I don’t need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There’s only one you.” Adds Koenig, “I could Google image search ‘the sky’ and I would probably see beautiful images to knock my socks off. But I can’t Google, you know, ‘What does my friend look like today?’ For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world – I think that’s a great thing.”

I think there is a lot of truth in Ezra’s words. I have to admit, any time I find a new blog or Instagram account, the first thing I check out are the selfies. I like to connect with the person I’m following and feel like I can put a face to the great work they are doing on this massive, mainly anonymous, internet we have at our fingertips. So I guess that makes me pro-selfie too!

Here are some other things I’m loving around the web:

This bracelet is so lovely and on the top of my DIY list.

Need me some healthy mac and cheese.

Another fantastic example of nature as art.

An app that lets you design your own t-shirts.

Easy peasy all natural, all-purpose cleanser.