Ghirardelli

This past weekend, my friends and I visited the new Ghirardelli shop in Faneuil Hall. After getting over my San Francisco nostalgia, I fell in love with this place.

 I split a brownie sundae (for old time sake) and it was absolutely delicious. My friends got brownie sundaes and the sea salt hot chocolate. I don't usually like hot fudge, but their sauce was literally melted chocolate- beyond delicious.

My only complaint is the somewhat meager menu. I would have loved to see more baked goods and sundae options. But for a just opened place, it was excellent.

Photos featuring Max, Sammy (1), Nina (3)

All photos copyright Lauren Simon 2014

xox Lauren

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Washington DC

Last week, I attended the National High School Journalism Convention in Washington DC with my entire publication. 

This was definitely was of the greatest trips ever. I loved getting to know everyone on the staff and learned SO much about photojournalism, multimedia editing, social media and journalism in general. 

Some of the highlights were meeting Bob Woodward, 2 am truth or dare with the staff, desserts in Georgetown, and making friends with people from publications all over America!

Photos featuring Meg (1) Nina (2, 3, 4, 5, 8) Max (2, 3) Duncan (3) Whitney (5, 8) Mia (8) Thomas and Elena (9)

All photos copyright Lauren Simon 2014

xox Lauren

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Halloweekend

Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday and as part of my denial-that-it's-over process, I thought I'd share my Halloweekend!

For my masquerade concert I was the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz, and my other orchestra officers were the Wicked Witch, Dorothy, the Tin Man, the Cowardly Lion, Galinda, and the Wizard.

For my senior Halloween, I was a monkey (definitely my favorite).

For our senior Halloween party, Nina and I were Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Photos featuring Nina and Anna (2, 6),  Megan, Julia and Yi (4), and Kathleen (4, 6)

Photos 1-3 copyright Wayland Student Press Network 2014. Photos 4-6 copyright Lauren Simon 2014

xox Lauren

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Weekends in Boston

Neighborhood's Coffee and Crepes is probably the cutest little cafe in all of Boston. Their crepes are delicious and made fresh, I got pesto chicken for dinner and lemon sugar for dessert.

I don't even know where to begin with SoWa Open Market. It's a vintage market + food truck festival + craft market + farmers market all within a few blocks in South Boston. I bought a fedora, a cute skeleton matchbook, a bouquet of sunflowers for Myra and hand-drawn birthday cards. 

Photos featuring Addie and Maida (1, 2) and Mia (7, 8). All photos copyright Lauren Simon 2014

xox Lauren

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Portraits

Ever since I got my first camera when I was thirteen, my photography was limited to photos of my friends and me goofing off and a few galleries of school events for my student press network. 

Recently, however, I've been getting into portrait and fashion photography, which are definitely fields I hope to explore more!

Photos featuring Mindy (1), Tachi (2, 3), Nina (4). All photos copyright Lauren Simon 2014.

xox Lauren

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Meet the Blogger

Hey friends!

I wanted to make my first post a "get to know the blogger" sort of thing, so here are 20 facts out me!

1) My name is Lauren Elizabeth

2) I have lived my whole life in a suburb of Boston

3) I love photography (sports, portrait, photojournalism, fashion) and filmmaking (documentary, short fiction)

4) I really want to live in lower Manhattan when I'm older

5) My dear friend Nina inspired me to make my own blog

6) I work at two cafes

7) I'm a senior in high school

8) I love traveling but I hate planes

9) When I was younger I was incredibly shy but now I'm pretty extroverted 

10) I want to go to school for psychology (criminology)

11) BUT I want to keep up photography and videography as a hobby/side business and minor in film or cinema studies

12) My all time favorite bands are Twenty One Pilots and Panic! At The Disco 

13) I've seen them live separately but didn't get to see them when they toured together

14) I am known for always wearing black leather boots

15) But people don't know that's partially because I have mildly deformed and inverted feet so sandals and flats are uncomfortable or look awkward on me

16) I love scented candles- my collection is taking over my night table 

17) September-December is my favorite time of year

18) I really should be writing college essays right now??

19) I NEVER wear my hair up (except for work and tennis)

20) I'm super tall (5'9.5" to be exact)

I'm going to start posting some outfits, photography, adventures, and lord knows what else. Thanks for reading :* 

xox Lauren

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