Today I spent the day in the City shopping with Stephanie. Stephanie is a friend I have know for almost 15 years now…and as life leads us all on different paths, I have not seen her for a long time. Steph came to Manhattan to complete a course on exercise for Diastasis Recti. I was delighted to hear […]
We have a few traditions this time of year as all do, and while many of us have similar traditions, within each family Holiday time is unique. One of the things we do in December is make paper snowflakes…in a bid to manifest real snow! Isn’t it fascinating that no two snowflakes are alike? Just […]
Our neighbours put up their outdoor Christmas lights on the weekend. It was so lovely to look out our window and see the lights. This evening after having dinner we had to go outside and admire them closer. There seems to be lots of lights popping up in the street and so I am looking forward […]
Here is the tree skirt that I made for the Girl’s Christmas tree. Some of you may recall I actually made the majority of the tree skirt last Christmas…then this week when I dragged out the Christmas boxes I was inspired to work on it further. We have a felt dot garland that floats around the […]
Thanksgiving weekend is the perfect time to start making Christmas cards. Christmas cards are a thing that I love to do, but if I do not get them made in the first two weeks of December, then it wont happen and I rush out and spending an uninspired $20 on store bought cards. I have […]
We have so much to be thankful for, and a day dedicated to giving thanks is special. Our Family worked together to create a ceremonious meal, one of the fundamental ways to celebrate life. We cooked a slow meal of three courses…whole wheat molasses bread rolls, butternut soup, zucchini ricotta cakes with an oven roasted […]
I was delighted to come across Well’s Vegetarian Thanksgiving meal ideas in the NY Time. Take a look at these healthy, hearty veggie dishes. I have plans to cook the Zucchini cakes tomorrow as a part of our Thanksgiving lunch…as well as a few other yummy things! Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
New Yorkers were blessed with a Spring like day on Monday. What a delight, just when it felt like cold Wintry weather was setting in the warmth returned (again, again). The day was so lovely that I thought “What is the perfect thing to do today to make the most of this weather?” The first thing […]
Last night I made this festive little felt cake for the daughter of my dear friend Larissa. I know they have a red play kitchen and thought these colours would look great with it. We will be putting it under our Christmas tree and giving it to Jazzie when she comes to stay in December. […]
East Hampton was the next town we came to. Which was also, so very lovely. Home to super-swanky stores such as Tiffany & Co., Gucci and Ralph Lauren as well as smaller boutiques such as Punch that sells yummy children’s clothing, and Steph’s Stuff that carries new and vintage toys and gifts. I enjoyed the […]
This weekend we went to the Hamptons. A dream come true as I have romanticised about the Hamptons many times since moving to New York. I was thrilled to be able to sample the idealized vacation destination….and wow, it is beautiful. It took us 1 hour 45 minutes to drive to West Hampton from Brooklyn, […]
After we went to Dylan’s Candy Bar, the Girls and I zipped across the road to Bloomingdale’s for a quick squiz at Les Objets de la psychiatrie…because really you don’t go to Bloomingdale’s merely for something you need…one walks into the magnificent foyer of Bloomingdale’s and it is want want want! Bloomingdales is so Oh la la, […]
As promised, today I took the Girls to a candy store. This promise was a soothing method for Maya when I told her she was too sick for trick-or-treating. New York City has some great candy stores, but one in particular I had heard about was Dylan’s Candy Bar, created by the daughter of American […]
Last night a friend held a needle felting workshop that I attended. I have admired needle felting for some time, and really enjoyed learning the new skills. We started a simple project of making a needle felted doll/angel or king. I had intentions all along of making an angel tree topper and so I worked […]
A little over two weeks ago Elle stopped nursing. It was not really a choice that either she or I made on purpose, it just happened that way. When I became sick the week of her second birthday, I was so sick in bed with the flu that having her drink was not physically possible […]
Sadly we missed out on Halloween and did not get to dress up, so I suggested to Maya that she put on her Midnight Fairy costume anyway, and we go in search of a haunted house. This idea appealed to Elle too and so out the door we headed, looking for the spookiest looking house […]
I wanted to share this photo of a black bear that my Father in law John took while we were upstate apple picking. We were heading out of the town of Warrick back to NYC when Cam, who was driving, said “Look, there’s a bear in a tree”. Sure enough, there, by the side of […]
Yesterday we visited the lovely corner of Prospect Park that we used to live on. We are so very fond of this part of Prospect Park and miss living across the road from it. However it is only a short drive away and so on a gorgeous Autumn day like yesterday, we made a point […]
One of the wonderful things about cooler days is that we spend hours inside that become creative bubbles. Maya and Elle draw a lot on any given day, but now that the colder temperatures are descending we seem to be having epic draw-a-thons. Our kitchen table is used predominantly for drawing and is strewn with […]