The Big Apple

I promised some photos from our trip ....so sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

6:00 am - waiting for the train at the station

our favorite place to go on the train - the SNACK BAR! At 8:50 the kids were ready for lunch!

getting close....about to cross over to Manhattan

saturday afternoon - sunny and gorgeous - Eily sees Ellis Island & the statue of liberty

mmmmmmm....gotta have a hot pretzel on the streets of NY!

Sunday morning we spotted the opening of the Macy's 34th annual flower show and decided to pop in to check it out

the store windows were decorated with a floral outfit from each decade...this was the 50s

we spotted my idol...up close & IN PERSON! Martha Stewart was there to cut the ribbon to open the show!

eily marvels at the height of the buildings

Sunday afternoon we spent a delightful afternoon watching a Pippi Longstocking marionette show at the Swedish Cottage in Central Park

this was followed by a stop at Dean & Delucca for some lunchtime provisions....only managed a few snaps before I was told pics aren't allowed

Monday Morning - Happy St Pat's day and Eily's first visit to American Girl Place

WOW!

watching the parade...I knit the hats on the train ride down...
my nephew Maxim, Eily & my sister
(just coffee in her cup ~ we're getting old!)

this stop is 1 block from Parsons....home of Project Runway!

we stopped at the Hershey store where they had some of the designs from this seasons challenge!

a quick visit to MOOD! just to say I've been there ...no time for any real shopping, hoped to soak in some of the genius

I will be posting all of my photos from the trip on my flickr site later this week - pop over there is you want to see more!

gock's frocks update...

OK- as promised last night here are a couple of sneak peeks of my remaining 2 sets for the mateialgirls FRESHCUT launch...

I listed the skirt set today and will list the denim cupcake set on Monday...not sure how they will do with this being a holiday weekend.

The other big news for me on ebay was that I made the decision to leave my design group Adagio Bleu Studios ~ this was a very hard decision as I have been with them since my start on ebay last spring but I felt that I had gotten too comfortable and needed to challenge myself in new ways...does this make sense?

It has been hard this week as I have checked in to my groups on ebay, I went to click the link to Adagi Bleu and it wasn't there...

Today I will be finishing a couple of customs that need to go out next week and working on a dress for the Elite Euro launch for next week...

I finally added a mailing list feature to my ME page on ebay - follow the link here if you would like to sign up...scroll down the page a bit until you see the mailing list box..

Click here to sign up for my mailing list

have a great day!