michelle ward

bergdorf windows sneak peek

I have a few things to get done this week then I will edit and share my photos from the annual visit to the Bergdorf Goodman holiday windows.  They do LARGE so well, but this year I was most impressed with their small windows.  This is a peek from one of them.....

 

This all cut paper.  Fragile.  Delicate.  Clever.  *swoon*

The Addams Family was spectacular!  The set, the stage, the cast.  While movies may dazzle us, live theater continues to amaze me.  The things they can do with curtains and props and costumes blows me away.  Nathan and Bebe rocked as Gomez and Morticia. 

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  We were with my parents - such a blessing to have them here.  December is a few days away....who is ready?

gah!! and gobble

Mom is here - she and Fallon and I are heading into the city tomorrow to see The Addams Family on Broadway (starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth)....but before that we are making an annual visit to see the BG windows.  In past years, a Thanksgiving weekend visit to the city couldn't guarantee that you'd see the display *finished*.....but even better, you might get to see the windows being tweaked, primped, an installation-in-progess.  We do know that everything has launched early this year....even my local radio station has gone 24/7 xmas tunes.  Come on....THAT is nuts!  However, while Christmas has invaded Thanksgiving's territory, I won't complain that the windows have been unveiled.  You can see some terrific photos on the BG blog - (seriously, go see) plus this awesome behind-the-scenes video!  GAH!!

 

 

In case I don't get back on here before Thursday, gobble gobble...........Have a Happy Thanksgiving! xoxo

eleven twenty-two

 

Hyvää Syntymäpäivää Ville!

ruby tuesday eleven sixteen

 
 

Still on apples.  Thanks for your feedback on your apples-of-choice to eat, and to use for baking.  I forgot all about apple crisp!  Maybe I will give it a try for Thanksgiving.  A favorite memory:  Dad took me and my friends out after our first KISS concert for apple pie and they served it with cinnamon ice cream.  *swoon*

Did you know this?

 

That the apple is from the rose family?  I was clueless, but it doesn't surprise me to find out this connection.  Gives me goosebumps to learn this!  Above are the new-to-me Gala apples I am loving, and a photo of one of my last roses for the year. 

ruby tuesday: still on apples

 
 

 

It was a beautiful day and I didn't have alot of time for my RT journal so I just grabbed the stencils on the top of the pile and went outside to spray a few pages.   Still loving the apples. 

When I was in 7th or 8th grade I worked in an apple stand early Saturday and Sunday mornings in the fall.  The days were much colder in MN than they are here in NJ.  Loved the cider they sold.  The real murky kind.  I could describe the taste of the dozen varieties of apples we sold....a skill I have since lost.  I stick with Red Delicious these days as it's the only kind our kids will eat - but at least they have one every day.  I've only made a pie once or twice....a skill I never mastered.  Maybe this year I'll give it another go.  Are you good at pies?  Raise your hand and share your recipe!

meet Anna

You know I love Finns.  Here's another....actually, she is from Poland.  Her name is Anna Dabrowska, but her nickname is Finn.  She's an amazing artist and has made some pages for the guest gallery at Green Pepper Press using some of my stamps.  Love that the internet provides an introduction to people we would never get to meet....

 

See the full pages of her work at GPP, click HERE. 

Visit her blog: tworzysko.blogspot.com  Thanks Finn, LOVE your work!

psa: swrmxs

Public Service Announcement:

 
 

 

We've been hungry for some HIM news since the tour ended in May.  Up next:  new album of re-mixed Screamworks tracks.  Pre-order available 11/11 at heartagram.com.  *swoon*

hey swaggers....

I've created a tutorial for an easy way to use your GPP swag rubber images.  CLICK HERE.

 

 

 

a is for apple

 
 
 

It's here!  The red apple cookie jar I gave to Mom and Dad as a house warming gift for their new home a few years ago in remembrance of the one we had as kids.....is now in my newly painted red kitchen!  Yay!  Time to bake.

 
 

 

New crusade is up.  Come see.

 

playing dress up

 

 
 


It was a great night, following a weekend of continued home improvement.  Daddy scared the pants off trick-or-treaters at the door with his Slipknot masks.  Sam is perpetually Uncle Sam.  And so cute at it - thankfully he doesn't get the unwelcome and unfunny remarks that people in the street feel compelled to say - political stuff.  Peter pretended to be from Slipknot too (for the unaware - they are a heavy metal band from Iowa).  And Fallon was perfect as Lydia from Beetlejuice.   I told neighbors I was a poem....The Raven ;)