Random Photos

March 20, 2013 by Mom on the Make Leave a Comment

Working on mastering the settings on my DSLR.

Here’s a few shots from the homestead.

I love photos of jellybeans around Easter time. Black jellybeans are my favorites – what’s your’s?

Love the Easter baskets too……I think aqua is my new favorite color.

My favorite strainer hanging from my ceiling pot and pan organizer….

My nine year old daughter painted this at a painting party. Its hanging in my kitchen now. I LOVE it. 🙂

Remember when I planted the vinca minors last year? They’re blooming!!

My favorite tea mug…..

My favorite candlesticks….

Handbags Can Be So Sweet

February 25, 2013 by Mom on the Make 2 Comments

As I discussed in my last post, I visited NYC last weekend and saw the sights for three full days.

While walking around the streets of NYC, there is so much to see.

A particular window display caught my attention while roaming around downtown. The display was of cakes shaped like luxury handbags!!

Students from the International Culinary Center were displaying their creations in the window of L’ecole restaurant. Along with myself, other passers by were blown away by the detail and beauty of these delectable cakes.

I love both handbags and cake, so these creations really spoke to me personally. 🙂

Take a peek……

These incredible creations were displayed in the window at L’ecole restaurant in downtown New York City. Another restaurant on my list to try very soon. (on my next trip to NYC)

I think I need a handbag cake for my next birthday for sure. 🙂 Love, love, love it!!

The Big Apple

February 20, 2013 by Mom on the Make 2 Comments

After this past weekend, I can now say that I completely understand what all of the hullabaloo is about New York City.

I had only been to NYC twice before. Once in high school for a family vacation, and once to meet friends for dinner about fifteen years ago. We just zipped in on the subway, then zipped out.

This weekend, however, I had the opportunity to sightsee in the city for three full days, and we covered a lot of ground.

I took my nine year old daughter, Imagineer, to NYC for a Mother Daughter weekend, and we had a blast. We were visiting my brother who recently moved to New Jersey.

The first day, we took a two hour cruise, where we were able to ride past the Statue of Liberty. She is really incredible in person. Currently, you are not able to walk up the Statue of Liberty due to hurricane damage around the ground surrounding her, but luckily the view from the boat was Awesome.

The shot below was from the cruise as well. The small building in the center with the flags waving on top is the U.N.

Photos from the Natural History Museum. LOVE this place!!

Photos of Central Park. I was blown away by this park. It is massive at six miles long. So many trails, beautiful bridges, trees, grassy areas etc.. If it was this beautiful in the middle of winter, I can only imagine how incredible it must be in the spring.

Rockefeller Center…..

Found this LEGO statue of liberty at the fabulous LEGO store in Rockefeller Center.

I took 443 photos this weekend. I could not stop snapping.

So much to see, so little time. We were able to fit in the Empire State Building, the view from the top of Rockefeller Center, Times Square, New York Stock Exchange, lunch at the Carnegie Deli, Central Park, the museum of Natural History, the 9/11 Memorial, a walk through Chinatown, and a handful of subway rides.

Imagineer was excited to ride the subway since Fudge from her SuperFudge books lives in NYC with his family and rides the subway. Imagineer recognized some of the places in the city from her books.

Oh, I almost forgot. Imagineer and my brother had a snowball fight in Central Park just like Will Ferrell does in “Elf”. 🙂

Love this city and will definitely be back.

Legos are the Bomb!

February 12, 2013 by Mom on the Make Leave a Comment

Bam Bam loves his legos. He has a corner in our living room dedicated to lego building.

Our hope chest that used to serve as a nifty window seat, is now Lego central.

Its the perfect height for his building activities. There are usually either space stations that he built adorning our hope chest or cars with lego people driving around.

Today, I was treated to a long period of time in the kitchen without interruption, so I could focus on making dinner.

I would peek in on Bam Bam and see him busily building something.

At last, he runs into the kitchen saying , “Mommy, Mommy, look what I built”. At that point, I was going to say, “What an incredible Empire State Building”. But, right after I said incredible, Bam Bam said “Rocket ship taking off for the moon!!” So, I immediately changed my words in my head to say “incredible rocket ship”. 🙂

I had to snap a photo of this one. This is one of the taller of his lego projects.

I’ve mentioned my love for legos before, and I still think they are the coolest toys going.

I also love our storage method – a fisherman’s tackle box. Lots of compartments and easy to open and close. Highly recommend.

Here’s the Empire State Building, er, Rocket Ship to the Moon!!