Life Recently: The Christmas 2013 Edition

Happy holidays my friends! May the next two weeks be filled with all the fun, friends, family and tasty foods you can handle!

Here’s a little look back over my life lately, which has been completely dominated by the holidays …

photo 24^^A grainy happy holidays from the Empire State Building!

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photo 14^^ Happy holidays, Brooklyn Brewery style!

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photo 22^^ My husband gave his famous Grand Central tour twice yesterday. God love him 😉

photo 23^^ Visiting with a cousin who traveled here all the way from Calabria, Italy.
How gorgeous is Grand Central in this photo?

Bis bald, friends!

 

Back in the Borough: An Evening With Cupcakes & Cashmere

One of the things I love most about NYC is all of the events. On any given night, in any given part of the city, you will find events for all sorts of fabulous things. Book launches. Magazine fashion shows. Movie premieres. I used to go to a lot more of them when I worked in magazines, but now that I don’t go to as many, that makes them all that much more special when I do.

Tonight it was all about cookie decorating. Emily Schuman of Cupcakes & Cashmere fame brought her fabulousness to Club Monaco on 5th Ave. for some appetizers, drinks, cookie decorating and discounts. (Club Monaco stuff is nice, but I mean …. that sch&*% can be expensive! Even with the 20% discount that attendees received I didn’t end up buying anything ….).

So I grabbed a friend and we headed on over for the fun.

photo 1^^ Club Monaco is gorgeous! How have I never been inside here before??

photo 2^^ One of my absolute favorite sights

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photo 4^^ Gettin’ our cookie decorating on!

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photo 8^^ Emily in all her glory. It was like a celebrity sighting.
(And yes, I’m aware how stalkerish this photo is.)

photo 9^^ The clothing displays were so sophisticated.
I thought there was something really beautiful about them.

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photo 12^^ This looked pretty, but it seriously tasted the worst.

photo 13^^ Gift wrapping station!

photo 14^^ The crowd to say hi to Emily grows.

photo 15^^ We walked right in when we arrived, but as we left there was a line growing at the door.
Get it girl! Maybe one day my blog will become so famous I’ll draw amazing crowds, too 😉

After the event we didn’t quite feel like going home yet, so we headed over to the Union Square Holiday Markets to check them out. There is some seriously fun and quirky (and gorgeous!) stuff there …

photo 16^^ I mean, is there anything better than trees all lit up for the holidays?

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photo 21^^ I just love the Empire State hiding out in the background.

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Bis bald, friends! Hope you’re all having a fabulous Tuesday night as well.