Train Ride To The North Pole

When I went to New York City earlier this month, I wanted to go to Macy's to see Santa.  Not that I wanted to sit on his lap and give him my wish list.  No, I wanted to see if the real set-up was as elaborate as it is in the movies!  I wasn't disappointed!  We took a train ride to the North Pole and walked through the village to see the jolly man himself!  The train didn't actually move.  When we walked through the door, it looked like the inside of a train car and the floor rumbled so it sounded and felt like we were riding the train!  The next door we walked through was our stop at the North Pole!

Have you visited Santa yet?

Happy Monday!!!

Christmastime in NYC

New York City is a busy, bustling, crowded city every day of the year, with hundreds of places to go and things to see.  Come Christmastime though, it becomes even more so.  The lights, the windows, the trees, the tinsel are everywhere you look.  Tired old buildings seem to come to life again when the sparkle of twinkling lights and garland are hung.  And thousands of people fill the sidewalks to view the beauty of the season and prepare for the holidays.  It is all at once, energizing and draining!  I wish I could have stayed longer!

I hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!!!

Catching Up

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!  I enjoyed having my family together on one day of the weekend and I got to keep my sweet granddaughter for a few days too!  Nothing makes me happier than spending time with this little girl!

When Shylee went to bed each night, I worked on a custom dish towel dress order.   The customer wanted one like the red one in my shop but in a peach color.  She also wanted the same herringbone patterned dish towel.  I found the fabric in orange, sent her a picture and she loved it.  I couldn't find another dish towel but found two napkins in the right color with a weave pattern.  I'm not an orange person but this is a pretty orange and I think it turned out beautifully.

I'm so excited to be going to NYC at the end of the week for a long weekend!  My daughter and I will take the train up and spend the weekend with my sister who is working there temporarily as a consultant.  The first time I went to NYC was at Christmas time and I fell in love with the city.  I'm not a city girl and wouldn't want to live there, but visiting at this time of the year is magical!

I want to let you know that prices in my Etsy shop now includes shipping to the US and Canada.  Everywhere else will be $5.00.

It's not too late to join the color challenge from My Life Under the Bus.  You have to go see another beautiful photo from Lesley Sico that has this challenge focused on tea!

Speaking of My Life Under the Bus, Patty has opened her Etsy shop and it's full of her wonderful and beautiful jewelry creations!  I'll have more on this in a later post, but in the meantime, please visit The Junquerie  and see what she has to offer!

I hope you have a terrific Tuesday!!!