Friday Favorites

Happy Friday Friends! I'm so happy it's the weekend.  We have one weekend left before we move back home and classes start again for the fall.  I am going to try and soak up and enjoy every second of this weekend.  Before the craziness of packing and moving next week.  As always I am joining up with Erika, Narci and Andrea to share my Friday Favorites.  

1. The BEST thing that happened this week was having Brock home.   It was so much fun-we laughed, ate good food and celebrated his 21st birthday.  We even went to NYC for an overnight trip to see the Yankees play a game.  It was a great week and it went by way too fast. I'm so happy that he's happy.   He LOVES Arizona and is working really hard at his full time job at State Farm and going to school full time at Arizona State.  It's crazy to me that he's all grown up.  He is doing great and we couldn't be more proud of him.

2.  My dear friend Stephanie had a birthday this week and we celebrated by going out to dinner Sunday night.  We went to an Italian place in Cooperstown that had the most amazing homemade pasta.  We each ordered something different and shared them all. It was a night of fun, friendship and delicious food.   Happy birthday Stephanie!!

3.  Last week Rachael and I taught a small group of women who were at a week long camp for adults (how fun would that be?) how to make mercury glass.  These are so easy to do and we had such a fun time.  I hope to do a full tutorial on DIY mercury glass votives soon.

4.  In August I love canning and freezing fruits and vegetables for the winter.  So far this year I have made freezer corn.  I used this recipe.  I just left out the sugar because I thought the corn was sweet enough without it.  The corn is from my Father-in law's garden and it is SO good.  We all love it!  I hope to make some strawberry freezer jam this weekend.  

5.  Tonight I am going to hear one of my favorite authors-Margaret Atwood-speak in Cooperstown.  She wrote two books that I read ( The Handmaids Tale and Alias Grace) both have become TV shows in the past couple of years.  I have been looking forward to her talk all summer and I can't wait to hear her speak.  

I hope you have a great weekend!
Xoxo

Christmas in NYC

The weekend after Thanksgiving I went with my sister in law Anne to NYC for two days.  The first day we were there we saw all the sights (including the tree!), had a fabulous dinner, and went shopping.  The second day we were there she had orthescopic jaw surgery (she asked me to go so I could be with her during and after the surgery since she couldn’t be alone).

We had a great time together!  Our first stop was to visit Rock Center and see the tree.  Everyone was waiting for the Saks light show to start and I was taking a pic of the tree 😂   It is beautiful this year and of course it brought back a lot of memories of our tree being there last year. 

After we took our first look at the tree we went into Saks to look around and we looked at their beautiful windows.  This year they did Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and all the windows were gorgeous!

After Saks we headed to dinner at a Mexican restaurant we found on the app Open Table. I got a combination platter and a spicy jalapeño margarita. Both were amazing!   

After dinner we headed downtown to visit Chelsea Market.  I have heard great things about Chelsea Market and I’m so glad we went.  There were lots of cute little stores and great places to eat.  

After Chelsea Market we took an Uber up to the huge Macy’s in Herald’s Square.  We went straight to the Christmas floor and had the best time looking at all the ornaments and decorations.  I got Christmas ornaments for my friends.

We stayed at the Roosevelt hotel and after shopping at Macy’s we had a late night snack at a restaurant by our hotel and fell into our beds exhausted from our day of fun in NYC.

The next day we slept in, visited the tree one more time and then Anne had her surgery.

It was a fun trip!  I had a great time with Anne.

Xoxo