Sunday In NYC

I went to Soho today to visit Purl Soho. There's a lovely casual flow of crowds through the streets in the middle of the afternoon. I so love the architecture in this part of the city.

I replaced these photos because the original post from mobile Blogger published really low resolution photos. Anybody know how to change that?

xo, L

Day 3 - Henry Glass Jolly Holiday Party & Glenmont

We are on Day 3! Today's special designers are Little Quilts, Lucy Morey and WillowBerry Lane. I hope that you are enjoying this hop. All details can be found here.

Here's more of my family's visit to see the Thomas A. Edison Historical Museum. Actually, this part is Glenmont, his home.

Glenmount is Thomas Edison's Llewellyn Park home. Llewellyn Park is America's first planned residential community and it boasts residents such as Whoopi Goldberg.

The staircase is the most beautiful staircase! Beautiful. They don't make them like this anymore.

The ceilings are gorgeous. This one is in a bedroom.

This one is in family room in the back of the house.

This was a sitting area just beyond the staircase that led out to a gorgeous sunroom.

Thomas Edison's library.

Beautiful painting of a daughter of his. [I believe so.]

The resting place of Thomas Edison and his wife.

Come back tomorrow for Day 4 of the Henry Glass Jolly Holiday Party.

xo, L

Day 2 - Henry Glass Jolly Holiday Party & Thomas Edison

Today is day two of the Henry Glass Jolly Holiday Party. You can find all of the designers and the blog hop information here. 

The designers today are the Lizzie B ladies, Liz Hawkins and Beth Hawkins. I don't think that they're sister-in-laws, I think that they're identical twins!! They are joined by Jacquelynne Steves of the Noble Wife. Have fun and enjoy their wonderful holiday posts. 

Yesterday, we went to the Thomas Edison National Historical Park with a few families from Chinese school. We had a great time visiting Thomas Edison's home in Llewellyn Park and then his lab areas.

His library in his Stockroom Building is amazing. He even had a bed there!

The stockroom and all of the machinery in there were amazing.

I'll have to show you some photos of his home. It was simply amazing to be in a place where Thomas Edison lived and worked.

xo, lldb

Quilt Album and Infinite Variety Tour Continues

We are onto another day for the Quilt Album Blog Hop. Thanks for coming by yesterday! I hope that you're enjoying the different things that this package can do for you. Remember to post here or on Facebook for your chance to win a copy for yourself. Today we have Geta and Michele. Check out their links below.

March 31

Geta Grama

Michele Foster

My Infinite Variety tour of the exhibit continues because I think that a lot of you didn't get the chance to see it and I just want to give you a glimpse of what I experienced. Enjoy!

xo, L

Infinite Variety & QuiltAlbum Blog Hop

Oh my! So much time has passed since my last post but so much has been going on. Let's just start with yesterday. I was fortunate to be able to see "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts" that is an amazing exhibit put on by the Folk Art Museum in New York City. It's over tomorrow but if you can, make your way there. It is AWESOME!!

I got up early and headed into the city via the Holland Tunnel. I parked at my usual spot and started downtown toward the Henry Glass offices. Along the way, I met these snazzy shoes. I love them.

There's something about beautiful leather men's shoes. I know I'm weird that way. I get inspired by everything around me.

Bryant Park and the Empire State Building in the morning.

I'm finally at the offices in the garment district. Well, can you guess who I was meeting here? Why, that's Carrie Nelson from Miss Rosie's Quilt Co. all the way from Arizona. We both look like the Michelin Man because it is still pretty darned cold here in NYC.

After some brainstorming in the conference room, we headed out for lunch. By the way, her new line is gorgeous.

Carrie and I headed over to Brendan's for lunch with Larry, Karen and Lenny from Henry Glass.

Forgive for pulling out my camera at lunch but I love architecture and the ceiling at Brendan's is to die for. The food is amazing too! I had the pan-seared scallops with feta cheese salad. Yummy!

Afterward, Carrie and I took a cab up to the Park Avenue Armory to see the show.

The building itself is impressive! Again, beautiful architecture and detailing.

This is the entrance to the show. It is beautiful but it doesn't quite prepare you for what's inside.

This is only part of the exhibit but what a view. The quilts are hung all the way to the top of this 8 story structure.

We chatted with Jennifer Keltner and Elizabeth Tisinger of Better Homes & Gardens [American Patchwork & Quilting].

I didn't manage to beat the traffic so we decided to head down to Purl Soho and Kate's Paperie. 

It was a beautiful day and one that is hard to describe in pixels and text but I am inspired to the core.  I will show you some more photographs here, on Facebook or Flickr in the next few days.

Meanwhile, I can't forget the fun event that just started today. I've been invited to share QuiltAlbum with you. My day will be tomorrow. Please come back for a little bit of fun with this terrific program. Each day there will be one giveaway for a CD or download of the program! How exciting!

Here are the participants this week. Click on their names to get to their blogs for more information.

March 29

Rachel Griffin

Benita Skinner

March 30

Linda Lum DeBono

Vanessa Christenson

March 31

Geta Grama

Michele Foster

April 1

John Adams

Pat Sloan

See you tomorrow!

xo, L