tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79623327101234868822024-02-18T19:17:20.914-08:00Reckless BeadingReckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-35588814893078686662021-12-30T21:54:00.010-08:002021-12-31T17:50:28.808-08:00Christmas Window Tour 2021<p> Yes, I am still here, just never got round to blogging this past year but I couldn't miss sharing our usual Christmas Eve tour of the holiday decorations in Manhattan. Many stores didn't decorate this year and some recycled decorations from years past, but there was still enough festivity to enjoy. First was one of the decorations that the Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District erected by a hotel on 60th street.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNKWQY86YHXztTbfhO9_Idut1GLEmxIO0s2RHV3D-0nDPfBeUNQSj92tiMbQLLpky9MsGRNEKMYh6qsYqc0VbBPKgXxe1rLK-jRqSRLF2AyFHoKG6Okl-VCYBgx9QUPmqYlKpovVvORSo9OHYtaLf2udJkzflwLQ90gNBJVGFCsfmla-Djjq4YPUSv=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1908" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNKWQY86YHXztTbfhO9_Idut1GLEmxIO0s2RHV3D-0nDPfBeUNQSj92tiMbQLLpky9MsGRNEKMYh6qsYqc0VbBPKgXxe1rLK-jRqSRLF2AyFHoKG6Okl-VCYBgx9QUPmqYlKpovVvORSo9OHYtaLf2udJkzflwLQ90gNBJVGFCsfmla-Djjq4YPUSv=s320" width="151" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p>Next was a fantasy scene erected in the plaza in front of the Plaza Hotel that included ice, polar bears, birds, and a monkey.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMgnFfbROGt8hX7y3r5IR8m617CNcvTCdkDAkm1l1Z_UOw7l79o_wWYyAXqRrZHhEtEPgOZAov9V7I67uRGyDbqIy7VVeIUSvGbKj1p_OqAXaAfMau-l59_s_ZB7v3GBQcJ4UjXiFwhROLUxwESzu7c5v81XnzVJi7Q93mDmZHpxuoPoyj2vRThIRA=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="1080" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMgnFfbROGt8hX7y3r5IR8m617CNcvTCdkDAkm1l1Z_UOw7l79o_wWYyAXqRrZHhEtEPgOZAov9V7I67uRGyDbqIy7VVeIUSvGbKj1p_OqAXaAfMau-l59_s_ZB7v3GBQcJ4UjXiFwhROLUxwESzu7c5v81XnzVJi7Q93mDmZHpxuoPoyj2vRThIRA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Dior put up some kind of gold, glittery snowflake thingy.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0XrYb2sPAi6DryicaSBN10G2guVAeVEusVYYPx_6VLN-RLuhCfHa3eFO-axFWnlPV-lhR154Vp2nCUZ3_1hDV4bxkXuYCuwSMAaK7EQKmjLkA6RT9LRnbQDwxPK2VD9Wzpv9wDRwkpRCzybrj3U3jR6P87bhqdlU24JogliHbU4nBBjw9OTkP6Hcx=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="827" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0XrYb2sPAi6DryicaSBN10G2guVAeVEusVYYPx_6VLN-RLuhCfHa3eFO-axFWnlPV-lhR154Vp2nCUZ3_1hDV4bxkXuYCuwSMAaK7EQKmjLkA6RT9LRnbQDwxPK2VD9Wzpv9wDRwkpRCzybrj3U3jR6P87bhqdlU24JogliHbU4nBBjw9OTkP6Hcx=s320" width="245" /></a></div><br /><p>Then it was on to Bergdorf's, which crammed so much stuff into their windows that they were too busy to appreciate. First, a recognizable tree made of bunnies.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Ur5KVaHBuvuZsSmAQGDIcmnp_qGeRvbMOCB5pI8gk_dMZyE2InE9m3LI8YW9LQqXrJcAHALGqX1XEV25N0H67u7VTSfoDO5FBfSrs5F9i_uQfMzjWapeky9k-oDj851rU_W9VCAn8THlzHZQgb_JvIZQLJ24__Dcps-TQ555tjM3nelGYVydewKP=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="523" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2Ur5KVaHBuvuZsSmAQGDIcmnp_qGeRvbMOCB5pI8gk_dMZyE2InE9m3LI8YW9LQqXrJcAHALGqX1XEV25N0H67u7VTSfoDO5FBfSrs5F9i_uQfMzjWapeky9k-oDj851rU_W9VCAn8THlzHZQgb_JvIZQLJ24__Dcps-TQ555tjM3nelGYVydewKP=s320" width="155" /></a></div><br /><p>This window was the outlier, being both visually clear and witty.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQ_YkAl2LW-xFbGKBR_uYkJ0ncr1Nh5bdnKHpdS0vAVefXZiL1IJV60WQsxwmeXKyoYbbrSiTqJtG10K8rVaat7iQgUU6iBX3_db-yyxZoFEuMhZttBlCirOKu1j4ed8OjpdU37ngjeIr96BcQq4V_BWw2wdQWKZVTTQjIQYXtqZMCV3q7b93Uyp4j=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Fortitude is shown first and then Patience being bothered by some tourist (for those who don't know him, that is my husband photographing Patience).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq8TeG7K33V6YEbg9z4n7GJUM1JY-0Zom9IdIwBN5KsAN4A-6sO9TI3iNB-z6Af1rX0tgkPdj6tX8xGTwmx6exnNXoVKOCiVS1RTOXCCTcTl0NZANFGuE3wdep2-cWiBhZTAnpTtRRnmu7MAwKdvMagKrwDu00ygMhsLYiQdQFCWFCyh-XVa6jPhJv=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhq8TeG7K33V6YEbg9z4n7GJUM1JY-0Zom9IdIwBN5KsAN4A-6sO9TI3iNB-z6Af1rX0tgkPdj6tX8xGTwmx6exnNXoVKOCiVS1RTOXCCTcTl0NZANFGuE3wdep2-cWiBhZTAnpTtRRnmu7MAwKdvMagKrwDu00ygMhsLYiQdQFCWFCyh-XVa6jPhJv=s320" width="151" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh7b0u87bkswXDDqfQ72xRR_m58nP3ep6Hem0pUeF3Hegz25rceZ6ZXV_WZMgBQQBfhIlzG1DYHbGhLYePwW2il3Gk_uzFzlLq6jxYaibirro6vebzbTx6i-ocac9n2GMfdWWVFMzuqQFMss2v2ilQNZJ2VX8jKOpsCp5uIp_wL-J_jyJ6yK52Uhxxx=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicog91o6JcTWj14YnlmjcS6OKd5BpnviOklX9pRGhZZ5xmeNA_FllI36pf6eBG5INHSCGahE2bCEBfyl0Wy6JHws8OmJ52CG4mf7_ipS5wmbvKWdfbBjs-cjBSL9cXS6p7Twa9Y24BwphIIjNEVBjKIiSweNHT04-H_jzKLKZLydD2Rz_C6jQsB5HH=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="1080" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicog91o6JcTWj14YnlmjcS6OKd5BpnviOklX9pRGhZZ5xmeNA_FllI36pf6eBG5INHSCGahE2bCEBfyl0Wy6JHws8OmJ52CG4mf7_ipS5wmbvKWdfbBjs-cjBSL9cXS6p7Twa9Y24BwphIIjNEVBjKIiSweNHT04-H_jzKLKZLydD2Rz_C6jQsB5HH=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>That was the end of the tour. Even though there were fewer decorations this year because of the pandemic, people still made the best of the season. In that spirit, best wishes for 2022.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-49319667981266227442020-12-30T19:27:00.000-08:002020-12-30T19:27:13.211-08:00Christmas Window Tour 2020<p> Our annual Christmas Eve tour of holiday windows was an on-again, off-again expedition as we faced a weather report of 40-50 mph winds and much rain, but we set off to see if we could beat the bad weather. As might be expected in this pandemic year, a lot of stores did not decorate for Christmas (partly because they seem to have decided that this was a good time to renovate). Also, no surprise that there were few people on the streets until you went to take a photo of something.</p><p>We started at the Plaza Hotel (with Barney's having closed), which has erected scaffolding for work on its facade but put up wreaths in the windows. The fountain in front of the Plaza, however, was decorated with a fun scene of oversized ornaments.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdrjl9fAjMU0bS4UDBgFxxw99xkfzhz8lVzbf4rhTg4MRgzL1mMZty5RHFeVBNXtNNFLGrAb3U_j97rjJliNHCupTPA8O6f0Afs64Sqlh64VzhnbQ2FUXQArh9lxeLHBzmkiRHWgD5M4/s1024/1a_Plaza_203010.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmdrjl9fAjMU0bS4UDBgFxxw99xkfzhz8lVzbf4rhTg4MRgzL1mMZty5RHFeVBNXtNNFLGrAb3U_j97rjJliNHCupTPA8O6f0Afs64Sqlh64VzhnbQ2FUXQArh9lxeLHBzmkiRHWgD5M4/w320-h152/1a_Plaza_203010.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Plaza</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nztMdejbA-bGG-zPItww8fwGl0k1gM0_jt00ekj1q6BWwsOU5kFOa9NlUh2VNGkTjrRvu1lqgZMA8o8hiWaiKrEljQudljnGA__xoUfm-nWS1ccOpHhEUDvdnTuM7MXPNJX5VGttlX4/s1024/1_Fountain_202931.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nztMdejbA-bGG-zPItww8fwGl0k1gM0_jt00ekj1q6BWwsOU5kFOa9NlUh2VNGkTjrRvu1lqgZMA8o8hiWaiKrEljQudljnGA__xoUfm-nWS1ccOpHhEUDvdnTuM7MXPNJX5VGttlX4/s320/1_Fountain_202931.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fountain in front of The Plaza</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Next was Bergdorf's, which did something different this year. While they did have a few fashion windows, most of the decoration was sparkly, oversized letters spelling out different positive words.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCf2aw6TF4guVpCJ3Y4uOblpj0rLsOI0SGaVIS8tttOiUe_FbeiLvviwASn5hKOL0vsoVNA6jkU8gSSUDMq7b0xTEYRt1ez5DLlQ5Db3kIfM6OotjLFmZxog7LW_yWEmBNmliqfgZRAnY/s1024/2_Bergdorf_0206.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCf2aw6TF4guVpCJ3Y4uOblpj0rLsOI0SGaVIS8tttOiUe_FbeiLvviwASn5hKOL0vsoVNA6jkU8gSSUDMq7b0xTEYRt1ez5DLlQ5Db3kIfM6OotjLFmZxog7LW_yWEmBNmliqfgZRAnY/s320/2_Bergdorf_0206.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don liked the martini purse</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDAZcDQIkuMW6eMPgOpv2NvPdp2clNZWP7jD3KRhCGtDuAloQ8l33TfZqWexBXW3XCeUPdnxc1FoB67ROaCLeiapAb9b3X6D-C63Q0SdyyFNkp-HPJgwr9Cw4sLx_LIKk3YGeSag2-PM/s1024/3_Bergdorf_0207.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDAZcDQIkuMW6eMPgOpv2NvPdp2clNZWP7jD3KRhCGtDuAloQ8l33TfZqWexBXW3XCeUPdnxc1FoB67ROaCLeiapAb9b3X6D-C63Q0SdyyFNkp-HPJgwr9Cw4sLx_LIKk3YGeSag2-PM/s320/3_Bergdorf_0207.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1970s are back<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnf5x5OSJoqvCUnjcHYNFJsUoaai7pXkaQ7Z389kirXZm8DYARtPNUX55qWvEZZx-mbbu12RSlp2muuLuRF_siMjpREPlKGV-dSGyBh9sDNWn_NM3Pbi98d9XriiJJEkcGzPMl19HVTro/s1024/4_Bergdorf_203415.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj71Z-tc5tx2QUDtvIW2gsuh0LuN99FmSPgPbnna6pMxk6RFgBE4JEIVFyLBQCghFJSICmEmWQXlnFgDsyfJcbsSYk57U1_zd5gz3qoLrmwYdna-o_uT-ba5twGErkNsTUezI_VjGSv5g/s320/6_Bergdorf_203440.jpg" /></a><br />Did I mention the 70s are back?<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRayB1I00tzk2_SRwpOQem-1HP1j9o_Rp6V6DMceNaNNqIId3PsjypymWfJeH9Q4GZBJkIjcikcfKQOx3x9o0ex-5hFoelB3S8c9_VEVxUThoK-01fWUh9Cjqkpw_1xg_46HQfiLhLqWU/s1024/5_Bergdorf_203531.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRayB1I00tzk2_SRwpOQem-1HP1j9o_Rp6V6DMceNaNNqIId3PsjypymWfJeH9Q4GZBJkIjcikcfKQOx3x9o0ex-5hFoelB3S8c9_VEVxUThoK-01fWUh9Cjqkpw_1xg_46HQfiLhLqWU/s320/5_Bergdorf_203531.jpg" /></a></p><p>My friend Judith would have loved the eye</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqdea4Ka0DkvBW6kGY8prNnbcIR1fCyk635wJPM99suRX9bFKj9XhnD7ZiJkXPF9PichyCwbNfXPzgXWPT07Th55a2pYVI44qKBDU5FWFCfQPKtpZZGolM8aQcmoYqcZZGFpOaV85sHo/s1024/7a_Bergdorf_204159.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxqdea4Ka0DkvBW6kGY8prNnbcIR1fCyk635wJPM99suRX9bFKj9XhnD7ZiJkXPF9PichyCwbNfXPzgXWPT07Th55a2pYVI44qKBDU5FWFCfQPKtpZZGolM8aQcmoYqcZZGFpOaV85sHo/s320/7a_Bergdorf_204159.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of the windows with letters that spell PEACE</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>The Fifth Avenue Association hired a company to install 10 oversized, lighted "toys" along 5th Avenue to brighten the season; each toy had a code that you could scan to read a story about the display. The first one we saw was the toy box.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6SxtR9VYZRlOJIj_t6n3XX3E86G-Tda3N8_8DsDySPOGAh7slAQejiuIkIt9-mCwhSG25Lr8jPTNdxmIkJdmuItNyPxl9xcnsDjROKOHKPjCnYcsYSnsJDF3-gUIKA9rPeCMRdxpzxQ/s1024/8_Toys_203927.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6SxtR9VYZRlOJIj_t6n3XX3E86G-Tda3N8_8DsDySPOGAh7slAQejiuIkIt9-mCwhSG25Lr8jPTNdxmIkJdmuItNyPxl9xcnsDjROKOHKPjCnYcsYSnsJDF3-gUIKA9rPeCMRdxpzxQ/s320/8_Toys_203927.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The next was a taxi. We had waited to take a photo of this one until the Chinese family was done photographing their daughter but she had no intention of leaving the taxi that was just her size; so I took her photo as well.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIqwNLABD-ATYBZLkds77It10hf-VNBQZuqGQOoZBpbl-H86nOZI5rNiz3sHxS5h-j6f5bOv1PiTDPs30cdmpb3NeEH_DAuxAOnrKw5TXNir0VUteoaP1-8PJLzz0VbBjfR3yFDTldyU/s1024/8a_Taxi_204039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNIqwNLABD-ATYBZLkds77It10hf-VNBQZuqGQOoZBpbl-H86nOZI5rNiz3sHxS5h-j6f5bOv1PiTDPs30cdmpb3NeEH_DAuxAOnrKw5TXNir0VUteoaP1-8PJLzz0VbBjfR3yFDTldyU/s320/8a_Taxi_204039.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Tiffany's is doing so much renovation that the store is actually closed and the windows are boarded up; so no Christmas windows on the Avenue. We walked down the side street to the temporary entrance and found 2 half-hearted efforts.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOWsJDFg3sdQ7u9w7kTMVBsfqzOtMChsPvsYj5VAFROa4PTx33yG5PnIkBxz15lMZKPzcSeklJgQfakzR6unxWz93CsEYRYXKFhkf6RGMXnSX_vrghEYkkvfJ0dzo_O64ymx02A9os7M/s1024/9_Tiffany_0210.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOWsJDFg3sdQ7u9w7kTMVBsfqzOtMChsPvsYj5VAFROa4PTx33yG5PnIkBxz15lMZKPzcSeklJgQfakzR6unxWz93CsEYRYXKFhkf6RGMXnSX_vrghEYkkvfJ0dzo_O64ymx02A9os7M/s320/9_Tiffany_0210.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQ-FAGJr4VqLqeHVW-G2IkQwysa7UrFrTPPu7WUtbGJCDjV3UQuGsxd3QFKXzpWAZuuGZdNCL9YpnaVFRdNXhG0JuTFKrH9L2tVZwrFdkyM-gCzDJtSxkPneDzgHM5Hv2xzFAQUWEFNs/s1024/9a_Tiffany_204515.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkQ-FAGJr4VqLqeHVW-G2IkQwysa7UrFrTPPu7WUtbGJCDjV3UQuGsxd3QFKXzpWAZuuGZdNCL9YpnaVFRdNXhG0JuTFKrH9L2tVZwrFdkyM-gCzDJtSxkPneDzgHM5Hv2xzFAQUWEFNs/s320/9a_Tiffany_204515.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>We noticed that Dior was decorated, so we wandered across the street to check it out.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZ5tY-Z4LwFvgH-G53MRW3MeJe2ZyUGxrCPH1Ap7y7ODsGey1g9bH4U8P6ufrer9ozjT57TB0M03RQZDoVuy4Rji_4SCDu8p-CD0HaKpRZOhDZND46ZDiuiZ_g1d1fUsqDZSgrRk89NU/s1029/11_Dior_0213.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHZ5tY-Z4LwFvgH-G53MRW3MeJe2ZyUGxrCPH1Ap7y7ODsGey1g9bH4U8P6ufrer9ozjT57TB0M03RQZDoVuy4Rji_4SCDu8p-CD0HaKpRZOhDZND46ZDiuiZ_g1d1fUsqDZSgrRk89NU/s320/11_Dior_0213.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxlhY7-3RNg1oHR9KxVM2zawdPM9chHDTXJxzoo2IuxHk7wFunXsJqEG8_J0WCuBC0a1ks-EBX2r7zkX-EvOgEV3OOA7s0HM3-HAMvGXQEw5IEwtD6EjSgPUw4nd-eRc5DOkcnPjdcfs/s1024/12_Dior_204814.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNxlhY7-3RNg1oHR9KxVM2zawdPM9chHDTXJxzoo2IuxHk7wFunXsJqEG8_J0WCuBC0a1ks-EBX2r7zkX-EvOgEV3OOA7s0HM3-HAMvGXQEw5IEwtD6EjSgPUw4nd-eRc5DOkcnPjdcfs/s320/12_Dior_204814.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remember what I said about the 70s?<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtMG0-Fy7te8Dj91xCf0aHMElC7nWh0Z5bMD-3bS3T7ddmiKWaFyVt5fVNraD7EPuuwMj6i0BLiDKXIfk5p9zOV4SzwWtNTBKyff3JqcuhJiCVl2igOLmfY0CiBtirF35BQ8RasyMZvs/s1024/13_Chanel_205011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxtMG0-Fy7te8Dj91xCf0aHMElC7nWh0Z5bMD-3bS3T7ddmiKWaFyVt5fVNraD7EPuuwMj6i0BLiDKXIfk5p9zOV4SzwWtNTBKyff3JqcuhJiCVl2igOLmfY0CiBtirF35BQ8RasyMZvs/s320/13_Chanel_205011.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chanel had an interesting window.<br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3sGVV4zmCqkmXrJsK9rkwRcthCsN1caRu-krgTG4rfoise5-HxS8arkLeXYuRcOoFt_V9kKNx3ZougLs4z8wtLXoD_gk67Kyev0Dlu2mM5DsYdTixPMbRW5-sILw5GFbS0D9qKcmsG8/s1029/14_Bunnies_0214.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3sGVV4zmCqkmXrJsK9rkwRcthCsN1caRu-krgTG4rfoise5-HxS8arkLeXYuRcOoFt_V9kKNx3ZougLs4z8wtLXoD_gk67Kyev0Dlu2mM5DsYdTixPMbRW5-sILw5GFbS0D9qKcmsG8/s320/14_Bunnies_0214.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I was so excited to find more bunnies that I forgot to notice what store window they in.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>As in past Christmases, Trump Tower was just a big, barricaded, black hole among the festive lights. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMpstf0k2kGUZjqGqEFZYmU6wlmYYpf7fnzaLcN4fkGG0mb78np1fKJTVaqTmYRvK1DE8_KZm0gEDt112gbn1YPX2_MW7tohiGGkSy5l8igkROxEvJGmvOxC5xSD0cQBUXF2PND3dm0k/s1028/15_BlackHole_205543.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="486" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMpstf0k2kGUZjqGqEFZYmU6wlmYYpf7fnzaLcN4fkGG0mb78np1fKJTVaqTmYRvK1DE8_KZm0gEDt112gbn1YPX2_MW7tohiGGkSy5l8igkROxEvJGmvOxC5xSD0cQBUXF2PND3dm0k/s320/15_BlackHole_205543.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trump Tower with its round-the-clock cops</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Don liked the giant stuffed moose at Abercrombie and Fitch.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKKXlvM49AVxzRSt8kSf-U46nKis0l6UkBC0zjyxvv4j_T6L05OJ4rpJldierUgZwF4c9SyP7rwcjo9Hl1gHw-JJlJ3y3jZeW61QXb47DbQ0oKLqvc-wS8nGHT9D9yaXzcDg0Wd0206U/s1029/16_Abercrombie_0216.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguKKXlvM49AVxzRSt8kSf-U46nKis0l6UkBC0zjyxvv4j_T6L05OJ4rpJldierUgZwF4c9SyP7rwcjo9Hl1gHw-JJlJ3y3jZeW61QXb47DbQ0oKLqvc-wS8nGHT9D9yaXzcDg0Wd0206U/s320/16_Abercrombie_0216.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The balloon toy.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWKbxYDZSyWxX3nRO09B3mBtmzzbv7AgnbXGmYr0eC5EJjTYwvDga58n5S7yP6mC2DLUZeT24tlvNMwvAm2EP83xA-lpLHF4ofFhb3-7XY5T4ThXIYgAAve4OTWQYs-4hNVFCMwnInxA/s1029/17_Balloon_0217.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkWKbxYDZSyWxX3nRO09B3mBtmzzbv7AgnbXGmYr0eC5EJjTYwvDga58n5S7yP6mC2DLUZeT24tlvNMwvAm2EP83xA-lpLHF4ofFhb3-7XY5T4ThXIYgAAve4OTWQYs-4hNVFCMwnInxA/s320/17_Balloon_0217.jpg" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Coach did strings of lights on their second story.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4woFivKQcOCQoErM8aTQjQh5Mgf8XEDIGRwcZizd2RSKkLPUlnlLqYqF8m0v2GPFGCgp46pJZhHQUd_NF1qa8zVvKaUwyo6UGeNAPg6tULwUiKpLpRmZxbeqseIpQBZKbms0eXVWFGs/s1024/18_Coach_205959.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4woFivKQcOCQoErM8aTQjQh5Mgf8XEDIGRwcZizd2RSKkLPUlnlLqYqF8m0v2GPFGCgp46pJZhHQUd_NF1qa8zVvKaUwyo6UGeNAPg6tULwUiKpLpRmZxbeqseIpQBZKbms0eXVWFGs/s320/18_Coach_205959.jpg" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The bear toy was very popular with people who thought it was fun to sit on its legs to have their photo taken. It was so popular that I didn't have time to frame a good shot of it before the next tourists were trying to break its framework legs.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2N5NYqSVDtKe2jIVkbAfEngJLU9h3SRuKoCl2r4oYInXpl4bnI9MTl_7kIW5sT9vUOBS9DHH5QWKtUHB_dCpxVraC39BY8eOmHnu7ylTS1euMdxqvmgBdpTuI0Adv0zEH8yOPet8FF5Y/s1024/19_Bear_210200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2N5NYqSVDtKe2jIVkbAfEngJLU9h3SRuKoCl2r4oYInXpl4bnI9MTl_7kIW5sT9vUOBS9DHH5QWKtUHB_dCpxVraC39BY8eOmHnu7ylTS1euMdxqvmgBdpTuI0Adv0zEH8yOPet8FF5Y/s320/19_Bear_210200.jpg" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQxY56Q-4tHQXoS3lszNjI9dwdzeVShzNWzWSMRbIuJHWbFjYq6JdP0Aa5KJroAM1-441QTXaUCKrDwvaBlW6OXo_4Oxp3vAIfaq6pwe3ZhCGCDgiAxeiOSxVnwwi1QV1cTi6Xb4-qFU/s1029/20_Bear2_0221.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="683" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQxY56Q-4tHQXoS3lszNjI9dwdzeVShzNWzWSMRbIuJHWbFjYq6JdP0Aa5KJroAM1-441QTXaUCKrDwvaBlW6OXo_4Oxp3vAIfaq6pwe3ZhCGCDgiAxeiOSxVnwwi1QV1cTi6Xb4-qFU/s320/20_Bear2_0221.jpg" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Cartier had new panthers this year.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7skf9_BCSHc2ySjTOwNKwl3-EQB6dc1KAnNeAjAGjoyfPGbgAqP1mMOTnuYEMwbpuAmw0vraWfxPjv8qJ5qIh2X1JgInZIAKdGN_RqCCW4AfwCU7I3Q7Z-0g6uwlUceHjCr362lB-Kus/s1029/21_Cartier_0224.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7skf9_BCSHc2ySjTOwNKwl3-EQB6dc1KAnNeAjAGjoyfPGbgAqP1mMOTnuYEMwbpuAmw0vraWfxPjv8qJ5qIh2X1JgInZIAKdGN_RqCCW4AfwCU7I3Q7Z-0g6uwlUceHjCr362lB-Kus/s320/21_Cartier_0224.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then we were at Rockefeller Center, where access to the tree was severely limited. Everyone was crowded by the one viewpoint so it was hard to get a good photo but Don did pretty well. It started raining while we were looking at the tree but we were prepared with umbrellas and hoods. We had decided to call it a night after we looked at Saks' windows but it stopped raining while we were there, so we kept going.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUX2LU1ZjdAghhHAtdSzcXI2vqHxU4lcgFChTAcc9W_7YnokWFh-6w_pdJiU7FKCdmCkhIN0vDBBMkFEdI9HHdEXCs5XizCzWZUEsUelO5EfZlnGml4qyD2JisWnAJKq_Qema5va1gNPM/s1029/22_Tree_210949.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="487" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUX2LU1ZjdAghhHAtdSzcXI2vqHxU4lcgFChTAcc9W_7YnokWFh-6w_pdJiU7FKCdmCkhIN0vDBBMkFEdI9HHdEXCs5XizCzWZUEsUelO5EfZlnGml4qyD2JisWnAJKq_Qema5va1gNPM/s320/22_Tree_210949.jpg" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Saks was next and their theme was This is How We Celebrate and each window was a representation of how people mark occasions. </p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5rueNRiOAWpjtLlUxcoG99hYkChwQZLevst-mwOjnb_zKyP7i7dqUyGzuqm_knTiO7mSpl3EdAFryU4gF8LJ03Y2pMfyJ55YMB9dSYqtFuRXbWElj2iqT5ybpT2G40ZbH1ir5bjfgLck/s1029/25_Saks3_0234.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5rueNRiOAWpjtLlUxcoG99hYkChwQZLevst-mwOjnb_zKyP7i7dqUyGzuqm_knTiO7mSpl3EdAFryU4gF8LJ03Y2pMfyJ55YMB9dSYqtFuRXbWElj2iqT5ybpT2G40ZbH1ir5bjfgLck/s320/25_Saks3_0234.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7ZjHOUHJuMEM3oNVcJfSAGTQjzElmDRhN4wYJLWckB8T-KEvSpiRFrDvat6k_MDRzCDguD144cMZNnpRh9b07pznN0gJcft0B0h77HDvZBfdzdm_8MMjQJ_-sYrW6WXXwjc8iE2j9j8/s1029/27_Saks5_0243.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ7ZjHOUHJuMEM3oNVcJfSAGTQjzElmDRhN4wYJLWckB8T-KEvSpiRFrDvat6k_MDRzCDguD144cMZNnpRh9b07pznN0gJcft0B0h77HDvZBfdzdm_8MMjQJ_-sYrW6WXXwjc8iE2j9j8/s320/27_Saks5_0243.JPG" width="320" /></a></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaVE229U5nfSNm0N_2lpd3hnK6YgfSSuCeb5keVly51wZrHaI-IcrF4z4upuz5jlTrs93B8wlNZBrv-ufCaCKBJV021u8JpSuA1h9H7oGNuBL0-7veBS8hyphenhyphenhmIwYc12dW7nwFfE8Lo4X8/s1029/26_Saks4_0239.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Next were the lions in front of the New York Public Library. Fortitude was wearing a mask, although it had slipped down off his nose. Fortitude had lost his mask because people keep stealing them off the 2 lions for souvenirs.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCkz7wYQQBQx1l6e5CBNrLoDnhw6tv2zyZGkEfYVqXmCMduQi6YGJF5bIAvlatcNy5N-ZLAxsST_2OW5PKgkRuPuhzKdKZojPg14r0NuedFuZByynYX_wEU4vuksFuMC8wqepPwbV9uw/s1024/29_Fortitude_213056.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRCkz7wYQQBQx1l6e5CBNrLoDnhw6tv2zyZGkEfYVqXmCMduQi6YGJF5bIAvlatcNy5N-ZLAxsST_2OW5PKgkRuPuhzKdKZojPg14r0NuedFuZByynYX_wEU4vuksFuMC8wqepPwbV9uw/s320/29_Fortitude_213056.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fortitude<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dZZ2wmkKRvET522ZYB3Z3aWCFEFSBMFJ2TL7IDZd7HNqh6Es5_o8xfVZpgRUU66UrQX_703vd4nUl80bI-gL6o0YgiFAkp_qG18eXJneriNT5CLg8jeynoW4dZTDPKCWRy5L69KPT78/s1024/30_Patience_213222.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4dZZ2wmkKRvET522ZYB3Z3aWCFEFSBMFJ2TL7IDZd7HNqh6Es5_o8xfVZpgRUU66UrQX_703vd4nUl80bI-gL6o0YgiFAkp_qG18eXJneriNT5CLg8jeynoW4dZTDPKCWRy5L69KPT78/s320/30_Patience_213222.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Patience</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p>Macy's honored essential workers with a theme of Give, Love, Believe.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ2WB-90SuRBeEMAuSVYSHTv_Qoe2Rdjqyh8VmOL2TIXAJ2RI4vO9Z796rKYib19n1qDvGdU5NxyTscz6nVIx9WO3VSJJQzIyy4vZK2g__T1N8PIG8f08HJVk8efa80kJLWMNpNTg4Dhg/s1024/33_Macys3_214712.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ2WB-90SuRBeEMAuSVYSHTv_Qoe2Rdjqyh8VmOL2TIXAJ2RI4vO9Z796rKYib19n1qDvGdU5NxyTscz6nVIx9WO3VSJJQzIyy4vZK2g__T1N8PIG8f08HJVk8efa80kJLWMNpNTg4Dhg/s320/33_Macys3_214712.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSU0LxvAKhfHLHwWgFVsP-4IstaKO5r-Lt-NR8WGysMrm2AVZAvC_2EnUEyie3vI62CRr4wmt3vsJsO7P6NT3dWjIXnzS82lNktPDpcg47dn3MFHHgQKQ-3DdNpRZTjCD7wlbtTlygrUY/s1024/32_Macys2_214525.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSU0LxvAKhfHLHwWgFVsP-4IstaKO5r-Lt-NR8WGysMrm2AVZAvC_2EnUEyie3vI62CRr4wmt3vsJsO7P6NT3dWjIXnzS82lNktPDpcg47dn3MFHHgQKQ-3DdNpRZTjCD7wlbtTlygrUY/s320/32_Macys2_214525.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr></tr></tbody></table><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhIWmI-OX2hN6V8-zlI8XPU0Vjx4Z15fsXCvC8ivOVk1beCsA90uBn7M5hwiCE8mNrhsmP8eZ0swTX4dweZeIfFoYOOccZtBXi5tmZfRP5luNIHsVS6fuVmTIIT6ozeZ9UOJHE2l49P8/s1029/31_Macys1_0249.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1029" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqhIWmI-OX2hN6V8-zlI8XPU0Vjx4Z15fsXCvC8ivOVk1beCsA90uBn7M5hwiCE8mNrhsmP8eZ0swTX4dweZeIfFoYOOccZtBXi5tmZfRP5luNIHsVS6fuVmTIIT6ozeZ9UOJHE2l49P8/s320/31_Macys1_0249.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p>That was it for this year: a smaller display but New York is still celebrating the holidays. May next year be better for all of us. Happy New Year.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-2159506457251860422020-10-22T18:30:00.001-07:002020-10-23T19:35:38.229-07:00Beaded Square Project<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Isn't 2020 living up to that Chinese curse of living in interesting times! Back in the Spring, the staff of the Museum of Beadwork in Portland, Maine announced that they were organizing a group project "<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">which grows out of a desire to commune on a joint project while safely sheltering; marking this very particular time we are going through together, apart." </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> The parameters of a submission were that it had to be mounted on a rigid 6-inch by 6-inch square, needed to be at least 50% beads, and should employ jewel-tone colors. Given everything else that was going on while avoiding COVID-19 in New York City, I passed on participating but then the project organizers extended the deadline to March 19th, 2020. With more time, I had an idea. I added a restriction of "make do," which is something we had to practice while it was dangerous to go outside and stores were closed or facing shortages. In this case, it meant I couldn't order anything new, but who of us can't do a whole project from their stash?</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> My contribution to the Beaded Square Project was based on my memory of life in the first major hotspot of the nation here in New York City. I started with the 3 bead crochet hearts and then had to figure out the rest of the square. My idea for the background was originally much darker but the square had other ideas as it told me what it needed to be to set off the bead crochet hearts.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> Here is my finished square entitled "Hearts in the Time of Coronavirus." The required 2-sentence statement is</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; white-space: pre-wrap;"> New York hearts: scared, faltering, stilled forever, broken, hopeful, battered but still beating, and eternally grateful to all those who stayed home, wore the damn mask, helped their neighbors, and went to work knowing the danger. We are all New York Tough, Smart, United, Disciplined, and Loving."</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD8OIdMYd1GVyxXdL4a_4z8TMSYfmx8avJve9yKBco8icje-uriEppoMWkj34iVM7M0mwL2mhfx0_he1eGlRWIJgGfj_rBiYW8_Ipj482NuXln88aoWA4Hg9gxVn6lGyPCWLUWBvvHdFA/s1884/ed_20201011_195804.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="1780" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD8OIdMYd1GVyxXdL4a_4z8TMSYfmx8avJve9yKBco8icje-uriEppoMWkj34iVM7M0mwL2mhfx0_he1eGlRWIJgGfj_rBiYW8_Ipj482NuXln88aoWA4Hg9gxVn6lGyPCWLUWBvvHdFA/s320/ed_20201011_195804.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKA2GOS_fU0RoBILy6jK1KLSgL86-d4PiHxjSJvW2J1H6HAZPPk0yBDZo_3IupVwJCwy_nAuBN-jMFV-XNibuRr-_22feJphronXfhxxqR1a8xBczHK3CzqriYx5_6rwshNGyc1sgQ3o/s1080/web_side_20201012_154327.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNKA2GOS_fU0RoBILy6jK1KLSgL86-d4PiHxjSJvW2J1H6HAZPPk0yBDZo_3IupVwJCwy_nAuBN-jMFV-XNibuRr-_22feJphronXfhxxqR1a8xBczHK3CzqriYx5_6rwshNGyc1sgQ3o/s320/web_side_20201012_154327.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Side view of bead crochet hearts<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"> The project is open to beaders outside of the U.S.A., as well, so here is the link to the project information if you are interested in participating </span><a href="https://www.museumofbeadwork.org/pages/beaded-square-project">Beaded Square Project</a><span style="background-color: white;">. There is also a Facebook group to share ideas and ask questions: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/285077762509242">Facebook Group</a><span style="background-color: white;">. Perhaps I will see a square from you in the coming months.</span></span></p><p><span face=""Josefin Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p><p><span face=""Josefin Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p>Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-4546116876692141422019-12-30T19:24:00.001-08:002019-12-30T20:06:16.115-08:002019 Christmas Windows Tour This year's tour was a bit sad because many stores are gone: Barney's is going out of business, Lord & Taylor is gone, Henri Bendel's is gone, as well as 4 other stores. We keep hearing about how well the economy is doing but you couldn't prove it by 5th Avenue. Many of the remaining stores didn't bother to decorate so the usual tour was much shorter.<br />
We started at Bergdorf's but their windows weren't as good as in past years. This was the best of the lot.<br />
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Tiffany's did a cute series of windows involving mice.<br />
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Gucci went tropical.<br />
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Dolce and Gabbana went foodie.<br />
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The windows of the former Henri Bendel's showed the work of the 5th Avenue Business Improvement District as they hired local artists to make street scenes to fill the empty windows.<br />
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The Peninsula Hotel had new decorations, although we aren't sure what they are; the figures look like stylized bellhops playing instruments.<br />
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Saks did a Frozen 2 theme.<br />
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One of the buildings rented window to 4 businesses who decorated 1 window each to publicize their companies; these windows were some of the best decorations.<br />
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It was sad to see that this is what the street level of Lord & Taylor looks like as some company ripped out the bottom floor to redo it. Since We Work is in such financial trouble, I am not sure who is doing the construction.<br />
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I am afraid that life interfered with blogging this year, but how could I not tell you about our annual Christmas window tour. This year we added an event when we went to Snug Harbor on Staten Island to see the NYC Lantern Festival with 1,000 lanterns fashioned into luminous sculptures. We picked the warmest night we could when the temperature at night was a balmy 34 degrees F (yes, that was the warmest night that we could visit Snug Harbor). It was cold but the sights were magical.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">These mushroom trees were my favorite lantern.</span></div>
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Side view of turtle. You really couldn't see the supports in the dark.<br />
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The Arctic section. This is more like what we actually saw that night.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A tunnel based on Chinese opera headdresses</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A phoenix</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A nice school of fish</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">A walk-through crocodile</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">More mushrooms. The circles change color when you stepped on them...</span><br />
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Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-18592133581476920472018-12-31T17:06:00.002-08:002018-12-31T19:41:51.428-08:00Christmas Windows 2018Thankfully, the weather this year was a lot warmer than last year, so touring the windows on Christmas Eve was a much nicer experience.<br />
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We started at<b> Barney's</b> but their windows this year were just sheets of pennies because they are doing some kind of charity campaign- wasn't even worth taking photos.<br />
<b>Bergdorf's</b>, our next stop, didn't disappoint, though, with their celebration of all things sweet: psychedelic candy canes, multi-colored goodies, a robot that dispenses soft-serve ice cream, gingerbread, and more.<br />
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The building near Bergdorf's always puts up some giant candy canes and Don got a good photo of them<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> this year</span>. They are harder to photograph than you think.<br />
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Here is the traditional snowflake on 5th Ave and the decoration on<b> Tiffany's</b>. Bulgarie did not put up their gigantic snake this year; in fact, they really didn't decorate.<br />
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<b>Louis Vuitton</b> took up the slack and decorated their windows with "trees" from around the world. This first window reminded us of our Texas family.<br />
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This window was a tree made of plastic tubing with many fun ornaments depicting holiday<br />
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The tree sported ornaments like these, but I would love to know which culture celebrates a holiday with sparkly suitcases on top of an ostrich.<br />
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<b>Tiffany</b> paid homage to Artistic Director, Gene Moore, who spent over 50 years designing displays for the store. This year, a number of the windows feature a robot from one of Gene's windows from the 1960s.<br />
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<b>Coke</b> decorated their store front.<br />
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<b>The St. Regis Hotel</b> had plenty of twinkling trees.<br />
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<b>Coach</b> did a variety of fanciful animals.<br />
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I forgot which store this was, but they put up giant, red, ornaments.<br />
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<b>Feragamo</b> put up their over-the-top bow.<br />
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<b>Cartier</b> wrapped their building with the big, red, bow and did some fun windows, as well.<br />
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As usual, <b>Rockefeller Center</b> was a zoo; in fact, we got separated and it took me quite a while to find Don. We did get a few photos of the tree.<br />
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<b>Lego </b>did a version of Hogwarts for one of their windows this year.<br />
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<b>Sak's</b> windows just looked like merchandising to me but they are supposed to be the story of a shopper's visit to the theater.<br />
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The traditional light and music show on the outside of <b>Sak's</b> building had been stopped on Christmas Eve because of service next door at St. Patrick's so we had to come back for those the next day to see the salute to Broadway.<br />
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<b>H and M</b> did a fun display with wrapped presents that still retained their shapes place among electronic signs that said things like Don't Peek.<br />
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<b>Lord and Taylor</b>, in the midst of closing their flagship store, just did a video montage of past windows.<br />
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<b>Macy's</b> widows told the story of astronaut Sunny the Snowpal, who joins her friends to help Santa deliver presents.<br />
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My favorite window was the one with the snowy scene on top and the comfy burrows underneath.<br />
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We ended our tour at Herald Square because it was getting late. May our tour start your new year off on a high note.<br />
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Yesterday (as I was cleaning up the gigantic mess that I made), I got a fun convo from Pearl Blay, who writes The Beading Gem Blog, that she had included my Wire Skeleton Earrings Tutorial in her blog post about Halloween jewelry tutorials at <a href="https://www.beadinggem.com/2018/10/8-awesome-beaded-and-wire-halloween.html">8 Awesome Beaded and Wire Halloween Jewelry Tutorials</a>. <br />
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If you haven't seen them, these are my wire skeleton earrings and the tutorial is available through Pearl's blog post or my Etsy store <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/566686405/wire-skeleton-earrings-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_8">Reckless Beading</a>:<br />
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My second-favorite tutorial in Pearl's blog post was for these sugar skull earrings by <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/597600270/beading-pattern-sugar-skull-day-of-the?source=aw&awc=6939_1538854841_63799fc57e2247ff1c39cbedac5af61f&utm_source=affiliate_window&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=ca_location_buyer&utm_content=425711">SimpleBeadPatterns</a>. <br />
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Of course, I had to check out more of Pearl's blog, which span a variety of interesting topics. My eye was immediately caught by this great tutorial for a wire wrapped sword pendant. I had seen a photo show up on Pinterest, but didn't know the name of the designer, Rhonda Chase. Her free tutorial is available at <a href="https://www.instructables.com/id/Sword-Pendant-Wire-Wrapped-Jewelry/">Sword Pendant</a>.<br />
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So, check The Beading Gem blog, check out my wire skeleton earrings, or have fun making your own Halloween jewelry.<br />
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I don't remember exactly when I met Carol and her husband Allison; it was definitely at Kent State University sometime around 1970, but I do remember how warmly they welcomed me into Don's circle of friends.<br />
Life took us in different directions, but we managed to keep in touch. In 1977, Carol had a part in the movie <i>Slap Shot </i>as the fashion show commentator, one of her claims to fame that tickled us all.<br />
Both Carol and I took up jewelry making in the 1990s: I gravitated towards seed beads as an extension of my theatrical costume work and Carol began to explore polymer clay.<br />
Below is a photo of her necklace from <i>Bead Art</i>, a book showcasing the pieces that were selected for the first Beadworks Exhibition at the Diary Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center. These Dairy Barn exhibits started strong and went on to become something that all of us beaders aspired to. <br />
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Carol's polymer clay entry for the Dairy Barn.<br />
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Her explanation of the necklace.<br />
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One of my enduring memories of Carol and Allison centers around the 2006 Dairy Barn exhibit; I had a piece accepted into the show and we decided to travel from New York City to Ohio for the opening of the show on Memorial Day weekend in May. The plan was to meet Carol and Allison at the Dairy Barn for the opening, but we all know what happens to plans. The first part of the trip was a disaster, as bad weather from New York City to Ohio delayed our early-afternoon flight so much that we didn't arrive in Cleveland until almost all of the car rental places had closed. Finally scoring a car, we didn't reach my parents' house until about 3 am, which meant that the 4 of us (my parents were joining us) got a late start on the drive down to Athens the next day. We were actually doing pretty well on time until the heavens opened up with a rain that made driving a real problem. I kept calling Carol and the show organizer because it was a question of whether we would even get there while the event was still going on. We finally ran through the doors at the Dairy Barn about 45 minutes before the opening ended- wet, totally frazzled, and starving- to find Carol and Allison waiting to shepherd us around the event. They had been checking the door between perusing the exhibits. After the opening party, they also knew exactly which restaurant to visit to get a nice meal, because we all needed it at that point. We ended the night on a much happier note.<br />
The Dairy Barn trip was also the first time that we saw "the art car," Carol's project of attaching magnetized reproductions of paintings to her car and rearranging them as the mood hit. Here is Carol, wearing one of her necklaces, with her art car. People were fascinated by the car as she drove it around Columbus, Ohio.<br />
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Carol was fearless and inventive in her use of polymer clay. I remember her explaining to me, at one point, that she was exploring how ephemeral and delicate she could make jewelry components before they lost needed structural integrity and commenting, sadly, that the necklaces didn't last very long.<br />
Even though we were living in separate states, we managed to collaborate on one project just for fun. She asked me to send her a line drawing which she used to make me the 2 brooches below.<br />
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When I started making bead crochet snakes necklaces, Carol sent me 2 polymer clay snakes that she made as part of her exploration of stripes. I made her a bead crochet snakes bracelet in return.<br />
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This is another little piece (1.5 inches x 1.75 inches) that she sent me.<br />
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At one point, Carol was exploring her version of prehistoric beads to be sold in a museum and made these 3 pieces. The small pair of beads were double-sided wolf heads so that there is a face front and back.<br />
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One of my other fond memories of Carol is when she took a flying trip from Pittsburgh to New York City to visit The Gates, Christo's project of 7,503 fabric panels measuring 16 feet tall that were installed along the walkways of Central Park. We met Carol in Central Park to walk through part of the installation and then spent a fun day with her in Manhattan until it was time for her to return home. Here she is on that cold winter's day in 2005, standing in front of some of the orange panels.<br />
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It's a nice way to remember a woman who has been a positive presence in our life for decades and will be missed by many. I'd say "rest in peace," but, knowing Carol, she is already up to something interesting in the spiritual realm. See you on the other side, my friend. <br />
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Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-8016721935524618432018-03-26T18:18:00.000-07:002018-03-26T18:18:43.197-07:00My Froggy of Friendship<div>
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Now that Spring is here, it is time to show you my latest bead embroidery effort. It is special to me because when I look at it, I think of the friends who were involved in it's making. A few years ago, my friend Stephney Hornblow gave me a stuffed, toy frog left from a challenge among her beading circle in Barton-under-Needwood, England. Stephney had opened a seam in each animal toy, removed the sand inside, and replaced it with a lighter stuffing; then each group member chose an animal and covered it with beads.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Froggy with no beads</span></td></tr>
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As soon as I saw the frog among my choices of toy animals, I knew what I wanted to do. Years ago, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden had done a topiary frog and I was reminded of that botanical creation when my friend Suzanne and I ran across a succulent topiary cat as we were walking to the studio of our friend Stephanie Tomalin. So I immediately thought of doing a succulent frog in beads when I was offered my choice of animals.</div>
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In 2016, I had fun shopping for shaped beads that reminded me of the leaves of succulent plants while visiting the booths of my friend Beki Haley of <a href="http://www.whimbeads.com/cart.asp">Whim Beads</a>, Betcey Ventrella of <a href="https://www.beyondbeadery.com/">Beyond Beadery</a>, and Leslie Pope of Twisted Sistah Beads and Fibers. </div>
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Professional and family commitments kept me from starting on the frog until last year, but I finally had a chance to start the embroidery- 3 times. The oft-forgotten truth of doing something new is that it might require many tries until you are happy with the results. When I got to the point where I wasn't sure what I had, I was grateful that my friends Nikia Angel of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Nikia">Bead Gypsies</a> and Judith Schwab of Bodacious Beads independently gave me encouragement. It's always nice to have others let you know that you are on the right track!<br />
I started the embroidery with the most important part: the "succulents" on the back of the frog; the next step was to fill in around each "plant."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of the "succulents"</td></tr>
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I started sewing lines of beads to mimic the wire structure of a topiary but it didn't work, so I sewed a line of green beads along the seam of the toy between top and bottom to lend some definition. <br />
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My plan had been to do a taller "plant" to fill in between the "succulents," but longer "leaves" obscured the fun groups of beads, so the shorter "plant" won out.<br />
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For the bottom of the topiary frog, I played with varying the length of the fringe for the "moss" to give it more interest, but I couldn't resist a "volunteer plant" because you know that real plants love to keep spreading.<br />
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To top it off, Don took a photo of the frog socks for sale at the New York Botanical Garden's shop because they complemented my new frog so well.<br />
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Now Froggy sits front and center in the china cabinet to remind me of the positive force of beadwork in my life.</div>
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Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-56040720510281137282018-01-22T20:52:00.002-08:002018-01-23T20:31:42.825-08:00Bead Crochet Stitches Revisted: Slip Stitch, Single Crochet, What's in a Name?<div style="text-align: center;">
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So, let's try to lessen some of the confusion with an illustrated comparison of the 2 bead crochet stitches that masquerade under so many names. There are plenty of free tutorials on the web that take more time to teach you each stitch; my purpose is just to show the anatomy of each stitch so that we are all talking about the same thing.</div>
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When crocheting a tube with beads, there are 2 main methods of construction used today. The one that most beaders in the U.S. learn first is:</div>
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This is often just called bead crochet or tubular bead crochet, but a more accurate name in the U.S. and U.K.is slip stitch bead crochet. Why do I mention the U.K.? Because crochet stitches have different names depending on which country you are in; this stitch happens to have the same name in both countries. For our purposes, here is the anatomy of this stitch:</div>
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1. <b> The foundation row</b> is made by sliding a bead down close to the hook and doing a chain stitch over the bead.<br />
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2. Every other row is worked under the thread that runs through the hole in the bead.<br />
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on the side of the bead that is farthest from your hand.</div>
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Now let's compare <b>slip stitch</b> with <b>single crochet with beads</b>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Part of the confusion surrounding this bead crochet stitch comes from </span><span style="font-size: small;">the fact that no common term has caught on. When I </span><span style="font-size: small;">was writing <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bead-Crochet-Snakes-History-Technique/dp/0979164907">Bead Crochet Snakes</a><i>,</i> the stitch was know as bead single </span><span style="font-size: small;">crochet, single bead crochet, and single crochet with beads. To make </span><span style="font-size: small;">things more confusing, the American single crochet stitch is known </span><span style="font-size: small;">as </span><span style="font-size: small;">a double crochet stitch in the U.K. In the U.S., new bead crocheters without a foundation in plain crochet </span><span style="font-size: small;">started calling this stitch European crochet because "they do </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">it </span><span style="font-size: small;">in Europe;" that term has apparently been shortened to euro bead </span><span style="font-size: small;">crochet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The new video entitled "Double Euro Harness Bead Crochet" is apparently </span><span style="font-size: small;">referring to the English term of double crochet. </span><span style="font-size: small;">I looked at the Russian video that calls the stitch "Harness </span><span style="font-size: small;">Bead Crochet" and it seems that the phrase is a translation problem </span><span style="font-size: small;">since the video also refers to the finished necklace as a harness (which</span><span style="font-size: small;"> is known as a rope among English-speaking beaders). You can even find a video entitled </span><span style="font-size: small;">"Knitting Harness Beaded Crochet." What?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what stitch do all these names refer to? Let's look at single crochet with beads and see how it </span><span style="font-size: small;">differs from slip stitch.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="font-size: 12.8px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The<b> foundation row</b> is exactly the same as for the slip stitch with beads: </span><span style="font-size: small;">slide a bead down and chain over it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.33px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Take a look at the back of the foundation row and notice the teardrop-shaped chains behind the bead: these are where the crochet hook goes in. In this example, the stitch will be worked through the top thread of the loop. More about that later.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each method results in the beads being in a different position, </span><span style="font-size: small;">affecting the structure of the tube, how much the tube spirals, </span><span style="font-size: small;">and what patterns you can work into your tube. Here is a photo </span><span style="font-size: small;">from <i>Bead Crochet Snakes</i> that show the same pattern done in </span><span style="font-size: small;">each of the 4 different methods of single crochet with beads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The weather of freezing rain and dropping temperatures was not an auspicious beginning to our tour of decorations on Christmas Eve, but we took a chance and ventured out. Our first stop was Barney's, which didn't disappoint with it's unusual windows designed by the Haas brothers to show positivity and inclusivity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This window was labeled Primordial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Not all of the windows were black and white. The New York Botanic Garden window had lots of green, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Rolex watches got their own little man to decorate their space at Wempe Jewelers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Victoria's Secret decorated their windows with costumes from the big show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I did like their trees by the door that were decorated with miniature packages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Passing by Ferragamo's and Catier's. You can only see the tail of one of the leopards on top of the Cartier building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We stopped at a little plaza to look at one of these traditional figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rockefeller Center and the tree. See all of those dark shapes at the bottom of the photo? Those are people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Like this: wall-to-wall people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year's popular souvenir was a plastic globe with LED lights that lit up as strips of stars. The souvenir sellers were all over the place, along with many food carts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we escaped the madness of the crowds, we passed the H&M store, which was not necessarily decorated for Christmas but had some fun figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I called this one Grumpy Bunny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mushrooms were popular this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A view of the Empire State building lit up for Christmas. It was to far away and too dark to get a clear shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then past Patience and Fortitude with their wreaths outside the New York Public Library. I don't know which one we have included.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We stopped at Bryant Park behind the main library to see its tree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was one of the high-rise buildings near Bryant Park. Again my little camera was not up to the challenge of dark and distance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time for Lord and Taylor, who partnered with the Hallmark Channel to present a valentine to New York. Yeah, I didn't get it, either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A close-up of part of the previous window because, well: bunnies. Rabbits were popular this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This was a small window, but a fun scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The best part of L and T's display was the columns of greenery with frolicking squirrels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our last stop was Macy's windows, with a theme of "The Perfect Gift Brings People Together."</span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">One of my favorite windows at Macy's: a pigeon's view of a rotating winter landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was the last window on the tour. Despite slightly wet weather, dropping temperatures, and equipment failure in the form of a depleted phone battery and a camera's full memory card that required deleting photos on the fly, our Christmas tour turned out to be fun. I hope you enjoyed it.</span></div>
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I designed these skeleton earrings for a demonstration that I was doing for my friends at <a href="https://parawire.com/">Parawire</a> during one of the bead shows. They amused people so much that I have made the tutorial available in my Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/566686405/wire-skeleton-earrings-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_1">Reckless Beading</a>. The skeletons measure a little under 3 inches; I love long earrings but they would also make a fun pendant.Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-2014639583246284792017-05-07T12:31:00.000-07:002017-05-27T13:38:59.007-07:00Suffragette Jewelry and Pink Pussy Hats<div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whatever you think of them, the pink pussy hats made and worn by women as they march to uphold their rights quickly became a recognizable political symbol. When a few of my friends joked about the fact that knitted hats are uncomfortable to wear during the summer, I got the idea of a miniature beaded pussy hat that you could wear as a pin or display on a key chain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">As I played with a way to incorporate the hat into a pin, I was struck by the fact that 100 years ago, women wore their political views on their bodies in the form of clothing and jewelry to support the movement to extend the right to vote to women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For those who don't know much about the struggle to vote, the idea of giving women the vote was discussed as early as 1860 in England, but there was no real organized effort until 1897 when supporting groups were brought together in the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The group's genteel approach to the issue resulted in little progress, so Sylvia Pankhurst broke away in 1903 and founded the Women's Political and Social Union with her 3 daughters. Their motto was "Deeds Not Words" and, starting in 1905, they followed through with violent actions as well as marches. WPSU members committed acts of arson and vandalism; when imprisoned, women went on hunger strikes. One member, Emily Davison, died after she jumped in front of King George V's racehorse during the running of the Epsom Derby in 1913. These are the badass women that come to mind when we think of the Suffragette movement that eventually resulted in our right to vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The WPSU adopted the colors of purple (dignity), white (purity), and green (hope) in 1908 and supporters wearing those colors would march behind banners with the same trio of colors as they protested their lack of voting power. Medals incorporating the groups colors were also presented in August of 1909 to the women who had gone on a hunger strike while serving a prison sentence for acts supporting women's suffrage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> While other suffrage organizations in England and America adopted variations of those colors, it is the purple, white, and green that most of use associate with suffragettes today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">While some of the jewelry was specifically made and sold to support the suffragettes, that combination of purple, green, and white was also popular at the turn of the century, thus much of the jewelry we now classify as "suffragette" may not be. This brooch below is an example of one that uses the same color combination, but doesn't seem to have any connection to suffragettes. (It's a snake, I had to include it). The colors still stick in our mind, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So the pink pussy hat is carrying on the same tradition of women using fashion and crafts to bolster political efforts. That's why I designed the miniature pink pussy hat and why I used it along with purple, white, and green crystals to fashion a brooch. I am sure that you can think of other uses for the little beaded hat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The pattern is available in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/your/shops/RecklessBeading/tools/listings/514102514">Reckless Beading Etsy shop</a>. At first, I was going to offer the pattern for free but that means that anyone else could take the pattern and sell it or teach a class in how to make it. So my compromise was to charge for the pattern and donate $2 from every pattern sale to Planned Parenthood; I actually wanted to donate the money to the Pussy Hat Project as they are organizing more marches, but they never got back to me. Given the passage of the new healthcare bill by the House, it seems like a lot of people on both sides may need help with healthcare, so Planned Parenthood seemed to be a good alternative for those who may lose their insurance in the future.</span></div>
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Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-56919712729854003232017-01-10T19:10:00.002-08:002017-01-10T19:17:42.627-08:00Spread the Bead Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Ready to be energized? Last year was a tough one for many people on both a personal and global level; many of us lost our beading mojo. Marcia DeCoster came up with the great idea that we needed something to get us going again, something to do with love and beads (of course).<br />
So a group of us have been planning projects and Marcia has set up a place to share them as a way to bring some love into the world. New content will be added every week in the form of photos, free patterns, stories about their Bead Love creations from members, and links to patterns for sale.<br />
To start us off, Marcia has literally beaded love in the form of the letters L,O,V, and E. She has even provided the pattern for L on the blog and the other letters will follow weekly. I hope you will stop by the <a href="http://lovebeadlove.blogspot.com/">Bead Love</a> blog and return throughout the year and that it will inspire you as much as the idea has inspired us. If our project prompts you to make your own bead love, feel free to share a photo at #beadlove on Facebook.Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-64349768556285013352016-12-27T19:09:00.000-08:002016-12-31T12:51:53.610-08:00Christmas Window Tour 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
It's been a while since my last post (life intervened), but I couldn't miss sharing our annual Christmas Window Tour. We started at Barney's, which invited a few designers to each do a window; these were my favorites.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is a suit designed by Nick Cave, the fiber artist and performer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A fun sculpture by Job Smeets and Nynke Tyangel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the stars that hangs above 5th Avenue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then it was down to Bergdorf Goodman, which went green for the holidays...literally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, the usual festive atmosphere on 5th Avenue was missing as many stores were boarded up for renovation or were just displaying merchandise and here's the reason why.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">No, I am not dissing our NYPD, but the closing of Trump Tower meant that people couldn't get to stores in the security zone. Tiffany's gave up completely and announced in November that they would not be decorating their windows. Even Trump Tower looked like it was closed for business.</span></div>
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Tuesday night, I took the Steampunk Trellis Pendant class with Irina Miech, which turned out to be not what I expected. I thought that we would be using the wire looping technique to make the base of the pendant, but Irina had a neat cheat. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Moonlight Madness started right after class, so I wandered over to the shopping event to say hello to people. I actually bought some crocodile leather-it was just so dinosaur-y that I couldn't pass it up. I also bought a cute pair of flowers from </span><a href="http://sssbeads.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">Stephanie Sersich</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> to make a pair of earrings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thursday, I had a short class with </span><a href="http://www.theodyssey-ojds.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">Marti Brown</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> where we learned to make a niobium flower ring. As usual, playing with niobium was such fun! Then the shopping floor opened at 4pm and I was busy for the next 4 hours. The main mission was to buy beads to cover a stuffed frog toy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">My friend Akiko Nomura surprised me with a pair of Ninja socks and some cute stickers from Japan.</span> <br />
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Here is one more reason why you should learn single crochet with beads: my latest experiments in making roses. You can't think about making roses until you understand how to do this:</div>
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So join me on April 16, 2016 for the Earn your Stripes: Introduction to Single Crochet With Beads class from 10am-4pm for the Bead Society of Greater New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Non-members are welcome.</div>
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For more information and registration, please visit <a href="http://www.nybead.org/docs/workshops/workshop-2016-03.pdf">Workshops</a>. Hope to see you in class.</div>
Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-41727659749046506972016-03-25T20:54:00.000-07:002016-03-27T12:44:48.082-07:00Bead Crochet Question: Slip Stitch vs. Single Crochet A prospective student for my Earn Your Stripes bead crochet class on April 16, 2016 asked me about the difference between the slip stitch crochet bead that she knew and the single crochet that I would be teaching. Here is the answer for anyone else that isn't sure.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Slip Stitch Bead Crochet</span><br />
This is the method that most people in the U.S. learn to make bead crochet ropes. With this technique, your hook goes under the thread that goes through the hole of the bead; this changes the position of the bead so that the hole goes from horizontal to vertical. You can see how the beads sit in the photo below of my beginner slip stitch pendant project.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because, the thread is mostly encased in the beads, you can use a thinner thread for this type of bead crochet. Also, there is less thread showing between the stitches than with single crochet. Designs crocheted with slip stitch will usually spiral. Judith Bertoglio-Giffin has some wonderful patterns for bead crochet, if you haven't seen her work. One pattern is shown below</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Single Crochet With Beads</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">With single crochet, your crochet hook goes into the chain stitches behind the beads and the beads sit in front of the crochet, like a skin. The single crochet with beads also involves 1 more step of adding a thread loop to each stitch.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">If you compare a slip stitch tube with a stripe pattern to a single crochet tube with a stripe pattern, they look pretty similar, but the difference shows up when you move beyond a simple stripe pattern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A single crochet tube in a striped pattern looks similar to a slip stitch tube, unless you know what to look for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> One big difference between the two methods is that single crochet allows you to increase and decrease beads with more ease, which allows you to make 3-dimensional shapes like these below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Another difference is that single crochet allows you to do more complicated patterns, as Brigitte Ilander has done in her book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">With single crochet, you can combine more complicated patterns with 3-dimensionality to get a snake necklace like the one I made for a private client.</span><br />
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I was obsessed with exploring stripe patterns for my upcoming bead crochet class. Now that I have some samples finished, here is the information:<br />
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<strong>EARN YOUR STRIPES: INTRODUCTION TO TUBULAR SINGLE CROCHET WITH BEADS</strong><br />
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Here is your chance to learn single crochet with beads, the bead crochet technique used in my snake jewelry and the multi-patterned necklaces by talented German designers like Brigitte Ilander. <br />
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I know that bead crochet seems challenging so I have made this class as easy as possible. Both projects will use size 8 seed beads and stripe patterns that allow you to tell where you need to crochet the next bead. You will also use white or light-colored thread.<br />
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First, we will start with a larger than usual tube so that you can see what you are doing and understand the construction of the crochet . You will turn this larger tube into a cute mini purse that can be used as a decoration or key chain.<br />
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After that, you will move on to a more traditional-sized tube that can be turned into a bracelet or necklace. Although we will be sticking with easy to follow stripe patterns, there is no reason why the result has to be boring so we will discuss options for turning your bead crochet tube into an interesting piece of jewelry.<br />
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Previous crochet experience is required; we will be using the chain stitch and single crochet (double crochet in Europe) stitch. You don't need to be an expert, but you don't want to be learning crochet and adding beads at the same time.<br />
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To register for the class visit <a href="http://www.nybead.org/docs/workshops/workshop-2016-01.pdf">Workshops.</a><br />
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Join us on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 for the Bead Society of Greater New York's annual Garage Sale. Admission is free.<br />
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Church of the Holy Apostles<br />
296 9th Avenue at 28th Street New York City <br />
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 Doors open at 6:00pm <br />
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You don't have enough beads, right? So join us for a fun time-you never know what kind of bargains you will find!Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-66974027536022213302015-12-30T17:53:00.000-08:002015-12-30T21:36:37.814-08:00New York Christmas Window Tour 2015Christmas Eve 2014 was balmy, so warm that we saw guys in shorts and tee-shirts walking around Manhattan. The nice weather meant that the sidewalks were crowded. How crowded? This was my view of Rockefeller Center:<br />
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We started the window tour uptown at Barney's. The most interesting window was the one with the glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly, which were lit with fixtures that changed color.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Cartier's has moved their flagship up closer to the Plaza so we chuckled over the bows with panthers at their new location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then we continued to the yearly highlight of the tour, otherwise know as Bergdorf's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I could never wear these but I loved the flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Everything was covered in pearls or crystals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Spelunking never looked like this when we were doing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The lions' manes were made of bugle beads</span>!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Bulgari retired their snake decoration and displayed a sparkly necklace in its place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Tiffany's was next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The miniature chandeliers even turned on and off!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ralph Lauren decorated both the outside and the inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Between security and the crowd, this was as close as we got to Sak's...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">but we did get to see part of the Sak's light show on the front of the building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The tree at Rockefeller Center, which will be turned into lumber for Habitat for Humanity</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dolce and Gabbana went old school this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is Patience in front of the New York Public Library; I didn't manage a photo of Fortitude because there were strange people dancing around that poor lion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Our last stop of the night was Macy's, which was featuring Charlie Brown and the gang.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Since we missed Bryant Park, I took a photo of the tree the next day. It was certainly eye-catching</span>.<br />
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That was it for the window walk of 2015. I hope you enjoyed the virtual tour of New York dressed in it's holiday finery.<br />
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<br />Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-46614178414531535912015-12-17T10:13:00.000-08:002015-12-21T08:49:44.535-08:00Edinburgh, the last day: Ghosties, Ghoulies, Shopping, and Wandering AroundOur last day was full of variety, as we caught up on a few things and just wandered around the city. First, we headed back to the Nation Museum because we had missed an exhibit that we really wanted to see: the Arthur Seat coffins. The museum exhibits 11 of the 17 miniature coffins which measure less than 4 inches (10 cm) long and contain tiny wooden figures inside. These mysterious coffins were discovered by a group of boys in a cave in Holyrood Park in 1836 and people can only speculate on their purpose. If you want to read more on this collection, visit <a href="http://www.nms.ac.uk/explore/collections-stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/mystery-of-the-miniature-coffins/">Miniature Coffins</a>. These coffins were part of the story of Ian Rankin's <em>The Falls, </em>so we couldn't leave Edinburgh without seeing them.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A replica of the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scotts in Westminster Abbey</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Don assures me that these canons can do some real damage to a human being, but they look so darn cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Somehow we ended up by the statue of Greyfriars Bobby and the Greyfriars Kirkyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The statue of Greyfriars Bobby, which people rub for good luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye terrier who maintained a vigil over the grave of his master (an Edinburgh police officer) from 1858-1872, when he died. A life-size statue of Bobby and on top of a fountain was erected and paid for by a local aristocrat. Almost from the beginning there were those who had doubts about the accuracy of the story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The grave of Greyfriars Bobby. Since he was a dog, he couldn't be buried in the churchyard but his grave is right inside the gate. His original bowl and leash are in the Museum of Edinburgh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We also took a stroll through the graveyard. The first interesting item was the mortsafe over one of the graves. This was an iron cage erected to keep grave diggers from stealing the body and selling it to an anatomy school. Of course, it was still easy enough to dig underneath the concrete surround.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The houses are built right up against the wall of the graveyard-no wasted space in this neighborhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">You can also tour the graveyard at night as part of the City of the Dead tour, but we passed on that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next, we popped into the Scottish National Portrait Gallery to look at the lobby done in the Arts and Crafts style of architecture. We ended up wandering through the galleries anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The outside of the portrait gallery</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">One section of the lobby</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A close-up of the mural</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course we had to stop in the museum shop for a quick peak. I fell in love with a lambs wool scarf, which I really didn't need, but after the third time that I walked by it and stopped to pet the darn thing, I bought it. It is soooo soft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">My new Scottish scarf</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We visited the Highland Gems store that carries </span><a href="https://twoskiesdesign.com/greenmarble"><span style="font-size: small;">Two Skies Design</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> jewelry made with Scottish green marble and the friendly clerk gave us small samples of the stone. It is limestone with chlorophyll from decaying plants that forms to make a green and white stone. I plan to make earrings of our samples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Scottish green marble</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Then we stopped for lunch at </span><a href="http://www.oinkhogroast.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: small;">Oink</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> on Victoria Street for a traditional sandwich with roast pork from their farm-raised hogs, onion and sage stuffing, and apple sauce We had to stop there because the aroma wafting out of the store was too tempting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">An interesting mural that we ran across</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> After that we wandered around the Grassmarket area, the site of a cattle market from the 15th to early 20th century and the city's place of execution. There is also monument for the martyred Covenanters, people who signed the National Covenant in 1638 to confirm their opposition to the interference by the Stuart kings in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Plus Burke and Hare, the infamous murder/ resurrection men, operated from a now-vanished close on the west end of the area. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Trust me to find a knitwear store. This was </span><a href="http://www.billbaber.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">Bill Baber</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, a family-run designer knitwear studio that sells modern, Scottish, knitted items for women.</span><br />
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One of the outfits for sale<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The knitwear was very nice but, sadly, I couldn't find anything that looked good on me. It was me, not the garments, but I had fun trying on items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Next we walked past the large collection of Georgian homes in New Town and headed for Carlton Hill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Don standing on one of the paths on Carlton Hill</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The hill is dotted with grandiose monuments, most of them built in the 19th century. One notorious structure is the National Monument, an over-ambitious attempt to replicate the Parthenon that was intended to honor Scotland's dead in the Napoleonic Wars. Construction began but the subscriptions never covered the whole cost, so funds ran dry after 12 columns were erected. It became known locally as "Edinburgh's Disgrace."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The incomplete National Monument or Edinburgh's Disgrace</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Carlton Hill has some amazing views.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After that, we climbed up the stairs in a nearby parking garage so that we could walk this really neat pedestrian bridge to the shopping center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After browsing through John Lewis and a few other stores, we headed back to the Grassmarket area to find a place to eat dinner. We stopped at </span><a href="http://thefiddlersarms.com/"><span style="font-size: small;">The Fiddlers Arms,</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> a supposed traditional Scottish pub with music on some nights. I don't remember what I had to eat but I do remember that Don's Scottish version of lasagna was...um...strange.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Part of our uphill climb to the Royal Mile</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After dinner, we checked the map and started up a street that would take us to the Royal Mile and the bus home. The operative word is up, as we did a lot of climbing uphill. It turns out that we were walking up the Old Fishmarket Close.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">How's this for a street sign?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We headed back to the Dorstan Guesthouse, where we sadly packed up for our journey home the next day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The bus to the airport the next day</span><br />
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Reckless Beadinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08073009690607674513noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7962332710123486882.post-13822008136475069662015-11-27T18:40:00.000-08:002015-11-27T18:40:12.652-08:00Edinburgh, Day 4: National Museum of Scotland and Water of Leith Walk Tuesday, we woke up to a different Edinburgh as all of the festival crowd disappeared and the city went back to its regular population. It was a pleasure to walk the streets.<br />
We spent a good portion of the day at the National Museum of Scotland, which has a lot to see in its original, Victorian building and the new building. Here are a few things that caught our attention.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is a lens made for a lighthouse in the Firth of Forth that was built in 1889 and just retired in 1985.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We stumbled across the Millennium Clock, which stands over 32 feet (10 meters) tall and echoes the form of a medieval church. The clock does tell time but it is also the story of the best and worst of the 20th century. It is quite strange. Any of you Ian Rankin fans will recognize the mention of this clock in <em>The Falls.</em></span><br />
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The Millennium clock<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sadly, our close-up photos didn't turn out, but you can see more photos of the clock at the </span><a href="http://www.nms.ac.uk/explore/collections-stories/art-and-design/millennium-clock-tower/"><span style="font-size: small;">National Museum website</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is a huge slab of orbicular granodiorite from Australia. The distorted spheres are called orbicules and the center of each represents the growth point of crystals, which grew in concentric circles. The orbicules then settled under gravity to form rocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Theatrical headdress from China made with blue kingfisher feathers in the 19th century</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This is part of the Loch Levin wall hangings attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots. While Mary was trained in the arts of needlework, she can't possibly have made all of the embroideries attributed to her. The museum staff believe that this set was made in an Edinburgh workshop in the 16th or early 17th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The latest technology for the 19th century housewife: an early vacuum cleaner in red. The round, brown object is a star solid dipper (whatever that is).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">After exploring the museum, we set out to walk part of the Waters of Leith Walkway, a public walkway and cycling path that runs along about 12 miles (almost 20 kilometers) of the Leith River. We started where the walkway runs behind the Scottish National Gallery of Art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The entrance to the walkway behind the art museum</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This beagle just stood on the wall and watched his doggy friend chase sticks in the water. He had no desire to get wet himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> This is one of the picturesque bridges that we passed under.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The river runs through a number of old villages</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is a close-up of the stone pieces that someone had assembled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Here is another of the stone buildings that we passed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We had planned to walk all the way to Leith, but the weather had other ideas and it started to rain. So we stopped in </span><a href="https://www.hectorsstockbridge.co.uk/"><span style="font-size: small;">Hectors</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, a city pub in Stockbridge, for dinner. It was nice to be in a warm, cozy place to sit out the worst of the weather. The new made our soggy way back to our b&b.</span></td></tr>
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