On my last trip to Europe I was given a very special present from a dear member of my host family. I wrote about visiting her family farm back in 2008, where I first met her, and 3.5 years later I got to go there again to see a few renovations and additions to their Hermetton farm, which was now …
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Vanity Press
Technology has come a long way and anyone of us could “publish” a fab coffee book with just a few mouse clicks. Photography is a big source of joy to me, so when combined with my other favorite hobby (fashion) and a great Groupon deal, it led to a very fun project, courtesy of Mixbook.com. Yes, I’d had the Groupon …
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Eating Brooklyn
Of all the times I’ve been to NY I’ve never strayed across the bridge to visit Brooklyn…till this trip. And as it turned out, it was there that I found my favorite pizza joint and bakery. Who knew I would love Brooklyn Heights (from where you could get a great view of Manhattan) and DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge …
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Wooed by Wu
So while you were all wooed by Wu a couple of weeks ago during the pre-launch buzz of the Target collaboration with Jason Wu, I was zipping through one of the many Smithsonian institutions during my free day. I stopped by the National Museum of American History, which I had never visited before, and saw the most incredible thing–the original …
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Super Bowl Parade
Sometimes Karl Lagerfeld shows up in mysterious places! I was following the crowd to a certain Super Bowl parade downtown… as confetti and streamers fell from skyscrapers like snow: I was shocked to find that some pieces of papers that were thrown from buildings had confidential client information! But no matter, people walked all over them till they turned to …