sarah in nyc

 We are now back home and I am trying to organize the last bits of our trip into a coherent post. But before I do, I just want to share one of the most beautiful corners of my neighborhood. I stopped by yesterday on my way from one errand to another. It's St. Michael's Church. It had been built as a vacation church for Episcopalian Manhattanites who vacationed in northern Manhattan during the second half of the 19th century.  One of its rectors was a buddy of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Tiffany designed the windows and one of the alters.  Photographs do not do the space justice. The dollar store rug-bag I had made worked incredibly well during this trip. Several people commented on the bag and asked if it was for sale, so I plan to make some and see if there is demand for them. Someone had once quipped about the weather in Boston "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute." The weather in New York is pretty changeable as well. I always advis...

We arrived home from, our adventure in San Francisco at about one in the morning. I didn't post while we were away but plan to do a few posts about our adventures. The main reason for this trip was the opening of the exhibit of my late father-in-law's artwork at  The Lost Art Salon . I will write about that magical day in a different post. We visited a fair number of museums. Our first was  The Museum of Craft and Design , which, unlike most museums, you enter through the gift shop. It's a small museum and we loved the exhibit of Tom Loeser chairs. This folding chair was from the 1980's and was designed to do double duty as either a chair or a piece of artwork     I was completely charmed by the series of chairs and benches he had made incorporating farm implements.    I wished that I were a designer for a convention center in farm country so I could purchase these benches. My hus...