sarah in nyc

Yesterday I gave myself a reward day and went to visit the museum at FIT. My big projects of the summer were completed and delivered. I cooked for the high holidays. We got ready for our trip to Israel--- ( and all the adventures that ensued. We are, like everyone, else obsessed by the news but I really wanted to take a break and visit the museum. The current exhibit is called Food and Fashion. You can enter the exhibit virtually  here . The upstairs exhibition spaces are being prepared for new exhibits so it was just the downstairs gallery. It's always a treat to see wonderful clothes. This particular exhibition seemed ( excuse the expression) only half baked.  The concept was great on paper and then the curators sort of ran out of ideas. There were lots of garments by Moschino, as one might expect. I love the Moschino garments from this era. The garment shapes are so classic and the embellishments are so delightful.   The Chanel skirt below  is supposed to res...

 Soon after we got back from Israel and Dubai I went to Costco to refill our larders. One of the items that I had purchased was a 25lb bag of flour.   BTW this is really great bread baking flour at an insanely good price.  We usually get one about once a month or so. I had actually jumped the gun a bit on the flour and our usual storage spot for the 5 gallon sized bags that I decant the flour into was a little too full.  My brain was a little fried from our experience being under rocket fire for two and a half days and I just didn't have the physical or mental energy to figure out what to do with the  25 lb. bag of flour. I left the bag of flour on one of our kitchen chairs Well, a few days went by and the flour was still occupying the chair next to mine in the kitchen.   One morning I came into the kitchen for breakfast and found that my husband had turned the bag of flour into a doll? a puppet? using a stuffed plastic bag, a pair of gloves and a pair...

 When Bonnie met with me several weeks ago about making her tallit she spoke about wanting the stripes to resemble the ocean from her childhood on the Massachusetts coast. The beach we visited most often in my childhood was just a few miles away in Westport, Massachusetts, the spectacular Horseneck Beach. I haven't been there in more than thirty five years but the colors of that water are deeply imprinted in my brain. I know that water not from looking at photos but from being inside of that water with long strands of seaweed wrapping themselves around my legs. I know that water from being tumbled by the waves, from floating on top of that water from having my mouth filled with that water. I had dyed the grosgrain ribbon that borders the ocean dyed silk to look like sky---to tie in with the atara. I used the scallop stitch on my machine to look like ripples of water. I used more of the silk that I had dyed to look like the water off the south coast of Massachusetts   for ...