Rolling Along...

I loved this shot...shopping in another part of Soho today.

Meetings all morning...

...shopping all afternoon...

and then...drum roll please...

after having bought tickets WEEKS ago...it's TIME...it's here...

Village Voices' 1st Annual CHOICE EATS!!!

What's Choice Eats?

It's when The Village Voice's columnist Robert Sietsema gets together his top restaurants from all of the boroughs and over 1000 foodies line up around the block to pour into the Puck Building to taste and savor until they just can't do it anymore! For $30 Ramona, Jennifer, Jenni and Carol joined me in tasting and trying!! Some things were FABULOUS...some were OK...one was super disappointing.

In the Best category:
Nirvana Cafe & Bar -- Sri Lankan Cuisine -- 218 3rd Avenue, NYC
La Maison du Couscous -- Moroccan Cuisine -- 484 77th Street, Brooklyn, NY <-- this place is worth taking the R out to Brooklyn any day! Tiffin Wallah -- South Indian Vegetarian Cuisine -- 127 East 28th Street, NYC --
Smoke Joint -- BBQ -- 87 South Elliot Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn,

The biggest disappointment:
Vanessa's Dumpling House -- How can you make pork dumplings that have absolutely NO FLAVOUR? Zip, zero...Nadda. Blah.

Nope...I didn't have the room in my belly to try all of the offerings..but i tried all that I had hoped to and more!!! Yum!!!!

Busy Busy Busy

One of my most important vendors is in town for the week. Although our work will take up some time I'd usually be using on other things, it's so worth it. I'm sure we're going to have a VERY productive week.

Not only is Marilyn in town, but she brought her older sister with her from Taiwan and her younger sister came up from North Carolina where she's going to school.


We three spent the day checking out the stores (and competition) downtown, mostly in Soho.
Bloomingdales Downtown had some beautiful things as did Mango and Uniqlo. Keep in mind that we try to hit as many stores as possible to see the trends and see what our competition has out in stores. It's not like we're picking out and trying on clothes etc. (Not that it isn't fun!!)

Marilyn was very generous to treat our entire office to dinner at Morton's Steakhouse.

Yummy steak and New Zealand lobstertail and very tender asparagus. YUM!!


Early to rise again tomorrow for day 2 of shopping/working.

NYC Yarn Shop Reviews
(and fabric...and trims...and...)

As requested...
Links to reviewed lists of shops in NYC. Just click and it'll take you to my list. Note that there may be some shops in other cities on these lists...and if I've found a shop to be particularly BAD, I've also listed it here.

Yarn Shops

Not on the list yet but worth a visit is School Products! I'll try to hit that one with a review after China!

Trim Shops

Fabrics Shops

Steinlauf and Stoller for Notions (thread, zippers of ANY length, scissors, underwires - you name it!)
Cheers!