for a good cause...

love, love these amazing destination bandanas at hand over fist

....and...they are all for good.

here's the 411:

All items in this shop are being sold as a fundraiser for the screen printer I work with. He lost over $70,000 worth of equipment due to Hurricane Sandy. 90% of all profits on each item sold will contribute to getting his business fully functional again. See the full story at handoverfist.com

90%?....that's really incredible....

love the bandanas....love new york...love the generosity

found out about this from the fabulous cindy....

who saw it on here

courtyard....

just wanted to share...
a few more pics from our ny trip

the super fabulous courtyard in the middle of our hotel....
one side of the lobby, busy new york street....
.....the other side, a pretty green get away

pics via the toy camera on my phone

and, oops....here's the link to the hotel

perfect day....

that's how i would have to describe our sunday in new york.....

....my scott and i met up with cindy and her scott

they were nice enough to share with us some of their favorite places....

the high line.....love the view and the walk

chelsea market....

where cindy directed us to these fun treats to bring home

....and to a totally fabulous anthropologie

where i picked up the american (cheaper) version of selvedge

...i totally did not know that they were making an american version

....big thanks to cindy for pointing it out

i read it cover to cover on the plane trip home

we had a great lunch and then headed over t0 willamsburg, brooklyn

....loved all the shops that we went in....

a great shoe shop....(of course :)

ugly luggage (where i found some great little bits for jewelry.....

.....you may remember this little treasure that cindy found there...

...so happy she shared that store with me

catbird....that had the most fun jewelry

sweet william....loved the dolls....

....and built by wendy....that was sadly closed for labor day weekend

( i was the gal with her nose pressed up against the window)

and other fun places.......but above all that....

....it was so great just to spend time with them.....

cindy's blog is a must-read for me....

and she's always so nice,

....and i must say that she (and scott) are even nicer in person....

and i just have to thank them for sharing their new york with us

forgive me for going on and on....

.....usually not my thing....

but it was... the perfect day :)

home again....

we got home late last nite.....

.....and i have sooo much to share

so many fun adventures....

but not a lot of pictures....

....i realized when we were on our way

that i had put the camera bag down when i was packing....

....and never picked it up again

i took some pics with the toy camera on my phone

so i will be sharing some of those

photo taken from the top of arthur ashe stadium at the us open

....if you look super, super hard, you can see the ny skyline

behind the lights :)

on the road again...

my guy and i are heading back to nyc
for a little tennis....
and a little get-away
....and i couldn't be more thrilled!!!

i will be unplugging.....
but....he will have his computer
and i will have my camera
so....a picture or 2 may make their way here
.....or not.....

happy, happy weekend

photo via my lovely daughter

life goes on...

we're home....

...and after 24/7 family time....

...hubby is back at work....

the guys are playing with their friends...
...and my daughter decided, at the last minute to go to volleyball camp

(had to clean all the clothes i just wanted to burn

and then repack :)

....anyway, i'm missing our time together...and missing her,

so i thought i would share some of the images from her camera....

....her trip

(left out all the crazy, jumping on the hotel bed pics

and the pictures of her shoes :)

she loved the empire state building....

enjoyed both soccer games (in dc and nyc) that we went to

...but not as much as her brothers did....
.

a pretty door that caught her eye

eveyone on the street knew this man....
...and she thought that was great

had to get a strawberry tart here....

(i'm all about the cheesecake)

and i introduced her to strawberry shortcake good humor bars

from my childhood....

she enjoyed the meeting so much that i think she had 3 on the trip

wall street sites....

walked thru here....

but she's not much of a shopper....

....but she did love it here

her absolute favorite store

(and mine, too....more about that later)

.

and she's 16....so, of course, this was her favorite place...... so we ended our visit there

our big adventure begins...

we are hitting the road!!!

the family vacation starts today....

....we are spending a couple days in d.c.

and then a week in nyc...

.

...i'll certainly check in with a photo or two...

....and i'm sure i'll find a few things that i love in new york

that i will have to share....

.

happy weekend to you ....

lovely photo here

a little help from my friends....

our family vacation is in less than 2 weeks...

and we have decided on new york city!!

my guy and i have been a number of times

(for work and play :)

but we have never taken the kiddos.....

.....i know a million places that i want to go

(and i will get the chance,

because hubby and i will be going back in august for the u.s. open

and an anniversary celebration........i'm so excited)

but this trip, i really want to take the kids to places that they will love....

so if you have any great suggestions....

...their ages are 16, soon to be 14 and 11

....i would love to hear them.....

thanks!!

.

nyc in a bag....first seen here