This month through January 30, StoryCorps is in Miami recording, “Historias“. As you may know, StoryCorps travels around the country and collects oral histories. Through a partnership with the Library of Congress, the stories collected go into archives of the library. Participants are asked to go in with a partner, friend, family member and in…
Month: January 2010
A Gables Home Tour Kind of Weekend
This was quite a weekend in the Gables if you wanted to see homes. It started on Saturday morning with the Coral Gables Community Foundation Kitchen Tour. For $25 a ticket we had from 10:00 am-3:00pm to visit 6 homes and sample food from area restaurants. The funny thing was the third home on the…
Today’s Look…
So this is my look today. Brown short sleeve cardi– Target Silk purple print dress- J.Crew Wide brown leather belt- Banana Republic Black tights Brown suede desert boots- Bronx Gold hoop earrings Gold keys necklace I feel like I need to dye the laces…like they are throwing off the ensemble. OK–back to sketching now.
Miami Chic…
Sunday I am going to an event for the museum. The invitation called for, “Miami Chic”…I know what this means at 8pm, but what does this mean at 4pm? Since I just organized the closets…I’m going to have fun shopping in my closet to figure this out. Especially since Saturday I am going on the…
Organized Closet(s) = Happy Home
Baby steps right? My 4 resolutions are well under way… 1. Stay healthy be healthy— doing that (pretty much) on a daily basis. 2. Save money— baby steps 3. Get on the golf course or driving range once a week (harder than I thought) 4. Get and stay organized! (Starting…) So I spent my Saturday…
Coral Gables Farmer’s Market Begins Tomorrow!
This has to be the happiest month for me. 1. Birthday month (YAY!) 2. New Year, new beginnings 3. Coral Gables Farmer’s Market kicks-off You know where I’ll be with Maggie (the best golden retriever in the world), every Saturday morning from about 10-11am.
Help Haiti
Miami is an incredible city. An international city made up of people from all around the globe. Their cultures become a part of ours.Our neighbors in the Caribbean are in need after this massive record breaking earthquake in Haiti. If you can help, please do so. Here are some websites you can donate money to,…
All My Summer Babies
This summer 4 of my friends were pregnant and due within weeks of each other from Mid-August to Mid- October. This past Sunday the eldest, Georgia Ann (I showed off the painting I did for her room this summer), was baptised. I was fortunate enough to be one of her 2 Godmothers. Georgia’s baptism was…
44 and rainy in miami…toto i don’t think we’re home anymore
Yeah…uh…I feel like I’m living in NYC again! Don’t get me wrong, I really do like cold weather, but this has been a near record breaking week with it being cold for a week straight! …actually it warmed up yesterday…if not we’d be setting a new record for longest amount of time with cold weather…
Making Headlines
This morning at around 7:50am I walked out of the museum across the street to Government Center to catch the people mover to Brickell for a meeting. It was about 45 degrees, and this picture was taken of me by a Miami Herald photographer. The picture was on the newspapers homepage in about an hour…