Whew! First of all, thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post. The Quilty Peeps and I made it back from NYC and I’m happy to say, none of us needed a wheelchair to get around! We had a fabulous time — we all get along so well, it’s hard not to have fun with the girls. We spent our first day with Martha Stewart — which deserves a post of its own later.
Before we left, the ever-so-sweet Vallen directed me to her very kind friend Rebecca, who gave us some great food recommendations. Thanks for all your great suggestions Rebecca! We made it to Juniors, but the other places eluded us on this trip and were we ever sorry. I can recommend one place NOT to go — and that’s the revolving restaurant at the top of the Marriot at Times Square. Yucky Buffet. Bad Service. Expensive drinks. That said, they were effective drinks and a certain someone was very friendly with the Times Square policemen. We kept hearing “something about men in uniform”??? Don’t worry, certain someone, what happens in NYC, stays in NYC. LOL.
The rest of our time was spent shopping and double decker bus sight-seeing. We originally thought what a great deal the bus tour would be — a hop-on-hop-off tour, so we could use it to double as transportation around the city. Wrong. It was too slow and inconvenient. Oh well, the tour part was fun, although we ran out of time and missed many of the major sites.
Our best shopping was at all the blogger favorite places in the fashion district and Soho. (The links to all of these places can be found in the wonderful NYC shopping guide by disdressed.) Tinsel Trading was all decked out for the season with their Halloween stuff on display. Lots of glittery goodness.
We all loved MJ Trim, The Store Across the Street, and City Quilter. Junie and I had fun in Grey Line Linen and Gurney went a little nuts over all the ric rac at Daytona. We took pictures of all of our loot:
Junie got the most beautiful brown, orange and aqua linens — it’s hard to tell from the picture, but they are really gorgeous! We also shopped a bit in Soho. Of course, we visited both Purl and Purl Patchwork and loved them both.
Purl has these adorable little sweaters strung across their door:
And of course, being in NYC, we had to partake of the current cupcake obsession. Magnolia came first and by now it had started to rain. We sat in the little park across the street and had a yummy cupcake.
The next day, we checked out Billy’s.
It was a scientific experiement, you understand. It was a tough call, but I think we decided that Magnolia edged out Billy’s by a hair. Not that it matters — we’ll gladly take either kind! Our trip went by way too fast. Next time I’ll tell you all about our visit with Martha!
XOXO,
Anna
That looks like SO MUCH FUN!
Especially the shopping. Well, the shopping and the cupcakes.
ooh, did you get to see the phantom of the opera too?!! Sounds like a fab trip and I can’t wait to hear all about Martha!
What a great time you had! NYC is such a fab city to visit. Can’t wait to hear about your Martha encounter.
Oh my goodness. Wish I was there! Love the Halloween decorations and those lovely cupcakes. Can’t wait to hear more about Martha :)
It sounds like you had a fabulous time!
Sounds like a great trip! NYC is one of my favorite places to visit.
OH MY GOSH, I want to go to NYC so bad now. Please post abou tthe martha show, was it totally awesome? I’ve never been in a Television audience before, WOW! I’m on pins and needles!!
It sounds like you did some FABULOUS shopping! You know I have yet to visit Tinsel trading as it’s only open when I’m at work! But I’ve decided to take a special trip during lunch next week to take in all the Halloweeny Goodness. :)
can’t wait to hear about Martha!!
Glad you had a lovely time Anna but even gladder that you are back! Lucy x
Oh I wish I could have gone along too, on a professional basis, you understand, as head cupcake taster and ricrac buyer!
Kim x
That looks like fun! I love the idea of a cupcake tour. Who knew that would take off?!
Sounds like you’ve had a wonderful time!
I’m so jealous that you got to visit all those gorgeous shops!!
What a great trip – I am very jealous all my favourite things in one trip – fabric, yarn and cupcakes!
Ohh….. I’ve tagged you.
the cakes look great.
Anna,
That sounds like a WONDERFUL trip. I love NYC but would see it through new eyes now that I’m a fabric shopper.
Check my site for an AWARD and a TAG!
Joni
Thanks for sharing your trip with us!
I just enlarged that photo of all the loot. Now that’s what I call shopping. That’s what I like to see. Glad you had a good time. When are you going back?
How exciting your trip looked like. And to meet Martha and see her show. OMG I would love to do that. I like her and like you said a lot of people don’t. I think she’s great. Loved all the loot you girls bought and the little sweaters in PURL.
Wow – what an amazing sounding trip! I swear, the cupcake-taste-off sounds like heaven on its own, but mixd in with all the other stuff? You must *still* be on Cloud Nine!
What a wonderful review of a fabulous trip, I never cared if I saw New York or not, now I gotta go! Thanks!
OH wow!! Very inspiring!! I’m going to NY next May with my sister, so I’m starting to plan the places I want to go.Thanks for some ideas!