What a Week!

Wow I cannot believe it has been almost a week since I have blogged. I was doing so well too! I am still trying to get caught up after the craziness that was last week. I spent the beginning of the week grieving the loss of my aunt who passed away after a month of medical issues. Even though I knew that her passing was inevitable, I still was not ready to say goodbye. I volunteered to make the photo collage because as only crafters know...there is nothing like a little craft therapy. Her funeral was a rough one, partly because she was the third sibling my father has lost in a little over a year's time and she was the matriarch of the family after her sister died last year. I know that she is with me now all of the time and I will always keep her in my heart and memories. Thankfully I had something to look forward to at the end of the week which made getting through the funeral a little easier. I made plans with my great friend and sorority sister (aka my wingman) to head to NYC and be cheesy tourists Christmas Style. I cashed in the last of my Hilton points to get us a room in the city. The night before I was completely exhausted from the funeral events during the previous days and I had 4 Purplelicious orders to finish but I took a break to plan out what we were going to do in NYC. We had a list of things we wanted to do, it was my job to make them happen. So I was little inspired by the movie Serendipity and thought both Laura and I could use a "fortunate accident" these days! After we dropped our bags off at the hotel, we headed straight to Central Park (via subway I might add) and went to the Wollman Rink. This place was awesome and not crowded at all. It took us a few laps to figure out how to ice skate but we made it an hour and didn't fall!


After we finished ice skating we headed straight to FAO Schwartz. That place is so much fun! We even got a chance to try out the Big Piano that was in the movie Big!

By this point we were pretty much starving and headed to Serendipity for lunch! They had a wait there so we killed time at Dylan's Candy Bar, which was pretty much the coolest candy store I have ever been in. We headed back to Serendipity and got seated right away. What an adorable little place and it was decorated so cute for Christmas. The food was awesome and the dessert was even better. We did not get the frozen hot chocolate but instead got this ice cream, chocolate cake, and hot fudge dessert that was sinful. My hope is that since we ate at Serendipity a little luck will come our way!


From there we walked down 5th Avenue and stopped into some stores here and there until we got to Rockefeller center and saw the big tree. So amazing, that tree is simply breathtaking.


Exhausted from all of the walking we hit the hotel for a quick nap before we went out for a late night of bar hopping. On our way to the train station we decided to hit Macy's again and check out Santaland on the 8th floor. We did not realize that this would entail a visit with Santa so we decided to make the most of it. Let me just tell you when I saw this Santa, I got goosebumps, he was the real deal. Laura and I sit on his lap to prepare for our picture and Santa's turns to me and says, "What do you want for Christmas?" I about fell off of his lap. The rest of the exchange was quite comical but I will keep that to myself and just hope that Santa gets me what I asked for!


I ended the week with a tribute to one of my high school classmates that was killed in the line of duty in Iraq this summer. I ran in a 5K that was organized in his name. It was an emotional run for me mostly because in all of the runs I have done, I have never had such a personal connection to the cause. There were so many people there, it was such a tribute to him. It was also amazing to catch up with some friends from high school I have not seen in ages. Later that evening, I attended a dinner for him and had the opportunity to toast him. After the party a group of us from high school just hung out and caught up. It was a great day in all, Greg was definitely smiling down on all of us that day.

So as you can see I have had quite a week and I have been keeping busy creating new items for Purplelicious for the holidays! In case you have missed my entertaining blogs I hope to be back on a posting routine this week!