I made this pillow as a Mothers’ Day gift for my mom when I was really little. It’s literally the most important thing I’ve ever made.
Category: Loose Threads
…seemed like a more apropos title than ‘Miscellaneous’ or ‘Uncategorized.’
Avi’s Moroccan Inspired Wedding Gown
When I first met Avi she told me the sweetest story of how her fiancé had proposed to her: he had taken her on a surprise trip… Read more “Avi’s Moroccan Inspired Wedding Gown”
All the Stuff I Made for Christmas
My mom asked me to come home a few weeks early for Christmas to help her get the house ready for our entire family (10 adults and 4 kids… Read more “All the Stuff I Made for Christmas”
Gingerbread Cookie Collaboration 2013!
If you know me you know that I love making cookies and I love Christmas, which naturally means that I really love making Christmas cookies! Over the last few years it’s become a tradition of mine to make snowflakes out of gingerbread, and pipe them rather ornately with royal icing.
I like to call them Rococo snowflakes, but they could just as easily be Baroque snowflakes, and some of them could even pass for Art Deco snowflakes, but I digress. What’s more important is that it’s kind of like doing embroidery but with something sweet and edible and I have way too much fun doing it!
I’ve been hearing for years from the ecstatic recipients of these cookies (I’ve only ever made them for my family and friends) that I need to make them available to the rest of the world, so this year I asked my friend Amy Noelle, who owns Sugar Flower Cake Shop and makes wedding cakes decorated with beautiful sugar flowers, if she would like to team up and help me bake, decorate, and sell my gingerbread snowflakes this holiday season. She thought it was a great idea!
Now everyone will have a chance to find out for themselves if these cookies are indeed too pretty to eat (trust me, they are not–they taste just as good as they look)! You’ll be able to pre-order our first batch of cookies through Amy’s website by the end of the month, so stay tuned for details.
And be sure and follow both of us on Instagram, as we’ll be posting lots of photos as we go… Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Special Guest Blogger: One of My Brides, Lisa
On Choosing Colette Komm by L. H. Grant A week after my engagement, on a flight from New York to Phoenix, I found myself sitting next to the… Read more “Special Guest Blogger: One of My Brides, Lisa”
Getting ready for the New York Weddings Event
Here’s a sneak peak at what I’m going to have on display at the show!
A Holiday Tribute to Steve Jobs
When Steve Jobs passed away in October it made me more sad than I thought it would. As a creative and artistic person I cannot imagine my… Read more “A Holiday Tribute to Steve Jobs”
Gingerbread Cookie Teaser…
I know Christmas is officially over, but at my apartment it’s still going strong due to the fact that I was too busy right up to the… Read more “Gingerbread Cookie Teaser…”
Remembering September 11th, 2001
September 11, 2001 was a Tuesday; the second Tuesday of my sophomore year at Parsons — and because the first week of classes never really counts —… Read more “Remembering September 11th, 2001”
A Dozen Roses for Valentine’s Day…
…From the train on the back of the Victorian Gown. Happy Valentines Day to all of my brides, past, present and future! May your lives be filled… Read more “A Dozen Roses for Valentine’s Day…”