Friday, May 11, 2012

Sweets for the sweet in Scarsdale NY

I love to cook. And when I cook nine times out of ten I bake. Muffins, cakes, pies - I even tried my hand at bagels once. And while I'll make something that usually tastes delicious (just don't ask my husband about the rice krispy peanut butter frosted twizzler cake I made for him one year. complete disaster - just look at the ingredients. sometimes great tastes do not taste great together) my creations aren't usually that pretty.

For the last two years however, we've been going to a bakery that bakes not only scrumptious crumb cakes and flaky croissants that literally melt in your mouth, but everything is beautiful. Beautifully decorated, every little flower petal placed just so. Yum! Martine's has two locations in Westchester NY - in Tuckahoe near the Crestwood train station and in Scarsdale across from the Scarsdale station. Take a look at these lovely creations

Mother's Day Cupcakes

French Macaroon Cake (yum!)

Beautiful Handmade Jellies
Orchid Wedding Cake


Thursday, February 24, 2011

Cutest baby shower favors EVER!!

Gilt groupe is my guilty pleasure. I rarely buy anything from there, but I do love to put things in my shopping cart. Usually, if I buy anything - it's a gift for a friend, my Mom's birthday, whatever I happen to need at the moment. Today, they had the cutest baby shower favors on by Kate Aspen. Usually party favors are cute, but kind of a waste of money. These are so incredibly cute though that they're worth the little splurge.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Twishing update

He called!!!

Twishing


Twishing…

Remember that song from Disney’s Cinderella – I’m wishing… I’m wishing… for the one I love. To find me… to find me…

Well, that’s kind of how I feel right now.

Lemme back up. I’m a f/t employee, a p/t entrepreneur and a new Mom (sortof DD is almost one year, yikes!). And you know how you see these women who have a baby and then quit taking care of themselves? That’s me. Oh, I do a good job of trying to hide it, mind you, but I haven’t been to get my hair cut since I went back to work. In June.
It’s now February. 
I’ve got 6 inches of roots on the top and two inches of split ends down below, limp is the look that I’m going for these days.

I know, I should ‘make’ time (please tell me where I can sign up for THAT class) but I’d rather be spending it with my little one. So, that brings me to today. I have a huge client presentation tomorrow. And my head is looking like that lonely mop in the Swiffer ads.

I’m on an early flight to LA. I get in at 1p. I’ve got work to do, but no client meetings. What if <> I book an appointment for a cut and color. This is my morning’s revelation. So, I signon to GogoInflight from the comfort of seat 18E back in Delta’s steerage section. I log on to Yelp, I do a little searching for what looks to be a good hair salon in Orange County. I read some reviews – check out one girl’s blog on how this salon rescued her from Purple Crayon hair and decide that if they can do that – surely they can take me from drab to fab. I go to their website and <> to my delight they have an online booking form.

It’s a sign! The Gods have spoken.

Except that it doesn’t work.
It keeps bouncing back.
With error messages
Saying to check my internet connection (which is fine thank you very much)

Ack! What to do? Check the Contact Us page. Which has directions, A phone number. But no email.
No Facebook
No Twitter

Okay, quick goat thinking – go to Facebook and do a search. Find salon owner. Whew! He’s there. He’s got more friends than I do – surely he looks at this thing. Send the following message:
Ha!
Hi Jack. Name's Melissa. I'm sitting here on a flight from NY to LA and was desperately trying to book an appointment for a cut and color at your salon this afternoon (3p). I obviously can't call to see if there are any appointments available and I tried the online booking form but it keeps giving me an error message. If you happen to check F/book and could relay my request to your receptionist - that'd be grand(!) Email is xxxxx
Thanks and hopefully I'll be by the salon this afternoon 

Very proud of self. For 30 seconds.

Facebook’s not necessarily the most immediate thing. Oh Twit, Tweet!

Hop onto Twitter. Do search.
No salon
No owner/ creative director
No nothing
Wait – there’s one girl who said that she gets her hair cut there. Well, that’s good, but unless she’s going to call them to try and get an appointment for me, I think that I’m sol. Still, the Gods did speak earlier. Let’s send a note out to the T’Universe.

In flight to LAX trying to figure out how to get an appointment at the Jack Winn Salon. Whaa.. online booking form doesn't work. :( no email

Kind of hoping that someone might say – hey. I see you. I have an answer. Here’s an email, or even better, here’s an appointment.

So alas, I resign myself to seat 18-E and prepare to wait the two and a half hours until landing. Until then, I’m Twishing, I’m Twishing… for Jack Winn Salon.  To Tweet me... To Tweet me…

Sunday, November 22, 2009

My new favorite iPhone app is the remote

I've been a little slow getting on the iPhone kick. I've had my iPhone for a bit and I love it, but haven't really explored the apps yet. But, Friday night on the train on the way home, I started messing around in the apps store and found the REMOTE! Holy cow, how cool?!? I've got my Mac now almost constantly plugged into our surround sound system and control all of my itunes using the REMOTE on my iPhone. How did I live without this before? Seriously, I don't think that I listened to music as much as I have in the last two days. We had friends over last night and it was so nice to be able to run our little party mix from anywhere in the house. The best things in life are free!

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Facebook makes me smile

I will be honest, I'm really bad about checking Facebook (almost as bad as I am about writing on my blog). I even get the little alerts saying that someone's written on my wall, or wants to be my 'friend', but if it were really that important, don't you think that they would have called? And if they were really my 'friend', wouldn't we already be friends thus eliminating the need to be Facebook friends? So I rarely go on.
But I went on today.
And it made me happy.
I got to see the latest pictures of my best friend from college's kids. They're growing up so big and looked absolutely adorable sitting on the front step with her surrounded by their little carved pumpkins. K from the lake had posted her latest ultrasound pic announcing to the world that they're preggers with Baby #2 - and due about the same time as we are. My cousin A had all of her Sr. pictures up - she's so freaking fabulous, I wish I had been that cool when I was her age.
I had little notes on my wall from my friend J who I haven't talked to in ages, M wanted to know if I was coming home for Thanksgiving, H wanted to grab dinner one night in the city. Some people say that social media is harming real relationships. How can that be when after visiting my page I felt so loved?!?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Back to school with cute lunch boxes

There's something about the whole back-to-school thing that makes me want to buy new pens and journals, a new calendar or in this case, a cute new lunch box. These little retro style lunch boxes remind me of the sound that I would make scuffing my shoes through fallen leaves on the way down the street to the bus stop on crisp fall mornings. Ahhh, the good old days, at least there's an easy way to recapture them.
Preppy Girl Personalized LunchboxPreppy Girl Personalized Lunchbox - $ 29.99
Preppy Girl Personalized Lunchbox This cool and stylish lunch box is fashionable and fun! Hip and fresh designs featured on an old school metal lunchbox. Each one is printed to be water resistant so they'll stand up to lunchroom wear and tear. They are lead free and food safe. Lunchboxes are also perfect for holding little toys or even hairbows! Measure Approx. 8'x7'x4'