the catskills

Inspired by our new Christmas tradition, Jeff and I spent the holiday visiting a new part of our not so new state. For this trip, we ventured to the town of Phoenicia, just past Woodstock in the Catskills. While it wasn't exactly what I was envisioning, it was still nice to get away from the city. We went for a great hike, ate some surprisingly good pizza, and I beat Jeff twice at checkers (ha!). We also woke up to snow on Christmas morning - my first ever white Christmas!

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the train show!

We took a family field trip to see the Holiday Train Show on a drizzly Sunday afternoon, followed by dinner on Arthur Avenue.

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windows at bergdorf goodman

Not quite as spectacular as last years, but still pretty breathtaking.

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los angeles that was

My brother-in-law sent me these nostalgic images of the Los Angeles that was. Thanks Justin!

Via this flickr stream.

adventures in baking

On a recent dreary Saturday, I whipped up some peppermint bark (already eaten in entirety), lime melt-a-ways (not shown), and zucchini-vanilla cupcakes. Yes, the holidays are upon us.

be awesome today

Many thanks to Heather, Eunice and James, who each in their own way, contributed in making this print now hang above my front door.
Go here to get your own!

discovering columbus

Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi transformed the sculpture of Christopher Columbus at Columbus Circle into an even more interesting work of art. The artist built a rather stylish penthouse living room with the sculpture as its center. In addition to the well designed space (I especially liked the NYC themed wallpaper), it was also incredible to see the sculpture so close and personal.

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l.a., briefly

Took a very quick trip to Los Angeles to attend a rehearsal dinner, wedding, meet a new baby and eat some mexican food.
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instagram, lately

Some grams of late (I'm @shoshauna). 

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knit-a-long

Way back in January, Sara approached me about our annual knit-a-long (this is what we made last year). This wasn't a hard project (although it was my first time with intarsia), but for whatever reason it took forever. With the recent natural disaster, and my office being without power, I really had no excuse to not finish it. I actually think it came out pretty good (you can find the pattern here).
Here is Sara's version:

 and Katrina's:

 I ended up with some extra yarn, so I made this baby hat: