"Are the gateaux prete/ready?" asks Little Bear.
"I think we have enough champagne glasses..."
"Umm...pink Champagne will NOT do!"
"After all, I have a candle light date with the Veuve Clicquot..."
"The heck you do!" shouts BEAR.
" Oooops I forgot...
Yesterday I had a British moment. I succombed to a jar of orange marmelade (It was Sarabeth's not British). Then I went to see The King's Speech very spur of the moment and I LOVED it, but more later.
Have I told you about the London Transport Museum?
I've been wondering if 'After-Christmas Sales' include...
DIY gingerbread house sets I saw hither and thither..? Update: Forget these! They've been recalled! A BIG NO NO!
I'd liked to make this Van Gogh-esque starry, starry night house in particular.
Lord & Taylor obliged with a gingerbread house theme in their windows.
Marshmellow roofing - what a good idea!
And gumdrop landscaping...
Furthermore Lord & Taylors provided actual DIY kitchen scenes...
With Mother keeping a discrete eye on the kids shenanigans.
Sadly L & T did not provide a recipe for making your gingerbread house.
Another kidlet adds finishing touches or is she about to sneak a bite of roof?
On the upper East side French Bon Point had white paper cutout houses in their vitrines.
I would have much preferred to see a gingerbread version of this chocolatier.
Or this Paris bistro.
These paper cutout store fronts were in a Marais papeterie boutique vitrine.
Best of all I would like to see gingerbread Paris monuments!
Enfin les vitrines Xmas at Bergdorf Goodmans!
Comme d'habitude les singes/as always the monkeys are present.
The theme this year is 'Wish You Were Here"
So climb aboard the crocheted horse (who's been chatting with the knitted-legginged ostriches at Bendels per chance?)
Remember seeing this gift-bearing hound in
'Full Speed Ahead' in your sequined stripped jammies...pourquoi pas?
Accompanied by sailors beaucoup...
'Ready For Takeoff'?
More Bergdorf monkey coachmen...
And why oh why is Amelia Earhart riding in an old fahioned coach? Qui sait? Only Bergdorfs knows that answer.
In the 58th street side windows, astrology and cartography is going to town.
A feathered haircut peut-etre?
Lions guard the maniquin here...
BEAR is having his first 'Snow Day' in New York City.
Instead of 'Bright Lights....
'And Big City'
It's snow branches...
And 18 - 20 inches of snow
We've been outside shoveling on THREE different occasions with little to show for in the end...
How we wish we had bought this nice chocolate buche de Noel in Cafe Petrossian's vitrine...
New York bears want...
2 wish U...
A very...
Beary,
Merry.
Christmas.
