Slight setback on the glass inlaid dress! My pattern only works with a stretchy material but I couldn't pass up this beautiful champagne silk charmuse (non-stretch). So now I'm altering the pattern and putting in an invisible zipper. Took me quite a while to find the right sewing machine foot for it!

Hello my friend!!

Now I just have to figure out how to put an invisible zipper in!!

Tarrytown lighthouse camera comparison

Boyfriend just got a new Nikon so now I get to play with his old one! Most of my photos on this blog are with an iPhone 5s. Let's see them compared to a Nikon!

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Nikon:

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A Day in Manhattan

A Couple hours at the Met:

Window shopping on Madison:

And more cucumber drinks at Braserie Cognac: 

Hot dogs on breakneck

A Night in Brooklyn

Good times at Cantina Royal with Culture Shock Marketings showing of Hello Moth and Clouds in Cloudless Skies:

Cucumber Margherite Rimmed in spicy salt????

A quick look at the Ai Weiwei exhibition at the Brooklyn Museam:

A few stops in Western Mass at Mass Mocha and some small galleries

and onto our final destination: The Roxbury Motel in Roxbury, NY!
And Behind door #22:

Beautiful red velvet suite called Miss Kitty's Saloon (it even comes with cowboy hats!)

It wasn't all soooo relaxing -

We took a cave tour at Howe Caverns:

 And a cave boat ride!

A 7 mile hike up Twin Mountain, Sugarloaf, and Indian Head:

 Some really cool rock formations along Devil's Path:

 Lots of wildflowers and mushrooms:

Lake George where we dried out from the tent flood the night before! David wove together a beautiful array of tarps and rope to form the ultimate rain fortress!

 Note the water retention wall out of tarp and tent stakes!