Introducing Vava

Hello all my friends, I am adding a contributor to my blog, she is Vava, she is my sister. She is in New York and has a home in Vermont with a fabulous garden. She is fantastic cook and has a well honed sense of fashion and style formed from years of working with clothes. We made paper doll clothes when we were kids and learned to sew making Barbie dresses.

When we Skype we talk about food, delicious meals we have cooked or a restaurant we have been to, a wine we have tasted. We talk about clothes and fashion, the cut of jeans, the blend of cashmere or the new collection of a favorite designer and I have often thought these conversations should be shared.

Being an interior designer and writing a blog on interiors and design, food and fashion would inevitably cross into the posts. When designing a kitchen, dining room or a cafe with a client conversations about food and cooking always arise, they go together. As so with many other parts of designing a home, we cross into other areas of design, art, culture, style, fashions.

I am looking forward to having Vava contribute, there will be recipes, there will be styling ideas and observations.... Come back tomorrow for Doomsday.

Preparations

Thanksgiving is tomorrow and we have been preparing and cooking all day, my sister is doing the turkey and vegetables, my mother the sweet potatoes, I am doing the cranberries and corn bread and pies, yummy pies with vanilla ice cream.

 More tomorrow from the table...

My sister has prepared the table, now starting on the turkey, vegetables and potatoes. Anticipation...

Brie with strawberries drizzled with honey,  a delight my sister found on Pinterest

 The turkey glazed with orange

New York

Lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Promenade

It has been over 10 days, gosh where do the days go. When I started off to New York a couple of weeks ago my laptop died, I learned it was part of the recall of the MacBook by Apple, a faulty chip had to be replaced. Now my Mac is as good as new and I am back to my blog, which I have missed.

I was in New York where my daughter Kate is and had some lovely moments as well as seeing a good friend and one of my favorite views of the city from the Brooklyn Promenade. Ahh New York....

Later I visited my sister and Mom in Vermont for several days of family, food, wine and great conversations around the table.

So much fun, never enough time.