Posted in Beautiful Things, Cooking, Food Adventures, Fun in NYC, Holidays, Parenting, tagged chandeliers, children, chocolate, food in NYC, French, holiday season in manhattan, hot chocolate, kids, Marie Belle, Parisian, soho, staying warm, sweets on December 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Remember our hot chocolate outing from last year? Well we were out and about again in Soho and came across our favorite fancy hot chocolate shop, Marie Belle. Their hot chocolate is literally like drinking a chocolate bar that’s been melted down into a fancy tea cup. The kids love it and I love sitting under the chandeliers and pretending we are in Paris! Check out their Blue Box collection here – I can stare at these illustrations on chocolates all day.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Found Things, Fun in NYC, Parenting, Travel, tagged bones, butterflies, children, Evolution, fossils, gems, kids, minerals, NYC, skeletons, skulls, soho, store, travel, unusual gifts on January 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
While in SoHo we had to make a stop at a shop that I remember visiting back in 1993 when it first opened. Not quite a fossil, but a fixture in the neighborhood for sure! Where else but NYC can you find a shop that prides itself in offering the unusual – including human skeletons and replica skulls? We explored the “mysteries of the natural world” (as Zagat put it), with two floors of exotic gifts including shells, taxidermy, jewelry fashioned from fossils, and other curiosities like jarred butterflies. Ezra seemed to love the ‘medical’ aspect to it all but Zoe stayed in her stroller, calling the place “too scary”.
Posted in Beautiful Things, Fun in NYC, Kid style, Parenting, Travel, tagged art, art and kids, bulldog, collage, culture, David Mach, dogs, Dustin Yellin, english bulldog, french bulldog, frenchie, gallery, gallery hopping, gorilla made of coat hangers, layers of glass, new artists, NYC, soho on January 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We spent the day in Soho checking out Opera Gallery on Spring Street. It was really David Mach’s gorilla made of metal coat hangers that lured us in… we could see him from the front window. Once inside we not only got a taste of some newer art (loved Dustin Yellin’s collage-like works glued to multiple pieces of glass), but we also met a French and English bulldog and got our dog fix.
portrait of KISS made entirely of broken vinyl records!
EZRA ZOE 