Faith, Shopping, Travel, Uncategorized Newport Mansions Gift Shops July 18, 2023

Featured Video Play Icon Perhaps it’s because we are getting accustomed to on-line shopping, but a beautiful gift shop is always welcomed. Catch a glimpse of the ones at the Newport, Rhode Island mansions. Plenty of temptations. Added bonus – plentiful and well maintained rest rooms. Imagine how full it will be at Christmas time. Remember, no matter how...

Tattered Tulip Shop March 2, 2019 in Friends, Shopping

Looking for the feel of HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” Magnolia Market and feeling like you could channel Chip & Joanna Gaines? Come on to Lockport and visit the Tattered Tulip. Let me prepare you …you can’t judge a book by its cover. You know the...

Christmas at Corning Museum of Glass December 3, 2018 in Shopping, Travel

  Located conveniently in the middle of NYState – halfway between NYCity and Buffalo, you will find the Corning Museum of Glass. Have you been to Corning, NY lately? May I suggest you visit at Christmas time. Since 2008, the Ornament Tree was created...

MacKenzie Childs Barn Sale July 26, 2017 in Faith, Family, Shopping, Traditions

On a 85 degree, no clouds, no shade kinda day in the thick of the summer, with 15,000 of your closest friends, there’s nowhere you’d rather be than the MacKenzie Childs’ Barn Sale. Holy Checkers!  For Buffalo people, this is Aurora, NY on Cayuga...