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The Quilty Peeps Go To NYC

Whew! First of all, thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post. The Quilty Peeps and I made it back from NYC and I’m happy to say, none of us needed a wheelchair to get around! We had a fabulous time — we all get along so well, it’s hard not to have fun with the girls. We spent our first day with Martha Stewart — which deserves a post of its own later.

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Before we left, the ever-so-sweet Vallen directed me to her very kind friend Rebecca, who gave us some great food recommendations. Thanks for all your great suggestions Rebecca! We made it to Juniors, but the other places eluded us on this trip and were we ever sorry. I can recommend one place NOT to go — and that’s the revolving restaurant at the top of the Marriot at Times Square. Yucky Buffet. Bad Service. Expensive drinks. That said, they were effective drinks and a certain someone was very friendly with the Times Square policemen. We kept hearing “something about men in uniform”??? Don’t worry, certain someone, what happens in NYC, stays in NYC. LOL.

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The rest of our time was spent shopping and double decker bus sight-seeing. We originally thought what a great deal the bus tour would be — a hop-on-hop-off tour, so we could use it to double as transportation around the city. Wrong. It was too slow and inconvenient. Oh well, the tour part was fun, although we ran out of time and missed many of the major sites.

Our best shopping was at all the blogger favorite places in the fashion district and Soho. (The links to all of these places can be found in the wonderful NYC shopping guide by disdressed.) Tinsel Trading was all decked out for the season with their Halloween stuff on display. Lots of glittery goodness.

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We all loved MJ Trim, The Store Across the Street, and City Quilter. Junie and I had fun in Grey Line Linen and Gurney went a little nuts over all the ric rac at Daytona. We took pictures of all of our loot:

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Junie got the most beautiful brown, orange and aqua linens — it’s hard to tell from the picture, but they are really gorgeous! We also shopped a bit in Soho. Of course, we visited both Purl and Purl Patchwork and loved them both.

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Purl has these adorable little sweaters strung across their door:

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And of course, being in NYC, we had to partake of the current cupcake obsession. Magnolia came first and by now it had started to rain. We sat in the little park across the street and had a yummy cupcake.

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The next day, we checked out Billy’s.

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It was a scientific experiement, you understand. It was a tough call, but I think we decided that Magnolia edged out Billy’s by a hair. Not that it matters — we’ll gladly take either kind! Our trip went by way too fast. Next time I’ll tell you all about our visit with Martha!
XOXO,
Anna

22 thoughts on “The Quilty Peeps Go To NYC”

  1. Oh my goodness. Wish I was there! Love the Halloween decorations and those lovely cupcakes. Can’t wait to hear more about Martha :)

  2. OH MY GOSH, I want to go to NYC so bad now. Please post abou tthe martha show, was it totally awesome? I’ve never been in a Television audience before, WOW! I’m on pins and needles!!

  3. It sounds like you did some FABULOUS shopping! You know I have yet to visit Tinsel trading as it’s only open when I’m at work! But I’ve decided to take a special trip during lunch next week to take in all the Halloweeny Goodness. :)

    can’t wait to hear about Martha!!

  4. Oh I wish I could have gone along too, on a professional basis, you understand, as head cupcake taster and ricrac buyer!
    Kim x

  5. Anna,
    That sounds like a WONDERFUL trip. I love NYC but would see it through new eyes now that I’m a fabric shopper.

    Check my site for an AWARD and a TAG!
    Joni

  6. I just enlarged that photo of all the loot. Now that’s what I call shopping. That’s what I like to see. Glad you had a good time. When are you going back?

  7. How exciting your trip looked like. And to meet Martha and see her show. OMG I would love to do that. I like her and like you said a lot of people don’t. I think she’s great. Loved all the loot you girls bought and the little sweaters in PURL.

  8. Wow – what an amazing sounding trip! I swear, the cupcake-taste-off sounds like heaven on its own, but mixd in with all the other stuff? You must *still* be on Cloud Nine!

  9. OH wow!! Very inspiring!! I’m going to NY next May with my sister, so I’m starting to plan the places I want to go.Thanks for some ideas!

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