Tag: Chicago

  • Weekend skies

    Saturday SundayWe had buckets of rain come down a couple times today. The second time the clouds opened up while the sun was still shining in the late afternoon. When it stopped there was a great big rainbow in the dark sky right over the Sears Tower.

  • World Naked Bike Ride

    Lovely evening for a naked bike ride through the city.

  • Oprah meets her neighbors repeat

    I just saw a commercial for the “Oprah meets her neighbors” episode taped last May (2007). It is going to be shown on Wednesday. Our neighbors down the hall had a party that Oprah came to and was featured on that episode. The second half of the show features the balcony renovations in the building…

  • Chicago Antique Market

    Chicago Antique Market

    Today was the opening day of the Chicago Antique Market. We are lucky to be able to walk to it, about 5 blocks west of our loft. It’s the perfect weather today, about 70 and partly cloudy. I am glad we are still enjoying cool weather here, poor Northern California has had unnaturally hot weather,…

  • The big O’s new store

    The big O’s new store

    Recognize those unmistakable O’s on the windows? Thats right Oprah is opening a new store across the street. We took a sneak peak in the windows. It looks like it will be filled with all of her favorite things. We could see shelves of fluffy towels, tea pots and sweaters with a stuffed retriever in…

  • Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…

    We just had 10 inches of snow last night, added onto a few inches already on the ground from the last week. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas…now if I only had more time to prepare.

  • Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition

    If you live in the mid west and have not gone to the Greater Chicago Quilt Exposition, you should. It is a great show with some fantastic special exhibits. It is predominantly art quilts. You will see lots of quilts like this fabulous Susan Shie quilt in the fiber Renaissance exhibit. I went on thursday…

  • Mitsuwa Grocery

    Chicago does not have a Little Tokyo or Japan Town but out in the suburbs there is Mitsuwa Marketplace. It has a full grocery, book store and food court. This is one of my kids favorite places to go. On a recent trip out to the northwest burbs we stopped by. Nina’s loves the book…

  • Blogher conference 2007

    The Blogher conference was great. I learned so much. I wish there was more of a craft/art contingent there. We were pretty outnumbered by the mommy bloggers. I had no idea there was such a huge community. I kept thinking where are all those knitters, quilters and crafters that fill the blogosphere that I know?…

  • Blogher Conference

    Last week on one of the blogs I frequent I saw a post about the Blogher conference that is going to be here in Chicago. It looks like a great line up of sessions for women who blog. They have all sorts of topics like: getting custom: what web designers know (don’t we all want…

  • Another Chicago Antique Market

    Many years ago in Junior College I made posters for the campus events on a letterpress using type just like this. If only I appreciated using it then as much as I would now. My latest apron finds.I adore this little black and red one, so Spanish looking. It looks adorable on my daughter Nina…

  • Cicada invasion

    This is the time in the 17 year cicada cycle that the bugs crawl out of the ground. I remember the cicadas in Austin TX fondly, hearing the buzz circling through the trees above. Rarely did I see one of these buzzing creatures. In the city we have barely heard a cicada. I drove out…

  • World Naked Bike Ride?

    Last night around 9:30 we heard lots of hoots and hollers, fog horns and whistles. We ran to the window and looked down to see hundreds of cyclists and a few roller bladers going by. Then my husband said “hey, that guys naked” Then we realized they were all in various states of clothes optional…

  • Chicago Antique Market

    Chicago Antique Market

    The last saturday of the month May through October the Chicago Antique Market takes place about 5 blocks west of us. Nina and I went and found some cool stuff. There was some awesome metal cabinetry. I would love to have this. One of these tin ceiling tile mirrors would look great in my downstairs…

  • Oprah Live

    Oprah Live

    This morning was the taping of the show. It aired live in Chicago so I have not seen the show yet. I will have to wait until 11 pm tonight to see it. During the taping they showed the previously recorded footage of the party and the landscaped balconies on a big screen, so I…

  • Oprah meets her neighbors

    Will air live tomorrow (thursday). My neighbors and I are supposed to get in line with the general audience tomorrow at 7 am for the 9 am show. I will let you know what it was like after the show.

  • What a party!

    Where does one begin except with the sad note that NO CAMERAS were allowed! So I will just have to tell you all about it. Okay, I have to add pictures, because I can’t stand to not have pictures on my blog, they just won’t be my pictures. First off I decided not to wear…

  • Oprah meets her neighbors

    Easter weekend, some people from Oprah’s studios across the street stopped me in my lobby. They said that Oprah wanted to meet her neighbors and that it would be featured on the following Thursdays show. They interviewed several people in our building, including me, and walked through our units with cameras filming. Our place is…