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Holiday Festival of Trees And Music For CT Kids

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 19:45:52 +0000

If you don’t have plans tonight, Saturday, November 20th get in the car with your sweetie or whomever else you chose and head on out to the Lyme Art Association in Old Lyme, Connecticut.

A non-profit organization”Bring Our Music Back” based in Old Lyme, Connecticut is puttin on the ritz, make that the glitz, and hosting the first annual Holiday Festival of Trees and Music to benefit children and music in the Nutmeg state.

I get to emcee this event and be among the 30 plus gorgeous trees to be auctioned off for the cause. There will be food and dancing and it’s affordable…50 bucks a couple. We will be auctioning off these fully decorated trees tonight and they will stay on display for two weeks at the Lyme Art Association so everybody can see them, and then at the end of that the local Lions Club will deliver them to your doorstep in time for the holidays.

This is about a whole bunch of people giving dozens and dozens of hours of their time to make this happen. In the video below, you see Josh Chalmers of Madison, Connecticut hoisting a tree to the ceiling upside down. He is overseeing this event and that’s all he does is give of his time. Josh is president of the “Life Is Good” Foundation for children and is the guy who puts on all those festivals, just can’t say enough about him or the folks at Bring Our Music Back. So again…come on out tonight and join us, this is really going to be fun and meaningful to all of those who have worked so hard to make this happen.

Local businesses have donated the trees for the cause and they are stunning, even have a Mad Men tree, how great would that look in your house this year, because it would scream “hey I’m hip.”

Sparkle and Glitz For The Holidays

Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:38:25 +0000

If Santa could pluck from this workshop, Christmas might be a whole new ball game.

The holidays at Madison Flower Shop and Garden Center in Madison, Connecticut are always a wonderland of glitz. I dare you take a point-and- shoot camera in here this time of year and take a bad picture, it just won’t happen.

The place is jam packed with anything and everything you might need for holiday entertaining. Wreaths, ribbons, Santas, ornaments, candy, flowers, Christmas trees, glittered everything, angels and glass, stop me when you’ve had enough.

Colors? Every one you can thing of, even if you want to do a purple Christmas tree. Don’t worry there there is plenty of good ole red and green galore. Speaking of old-fashioned, there are small bottle brush trees around the shop that bring you back to the 1940′s.

The owners, Donna and Jay Santoro have their three daughters working away inside over most holidays to ensure that things run smoothly, the sisters have grown up in the store.

I know for a fact that this crew can create anything you might need for the holidays at your house including even knowing where to get a hold of a machine that can make snow just in case it doesn’t fall on the night of your big holiday open house. I just remembered that conversation Donna and I had years back, well now you know about it.

All of this eye candy coupled with the kind of flowers arrangements they are capable of conjuring up, and you would have yourself one gorgeous wedding too. This time of year might be off season for most nuptials, but it’s high season here.

The Santoros are only the second owners of the flower shop and garden center, they speak fondly of the family who first set up shop here. It’s grown by leeps and bounds since that time nearly fifty years ago, but still has that New England charm of a place you want to go back to especially around the holidays. Now if you’ll excuse me. I’m off there for another “glitz fix.”

If It’s From Yesterday, They’ll Have It

Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:41:04 +0000

Remember When is a shop that might remind you of going into your Grandmother’s attic there are all sorts of treasures here to go thru.

On Main in Torrington, Connecticut the place is chocked full of everything, just name it.

There is vintage lighting, furnishings, jewelry and accessories.

The Peonies are in Full Bloom

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:05:03 +0000

Okay, repeat after me, Peonies, Peonies, Peonies. Good. Now remember that is the name of a fabulous women’s consignment shop in Centerbrook, Connecticut which of course you need to go to and support. Not immediately, you have to read this first, but you can warm up the car as you’re getting the low down.