I know our blog doesn't seem organized but I guess our life isn't either. We work, go out with friends, work, sit at home, work, and go out with friends some more. The 2 of us are our family and we absolutely love it. We can't wait to go home this week and see our extended family and best friends in the world!

Last weekend we went shopping a little. We went to Macy's at Herald Square and found some adorable stuff for me. I bought a dress and a black and white print skirt. I was sooo excited to wear my skirt on friday and I was feeling G-O-O-D when I put it on and trotted myself to work. When I sat down on the train, I noticed that my skirt made a funny sound against the plastic seat. I looked down and what did I see? The magnetic tag that they're supposed to remove when you purchase the garment. Boy oh boy did they get a kick out of me at work. Jason came and brought me some jeans and he went and took care of it. It's because we bought it at the make-up counter and they don't have one of those stupid things that removes the tags.

While Jason was getting it removed, I thought "Hmm, I'll bet they didn't take it off the dress I bought either." And sure enough, when I came home and looked at it, there it was....staring at me and grinning. That stupid magnetic tag attached to the left side of the dress!!!

So here's the dress. It really is adorable. I haven't bought a dress in years.

And here's the tag...still attached. Argh!!

We have a roommate right now. His name is Ryan. He moved in with us until he leaves for the summer to go to a theatre. His birthday was this week so we all went out to celebrate at one of his favorite Mexican restaurants. He worked at the Barn with us last summer so we used this celebration as an excuse to get all the kids from the company out and have a little reunion.

When you have a birthday at this place, they bring out a piece of chocolate cake with a big sparkler in it, turn on the disco ball, pump up the music and play a random medley of birthday songs mixed with La Bamba. They also bring a shot of tequila and a sombrero for the birthday person to wear. Its crazy but hilarious, as you can see from my face...

These are some of our friends from the summer. This is Colleen and Bobby.

This is our friend Caroline.

This is actually a picture we took several weeks ago. We were walking somewhere on the upper west side and we came up on this restaurant that looked really familiar. It's the restaurant from "You've Got Mail" that Tom Hanks stands outside of while Meg Ryan is waiting inside to meet her secret email crush. We love this movie so we had to have our picture in front of it.

And then I made Jason try and re-enact Tom Hanks standing at the gate in front. He just wouldn't get into it though. Ah well....this will have to do.

Here are more pictures from work. This is one of the girls I work with. Her name is Mariela. She and the girl in the background (Stephanie) work with the draper next to me. This is a boa for Wicked. Its H-U-G-E!!!! The feathers are dyed specially and then the whole thing is put together by someone outside our shop. Its not even for a neck. Its a sleeve. The girls couldn't resist playing around with it when it was delivered.

This is Steph wearing it like it will be worn eventually.

We've been working a lot of overtime lately because we're shipping out Wicked Australia soon. My shop works on all of Glinda's costumes and all of the Emerald City costumes. Hence all the green things. My team makes 4 or 5 different costumes. This is a collar that I worked on. I wrapped the wires in fabric, gluing every once in a while to ensure it wouldn't unravel...

and then I covered it in fabric. Then a bunch of trim is applied.

Here's something really exciting. Shrek is coming to broadway. My shop is working on Shrek, Fiona, and some other random characters. The team next to me is doing Shrek so I snapped a couple of shots from my table of the fat suit they're working on. She's using a bunch of different materials to create different looks for padding. The new material that is all the rage right now is micro-beads. People are discovering all kinds of things to do with them.

The bottom of the belly is accomplished using the micro-beads shoved into long tubes and stitched in the u-pattern you see.

And of course, what post would be complete without our crazy feline friend, the Devil. I've been working like a mad woman to finish a couple of quilts to take home to the new babies in Arkansas and for some reason, every time I leave one of them unattended, the cat finds the spare batting hanging out and curls up on it. Its really weird. I think we're just going to buy her some so we don't have to wash all of the quilts 4 and 5 times.

no clue

We'll be better about posting this month......we hope. I kind of wanted to post a bunch of pictures. I love taking photos. I've actually started taking headshots as a side business venture...because I don't have enough to do.


Here is the upper east side on a cloudy spring day. All up and down park avenue they have these tulip beds on the boulevard in the middle of the street. I guess its New York's way of showing off nature.

Heres the reason for us to EVER even be on the east side. The Marymount High School. Its an all girls private school that Jason got hooked up with doing Les Miserables. The kids are fantastic so we hope to stay involved with them.

Here are the Sisters P. Rita and Laura Pietropinto. Rita is on the right and Laura is on the left. They run the theatre department at the high school and are both proud graduates from the High School. Laura directed Les Miserables and Rita produced it. Rita's husband is a musical composer and musical director. She's working on getting Jason in contact with her husband to see if they can work together in the future.

This is our friend Marco. He's from London and worked at the barn last summer. He's fantastic. He was in town for a visit to audition for AMDA (a theatre conservatory in the city) and he stayed on our couch. This is us drinking my favorite drink in the world! A black flower. Its frozen margarita and sangria mixed together. Its probably a good thing the rest of this evening wasn't documented...

We saw this guy on the street. He has a cane made of a clarinet. It was awesome. We asked if we could take his picture and he happily obliged. He was really quirky. Probably been living in his apartment on 26th st. in Manhattan since the 60s or something. I love New York!

This is our friend Nic. Another barnie. He's actually my gay boyfriend. He's the one who started getting Jason students down at NYU. We love him.

Theres a place called Red Mango. They make frozen yogurt. But not what you normally think of as frozen yogurt. Its not ice cream. Its actually yogurt frozen. Like the soured milk yogurt. Its definitely an acquired taste. You order your flavor and then your toppings. I enjoy vanilla yogurt with strawberries and granola. Jason had vanilla with pineapple and dark chocolate. Yumm!

More pictures soon...I promise!