Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
I love an obscure collection, and I’d had Hélène Alexander’s collection of fans on my list for a while. The Fan Museum opened twenty years ago, and has since added to her original collection via various...
The Wellcome Collection on Euston Road bills itself as for the ‘incurably curious’ and the redesigned Reading Room upstairs does not disappoint…
So; Leap Year, St David’s Day and then Mother’s Day – a jam packed weekend that was! and it involved a lot of baking… The Welsh cakes for Offline were a success (after I...
FridayHave to do some work for Sotheby’s so make use of the free wi-fi @ Cake Shop and more coffee & bagels… :) walk downtown to Battery Park and check out the Skyscraper Museum...
ThursdayCoffee & bagels at the super lovely Cake Shop (152 Ludlow) and then head down to the Tenement Museum – very interesting, as is the debrief we took part in afterwards… v American with...
Wednesday Partake in the NY ritual that is doing laundry in the basement… quite weird, but quite comforting too.. it’s warm and has clean smells, and some kind people have left lots of books...
TuesdayM taking pictures for Sothebys on York Ave.. walk around freezing cold Central Park then meet J for lunch near his work on 6th and 55th. Do a bit of Christmas Shopping at the...
Some serious time on the internet tonight that led from a newsletter from the 24 Hour Museum (always good for ideas for an AD), to an exhibition of Quaker tapestries (I love this mixture...
Funny words from the man at The St Ives Museum… :) Had a lovely time by the seaside and we managed to cycle over 80 miles on the lil bikes… Up big hills and down...