NYC’S Christmas Windows, 2018
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” —Winston Churchill (1874–1965) Something spectacular happens in New York City’s department store windows at the end of the year. For […]
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NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2017
“Without promotion, something terrible happens, nothing!” —Phineas Taylor (P.T.) Barnum (1810–1891) Something does happen in the department store windows of New York City at year’s end. For decades the major […]
NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2016
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev’rywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again With candy canes and silver lanes aglow. —from “It’s Beginning […]
Knitting Christmas Sweetness
“And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.” — from Love’s Labors Lost 1597 by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) The folks at the […]
NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2015
“Window dressing is at first glance so gorgeously useless that it resists all comparison with other derided professions.” —Simon Doonan (1952– , Creative Ambassador for, and former window dresser at, […]
A Reindeer Yarn
You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donder and Blitzen. But do you recall, The most famous reindeer of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer […]
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