visiting with friends and baking cookies

our friends are in town, visiting from virginia. they are finally giving up their nyc apartment, and won't be coming back as often. we had them over for lunch today and had a lovely time.

emma has done many meet me at the corner episodes, and it was her dad who recommended that morgana might like to do several, also. they're fun to watch, and are also fun to see what the girls were like a few years ago! (emma can be seen interviewing michael buckley who wrote the sisters grimm books, interviewing cookbook author cricket azima, interviewing poet bobbi katz -one of my favorite episodes-, and attending a chile fiesta at the brooklyn botanic garden. chanda does an adorable clown interview, and you can see morgana interviewing a curator at the MET museum, visiting lombardi's pizzeria in soho, interviewing cookbook author abby dodge, and interviewing a window designer at brooks brothers in an episode called "christmas in new york." she also interviews a fashion designer, which just went up this week.)


korrina was upset this morning because her laptop caught a virus, and she had a lab report due and an exam to take. she decided she would take it to her friend this evening, to see if he could fix it for her (he did!). in the meantime, she baked chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cupcakes. she likes to bake when she's upset.

meet the fashion designer

we had a busy wednesday. first we had a meet me at the corner filming at 10:30 am. it was at 38th street between 7th and 8th avenue, and we had a nice walk there from home. donna's son colin filmed this episode (it was m's first time doing a full episode with him) and it went very quickly and smoothly. mother and son worked very well together! you could sense donna's confidence with colin, and colin's intuition in setting up the angles that he knew his mom needed to make the piece interesting and fun. the icing on this video was that erin, one of the designers for suno (and here), grew up with colin in their neighborhood in colorado, and donna has known her since she was 3 years old. it was a real family affair.

erin and her co-workers sketch out many of the designs for the material, and then send it out to mills to be made up into fabric. this fascinated m and c and i! we thought we would enjoy creating different and intricate designs for fabric!

erin says the company below her on the 9th floor makes up the patterns and samples for the garments, which are then sent to kenya for production. it was exciting to go down and see them at work with all her clothes. the woman to the left is ironing a vest, and the workers in the back were sewing dresses. we also saw a man working elaborate denim stitching on a jacket with a heavy duty sewing machine.