Every year our elementary school has a night called “Basket Bash”. It’s a fundraising event for the school with over 250 moms. There are literally over 300 baskets in one room. You buy tickets and each basket has a cup that goes with it. You place your tickets in each cup that you want to win. So it’s a crapshoot…. Read More

Zach (my almost 9-year-old) is going to sleep-away camp for his first summer. It’s definitely exciting but also scary at the same time. I am not that parent that worries or freaks out every time something happens but sleepaway camp is a big deal. How I came to pick the camp is a whole other blog that will be released… Read More

If you asked me one of the single most important things my parents taught me I would say music.  MUSIC!!!! I grew up in a house with Al Green, Boz Scaggs and Steely Dan. My father had a record collection that took up the entire den. He had a Denon turntable that we were not allowed to touch!(yes this one)… Read More

I don’t profess to be a food critic; I am just a girl who loves to eat. I never really had a passion for food until I met Greg (the husband). There is no food he won’t eat. Actually he won’t eat a hard-boiled egg but that’s about it.  Because he is so opinionated about every place we eat, it… Read More

I am a car person… it’s my father’s fault. When I was 15 (yes you get your learner’s permit in Philly at 15!) my father turned to me and said, “Amy, if you want to learn how to drive, you will learn on stick or you won’t learn” So I learned how to drive a 5 speed at 15. My… Read More

One of my obsessions in life is monogramming. I pleaded with Greg (the husband) to have monogrammed bedding and let’s just say I have yet to own a monogrammed pillow. I love it so much my first business was based on personalizing and monogramming every item in the collection. So you can only imagine how excited I was to find… Read More

  I don’t really like to give the negative on stores in Livingston because, after all, I live there and I would be upset if someone was bad mouthing my store. However – sometimes you have to just let it out….   I am a big fan of the “candy tray”.  I think it’s a nice gift and who doesn’t… Read More

  Every month someone has a birthday. The email goes around…   “Lets go out for Sam’s birthday, 8pm Tuesday the 15th at Hat City Kitchen” I am all for going out with my friends to celebrate their birthday. It’s their day and they deserve it but I do think the birthday gift has gotten out of hand. Every month… Read More

I am a Philly girl (now a Jersey girl) who started camp at 5, went to my first dead show at 15, started my first business in my garage at 11 (It wasn’t a real business but I still pretended to play office), dreamt up a fashion line called Escalante when I was 16 but realized I couldn’t draw (that… Read More