Artistic Affaire L'Automne, Los Angeles, CA, Part Four!
The Party is not over yet, some of the gals headed over to the flea market, while Kim and I decided to sleep a bit and head over to the next event at the Vintage Emporium
Okay This store is now one of my favorites, not only does the Vintage Emporium have amazing vintage wares including jewelry, dolls, wares and fab hats, accessories and unique oddities, but amazing artworks from artists such as Denise Hahn and beautiful upcycled jewelry, I loved the vintage earring bracelets, which I must buy soon or just fly back to LA and visit, plus the owner Julie is so nice, she put out a spread of the most amazing gourmet tea goodies such as scrumptious coconut cupcakes w/these cute pink picks on them, tea sandwiches, raspberry water w/real raspberries floating whimsically around the glass jar, apps and more. I sampled it all, soooo good. The girls who went to the flea market joined the party as well, you should see what they bought, my friend Sherry picked up the best vintage corsettes ever, they reminded me of carnival ones w/jewels, feathers, trim, vintage chic, and very delicate. At Vintage Emporium I bought a bunch of the cutest tiny dolls w/outfits on them, a gorgeous vintage necklace w/crystals and sweet pumpkin color beads most likely 1950s, a victorian style necklace w/porcelain locket for my mom, a vintage porcelain storybook doll, ballerina painting, cabinet card, and other fabulous wares.
Annette and Earleen bought some amazing goodies at the Vintage Emporium, Annette bought a jar filled of flowers, gorgeous. Priscilla brought her wonderful mom, those two girls are super nice, can't wait to meet w/Priscilla again..
I'm in the mood for Hats, simply beacause I worn one....LOL! Okay after Bryanna tried on the cutest vintage millinery hat complete with an array of vintage flowers, I knew I had to try one on, the one I choose was reminiscent of a cupcake chic sunday in the garden style hat, soon some of the girls were wearing them, Holly, Danielle, and Sandy, it was like the Chic Hat Tea Society, LOL. Well you know I couldn't leave without my hat, so Miss Primrose Garden which is the new name for my hat, headed home with me and my other goodies all the way back to NJ, awaiting to sit regally on my new dress form that Suze gave me when I came back to NJ.
All the girls were having a fabulous time, shopping and chatting, a perfect day of girlie fun. Stay tuned for my final post of Artistic Affaire L'Automne 2009, with the final destination of the day, Santa Monica, Ca and shopping at Shabby ChicIf you are in the LA area or looking for wonderful items visit the Vintage Emporium in Long Beach at: http://www.vintageemporium.com/they also have events and classes, one coming up w/Denise Hahn. Julie, the owner is amazing, I promise you'll love Vintage Emporium.

A Sunday in New York, Part One!
This past weekend the BEA aka Book Expo America was in town at the Javitts Center in NYC, this is an industry event filled from bottom floor to top floor of the Javitts Center with Publishers, Publishing Reps, Publicity Personel, International Publishing, Self Published Groups, Magazine/Press, Established Authors, Illustrators, and Up/Coming as well.Isn't Clifford the Dog too cute!You will find every style book there: Art, Children, Table, Sports, Special Needs, Selected Genres, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reality, Religion, Spiritual, Adult, you name it, that book was there. At these events you get a chance to really learn about the publishing industry and to find that publisher who is right for you and by no means be shy, come equiped with your business cards and if you have a small postcard showcasing some of your best works, bring it with you, and come polished, not sloppy, appearance can be everything on your first encounter.Here are the new and amazing art and books coming out at Quarry Books, Don't you just want them all, I know I do. Some new ones I saw coming out are: Who's your DadA by Linda and Opie Obrien and really cool studio book from Lynn Perrella, these look AMAZING, Have you seen Amy Hanna's Book, its a must have so is Cloth Doll Artistry by Barbara Willis, these two books are my new fave's, so inspirational.Here is Miss Candy from Quarry and Me, she is beyond words AMAZING! ( I say amazing alot, don't I?, LOL, but everyone is AMAZING to me) It was so nice to meet her in person, this whole staff just rocks!

The BEA has a special place in my heart, it always will, it was here that I met my AMAZING publishing group back in May 2007, after walking for hours compiling info and researching the companies in my field, I came across Quarry, and I knew this was the group I wanted submit my work to, they were extremely friendly, helpful and well amazing, and 2 years later, here I am, published with my book; "Altered Art Circus!" with one of the greatest groups I could know. Now you see my personal attachment with this expo, it just fills me with smiles and joy, not to mention getting books to buy at a huge discount, some are free and others get signed by the authors/illustrators that are on hand! I do suggest since the books are out in tghe open, that you ask questions and see if they are for sale and that is when you will know if you can purchase it on the spot, if not, where to order it or if its free, remember respect these companies, they put alot of hard work into setting up for this event, and by Sunday, I am sure they are exhausted.Here I am with author Lawrence Guido author behind The Comprehensive New Testament at the IBPA Booth, quite interesting. I also picked up a book called: "Prophecy of the Sisters" by Michelle Zink, met her son, he gave me the book and said his mom was signing, so I walked on over and had her sign it, and I must say this is going to be the next book I read when I am relaxing at the beach, it looks like a Twilight style book with a bit more.

I also picked up a vampire pop up book, 500 cakes by Susannah Blake/Sellars Publishing-this cake book has some really good recipes including a recipe for lemon lavender cake, I got a Do it for less weddings hint hint, LOL) by Denise Vivaldo and some pet books about kitties, puppies and one on Goldens.

Afterwards I headed over to Dalton's to meet Glenny, then after a late lunch we took a stroll through Times Square on our way to Bryant Park with a stop at Crumb's Bakery for cupakes and cookies. Okay we ate the cookies before we got to the car, LOL. But I must say I am a huge Magnolia's Bakery Fan, the cupcakes at Crumb's have more variety flavors like peanut butter filled, cookie dough, strawberry banana, etc., I'd say hit them both when you visit NYC!

I'll be blogging tommorrow about Bryant Park, The Bryant Park Carousel and the Park's History!

Have a magic filled day!
Lisa!

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