Vogue Photo Shoot

I recently worked on a project that happened on Tuesday. The Met lent some costumes to Vogue Magazine for a shoot that Annie Lebowitz was doing for the December issue. The theme was "Hansel and Gretel". Annie is on the left with the camera (duh). The two models on the ground wearing designer clothes are Lily Cole and Andrew Garfield. The Sandman in the tree (in the Met costume) is Sasha Cooke, the actual Met singer that sang the role on stage. The Maitre D' (fish) is also one of our costumes.


Here's the cottage scene were H and G are sad and half starved. The whole day was so interesting; everyone was incrediably professional and FRIENDLY!

Opening Night

Opening Night at the MET. Drinks beforehand and all the office friends on the plaza for the show. There is nothing like a cool, breezy fall night on NYC! Lights glitter like stars only matched by women's dresses and everyone's mood! Lovely!

One of my Favorite Songs

iTunes!!!

Our podcast has been approved and is available on iTunes!! Search in podcasts for "Hellren"

Glass Making Podcast

This is a podcast from the latest meeting of my glass beadmakers group, the Penn Dragons. Robi Eugster demonstrates how to make an implosion pendant in boro glass. It's only about 10 mins so listen in!

Wine, honey and...

So, since I took the day off the go to the doctor and Bruce's freelance job was cancelled, he corralled me into doing a bunch of home stuff.

Bruce's bees have done so well the past year that he has started a 2nd hive. Each one of the "floors" on the bee hive apartment building is called a "super" (why I have NO idea). He recently took a super off one of his hives and today he was extracting the honey. We did this last fall and got about 30 lbs from one super (those little bees are pretty darn industrious).

Afterwards he decided we needed to bottle the Zinfandel and the Malvaise Black that had been going thru their 2nd fermentation. We bottled 31 Zinfandel and 20 MB. Perfect since he had only sterilized 60 bottles!

Sunday we are going to a picnic and I promised to bring homemade wine. YUM!

Camp

Someone got dropped off for camp today! Sniff!