We came back from our NY vacation yesterday. It was great.
New York was dirty and crowded, but very vibrant.
I will definitely go back.
We visited Arts and Antiques store in Manhattan and purchased some Japanese woodblock prints. We are selling Hiroshige's 53 stations luncheon mats and coasters on our website, so we had to purchase his original print! We picked the vertical version (horizontal is the one we sell). It preserves the original colors very well and an excellent condition. The owner of the store is a Japanese man who's been collecting Ukiyo-e since he was a little boy. He was a stock dealer at the Japanese bank in Tokyo and retired when he was 40...must have accumulated so much wealth!! Now he's managing an antique store in NY and it's like his hobby. What a life.
The other highlight of our trip was to see Ann Curry at the Today's Show. She was much more than I expected. She was talking to people during commercials and she was really "talking", not just chatting. I could see she truly appreciates and enjoys what she does. She reaches out and touches people's minds. She said "Good-bye and take care" in Japanese to me. It was nice.
Now it's time to work...we have to do some marketing for Christmas sale. We still need to go to Japan and purchase products..we have to take pictures, measures them and put description...work, work, work!!
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