MIRY'S LIST

A little over a week ago, I met an incredibly inspiring woman named Miry. I listened to her share her story of how she created Miry's List. Besieged with postpartum depression and at the behest of a good friend, Miry helped secure a baby jumper and brought it to a recent refugee family who had moved into her neighborhood. They had nothing. Aside from their children, their house was bare. So, Miry made a list of all the things they would need to feel safe and secure. Not even two years later, Miry's List emerged as "a movement of neighbors and friends dedicated to welcoming new arrival refugee families into our community through inspired crowdsourcing solutions."  Please visit www.Miryslist.org this holiday season. Shopping Amazon can change a family's life.

SHOP IT SILVERLAKE

Another outstanding Ivanhoe Elementary fundraising event is approaching just in time for the Holiday Season! This is a fantastic holiday boutique with excellent prices, gorgeous wares and a super festive environment.  Snack on homemade baked goods while perusing jewelry, shoes, clothing, kids clothes, toys, trinkets, holiday decorations, many locally made. Feel good while spending your money as you support public education! 

VISIT AN ARCHITECTURAL MASTERPIECE

Built in 1922, the Schindler House, also known as the Schindler Chase House or the Kings Road House in considered the first house ever built in the Modern style. Rudolph Schindler emigrated to the US from Vienna and helped create the Modernist movement, along with Neutra and Lautner, which so defines much of Los Angeles' landscape. Tucked away behind stunning architectural gardens and dominated by contemporary condominium units on either side, entering the ethereal Schindler house is like stepping back into time. "The Schindler House has the inevitability of a masterpiece. Incorporating both architectural and social theory, it unfolds formally, spatially and intellectually with a coherence unparalleled in early modern architecture." Along with lunch at Angelini Alimentari, this outing provided a pleasant post Thanksgiving activity for the family.

IVANHOEDOWN Y'ALL

This is our BIG event, folks. The Ivanhoedown is not only the biggest fundraiser for Silverlake's public Ivanhoe Elementary School, it is a fabulous Halloween celebration for the whole family. This is my favorite event. Amazing sweets and treats, music, haunted house, cake walk, pumpkins, crafts, games, costumes and the all time crowd favorite...the Frankenfluff! Stop by this Saturday to support the school and the community, have a blast and get your freak on!

Halloweeeeeeeen!!!

My favorite holiday of the year is here. I love to decorate the house, pretend that it is not 100 degrees outside but the beginning of fall weather, go to the kids' school for the Halloween parade that reminds me of my elementary school Halloween parades many, many decades ago, and most of all, I like a good pumpkin patch!  None of this buying a pumpkin at Gelsons or buying a pumpkin at some makeshift "patch" that is really a patch of asphalt in parking lot of a Target. I want a farm were I can see the pumpkins growing in the ground. A corn maze. Old timey music. Corn on the cob.  Farm animals. You can throw in a pumpkin canon if you like. Underwood Farms serves up all this good ol' fashioned fall fun. You'll spend a buck, but it's worth it. www.underwoodfamilyfarms.com