MACKENZIE CHILDS

Long before I had my own MacKenzie...little cutie that she was. I was obsessed with MacKenzie Childs. In the big scheme of things, I am a piker. I have two Cookie Jars, a bunch of Christmas ornaments, assorted Knobs, and some trivets of MacKenzie Childs.











My BFF Andrea lives in Tampa and works for Neiman Marcus in Tampa. She runs the Gift Gallery...a place for all things Neiman Marcus. Andrea and I have been BFFs since we worked together at Estee Lauder 30+ years ago. I am positive we looked better then.

Back to MacKenzie Childs....

In 1996, probably at the height of the MacKenzie Childs hysteria NM featured an Airstream trailer totally done by MC...it was fabulous!!! I should have just purchased the damn thing...I would still be living in it and I could park it on the street.

Pretty stunning, huh?

This year when she went to her enclave in Dallas and got seated at the MacKenzie Childs table....Breakfast in Bed

or Dinner in Bed...heaven..

If I win the lottery you can picture me in a cute little house sitting in the chair below reading my Kindle sipping my tea...

Andrea sits in the chair below!

This brings me to one of y favorite songs on friendship...by Paul Simon...

Old friends
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends

Old friends
Winter companions
The old men
Lost in their overcoats
Waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city
Sifting through the trees
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends

Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy

Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear...