Hyatt Family Blog

Rockefeller Center

The day before Christmas was relatively nice here, an unseasonably warm 50 degrees. We went to the Central Park Zoo, ate at Angelo's Pizza, then headed down to Rockefeller Center to see the sights. There were some great Christmas displays there. And of course we saw the Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. The girls were duly impressed by the size of it.

The Chervitz and Kemp Families Go to Eureka

Over Winter Break, we decided to take the kids on a mini-vacation a whole 30 minutes away to the Holidome in Eureka Missouri (home of Six Flags). We went with our friends the Kemps who have children the same age as ours. We had a blast. It was their "Christmas Jubilee" package and although Jordan had to explain to an elf that we're Jewish and don't actually celebrate Christmas, we still enjoyed all the Christmas fun they had to offer.

As part of the pacakge, Mrs. Claus read Holiday stories in the lobby with hot chocolate and cookies, there were Elves to help with Holiday craft projects and then they even came back at night for an "Elf Tuck In" with more stories and more milk and cookies. The kids loved it

At night, we drove through Jellystone Park next door to see their amazing light display.

The Holidome featured even more fun such as a giant pool, hot tubs, shuffleboard, putting greens, video games, a restaurant and bar and more. Swimming was definately a favorite.

The Kemps enjoyed it so much they're already booked for New Year's. We hope to do this again very soon. It was so fun - and right in our backyard!

Annelie in the snow

We took this picture a few weeks ago when it snowed. The kids had a great time, and for once the snow was just right for making snowballs and snowmen.

The only trouble was their mittens kept falling off. Kids mittens are a huge pain, young kids cannot ever get their thumb in the proper place, and after a few minutes of playing the mittens invariably fall off. There's got to be a better way.

Annelie at preschool Thanksgiving

Here's another picture of the Thanksgiving meal at preschool. Next to Annelie is her friend Elena.

Thanksgiving at preschool

Our preschool had a Thanksgiving lunch a few days before Thanksgiving. We all went, and had a good lunch. They even had ice-cream turkeys for dessert, which were a big hit.

November jewelry shows

I had 5 jewelry shows in November. Some were sucessful, some were not but all involved lots of hard work carrying, setting up, and tearing down the displays. Here are some pictures at Graphic Traffic, Shaare Emeth, and Barry Hyatt's...(it's pretty pathetic that I'm now taking more pictures of my jewelry than of my grandchildren!)


Graphic Traffic's trunk show was my third show in one week.

Here are my displays at Shaare Emeth, which may look familiar!

Barry Hyatt's was my last show. I enjoyed seeing the way we displayed it at his store and I'll be leaving most of my jewelry there for awhile. This "hobby" of mine has become a full time job...the making of the jewelry is easy and fun for me, the selling of it is much harder than I realized. I'm going to focus on being in more stores, selling it by appointments at my house, and selling from my website, which is www.afpjewelry.com.

This year has been a great learning experience. I've learned how to design and make jewelry, what venues work and which do not, and that I love creating new pieces of jewelry much more than the "business" aspects of selling them.