Why the name?
33rd and Broadway -- a real place "back in the day" yet really just a thought, a feeling, a frame of mind to me! It embodies so many things -- a fancy department store (in case you haven't already figured it out, Gimbels Department Store stood at 33rd and Broadway in New York for many, many years), an era when you didn't have to lock your doors at night, when neighborhood children could be heard outside way after dark, when families lived right down the street from each other. Elvis was singing "Blue Suede Shoes"and I Love Lucy was in it's 6th season. Simplicity patterns sold for $.50; a gallon of milk was $.97 and you could mail a letter for $.03! Definitely a different era!
I envision 33rd and Broadway being a place where you can come and sit across the kitchen table while I endeavor to work my way through something someone else has already created. As I decide whether to frame a small cross stitch picture or to make it into a pin-keep, I'll cherish your input. New recipes will be tried here -- and if they fail, I'll ask your input on who to call for pizza take out! I don't want you to call the producers of Hoarders television show because I've shown you my vast fabric stash -- I'd prefer you help me find suitable projects that will use it up!
So friend -- YOU ARE HERE! X marks the spot! 33rd and Broadway is just a place where I want to watch all these activities happen -- a vision in my brain of a time when life was different -- not better necessarily -- just different, just unique.
No matter what you take away from 33rd and Broadway though -- whether its a smile from something I left out of a recipe or a nodding of your head when you remember the time you too had to rip something out ten times in order to get it right --- I would pray that you take this reminder away with you today -- "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16.
