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I went to see Macy’s windows and Bergdorf’s Christmas windows. So far my favorite windows geared towards children were still the ones at Saks Fifth Avenue. All of their windows were beautiful! Their Big Bad Wolf one was great, Sleeping Beauty was truly beautiful, and then some of them were slightly odd or thought provoking, such as Rapunzel looking as if she is ready to do acrobatics while hanging from her braided hair. Rumpelstiltskin was portrayed as a spinning instructor with an evil eye and grumpy look that actually made me tense for a second. The colors were wild and exciting.

I also included some pictures of the area around Rockefeller Center in this post and the decorations there. A huge Drummer stood to the side of the skating rink area and angels, as usual, lined the area between the skating rink and leading up to the crosswalk to get to Saks Fifth Avenue.

Macy’s had some windows geared towards little ones with a story about a young girl named Virginia and her letter to Santa Claus. They also had a Build a Bear window and SpongeBob. Their windows were bright and colorful as well.

Lord and Taylor’s had some lovely fairy windows. The small fairies, inside capsules lit up and moved around. They also had a bunch of mice theme going on with mice scurrying about and playing amongst the Christmas decorations.

I passed Kikkerland in the West Village and they had a lovely toy monkey scene in their window. Their window was rather small but they made it bright and cheery.

There are lots of pretty windows to see around town. I think some of the loveliest decorations are hanging outside restaurants, or on door ways of old brownstones. If you have children and want to take them somewhere with an indoor Christmas scene set up, Macy’s has one. I didn’t venture inside since I wasn’t up for all that but I am sure it is fun for children!!

During the Christmas holidays the area around Rockefeller Center is even more crowded than usual. Years ago when I worked at Liberty of London as a sales lady, I worked at Rockefeller Center. It is very beautiful at night with the tree and lights. I remember my friend and I used to take our children ice skating at Rockefeller Center on occasion and I tried to teach the kids to skate holding them up with a scarf wrapped around them.

Anyway normally I don’t enjoy going into the busiest areas of New York anymore, particularly at the busiest time of day, right around 5pm. I really wanted to see the windows at Saks Fifth Avenue though and take pictures so that any readers of this blog from out of town could enjoy seeing the windows! New York does have some lovely windows during the holidays. It is always a treat to enjoy them.

Saks really did a wonderful collection of Art Deco windows. I am thrilled to be able to share this with others. I took so many photos I think first I will post the Art Deco ones from Saks. They also had several windows with fairy tale themes geared towards young ones. I will save those to combine with other fairy tale theme windows I see later on. I also saw some lovely windows at smaller stores in Soho or the West Village. Next week I am going to go to the 59^th Street area and take photos of the windows at some shops up there. Saks had a wonderful light show going on on the front of the building. After an hour of being amidst the crowds I was eager to go downtown to my favorite stomping ground and relax a bit! I do want to go back and focus on seeing that light show since the few seconds I focused on it I noticed it was quite shimmering and exciting.

I wanted to walk over to Anthropologie and see their windows while I was there as well. I found the jeweler’s shop Louis Martin and took a picture of pearls for the last post before I went to the train. There were numerous decorations all around the area and it was fun to act like a tourist for just a bit. Walking and enjoying the free sights is one of the more economically sound ways to entertain one’s self while living in NY. There are always a zillion sites to see and things to experience so that is one of the best things about New York City.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will take more soon and share them as well!