This Is Framingham

I was making a Halloween care package to send to my sister in Oregon and thought I’d check out Sweet Boutique for seasonal treats.  They have a nice display of chocolate pops, candy corn, maple wafers, pumpkin fudge and packaged chocolates with Halloween-themed wrappers.

They also have lots of hand-dipped goodies like chocolate covered marshmallows and pretzels:

Pretzel “brooms”:

A great product they have are these packaged sugar eyes that you can put on cupcakes or your own chocolates at home:

If you’re looking for some Halloween treats and want to support a local business run by very nice people, please visit Sweet Boutique (371 Worcester Rd) and check out their site at http://sweetboutiqueframingham.com. 
Happy Halloween!

Ethan and I were taking a walk one night and noticed a sign in a window for Celtic dress designs.  I was really curious and wanted to learn more about this business and why they picked downtown to open their shop so I emailed the owner and she was nice enough to invite me into the shop and show me around.
Julia Ebel, the director, designer and owner, started the business almost 2 years ago and has been at this street-viewable location on Union Ave. since this past summer.  She’s from Natick but chose this location for it’s affordability and space.  As she showed me around and talked about the work involved in these dresses, I was amazed at the attention to detail that goes into these dresses and the quality of fabric she chooses.
With the help of her mom and some Framingham State College interns, she makes beautiful Celtic dance competition dresses as well as any kind of non-Celtic  special orders and can reproduce dresses from drawings/photos and even wedding dresses.
Here are some of the dresses both finished and in-progress:

Some children’s dresses:

One of my favorites was a colonial dress, perfect for a costume party:

Another thing I like about Julia’s shop is that she loves working with her clients on the design.  She said sometimes people will come in with a family crest and ask her how to work it into a dress design, while others will leave it up to her to design and she sends them her designs to choose from.  For anyone interested, she always welcomes people to come to the shop, take a look around and see the workspace in back.  I highly recommend checking the shop out if you can, Julia is very informative and great to talk to.  I went there thinking I’d visit for 15 minutes and we ended up talking for almost three hours.

Celtic Dragon Dress Design is  located at 118 Union Ave, 2nd Floor, right across from the Danforth Museum. (phone: (508) 820 7745)    
For more information you can check our their website: http://celticdragondressdesigns.com

I’ve always wanted to go the East Side Room, which is the student-staffed restaurant inside Keefe Tech Vocational School but it never worked out. Finally I got to go and went with my friend and co-worker (Yes, I got a job!) Vanessa who was just as curious to try it as I was. how long ivermectin take to work
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Our entrees stared off with a generously sized garden salad:

We both got the same thing, tortellini with marinara sauce. I asked the server if they made the tortellini there and he said yes but it looked a little machine made, although I’m guessing maybe they must have a tortellini machine in the kitchen, I don’t know I’ve never made it but we both enjoyed it so it didn’t really matter.
We splurged and split a dessert, chocolate bread pudding, which was really good:

When we were leaving we noticed the bakery case outside the restaurant and got our boss a chocolate sour cream loaf for $3.75.

The prices for all the baked goods were very reasonable at $0.30 for a cookie, $0.55 for a brownie and most cakes were under $4.
I believe they are only open for lunch Tue-Fri and take reservations for 11:30am-12:30pm but take walk-ins (as we were) from 12-12:30.
I forget exactly how much the lunch was but it was in the – range which is pretty good since it comes with the salad and a vegetable (I forgot to take a picture of). ivermectin for cattle and swine on dogs They don’t have any information (that I can find) on their website but the phone number to the main office, who can direct you to the culinary dept. for any questions, is (508) 416-2100.

I love Fanny’s salad dressing and was surprised to find that La Cantina now offers a Balsamic Vinigrette version. I bought some and sent it to my sister in Oregon who is a devoted Fanny’s original fan and got a bottle for Ethan and I to try.
It’s great stuff. Since we bought it I haven’t used original at all, not that I won’t use it anymore but it’s very good. I highly recommend anyone who is looking for a new salad dressing to give it a try. I’m guessing they offer it at La Cantina but I found it at Stop & Shop.

I very rarely use a dry cleaner, not because have anything against them but I just don’t usually have a need for it. But I recently got some “dry clean only” items and since Regal Cleaners is so close to my house and they do such a nice job keeping up their property I thought I’d bring my stuff down there. side effects of oral ivermectin in humans
The owner is a really nice guy who was born and raised in Framingham We ended up talking for a while about the neighborhood. ivermectin cow lice It’s funny that he used to pump gas here when it was a gas station and now owns his own business here. kilox ivermectina 0.6 solucion oral para que sirve
Regal was very professional, fast (brought my clothes in around noon and they were ready by 4:30pm) and after calling around to a few places, found it to be the least expensive. It was only $4 per skirt while other places I called were $6 or $7.
If you live near Regal Cleaners (281 Concord St) I highly recommend you support this local business.

My friend Mike and I went to check out “The Tavern” (formerly Connery’s) at 102 Irving Street.
Inside looked similar to when it was Connery’s but cleaner. ?????? ?????????

We were greeted by the bartender/owner and chatted with him a bit and then got a couples of beers and ordered some food.
Mike got a cheeseburger, which he said was really good, the only thing he’s ask for is that they serve fries but they only have bagged chips:

I got a mushroom pizza, which I thought was pretty good,  especially for a non-pizzeria pizza.

What I really like about this place is that the owner has another room you can bring your food into to eat, play pool and darts.

Some nights are designated as game nights for texas hold’em or board games. ??? ????? Mondays are movie night, where you can watch that week’s featured film and a large screen and Saturdays are Karaoke night. ???? ??????
I really like how the owner wants to make the Tavern a place to go and feel comfortable and have fun. Check out their site for more information: http://www.thetavernframingham.com/index.php

It’s not often I have a reason to travel “up north” to Saxonville, but when I do I always make a point to stop at Amy’s convenience store (68 Water St.) just for the fact that they it’s the only store in Framingham (or anywhere in the area) I know of that sells Hershey ice cream’s Chocolate Marshmallow Whirl, which is my all-time favorite, pre-packaged, individual serving ice cream treat.
Other stores carry Hershey ice cream products but not this particular item.
If you’re a fan of chocolate ice cream and marshmallow, this is a must-try!

I’m so greatful to Amy’s for carrying this and I guess it’s a good thing they’re on the other side of town to keep me from buying these more often and keeps these a special treat 🙂