Happy 2026! I Resolve To Update This Sh*t More Often.

 

I VERY Much LOVE being back in School. 

Thank you to my Professors at

The New School & Parsons this year, all the years, and the next.

Above & Below, some Digital Classroom Fun from 2025

My Insta (I vow to put more sh*t on there, too): @stephaniefralick

I do this, too: @artistsoftowerpress

From The Artists of Tower Press: Thank You, Cleveland!

Your Support Means Everything!

There are SOOOO many People, Patrons, to Thank, Bless & Appreciate

for a great 2025!

See Our Instagram, where we often try to list you all,

and kindly follow us there, My Children:

@artistsoftowerpress

(MY Instagram remains, as @stephaniefralick)

We hope to see you at our next Big Open Studios Event:

Sunday, May 17th, 2026

AMEN.

******

(PS - I really did make t-shirts of this - "sold out" but Yeah, I can get you one)

They Say That Breaking Down Is Hard To Do.

So I'll think of it as Setting Up for a great 2025. 

Happy New Year, Everyone! from Stephanie, Pinky's, Tower Press; its in-house, historic Wooltex Gallery (just a little taste of our Holiday Show there, below), more.

My building hosts biannual Open House/Studios Events wherein outside/

non-resident Artists can also exhibit/sell their work, let me know if you're interested!

Here is my Insta: @stephaniefralick

Here is the Insta for Tower Press: @artistsoftowerpress

Thanks, Neil Sedaka.

Time Out: Snacks For This Month's Group Meeting - Chocolate Chip Cookies & Snacks From Asiatown

So...what DID I do over the past few years, during the Pandemic, you may ask? Entertaining. Lots and Lots and LOTS of Entertaining. For roughly six months during 2020-21, every Sunday evening, a group of the same 3-6 of us, all very different in both personality and style. How did we all get along? Well, how does anyone? Shared Love - and a small collection of recipes that anyone (almost) will enjoy.

Here's one such recipe, which I made for our building/group meeting tonight (Above, and see the previous post - it's in that room). Just great ol' chocolate chip cookies (then the plates were dressed up with some treats from the nearby Asian market). The recipe is from a long beat-up booklet my mom gave me, correctly called "Cookies!" and it's edited by Marian Levine from The American Cooking Guild, 1989. it's one of maybe ten things I make for others that people request or get excited about. And, it's been nice to prepare these semi-fancy set-ups again, I gotta admit. 

Here Goes - exactly as written; edits follow:

3/4 cup granulated sugar

1 cup brown sugar

1 cup butter

1 tablespoon vanilla extract*

2 eggs, slightly beaten

3 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 teaspoon sat

3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips*

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine the white and brown sugars. Add butter and cream together with the sugar. Add vanilla and eggs, mixing well.

In a separate bowl, sift the flour, baking soda and salt together. Add dry mixture to the creamed mixture. Mix well; the dough will be stiff. Add the chocolate chips. Add nuts, if desired.

Line cookie sheets with baking parchment or wax paper. Using a small ice cream scoop, drop dough onto the cookie sheets. Bake 10-12 minutes.** Remove from oven and cool on wire racks.

Yield: 2-3 dozen.

* I like Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract...Sandy Says to use Ghirardelli chocolate chips, only.

** It really takes @20 minutes. 

Lastly - this recipe BEGS for variation and experimentation, a few of which the booklet also includes. Try butterscotch, Raisinettes, Reese's Pieces (Butterfinger does NOT work).

Back...Long Time Ago When We Was Fab.

It's True: Pinky's Daily Planner is happily back in our OG Retail & Showroom Building, in Cleveland, O's Historic Tower Press Building. What happens in seven years? Or, twenty? A lot...but it's Good to be Back Home with Stories to Tell. 

Background: setting up some dress forms for the Tower Press Artists' Group Show 2023 (next Party is Closing Night, October 28th). 

Foreground: New work from building Resident Artist (and an OG himself), painter John Davis of Davis Gallery.

Follow Me, Instagrammers: @stephaniefralick

Follow Us: @artistsoftowerpress

Thanks to George Harrison whose sentiment I've borrowed.

It's True:

We'll see you at our new location - a pink house! - later this year.

A Package, For Alaina.

A custom-designed Chi Chi Jacket and Stich Skirt, made of turquoise raw silk linen, worn over a 1950s Day Dress...a Japanese trompe l'oeil Sweater Dress. Special thanks to Sue and Alaina!