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"Are you ready for a challenge?"   "Window text going up!"    "Credits to all our generous partners going up"   "My friend Addie shooting the space" "Susan with Schumacher looking in"   "Harry Medina of the @bloomingdale's windows team and a true visionary"   "Signage up!" "Michael and Adina with the windows team with Jaithan and me. Without them nothing was possible" "A stop at our friend David Duncan to thank him for his overwhelming generosity" Vote for Your Favorite...Everyday! Online:  Visit this page to cast a vote for your favorite design using the radio buttons that will appear at the top of the page. SMS Text*:  Please send a SMS text to the number 89800.  Enter the number of the window you are voting for (1, 2, or 3) into the message body and send to cast a vote for your favorite design.  *Standard text messaging rates may apply. Please Send a Text to 89800-...

Lots of action this afternoon...thought I'd post these tweets from E & J! I don't know how long they will be going... ...hopefully not too far into the night!   "Racing through Union Square back to Bloomingdale's.  Will the signage be done and the left wall finished so we can finish?"   "Sugar fix for the long afternoon ahead...sour cherries...my favorite"   "Ed from Bloomingdale's styling Maxwell's window"   Bloomingdale's still working on signage...holding me back!!"   "Pulling up paper to reveal the faux bois painted floor"   "Borrowing fantastic brass drum stool from John Salibello"   "Murano glass frames from the 60's..."   "Well the wall was closed...now it's being opened again to fix something!  Ugh..."   "Fixing the TV display...then sealing Cleopatra's tomb!"   "Eddie and crazy Michael from @bloomingdale's"   "In...

Follow along with E & J as they tweet their way to the final execution of their window for Elle Decor:  The Modern Woman "So much to do, so little time"   "More art options from our generous friends at Hinson"   "Just picked up the emergency pillows from Chelsea Workroom. Here's Donna and Abbey!  Thank you guys!"   "Michael and Adina with the fantastic window display team @ Bloomingdale's gluing faux cherry blossoms to real!" "Quick trip to our friend Ari with Prints Charming for more art options" "George Bockler prints of garden fountains from 1664.  How pretty are they?"   "Ari is one of our absolute favorite dealers of vintage prints at Scott's.  Thank you Ari!!!!"   "A quick bite at La Esquina in Soho" Have a good lunch boys! We'll catch up with you this afternoon! XO

Ok, here are the final tweets from Day 1... "Art up!  Thank you, @stephenmckenzie with Larson-Juhl!"   "Our inhabitant coming to Life!"   "Yes, please"   "End of day one..."   "A moment of rest, rush hour outside"   "Parting shot..." Well, it looks like Eddie & Jaithan have made it through Day 1 of installation of Bloomingdale's Big Window Challenge 2010!  I wish them a great nights sleep and an even more successful and productive day tomorrow.  Thanks to Twitter, we are with them all the way! XO

( click to enlarge) I'm a big fan of Eddie Ross so I just had to follow as he and Jaithan began Day 1 of installation of Bloomingdale's Big Window Challenge! (image and text from EDDIE ROSS~click to enlarge) "Here's the rendering that Jaithan did." (image and text from EDDIE ROSS) "Here you can see my design palette with the Hinson print in rich tonal blues, layered with vibrant pops of hot pink, turquoise, Hermes orange and gilded bronze."   "The view from the inside looking out"   "Spatter me Hinson Happy!!"   "Faux bois painted floors, the genius of the team at Bloomingdale's Visuals"   "Pedestals from David Duncan Antiques" "Sconces from David Duncan"   "Happy Birthday, @ Shandells and Thank you Phillip Jeffries for the shade, Buck House for the lamps!" "No comment"   "Side chairs from my good friend Deborah at Buck House"   "Anti...