Like a little r and b. Happy birthday. Thank you its my birthday today. Yeah its her birthday. Got big plans . No. I had two of my girlfriends in town last weekend as you know she and i spent 19 the last 19 years celebrating our birthday together because we have the same birthday. This weekend one of my other good friends is flying in as we drinks and having fun. I like it. Celebrate the new year. This is one thing i should share, i think i said this last year one thing that is a friend of my taught me today each year instead of making a new years list you make a list of your goals on your new year which is your birthday. Like that. I did that this year. I made a list of all of the things i want for this year of my life. Its my new year. Do you want to share it . No its private. Since this is your birthday i thought we would take a look at your first show. How many years ago was that . 7. 7 years ago heres your first show. Good morning everybody happy monday welcome to the Morning Blend welcome to you tiffany. Thank you. So nice to have you here. I have a few tips for you on your first day of the job smile a lot and be friendly. [laughter] figure out who has the authority to give you work to do and who is just trying to have you do their work. Mmm. [laughter] tiffany go get my coffee. Keep a positive attitude and an open mind. Your life has changed and it will take getting used to. Thats a good tip. I think so too. I think youll do a great job with that. Aww. Are you used to it yet . Im used to it. You can tell how new our relationship was there. It was like new people just becoming friends. Our technical producer pauline said putting it together he said you guys have come so thought because you know how much i love your pageant days so lets throw in way, way back, and see miss minnesota crowned. Tiffany ogle you are miss minnesota. . . [ music ] . . And luxury in the new buick lucerne. . . [ music ] . . You will really love this Remote Control power door lift. Chevy malibu is the number one midsized car for quality. . . [laughter] oh, my god. We didnt have the closing shot you look gorgeous in the closing shot. There it is. [laughter] happy birthday. It was all down hill after the pageant days i mean seeing you sing those songs, because it takes a sing those songs. Im so impressed. And every single one of them i lost my voice because my biggest fear is actually sing inning public. Why practice and practice until i almost would literally lose my voice. Every time i had to sing on stage hi no voice. How would you concern nerves . Breathing. When youre a singer its all about your diaphragm breathing. When are you all that nervous it all goes to your throat. No matter what you do. Absolutely. That was harder for me than for you to look back on that stuff. I like to slow down on the hood from all of my old car commercials. I did a lot of commercials prior. I was an actor those are a lost the car commercials. And the one where you are putting groceries in the back like youre a mom that really cracks me up. I was 24 at the time when i shot that. I remember thinking like at 24 why am i booking all of these mom roles because i was so in my mind far my producer just said tell everybody how old she is now. Im going to start lying about it and tell everybody im 32. [laughter] okay, what do we want to say about parking our cars in the garage . Because i have a two car garage, but only one fits in there because i have all of this stuff in there. Can you park your car in your garage or is it too full of stuff. Reason being only 25 of people with a two car garage have room to actually park their cars in. I didnt realize it until we talked about this growing up we could never park a car in the garage because i have brother who is are mechanics there was never any option of parking a car in the garage. Your poor mom because she had to commute every day to minneapolis. An hour each way. She would go scrape her car. My brothers would go start her car every morning so it would be warmed up and scraped. Thats cute. Here it is our soundoff. Go to our Facebook Page and tell us what can you park in your garage or is it too full of stuff . We want to know. Go to our Facebook Page. Lets pause a moment to check out todays arts cameras plus picture of the day. If these eyes dont mesmerize you, oh, look at her. Isnt that shot great . Viewer lisa love from franklin sent us this beautiful photo of her 8 month old granddaughter ellie just chilling. Just chilly. You know. Got a little face there. Hanging out. Sweet picture thanks for accepsending it to us. Once a month we pick a picture to be framed by our friends at great frame up of whitefish bay. Email us at pictures themorningblend. Com. We have teamed up with a nonprofit called local first milwaukee. A group that represents about 300 locally owned business. They mean it when they say shop local. Kelly andrew and katy corey are with local first milwaukee and here to tell you about their big fair next sunday in Walkers Point. They are also going to tell us about all of the fun things they have out in front of us. So excited. Thanks for having us. This has been a Fun Partnership for us to all week be able to highlight some of the cool things going on in milwaukee. Faye wetzel is here were going to talk to her later shes always saying shop local. Yup. Stay loyal. Its good to support local businesses right . Local first milwaukee. We have grown as a nonprofit. More than 325 membership businesses. We want you to come out and support the local community, and you know, basically help grow our economy here in milwaukee. I think in this day of amazon and ordering online and doing everything from a computer, its so important to remember our small local businesses. The fair you are do features over 50 local businesses. Why do you tell people it is impot business too. So you are going to come to this fair and meet people who started these business who is are still Small Business owners and youre helping send their kids to Music Lessons and helping them pay the bills. These are people right here in our community that are making a living on these great products. Yeah that need and deserve our support i think. So talk about some of the fun things you brought today lets start over here. Tell us as you go quickly where top note tonic is a great product for whether it is for yourself if you entertain during the holidays or they have Just Launched these gift packs so one is for vodka lovers and one is for gin lovers. They customize for you. What if you like both . [laughter] then buy both. [laughter] these just a table spoon of this concentrated tonic and then seltzer water. Where can you find that . At the buy local gift fair on the 27th you can also find them online and in shops around town here. Fantastic. Its been 7 years ago since i got here that was one of the first gifts i got and i loved it. I think whether you have lived here 20 years your whole life or youre brandnew thats an awesome gift. We brought city tins back because they are growing. And we love to see these growing local businesses so not only do they have two milwaukee bar addition, they have added a performing arts addition in milwaukee, two madison tins and also this year a fox valley tin which katie is from there. Im from the fox valley i have plenty of people to purchase gifts for. What is in those tins are a bunch of almost like coasters they are coasters and they provide discounts really nice discounts at local bars and restaurants. You can spin the wheel. Yeah. Spin the wheel if you are undecisive. Absolutely. Great stocking stuffer. Easy the right price point for everyone. So, we love that. Absolutely. Lafayette papers they are your custom designer for wedding invitations and stationary holiday cards. Laurie volunteers her time for the local first Milwaukee Community as well. Wonderful. Some really cool metal work up here. Now. A milwaukee blacksmith located in the third ward, we know about them on their tv show, but i cant wait to purchase personally the wisconsin its so cool. Look at that. Her friends out of state who have moved far away that is what they are getting for christmas. Super cool. I love that. Im going to lean it forward so you dont get so much glare there. I love that. What about right here . Actually this is fun. My husband and i took a staycation two years enjoyed a walking tour with walking milwaukee and i never heard of this. We participated in the holiday walking tour so you could see the lights and understand the history of buildings downtown and then roughly ten different walking tours are in these packets here. This is so cool. They are great. This one is a water street walk. It shows you everything where you are walking approximately. F the buildings and exactly what they are. This is such a cool thing. I love the milwaukee home stuff. Milwaukee home is a steeple its something people love whether they live here have just moved here and expanded their line. What you are holding now they have beanies, they have socks, there is a little tumbler in front of you. Also made in wisconsin. They are wine bottles and they have a special way of thats cool. Making that edge so you can drink out of it so we just love that they partnered with another wisconsin buss lets Work Together to make cool products. Were really excited about this event. We are going to a new location this year. So were at, if you know where indulgence chocolatiers, purple door ice cream in Walkers Point on Second Street its about two blocks north of there. Youre going to be driving and you will see a huge tent and lots of people and weve got i think 54 vendors coming in this food item to donate to the Hunger Task Force which is also a local first member. Youre going to be able to find your Holiday Gifts here. Snow or shine . [laughter] yup. There will be hot chocolate from indulgence chocolatiers too. Good. There is coffee and bloody maries. Oh, yeah. Real quick because were out of time can businesses who are local who are hearing about this how can they get involved in the future . Can they just become part of your nonprofit . Yes. They a join local first. Check out local first milwaukee. Com. All of the vendors at this fair are members of local first so thats how they learn about it and apply for it and everything. I love it. Its been really fun you guys thank you so much. Its been great highlighting different businesses, ways to support our local economy like you said. I cant imagine anything better than this gift fair and a chance to buy you could go buy all of your gifts you could hit everybody on your list. Not this sunday, but next you head out you can shop all day 9 00 to 3 00 at the see both location. A new location for them in Walkers Point. 5 at the door if you bring a nonperishable food item. Right now if you shift 10 of your spending to local businesses they want to hear about it. Tell them your story and hash tag local love mke to do tha thank you. Thank you so much. We have a whole lot more coming up on todays show. More about this robot not only does it help kids learn how to code, but also tells jokes. Ryan jay will be here with his Movie Reviews including the one for this film fantastic beasts and where to find them. Plus a special surprise for harry potter fans. Hes in costume too. Comfortable wh . . motor revving past . . brakes and crash sounds this winter, pay attention, go slow, and stay in control while driving. And lets achieve zero deaths on wisconsin roadways. John, were giving you a raise. Thats fantastic but im gonna pass. Who says no to more . Are you ok . Time warner cable internet gives you more of what you and those little data hoggers want. Like ultrafast speeds up to 50 megs. Thats 8x faster than dsl. This Internet Speed is sick. Get 15 meg internet with no data cap starting at 39. 99 a month. Call now. Would rex pass up more beef stew . I dont think so. Welcome back to the Morning Blend where it is fayes fashion friday. Do you ever set out to find the perfect gift for your girlfriend only to realize that you want one for yourself . All the time. Wetzel is here with gift ideas that are so good you buy one for you you know, and you buy one for me. One for you, one for me. Or could be one for you, two for me. I do that all the time. I love the stuff you have here. Wait happy birthday. Thank you. I really want to actually i would like to for forfeit my set today and have six more minutes of tiffanys montage. Isnt that great . I loved it. Youre so talented and so pretty d stop. Ryan jay told you to say that. Thats his line. When somebody compliments and you say oh, stop he says go on. I kind of do the same thing. [laughter] not often we get those compliments you got to let them seep in. Happy birthday. Thank you very much. Thats sweet. Okay so, one for me and one for you. All right so we can start over kind of an ugg christmas. This is that blanky your daughter loved so much plus a sleep mask which i think is really kind of fun. Thats nice. What is the price point on that . This is 99. Thats what it was last year so the price hasnt gone up and it now includes the sleep mask. It is so worth it and they wash up nicely. I am obsessed with sleep masks now. Now its so bright if you have a bedroom that faces the light you need a little that sleep mask dont you think . Totally. [laughter] we have all of our little blankies. Everything is plaid. Molly are you so happy . Everything is plaid. Im so happy. Is it a scarf or blanket . This one is an infinity scarf. You like these dont you . Yes i love them. Those are cool. You can maybe demo this. Its the only kind i buy now. Its just one big loop and you can wrap it around twice. You dont even need a mirror love that. And so, [laughter] thats pretty good. You got it going on today its her birthday so its all right. So that infinity scarf is 29. This is fantastic. The other thing i should say we always do this at fayes the week before thanksgiving when we have a store wide sale everything is 25 off store wide. Everything you are seeing here today im quoting you the retail price, but its 25 off. Have you to be thankful for being in business for 27 years. I have to give back a little bit right . Cute socks we have to move on here. I just saw them and wanted them. These are great tocking stuffers. One for me, one for you these are 19. These are like, yeah. This is 25 off. That does not include the 25 off. Oh. Oh. Oh. We have the ugg robe there table a little bit. Those robes are 99 to 125. Wow. These are great. Its like a spa at home. This is fantastic. These are fantastic because we love the cashmere gloves and very fashionable. Its like a throw back glove. I really like that. We have these from white and warren and from 360 cashmere. And the gloves are 59 and 69. Super soft and lovely i love that. How much are they . 59 and 69. Okay that doesnt include the 25 off. Very good molly. All right. Im working that. Im going to admit something i have way too many of these kinds of things and they are like little makeup bags and travel bags because every time you find a cute one i buy a new one. And youre always looking for the perfect one the perfect size or shape that might have a Little Pocket inside. Like tiffany is, you are always looking for perfect one. These are 39, 49 and 59. They have to bring something with a skull on it. I told you. What can i tell you . Both of yall are scorpios. When is yours again . 25th. Im also a libra kind of, but youre a true scorpio. All right so on is the week leading up to. Its going on now through sunday. Okay. So everything in the store, actually we have held nothing back it is 25 off. . . It we always do that and it gets people in the mood for shopping. Its just not too early. Oh, my gosh its too early i have to wait. If you can get some of this stuff crossed off your list, it makes the holidays so much less stressful. Im all about that. Yeah. Beautiful faye. You have this stuff in right now. The weather has been warm so people are having a hard time comprehending how close christmas is. It would be fun to get some of this done before thanksgiving. We keep coming back to the holidays and showing the table top stuff, but the vein inventoy gets lower too. So this is a great time to find these things. Head out to east town square on mequon road or galle fayes 123. Com or on facebook too. Be loyal, shop local and be grateful. Be grateful. I like that. Thats great. The right way to live. Ryan jay reviews the new coming of age film the edge of 17 and sits down with one of the . . [ music ] . . Welcome back to the Morning Blend with our resident film critic, newts commander. Its who i wish i was right . What is in your hand . This is a replica of eddie red mains wand. Thats a cool coat. Thank you. Im obsessed with it. The time. Its not even about cost play its about owning it im going to work it into my regular wardrobe. What is cost play . People who will become internet famous doing cost play. I dont aspire to that, but i do aspire to wearing this in my regular wardrobe all the time darling. It looks fantastic on you. Thats the word of the day. Go on right . Happy birthday lady tiffany. Oh, thank you. [laughter] there is a Little Something in there for you later. I will open it later. [laughter] all right. Great bag. You look great ryan. Lets talk about this movie, fantastic beasts and where to find them rated pg13. It is a big deal hash tag im obsessed hash tag i want to be a wizard. Hear tag i have seen it twice already, cant wait to see it again maybe this afternoon you should come with with me. That good huh . Harry potter fans when the last one came out. I remember being on the red carpet and asking the cast what will you do to fill the void . They were like go back and read the books thats true, but there is nothing like the unleashing of jk rollings latest Wizarding World universe its just incredible. Are they connected or is it separate . They are connected. Its a prequel, its not based on a book though. Its a the experience of going to a harry potter movie or Wizarding World movie and not knowing what is coming next. Not thinking something was cut out that thrill is unprecedented and absolutely amazing. Did she then write the screen play instead of writing a book . Yes she wrote the screen play and all new characters. There are new creatures and locations and this one takes place in rmerica. Its in new york city. There are some british wizards too, but there is the familiarity of the iconic musical theme. The same spells, the effe