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The highlight of Brimfield for me this year was meeting this puppy (and introducing Alex to his first taste of soft serve!). Also, note the guy passed out with his dog in the background. Brimfield is nothing but character after character (and little old ladies with pushcarts). They mean business!
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This past month has been big one in my house: Alex turned one and took his first steps, and I graduated from my Master’s program and started a new position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art! Tim captured a photo of me taking my first steps up to the Met stairs (he very sweetly walked me across Central Park to work on my first day!).
My position is a post-graduate, year-long appointment; officially, I’m the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Intern in American Decorative Arts. I’m working in the American Wing with the amazing Decorative Arts curatorial staff. I can’t believe I’m done with my graduate degree (finally, four years and one baby later) and now find myself working in my favorite museum. I’m just getting settled, but will be sure to share what I’m working on this year.
I have a backlog of posts to share; most notably, Alex’s encounter with a bulldog puppy!
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It’s hard to believe that this is the difference a year makes! Happy Birthday Sweet Alex — we love you!
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As many of you know my father, Craig Nova, is a novelist. His latest novel, The Informer, is a noir thriller in the tradition of Alan Furst or Graham Green. I read it feverishly over the course of two days — not only is it a thriller, but there is a great love story too. Today I’m so excited to share with you that The Daily Beast is running an amazing interview of my father by John Irving! Read more here and click here to buy buy buy the book (it has gone to 616 on Amazon’s sales rank just today!)!
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The best vacations are one when you come back feeling more alive and our trip to LA left us feeling that way. It is a great city, no surprise there. We stayed in an amazing bed and breakfast in Santa Monica that I highly highly recommend, The Channel Road Inn. I joined Yelp, so you can see everywhere we ate here. This was my favorite meal.
PS I loved carrying Alex in my ring sling.
PPS I miss LA!
NB: The Inn has a great “stay one night, get a night free” promotion that runs from October to March. We’ll be back next March.
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Let me just say that I love our Flip video camera. It is a must have for new parents. We were able to capture Alex learning to crawl and then share it with grandparents who live far away. Amazing. It is tiny, easy to use, and the quality of the HD edition is great.
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We were in D.C. for the weekend, visiting friends (with a sweet baby boy, Nate) and had so much fun handing out candy in a real house (there is something about trick or treating in an apartment building that is sort of sad). Alex was a penguin. (And I ate all his candy.)
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Yesterday was our third wedding anniversary and to celebrate we had a picnic in the park. Cherries, lots of cheese and french bread, melon and prosciutto and of course some red wine. As a special treat for the husband, I made one of my favorite appetizers: gorgonzola, honey and salami on french bread. Then, for dessert we had cream puffs. The rectangular glass containers and the round french glass containers are both from the Container Store, and some of my favorite items in our kitchen. I particularly like the rectangular containers because the lid functions as a mini cheese plate. A cutie picture of me and Alex below!
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I thought I’d pop in for a quick hello and to share some cutie baby pictures with you. I can’t tell you how all your sweet comments and well wishing have meant to me. The first days in the hospital it was so nice to check my blackberry whenever I was up (all hours of the day and night, learning to breastfeed) and have sweet emails waiting for me. So thank you, sweet readers. We’re home and doing well, getting some sleep. Oh, and you can see more baby photos here.
This was the view from our hospital room (!!) and one night there was a HUGE fireworks display (especially for Alex, I’d like to think).
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We are so excited to welcome Alexander Nova Wright into our family!
He was born at 7:51 am, weighing 8 lbs on the dot and measuring 20 inches long. Photos to follow later in the week.
Thanks for all the lovely comments! And, many thanks to Joanna for posting the news for us yesterday! Here is a cutie shot of Alex:
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Dear Abbey, this impromptu hijacking (er, guest blogging) of Abbey Goes Design Scouting is really just to wish you a very happy 30th birthday and tell you how much I look forward to another year of your design scouting exploits. So, here’s to you, and many happy returns.
with love from your husband,
Tim.
(Photos above taken at the Saint Gaudens historic home in Cornish, New Hampshire, when Abbey was a wee lass (left) and this past summer (right). )
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Here is my husband Tim, holding his godson Nate last weekend in D.C (at Nate’s christening). It’s hard for me to decide who is cuter, my husband or the baby!
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Now that I’m in my second trimester I can share the happy news that we’re having a baby due at the end of May! After so long of keeping it a secret it is a little strange to finally be telling people, but also really really nice. Now, for the part you’ve all when wondering about: how have I not been blogging about baby stuff??? Well, I’ve been channeling all that design scouting baby energy into my new blog: Design Tots. I’m sure there will be the occasional baby post here, but mostly I’ll keep it to Design Tots. LOVE, Abbey
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Over this past weekend, my mother and I presented a paper at the American Popular Association Conference. It was so much fun to work with my mom in a professional setting. (We presented on the material culture of film, using the two Father of the Bride movies and looking at the changing role of fatherhood in America). The technology provided by the conference was basically nil (although everyone was really really nice) and that meant a number of last minute trips to the local Best Buy. It also saw me in sitting in our rental car desperately trying to open clamshell packaging of our newly purchased speakers. While it was practically tear-inducing in the moment, it is now comical and I’m really without words to describe the contortions and pure force of will it took to open the packaging without damaging the contents or myself. All of this is a long way of saying that this morning when I logged into Amazon.com (I’m in the market for a new small camera) I was THRILLED to see they are working with suppliers to reduce “wrap rage” and packaging waste. I think that it will take the leadership of companies like Amazon (and the support of consumers like us) to reduce the environmental impact of the insane amounts of packaging currently used.
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