I thought you might like to see a peek of Alex’s room; I finally got the posters and tea towels up. The little car is made by Haba and was a first birthday present from doting grandparents. The tea towels were insanely expensive to frame, so I just put them up with bull dog clips. The rug is from Anthropologie. If you click each image, you’ll see a larger version!
The globe pillow is perfect for resting my head on while Alex runs around at 5am.
PS this is what his room used to look like when he was a tiny baby!
After six carless year in NYC, I am loving our wheels. We agonized over the decision for a full year but, finally found a used Subaru coming off lease that was perfect for our little family.
I love this clip of Alex in the sprinkler. Nothing says summer to me more than playing in the water. I hate that summer goes by so fast: we’ve been cramming in picnics galore, grilled flank steak, watermelon and feta salads, homemade pesto, flea markets, road food.
“First Photograph of Lightning” W. N. Jennings. I’ve gotten a number of emails asking for more frequent posting around here. So, I figured I’d just start posting what I’m looking at these days. The first of many to come! PS: There is a lot more content on my FFFFOUND profile, for those who are as voracious as I am.
My favorite part of the day is walking by the flower arrangement in the Great Hall. I thought you might enjoy them as much as I do, so, I’ll post a picture every week for the year I’m working at the Metropolitan.
Walking home from work today I stopped by the outdoor book guy at 72nd and Broadway and browsed old copies of House & Garden from the 1980s for half and hour. I saw reading nooks and green dining rooms complete with pistols… and lots and lots of chintz. Finally, I choose one issue to bring home with me. Total cost: $2. Whatta town!
This wallpaper caught my eye in the West Elm catalog. I love how the white background matches the white walls, so all you see is the pattern. Of course, I also like the gallery wall. The paper isn’t for sale on the website — I assume it was a stylist prop. Does anyone recognize it? The wallpaper is from Walnut Wallpaper and is called “Elizabeth”.
Knowing I have a weakness for whales, my sister sent me a link to these this morning. I think they’d be really sweet on our super modern table. $10 Wrapables.com NB: I feel I must say that post my uncluttering, this is exactly the sort of purchase I no longer make. However, if I didn’t already own a salt and pepper grinders (pepper from Trader Joe’s, pink salt grinder from Whole Foods), I’d snap these up.
You might also be interested in seeing our wedding photos, baby photos, and seeing our apartment on Design*Sponge and in Page Six Magazine.
On Home
A house is more than just a shelter from the storm. How we shape our homes, and how we behave within them, speak volumes about our history, our values and our way of life. - New York Times
Living is the greatest art of all. - Alfred Stieglitz
On Consciousness and Freedom
But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
David Foster Wallace, Commencement address at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, May 21, 2005.
