from your 1950s Cowboy and Indian!
I found my costume in a vintage shop on our honeymoon. It was made by a girl scout sometime in the 1960s. And naturally, you need someone in this relationship to try and lay down the law. ;)
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Friday, October 25, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Ain't no mountain high enough
Calistoga! Our beautiful morning coffee views. #honeymoon #finally #nofilter #chateaudevie
Monday, October 21, 2013
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Project Bed Frame!
We also spent the weekend working on a house project, a new (old) bed-frame to celebrate our new, non-postage-stamp-sized bedroom! Whereas having a bed-frame of any kind would have been an impossibility at St. Marks (the length of our bed was the width of the room itself), the spacious bedroom at Hancock St. allowed us to realize our dream of having a real live headboard like a pair of adults! We had both fallen for the Jenny Lind style bed, a beautiful spooled bed named for the opera singer Jenny Lind, during a JL-naming craze sometime in the 1850s! The problem was antique (and reproduction) JL beds are mad expensive, and the antiques tend to be too small, as apparently everbody in ye olde times slept in a double bed.
After much searching, Molly located a chippy JL bed frame (only an inch too short on each side, nothing short of a miracle!) in Westfield, NJ for only 65 dollars! As soon as her workday allowed, we zoomed off to NJ and retrieved a very dusty head and footboard from a man’s garage. Back at home, we sipped rose and cleaned the grimy pieces from head to toe. At the moment, we like the shabby chic aspect of the weathered white paint, but at some point in the future, we may strip it and enjoy the beautiful (not-too) cherry wood underneath.
A history of the spool bed:
Mini-trip to Adamstown, PA
We had high hopes for this mini-trip to the supposed "antiques capital" of Pennsylvania. While it is true there were more antiques stores per square inch than we knew what to do with, there were mostly of the my-grandmother's-dusty-tchotchkes-variety and no great steal either. We had hoped to find a charmingly-beat-up (possibly drafting) desk that could accommodate Kate's art, as well as a coffee table or a trunk-cum-coffee-table, but returned, after one night in an odd inn, a terrible breakfast at a diner where under-boiled potatoes and onions constituted "hash browns," six hours roundtrip in the car, and countless tolls, empty-handed. While the town and surrounded area were not especially scenic, seeming like the example of the ruined rural area or depressed exurbia (I had a strong sense of rural Ohio deja vu), we made the best of things by experiencing it together, and going to a Mennonite-run farm and orchard on our way home (www.brecknockorchard.com) and vegetable/apple picking. We also visited a hill-top goat farm and took photos from the car window of some of the prettier things we passed. When we got home, Molly made a delicious ratatouille with all our Lancaster county produce!
Monday, October 14, 2013
A birthday in pictures
It was a beautiful weekend in Bed-Stuy to celebrate Molly’s 26th birthday.
We had a relaxed morning; Molly tidying up the living room and me making some celebratory pumpkin walnut pancakes!
After brunch, we took a walk through the neighborhood. Up on Marcy, a large film crew was shooting a crowd scene for a new mini-series by Soderbergh called The Knick. They had completely transformed the area, from the period-costumed people to the road paving material to the fake shop signs in Ye Olde fonts. ”Oooo,” said Molly, pointing to a neat-looking place entitled Chemists and Druggists, thinking it was a new hipster-cum-bar-hangout “We should try it out!” Alas, it was just the set!
We continued on to the fledging farmers market and on our way back home, we happened to run into longtime resident Claudia Moran, who was out supervising some repair work on her one of a kind mansion (http://www.thevictorianny.com). She offered us old-house-buffs an off-the-cuff house tour, which we promptly accepted! The house was amazingly open and wide and ornate, unlike anything we had seen! Claudia said the place was a wreck when she bought it 27 years ago, and she had been painstakingly renovating it to its former glory ever since!
Later, we went to Nic and Tony’s on the UWS for a birthday dinner, and I surprised Molly with tickets to the NYC Ballet! They were doing a program of three shorter ballets of very disparate styles all choreographed by Balanchine, which was great for ballet novices like ourselves. Kind of like a wine flight — something for everyone! During the intermissions, we admired the beautiful lobby and the outdoor balcony overlooking Lincoln Center!
Friday, October 11, 2013
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