The World is Your Oyster {house}

So much to share, if only I could steal some more hours in the day 
{sigh} 

Still adjusting to a school-less "schedule" and trying to escape the perpetual flow of sawdust in our home {project ballast is OOFC}

All the while, grasping onto this fleeting summer, in all it's glory.

Starting the week off with a promise to be more diligent with my precious Valentine -
And to prove I mean business, I'm sharing this utterly charming Rowayton home. 

All the proverbial dream house boxes are checked with this stunner:
  
The impeccably detailed decor {check}, seeped in heritage {check}, inviting and positively lovely {check/check}, and ahem, 
quite literally on the water.
{CHECK}


They had me with this outstanding Oomph lantern in the entryway - 
the rest is is just mignonette on the oyster . . .


"The building was once a working oyster house, one of several that lined the Five Mile River. “We wanted to keep it true to itself and focus on the oyster theme,” says Schuyler. Located in the historic Oysterman’s Row, the home sits next to the community dock, where a flotilla of kayaks and paddleboards rests on the rocky beach. The couple’s own boats—a Hinckley Talaria 44 and Boston Whaler—are tied up at the end of their gangway. “On the weekends when we’re home, guests will drop by in their boats, and we’ll have a glass of wine on the dock,” says Schuyler."

ummmm, 
YES, PLEASE.  
read the full article here.













Photography by  Keith Scott Morton

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans." 
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

DEAR GEORGE

 
 
image via meredith nelson



 

so handsome.
so naughty.
image by WLS
let's go to the beach & play ball, you beast.
XOXOXO

DEAR ALEX EBERT


I was lucky enough to see this glorious being on my birthday with my fave peeps in a ridiculous location on a gorgeous night.  HAPPIEST I've ever been.
Lawn on D is a new venue in the middle of South Boston - complete with neon tire swings, food trucks, 
beers, string lights, and pure joy.

clearly, Alex & I are locking eyes at this moment.


The first time we saw Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes was at the Orpheum about 3 years ago - it was the second happiest I've ever been.  
Jade was in the band then - what a heartbreaking love story with one of the greatest love songs ever written to come out of it.

Jade & Alex used to be in love and now she's not in the band. {womp}
 I was concerned that they would attempt to replace Jade, and there is no way anyone could stand up to her voice of 10,00 angels, but my boy Alex did not replace Jade.  When it was time for Jade's iconic part of "Home"-  real people from the audience were invited on stage to share their brief stories of inspiration.  genius.  
Jade, girl, wherever you are, wishing you well.

Back to Alex . . .



 

you're a man on fire.


 call me.