Pre-Fab Houses, part 1

A while back I posted about Rocio Romero, an architect who builds pre-fab houses. I'm way into the pre-fab idea of small spaces, small consumption and low costs. Over the weekend Alex and I drove south of San Francisco along the coast and fell in love with California for good. I became obsessed with the idea of buying a beautiful but inexpensive tract of land somewhere on California's central coast and then building a small, inexpensive pre-fab house. This is the Weehouse by Alchemy Architects, one of many wonderful pre-fab options out there. It's not the most "green" of the pre-fab options out there but definitely the smallest.

Let There Be Light

My friend Evelyn and I went to the SF MOMA yesterday to check out the Richard Avedon exhibit (more on that later) and saw these great teak candlesticks in the museum's store. And at $28.00 and $22.00 a piece they aren't that expensive, which is even more the reason for me to get them.

Pretty Toast Dress

I'm not ready for Fall clothes yet (even though I live in San Francisco where it seems like you wear Fall clothes all year long). What I'm saying is that there are a whole lot of things in the Toast catalogue that I find beautiful, but for now I'm only posting this gorgeous dress.

And It Happens Just Like That...

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It happens just like that, and before you know it summer is over; today was the first day of my graduate program in creative writing. But I really can't complain since I'm coming off one of the best vacations of my life in which I got to hike, run, swim and play with some of my favorite people in the world. In bare feet, without makeup, wearing my bathing suit all day. It broke my heart to leave home yesterday, and I sort of feel jet-lagged and confused, but nevertheless, here's to new schools, to new friends, to new beginnings.

Chatham, Summer.