SOWA Market - Perfect for a Sunny Sunday

A few Sundays ago, a friend and I headed out to explore the South End via the SoWa Open Market. Every Sunday, from 10am to 4pm, vendors in the form of food trucks, farmers, artists, antique wheelers and vintage clothes dealers spread out in a parking lot of an old mill. It's a great way to get your fix of local crafts and food, as well as get out and enjoy a sunny New England Sunday. 

xo, 

eb

Market day!

Love this retro swimsuit.

In line for the food trucks.

Wolf tank!

Wolf lady

That's me!

Spent Sunday biking down to Jamaica Plain, a cute and hip neighborhood, to help a friend shoot a music video. Costumes included wolf masks.

The sun was out and bike ride was great. JP is up and coming and supposed to have some great restaurants. We stopped by Tacos al Churro for a burrito. Pretty good. I can't wait to go back and explore some more!

xo,
eb

Everyone Getting Ready for the 4th?

I am! I love my star spangled kicks.

Can't wait to see what Boston has in store!

National Lobster Day!!

Whoaaa. It's been one of those weeks. All work, little play. Well, ok, I was in NYC last weekend for fun, so there's that. I love that place. 

Anyways! On to the important stuff. 

TODAY IS NATIONAL LOBSTER DAY!

And by golly, let me tell you. Since moving to New England, I have eaten more than my share of lobster. And let's be clear, I will continue to do so. You just trip over the stuff here. 

Enjoy the smattering of lobstah I've come across since my move here. 

EAT YE CRUSTACEANS ALL!

xo, 

eb

It doesn't get any more New Enland than this. 

Just add: the Red Sox, lobster and Narragansett.

Lobster fusilli from Giacomo's in the North End. 

This place is the REAL DEAL.

Ate here with my mom back in April.

Lobster traps in Rockport.

Full lobsters and lobster rolls from Roy Moore Lobster Company in Rockport.

This place is ALSO the REAL DEAL.

Wild Maine blueberry leomonaide (yea - it was THAT good) 

and a lobstah roll from Fox's Lobster House in Maine.

I love this one. It was snapped by my friend Rachel from work. 

Wicked rad, eh?

Brimfield Antique Show

There is this magical thing that happens here in Massachusetts. It happens three times a year. In a small, sleepy town called Brimfield.

The Brimfield Antique Show.

For five days, in May, July and August, from sunup to sundown, 6,000 antique dealers from across the country gather in a gigantic field and displays wonders of time's past for purchase. In a few words, it's amazing and almost unbelievable.

Brimfield draws a lot of merchants and buyers from stores far and wide across the globe. This is where Anthropologie gets its great beat-up store decor, where set designers find the perfect antique for period pieces and where stylish Japanese and New Yorkers interior designers (think the Ace Hotel) invade small town New England in search for the one statement piece that will set their home, bar or hotel apart. All alongside everyday peeps looking for old stuff.

It would take all five days (maybe more) to properly comb through the roughly 84 acres of antiques. There's everything from neon signs to Eames chairs to clothing, jewelry and purses to art to wooden boxes, glass jars and brass candlestick holders. Furs. Tables. Car parts. Eyeglass. Literally, anything and everything you could ever want.

I can't wait to go back in July. I've got my eyes set on an old industrial cart and a great farm table.

LOTS 'o pictures on this post. There's just too much to share.

xo,
eb

The line of cars goes on for miles.

(also - the pros and veterans rent a uhaul to bring home all their goodies)

My friend Millah matching the tents.

Wait? Are we in the lobby of an Ace?

This is the cart I want.

Millah finding hidden treasures.

This was my favorite tent. All outdoorsy stuff. 

Very Colorado. 

My dad would love this one, too.

Who doesn't need this??

Purchase #1: A giant light bulb

Purchase #2: 1940s / WWII Propoganda

Purchase #3: Brass anchor candlestick holder

Purchase #4: An array of glass bottles

Purchase #5: Richard cufflinks + tie clip

Pretty Type

It's been rainy, rainy, cold here for the past few days.

Look at that sun!! - and dang! Look at that typeface!

1 if by Land, 2 if by Sea, 3 if by Bike - The Minuteman Trail

In 1775, Paul Revere took a midnight ride that forever changed the history of the United States. 

"One if by land! Two if by sea!" he warned as he raced on horseback towards Lexington and Concord as the British troops approached Boston. Yikes! And so the American Revolution began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. 

A few years later (um...  in 1992), the Minuteman Bike Trail was constructed to follow almost the exact route Revere took that famous night. The trail runs from Somerville's Davis Square out to Bedford, Mass. The paved path passes by small towns, ponds and lakes. It's shaded by huge old trees that create a magical and cooling canopy for the bikers, joggers, inline skaters (yay, Rollerblades) and walkers. 

I've ridden the path for the past two weekends, with 26 miles being my longest ride. Let's just say this, I'm kicking myself for not bringing my road bike out East. Three to four hours is along time to spend on a single speed. Lesson learned: people do bike in New England!

The Minuteman Trail has become my favorite weekend activity. I can't wait to ride further - after the paved road ends, it spits you out onto the road where you can travel to places like Thoreau's Walden Pond and gives you a chance to really explore the charming New England countryside. 

Yay, bikes! YAY!

xo, 

eb

p.s. here's a map of the trial.

Rad signage that peppers the trail. I knew America's Founding Fathers loved bikes.

(Nice whip, Paul.)

I DO bike Boston!

Feels like riding through the forrest.

Perfect way to end the 20 mile ride. Beers 'n food in the sun at Harvard Square's

restaurant Upstairs on the Square.