Sky-Earth, Down East Buoy Earrings

My Wife’s Go-to Earrings
Sky Earth, Down East Buoy Earrings
…And Necklace

We all have our favorites: a favorite sweater, favorite jeans, favorite shoes. Favorites are feel-good comfortable. Favorites are the easy choice and some days the easy choice is the best choice.

I asked my wife why she likes these earrings: “I love the color combination,” she said. “It feels summery. I wear a lot of blue and white and it goes great with those colors. It’s casual. It’s fun. I love Maine and I do like lobster rolls. The earrings are a nice size. They show up well.” -S.P.

Sky Earth
Down East Buoy Earrings

Depart any harbor, sail along our rocky coast, lobster buoys dot the sea with the colors of Easter eggs and Christmas ornaments…an ocean of bobbing color. Our Buoy earrings are perfect worn with the necklace or on their own. Silver and blue buoys swing freely at each ear. Lever-back closures make these free moving earrings safe and easy to wear.

Lobster Pound

I remember in the 1950’s when Crescent Beach – Kettle Cove had a lobster pound, a big grey shingled building. Tides washed in under the building. There were splashing sounds of saltwater pumped into and out of the tanks. It was, to a five-year old, a mysterious place. It was dark, cool and smelled of lobsters, seaweed and saltwater. It was seven minutes away from our summer cottage; we went there several times a summer. The big looming structure, the men in yellow oilskins and black rubber boots, the smells and sounds mixed together with a sense of summer and the 4th of July and fireworks. At checkout it was not, “Paper or plastic?” It wasn’t even, “Do you want seaweed with your lobster?” It was simply, “That’ll be $28.50! Seaweed?”

This is a painting we own of a lobster shack, probably a real place somewhere on the coast of Maine. The buoys are such an awesome symbol of summer. – R.H.P.