IS THERE ANYTHING more tragically hilarious than dated dating advice for women? This little photo series from 1938 had me in stitches. From passing out before the date is over (like the poor gal above) to smearing too much lipstick on a man’s handkerchief, all the dating “donts” you’ll ever need are right here. [click to continue…]
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SO ABOUT A MONTH ago, when I had first gotten home for semester break, I tweeted about a very sisterly moment between my mother and me, in which we gorged ourselves on pistachios and talked about Alec Baldwin’s undying handsomeness. Lo and behold, the Wonderful Pistachio company (twitter.com/@getcrackin) contacted me several days later and said that they chose my tweet as one of their recent favorites about pistachios. And furthermore, that they would like to send me some free nuts! I was a bit skeptical at first. [click to continue…]
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THIS PHOTO SHOOT of real-sized women in next month’s issue of V Magazine! Such beautiful styling. What do you think?
(photo via jezebel)
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SPEAKING OF BEAUTIFUL braids, have you seen (or participated in) the flickr pool Braid Wednesday? It features the beautiful braids of hundreds of flickr users–kind of like a mini braid sisterhood! And some of my favorite style bloggers like Kate, Alyson, and Jenny (to name a few) have been inspired to get braiding. I’m still trying to master a French braid in my own hair (I currently have pathetic hand-eye coordination), but when I finally do, you readers will be the first to know.
(photo by Stephanie)
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT BRAIDS and sisterhood that makes them such divine companions? The fantastic how-to book Beautiful Braids was a longtime staple in my childhood, but somehow I never really mastered the tricky task of braiding my own hair in the mirror. (When I’m home sometimes my mom still does it!) Maybe the secret of sisters with fabulous braids is that they do it for each other? After getting a tip on the braid-heavy photo above from Pam at Retro Renovation, I started thinking about my favorite plaited ladies from The Sister Project. Here’s what I found: [click to continue…]
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WE’RE BIG FANS of Christmas carols in my family. “Oh Holy Night,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “The 12 Days of Christmas,” you name it, we’ve been singing it this week. And so last night between verses of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” my mom asked me if I remembered my very first favorite Christmas song. I was stumped at first. And then I remembered “Children Go Where I Send Thee,” and all the many Christmases T and I spent clapping and dancing along (with arguably as much spirit as that little tyke on the right) to the rhythm of that song came back to me. What about you? What was your childhood favorite carol? Current favorite?
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I WAS SO TOUCHED WHEN Katie Schwartz of Dear Thyroid fame asked me to participate in blogging community effort to raise awareness for thyroid diseases and cancers. When it comes to blues and truths of the ol’ butterfly gland, I’ve got plenty. So here goes… [click to continue…]
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OH MY CUTENESS, I’m in love with this ticklish fur ball. And I can authoritatively say that watching those little kitten paws flail in the air is the new best cure for the blues! (See all my “If I Were the Stork” series of imagined adoptive siblings here.)
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A YEAR AGO when Margaret, Marion, Paige and I were just setting sail on murky blog waters with the mission to spread the word on sisterhood, we were nervous. Who would read our ramblings? Could we really write about sisters and sisterhood for an indefinite time? But we came together with you, our sweet readers (in our own sort of sisterhood) and have officially been breathing life into The Sister Project for one year! In celebration of this milestone, and as a toast to more blog-birthdays to come, here are a few favorite posts (mine and yours) from the last year to read again or discover anew: [click to continue…]
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I WAS TOUCHED to misty-eyes by a recent post over at the food blog Tea & Cookies. Tea’s mom is moving away from her family’s beloved Bay Area home, and so Tea took some time to blog about her final goodbye to the house. She bid farewell to the jasmine that her mother planted outside of her childhood bedroom window, stole some longing gazes at the kitchen stove, and picked the last figs from their fig tree. But sweetest of all, she wrote the future inhabitant of her bedroom, a little girl, a lovely note (pictured above), and hid it in the bedroom closet for the girl to find when she’s old enough to read. Isn’t that wonderful? What a lucky girl to have some secret history hidden away in her room.
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FAMILY RESEMBLANCE: T and Anastasia at Tanglewood, 2007
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in friendship or in feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top on our homepage says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there.
