I LOVE EVERYTHING about this photo of a multi-tasking mama — an unknown photo researcher in Paris — hard at work in 1982.
[via]
{ 0 comments }
From the category archives:
Found Sisters
MAYBE IT’S A REACTION TO (nay, coping mechanism for?) all the signs of adulthood springing up around me. But the truth is, I’ve been completely enamored with the frivolous aspects of womanhood lately. And yes, I’m talking makeup here. Beautiful, glossy, expensive, marketed-like-colorful-candy makeup. I want feminism and feathery eyelashes, too. Is that too much to ask? Really? [click to continue…]
{ 2 comments }
I HAVE BECOME so enamored lately of the blog Cat Party. Blogger Chelsea Fairless’s depiction and exploration of femininity is just the most satisfying mix of camp and rock and eternal glam. I swoon. Here is a taste–a recent post, which embodies everything I love about being a girl: [click to continue…]
{ 1 comment }
HAIR. OH, HAIR. MAYBE IT was the Steel Magnolias post I did a few weeks ago that brought this age-old sisterhood subject back to mind. I have, after all, talked hair here several times before, (mostly pertaining to my envy for the all-wholesome and timeless beauty of braids). But now thanks to my friend (and, ahem, hair stylist) Cara, I’ve been seeing hair in a whole new light. She’s recently started blogging about the design, science and social relevance of hair. Her posts are smart, stylish, and full of photos (see those ladies above at the Bronner Brothers hair show?) that blow my mind. Move over, Braid Wednesday, your edgy big sister is in town.
{ 0 comments }
BIG SISTER, DIRT-MONGER, WILD CAT-TAMER, plant-lover, bigtime blogger, partner in insanity (um, trust me I know about this one), pioneeress, surrogate mother, and now tack another roaring head above the proverbial mantel: memoirist! Margaret has written a memoir about leaving her wild corporate job for peace in the, well, wild. I read it on my vacation to Tokyo last month and let me tell you, [click to continue…]
{ 1 comment }
AS I WIND DOWN my last semester of graduate school and the wide expanse of adulthood opens before me, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about money. (And apparently everyone else in the world is, too!) Of course, how to save it. But I’m also constantly catching myself thinking about how I’m going to spend it (once I get it, that is). So I thought it appropriate to post this week about the book Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt, in which she has illustrated every purchase she made over three years. [click to continue…]
{ 2 comments }
Can you guess which sister cinema classic these items are from?
AS SOMEONE WHO IS, sadly, sisterless. (And who has been writing a blog about sister-ness for quite some time now) I’m constantly searching for ways to live vicariously through sister-figures. And right now, one of my favorite ways to live vicariously through all things glamourous and exciting is through design*sponge’s “Living In” series, which features little guides to acheiving the style of dreamy movies. Here are some of my sister-themed favorites from the series: [click to continue…]
{ 1 comment }
I‘M DIGGING this photo post about girlfriends over at the blog size too small. It’s so sweet! This holiday season, I’m on the road, traveling in Japan with my boyfriend. We’re having a fantastic time, full of sticky rice balls and silly awkward bowing exchanges with strangers, but today, I’m feeling especially pangy for the Christmas-y comfort of my hometown girlfriends. Le sigh.
{ 3 comments }
SPEAKING OF CRAFTS, I thought I’d share a photo that sums up how I’ve been spending the bulk of my free time lately. That’s right: I’ve been canning. It all started with this recipe for refrigerator pickles that Margaret Roach, founder of The Sister Project, posted on her gardening blog. I love how the simple steps of canning–sterilizing the jars; boiling a brine; gathering the perfect combination of spices–connects me to Margaret even though we’re separated by a thousand miles, and also connects me to the many women in my family who have done this very activity over the past hundred years. This women’s work is powerful stuff, eh?
{ 1 comment }
CONFESSION: I ONCE CHECKED OUT The Idiot’s Guide to Quilting from the Greensboro Public Library. And then it sat in my dorm room with some fabric scraps for several months collecting late fees before I finally returned it. So I haven’t had much luck getting the basics down (which makes me feel super lame next to the women in this video). But every time I see fantastic women creating beautiful quilts I’m in love. It’s love. (Like that lovely bespectacled lady says.) Now if this isn’t sisterhood, I don’t know what is.
(Thanks to my crafty friend Cara for posting this video!)
{ 3 comments }
First time here? Here's the idea: 