by Anastasia on January 5, 2010
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…]
by Anastasia on May 29, 2009
SINCE MUCH OF WHAT I share with you on TSP is about Big Brother T (and I mean big, what with his muscles and height and deafening voice), I’ve been feeling it was time to put his more diminutive side on display. Above is a favorite photo of the two of us (plus adopted brother Fievel), and when I look at it I simply cannot believe how big T is these days.
by Anastasia on May 15, 2009
DARE I SAY IT: THE KOOKIER THE BETTER! This wild photo of a 1982 sisterly Halloween moment was sent to us by reader Kristen Ryan (she’s under the orange mop on the right) as an addition to the Claiming Sisterhood ‘We Match!’ photo gallery. Our gallery has grown with all of our recent reader contributions. Send your matching family photos to claimingsisterhood [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks Kristen!
by Anastasia on April 10, 2009
I CONFESS, I’M A LITTLE envious of the five sisters who are behind the website Five Blondes. Yes, they’re all blonde (in varying shades), and yes, they have a little Canadian je ne sais quoi spirit, but the icing on the whole blonde cake is their serious sister camaraderie. And while they’re scattered in various corners of Canada (Erica actually lives in London), they remain connected through so much more than common hair color. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on April 6, 2009
MY DEAR FRIENDS (who happen to be sisters), Annie and Alex Ensign, contributed this Easter gem to our “We Match” photo gallery. Apparently all these matching frocks and jumpers were made by their mother, and as the story goes, there are a lot more Ensign children than the ones pictured here–I think 12 in total. That’s a lot of sewing. Send your Easter photos to claimingsisterhood [at] gmail [dot] com.
by Anastasia on March 31, 2009
THIS INCREDIBLE PHOTO was kindly sent to us by reader Elizabeth Edwardsen as an addition to our recent “We Match” photo gallery. The young lady in the floral jumper to the right is her mother. I love seeing the family resemblance in these siblings’ faces; it’s almost enchanting. Send your matching photos to claimingsisterhood [at] gmail [dot] com.
by Anastasia on March 12, 2009
I RECENTLY WROTE a post about siblings who match (you can catch up on it here), inspired by the mysterious photos of sisters Noreene and Maurine that thousands of people pored over on our homepage. Writing about that topic was too much fun to let go, so I’m featuring some of my favorite “We Match” photos in a slide show below. Some are of people I know, and some are of compelling strangers from Flickr. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on February 25, 2009
ALL OF US AT TSP were quite enamored with the initial story (or lack thereof) of mysterious twin sisters Maurine and Noreene, found on Flickr but unidentified beyond their first names and spunky sense of fashion. The photos belong to Roz Lebowitz, a New York City artist and collector who purchased the series of found images, depicting twin sisters clad in matching outfits throughout the ages (from the 1940s to the 90s). The Sister Project wanted to do our part to chase down the mystery of who these women were. And after Margaret Roach’s initial post on The Sister Project homepage, “Whose Twin Sisters are These?” we were delighted to receive a response from an amateur genealogist, Kevin, who had dug up a high school yearbook photo of Maurine and Noreene, along with other tidbits about their life and deaths. Even though the mystery was “solved,” we still couldn’t stop mulling those sisters over in our minds. The story sent TSP’s Marion Roach recalling a winding path she’d been down, pondering her own genealogy and redhead roots. For me, it’s all about the clothes: I can’t seem to push those matching outfits out of my own thoughts. [click to continue…]
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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. 
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