Vintage Skills and Style in the Modern World
Here is the secret: The reason I knit so much is that I watch way too much television. I have made the deal with myself that if I am knitting, or otherwise fixing/making something, it isn’t rotting my brain. The other reason I knit so much is that I can’t
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Sometimes, it’s fun to do something finicky. When everything in the modern world is focused on convenience, and “hacks,” and recipes that take 30 minutes, there’s something to be said for slowing down every once in awhile. Tedious projects give us the chance to build our concentration, unplug from the
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Do you decorate for the holidays? So did “smart homemakers” in 1948. I know this, because I happened across the December 1948 issue of Mademoiselle’s Living Magazine, which is, explicitly, the magazine for smart young homemakers. I love home magazines, and this one, from the late 1940s, did not disappoint.
Continue readingI’m not the only one who loves to make things… The world (and Internet) is full of makers. That’s why I’ve joined the 2016 Vintage Pledge. Thanks to fellow blogger Raven Gemini of Revisionist Vintage, I actually remembered that the Vintage Pledge is a thing, and signed up for it. The basics
Continue readingSo I’ve caught the plague… Almost certainly due to a herd of little kids coughing in my face, high-fiving me with their germy hands, and general spreading their germs in my direction, I’ve been struck down with illness. This has featured: a sore throat a kind of spooky episode of
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