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Embroidery Hoop Wall Art

Lou Stitches on Etsy

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#skill #skills #embroidery #embroidery aesthetic #femininity #hobby #craft

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#art #femininity #feminine aesthetic

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been thinking a lot lately about ‘callings’ and ‘five year plans’ and ‘goals in life’ and finding ‘what you’re meant to do’ and how these things are almost exclusively referred to in the context of Careers

‘find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life’ i was told in high school. it’s the same weird sort of assumption as people who talk about The One and Mr. Right and think ‘don’t worry, you’ll fall in love someday’ is appropriate comfort for loneliness

it’s all such a narrow picture. i’ve figured out recently that my goal is a house on a dirt road with an orchard, and whatever path is acceptable to me and will get me there is my calling. maybe there will be a boy involved, maybe there won’t be. i’ll make it work either way.

figure out what you want in life. it probably isn’t a career. just find a job that will get you where you want to go and that you’re okay waking up to. treasure the people you have right now and don’t worry about the ones that may or may not show up later.

#I'm learning this now #advice #real talk #life #picture your life #how do you want to live #homemaking #career #courtship

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“Are you too proud Mr. Darcy? And would you consider pride a fault or a virtue?”

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (London, beginning of January 1874)

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by Madison Calley 

#music #skill #education #educational #self improvement #personal improvement

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it's infuriating that skills such as sewing, embroidery, cooking, baking bread, knitting, crochet, making herbal remedies for minor ailments, gardening, they're just written off as "hobbies" and "woman's work". this stuff takes an incredible amount of skill. the other day I was darning a cardigan that had some holes in it and my husband was looking at me, shocked, that I'd managed to darn the hole to practically invisible and asked me how I did it. he said he can do rough sewing, mainly from cadets, to sew a merit badge on a shirt or make a sling in a pinch, but he can't darn a cardigan. and to me it was so easy because I grew up sewing my clothes up? it's the kind of skill that's passed down from mother to daughter. if you go on the street and pick out a random man, what's the betting he knows how to embroider and darn? it's a valuable life skill for women but not for men, it's not worth teaching them, because it's something the women do.

I mean shit, the kind of labour that goes on at home by wives and mothers makes society work. who did they always employ at sewing factories? women. go on etsy and look for crocheted goods, and itll more than likely be entirely women.

women do so much work behind the scenes that isn't valued by society in general and I want that to change! women's labour is essential labour!

#skill #skills #sewing #embroidery #femininity #traditional femininity

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Homemaking Tip #2: The little things matter. Putting off tasks because they're easy or small results in an unorganized messy home by the end of the week. Don't put it off for later, get it done in the moment. This is how yall end up with chairs full of clothes.

#tips #homemaking #homemaking tips #organization #traditional femininity

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You might be wondering to yourself what this blog is about as you pursue the content posted here. And instead of vaguely alluding in various posts about what this blog is about, and thus allowing you, the reader, to come to various conclusions about this blog’s identity, I have streamlined the process by stating outright on what this blog is about, the various content matter that will be contained in the blog, and a vague sketch of my identity, the blogger.

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First and foremost, this is not a hate blog and I will not tolerate any hate in any form. 

Secondly, I am a Christian (Catholic to be exact). However, this isn’t a blog to push my religion onto anyone, or, for that matter, to talk about religion. I only make this fact known because I want to be transparent. And as an academic, I know how imperative it is to know who the author is and how that may affect their writing. 

Everyone is welcome here! In making this blog I do not wish to exclude anyone. This blog is not about religion.

If you do have any questions about my religion, feel free to ask. I always love it when people ask before making assumptions. Soon I will be making a page of resources to answer any questions you may have. 

Now, what is this blog about? This blog’s main goal is to be educational. I created this blog because I am passionate about certain skills, crafts, and behaviors (sewing, knitting, dancing, cooking, manners, and even skills to navigate social venues such as parties, school, and work), and I wish to teach these things as well be a part of a community that also has this passion. Additionally, in this blog I place high importance on manners, gracefulness, femininity, elegance, education, and self-improvement.  

In essence, I created this blog to be a sort of hybrid of cotillion and home economics with a sprinkling of history in which I will explore various traditional views on social conduct.

Additionally, this is a NSFW free blog. I do not care if you want to follow this blog and your blog has NSFW content, all I ask is that just as I try to be respectful of your decision to post what you want on your blog, I ask for that same respect. 

This blog is mainly focused on women and female centered topics. However, no matter how you identify, you are, of course, welcome here. 

Finally, I believe that everyone is wonderfully made; that everyone was perfectly made in the image of God, and that we are all brothers and sisters. Thus, I believe that everyone is their own complete, wonderful, and beautiful person that deserves respect and kindness. That is why everyone is welcome here, and that is why I will not tolerate hate. Please always remember that you–yourself and your life–are a beautiful, precious gift.

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