As the birds fly south this year, be inspired to accessorize your home with them. A huge trend this season, and a way to always make it feel like spring in your home during the long winter!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Birds of a feather flock together...
As the birds fly south this year, be inspired to accessorize your home with them. A huge trend this season, and a way to always make it feel like spring in your home during the long winter!
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
1930's
Vintage 1930's
Vintage 1930's
After cleaning my barn today on this last day of summer I began to think... Of days gone by when the harvest meant something. When apples were sweet and ripe for pie. When canning was a bonding experience. When corn was picked by hand. When family worked together to survive and the Privy was the last place you wanted to go on a brisk fall night.
I know I am not the only girl around who feels she was born in the wrong era and it's comforting to know so. Aprons and chickens and all things erstwhile call my name. I am in love with the photographs from the Farm Security Administration. They are romantic and haunting. Beautiful and terrifying. Glorious and disheartening. If I had a super power it would most definitely be time travel.
Music is a huge part of my obsession with the past. You must surround yourself... Clothes, music, food, books. Setting the vibe is all the fun. So whilst I eat some cherry pie while wearing one of my 100's of vintage aprons I might be listening too...
Most fair beauty bright- Jean Ritchie
Shady Grove- Doc Watson
The Cuckoo- Clarence "Tom" Ashley
The Butchers Boy- Buella Kazee
John Harsy- The Carter Family
Swanno Man- Roscoe Holcomb
Great 1930's books to catch up on...The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ( 1938
Adorable 1940's style retro aprons for kids & moms. Hand made. Stitchthrutime.com. $43.95
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ‘Tis the gift to be free, ‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, And when we find ourselves in the place just right, It will be in the valley of love and delight. -Simple Gifts was written by Shaker Elder Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848
The photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection form an extensive pictorial record of American life between 1935 and 1944. This U.S. government photography project was headed for most of its existence by Roy E. Stryker, formerly an economics instructor at Columbia University, and employed such photographers as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, Jack Delano, Marion Post Wolcott, Gordon Parks, John Vachon, and Carl Mydans. The project initially documented cash loans made to individual farmers by the Resettlement Administration and the construction of planned suburban communities. The second stage focused on the lives of sharecroppers in the South and migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states. As the scope of the project expanded, the photographers turned to recording both rural and urban conditions throughout the United States as well as mobilization efforts for World War II.
Allie Mae Burroughs
An early government photo project was the first to take advantage of Kodak’s revolutionary color film, which has ceased production recently.
According to The Kodachrome Project:
From 1939-1945, photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information (FSA/OWI) photographed our America in one of her darkest yet remarkable periods. They spent countless hours photographing scenes and portraits that visually embraced the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations, the nation’s subsequent economic recovery and industrial growth, and the country’s great mobilization for World War II. Some of these images, some 160,000 black and white and 1,600 in color can be seen on the website of the Library of Congress. Many went on to appear in a book released in 2004 called “Bound for Glory: America in Color 1939-43” and are part of a permanent online exhibit.
1939 Oct.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange
Part of: Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA
Monday, September 20, 2010
Talk of the Town
After a long night of celebrating our success at the Primp store we got up late to grab some grub at Town Talk Diner, a cute 1950's diner. We got avocado on our eggs and garlic on fries, we will be going back!
I know that secretly Rian and Leslie were humming the tune "these boots were made for walking" while they strutted down the streets of Minneapolis.
A special thanks to Buddha for her quiet wisdom and Kooper for his warm snuggles, they made the trip!
On the road again...
Primp
The papers are officially down, the doors are open, time to Primp! The night was a total success the racks were totally bare at the end of the night. Everyone loved the design and aesthetic of the store, It was a cause to celebrate for both the Primp store owners and Bellwether!
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Autumn sine qua non
1. Things that go bump in the night...
And make your skin crawl...
A great costume of course!
Be creative, no one wants to see a costume straight out of the bag with no wit or creativity, you might as well stay home!
2. Antique Halloween decor is spooky and creepy for real! Just think of how many All Hallows Eve's this card has seen.
4. unwrapping 50,000 caramels only to end up with 10 in the pot is one of my fondest childhood memories.
5. This game freaks me out for sure, belief in ghosts is optional goose bumps are not!
A Ouija board (from the French and German words for "yes", oui and ja, also known as a spirit board or talking board. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond in the late 1890s, the Ouija board was regarded as a harmless parlor game unrelated to the occult until American Spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I.[2] MainstreamChristian religions and some occultists have associated use of the Ouija board with the threat of demonic possession and some have cautioned their followers not to use Ouija boards.[3]
While Ouija believers feel the paranormal or supernatural is responsible for Ouija's action, it may be more parsimoniously explained by unconscious movements of those controlling the pointer, a psychological phenomenon known as the ideomotor effect.[4][5][6] Despite being debunked by the efforts of the scientific community, Ouija remains popular among many young people.
6. Through the view finder (TTV)
Through the Viewfinder photography is defined as taking a picture of any subject through the viewfinder of any camera with another camera. I prefer to use my Nikon D40 with a tube and a Kodak Duaflex.
Get out and enjoy the atmosphere that fall bestows upon us for such a short time. Whether you pull out your old polaroid (stock up on film), grab some pastels or just ogle the trees with your good old fashioned peepers. Get going, before you know it, it's gone.
7. If there is ever a time to read a seasonally influenced book it's now!! I can't help myself, I am reading as fast as I can so I can enjoy spooky books in this truly spooky season! These are two books I would recommend, historical, fictional and so rich in characters. I wanted to live in Deliverance dane or at least grow bella donna in my garden.
8. What is life without a soundtrack? These two albums will not let you down, I promise. Classic folk and true alt country will cary you through well into the deep dark nights of winter.
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