I have a bit more content and information on the website. Everyday and evening I will do my best to continue to add more. Do let me know if there is anything in particular you would like to see or email me with what you would like to share.
I though I would share my day 2 drawing challenge (another cartoon, they keep coming to me) that I thought very fitting for this years ability to ‘time travel’ between 1956 and 2010.
You can click on the image to make it larger.
Well, I am rather busy these next two days, but will continue to readjust to my new fuller schedule. I hope all of you still enjoy our time together as I am still very excited to getting to know all of you more and to share in our new and growing community.
Let me know how you are doing today or I shall see you on the forums.
Love this drawing. It is sooo true. You are so talented!
ReplyDeleteThis is cute, and true too. It truly is a marvel of technology, having the ability to do all of that on one tiny little machine, something that would have been seen in science fiction B-movies in the 50's and later Star Trek....the question is why do we need it, and should we choose it? I think it's cool, but personally don't need it and don't want it.
ReplyDeleteExactly. I was hoping to convery in the cartoon who, certainly we have such technology, but when broken down to its separate bits, how ridiculous it truly is that we should need to carry about with us so much 'stuff' regardless of it's "convienance".
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From earlier posts, you have mentioned that you live in a higher cost of living area of the US. I assume you've had people tell you before that it's impossible to be a one-income couple/family due to the costs of living in your area. Have you ever had anyone become angry or upset when they discover that you and your husband are a one-income family?
I've found it can be a touchy subject with some people.
Good luck with the new website!
I have not, as yet, found people to become angry. I think sometimes people might be surprised and then, very wrongly, assume we are more well-to-do than we are. We have made choices in our married life that allow such. Having never taken proper or expensive vacations, not have a lavish wedding or spending silly amounts on such things (the amount a new bride would spend on her dress alone is criminal, unless you are well to do, and the cost of the reception!)we chose to save, scrimp and when a 'deal' might come along we were in a position to take advantage of it. We have had help from family on occasions, but only because they offered and felt it our due. So, though we live and have lived in expensive city as well, we live very frugally. You see, to me, being home is THAT important. While others might not think they spend that much, when they begin to add up simply their days expenses here and there, starbucks, lunch out, that 'on sale' shirt at the Gap for 10 dollars, oh that is only 12 dollars, that is cheap etc, it adds up. That is why I am always saying if we HONESTLY look at what we spend on a day to day for one month, we WOULD find places to cut corners. For example, although we have decided for me to keep my car, I have a 30 dollar a month gas budget, when that is gone, there the car shall sit, for I can always wait to go with my husband if the need arises.
ReplyDeleteSo, no anger, sometimes glib remarks that make it seem as if we can do this or that 'because we have more money' when in fact we probably have friends who earn more than we do, but live pay check to pay check. It is all relative.
What has been your personal experience?
Funny - this morning I was thinking what a connection between different worlds this blogging thing is. I took to your blog because my mother was always raving about the magical 50s, the new look, the wide skirts, the patterns on the fabrics..... How about something on the New Look? My mum passed away last year aged 83. She lived the war and the recomposition of life after that. So the 50s were kind of magical for her you understand. Thanks for a lovely post & Happy New 10!
ReplyDeleteLove the cartoon, brilliant! And like Packrat said, you are very talented.
ReplyDeleteIf you search my blog, fairyfiligree, I have done a few posts on the New Look, in fact, there was a lovly young lady in AU that interviewed me for a paper she was writing on the New Look (Which I still need to upload her final paper, it was very well done) so perhaps I should put that on the site.
ReplyDeleteThe cartoon was very funny and your new website looks great!
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I love the cartoon. I can't help but agree. What in the world do we need to carry around half of the house around with us for? My granmother carried a very small purse. In it, she kept her keys, some money, a few make up essentials, a handkercheif, and a roll of breath mints. Now, women have to carry bags that look like suitcases, and them whine cause they can't find anything....
ReplyDeleteThat cartoon is so cute! Very clever! You are super duper talented as the others have noted. Every time I read your blog posts, it makes me wish I could go back in time - though to be honest, if I were to go back, I'd be better off NOT knowing things like internet and cell phones do not exist :) I might miss them.
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I just love that drawing - so true, so true! :)
ReplyDeleteI just linked to this blog and the website over on my blog. Keep up the good work and see you on the forum (as Rachel)!
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ReplyDeleteThanks for answering my question!
I agree with you that most people don't think about how $5 here and $10 there adds up. I read an article once about household budgeting, where it was suggested that you should carry a small notebook in your pocket or purse, and record *every* purchase you make for a month to see how your money is really spent.
As for negative attitudes others have had about my role as a homemaker, I've had a few over the years. The one I remember most vividly was this woman who got upset upon learning that I was a homemaker, and kept pressuring me that I needed to get a job "to fill up my day". She told me that if you really love your husband, you will work full-time outside the home to lessen his load, and happily spend your evenings and weekends doing *all* of the housework while your husband is relaxing.
Since she was on her fourth or fifth husband at the time, I chose to disregard her advice. ;)
I agree wholeheartedly on having too much stuff. I get mentally over burdened by it. For a few months now, it has been a conscious effort of mine to alleviate stuff.
ReplyDeleteWow! I just went back and upsized your cartoon--outstanding! You put my thoughts into drawing with that one in more ways than one!
ReplyDeleteThank you Zebu-I realized, I always doodle and scribble and think little of it. When I was more an 'artist' I would always labor over and overthink (no surprise there, right!) my 'pieces' and felt they had to be to a certain level. Now, with 1955 under my belt, I feel that something I do naturally and quickly and enjoy has intrinsic value by the fact that it has 'come from me' in my state of happy serene domesticity. If that makes any sense. Basically, I like to doodle and express things quickly while I felt, before, I had to labor over and torture myself in a particular way to make anything worth seeing. This could be a blog post on the modern art world and perception of the artist as 'tortured soul'. Anyway, I am glad you liked it.
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I love this, very cute! Makes me yearn that time even more now, knowing it was more simple then even without all the technology to make it easier now.
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