THE GENERALISTA: Vintage ads

07 April 2009

Vintage travel posters

I'm feeling a wave of nostalgia and beyond desire for some international travel...Here are some beautiful vintage travel posters. I hear President Obama is talking about lifting some of the travel restrictions on Cuba. I hope it happens!! I have wanted to go to Havana for YEARS!!

26 January 2009

Housewifey.

We all wear a lot of hats in life--I approve of this cliche solely because of my love of hats.
Anyway, this "housewife" thing is my latest hat.

I finished a very long, drawn out tenure at college in December with a degree in English with a concentration in Professional Writing and Public Discourse with minors in French and Sociology. I was really, really good at being a student, but how long could that really last? I needed to move on, start something new in my life, change things up, and I needed to quit bleeding money. Whoever would have thought I would graduate with a fine degree (and with high honors, mind you) and enter the worst job market since the Depression?

I also married the greatest man ever in September (after seven long years of...well, it makes for one hell of a story in itself). He's a musician and a carpenter, and we are doing well enough ("well enough"= we can pay our bills on time and buy groceries and that's about it). So right now I am not totally stressing about my jobless situation. I'm just playing housewife, which I guess I am not really playing seeing as how that's kind of what I am for now...

Oh, but I LOVE it! Aside from taking pride in caring for my home and enjoying the freedom I have to paint and blog and go take photos anytime, I've always been super fascinated with 50s/60s housewife life. It was so fabulously deluded!! I've got books and books on the subject--I collect these etiquette manuals and women's interest books from the late 1800s-1970s.

But to get to the point of my semi-rambling blog, hey I gave up caffeine three days ago and I am sitting here with a cup of decaf. I have the right to ramble...

Here's some housewife imagery...maybe it'll motivate me to get out of the office and perform the 43 chores I need to get out of the way before 4pm.

Here's some great housewife Etsy buys...

Sarah Wathen is a painter and photographer, and I really like these photos. They are part of a series...

left: It's a little quilt from extratoppings.
right: Diary of a Mad Housewife, from juliemarie23.

05 January 2009

Thank you for smoking.

We all know the toll that smoking can take on our bodies, but you have to admit that, historically, cigarettes have been quite the stylish accoutrement...the gamine ladies, poured in their fabulous dresses, puffing away...the sleek metal cases from which thin fingers pulled thin cigs...

Here's to the prettier side of smoking!