I really ought to remember that this was my personal blog before it became a publishing…ish blog. I mean, I have a personality! And interests beyond books! (Sort of. I won’t lie when I say books occupy about 85% of my brain space.) I also like art, photography, fashion, crafts, music, etc. It’s good to [...]
Once more med school prom has come and gone I have the photographic evidence in my nail-polish stained fingers. There needs to be more (semi)formal events in my life so I can indulge my inner princess by wearing pretty, pretty dresses and makeup. My mother once accused me of living in a made-up world of [...]
I have now joined Ravelry! Let me know if any of you are also on there so I might friend you. Mum flew into town last night for business and we had dinner and watched parts of The Beethoven Virus before passing out. I am now sick as a dog with a head cold, but [...]
Move over ModCloth, I have found another favourite less-expensive Anthropologie replacement: Ruche. Heather-grey flowing cardigan Waves of Grain ruffle-knitted scarf Delphinium bronze filigree earrings (My birth flower!) Black cigarette pants Bronze charm bracelet Everlasting Love pendant necklace Brown olden Oxfords
Dear Ann Taylor: What exactly, may I ask, is the purpose of manufacturing blouses with small buttons and large buttonholes? Do you subscribe to the 1950s sexist ideal or the 1990s power feminist ideal that cleavage in the workplace is better? Do you just not have enough money for bigger buttons? Or does it amuse [...]
S. Jae-Jones, but JJ, if you please. Editrix at St. Martin's Press. Writer. Artist. Avid skydiver. And she abandons her mind to obscure arts.