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From "You and Your Kitchen, from Experience by Mrs. Christine Frederick," The Hoosier Manufacturing Co., New Castle, IN: 1915. Page 43.
Cleaning either ... Saturday's raid was in progress ... as the late afternoon sun fell into the room and hit the brush... I dried my hands and rushed fetching my camera...
Oh I love the sunlight...
( not the cleaning )
"What's a guy have to do to get some seeds around here?" More like what's with all the wildlife always peeping in?! hee! hee!
Lena : gummy bears and graham cookies totally count as lunch. I mean, you've got grains... and... fruit, maybe... -shrugs-
can we just discuss how much I love props...
I ordered some re-ment sets the other day and they arrived
this afternoon.
yes, this is doll sized. not actual food packages.
this set in particular was actually a little bit of a disappointment 'cause I though that the gummy bears would be individual pieces, but it's still cute anyway.
you'll see part of the other set I got eventually.
it's a tiny gumball machine for the counter in the music shop :D
cookies and gummies are from re-ment teddy's housekeeping set #2(?)
plastic bag is made out of an actual plastic grocery bag xD
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Joan Miró (1893-1983) -Sobreteixim 12 (1973). Acrylic paint, plastic buckets, felt stitched to wall hanging woven by Catalan artist Josep Royo (b. 1945). Shown at the temporary exhibition "Joan Miró: Materialidade e Metamorfose" at Casa de Serralves, Porto.
Depictions of new babies with their mothers were not unusual in the Dutch Golden Age. They were practically always tidy displays of order & prosperity. This depiction veers so wildly from that ideal that it seems difficult to believe that anyone other than the most unaware patron would have paid for it.
The obvious joke is that the person in the back (perhaps a self-portrait of the painter) is giving the baby "horns" as he waves. Horns were a well-known signal of cuckoldry, meaning that the husband had lost the sexual exclusivity of his wife the same way as a stag defeated in a fight. The assumed father, holding the baby, is also wearing an apron & housekeeping keys, as if "reduced" to a feminized servant in his own house, while the busty central woman holds out her hand for money from his purse.
As opposed to the tidy housekeeping most patrons would want displayed in a birth portrait, the floor here is littered with broken eggs- 'cracking eggs' was a euphemism for sex at the time. They lie around a warming pan, which would also bring a phrase to mind in the audience- 'the only warmth in the marriage bed is the warming pan'. Finally, the unhappy-looking servant at back right is pulling sausages above the fireplace. Has she perhaps become the replacement for a cheating wife in the husband's sex life?
It is possible Steen painted this not for a paying patron, but for his own amusement at seeing his genetic offspring born to the busty, cheerfully unfaithful wife of a man he didn't like. There is no way to know. Since he could never have recorded such an occurrence openly, a painting like this might be his only way to leave the trick to posterity.
These two were busy all morning working in their Nest Box making sure no other birds had invaded it...They'll be using it in cold snaps to huddle down this winter. Even though it doesn't get too cold here, we do have a few periods where it is cold and or rainy enough for them to shelter in it.
This cactus wren was busily gathering nesting material for the nest she was constructing in the arms of this huge saguaro.
That's the name of a US woman's magazine, for those who aren't aware. 😉
For the record, if Daisy has been a good girl, I will let her wear sensible shoes like this for housework.
I have been cleaning out some images. Although I have posted a few in this set already I came to the conclusion that this one really deserves space in my public stream. Off to decide what to post this week - you will see me again soon