Today, 89 years ago, the 19th Amendment went into effect, and women won the right to vote.
Photos from the amazing, digitized LIFE magazine photo archive now on google images.
Voting
August 26, 2009 by MavisI am packing the ETSY shop
August 23, 2009 by MavisSo there are 16 garbage bags of vintage waiting. Basically I am reaching into one in the dark, where they live, pulling out a clothing, wearing it momentarily, and then trying to sell it to you, reasonably priced! This weekend’s theme has been blouses:
Hot lunch
August 23, 2009 by MavisIt’s been really hot (how interesting, wow, really?). It’s too hot to cook, but not quite too hot to eat. Luckily, there are still tasty things to be had. Here are two of my favorites: homemade hummus and cucumber salad! Both are easy, quick, cheap and delicious. The dark rye is from the farmer’s market.
HUMMUS:
1 can cooked chickpeas (water set aside)
2 tablespoons-ish of tahini
1 large clove of garlic, minced
Generous 1-3 T of olive oil
1 t to 1 T of lemon juice
Salt and pepper
Optional additions: chives, dehydrated tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, herbs of all kinds, dried chili
Combine ingredients in a cuisinart or bowl and mash. If it’s too thick…add more olive oil. Sometimes I add a little of the chickpea water to get things going more smoothly. If it feels like it’s just missing something, add more lemon juice, unless it’s really lemony. Be wary with the tahini, it can be bitter and not to everyone’s taste. Yes, it’s really that easy to make hummus.
Summer Cucumber salad:
1 cucumber, cut into quarters
Small red onion, sliced very thinly
1/4 cup yogurt
1 T rice vinegar
Fresh dill and fresh mint, minced
Salt and pepper
Mix up yogurt, vinegar, salt and pepper, and onions in the bottom of your bowl, so the onions can marinate. Slice the cuke into quarters the long way, and if the seeds seem really soggy, scrape them off. Slice the cuke horizontally and combine. Add herbs and salt and pepper to taste. Delicious, and one of the first things I ever learned to cook.
Weedy but productive
August 21, 2009 by MavisWell, the garden is very weedy. I’ve made my peace with it — things like this are good for me. I can’t be tied down in the summertime, I have to do what I feel — and this summer I had to take an 8 day vacation in early August.
But just because it’s been weedy, doesn’t mean it’s not producing anything!
Calendula to dry for winter soups, beautiful and effortless swiss chard, productive tomatillos, and not-yet-totally-blighted tomatoes!
It’s been hard to focus on weeding because right across the field from the garden is the biggest and most bountiful blackberry bramble ever!
More new etsy biz
August 20, 2009 by MavisMore new stuff in my ETSY shop, featuring many vintage earrings
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The Troglodytes
August 13, 2009 by MavisRecommended for listening this summer:
Just a quick glimpse at the wikipedia entry for the Troggs shows how weird they were. Dude has this weird accent and weird lips, and they basically spent the rest of their careers trying to capitalize on the success of “Wild Thing” by releasing a million different versions of it — probably an ill advised dub version in there — and then again, collaborating with R.E.M.
Nevertheless, this song is my ULTIMATE SUMMER JAM of August 2009.
New vintage stuff in my ETSY store
August 13, 2009 by MavisWell finally I have put some new items in my ETSY store! Since I left my vintage store job this summer, it’s been overwhelming looking at my 16 garbage bags of clothing, and sorting them out and selling them is a big challenge. But it’s happening!
This is really only the beginning! WWW.MAVISVINTAGE.ETSY.COM
I’m going to start adding MEN’s vintage too, basically whenever I get down to the men’s vintage bag in the piles of bags. In the meantime, I have about 30 more summer dresses to sell!
My pillow’s never dry
August 6, 2009 by MavisJackie Wilson famously had a major heart attack on stage in 1975, singing this song and the words “my heart is crying.”
And of course, metaphorically, this song is breaking my heart, too.
Maritime-time
August 6, 2009 by MavisI’m back from an unplanned and wonderful vacation to northeasterly North America — Burlington, Boston, Portland, Cambridge Narrows and Sackville, New Brunswick, and finally the deeply charming summer city of Montreal.
The mayor’s house in Portland, Maine.
A relaxed, relaxing, touring dog.
Sunset over New Brunswick.
Late evening in lovely Cambridge Narrows, New Brunswick.
Music venue in Sackville, New Brunswick.
sister lovers / sister wives
July 22, 2009 by MavisIf you really want to feel like it’s summertime, at least a certain kind of dark, anxious but still wonderful summertime, you should listen to some Big Star.
Alex Chilton is the adorable one on the right, the one that looks like your dorky friend who gets flushed and sappy when he drinks. AND, this fantastic photo is by William Eggleston, who had a darkroom in Alex Chilton’s parents’ back yard in Memphis.
Have a sarcastic summer, everyone!
