Queen Victoria’s journal – particularly her drawings, which I found charming. This serves as a reminder to me to Draw Something Every Day. Not that my sketchbooks will be preserved like Queen Vickie’s are. Just because.
Here are some samples of HRH’s work:
Referred to this site by Brain Pickings (always interesting postings)
Bonus material on Queen Victoria: I did see her knickers at the Kent State Museum. Think Victoria’s Tent Sale rather than Victoria’s Secret.
Category: Gunsmoke. Or at the very least Photoshop, from The Theophany.
I also like this one. I am not a nail polish fan, but this one is interesting.
And this one. This is fun nail polish that a friend shared with me.
I am referring to Levi’s, of course. Patented on May 20, 1873 by Levi Strauss, a dry goods merchant, and Jacob Davis, a tailor. Levi’s filled a need for the working man of the era – miners, cowboys, farmers – and endured to become an iconic American garment even though it was, ironically, invented by a Bavarian and a Latvian immigrant.*
Look here at an interview with Levi’s historian, Lynn Downey, in Cowboys and Indians Magazine.
*note: unless you are still living in the Great Rift Valley, you are probably the off-spring of immigrants.
Firearms, fibers, any news or behaviors that make me say, "hmm, let me take another look at this."
I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 