Sidewalks of the Sky

Stuff I like

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[thatisuseful]

Damn, that's useful

[fluidstatick]

Finally a hand sewing tutorial on a hemline that isn't just the ladder stitch! the ladder stitch disappears when you tighten it, but it's not meant for hemlines because it breaks really easily! The overlock stitch is more stable, so it holds much longer, and it won't pucker or warp the fabric!

[watsdaughter]

tags by @gallusrostromegalus

[teaboot]

OH HELL THE FUCK YES

[louquorice]

doing perspective box exercises but then some cat loafed in them

[weirdgirlism]

hairy leg summer

[industrations]

[headspace-hotel]

this fourth of july I am coming out as a hater about fireworks. no more fireworks. fireworks are neither necessary nor good. they kill and harm birds and wildlife, they pollute the air, they are loud and unpleasant, they terrify my dog, and they trigger people's PTSD. I hate fireworks. can we please not do fireworks anymore

[jam-etc]

…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

EDIT FOR JAN 2025: I’M MAKING A ZINE OF MISS PIGGY FASHIONS. It is happening, I have heard your comments. Please stay tuned to my instagram for updates!! Here’s a preview:

thank you for like, a bajillion notes!!!

[jam-etc]

ugh sorry guys, I got a job literally right after posting this and it’s been insanely busy, forgive me…. I’m gonna post what I was gonna put in the zine here, no need to pay or anything (but if you like I have a kofi, I’d hugely appreesh hehe)

sorry to string you guys along for I guess a whole damn year, hahahah

[uhtreds]

locked the fuck out. distractionmaxxing

[ageae]

[calvinonwheels]

it is okay to have a high amount of screen time, ESPECIALLY if you are disabled and homebound/bedbound.

It is not morally wrong to try to stay connected with the outside world, do not listen to the opinions of able bodied people who could not fathom your reality.

[wren-kitchens]

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

[talkethto-thehandeth]

me, who is chroncially ill with multiple don’tfeelgood Conditions: I just don’t feel good and I don’t know why

[animentality]

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[nightonblogmountain]

[frostedmagnolias]

French 19th Century Belle Époque 18ct Gold Necklace

c. 1890-1900

[sidewalksofthesky]

I am working my way through a perfume discovery set (which is a lot of samples) from Etat Libre d'Orange.

And at the halfway point I don't really like any of them.... A lot of conceptual perfumes that aren't very pleasant smelling or something I would want to wear.

I have tried many niche perfumes and liked very few of them. I don't want to smell unique or artistic, I just want to smell nice!

I embrace my basic, fruity-floral, designer perfume liking self.

[frostedmagnolias]

An embroidered black cotton Palestinian dress (Khaddameh), Bethlehem

1960s-1970s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

[americangirlstar]

im curious. people who know shit about historical accuracy, which agnes/agatha hairstyle was more accurate? was the Annie cut something "modern" girls would've had in the 1900s or was that literally just an 80s style they superimposed onto the illustrations?

[in-pleasant-company]

Oh the newer illustrations are definitely the more historically accurate ones. If girls had short hair it was more like Nellie's (and not necessarily because they worked, wealthy girls had short hair too).

If a girl had hair as short as the original illustrations it's presumably because she had a severe illness.

[omgthatdress]

Pains me to say, but the more recent illustration is the more accurate one! I'd be able to forgive the re-illustration job if it means makingthe books more accurate, though!

[marzipanandminutiae]

you see toddler girls with very short hair as a Style sometimes in the 19th century and into the early 20th, but yeah, not as much for 9-year-olds in 1904 (100 years earlier it had been a popular look for adult women and little girls alike, but that's a very different era)

although I will say, one of the twins' socks are too short in the newer illustration- the long black stockings in the original are more accurate. people also REALLY like giving kids light and/or bright-colored play clothes in eras where the Laundry Realities made that much less popular than darker shades and small prints that wouldn't show stains as easily

Samantha's play dress is a great example of this:

(the pinafores were easily bleached/boil-washed and therefore were a practical choice to protect an active little girl's dress)

and her school dress:

it's not that it NEVER happened, of course. and it's hard to find truly candid images of children from this time, as in images where their parents didn't dress them specially to be photographed or filmed. but you can see a lot of dark or deep-colored dresses (some under pinafores) in this still from a video of children leaving St. Ignatius' School in Preston, England in 1904:

I feel like putting the twins in light or bright aqua on a random, ordinary day is, while not impossible, a bit unrealistic. very I Live In An Era With Washing Machines And Machine-Washable Fabric