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The Times of the Day, 1899, Alphonse Mucha

Medium: lithography

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Small things I’ve been doing to instantly feel more feminine and glamourous:

Folding my hands in my lap when I sit. Don’t wring your hands, just place them gently in your lap. Think how a queen or princess sits

Smirk. Just a little bit. Not good at keeping a small smile on your face? Think of something that you know, that no one else in the room knows. You’ve got a secret and it’s worth smiling over

Keeping a portable hobby in my bag so that I never am sitting there waiting. Doesn’t matter if it’s a book, a journal, sketchbook embroidery, knitting work, ect… Anything that makes you happy and can keep you busy, but is also easy to take with you everywhere

Lowering the volume of my voice. What you have to say is worth hearing, so make people actually listen. One of my favorite feelings is when I lower my voice and everyone turns to pay attention, and leans in to listen

Saying “sir” “miss” and “ma'am”. Treat others with the same respect you want to be treated with, it gives them the cues on how to address you and how to treat you

[thelovelymrsc]

Things I Want to Do/Learn How to Do

-Send off letters/invitations on beautiful stationery with elaborate wax seals

-Bake desserts for loved ones

-Make homemade organic soaps

-Knit/crochet blankets and other things to gift to people, heavily pray over the items as I make them

-Embroider beautiful patterns onto different canvases

-Grow a small vegetable and herb garden, cook with those ingridients often

-Collect small devotionals, bibles and notebooks from thrift stores to gift to people

-Make jams/jellies/preserves out of fresh in season fruit

-Bake bread

-Aromatherapy

-Give my partner proper massages

-Make baskets out of the items I make and give them to others on special occasions or just to show them I love them

-Cook a large, hearty meal for my friends and family

-Put together small events for local charities

-Teach other young women what I’ve learned when I become good at it.

[tradblush]

ways to be more ladylike

- smile at strangers

- avoid cursing

- be kind to others, but especially other women! nobody likes a girl who is constantly putting other girls down

- try to incorporate more dresses & skirts into your everyday outfits if you don’t already

- write thank you notes

- sit with your knees together and your ankles crossed

- don’t gossip, it’s unkind

- be positive & look for beauty in everything. don’t put yourself, or others, down.

- always choose dressing up over dressing down

- focus on your posture

- say please and thank you

- keep your voice gentle (and especially try not to speak over others)

- avoid being attention seeking

- in general, try to stay classy and feminine while still staying true to yourself!

[blueridgehomeplace]

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@poccottagecore | baby; excites the passion between lovers to be take care of one another

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[sandersstudies]

I want a home mostly just to welcome people into it. There will be bowls of candy for guests, and the cookie jar is full. I’ll always say “I was just about to make a coffee/tea/cocoa, would you like one?” when somebody walks in. There’s lemonade and iced tea made fresh on hot days. Once it hits That Hour and they start saying they really should be going, I’ll remind them that the futon is always open, and I’m making cinnamon rolls tomorrow. There’s champagne and sparkling juice hidden on a high shelf just in case somebody announces their engagement or their pregnancy or their new job while they’re here. There is an extra chair in the living room, at the table, and on the deck, and it’s for you. I want to be able to say “if you’re ever in trouble, come to me.”

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When I share posts from the Tradfem community such as stay at home wife, the husband leads the household, traditional gender roles ect, ect I’m posting it for myself because they are beliefs pertaining to me. I WANT to be a stay at home wife/mum. I want my future husband to lead the home and family. I’m a egalitarian I believe in equality and choice. I want women to live their lives the way they want. When I post such “old fashioned” or “traditional” things it’s only my wants for myself no one else.

[sleepophile-deactivated20190730]

i don’t think trad is a thing you just are. i think it’s something to aim to be. not everyone will have all the same values, wear all the same things, consider being feminine/masculine the same way others do. it’s just something to strive to be , and everyday when you wake up you might be a little better at being it. people in the community shouldn’t shame a man because he isn’t masculine or doesn’t have a good job yet. they shouldn’t shame women for wearing things other than dresses or not being completely dainty and pure. trad should be a community that helps each other out and realizes that no one is 100% “traditional” in the sense that we all want to be. it’s an everyday process of learning, living, making new rules and habits, growing up, and making mistakes.

[cantodeflores]

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picture this

you’re in your late-20’s, early-30’s; you’re married and have two young kids. together, you live in a large house in the countryside. the house could use renovating, but it doesn’t need it.

wildflowers grow all over your large property. bees buzz by, but never sting. they make honey for your family to sell and enjoy.

in your backyard is a garden. you and your spouse wear overalls and bandanas while you harvest the fruits and vegetables you’ve worked so hard on; you sell whatever you don’t eat.

next to the garden is a pasture: you raise cows, bunnies, sheep, and chickens. you’ve taught your children to collect eggs every morning, while you and your spouse milk the cows.

although you have technology, wifi, and service, your family doesn’t rely on it for entertainment and communication. you play board games, read books, and write letters.

your house is your own. you fall asleep in the arms of the person you love, happily content with life.

[gazaboovintage]

https://andallshallbewell.tumblr.com/

[highland-calf]

🥕 savory cottagecore is underrated !! 🥕

eating vegetable stew out of little wooden bowls, sitting outside as the weather grows colder and a snail inches towards you

walking through the dirt barefoot, growing pumpkin plants that twist their stems around themselves in a self-embrace

collecting acorns and listening to the west wind

life isn’t all apple pie and honey, when we let the savory flavors trickle in everything will get a lil sweeter

[manda-kat]

As a child from a family with ‘too many’ kids, I get super annoyed when media protrays having three or more kids as chaotic hell for parents. Seriously, if you teach them well enough, your kids are not gonna be the screeching, messy monsters you see on TV. And SERIOUSLY parents shouldn’t hate having kids. That is awful.