How to Wear Stripes this Year!

A little history… Did you know stripes were once considered “the devil’s cloth” because convicts wore them? Did you know prostitutes, jugglers, cripples, and clowns wore stripes because they were society’s outcasts? Did you know Queen Victoria, the arbiter of all that was right and proper, changed all that? Yes, we can call Queen Victoria …

Final Friday: Feathers and Stripes!

It’s the final Friday of October which makes me sad. It is, after all, my favorite month! But, don’t despair. Being the final Friday means it’s another edition of print mixing. My friend, Michelle of My Bijou Life Online, began this challenge in order to push herself outside her comfort zone. I’ve enjoyed doing that, …