Showing posts with label Disabilities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disabilities. Show all posts

Monday, February 11, 2013

Microfilm Monday

Cutie-pie Stella. Source

Consumerism:
♦"Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed" (Wow, hadn't considered this.)

Disabilities/Illness:
♦Spoon Theory: explaining Lupus and its effects on daily life (This is a fantastic explanation for dealing with many disabilities/health issues; chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, cancer, clinical depression... the list goes on)

DIY:
♦Make a pinhole camera
♦Poster Wall Art (Very cool idea)
♦Home-made lotion bars

Feminism:
♦Advice on dealing with "Creepy Dudes" (It is a long read, but very worthwhile.)
♦ Lingerie Football League (How is wearing bikinis safe for tackling on AstroTurf?)
♦The other end of the spectrum: Prom-Dress Rugby (This looks awesome!)
♦Why is a woman having a positive body image and self love considered vain, or prideful?
♦"Skin Tone Tights" one color doesn't fit all.
♦Eye opener: Please stop calling illness a battle. (This post is about eating disorders, but the idea would also apply to cancer and other illnesses.)
Amazing excerpt:
"Women are pretty much expected to have pathological relationships with their bodies -- hence the usual bonding over self-loathing..."
Lol:
♦ Bargain Bin Blasphemy: Old LP's remade into Black-metal art
♦ Shakespearean Insults (Thou art a frothy, milk-livered maggot-pie!)


Mental Health/Self Care:
♦7 Ideas for being kinder to yourself

Modesty:
♦One Jewish woman's struggle with hair coverings (She decided not to.)
♦Another woman's journey toward head coverings
♦A very thorough post on finding flattering hats.

Noms:
♦Breakfast quiche
♦Cranberry Wild rice soup (Veg. but not vegan has half n half.)
♦Scottish Toffee

WTF:
♦Food fraud is common?!
♦Super creepy tableware (Stuff of nightmares)
♦My first meme coloring book
♦The Spider Who Couldn't Hide





Monday, January 14, 2013

Monday Murth


Art:
♦Interactive art piece about minimum wage workers.
♦Fun decorating idea for pet owners

Disabilities:
♦One woman's account of having a traumatic brain injury

DIY:
♦Make a custom dress form
♦Envelope book, and paper bag book
♦Book apron (covers and protects your cookbooks.)
♦Oragami heart (I have always wondered how to make those!)

Fashion:
♦Fashion advice from Dita Von Teese

Noms:
♦Peanut butter cookies (G. F.)
♦Flourless chocolate cookies (G. F.)
♦Addicting granola clusters (G. F. version also)
♦Chicken Pho (My friend tells me that is is pronounced fah, or fuh)

WTF:
♦Teeth salad tongs