Coming Soon to Lavenderlies

Aloha bloggers just a quick shop update to give you radical people an idea of what's coming soon to 'lavenderlies'. Exciting stuff, hope you're all happy as can be. C yaaaaaa,

Cat. X

Did somebody say wild teen?

So it's Saturday night and I'm a month away from my 16th birthday......which can only mean one thing.......PARTY!!!! 

lol no. I got you though right??? Of course I did. Ok I'm fooling nobody I know. (;__;)

Take 2: it's Saturday night and here I am sat in bed in my pyjamas and a woolly jumper, watching The Vampire Diaries and nursing a box of tissues. Ugh,  my head hurts, my nose hurts...is this what death feels like? There's a million things I should be doing right now: art coursework, maths exam revision, making new products for the shop...need I go on? But anyway all I want to do is lay here and drink tea and watch teen dramas so that's about as wild as my Saturday night is going to get. I'm such a tragic excuse for a teenager. Oh I hope this illness or whatever goes away soon, I hope you're all splendid and not suffering the dreaded Autumn cold.

I'm going to eat some cake and procrastinate I suggest you do the same,

Cat. X

Topic of The Week: Hairy Legged Man Haters

We believe whatever 'our husbands believe' when it comes to politics, we care far too much about health and education (as opposed to the economy)  and after all our strives for equality, we still don't get the same treatment as men. Gee, will we ever catch a break? Throughout the years women have fought tooth and nail to be equal to our male counterparts but after all this time, have we really succeeded?

Until the late 1840s women had to put up with a lot of discrimination regarding our rights. Women were made to stay at home, clean, cook and take care of their children while men went out and did all the heavy manual labor, to then be waited on by their doting wives when they arrived home. However by 1848 we had had enough of this stereotypical hoo-ha and fellow feminists Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Molt began the fight for women's rights, resulting in women's suffrage being achieved in the US (and many more countries like here in Britain) by the 19th century.

 Of course, many men were not too happy about their inferior wives having a voice of their own and even today will only know the term 'feminist' as a synonym for 'hairy legged man hater' which begs is to question if equal rights have really been achieved after all.

A point often raised in the argument that women and men are in fact, still not equal is the difference in wages. Recent studies have shown that female graduates earn thousands of pounds less than their male counterparts, despite having the same qualifications. The researchers for the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) analysed this in more detail, comparing the difference in male and female graduates' earnings. Jane Artess, a HECSU researcher, reported that pay distribution was 'strikingly uneven' and the study showed that the pay rate for female graduates ranged between £15,000 and £23,000 whereas men's pay rates were mainly £24,000+. Which helps prove that there is still not complete equality between the genders, despite the laws that have been passed.

Not only do women have to accept lower wages than men but they also manage to juggle looking after a family and their home life as well as a full time job. Of course, this obviously isn't the case for every single full time working female but as stereotypical as it is, women do seem to do most of the juggling between their home and professional life, as opposed to their male counterparts. From going from being in a traditional family with two parents to then living with just a single mother I have witnessed this. I can understand that there are also single fathers out there but when you have seen and admired a mother juggling everything from a full time job, teenage daughters and omnipresent bills, you really can't question that working mothers have it tougher.

Despite the fact that women and men are still not entirely equal, I do think that women are so much better off now than they were in the 1840s, we may still have lower wages but at least women now actually have the right to work!! The stereotypical expectations may not still be so high and the constant 'women belong in the kitchen' stereotype is always going to be there, but personally, I think that's a good enough compromise. I can put up with the occasional stereotypical jab at womanhood every now and again as long as I get to keep my right to vote and independently earn my own money when I'm old enough. And I'm sure a woman from the 1840s would trade their life for mine any day.

Don't let the sexists get you down,

Cat. X

Goosebumps and Heartbeats

Bonjour blogger folk!

I haven't posted anything properly for a while now and today I just feel I don't know..inspired??? I guess??? Inspired by my all time favourite band, Mumford & Sons. 

Basically I live, love and breathe Mumford & Sons. Whenever I listen to their music I just completely relax, I get goosebumps and I feel, as Charlie from Perks would say, infinite. I don't know it's just so impossible to put into words. When I listen to their songs, at first I feel anticipation, then relaxation and then when the banjo joins in and the guitar speeds up, my heart starts to hammer against my chest and that's when the goosebumps appear, my hairs stand on end, I close my eyes and just feel like nobody in this World could love them, could love anybody as much  as I love Mumford & Sons. I feel like nobody could feel as happy as I do in that moment. I mean to others, it's just a folk-rock song but to me it's so much more. As soon as I hear the intro to any song, whether it's from Sigh No More or Babel, I'm taken back to December 13th 2012, when I saw them live. I remember the silent trance of  bemusement I stayed in for the entire gig, I didn't dance, I didn't do anything but stare in wonder. Like, they were there, in the same room as me and all I could think of was how nothing could ever beat this moment. 

Seriously, nothing has beaten that moment yet. And I don't think anything ever could.

So yeah listen to my favourite song on Babel, fall in love with them like I did & thank me later.

Cat. X

Hopeless Wanderer - Mumford & Sons from Babel

((oh P.S. I'm going to start doing like 'themed' posts, a bit like a magazine column, I'll try to do a different topic once or twice a week it should be fun, cool. bye))

Friday Night Catch-Up

Ok so I'm supposed to be writing an essay right now but I'm doing this instead WOW  DEDICATION OR WHAT???? (or is it procrastination??? I don't know) I mean it's not like I need an English GCSE anyway psht. So basically I haven't posted anything in like forever because well I've been to France and had so much homework I feel like I could be experiencing the symptoms of a mid-teen crisis.
On the plus side my Etsy shop is going really well at the moment!!! I designed and hand drew my latest patches (you can check them out here) and they seem to be pretty popular so yeah I'm happy, I love writing little letters to customers to go with their orders, I don't know I just feel so happy knowing that someone on the other side of the world is wearing something I made, reading a letter that I wrote them, it's just..nice and really rewarding making people happy because who DOESN'T love getting mail, am I right or am I right???
What now...oh yes France!!! I went to Paris 2 weeks ago today and it was honestly so amazing, amazing people, amazing sights, amazing laughs, just everything, I just want to go back! I'll upload some photos tomorrow (if I remember).
Everything is just going so well right now, I hope life's good for you lot too.
Over and out.

Cat.

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