Belly's

monday morning coffee

Hello, friends. I'm back for a serving of coffee with a side of links. Today's links will be mostly book-centric, as I've been into a literary mood lately after a long, torturing period of impatience with novels.

 

• This is the cafe and thrift shop I've told you about. The photos are taken from their new facebook page (which is in Hebrew, sorry English-speakers).
• Jacket Copy posted these great photos of people reading around the world.
• A Bloomsbury Life is one of my favorite design/art/pop-culture blogs, and I always feel I've gained some knowledge after reading Lisa's artfully-put words. I think every book-lover will identify with her post on this necklace, and while you there why don't you check out her witty, thought provoking embroidery, now showing in ACME?
• Still speaking of books: This review on "Frankly, My Dear" - a feminist criticism on "Gone With the Wind" - from the New York Times had me re-read it several times since it was published in February. It's high time I read the book itself. What do you think?
• Jezebel re-published this post on mothers and their right to a sense of self from Morning Quickie in honor of Mother's Day. I couldn't agree more. I think it's so important for mothers to have their own lives as women, not wives, sisters, mothers etc. I feel it seems too obvious to write about it, and yet it's so common for women to lose their sense of self to their other roles.

• And on a lighter note, I adore Rifka's creations on BurdaStyle. This dress is too cute!

Check back later for updates on the Oprah Dress and maybe some progress with Kids Clothes Week.

Wishing you a lovely week!

my mother's day

So how was your Mother's day?

By us everything was as usual, because in Israel Mother's Day is celebrated in February (and has recently been re-named Family Day. Don't mothers deserve a day of their own?). I did try to make it a little special by buying my mom a book, and before Chanoch went to bed we watched Annie together. I remember watching it with my parents when I was around his age, and the movie's charm still holds 20+ years later...

Talking about the eighties, I finished cutting McCall's 5473, and dubbed it the Power Skirt. Remember those days, when every noun had a "power" to enhance it? Power Walks, Power Talks, Power Couples, Power Lunches, Power Suits... So why not a Power Skirt? The PS is made from a scrumptious wool-silk blend (with some stretch, apparently), that I bought months ago. It's from a seller who gets fabric remnants from Italian mills, and so I got 2.50 meters for 55 ILS, which is about 10 dollars. Now I only need to sew it, and I'm debating whether to make a half lining.

Today was also the first day of Kids Clothes Week, in which I'll be dedicating at least an hour a day for sewing clothes for Chanoch (and maybe my sisters, they are still considered kids!). Check out the button at the sidebar for more information. I started by tracing patterns for a vest and shorts from the 3/2009 issue of Ottobre Magazine. I planned to sew them 2 months ago, for Passover, but I never got to it. Isn't the boy in the magazine cute? I called this outfit The Macaron because that's what he's holding in the picture and that's what I want to eat now...

Good night, friends. Please check back tomorrow for a post on weight and fit (and an update on the Oprah Dress) and our regular Monday Morning Coffee.