Domestic bliss

Let us have homes crowned with the clambering vine, amid the cooling shade of trees, surrounded with the verdant lawn, with pendant berries, with golden fruits, and cluster of purple grapes. Homes graced with pictures, refined by books, and gladdened with song. Homes in which there shall be no scorching blasts of passion, no polar storms of coldness and hate. Homes in which the wife and mother shall not lose all her attractive charms by unremitting drudgery and toil, nor the husband starve…

This illustration by the American artist Jessie Willcox Smith is called A Mother's Days which I thought was pretty appropriate considering it's Mother's Day today! Jessie Willcox Smith's illustrations are in the classic Arts and Crafts/ Art Nouveau style which...

A suburban housewife with a cheating husband is not above killing the competition to preserve her domestic bliss. #drama #comedy #KatherineHeigl #Mona #PatrickWilson #Don #JordanaBrewster #Dusty #crime #family #movie

Separate beds

Patty Carroll’s homebound snapshots are the epitome of domestic pressure: A high-heeled working woman tries to cook and chat on the phone but ends up amid scattered kitchen supplies with her head stuck in the oven. Mops and rags knock another figure down into a sea of neon sponges and cleaning sprays. Two seated women are obscured by constricting drapes and an inordinate amount of fresh produce. The photographer’s four-part Anonymous Women series is comprised of highly stylized scenes…

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Nostalgia, most, if not all of us, experience it, whether only occasionally or as an almost constant underlying longing. A return to the “good old days” seems to me to be the theme of the Republican campaign for president. That message resonates with distinct groups of people, which isn’t altogether surprising during a time of economic uncertainty, high unemployment rates and an unpredictable future. For many, what they imagine lies ahead and/or the future is not what they expected…

Welcome to my blog Get to know us! Tigerlilly Quinn is a multi award winning blog about our life, featuring fashion, travel, interiors and lots more besides! Fifteen years ago my now husband and I bought a run-down house in Bristol and decided to do it up with little more than a bit of savings, […]