I am a resistant

I'm not a person inclined to trends, to fashion, on my clothes and the house - and mentality!

I am a resistant. 

I never try to please or I am afraid to displease. Reading this you may think I am a difficult person, intransigent and unpleasent. Well, I will tell you that it depends on the tastes of the people around me and I know some like me.

I am classic, conservative and I follow my lead, my tastes and I look for and get together, in person or online, with likeminded people.

In that note I will say that I never care about what is the trend in anything, so I dress in a classical way, with some clothes that could have been worn in the fourties and fifties and the begining of the sixties.

 

                   

    

Pensil skirts, pleated or softly circled. Sweters, pullovers, cardigans with round or v-necks. With scarves. Or blouses inside. Never trousers, only inside the home when it's cold. Reasonable lent shorts when it's hot. But never outside.

If it's not summer I wear tights, always, transparent or opaque.

My shoes are like these:

  

never pointed, never square, always round, black, blue or it can be of a pastel colour

 

Always flat or low heels for the health of my column.

And the house.

I like this kind of kitchen.

And everything that evokes that feeling.

            

        

And I always hang our clothes on the line.

It's a way of living and I'm not alone in that.

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Identity

I just can't find the will to change my blog header because it shows so well what I truly am, what I like. 

This painting reminds me my childhood when my grandmother, the one who knew how to do everything and did it so well, would seat at the sewing machine, in front of the window, which had plants on the windowsill, and made all sorts of sewing, from just simple repairs to clothes to very elaborated and difficult dresses and all kind of things.

Not that we hadn't shop bought clothes, my parents quite often traveled abroad and my mother bought ready made dresses and all kind of clothes, but the ones made by my grandmother were rather special.

I have, from my grandmother, the liking of working with the sewing machine but not her ability but I'm decided to try hard to increase my work at the machine by quantity and quality so I will be more able to make nice things. I  know I will never, ever reach her level, not at all, but I truly want to be better in that.

To be better was the idea I had in my mind in the  begining of last year and in this one I have it again in the sense of going the extra mile.

Not to be better as to be a good person, or a better one, I mean to be better as to have more quality in those things that I know how to do it and how to be it, to be even better than I am. So with this I'm not saying that I am not good, just that I want to be even better - and really much better.

So, if someone is reading this, please remind yourself that you are good enough in many things, don't put yourserlf down, because for sure you are good in many things but you may and you should, if you want, to be even better.

On the header of my blog, if someone remembers, the one before the present one, I used to have lavender in it because it's a kind of flag to me, a symbol of me, as I am traditional, I like the old ways, I have an inclination for things past and I relate lavender with all that, in true elegance, simple and sober, in me and in the house and in mentality.

“So strong is Tradition that later generations will dream of what they have never seen.”

 G.K. Chesterton

Even the name of my blog means that: Alfazema = Lavender.

It's what I am.

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The delight of past eras - II

I could have lived in past eras as I like it so much.

I think the downfall happened in the middle of the 60', with some intervals. I remember some pretty things in the end of the 80' (some, I said 😀), as in the 90' and so on, but most clothes are not as elegant as before. We are lucky when we can find some quite decent.

But it's not just the clothes, life in every aspect was better and nicer before. Now we have some progress in the health department and we have the glorious internet, mobile phones and such, but taking that off some improvements, we are not better.

But never mind, we can always hope and wait for better times.

Now we will see some elegance and nice living from the 50s and the begining of the 60s.

Then we stop. 😄

The 50s

The 60s

That's all.

 Read also The delight of past eras - I 

Saturday

Tomorrow it will be Saturday. Oh blessed day, I do like Saturdays.

Now I will tell you why. I work full time but I am an homemaker. So, in the week days I do less work but obviously I must do a lot of it,it's just that just I can't savour it properly because either I am in the morning rushing or in the evening already tired.

But not on Saturdays!

So, I awake up early and I go wild doing things !

I do my morning routine: me time (washing and dressing, etc), I do a quick tidying all around, including living room and kitchen, bedroom, and everything, as I am not at all a night woman, I am very much a morning person, I do like to awake up early and listen to the birds and watching the day being born.

In the morning, quite early, I go shopping. I do like to do it when the shop is opening and there are just a few people there. Such calm. The produce is all there and not chosen yet by the customers, everything is nice and tidy. It's a pleasure.

Then I go home and there I go and do what I want in my homemaker realm, being laundry one of my favourite activities.

So, after washing, I put them on the line to dry with the sun, which gives it such a nice smell.

Ironing is a good thing too. I do it in front of the television and I either watch the news or a video on youtube, being the subject homemaking or doctrine and eschatology.

I hoover too, I dust, I wash the floors, I do a lot of cleaning and tidying, I cook and I do some declutter in my bedroom which makes me find always something that I forgot, which I call " go shopping" inside my house.

Oh hapiness !

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The delight of past eras - I

Just look how life was beautiful in the years past.

I know that problems and difficulties were present in people's lives in each decade, let's think about the two wars, the big depression and so on, but what I mean is the beauty. 

From the end of the sixties life went from ugly to uglier. I know that there was pretty thing even after that date, some quite beautiful, but life in the whole, the clothes, the habits, everything went down. The number of nice things (clothes, car and life in general) was smaller than before it.

See the 1900s - 1919

This picture reminds us so much of the time before the war of 1914-18.

The 20s.

It's so interesting how this picture, which is from January of 1920, just the ending of the previous decade and the begining of a new one, shows us exactly similar clothes to the 1900s, more after 1910.

Notice how here the skirt is so much shorter. For sure many women then used longer ones still, but we see the new trend.

Here, in 1924, longer skirts again.

The 30s

So much elegance here. Amazing!

The 40s

So inspiring !

The 50s in another post. 😊

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The Epiphany

Today is the Epiphany, also known as the Three Kings Day.

I know, as I have reading around, that many people take the Crib and the Tree down and all the decorations after Christmas or after New Year's Day but there are Twelve Days of Christmas, we should only take it down AFTER the Epiphany and the Crib after the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. But it's ok to put also the Crib down after the King's Day.

This was a way to teach the basics of Faith without the risk of being persecuted in that calamitous time in England when Catholics were arrested and killed In Odium Fidei.

The meaning of the lyrics is:

The two turtle doves were the Old and New Testaments

The three French hens stood for faith, hope, and love.

The four calling birds were the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

The five golden rings rerepresented the first five books of the Old Testament, which describe man's fall into sin and the great love of God in sending a Savior.

The six geese a-laying stood for the six days of creation.

Seven swans a-swimming represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy Spirit-----Prophesy, Serving, Teaching, Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership, and Mercy.

The eight maids a-milking were the eight beatitudes.

Nine ladies dancing were the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit-----Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience [Forbearance], Goodness [Kindness], Mildness, Fidelity, Modesty, Continency [Chastity].

The ten lords a-leaping were the Ten Commandments.

The eleven pipers piping stood for the eleven faithful Apostles.

The twelve drummers drumming symbolized the twelve points of belief in The Apostles' Creed.

(https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/55904/the-history-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas)

And the Partrige means Our Lord.

As for me I will keep the Crib on till the Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas, also known as Our Lady of the Candles or the Light Day (2.February), and take the Tree and decoration after today, slowly, without stress.

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It's a New Year

It's a New Year, thanks be to God.

So we begin, once again.

Let's take advantage of this new time that God gives to us.

It's not  late, it's just the perfect time for you to be what you want to be and meant to be.

Let's begin.