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...

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Separate beds

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, […]

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

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…

My laundry pile in October 2008. Some things never change. This is the story of the Laundry Pile that Ate New York. Okay, so maybe it's not that bad. But it certainly seems to be eating my sofa. I don't even know how many loads it is, I'm afraid if I start counting I'll never ever stop! It begins innocently enough. I devise a system - say, one load washed, folded and put away every single day. And then it gets tedious. It just doesn't seem worth the effort to have only one pair of pants to…

Susan Copich, a mother of two from New York, has taken a darkly humorous approach towards traditional family photography with a series of daring images entitled "Domestic Bliss."