Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Woman Crush Wednesday 10.28.14,


      The woman we're crushing over this wednesday is Emma Watson. This year she became the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador at the age of 24. She is the first of the title and incredibly young to have such a title given to her, She has recently launched her campaign #heforshe and is creating a worldwide change when it comes to the meaning of what it is to be a feminist and who can be one. Watson has shown that in a world of inequality among the sexes that women have the power to make a change for the better, and that is what makes her such an outstanding woman and role model. She has conquered many feats in her life span so far and is on her way to conquer many more.
       As a special honoring for Watson (and due to a small case of writers block) this piece was cowritten by Chase Maudlin.
                    Ready to set sail (and see what she comes up with next),
                                                                                      Ms. Sinking Ship

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

A Crutch for the Crippled Conversation,

     Today while in my AP class we talked about (Satire being the original subject) hashtags and what they do to society now in conversation. I realized that this would be a great way to start another idea I had for the blog. Do you think that hashtags help society in conversation and expression ( or in general even) or do you think they have crippled society in its force of few words and illiterate spacing? To tell me you can use the hashtag #thecrutchofsociety on twitter, on the blog in the comments or on Facebook even. Not all of the hashtags will be so 'deep' so to speak, most will likely be craft related, but for trying this idea out I should know how you feel about the basic concept in general first. If this goes well you will see little notes like this in other posts or little questions of the day posted by themselves with a hashtag to identify them with, if it does not go well then the idea was one that will be put away until another rainy day.
             Ready to set sail (and hear all of your thoughts) ,
                                                                    Ms. Sinking Ship

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Woman Crush Wednesday,

    I stated in my update that I wanted to try out some certain week day posts, This, if all goes well, will become one of them. On Wednesdays I will post a WCW in celebration of a woman that is rising up, pushing the boundaries, helping feminism or is just plain awesome. 
     This week our outstanding woman is Mary Lambert, She was on the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis 'Same Love' and earlier this year she released her own album with the song 'secrets' in it as her single. This song is in its self incredible. Though it has a very pop like sound it has very indie style in tone and expression. In this song she talks about being tired of trying to hide and/or change herself to make others happy. Women are constantly being put on the pedestal as perfect and if we aren't that we are asked to change, this song is the beginning of tearing down that problem. She states her flaws and accepts them instead of trying to change herself for everyone else, this is something that should push to show the greatness that is self acceptance. For this reason Mary Lambert is beautiful inside and out making her our Woman Crush Wednesday for this week.

Friday, October 17, 2014

New Products from the KNITche,

New products were recently released on to the KNITches page ( link below ) Three chalk board jars were recently added (and one none decorated on was released but not depicted). While Shooting pictures of these jars I had a little fun and used them to my entertain meant, I thought you guys would find it slightly entertaining as well.



On top of our recent release I am working on some very large chalk jars as well and a few jewlery pieces that will  be up soon. I will be posting pictures once they are done and you can find all of these things with much more at Facebook.com/theknitchebycherish

Ready to set sail and get back to work,
     Ms. Sinking Ship

Artist's Block : A deadly disease


Lately, I have had a horrid case of artist's block for the blog and the company. Along with that, I have had a constant movement of things that needed to get done, so, nothing has gotten done. I apologize for the lack of words the past week or two but I'm going to attempt to beat this block and get it all in track. I think I'm going to try and have certain blogs on certain days those will  hopefully home about within the next week. I'd love to hear feed back from you guys on things you want to read about and things you've already read.
              Ready to set sail and get back on track,
                                            Ms. Sinking Ship