#finishing school

[marypickfords]

Finishing School (Wanda Tuchock & George Nichols Jr., 1934)

#ginger rogers #finishing school #wanda tuchock #george nichols jr. #caps

[empyrean11]

About a quarter of the way through India Holton’s The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels. And it’s just utterly delightful!!

Vibes very much like Finishing School series by Gail Carriger. Very proper ladies entirely matter-of-fact about being vicious spies/pirates, etc.

Cecilia is young, like the Finishing School girls. But I just love that most of the other pirates are old ladies. And the poor doddering old men!!! 🤣

#bookblr #the wisteria society of lady scoundrels #india holton #finishing school #gail carriger

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

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#fantasy #books #Etiquette and Espionage #Gail Carriger #Finishing School #poll #result: no #l: English

[negative-ease]

cast off!

happily i never lost the pineapple buttons for this lil guy.

i really love everything about this yarn. it's Plymouth Yarn Company Worsted Merino Superwash. colorway 61. i'm really into yellows and purples (alone and in combination) right now.

finishing went pretty well. i was able to pick up both button bands on the first try by using the patented j.r. triforce method (hot tea, full stomach, bright light). dealing with button placement & putting them in was way less fiddly than i thought it might be. the slip stitch row around the neck edging i thought was sort of unnecessary until i started it and WOW it reeeeeally adds a nice touch, really really good. kitchenering the armholes took a minute because i couldn't remember if i do it right or left-handed. i did the first one right-handed and i had to keep checking the diagram in stitch n bitch (which i pulled out of the archives for this purpose, listen, this book was overexposed for a REASON, it's so good!) so it was slow going. for the other i tried left-handed and sure enough muscle memory took over immediately i was like... oh... duh... so in the end the only thing i wasn't thrilled about was the job i did closing the holes around the underarm after grafting. (like the holes near the base of a thumb when you make mittens.) it's possible, though not probable, that i go back and redo those...

like fran's sweater, the yarn was purchased ages ago at Lambshoppe in Denver, which is one of my all-time favorite yarn stores. we used to live nearby. it is also near a fantastic detroit-style pizza place (Blue Pan). i miss that neighborhood a lot! i really liked living in Denver.

anyway... this is destined for LA. happy to check it off the list and move on.

#cast off #finishing school #knitting #hand crafted

[homobiwan]

If i had an exploding wicker chicken that would fix me.

#finishing school #gail carriger

[maddiesbookshelves]

After 6 years of being bothered by the fact that my copy of Manners and Mutiny is hardcover while the rest is paperback, I have finally decided to order a new one and resell the other.

Except, I didn't check when I ordered it and it's the UK edition.... my other books are US edition..........

So now I have two copies in the wrong edition and I want to cry 😭

I hope the little bookshop I go to takes it back so I can order the US edition myself...

#i feel so stupid #why do they have to be different sizes sjdneoxneidneksj #books #booklr #booklr community #manners and mutiny #finishing school #gail carriger

[ghost-inacup]

Would anyone be interested in a gail carriger's books' discord server?

please tell me cause i dont want to put in more effort than i have to before exams

#gail carriger #the finishing school series #the parasol protectorate #parasol protectorate #finishing school #custard protocol #the custard protocol #Alexia Tarabotti #Lord Conall Maccon #Professor Randolph Lyall #Ivy Hisselpenny #Lord Akeldama #Countess Nadasdy #Biffy #Lord connan #Tofa Borregaard #Sophronia #sophronia temminick #sidheag maccon #felix mersy #agatha woosmoss #Dimity Ann Plumleigh-Teignmott #dimity plumleigh-teignmott

[nikihawkes]

Book Review: Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

Book Review: Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger

Title: Etiquette and Espionage Author: Gail Carriger Series: Finishing School #1 Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Rating: 3/5 stars The Overview: Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners–and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is…

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#book #book review #book reviews #books #etiquette and espoinage #finishing school #Gail carriger #intrigue #niki hawkes #parasol protectorate #teen #the obsessive bookseller #YA #YA books #young adult

[a-person-who-likes-musicals]

The pistons are emo, and this is amazing.

#finishing school

[marypickfords]

Finishing School (Wanda Tuchock & George Nichols Jr., 1934)

#frances dee #finishing school #wanda tuchock #george nichols jr. #caps #subtitles

[ohfersherbahd]

After 10 years, I've been working on my final credit for high school. It's almost weird doing homework again - but I kinda love it while hating it?!?

Anyways, was it always this easy? This hospitality unit is so easy and fun.

#personal #me #highschool #last credit #mature student #going back to school #finishing school

[dasloddl]

I‘m done with school

I can’t believe it

I literally only have to go to school again on Monday to get my grades and then I’m through

wtf?

#graduation #school #finishing school #personal #germany #op dasloddl

[negative-ease]

cast off!!!! cast! off!!!

greetings from hell. Let's call it Finishing School. I have been working hard to finish old projects so I can start something new. (And also... and mainly... just... for the sake of it.) Both pictured are from 2019.

Finishing School reminds me why I started gravitating only to projects in the round. This sucks. I hate it! Sewing knitwear sucks, I never remember to do selvedge, I joined this whole twist crop front thing with a crochet slip stitch because, I don't know, it just seemed more doable (emotionally) even though it doesn't look greeeeat.

About the first pic: I got too ambitious with blocking yesterday and ran out of t-pins and almost ran out of straight pins! Having the dehumidifier going downstairs (we're in a split-level) is great because things dry very fast. The baby sweater should be totally dry tomorrow and then the armpits will be kitchenered together (good, easy, looks tidy) and then it's just button bands which, whatever, seems fine.

Anyway, this varigated thing -- when we lived in LA we used to do Thanksgiving in Big Bear, where my sister's in-laws lived. It was always a really nice time. My sister's mother-in-law and I bonded over knitting and one year went to a great local yarn store up there, where I picked up this project for something to do.

Mostly I remember working on it in bed while chatting with my parents for hours at a time when COVID hit and we were all isolating. The yarn (Queensland Sunshine Coast) is a really pleasing bamboo/merino blend that feels surprisingly plush in this Irish moss stitch. It's single-ply and so the weight varied WILDLY but the pattern - which came from one of those brand print outs you get for free when you buy the yarn - is pretty loosey-goosey so that was ok.

After joining everything up I have two problems. One, I don't like the "sleeves", which seem incredibly unnecessary to begin with. So I can either take them out and re-sew them NOT using slip stitch, or take them out and instead do a separate edge and keep it sleeveless. Or just live with it, which is of course what I will do to begin with because path of least resistance.

The other issue is it's just... it's way too big. Way too much positive ease (a first for me so I am mostly amused?). This is as a result of blocking. The pattern says "block". It provides ZERO measurements. Could I have deduced the measurements? Probably! Did I? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I ended up overstretching the back (the front, which twists, did not get blocked) and the shoulders didn't quite line up and... it's weird.

What I'm going to do is add buttons to the sides so I can sort of cinch the bottom at my waist and according to my mirror that will look good. I will enlist my mom to help with this. That's the plan. It's meant to go over a black long-sleeved shirt. It doesn't have to be perfect, but it does have to be better than it currently is.

As far as the baby sweater goes, that's a story for another day (it isn't finished yet!!!!) or never. I'm hard pressed to think of another object that has brought as much shame or clarity to my life. But soon I shall be rid of it. And in the meantime it is so frikkin cute :')

#cast off #finishing school #knitting #hand crafted

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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#cw: blood + eye scarring #oh the inherent intimacy of seeing and being seen #just a comic about how the desire to be seen and shown love and compassion unites us all #also big scary monster lady pretty #girl power! the personification of disaster and strife uses she/her pronouns! #i also feel somewhat obligated to mention here that i dont have anything against christianity as a whole #i just think the concept of God is interesting #i went to a christian school for 12 years im allowed to make this comic #comic art #sapphic #yes. interpret the subtext #stillindigo art #heartearters #thats the name of the anthology this will belong to. whenever i finish it #stillindigo comics

[ikiprian]

Mr. Fenton is a competent teacher. Almost too competent.

If Mr. Daniel Fenton had any more than a BS (with a minor in education), Tim would’ve flagged his profile as a potential Rogue. That’s the way of most charismatic academics, at least in Gotham. (Got a PhD? Instant watchlist.) Instead, he’s Gotham Academy’s newest celebrity, as a young, passionate, out-of-towner substitute while the chemistry teacher’s on maternity leave.

Tim gets the hype. Fenton seems to genuinely love teaching, and is invested in the welfare of the student body. He hands out bananas during exam week, hosts a “study habits seminar” each month to coach effective learning strategies, and the third time Tim falls asleep in his class, he even pulls Tim aside to ask if he’s doing okay. With all the late work he accepts and the protein bars he sneaks Tim, he’s every teen vigilante’s dream teacher. He could’ve been Tim’s favorite.

In fact, Mr. Fenton was Tim’s favorite. Up until Tim walks into Mr. Fenton’s chemistry classroom for a forgotten textbook, an hour after the final bell.

On the board where tallied scores for today’s review game had been kept, “THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND DR. CRANE’S FEAR GAS: ANXIOGENICS, NERI’S, & YOU,” is now scrawled. A detailed diagram of the human endocrine system projects in front of a small crowd of adoring and attentive students.

Fenton is wrist-deep in the skull cavity of an anatomical model. A short tug, and out pops the brain.

It’s plastic. It’s fake.

Tim identifies the nearest emergency exit.

Fenton turns to the door, and in the dark classroom with the projector illuminating half his face, his eyes almost seem to flash red. “What’s up, Tim?” he asks. His friendly grin is too big for his face. “I didn’t know you wanted to join the Just Science League!”

[OR: Danny’s a science teacher at Tim’s school. Gotham’s a pretty wild place, even for someone who grew up a superhero in a ghost-infested town, so he takes it upon himself to start a club teaching kids how to manage themselves in the event of a crisis. These Gothamites are pretty hardy, but a little extra training never hurt anybody! And he suspects one of his students might be a teen vigilante, like he’d been, back in the day. As a senior super, it's Danny’s duty look out for him! Surely, this is the subtlest and most appropriate way to give the kid pointers.]

[Tim immediately assumes supervillain.]

#Danny can’t help being creepy it’s just the way he’s built!! #I like to think Lancer did these things for Danny when he was in HS #and now Danny's emulating Lancer :) #Passing it on! #Tim is paranoid but also like he is SO CLOSE to graduating so like. Does he even want to report this shit to Batman. What if the next chem #teacher's a jerk and Tim fails the class and he never gets his stupid diploma. Bruce already is insisting he finish out HS and maybe get #an ABA before he's allowed back into the company #and Jesus Christ does Tim hate school. He'll worry about Mr. Fenton's burgeoning army of Science Honor Society Rogues on his own time #dcxdp #dpxdc #prompt #tim drake #danny fenton #in case I write more of this let’s tag it uhhhhh #misunderstood mentor au #kipwrite

[millionaire-library]

I don't think any amount of finishing school can teach someone culture. You have to have a genuine interest. You have to digest it and form your own opinion on it, so that when someone asks you what you thought of this rendition of Macbeth, you actually have something to say besides "yes I watch Shakespeare plays."

#finishing school