The Biting All The Apples Holiday (and any day) Book of 19th Century Inspired Home Amusements & Creative Endeavors
Do you need to pretend you live in another century for the next few hours? Years?
Our Holiday (and any day) Book of 19th Century Inspired Home Amusements & Creative Endeavors has the very best historic finds, parlor game info, creative inspiration, weird old timey livin' tidbits, recreational history, home chemistry, and fortune telling instruction you need to entertain yourself or discerning guests.
We spent this year on the Biting All The Apples podcast delving into the minds of victorian women. Real movers and shakers. It left us with a reverence, ok maybe obsession, with all things 19th century. Your year, your life won’t be complete without developing an appreciation of your own and incorporating at least a couple of the home amusements in this glorious offering.
This ebook includes only stuff that is relevant and do-able today. Yes, we did find some parlor games that would put you at risk of arrest or ditched by your insurance company. That is why the victorian lifestyle was so great. Proper and dangerous all at the same time. Life goals.
Thanks to technology and electricity, you can live this life without the risk of mercury poisoning or candle soot in your sinuses. Inside this victorian themed PDF (imagine telling Queen V about PDFs) you will learn about the coolest parlor games, word plays, mentalism, fortune telling, chemical tricks, beauty recipes (also kind of chemical tricks), and secret language of flowers.
Just think, instead of sending a text invite to friends this holiday season, you can use one of the flower-message bouquets recommended in the book. Something that says "An Evening of Amusement Awaits" not with words. No. But with holiday season flowers you can pick up at Kroger (or your local grocer, co-op, florist, farmers market, etc).
Or maybe you need to write someone a letter in invisible ink? What about those nights when you need to whip up an oracle from scratch paper? Or only have a set of dice for fortune telling? The Holiday (and any day) Book of 19th Century Inspired Home Amusements & Creative Endeavors has got you covered.
Yep. Everything you need to start seeing your home for the cabinet of curiosities it really is.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Do you need to be victorian/goth/steampunk to enjoy this book? Will this book turn me victorian/goth/steampunk?
A: No and no guarantees but even if that happens, we’re sure you’ll put your modern spin on it.
Q: Do you need to listen to Biting All The Apples podcast to “get” the book?
A: Not at all, although listening to the podcast will certainly expand your knowledge of the levels of badassery victorian women achieved.
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About Biting All The Apples Podcast
Biting All The Apples is an unhinged bookclub-ish conversation channeling the sassy wisdom of long-dead Victorian feminists to analyze puritanical influences still messing with our world today. In the first season, Hosts Sara Kaye Larson and Joanna Vantaram dive deep into Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 1895 bestseller "The Woman's Bible," covering the 19th century feminist analysis of biblical texts while pondering and railing over the similarities to issues facing us now.
The 19th century was an era of radical upheaval; scientific discovery, social transformation, political revolution, and questioning of established institutions. Sound familiar? Victorian feminists lived through huge change and responded by interrogating every standard, every sacred text, every assumption about power and gender.
The podcast is for anyone interested in patriarchal influences in religion, politics, and social order, as well as anyone who likes comedy, friendship, books, history, and thinkin'. It's feminist history with a Victorian wit garnish and where, naturally, the hosts discovered a love for handkerchiefs and home chemical tricks.