She Threds

03/02/2026

Well, here we go! The start of Women's History Month. I'm going to begin this year with an author I knew nothing about until stumbling into an airport art museum at SFO this past week. I love discovering arts and artists while roaming airports, and want to encourage you to do the same. Gloriously, it is almost always there but in our rush and preoccupation we often miss it.

Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) - First African American woman science fiction writer to gain national recognition.

This quote beneath her portrait grabbed my eye and drew me in:
"You got to make your own worlds. You got to write yourself in. Whether you were a part of the greater society or not, you got to write yourself in."

11/22/2025

Any of y’all looking for something different…
Reason to head into GA mountains? I’ll be at the Currahee Holiday Market from 10am-3pm. It’s super fun, with great vendors. Hope to see you there.

11/03/2025

Ladies, we’ve come so far.

10/18/2025

Oh gosh, I forgot to tell you! Come see me at Depot Day in Downtown Hartwell. She Threds booth in front of Eden Chiropractic. Just listen for the music 🎶 from my neighbors FM 104.1 💃

08/10/2025

The FTC just warned four companies and major retailers over deceptive "Made in USA" claims. Learn what it means for manufacturers, shoppers, and the future of American-made.

06/28/2025

Come and see me today at Hartwell’s Pre4th Fair! I’m on Forest Ave, across from Southern G’s 🌸

03/31/2025

#31 Georgia O’Keeffe - American painter

Yes, I know, she is already well documented. But I love her. And cannot finish this month without her.

Did you know….
(From the exhibition, “My New Yorks”)

In 1924 the artist and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, moved into NYC's Shelton Hotel, then the world’s tallest residential skyscraper.

"In ‘Pink Dish and Green Leaves,’ [my personal favorite from the exhibition], O’Keeffe attempts a view from her apartment window unlike any other. The artist’s only East River composition to visualize a portion of her domestic space in the Shelton Hotel, the work is a luminous still life and cityscape, depicting an expansive industrial vista beyond the glass compote and windowsill.

O’Keeffe wrote about this work, 'The pink dish with the city is frankly my foolishness — but I thought to myself — I am that way so here it goes — if I am that way I might as well put it down.’”

And so…we’ll put it down, our month of history with American Women.

03/30/2025

#30 Maria Mitchell - American astronomer, professor, trailblazer.

But let us look instead at how her sense of Wonder came into being…

https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/10/01/what-miss-mitchell-saw/

An illustrated homage to a rare visionary who opened up portals of possibility for generations.

03/29/2025

#29 Nell Blaine - Youngest member of the group called American Abstract Artists in 1940s.

Later, she joined what became the Second Generation New York Painters.

After contracting polio, she relearned to paint with her left arm, scarcely slowing down.

According to Blaine, it all goes back for her to Piet Mondrian, “the push and pull of color.”

Learn more in this 8 min film: "The Color of Light"
https://youtu.be/gVkEDq8nAXk?si=hZ1tBlNgvU14FM-8

Dive into the remarkable life and art of Nell Blaine, an artist whose journey transcends the boundaries of abstraction and figuration, illuminating the vibra...

03/28/2025

#28 Elizabeth Hardwick - Author, co-founder of The New York Review of Books.

“There is simply no accounting for her gifts. She was a unicorn, born among horses.” -William Deresiewicz

Hardwick "spun large and small observations out of inventive allusion and gossamer subtlety, and respected her readers enough to believe they could keep thinking along with her.” -Cathy Curtis

"She was elegant and original, fearless and resilient, a literary lioness who kept producing well into her eighties. She was the last survivor of a group of notable female cultural critics who left a lasting mark on twentieth-century American letters.” -Brian Tanguay

Biography of Elizabeth Hardwick is an exploration of a unique literary talent.

03/27/2025

#27 Emily Warren Roebling

“When the Brooklyn Bridge was completed after fourteen years of construction in 1883, Emily Warren Roebling — the ‘woman who saved the Brooklyn Bridge’ — was the first to cross it by carriage, carrying a live rooster in her lap as a sign of victory.”

So much to this story. I had no idea!
https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=25975

Emily Warren Roebling became the first female field engineer in history as the "surrogate chief engineer" of one of the greatest architectural projects of the 19th century, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.