the arts

Ah. There is such thing as the Art of Beautiful Beards. and it is on display in Portland. beautiful photography of beautiful facial hair from the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Photos taken by Dave Mead.

These are but a few of the fine examples.

Jerem of Alaska Jeremy of Alaska

Kyle of Toronto Max of California

Dave of Ontario Daniel of Michigan

Toot of Lake Tahoe, CA Reinhard of Neubausen

Adam of Chicago, IL John of Toronto

there is nothing like a good facial hair.

emily

Peridot

hurray! Peridot, a shop featuring all locally handmade items (including the second fiddle) has been featured on channel 4 news. Peridot is located at 3159 Cherokee St., St Louis MO 63118.

See the segment:

Thanks for supporting Peridot and local handmade!

the woodland household

Woods of Narnia

apple wood buttons

pine wooden coasters

Birch round buttons

birch buttons

pine place card holders

Woods of Narnia is a handmade store on etsy.com selling everything from place holders, button, jewlery, and coaster made entirely of wood! We here at The Second Fiddle love wood, and so thought these cozy coasters and such would fit our style. We hope you enjoy the rugged and rustic domestic items.

See more of Woods of Narnia's wooden items here: www.WoodsofNarnia.etsy.com

bad posture

you see, dear mother, bad posture is not always a negative thing. this fellow looks quite comfortable (A. A. Milne). With the end of the semester approaching, I begin to sit more like Milne here. Ah.. my back.

If you have never read Winnie Ille Pu, I highly recommend reading it out loud. A wonderful Latin read.
We were also in an Etsy craft show this week at the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum. This was our first craft show, it went well, and we saw many familiar faces. more on this later.

Cheers,

Emily

math

I though I would share some photos of some charming old men (most with top notch beards)

Johnny Cash

George Bernard Shaw

Thelonious Monk

Woody Guthrie

unknown man

There is a story around the school. The calculus class was watching a movie about a man who had just solved a notorious proof that had taken him 7 years. My math teacher cried.

Oh glorious math!

Euclid