Today’s Homemaker
Tuesday 31st July 2007 by Cherry Menlove
What is, or better yet, who is today’s homemaker?
 Are they a housewife with a Cath Kidston  obsession or a stay at home mother who, try as she might, simply cannot stay away from the hallowed web pages of Jo Jo Maman Bebe?
Is today’s homemaker a career girl who hires a cleaner for her house but yearns for the next time she can get her knitting out from under the pillow and finish that scarf she has been working on for the past six months?
Perhaps she’s a younger, single, entrepreneurial kinda gal, who runs her successful online company from her home office dressed in nothing but Coco de Mer but then falls asleep dreaming in the colours of Farrow & Ball ?
Well to tell you the truth, in my experience, today’s homemaker is not only all of these women but many, many more variations. Whether she lives in the Country or the City, is married or still enjoys an exclusive relationship with a bottle of Billecart Salmon, women today are beginning to pay much more attention to the place they call home.
The stigma that was attached to the enjoyment or the act of looking after the home itself is very surely starting to disappear. In a world where it seems that we have to fight tooth and nail simply to get a seat on the train each morning, we have started to realise that the one place we need to be peaceful is our home.
The last two years have also seen a huge resurgence in the crafting arena, with particular attention being paid to knitting, crocheting and embroidery. Our love of vintage has now extended way past our wardrobes; we no longer duck as we head in to charity shops on the high street but simply tell our friends that we love to go ‘thrifting’ on a Saturday afternoon when they ask us where our divine, hand stitched, crinoline lady tablecloth has appeared from.
Over the weeks ahead I’ll be sharing as much as I can about how to be a happy homemaker in your life, right now, today!
I promise that you’ll not need to don any ugly footwear nor will you have to stop visiting your colourist. But what you will need to do is open your mind to the fun, creativity, happiness, order and eventual sense of control that good housekeeping and life as a domestic goddess can give you! If it wasn’t fun, I can promise you I wouldn’t touch it with a very long pole!
See you next week.
Cherry Menlove xx
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