Badass Babe Workbook Review & GIVEAWAY

I've been carefully looking over the just released Badass Babe Workbook by Julie Van Grol. She's the illustrator of 100 Days of Badass Babes, a popular social media series highlighting influential women. The series is the precursor to this, her first book. The 176 page paperback features "creative exercises, drawing activities, empowering stories, and fuel for your personal evolution, inspired by over 100 trailblazing women." This energizing workbook is for girls and women. You will meet over 100 accomplished women from very diverse backgrounds. Be inspired by the obstacles they face and overcome. Explore important issues facing women today. Complete a variety of engaging creative exercises woven throughout the chapters. These include drawing, writing and collage. And the most important part - discovering your own unique story. March is Women's History Month in the US. Make your mark! Get your copy below! 

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

What is this book for?

Who is this book for?

Hearing and telling stories

What will you find in this book?

Assembling your toolkit

How do you do your best work?

SELF-CARE, CREATIVITY AND OUR STORIES

Starting with self-care

Art changes the world

Art facilitates understanding

Art connects us through common experience

STEPS TO EMPOWERMENT

Groundbreaking women

Babes in math and science

Drawing parts of the face

The portrait spectrum

Funny babes (part 1)

Babes in sports (part 1)

Writing tips

Learning from the wisdom the the greats

Activist babes

Musical badasses

Expressive drawing

REDEFINING FEMININE

Challengers of gender constructs

Firsts & boundary-breakers

Defying conventions with fashion

Going head to head with dudes

EXPANDING WHAT WE SEE AS POSSIBLE

Funny babes (part 2)

Babes in sports (part 2)

Drawing the figure

Miscellaneous badassery

Overcoming impossible odds

MORE TALES OF BADASSERY

Advocates for education

Spreading awareness

Challenging arbitrary beauty and body standards

Lady business: babes changing the workplace

Judiciary babes

Contemporary activists

CLOSING WORDS OF WISDOM

Babe index

About the author

Acknowledgements

Kathleen Hanna by Julie Van Grol. 

The text below is from page 108.

Kathleen Hanna is best known as the front woman for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, both feminist rock bands. She was truly a pioneer for making space for girls and women in the punk scene by making her activism an essential part of her music and performances. GIRLS TO THE FRONT!

Using punk flyers for inspiration, make a cut-and-paste flyer for an event you have coming up or one that you would like to make happen. Even if you're the only one to ever see it, let it help you get pumped. 

This is my flyer for an origami event. I've had some ideas swirling around my head for sometime but it never occurred to me to explore them on paper.

The Badass Babe Workbook is available worldwide at Quarry Books, a division of the Quarto Publishing Group USA. Check out their unique catalog at Quarry Books. Quarto has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until April 4, 2018. Canadian and USA addresses only. Good luck!

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The Hip Girl's Guide To Homemaking

The Hip Girl's Guide To Homemaking

Decorating, dining, and the gratifying pleasures of self-sufficiency - on a budget!

Author Kate Payne

Publisher Harper Design

Paperback 288 pages

Discover the simple joys of homemaking in today's world! Blogger Kate Payne takes you through the basics of setting up your first apartment, through entertaining and all things in between, expertly utilizing thrift stores, garage sales, recycling, the hardware store, Craigslist, markets, street finds, co-ops and last of all retail.

The book is arranged into three sections.

Part One: Room-by-Room Guide to a Homey House, Homie

Part Two: Impressive Acts of Domesticity: Do Try This at Home

Part Three: Life after Restaurants

Kate demonstrates that you can live well, though frugally with some resourcefulness and creativity. Her book is filled with practical advice on function and comfort. Not only will you live healthier and greener you will discover the rewards of self-sufficiency.

Kate gets right to the point. Use what you have, start gardening on your front steps, in a window and on your little balcony. Get only what you need, why spend money on expensive and chemical laden cleaning supplies when vinegar and baking soda work very well, without the side effects.

A cool idea that I'd like to try from the book is hosting a food (or craft) swap. "Hosting a swap is a fun and easy way to trade goods you make with others. Make (or gather) stuff that's edible and swappable, i.e. a loaf of bread, a jar of preserves, a half-dozen eggs from your backyard chickens, portions of soup, packages of homemade candy, etc."

The Hip Girl's Guide To Homemaking is an easy read, Kate doesn't bog you down with too much information. At the end of each chapter she provides excellent resources in case you want to learn more. Take it from someone who's been there, this book summarizes the basics, and more, of everything I have learned about homemaking from my first apartment through now, and with the money I've saved can now enjoy some fancy splurges.

The Hip Girl's Guide To Homemaking is available in both my Canadian and US Amazon stores. Harper Collins Canada is one of the world's leading English-language publishers.

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