The Story of Eggplantia

Welcome to Eggplantia!

Eggplantia is, as you have probably gathered by perusing the lovely banner at the top of the page, The Land of Beth Dunn and Melissa Averinos.

We each have our own blogs, where we each do our own things. If you don’t know about them already, then perhaps you will allow us to introduce ourselves, briefly.

Melissa has been blogging over at Yummy Goods since 2006, spinning her tales of crafty goodness and fabric joy.  She is loved for, among other things, her photography of rusty things and faded signs, graveyard lichen and sunny skies, her fabric design and thrifted treasures.

Beth has been blogging over at An Accomplished Young Lady since 2004. She writes about 19th century fiction, history, manners, and dress, as well as about her favorite crafts (both historic and modern), and about life in a tiny house on Cape Cod surrounded by fog and sea.

We will now pause while you take a moment to bookmark and subscribe the heck out of each of the aforementioned blogs.

Ready? Then let us proceed.

What’s it all about?

So for quite some time now, we have been happily toiling away on our own little websites, tending our own little webby gardens. But as time marched on, we discovered that we enjoyed doing lots of online projects together. And sometimes it got confusing, with all of these joint projects, which website to send folks over to, if you wanted to, for instance,

• See the latest episode of Unicorn Stories
• Join us in our obsession with Jane Eyre and All Things Bronte
• Donate some crafty goodness to Handmade for the Holidays

So finally we decided to create a home that was dedicated solely to the ridiculously fun and pretty much totally great projects that we do together. So that they might all live happily under one roof, as it were.

One deep, dark, purple, eggplanty roof.

So explain the eggplant

We have this favorite restaurant, see. Here on Cape Cod. A Japanese restaurant where we go out to eat often, of a Friday night, to scheme and plan our latest project and exchange silly little gifts and laugh just a little too loudly.

We always order the same thing: the most amazing broiled-eggplant-with-a-miso-glaze appetizer you have ever tasted. I am assuming that you have tasted many such broiled-eggplant-with-a-miso-glaze appetizers, of course, but if you have not, you may rest assured that this one beats them all hands down.

So single-minded are we in our pursuit of this eggplant appetizer that the restaurant has ceased to be That Japanese Restaurant or That Sushi Place or even Our Favorite Friday Night Hangout Joint.

We started calling it The Magical Land of Eggplantia, or simply Eggplantia for short.

So when it came time to choose the name for our shared domain kingdom on the web, our choice was clear. Eggplantia it must be.

Finally, a word about pronunciation. It is pronounced egg-PLAN-tee-ah, not egg-PLAN-sha. You dig?

Then let’s dig in!

Coming Soon

More posts, more news, and… A GIVE-AWAY!!

So stay tuned!