About
What’s this all about?
I created the blog at MissMalaprop.com in August 2006 as a place for me to:
- showcase unique, hand crafted and independently made products and small businesses
- document my personal mission to live a more environmentally sustainable and socially responsible lifestyle
- talk about what’s going on in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast and showcase NOLA and Gulf South based artists and businesses
In March 2010, I launched my online store Shop Miss Malaprop to offer unique handmade & eco-friendly directly to you!
MissMalaprop.com is indie driven and community-minded. I believe in supporting small business, independent designers & artists, and people & organizations who are working to make the world a better place. I believe, whenever possible, in buying local, independently produced, handmade, sustainable, recycled, organic, fair-trade, environmentally-friendly products and services. I believe that one person can make a difference and that everyone can be that person.
Who am I?
I’m Mallory, a 26-year-old indie craft enthusiast from New Orleans, Louisiana. I was born in New Orleans, but grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, where I rode out Hurricane Katrina at my mom’s house on the MS Gulf Coast, and I witnessed destruction both there and in New Orleans firsthand. I helped out with some of the relief efforts there through September 2005 and came back to New Orleans in mid-October of the same year. I’m dedicated to helping New Orleans and the Gulf Coast recover and become better than ever.
I make reconstructed clothing and accessories, and I’m a proud founding member of the New Orleans Craft Mafia. I write a monthly column on local artists & designers for Antigravity Magazine, and I have also written for Etsy Momentum, the StyleList Blog, BloggingNewOrleans.com, and Southern Flourish Magazine.
Some of my other hobbies and interests include live theatre, ballroom dance, traveling, motorcycles, drag queens, and coffee. Oh, and sea creatures! Did I mention I also wanted to be a marine biologist when I was little? Dolphins, octopuses and seahorses are my favorites!
What’s in a name?
MissMalaprop is sort of a play on my name, Mallory. I joked that if I was a music DJ, I’d be DJ Malaprop. It’s also a nod to my literary and theatre geekdom. Mrs. Malaprop is a character in the 18th-century comedy of manners play, The Rivals. The term malapropism comes from this character, who was constantly mis-using similar sounding words, although Dogberry from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was doing the same thing in a much earlier play. (I told you I’m a literary & theatre geek.)
Contributing Bloggers
MissMischief, aka my best bud Ashe, writes about some of her own awesome indie finds. Ashe and I grew up together on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and attended college together in New Orleans. Since Hurricane Katrina she’s been living in Bloomington, Indiana, where she recently received her Master’s degree in Arts Administration.
MissMischief was obsessed with unicorns long before their recent jump back into popular culture. She loves 80s dance parties, avant garde makeup and wigs, and wishes that every day could be a day to dress up as her favorite rock star cartoon characters (can we say, Jem & The Holograms?).
You can find more of her writing at her own blog, dramatis personae.
