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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
things that are happening around here
Thing One:
My seven-year-old daughter has a temporary tattoo:
I think it's kind of cute and glittery and girly and pretty (although I just noticed that the fairy's posture looks just the slightest bit suggestive in a Bare Naked Ladies anime-babes-that-make-me-think-the-wrong-thing kind of way), and since my problem with the idea of a tattoo is the permanence of it, I thought it was fine when C wanted to spend her two quarters on a fairy tattoo from the machine at the grocery store. Heck, I think I might spend two quarters on a fairy tattoo from the machine at the grocery store next time I'm there. After all, it's not like she'll have some bleached-out green version of it on her wrinkled 80-year-old neck. Her dad, however, was not so comfortable with the idea, and he kind of failed to see the cute girly glitteriness and went straight to "that'll come off in her bath, right?"
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Thing Two:
I KNITTED.
A WHOLE DISHCLOTH. Do you SEE the knitty goodness?
I have always been under the impression that I could not knit. This dates back to a dreadful experience in Girl Scouts, when we were all supposed to make little knitted bells as ornaments for the library Christmas tree, and I just couldn't do it. The two memories I took away from the attempt are:
- the shameful feeling of coming to the leader for, like, the eighth time, and having her rip my bell apart AGAIN and tell me to start over because I was doing it wrong, and
- the realization that the world didn't fall in if I failed to complete an assignment. As my high-school grades will attest, this was a Very Bad Lesson to have learnt at such an impressionable age.
So you can see why I was scarred.
Anyway. I learned to crochet instead, and periodically I would try knitting and fail again and put away my one lone set of needles until the next time. This time it worked, thanks in part to Kat's cheerleading and advice, and also thanks to about.com's knitting area, which is totally awesome. I made a dishcloth because I could learn as I went without having to care if the result was ugly because who cares what a dishcloth looks like?
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Thing three:
I have a little bit of money, and aside from the two pairs I bought at Goodwill a month or so ago, pretty much all my jeans are getting ratty. So I need to replace them. I MIGHT happen to buy jeans that are not Mom Jeans, but LET IT BE KNOWN BY THESE PRESENTS that it is not because I feel like I have to. It is certainly not because of any dictates by the fashion police or clothing manufacturers who think it's really important that everyone throw out all their clothes every few years so that a) they can look ridiculous to their kids fifteen years later and b) the aforementioned clothing manufacturers can make more money. If I buy jeans that are mid-rise, it will be because, well, I need jeans, and they are available, comfortable, appropriate, and nice-looking on me, and that is all. I would like to remind the fashion-conscious youth of America that they are not the first generation to think that their mom's clothes were dorky and that obviously THEIR clothes are the only ones worth wearing. Nor will they be the last. I can't WAIT till there's a whole generation of 40-year-old women clinging to mid-rise jeans while their young daughters mock them in Internet videos.
Comments
I like the dishcloth!!! Perhaps I will get my knitting neetles out....naah...
Posted by: debi at October 24, 2006 01:58 PM
I like the tatoo also. did she pick the place to put it?
Posted by: debi at October 24, 2006 02:18 PM
Woah, I had no idea you could make a dish cloth outa yarn. Fantastic! Imagine the suds! What a great idea! Durable! Reusable! I wish I could knit.
I think Claire's tattoo is adorable. What an adorable shirt/dress she is wearing too! She looks all island-y! And uncannily like her mother from behind...
Those lowrise jeans are perfect for midgets like me. Mom jeans make me look like Steve Urkle. Plus...The style teenagers are wearing today IS the style their parents wore in high school. Low rise jeans, All-Stars shoes, skinny black jeans, etc. It's all coming back. I've even seen girls dress like they stepped right out of the 1940's. There's a mishmash of fashion these days and it doesn't matter what jeans you're wearing - as long as you feel good in them.
Fashion-smashion.
Posted by: jenn at October 24, 2006 02:22 PM
Jenn, I am sure you dont look like Steve Urkel!!!
Posted by: debi at October 24, 2006 02:56 PM
My grandmother (I think it was my Dad's mom) made me a blanket using yarn exactly like that.
Posted by: debi at October 24, 2006 03:58 PM
Rach, you are so anti-fashion-establishment!
Does this mean I should cancel that gift subscription to Lucky? ;-)
Posted by: Kristen at October 25, 2006 10:44 AM
