I LOVE these blankets. Love them. I had to start one at 3:45 am this morning (and I went to bed at midnight!)
photo from Purl Bee blog
I had the, um, opportunity, for lack of better word, to view an entire episode of "My super sweet 16" on MTV yesterday. Can I only say how disgusted I was at seeing 16 year old girls (and boys) demanding $50,000+ cars ("or else!"), parties that run in the tens of thousands of dollars, flights to Paris to only buy a party dress (which she only wore for the first hour of the party before one of her many outfit changes), high-profile entertainment and exclusive invite lists delivered in an equally expensive manner. It's akin to all the uber-thin models making all the normal girls feel bad. The flaunting of this type of wealth on INCREDIBLY spoiled and manipulative children for such superficial reasons on a television network meant for the "everyday" kid/person is ridiculous. I do believe in the right to raise your kids the way you see fit, but aren't these parents doing them an injustice by allowing them to get EVERYTHING they want at anytime at ANY cost. I would be ashamed if my children talked to me the way those kids talk to their parents ("Oh, the Porsche Cayenne is only $50,000? Cool, I thought it would be more than that. Get it for me." Even the mom, in her only moment of reason, said "you think $50,000 is cheap?") Little girls crying and stomping their feet and refusing to go to the party that is costing big bucks because their personal stylist didn't do her hair right. Give me a fucking break. It's not reality TV, MTV, it's lurid profitting of hideously parented children at the cost of the self-esteem of all the NORMAL kids in the world. Way to make the majority of your audience feel bad and wish for something that realistically will not happen for 99.99% of them.
If you're close to my age, you may remember a time when MTV was cool. It was a little alternative, a little rebellious and actually stood for something free and liberating in the world. Too bad they sold out too.
My long time favorite breakfast invention. I call it the "heater". A jalepeno bagel with a scrambled egg (hubby does fried), pepper jack cheese and a sausage patty (hubby always has meat, I usually have tomato slices instead but splurged this mornng). SO good. Hot 'n spicy and crispy and cheesy and yummy. It's how I started my day today and just seeing this picture makes my mouth water. I only have it once a week because obviously it can't be too good for me, but man is it good.
Having fun, feeling motivated, with challenges and dares lately. The new Look Book blog issued their first challenge: Use what you love. What a pleasure! Never really occured to me that this could make a difference (make it easier), but this layout came together probably faster than any other I've ever done. I literally gathered stuff I liked and set it on my desk. When I looked down things were laying in such a way that that WAS my page. All I did was slide cardstock underneath the pile and start adhering. What makes this true to my "style"? I love stars, mixing color and b & w pics, mixing large and small pics, leaving pics matted with a little white blank photo paper, using frames, rubber stamps, the color red, the color black as a grounding element, ribbon tabs sticking out, oversize photo corners, fortune cookie fortunes, some hand-doodling, the use of scraps and found stuff and lined/striped paper. Most any layout you'll ever see from me will have at least a few of these traits.
Fun challenge Look Book girls!
I love the Dares, but rarely do them. Don't know why, time maybe? But they are always good, always enlightening and that is always good. Going to make much more of an effort to play along on the Dares.
This is Dare 56: If you are told you will be stuck on a deserted island and you can only take one picture, which would it be? Why?
This is a sad statement for a photog, but this is the last (and only 1 of 3!) photo of my whole family together. And I took it in 2005. How sad is that? But now, that's my new goal: more pics of us.