'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
all those "classic" fair isle designs are kind of boxy and unflattering on most people.
IMO, Starmore has a good eye for surface pattern, but as a clothing designer, she's sub-par. She has a particular problem with necklines. In a number of her pattern books, you'll see some of the sweater models wearing scarves.
Eunny Jang is a fair isle pattern-designer who can actually construct a flattering garment.
My neighbor made her son a scorpion costume. It is awesome.
sara, that is SO COOL! Is she going as Klaus Meine or Rudolf Schenker?
So apparently I get the procrastinatrix award today. Who was out buying candy at 4:30 to hand out to the ruffians tonight? ME! I do give out the good stuff though: reese's peanut butter cups, etc. I know I'm not supposed to be handing out that candy this year, but because of my aforementioned status as procrastinatrix, I could not get it together to get other candy options. I even trimmed the bushes outside so people could get to the front door!
"This American Life" this week was brutal. It was on "Middle School" and about 10-15 minutes in my relief at not being 12-13 again washed over me like a spring rain. I thank goodness I am an adult and don't have to go through junior high school bullshit anymore.
I bought Tootsie Pops to give out this year. They're not as tempting to me as other candies, and they're not the sort of thing where you can down half a bag over the course of an hour's munchies.
I listened to that, too le nub. Although, I think sometimes the bullshit is the same, it is just my level of caring and emotion around it is less!
Sophia,
you might be right, but I was really struck by the ways in which the junior high school students were talking about dating. Some adults aren't necessarily more functional, but most of us can handle the disappointments and dating a bit better than that!
Old family friends, the baby is a lobster, the mom is a chef with a lobster pot, and grandpa is a fisherman in a cap and rain slicker.
It sounds kid of horrible, but it is adorable.
ways in which the junior high school students were talking about dating.
I did love the girl who told 8 or 10 boys "I don't know" when they asked her to the dance, because she didn't want to be mean, but she just wanted to hang out with the other girls.
I might have missed part of what you heard, though because I was working while listening, and I mostly remember the poor boy from Rochester who was depressed about moving to a new school and how hard it was to make friends.
It sounds kid of horrible, but it is adorable.
If by horrible you mean AWESOME, then yeah!