It's in our blood

Yesterday while hanging out with my kids my 7 year old Ethan out of the blue just says 'mom i like old stuff just like you' We start to discuss how old things are cool and how we like to hear stories and learn about the past. He goes on to say that he was on amazon looking at toys and that he saw this 'vintage' Luke Skywalker doll (he is a big Star Wars fan). He said it was from the 70's! I laughed to myself realizing that that toy having come out in 1977, is a year younger than I am and is considered 'vintage' hahahahaha....Man, I'm getting old! But that was not the only thing I realized through that conversation. I also learned that of all the things my children have inherited from me other than my bad temper (hey we are italian),my passion (again, we are italian), my sarcasm, my giving nature and strong sense of family, they have also inherited my love of old things and that makes me feel good because I know that it means he knows we are a part of something bigger and deeper. That's me and Ethan taking a break from a bike ride.

Grinning like a fool....

Along with all of the usual comments I get regarding the retro/vintage look I sport for the most part, I get frequent comments regarding my smile or lack there of. People always ask me what's wrong? Are you mad at me? Why aren't you smiling? Are you in a bad mood? Why are you so stuck up? The answers on most occasions are Nothing, no, I don't know, no and I'm not! Do I have to go around smiling like a mental patient in order to stop people from thinking I am a snob (which I hear all too often)? This has kept people from approaching me many times which in turn has hindered my making friends. Most people I do become friends with end up telling me that on their first impression of me they were either intimidated, thought i was a snob or *gasp* thought I was a bitch, but upon getting to know me have found the opposite to be true (for the most part ;). So how do I fix this without looking certifiable?

Playing catch up

I have so many sewing projects either half finished or waiting in the wings. I have a million and one ideas for revamping some existing clothes and no time to complete them all! I get up every morning to get dressed and am reminded how bored I am with my clothes. Summer is coming up and the weather is getting warmer now, although April has been quite fickle as always and I really want to get these projects completed. It's spring break and so the boys have no baseball games this week or this weekend and they are going to visit family for the four remaining days of their vacation. so I am going to try to hunker down get to work. I will try to take pics and post the finished projects.

This will be me this weekend, although not quite as polished looking I'm sure.

I want these shoes!

These are too cute and they are at payless for only $16.99!

and in red!

Can't wait to wear them this summer!

These darn makeover shows!

I have seen many of these so called makeover shows....I won't name any names....and they seem to all have the same goal....CREATE CLONES. To be fair there are some guests on the show that do not have a bit of fashion sense to speak of, these are the women who feel unattractive and feel unworthy of looking their best and wonderful things are done for them with these makeovers. They help them to see themselves in a different light and see that no matter their size, figure, skin, hair and all other things their mama gave them that they can feel beautiful. I mean reminding a new mommy that she is still a woman or showing a middle age wman that even though she is aging she doesn't have to give up is a wonderful thing. They realize that they don't have to hide or give up and their self esteem is boosted by this. However these are not the women I am refering to, I am speaking about the women who have a weird, quirky, not the norm style. The women that do put thought into their style, the women that wear what they like and they feel great doing it. They take these women and turn them into clones of the host usually, and when the makeover is done you feel as though these women have lost something. Lost their spark, lost their individuality, lost well.. lost themselves. It makes me sad and mad all at the same time! Why must we conform. If a woman feels good in a cute furry jacket with kitten ears on the hood striped stockings and a skirt then why should she have to change? I mean as long as it's not so vulgar that it is illegal, and as long as it fits and makes you feel good then have at it I say. If I had "friends" that nominated me for something like that, then I would feel it was time to change my "friends" and not my style.

Don't wear this because you might just get arrested.


or this


but why not wear this

or this



or even this

That's me ^
So what do you all think?

Judy Hensler

She is featured in quite a few episodes. I have been bored at work lately so I have been watching or rather listening to old re-runs online since I can't actually watch the episodes just listen with my headphones. While enjoying Leave it to Beaver something has come to my attention, Judy Hensler. Judy Hensler is a character from Leave it to Beaver played by Jeri Weil. She is the bossy, mean Nellie Olsen type girl in the series. Without the benefit of one of my senses, just listening to a show tends to change things, with vision you can definately overlook poorly delivered lines since there are other things that you can be focusing on visually. So maybe this is why I have noticed that she seems to be the worst child actress I have ever heard. Every line she delivers sounds as though she is being fed them sentance by sentance, also she sounds like a boy. That is not the biggest problem, but the delivery of her lines just grates on me.