"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Distractions, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
A zillion fancy pencils…these always seemed to turn up in gifts, and I felt they were to pretty to use up. Also, they tended to be that splintery wood that doesn’t sharpen well, anyway. They were better to look at than to use, anyhow. Special delivery: eraser, par avion! The big red bag was my […]
Posted in Distractions, Fashion, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
At one point in the mid-1980s, it was fashionable, at least amongst schoolgirls, to have a long plastic chain with a bunch of little keychain/charm thingies hung on it. My sister and I never had the chain, but we had a few charms. This is one of mine. She had one just like it, but […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Rainbow Circus was apparently a Sanrio line back in the early 1980s. This pencil case was a birthday present from my grandmother, and I think I was in the second grade. I know Mrs. Berry was still my teacher, so it would have had to be either first or second grade. There’s a little heart-shaped […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Because I am utterly sickening, not to mention a Bear of Small Brain tonight, here are some pictures of some cute shit from my childhood. This past Fall, my folks brought down a trunk of my old childhood momentoes, and today I was a little bored at one point and started going through some of […]