The Bow Belle

For many years it's been a running gag on my doll blog about the Disney/Pixar movie Frozen .  I learned about a month ago that Frozen has been out ten years now, but I've never seen it.  I HAVE seen Frozen Fever and I laughed until I nearly peed my pants, and I've seen the much-loved "Let It Go" scene , but that's all.  Thus it might seem a little ridiculous that I'd have a Frozen bow, but I...actually have several, because I think the theme is cute and because I think Anna and Elsa are cute.  This one is a favorite among my family and friends due to the soft colors. It's hard to tell, but those silhouettes are Anna and Elsa...and some trees, and I think I see Olaf there too. Not the best quality, but y'all get the idea.  Grosgrain always looks blurry up close.  Also, the hearts and sparkles surrounding the two sisters look more to me like fall leaves than snowflakes, but...oh well.  Like I said, this is grosgrain and grosgrain always looks blurr...

Today is Holly Day, but I don't have a holly bow so I went with the Nutcracker again, complete with my first initial (and my last, LOL).  I'm not a huge fan of holly anyway, not since our holly bush annihilated my balloons when I was a kid. I don't know the Etsy shop; this one was another gift.  It's already gotten a handful of compliments, though! My memories of holly aren't the greatest, but walnuts (which I presume are what nutcrackers smash) are another story.  My paternal grandmother had a black walnut tree in her backyard, and one of my favorite things to do was take a broom handle and wallop ripe walnuts off the tree.  I never touched them because black walnuts have a rind that both stains clothes and reeks, but I loved smacking them off the tree.  Grandpa would then gather them up in a sack, toss them in the road, and run over the sack with his truck a couple'a times to break up the rind.  I never saw him run over the sack, but I saw him gather them...

Normally I wouldn't be oot and aboot on a Monday, but today is the library's Christmas party and the whole cotton-pickin' county will be gathered together.  This year will be a tough one, because the librarian at Clarkton died last spring.  She as an absolute dear and the whole county loved her, so her presence will be sorely missed.  Anyway, last year I wore one of my prettier Christmas bows (I'll be wearing that one...sometime this week), but this year I've chosen to be somewhat humorous.  Remember when I said that my family loved Christmas Vacation ?  Well, here's the bow to prove it!  Etsy shop is AutumnsUniqueHairBow . This particular line was uttered by Clark Griswold's father after Clark moved Heaven and Earth to get his Christmas lights to light up.  Hilarity quickly follows when Cousin Eddie and his family show up unannounced, but as with Home Alone I'm not going to give too much away.  Christmas Vacation is NOT a flick for kids due to...

If I had enuff bows I'd be sporting Hanukkah-themed stuff during the duration of the holiday, but I don't.  Ergo, this bow. One of my first truly nice bows, this one was given to me by my mother on my thirty-third birthday.  It has my initials on it, but it also has characters from The Nutcracker on it.  Clara/Marie is present, as are the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.  I've heard the lead character called both "Clara" and "Marie" during my life, but "Clara" is the name I hear more often.  Indeed, the only one I've heard using the name "Marie" was Shari Lewis.  But I won't heap too much hate on Shari and Lamb Chop, because they were the ones who taught me about The Nutcracker in the first place.  Yep, my sister and I were Lamb Chop fans growing up!  We had several of the cassette tapes, and one of them discussed  The Nutcracker .  Uncle from St. Louis pointed out that in terms of ventriloquism Shari's technique was one o...

Today is Gingerbread Decorating Day, but I don't have a bow with gingerbread men on it!  So I selected something seasonal at random. Ironic, rather, especially since I complain about Christmas being so commercial.  What can I say, I'm a materialistic little dame.  I like stuff.  This Christmas I'm hoping for a new floor lamp since mine died last spring.  I'd also like some socks, since one can never have too many pairs of socks.  I also am not a frequent flyer with Amazon.  I just thought the bow was cute. That's about all I have to say today, since I don't really have anyone to buy for and since I'm not a kid myself. Love, RagingMoon1987

Today is, among other goofy holidays, Pretend to Be a Time Traveller Day, but I think I'll leave the TARDIS bow at home and stick with the season.  Even if it's way warmer than it should be.  Seriously, I'm in short sleeves and flip-flops. Santa Claus!  Or a Santa Claus theme.  This is another one that Mama got for me...gosh, it was clean back in the spring, right at the "clove of the seasons," as I often say on my doll blog.  Y'all probably know that irritating cusp between winter and spring, where it's cold at the beginning of the day and too warm for long sleeves at the end, where the flowers are taking leaf but the ants aren't out yet.  I've learned that when we have a warm snap but the ants don't come out, we're gonna have at least one more cold snap.  Ants are smart like that; they do what God and their puny little brains tell them to, and we don't, and we often pay for it.  ANYWAY, it was a day like that when Mama handed me this ...

Yep, today's bow pays tribute to one/two of my favorite Christmas movies AND to one of my family's traditions.  First, the bow, another off-beat piece from DollfaceDesigns . Often the first thing my family did when we came home from Thanksgiving dinner was take a long nap, and after that we'd pop in a Christmas movie.  We had quite a few that we would watch yearly, some funny and some serious.  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my all-time favorite, but I also loved the first two installments of the Home Alone franchise.  Indeed, I think that of all the movies I've watched, Home Alone and Home Alone 2 take the award for most dysfunctional family.  The families in Christmas Vacation and The Santa Clause are nothing to write home about, but the McCallister family takes the cake.  The kids are all a bunch of brats, the parents spend much of both movies with their heads up their butts, and the extended family (particularly Uncle Frank) is just plai...

Deck the halls with...bubbles and pearls???  Yep!  Mama and I have had this idea percolating since last May.  Instead of your usual frosty glass balls and plastic snowflakes we opted to give our new Christmas tree a beach theme, and I got a clip to match. Etsy shop is MoFunAccessories .  Told y'all I love that shop!  Anything over-the-top is fair game there.  That feller is a real starfish, by the way.  I never would've thought to utilize something like that as a hair clip, but here it is!  Next stop for me will probably be a light bulb, LOL. LOL, decking the halls nowadays isn't as much fun as it was when I was little, but making the library look nice this season has been very rewarding.  I never would've thought to decorate a tree in seashells, but the effect worked out pretty well.  I just hate that it'll all have to come down again in a month. Seashells and gnomes, RagingMoon1987

Some folks start wearing their Christmas garb before Thanksgiving is even over, but for me the first of December (or close to it) is about right.  This bow fits that bill pretty well. For some reason Mama has developed this fixation with the chubby, big-bearded gnomes that have become popular over the past couple'a years, and since she doesn't wear hair bows herself she projected that bit of herself onto me with this bow.  Not that I mind, because it's a nice, big, comfortable bow with tails that flutter.  I hate it that I can only wear it around Christmas!  That's the worst thing about seasonal clothes and accessories; they're usually cute and/or attractive, but they're intended for wear maybe one month out of the year.  Oh well, I'll get as much mileage out of these Christmas bows as I can. Lighthearted as this whimsy bow is, the message brings back some melancholy memories. The first time I heard "I'll Be Home For Christmas" was the first C...