The Bow Belle

Okay, it's not technically summer yet, but after Memorial Day has come and gone I'm ready to bust out the hot weather bows.  Case in point. I don't know how sweet I am exactly, but I'll dig it.  Like my pineapple bow, this one is supposed to be scented, and like the pineapple bow the scent is almost undetectable.  I CAN smell it though if I really jam it to my nose and sniff hard, and it's...actually kinda nice.  That being said, I'm glad the smell has mostly worn off, as stuff like that can smell like cheap perfume.  I also like the teeny-weeny seeds!  They're little blops of shiny black plastic, but they play their intended role very well. Let's face it, seeds are a fact of life if you like watermelon.  All the other melons I can name have the seeds gathered in the center of the melon, but watermelon just HAS to be the oddball!  They never bothered me when I was a kid (I usually swallowed them, to my mother's chagrin), but I'll admit that I pre...

Finally, the saga of the lemonade bow is complete!  As y'all have probably noticed, a lot of my nicer bows are gifts from my mother, and that is the case today.  She ordered several bows from one store at the beginning of May, and before too long the package she ordered was on the way...or so Mama thought.  A day before the box arrived Mama received a message from the seller warning her that the box she was about to receive contained the wrong order.  The seller reassured Mama that she'd make it right, and long story short, she did.  So now I have two boxes full of hair bows, and since the first one had the wrong order it was sort of a blind box opening.  Toy fans tend to like blind box items, and I am a toy fan, so this excited me.  Here's my first glimpse of the contents of the wrong box.  Presumptive store is  AdoraBowsStore , which was already one of my favorite shops. Here's the contents!  There's eight of 'em all told. Even though ...

Today's bow has a humorous story behind it, one that I can't tell in full here because the story is not yet complete.  But the full story WILL come!  Hopefully it'll be today.  Anyway, here's my bow.  I think the Etsy shop is AdoraBowsStore . Apparently I am now Mommy's main squeeze!  LOL, well, Mama and I ARE close, so I don't guess I'll object too loudly.  Besides, I love lemonade.  My best friend in high school HATED it for some reason, but I never found out why because she had a mondo seizure right after we talked about the lemonade.  Here we both were, solidly eightteen years of age, and she decides to develop epilepsy out of the blue.  That was insane! With summer just around the corner I reckon lemonade is the thing to have, though for me anytime is Lemonade Time.  I love the stuff that much.  But for some folks lemonade is strictly for summer.  I get that too.  Whatever suits ya! Cheers, RagingMoon1987

On this day in 1967, my favorite Beatles song " A Day in the Life " was released.  To commemorate, a Beatles bow.  Etsy shop is RoxysBowtiqueShop . George is my favorite Beatle, LOL.  I always thought he was the cutest, and I like his solo work the best.  Ironically, he doesn't sing lead on "A Day in the Life" as far as I know; Paul and Adenoid John shared that role.  Indeed, John's heavy vocal presence in the song is the main reason why Mama DOESN'T like "A Day in the Life."  She never was John's biggest fan.  She DOES like the Beatles, though; I can remember one time during my late teens, when we were all relaxing in our respective bedrooms.  Being in the mood for music I popped a Beatles CD into my player, and two seconds later Mama said from her room "You're gonna think I'm crazy, but I could swear I hear " Love Me Do ."  I replied that I was listening to "Love Me Do" and we both proceeded to have a hear...

I always thought the name of this holiday was kinda dumb, since I associate a red nose with a nasty cold or an equally nasty battle with allergies.  But either way, today is Red Nose Day ...and since Walgreen's left Malden I won't be getting an inkpen!!!  But I've got the bow...or one that can work for today. Etsy shop is Tulazohairbows .  The bows from here aren't ridiculously big, but they're comfortable and colorful with nice long tails, and some of the bows even have big pom-poms or tassels hanging from the center.  When I was a little kid I loved pom-poms; very few of my clothes had them, but I still liked them.  They were usually round (I like round things), and they were almost always colorful (I love colors), so if I had a pom-pom I was usually in hog heaven for awhile. Happy Red Nose Day, y'all!  Don't forget to donate if you can! Love, RagingMoon1987

Today's bow is one of my quirkier ones. I have a photo album on FailBook devoted to these goofy hair bows, and I've kept it a bit longer than I've kept this blog, so my FailBook friends have seen this one before.  But y'all haven't!  The bee in the center is squishy. Little-known fact about me:  I love squishies.  I don't collect them because I have a house full of dolls and teddy bears, but I love squishies.  Squishies and bees together on a hair bow?  Yes, please!  This one came from AMWBowtique , the Etsy shop that I used to love.  I got my Saggy Baggy Elephant bow from there and my Lalaloopsy bow from there, and there's one more that y'all haven't seen (it's loud with streamers like the Lalaloopsy bow).  The bows are extremely well-made and are eye-catching, but be forewarned:  they're also heavy.  LOL, that Lalaloopsy bow is probably my heaviest bow!  But getting back to squishies, I haven't found a duplicate of my bee b...

I see a goof in a hair bow looking at me.  Etsy shop is RoxysBowtiqueShop . Today is Eric Carle's birthday.  Eric Carle was a children's author and illustrator, and to my surprise he's only been deceased a couple'a years.  His best-known work is  The Very Hungry Caterpillar , but he also illustrated a number of other kids' books, including one of my old favorites, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?   I was six when I first heard Brown Bear, Brown Bear , and while it was a bit under me (I was already a proficient reader by then) I loved the rhythmic rhyming and the colors in the book.  Things didn't get really trippy until the blue horse was introduced!  Up until then the animals had been more or less normally colored, even though ducks are only yellow if they're babies ...or rubber . My bow sports the last pages of the book, where a group of children are asked what they see.  The children proceed to name everything in the book, ending it wit...