The Bow Belle

<pauses to look>  No, Clemson is orange.  They're tigers, so they WOULD be orange.  This looks more like University of Georgia.  Either way it's black, white, and red with paw prints. UGA for the win !  My family is intensely fond of bulldogs.  We've never owned one, but we HAVE owned several Boston terriers over the years.  While not the same as bulldogs, Boston terriers do have some similarities.  Oh yeah, and they're hilarious. Boston terriers are the funniest dogs on the planet in my book.  They've got delightful little personalities, and they're hyper enuff to play while still calm enuff to take a nap in the grass.  Some other breeds don't have an "off" switch (jack russell terriers), but Boston terriers are a lovely in-between.  The dog we had during my teens loved to play tug o'war with his rope toy, and if I held it out of his reach he'd jump for it!  Thus how we kept him from getting too fat, LOL. Regarding colle...

I'm a fan of Peanuts, and today is Charles Schulz's birthday.  Thus... ...I guess I should've titled this post "Good ol' Snoopy" since Snoopy's the one on the bow, but...well, oh well.  Peanuts has always been big with my family; during Halloween and Christmas we'd drop everything to watch the appropriate specials.  "I got a rock" and "YOU! ARE! COMMITTED!!!" are family catchphrases (the second one stems from the more obscure Snoopy's Getting Married ).  We had characters that we related to; my music-loving father liked Schroder the best, while my mother was the oldest of three kids and related most to Lucy.  She has always been very quick to defend Lucy's actions, unless they involved being mean to Snoopy, which Lucy sometimes was.  In Lucy's defense, Snoopy sometimes needed it; I never understood what crawled up his nose and died at the beginning of Snoopy Come Home , for example.  Snoopy picked a fight with both Lucy ...

It's over, thank God, Thanksgiving is over!  Then comes Christmas, which also isn't as fun now that I'm grown.  But oh, do I love the lights and the decorations and the spirit!  That said, today's bow doesn't show that.  I'm not quite there yet. Etsy shop is skullxcrusher , the same shop that supplied my Karen bow . For some inexplicable reason I had a fixation with road signs growing up.  I think it was because a lot of 'em utilized short words that my toddler mind could read.  I knew "stop," "go," "left," "right," "turn," "enter," "exit," "dead," and "end."  I also learned "street" quickly because Malden has a handful of signs that read "dead end street."  I needed a little help with "yield" since it wasn't in any of my kiddie books.  I also learned the word "bitch" pretty quickly, because someone had graffitied a stop sign ...

Today I wore a new blouse that covers my neck and arms ('cause it's cold), and it has a lot of pink in it so I paired it with an old standby.   My old pink bow from the craft section at Wal-Mart.  I wore this once before , pairing it with a set of My Child earrings.   Ardent readers of my doll blog will know that I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of pink.  Oh, I like pink.  Some of my best bows are pink.  But being a doll fan means that all too often one is exposed to a lot of pink, especially if one likes Barbie (not all dolly fans like Barbie, believe it or not).  My main beef with the color is the overuse of it, especially in Barbie's world.  Her house is pink.  Her car is pink.  Way too many of her dresses are pink.  Her HORSE was pink once, if I recall correctly!  If you like The Wizard of Oz then you know there are humane ways to color horses pink, but still!  Having a pink horse is taking it a bit too far...

Today is one of those days where folks my mother's age will turn to folks my age and say " You know what day this is, right? "  If you're American, odds are that you'll know, but if you're not American and/or don't know, here's a link.  Mama says that JFK's assassination was their equivalent of 9/11; everyone remembers where they were and what they were doing when they got the news.  But today I'm doing something completely different, partly to vocalize my feelings about a situation that is now almost a year old, and partly to (hopefully) get some feedback.  First things first:  the bow.  Tomorrow is Doctor Who Day, and that ties into the story I'm about to tell.  Etsy shop is AandMsBOWtique . The TARDIS is a cheer bow, and the Doctor himself is a teddy bear.  I've officially seen everything. Now buckle up, because I'm about to start bloviating.  Last December I met a young man, and NO, WE DID NOT FALL IN LOVE!!!  Not romantic love ...

Today's bow is a turkey bow, one that came in the Right Box.  Shop was AdoraBowsStore. As I'll elaborate on my doll blog in a few days, Thanksgiving is not the holiday for my family that it once was.  Indeed, this year I'd prefer to have a pot of spaghetti and be done with it.  Mama is good company, but when you're with someone every day you run out of things to talk about after awhile.  And Uncle Man-Child is NOT good company.  So I'll load up a few books and my favorite American Girl doll, and while that man-thing talks about himself all the livelong day I'll read and take pictures...after I'm done helping with meal prep, that is.  We're not gonna do the full turkey thing since there's only three of us, but Mama will still need my help.  I'm usually the "gopher," LOL.  Go for this, go for that, etc.  I don't mind that, though...unless I'm reaching for something just out of my grasp and do a face plant, like I almost did a few ...

Today is Minnie Mouse's birthday.  Etsy shop is ThreeDoesBows . Minnie is the original Queen of the Bow, and she didn't even start wearing a hair bow until the 1940s, with the end of the pie-eyed era.  Before then she was a flapper type , with patched bloomers, ridiculously big shoes, and sometimes a hat.  I'm not really sure when the red polka-dotted dress and bow became her thing, but by the time I was around that was how I knew Minnie the best.  One of my college friends painted her nails red with white polka dots because she too associate the pattern with our beloved rodent girl, and I had another friend (a teacher and thus an older woman than me) who often wore a red dress with white polka dots to church.  She also had Minnie on her watch, and I loved that because it made me think of my dad (he had a watch with Daffy Duck on it).  That teacher didn't live to be very old; she sadly died of ALS when I was in college.  Her grave marker has a silhouet...