The Bow Belle

As far as I'm concerned it can't go away fast enuff, 'cause it's been a doozy.  To celebrate, I present a bow that has a little bit of everything and a lot of my favorite things. My favorite colors (blue and green), and two of my favorite prints (polka dots and argyle).  This one came out of the Wrong Box and thus was a complete (but welcome) surprise.  Etsy shop is no longer open; it was AdoraBowsStore.  Drat it, that shop had such cute stuff.  Oh well, I'm glad Mama and I took advantage of it while we could. Yeah, I know summer doesn't truly end until...<pauses to look> this year it'll be September 23rd, but according to our local weatherman "meteorological fall" begins tomorrow.  We all know weathermen NEVER are wrong (LOL)!!!  Of course the end of summer doesn't mean I have to dial back the colors completely, but it will mean a change from cooler hues and lightweight fabrics to warm tones and fabrics with more heft.  Y'all will s...

My bow today was rage-purchased when the character on it became controversial.  Etsy shop is RnRshairbowsandmore . For the uninitiated, that's Chase from Paw Patrol .  Paw Patrol is a children's program about a little boy and his team of search and rescue dogs.  Fitting considering the mess in Florida and Georgia this morning.  Anyway, each of the dogs has a special job to do and a special appearance to go along with said job.  Chase is second fiddle to the boy and is a police officer.  In recent years backlash against the Fuzz has been strong due to a handful of bad cops doing bad things, and some on the left wanted Chase written out of the show.  That was YEARS ago now, but...well, I've got the bow so why not continue to wear it? Long live Paw Patrol !  They got picked up for another season earlier this year, so it doesn't look like Chase and company are going anywhere. Love, RagingMoon1987 

...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair !  I guess that the proper time to wear a sunflower was last week when it was so cotton-pickin' hot, but...well, summer's not over yet.  Etsy shop is...y'all ready for this???  The shop's name is GnosisCraftsandGifts . I occasionally wore flowers in my hair when I was in high school, but it never became a habit and I dropped the act after getting my hair cut for college.  I still have my high school flowers....somewhere, though.  There was a pink rose, a black rose, and a trippy blue thing made out of denim.  They were all Hot Topic specials, believe it or not.  Hot Topic sells more girly crap now, but once upon a time they were where you went to shop if you were a beginner goth or punk.  My sister and I were the latter. As for sunflowers, I used to marvel at their size and their beauty, as well as their usefulness.  When I was small my paternal grandfather would always grow several, and since I WA...

This bow sadly doesn't do much to actually HELP Hawaii, but if any of y'all out there are Hawaiian, just know that the rest of the country is thinking of you and praying for you, just as a lot of y'all probably did when Joplin got hit. The fires on Maui have been on my mind a lot lately for a number of reasons.  Historians are saying that this is the worst fire since 1918, when Cloquet, Minnesota burned to the ground.  453 died in Cloquet, while as of writing 115 are dead on Maui...if the officials are tellin' the truth.  A lot of shady crap has been happening with this fire, so nothing is set in stone.  But 388 are still missing, and if a large percentage of them turn up dead then the Cloquet toll will be topped.  The next stop after Cloquet (God forbid) is Peshtigo .  I pray that most of the 388 are found alive.  I think it's highly unlikely that they're ALL alive, but hopefully most of 'em are. I guess that (for me, at least) the fires on Maui are a...

My bow today is one of my first ones, given to me on my thirty-second birthday by who else but my mama. It's got a Christian theme, and while I'll never claim to be a good Christian, I'll still claim Christ as my Lord and Savior any day.  And that's all I'm gonna say today. INRI, RagingMoon1987

Yeah, I tend to think of Wonder Bread and its brightly-colored packaging when I look at this bow, but it's another school-themed bow. I love polka dots!  Wonder Bread would've been a cute theme for this bow, but it's got three textbooks on it instead and that's fine too.  As with yesterday's bow, this one came from Etsy, but because it's another gift I don't know where. The subject matter listed on the three books are a mixed bag for me.  I loved art and reading growing up, but I hated math.  I still hate math, for that matter!  I never have understood how numbers could go from something like 2+2 to the Pythagorean theorem.  Art, on the other hand...well, as I discussed back in April , I don't always understand art (or stuff called "art"), but I like it.  Seeing the word in big letters makes me giggle though, because I picture Schroder and Lucy and their discussion about music, art, and money. I can't play music on any instrument, but I ca...

More back-to-school stuff.  Hey, the only time I can really wear these is at the beginning of school or the end, so I may as well make 'em count. I wonder where and when it became tradition to give teachers apples?  I know that I gave my teachers apples on more than one occasion (if I wasn't giving them dandelions, LOL), and my mother received apples on several occasions.  Mama never has been a big fan of apples, so usually I'd get to eat them.  I love apples.  Yellow apples and the little striped Fuji apples are my favorites, but I'm not too picky.  My sister, on the other hand...she likes Granny Smith apples, but when she eats them she also cuts a piece of sharp cheddar cheese and eats that with the apple.  She's done that ever since she was a little kid.  I used to think "Ewww, cheese with an apple?" but when I tried the combo myself I realized my sister was onto something.  But I still prefer my apples sweet. Love and apples, RagingMoon19...