Yesterday was great.

I woke up and it was a sunshiney day and when I sat down in my spot on the pull out couch in the living room, after opening the curtains which bathed the room in sunshininess, I decided to myself that I wasn’t going to be poor anymore. I was sick of being poor.

My agenda for the day was to research the colouring book, magnetic paper dolls and Valentines ideas and to make those happen because that is badly needed income.

So I spent all morning running the numbers and I can absolutely make the colouring book and Valentines happen, but the paper dolls will have to wait until I can afford a better printer. Ours is just way too crappy. I mean, it’s okay for printing out stuff from the internet but anything with any kind of detail just gets washed out. The printer I want is like, $800 the last time I looked into it (although I forget the model now). I’m gonna have to sell a lot of colouring books to be able to afford that.

BUT I can do colouring books for $20 and Valentines for $22. I would put 40 Valentines in the book because there are usually 30-40 kids in a classroom but I was talking to my mom yesterday and she said I should put 20 Valentines in the book because then if people wanted to have enough for all the kids in their class, they’d have to buy 2 books. I see her logic here but I’m not going to do that. $22 for Valentines is a lot of money to begin with, I would not want people paying $44 for enough Valentines to get every kid in the class.

FUCK! I just realized I totally fucked the Valentines estimations up! I was using Lulu.com and thinking I would use their photo paper books for the Valentines and it’s $15.95 for a 20 page book and they have pre-made layouts which would work out to 40 Valentines…but I just realized that when I counted, I was counting front and back, but with Valentines, you can ONLY print on the fronts of the pages because you have to be able to cut them all out. This changes things significantly when the photo books are $.0.50 per additional page over 20. I don’t think I can do the Valentines on photo paper anymore. :o( Would you guys still buy them if they were on nice, normal paper as opposed to photo paper or cardstock? When I was little, the books of Valentines that I would get where you would cut them out were on thinner paper so maybe that would be fine for my Valentines? I’d prefer thicker paper, but Lulu doesn’t have that and I’d like to keep everything all under one roof, y’know?

I think I’ll proceed with the Valentines, they just won’t be on photo paper. Bummer.

Anyway, I did the math though and the books are totally doable and yesterday afternoon I started drawing for the colouring book but guess what else happened yesterday afternoon?

Oh you’ll never guess so I’ll just tell you: SOMEONE who REALLY LIKES SUNSHINEY DAYS got her job back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s only part-time to start, which is a good thing because I’m not sure if I can handle full-time just yet (but I would have done it had they asked). They offered me 25 hours but I’m only taking 20 so I have two days in a row off, Sunday & Monday, so I get a day with Blake and the kids and a day to myself once my wound heals and the nurses don’t come anymore.

And guess what else? My shift? It’s going to be 5am-8am EST Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 5am-7am on Thursday and 1pm-10pm on Saturday. How perfect is that? Saturday’s going to be a long day of course, that’s 9 hours, but the other days are awesome because they don’t conflict with my drugs and I’m up that early ANYWAY. My boss is fucking psychic or something!

We have a lot of debt to pay off, so that’s #1 priority, but last night we did go out for dinner to celebrate, especially because Blake got his review yesterday also and he got 99%. His boss said he’d probably get a raise in the spring! It was just an overall good day for us Crittendens!

We went to Boston Pizza where Madison and I split cheesy garlic bread, Blake got nachos, I got TWO strawberry daiquiris, Blake had some kind of veggie pasta thing, I had some kind of mushroom/chicken linguine pasta thing, Madison got chicken wings and fries and Wes got two little cheeseburgers. For dessert we went to Cold Stone Creamery where everyone got crazy ice cream concoctions. I got strawberry ice cream with real strawberries and Skor bars. I haven’t eaten mine yet because after dinner I started feeling a little sick (daiquiris….I’m not really supposed to be drinking…technically…) so at Boston Pizza they packaged up my pasta, which I’ll have for lunch today and then after lunch I’ll have my ice cream. DELAYED GRATIFICATION. Today is not a sunshiney day but I’m doing my best to extend yesterday all the way to today….

So I am VERY BUSY! In fact, I think between work and these books (and my Limited Edition Sketchbook Project sketchbook that I have to start working on SOON because it’s due in April and my mom just signed up so I can’t blow it off), I’m busier than I was before I got sick! But also a lot happier! I feel like a productive human being again and it is fantastic!

Madison and Wes are over the moon happy for me too. They spent all of yesterday after school asking me about work and the books and everything.

Also, my boss knows all about my surgeries and Squam and everything and none of that matters, I can have the time off I need. Another thing I forgot to mention in my last post was that Dr. Hanrahan gave us the “all clear” for Squam, she told us in no uncertain terms that we should absolutely make plans. :o)

Long story short? Everything is great. Now I’m off to my office to draw pretty girls for you all to colour.

Happy Friday!

PS. For the colouring book, should I do drawings on BOTH sides of the paper or just one side? I was thinking one side because that way markers wouldn’t bleed onto the one on the back and you could also cut them out if you wanted to, without cutting up other ones if that makes any sense.

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So we went to see Dr. Hanrahan yesterday. This was taken while we were waiting:

Issues. He has them.

I can’t even remember half the stuff we talked about really. We of course talked about the fact that this Dr. Mays who’s supposed to be doing my pseudocyst-draining procedure, still hasn’t contacted us and the furthest we’ve gotten with him is an estimation of like, JUNE for the procedure. Apparently he still has people waiting from July of last year. Dr. Hanrahan said she was going to put the feelers out to try and find someone else to do it but that we shouldn’t get our hopes up because it *is* a complicated procedure.

It’s complicated but it’s only going to put me out of commission for a day, three days tops, and then I’ll be ready for my big surgery.

My big surgery is going to go fine. I’m not worried at all. I was before, but after she squished my guts all around yesterday to make sure that they’d fit where they’re supposed to, I’m not worried. She said that I should do what I can to maintain my current weight. I asked her how long recovery from the surgery would be and she said 6 weeks. But then she corrected herself and said 6 weeks of not lifting ANYTHING (her emphasis). I asked her if I could still type and stuff and she said I could and I asked her how long I’d have to be in the hospital and she said “a few days”. So not the WEEKS Siske was leading me to believe, thank god.

Dr. Hanrahan did remind me that she would be working with muscles and that there would be a lot of pain to deal with, but I’m glad I’ll at least be able to type because that’ll give me something to do while I recover. I might even still be able to paint.

Before I segue into painting, I took these pictures when she sent me for blood work.

They claim that’s less than a tablespoon.

Just routine blood work. Oh and I told the doctor about those weird pains I get in my pancreatic region now and then, those stabbing, radiating pains that sent me to the ER about what, a month ago? She said it’s just the pancreas being unhappy having those cysts on it and that there’s nothing that can be done. She wrote me an rx for Percocet, which scares the living shit out of me because I know it’s habit forming and I know I have a super addictive personality. I have just heard so many horror stories of prescription painkillers, this one in particular, causing so many people’s downfalls that I’m terrified to take any. I want to take one just to see what it’s like, but I have to wait until I’m in pain so I’m kinda hoping I’ll have one of those attacks soon so I know whether or not Percocet is going to knock me on my ass. Like, is it going to make me pass out or will I be totally fine? I’d really like to know *before* I need it so I dunno, so I just know that if I take this, I’ll need to lay down or if I take this, I’ll be fine.  But I can’t just take one, so I have to wait.

I took those pictures of blood work paraphernalia because I’m sloooooooooowly getting over my fear of needles.

So yeah, that was my yesterday. So much fun, let me tell ya. I feel like I’m forgetting something about yesterday but I can’t, for the life of me, think of what it is. Oh well.

So painting…I royally fucked up my orange tiki girl when I pasted her onto the board and I’m afraid she’s not fixable. It’s kinda hard to explain, but I kinda accidentally gave her knees. Oops. I’m going to have to give her a loooong grass skirt and if I do that, she’s totally recoverable.

The sun mandala painting is ready to be scanned, but I don’t know how to use the scanner, so I have to wait until Blake can help me  and teach me how tomorrow. Bummer. So the agenda today is working on hula girl and to try and reshoot the video I made yesterday.

Yesterday I tried to make a video of me drawing one of my girls because someone said they would like to see it. So I made one. But now that I’m looking at it, I see that the angle is all wrong and I’m going to have to reshoot it today. The problem is that I have nowhere to put the tripod for it to be on my left so my right hand isn’t in the way of the shot. But I’ll figure something out. I’ll either use what I shot yesterday ANYWAY or I’ll see what I can do about reshooting it.

I’ve decided that the colouring book is absolutely going to happen. I just have to figure out the logistics, draw everything of course, scan everything of course, lay everything out of course, and then I’ll publish it through Lulu or Amazon. I think Lulu has the most choices as far as types of paper and the covers and stuff. It’ll be a softcover because I’ve never seen a hardcover colouring book in my whole entire life, and the paper won’t be “colouring book paper” because that bleeds through with markers or wet media, so I’m going to use heavier paper for the scribblers, daydreamers and those who colour outside the lines.

I thought about whether or not I’d just draw the girl and skip making her a scene and I’ve decided that that’s probably the way to go. The kids (or the kids at heart ;o)) can draw their own scenes. They’ll probably be better at it than I am. I do think I might write a little bit about each girl though. I always envision their lives while I’m drawing them so I thought maybe I could include my drawing daydreams. We’ll see.

But this is absolutely going to happen. I’m going to start drawing it TODAY.

The other thing is that I really liked my friend Mariko’s idea of magnetic paper dolls. I was thinking normal paper dolls in the beginning but I wondered like, do girls actually play with those anymore? And they probably don’t. Plus it’ll be really hard to make sure the dresses fit and the tabs are where they’re supposed to be. Magnetic paper dolls, like these, just make sense.  But the thing is, where was I going to get those printed? There’s no print on demand company like Lulu or Zazzle or Cafepress that’ll do those and we don’t have money to pay another company up front to have them printed and then, could I even sell them on Etsy since they’re not exactly handmade? But then Mariko, because she’s a fucking GENIUS, linked me to these bad boys and now I’m obsessed with the idea of magnetic paper dolls.

If I ever get my job back, the very first thing I’m going to do is buy a whole bunch of those magnetic sheets, a new printer that I can use for both the magnetic paper dolls and prints and then I’ll be in business.

My only real concern now is A) what should I call my girls? I liked Madonna’s “The English Roses” so I would like a name like that, but I can’t think of anything and B) how do I package the magnetic paper dolls? Should I cut them out myself or leave them for the parents to cut out?

Okay, today’s my big day off so I think I’m going to go find breakfast, do my morning pages and then get to work. This colouring book isn’t going to draw itself!

PS. OH. MY. GOD. I just had a thought. It’s too late to do it this year but NEXT year I could totally do a colour book of Valentines for little girls to cut out and give to their friends. That would make my life.

PPS. For future reference, it’s never a wise thing to tell me I *can’t* do something.

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Check this out! 1979, 3 months after giving birth to yours truly:

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So this afternoon I get a tweet from a woman that said, “Hi Sunny, I sent you an email for V-Day Please let me know if this is go, I have a few notebooks with your name on them lol“, so I check my e-mail and this is what she was talking about:

“Hello Sunny!

I saw your blog and wanted to drop this off to you from a client of mine, [REDACTED BECAUSE I'M NOT GIVING THIS GROSS WOMAN EVEN A LITTLE BIT OF PUBLICITY]. He is a modern-day poet who has released a few of his poems from his Jan 2012 released book poetry, [REDACTED]. I hope that you find one of the poems interesting enough for you to post on your blog for V-Day! Please review the information I have attached below.

Lastly, I saw that you like notebooks, spiral bound being a plus. I have a ton of notebooks I’ve collected throughout the years and would love to send you one from my stash! Just let me know :o)

I’m on twitter too, so check you mentions.

Regards,

Lana“

So I looked at the poems, which were a PDF, and they were pretty mediocre but one was sort of cute I guess, so I tweeted the woman back, because I was busy doing stuff and I said, “I’m gonna have to think about your e-mail and confer with Blake. I don’t really do like, endorsements, so I dunno about this.“

She replied with, “think of it as a vday gift to your readers :) even if you only post a poem…” which just SKEEVED ME RIGHT OUT. She must not be familiar with me or my blog because I don’t just promote people I’ve never even heard of or who I have no attachment to and I cannot be bought with NOTEBOOKS? What the hell!?

So I tweeted her back and just said, “Ugh. You’re sleazy. Please don’t contact me again.” And that’s just the end of that. She’s being indignant on Twitter now so I blocked her and reported her as spam haha

Just…fuck off. I don’t have time for bullshit like this.

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The mail man just delivered this and I don’t know who it’s from! It sounds like there are little chocolates inside the heart. Can’t wait until the kids come home so we can open it! What a surprise! THANK YOU! <3

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Why hello there! How are you today? I am excellent, thanks for asking! The kids just left, Blake’s at work, the house is quiet and I don’t expect any nurses for the next 24 hours! I’m going to sit in my office and make art all day. Bliss!

I’m really pleased with how my new girl is coming along. Behold!

She looks way super awesome in person. She has gold glitter flecks in her eyes, which I’ve never done before but I think it looks pretty cool. In hindsight I probably should have made her flower a different colour but I couldn’t think of what colour to make it so…yeah…doesn’t matter. She’s going to have a real grass skirt made out of garden twine and her boob holders are going to be glittery brown/bronze because I couldn’t figure out how to make a coconut bra. Her background is just plant orange glitter and it’s going to look wicked after I varnish it. I’m pretty stoked about her.

So, I was reading this article on art patrons and collectors and this is something that I’ve never given much thought to, to be perfectly honest, but I think I should because this is the second time in a week that art patronage has come up in my life and I think that’s a sign from the universe to say “hey, listen up!” so that’s what I’m choosing to do.

What IS an art patron? Well, the people donating to my Squam Fund are art patrons I would think, and anyone who’s ever bought a painting would be too, right? I am grateful to have people in my life who truly want me to do what I believe I was born to do and who enable me to do just that.

A long time ago I had a friend who we’ll call “Tom” because that was his name. Tom was an art patron. My biggest one. He’s responsible for me even picking up a paintbrush and *trying* and for that I have nothing but gratitude because art has saved my life on so many occasions since. If it weren’t for him and his generosity, I would have never tried painting on canvas or even trying to make paintings at all.

Tom and I used to go shopping and it was fantastic. I would make a list of tons and tons of art supplies from Curry’s and Stockade and he would purchase it all and have it sent to my house. Then he would call me up and ask me to tell him what each thing was for. Like, he was keenly interested in how crackle medium worked, for example (I should do a tutorial on that, actually), and would ask me to explain how it worked and what I had in mind to do with it. He would ask what each type of paintbrush did or what I was going to do with purple mica powder. What on Earth was I going to do with a 36 x 24 inch canvas, etc. And it was great because I *love* talking about art supplies and I love “good mail” and I love shopping for art supplies and I loved everything about it and it was just a really high period of my life. Boxes and boxes of stuff would arrive weekly and it was bliss.

So thanks, Tom. <3

He always said that he supported my artistic aspirations because he himself was not very artistic but he wished he was and he was basically living vicariously through me. So I did what I could to give him that experience, I explained everything in excruciating detail and we would spend hours on the phone or by e-mail just talking about art and art supplies.

So that’s my “patron of the arts” story. I think he was the most traditional because aren’t art patrons traditionally the people who keep you in paint without trying to make a buck off you or claiming all your work? People who just want you to be able to create? I am a very very lucky girl.

I just also wanted to thank everyone for donating to my Squam Fund. I’m 51% there and I’m so so so excited about going! I devour their blog every time they post anything and I’m practically memorizing the Painted Pages book because it’s by two of the teachers I&#8217;ll be having while I’m there.

One cost I didn’t factor in when doing my tally is a passport to get across the border. I don’t think I need one, I’m sure a birth certificate and driver’s license is sufficient but my mom’s insisting on it because she doesn’t want to take any chances of them not letting us in. I don’t even know how you get a passport so I guess I’m going to have to Google that and I’m going to have to do it soon because I think it takes a long time to get yours in the mail. I think a passport is $80-$100. Bummer. :(

But yes, my birthday is March 1st and all I want is Squam money. <3

Speaking of birthdays, Wes is going to be *9* on Monday! Time flies, eh? If anyone felt like spoiling the greatest kid on Earth, his wishlist can be found HERE! We can’t afford to have a party for him right now so we’re postponing things until the summer and possibly taking him to Canada’s Wonderland with his girlfriend Emily.

Tomorrow morning I go see Dr. Hanrahan just to see where things stand with the procedure I need in Toronto. She’s probably going to order another CAT scan to make sure I even need the procedure, which is going to be totally fun…not. :o/

Anyway, today’s my day off. I don’t even feel like thinking about tomorrow.

I had THE BEST idea EVER the other day. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? How genius is this: a Sunny Crittenden COLOURING BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is that not the best idea ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Little girls all over the place colouring my girls would make me so very very fucking happy that I have to somehow make this happen. I don’t know if I should do a colouring book or paper dolls or maybe both? Probably the colouring book first though because that’s the simplest one to do. I don’t know if I should use Lulu.com or Amazon’s publishing thing or what though. Should I publish it myself, zine style? I’m betting Lulu/Amazon don’t get a lot of people wanting to make colouring books so I’m not sure how to get “colouring book paper” in one of  those types of books or maybe I shouldn’t use colouring book paper, maybe I should use GOOD white paper because these girls deserve the best?

I’ve gotta say, I’m kind of obsessed with this idea and I think it’s something that really needs to happen.

And with that, I’m oot. Time to have a wee nap, do my morning pages and get to work!

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“If I have a child with a non-Native, our kids will have Native status. If our kids have children with non-Natives, my grandchildren will not have Native status. It may not be such a big deal but due to this very law, it is projected that there will no longer be any Native children born by 2180. “

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Yesterday was artist date #2 and I had a FABULOUS time only spending $14!

I decided we’d just go back to Michael’s for artist date #2 since artist date #1 was so successful. Michael’s is probably my favourite store on Earth because I get in there and I just feel like I’m home. I look around at all the beautiful things and just kind of enter this trance-like state where I’m in absolute creative bliss where all there is IS imagination. My brain starts firing a mile a minute and I’m bombraded with images of the things I could do with the things all around me. I don’t just see a package of Swarovski crystals, I see the bindi of a mermaid in Fiji. Know what I mean?

The first priority was getting a sheet of foamcore because I need it to make my girls sturdy so I can put them in the shadowbox and have them stand up straight. Jeck is sending me some vintage Valentines and what I have envisioned is two girls giving each other Valentines, but what I’m afraid of with that is that it’s too specific. *I* would have something out like that year round, but would anyone else? I dunno. My other idea, which I kinda like better, is to make a burlesque girl or two and make the background like a stage. Then I’d paint the outside of the shadowbox black with red sparkles and get Blake to drill small holes all around the sides of it so I can wire the inside with Xmas lights just like the bulbs on a burlesque stage. The lights are LED so there’s no heat from them to burn the paper so it could be left on/plugged in indefinitely.

I’ve been looking for a way to make girls with “mink” stoles (made out of marabou) but it was bugging me because you can’t really do that with canvas for fear of the canvas fraying and wood would be difficult because you can’t sew through it and if you drilled through it, it probably wouldn’t look right, but the shadowbox idea would work extremely well for it and I think I’ve just convinced myself that this is precisely what I’m going to do. I think one should be in a long, red “va va va voom” kinda sequined dress with a red stole and one should be in a white flapper type dress with a black or white stole (thoughts?). I’ve got this lovely metallic ruby shade that would be perfect for hair that I’ve been dying to use (which they’ve now discontinued!), so I think I’d put that on the girl with the white dress and I’d probably make the girl with the red dress a blonde.

It’s funny…a couple of weeks ago I was pissing and moaning that I was all out of ideas and now I’m so full of ideas I hardly know what to do with myself. I feel like I have so much work to do between the shadowbox, which is going to be a lot of work, and this “orange girl” I’m doing.

Blake got me that orange Martha Stewart glitter paint last week called “Orange Sorbet” that I’m completely obsessed with so I think I mentioned that I painted two boards with it, one a thin layer for putting under white crackled paint and one a really thick layer to use on its own as a background for an undetermined girl. I’d been staring at the second board all week, not knowing what to do with it, when I turned to Twitter yesterday and asked for ideas. Katie suggested “Creamsicle”, which I liked, but it still didn’t feel right and neither did anything else anyone suggested so I tweeted that I’d put the board away and work on something else rather than force it when my friend TE came up with a genius idea that is so good I can barely stand it. I don’t wanna say what it is though in case I mess it up and get frustrated with it and it never happens, which is a possibility because it’s not the easiest thing I’ve ever attempted. I think it’s going to be pretty easy, to be honest, but it’s something that could frustrate me easily too, so I don’t wanna count my chickens before they hatch. If I can pull this off though, I think it’ll be really cool.

So anyway, foamcore. For those who don’t know what that is, it’s two pieces of Bristol board (er, cardstock weight paper, I guess) with a piece of light foam sandwiched in the middle of them. I don’t know what other people use them for, but we used it a lot in ad school as the background for our print ads when we were doing presentations. Because of that, I thought it would be a good idea to check Staples on our way through Barrie because it was on the way to Michael’s and it was also on the way home, so if it ended up being cheaper at Staples, we could easily go back and get it.

Well, foamcore at Staples was $5.56 a sheet. For the same size sheet at Michael’s, we lucked out because it was 3/$5! I only needed one, so I could pay for it with the change in my wallet and still not put a dent in my $10 artist date budget!

On our way to Michael’s, we were behind this guy:

You can’t really tell because my camera was focusing on our dirty windshield instead of the car but that’s a fucking HUMMER with the license plate “SIZDZMTR”. It was being driven by a guy, so is he admitting that he’s overcompensating for his tiny penis?

Anyway, at Michael’s I got sidetracked by the Martha Stewart paint again because it’s on sale for 40% off, which is an extremely good deal that was very very hard to walk away from. The glitter paint is just so goddamn beautiful. But I can get paint any time and god knows I have enough of it and what I don’t have, I can mix myself anyway, so I figured paint wouldn’t be a wise investment at this juncture.

We kinda wandered aimlessly for a few minutes, just going down aisles and looking at stuff, when we got to the bacck of the store where the yarn is and it sucked me in like a Dirt Devil: GLITTER YARN. MARTHA FUCKING STEWART GLITTER YARN. Check these bad boys out:

I had a REALLY hard time deciding on colours. They had a nice light purple, a nice light turquoise (but I figured I’ve done enough turquoise for the time being), a really interesting bright green, red, a really crazy magenta that I almost bought but Blake said it was too overwhelming and again, I decided that until “Magenta Love Fairy” sells, there’s no point in doing another girl with that colour scheme. They were $5.99 per skein BUT they were also on sale for 40% off so I could afford these TWO plus my foamcore and this:

That journal was $1.50 but I had a 40% off coupon so I saved 60 cents! So not only did I get all that for like, $13 but I had $1 left over to get a ginger molasses cookie from Tim Hortons on the way home. SCORE!

For some reason Madison laughed at me, I think, for taking pictures of my yarn. I set the yarn up on my desk to take the pic and when you turn my camera on it makes a tinkling sound and when Madison heard that she ran into my office and almost wet herself she was laughing so hard. o_O She never did tell me why she was laughing, but I think that was why. I dunno why that’s funny.

Anyway, she is one smart cookie who is definitely on the same wavelength as me because she told me exactly what I intended the yarn to be: the trim on a girl’s dress.

So for those playing the homegame, I’ve got the shadowbox on the go, the orange girl and now a pink girl and a blue girl who are going to have frilly trim on the bottom of their dresses. Busy busy!

Now I think I’m going to go do my morning pages and then when Blake wakes up, I’m going to have eggs and breakfast sausages. I am SO glad he’s home! I am SO glad everyone’s home! The house just wasn’t the same without them.

PS. We ran into Raymond & Lauren in the Michael’s parking lot and it was really good to see them. Sometime soon I think we need to invite them over.

PPS. Argent is so fucking wise and amazing and he said something to me yesterday that he probably wouldn’t want me to share but that I will cherish always. Thank you so much for being my friend. I am not worthy. <3

PPPS.

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I totally forgot to write about it at the time, but my new favourite website, besides Pinterest, is xoJane because I am and will forever be, in love with Jane Pratt and everything she does. I haven’t been an entirely faithful reader, I only go there every now and then and read like, everything they’ve put up since I was there last, but I just love the vibe of the site and most of the writers and I’ve tried a lot of their beauty advice over the past little while (makeup stuff).

Imagine how THRILLED I was to wake up Friday afternoon to “tune in” and see that not only have they proclaimed that overalls are BACK, but they had TWO WHOLE ARTICLES on them! Exhibit A/Exhibit B

Overalls are probably my favourite type of clothing. I would much rather rock a baggy pair of men’s overalls than a skirt ANY day of the week and dammit, I would look smokin’ hot doing it too. My mom and I are kind of obsessed with them, to be perfectly honest, although she says my love affair with them did not begin as young as I assumed it had. She tells me that she bought me an insanely cute pair of pink Osh Kosh overalls when I was 3 and I wouldn’t wear them “because they weren’t a dress”. Oh how times have changed.

Anyway, practically as soon as I read those two articles, I was digging through my drawers, trying to find my overalls and I found them yesterday and immediately put them on. Because of my herniated belly, they were pretty snug, but they still fit well enough to not only wear, but wear in PUBLIC, which I totally did and as I said, I looked smokin’ hot doin’ it.

So here are some pics. I even did my makeup. Yay me. :o)

(Weird angle, I know, but I was trying to get my eyeshadow angled right so it would show up.)

THE END.

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