Five Things About Me . . .

(Free Pattern from Craft Passion)

I learned how to knit when I was a Brownie, also how to darn a sock and simple embroidery.   I did not learn how to crochet until I was about 16 years old.  My sister taught me.   I am not sure where she learned how to do it.   I was "hooked" from day one.  (No Pun intended)   I have loved crochet ever since!  I have always loved it more than knitting.  It's just easier.  There are no dropped stitches, the patterns are easy to follow . . .  I'm a lazy crafter and it speaks to my lazy bone.  I used to do a lot of fine thread crochet, following Japanese symbol patterns, using fine crochet cotton to make doilies, dresser runners etc.   I don't have any of it myself.  I gave it all away through the years.  I wish I had at least kept one thing for myself, but alas I did not.   I don't do the fine crochet anymore because my eyes won't allow it.

And that's the first thing about me in a five things about me post for Thursday, June 11th, 2015!



When I was a child I used to daydream that I was adopted and that one day my real parents . . .  June and Ward Cleaver . . .  would realize their mistake and come back to get me.  In fact I often put myself to sleep nights imagining that scenario in my mind.    They would come and get me and take me to their beautiful home and I would have beautiful clothes and a beautiful bedroom and we would all live happily ever after.  I'm not sure what this says about me or about my childhood.   I think I just longed for some normalcy in a world that was somewhat chaotic and not all that stable.  I wanted to live in a place where  I had always lived and always would live . . .  to have roots . . .  to belong or at least feel like I belonged.  When you are a Military Brat you don't have that stability.   I can't even go back to any of the homes I lived in when I was a child, because most of them have been torn down or sold off and changed.




I have always loved the style of the 1950's.  The clothing.  The decorating style.   The houses.    If I was a much thinner woman I would be eccentric and dress like they did in the 1950's.  Okay . . .  probably not, but I like to think that I might.   I think it was a very elegant era.    I also love the style of the Jane Austin era . . .  with the little bonnets and empire waists to hide a multitude of sins.  In our encyclopedia when I was a girl, there was a section on fashion through the ages and I just about wore that section out by looking at it so much.  I guess I have always been interested in the human form and how to dress it and it shows in my art.



(Source Vogue)

I can't wear sunglasses.  I've never been able to wear them without feeling sick to my stomach.  I have a really sensitive inner ear I think, and I always feel like I am going to fall over and all whoozy if I try to wear sun glasses.  They throw my equilibrium off.  I don't know if this is a common thing or if I would get use to it in time . . .  I've just always taken them right off because I don't like feeling nauseated and ill.  Oh yes . . .  there is a part of me that would love to be able to look all mysterious and glamorous in a pair of beautiful shades  . . .  but alas, I cannot do sunglasses.  I also cannot go on rides at amusement parks for the same reason. Heck . . . I experience motion sickness on a swing.  For that reason I would never be able to go on a cruise I don't think . . . afraid to spend all that money and then spend a week or two either wanting to throw up, or being drugged up to the eyeballs.




I cannot draw a straight line.  No way.  No how, even if the line is already there, I can't trace over it without it ending up all wobbly.   I can draw just about anything else under the sun however.  Also I do all of my artwork flat.  I can't draw on an upright page.   Well, at least I have never tried.   I am not sure if I could so I suppose I shouldn't say that I can't, because I might be able to.  I just don't know!

Funny though that I cannot draw a straight line.

And that's my five things about me for this week!



I did another little chubster yesterday.   I love doing these chubby little characters.   It's funny how children who are chubby are cute . . .  but adults who are chubby are seen as simply fat.  Nobody wants to pinch my cheeks! haha

A thought to carry with you through today  . . .
 
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If of thy mortal goods thou are bereft,
and from thy slender store two loaves alone
to thee are left,
sell one and with the dole
buy hyacinths to feed the soul.
~Sadie Galiston
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Cooking in the English Kitchen today  . . .  a delicious Banoffee Mess!  Simple and easy to make and very tasty!


I hope you have a lovely Thursday.  The sun is shining gloriously here.  A great day for gardening methinks!  Don't forget . . .

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And I do too!!