something new!

dear readers.  i just spent about 45 minutes typing an extremely wordy reflection about my newest obsession and then through the vagaries of computers (and me not saving it soon enough) i lost the entire thing.  lucky you!  there is no way i’m typing all of that again, so you get the cliff notes (skip to #4 for the ultra abbreviated version).

1.  i have a new obsession!  (see previous obsessions, in no particular order:  blogging, beading, quilting, cooking, screen printing, photography, videography, my kid, stamp carving, ice cream making, sewing with felt, sewing with recycled t-shirts, quiet books…)

2.  surprisingly, it’s …. style and fashion!  (some would argue that this is actually a resurgence of an old obsession, see “high school self”)

3.  i am amused by my forays back into this arena and i think you might also be amused by my personal and wordy reflections upon said forays.  also, i might sometimes need to ask you if these socks make me look fat.*  you must be brutally honest.  i’m counting on you!

4. fair warning:  this blog may soon contain posts discussing topics of fashion and personal adornment.  *all my loyal crafty readers and fans of movie monday decide i’ve lost my mind and jump ship.  except my mom.  hi, mom!  oh, and maybe ms. bluebird who has a stronger fashion background than i do and who will not be scared off by my ramblings.  although she may be horrified by my lack of fashion knowledge over the last 20 years.*

“i want to be in the picture too, mom!”

never fear, there will still be all my regular ramblings too, i just need to get some of these fashion-related thoughts out of my head and out into the world so they can stop fluttering around in my peripheral vision and distracting me.  and also i need to explain that interesting thing around my neck up there.  but that’s another post.

*sorry, inside family joke.  ask my dad to tell you the story sometime.