Hello. I haven't had much to blog about recently or much time to get on the computer. My sewing is piled up but I never seem to get a chance to do any. So, I seem to spend my time doing laundry, food shopping, cooking, and fruitlessly tidying up. Then I have to do it all again. I recently let both kids have a friend home for tea after school - the first time they both had a friend at the same time. It was good, though those five year old girls had me hard at work! They did so much enthusiastic pink and yellow painting at the table that I had to serve their food picnic style on the living room floor. T's friend, who comes from a very clean and well ordered house with no younger siblings, looked slightly horrified at this prospect.
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Last week we went to a field to see the queen visiting Shropshire along with approximately 34,996 other people. The monsoon rain stopped for one day only. Who knew the British weather has royalist sympathies? The children got a free day off school. We went via an extremely crowded train. A man standing near me in the crush, remarked "I hadn't realised children would be let off school today". Ah yes, those pesky children - get everywhere don't they? Little I has been brainwashed, trained like a performing dog, taught to curtsey to royalty at school. There were big screens showing the details that we couldn't see. Each time Little I saw the queen on the big screen she curtseyed in a very serious fashion. I hadn't realised this was part of the national curriculum in 2012.
The monarchist propaganda continues, she came home the next day, with a book she had made. It reads "I sor the queen. I sor the soldiers. I like the queen. The queen wess a qown."
Back to the sewing or lack of it....I have three half finished items on the go, including my second traveller dress in a blue linen look fabric. I really hoped to get them all done by the end of term but as that is on friday it doesn't seem at all likely to happen. On saturday I went out to lunch for a friend's birthday. I only took RG, so it was a kind of grown up event. As I got ready I tried on my brown floral traveller dress. Mr Minnado said "Wear anything but that". I was running late (of course) and didn't feel like getting into a row about what was wrong with my dress. But it made me feel very meh about my dress. Do any other people get that response from near ones about your sewn creations? Do you ignore them?
Oh, wow, Little I's report about the queen is too funny!
ReplyDeleteMy husband knows better than to make any sort of negative comments about anything I sew (as I'd probably start crying!), but I always can tell when he doesn't like something. He makes very firm statements about patterns before I get started, and he tends to hate anything with a vintage feel (don't let him get started on high waists!). He once quashed me with an honest and innocent, "Hey, I think my grandma had that same dress!"
Ah yes, the "grandma" criticism. I have had that one too! I find I have certain clothes that women friends always seem to like but Mr M doesn't. Need to analyse that further. x
DeleteMonarchy is so much more fun than a republic if your five years old!
ReplyDeleteNot a nice comment. I think my husband would say something if he really did not like what I'm wearing, but it works another way around as well. I made a skirt recently and got a positive comment from him, so now I dare to use it. I'm very insecure what it comes to wearing me-made clothes. Negative comment would be hard to ignore, but if it would be the print or the colour that he does not like and not the shape I think I could ignore it.
Yes monarchy is fun for a five year old. Funny thing was he liked the dress when it was lying on the ironing board a few weeks ago. I will still wear it!x
DeleteNot having a spouse I can freely wear what I want without getting any remarks and most of what I do/say/think/feel goes by completely unnoticed by my kids who just regard me as old and eccentric.My son a few weeks ago did say that I looked nice and,as it was a me made outfit I felt quite smug and inwardly pleased at this rare compliment.
ReplyDeleteLittle I had said "You look gorgeous"when I first wore the dress! But I think she just loves it when I wear dresses. How nice to get a compliment from your son. Mine at nine is already unlikely to notice what I wear!
DeleteMy husband would like me to wear only mini skirts and low cut tops (I an almost 42 year old mum of 3)! so I have been ignoring him forever when it comes to sartorial choices. I wear exactly what I like, and so does he, which I don't always like. If he comments he really dislikes something I wear it more when he's not around, but I still wear it. I feel I want to be who I am and clothes are a big part of that. Personally, I thought your dress was great, had a real 70's vibe which Iove X
ReplyDeleteI am still going to wear the dress Phil! Funny what our other halves want us to wear. I think Mr M likes me in jean best of all...bit boring though I think. And yes, he does wear some howlers himself. A negative comment can slide right off me on a good day but on a not good day it can make me feel very meh. x
DeleteMe too, I love your dress & glad that you are being rebellious in your own way! In fact that dress is on my mind & how I would love my very own version in red or green .....
ReplyDeleteMy partner is the opposite, he tells me when things REALLY suit me- which is a diplomatic way to deal with it & I am good at ignoring the silences!!!
Pppfffttt! To the brainwashing school and your husband's comment! Sounds like he was having a bad day. I always get a bit weary when I think something is too short or too low. When I ask J if it's too low he just tells me I'm asking the wrong person and laughs and says it's fine. Him laughing usually puts my mind at rest as I know he'd never laugh at me in malice.
ReplyDeleteI always get that response from Russ with everything I wear, so I just wear what I like now. Hope you have a good weekend, it may stop raining :) xxx
ReplyDeleteRecently as I was making my husband help me pin fit a bodice that did not want to fit, he said "why don't you give up trying to make dresses and just make underwear?" I'm not sure if I should take offense or not.
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