In my pre-child days I swore that if I had girls I would never dress them in pink. (I also swore my babies would never wear things with ears on them (we know how THAT ended up), because, gosh darn it, babies with animal ears are just too darn cute. And if anything, the world needs more cute.)
But yes, pink. Pink was girly. Pink was Barbie. Pink was the princess that waited patiently for her prince charming.
But when my girls came along I realized that it wasn’t about the colour, it was about the person wearing it. It was around this time that pink became one of my favourite colours too. Pink can be challenging. Pink can be subversive. Pink is strong enough to give all the other colours the finger. Pink is a lot more fun than the range of neutrals adults tend to wear. We have embraced The Pink.
We have so much pink around here that I do a separate load of shades of pink – a whole rainbow of reds, purples, salmon, fuchsia, rose and coral. It makes for a happy sight on the laundry line.
The last song I listened to was …
I went in looking for a glass goldfish bowl to make a second terrarium but didn’t find one.
Law of Thrift Shopping no. 1 states: if you’re looking for something specific, you won’t ever find it.
But I did find some good stuff (photos to come!) including a black rain coat, formerly from Old Navy. It is perfect, exactly what I wanted, and it looks fabulous on me, but I have a feeling the sleeves are a smidge too short. (Please tell me this is something that I could take to my tailor and have fixed!) I also bought a small lidded glass jar to hold my collection of paper stars, which are being bequeathed to Sarah.
Little known fact: ValVill can very good for table linens. I was looking for a new tablecloth (the First Law of Thrift held true here as well) but found a set of nice placemats and two (embroidered/unused!) cloth hankies instead.
I was having good luck here. I continued walking along the rack, seeing with my hand more than with my eyes, when I suddenly felt something that was much too soft to be in the Bed and Bath section. It was a lovely cream-coloured pashmina/silk shawl. For $2.99 it had to come with me.
A pretty good day, don’t you think?
