I'm riding the meme train

[charlz_lynn]

Comment and I'll...

1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. (you don't have to, but shit - it's fun)

Comments

[sugarmommaless.livejournal.com]

me me me me meeeeeme!

[charlz-lynn.livejournal.com]

1. Cause I want to know you better.
2. amazing fashion and serious craftiness.
3. See above. But seriously, you're suuuper resourceful in a way I haven't seen before - all the material resourcefulness I have around me is always a little drab and junky (which I love), but your version is colorful and put together so nicely. That was long. But true.
4. Oh my god, that fucking kazoo ball gag!
5. Were the grownups in your life really crafty too?
6. Sheepy garters. yowza.

xo!

[sugarmommaless.livejournal.com]

Most of the grownups in my life were indeed crafty. I really believe that learning to do crafts is like learning a language - it helps if you learn young, if you learn multiples ones and if it's reinforced in the home.

My Grammie O was my fav adult when I was a kid cause she did crafts with me. My Grandad O had a woodshop and I was using his industrial drill press by the time I was 5 years old. Mum taught me to sew when I was <4, and I build fences and baby barns with my Dad when I was a kid. Dad also loved rug hooking and he taught me to drywall my own bedroom's ceiling when I was a teenager. My Grampy M built his own house when my dad was a newborn, but I don't think he ever did stuff for pleasure. My Grandma M was pretty much a diva and her craftiness was pretty much confined to convincing people to cook for her and in maintaining her no-roots faux auburn hair until she turned 80. I was much closer to my Mum's side of the family (the O-side) and they were really influential to me. They are the working-poor side of the family, and my Dad's family has always been middle class.

I think that the thrifty-crafty thing definitely comes from my Mum's family.

[charlz-lynn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for telling me all that, I love it!

Aaaaaah!

[sugarmommaless.livejournal.com]

I almost forgot about the Kazoo ballgag!!!

(I still have it at home.)