girl number twenty: Summer Sweet

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Summer Sweet

Sometimes you're lucky. Sometimes tomorrow is rainbow day at music camp and your Mom happens to have a pillowcase with a rainbow on it at home.

Sometimes you're lucky.

9 comments:

Amy said...: Lucky indeed! I had a pillowcase just like that when I was a kid and last year when my parents moved my mom found it and gave it to me - I've been saving it for just the right project - maybe a quilt for one of the kids...; 23 July 2009 at 06:48
Ghostface Knittah said...: That is one seriously stylin' kid.; 23 July 2009 at 09:02
HMaas said...: Wow - how cute does she look - what a lucky girl for sure!; 23 July 2009 at 09:22
karyn said...: who wouldn't want a rainbow skirt? that is the cutest!; 24 July 2009 at 20:44
Anonymous said...: Best pillow case skirt I've seen!; 27 July 2009 at 05:44
cloth.paper.string said...: oh goodness. fantastic!!!; 2 August 2009 at 00:08
hanna said...: just found your blog via cloth.paper.string, LOVE the skirt,I could do with one of those myself :); 31 August 2009 at 23:12
Unknown said...: Sweetie, it's really time to find a way to write down your big (and growing) news ... And it's a great excuse to sit down and think things out for a bit, specifically the happy things. Especially the happy things.

Love ya, babe.; 28 November 2009 at 21:46
serendipity and kate said...: I love the photo's on your blog :); 9 March 2010 at 21:24

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*and hence, the name

'Now, I'll try you again. Suppose you were going to carpet a room. Would you use a carpet having a representation of flowers upon it?'

There being a general conviction by this time that 'No, sir!' was always the right answer to this gentleman, the chorus of No was very strong. Only a few feeble stragglers said Yes; among them Sissy Jupe.

'Girl number twenty,' said the gentleman, smiling in the calm strength of knowledge.

Sissy blushed, and stood up.

'So you would carpet your room -- or your husband's room, if you were a grown woman, and had a husband -- with representations of flowers, would you,' said the gentleman. 'Why would you?'

'If you please, sir, I am very fond of flowers,' returned the girl.

'And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots?'

'It wouldn't hurt them, sir. They wouldn't crush and wither if you please, sir. They would be the pictures of what was very pretty and pleasant, and I would fancy --'

'Ay, ay, ay! But you mustn't fancy,' cried the gentleman, quite elated by coming so happily to his point. 'That's it! You are never to fancy.'

'You are not, Cecilia Jupe,' Thomas Gradgrind solemnly repeated, 'to do anything of that kind.'

- from "Hard Times" (chapter two) by Charles Dickens