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When Crafting Goes Bad and You End Up With a Mullet

Amy — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:25:41 +0000

Ever have one of those crazy Mondays? Well, this week I did!!

My 4 year old daughter wanted to cut. I said sure and printed a preschool activity to practice cutting. She was excited to cut out a kitty world.

Minutes later I guess there was nothing left to cut… but her hair.

She cut her long, gorgeous curly hair.

Clear up to her chin and around behind her ears.

Which she then stuffed in the pocket of her brother’s chair so I wouldn’t find it.

I found it.

She is supposed to be a model at the I Heart Faces Photography Workshop next weekend.

My little girl now has a mullet. “All business in the front and a party in the back!” I love the 80′s but that’s the one thing I could do without making a comeback. Luckily her hair is curly and thick so the mullet seems to blend in pretty well. Enough that nobody notices it right away. I want it long for the photo shoot so my hair stylist said to wait until afterwards to cut it. He thinks it will grow back curly again too. Whew! We’ll pretend she has normal hair by pulling the front half back. I’ll show you before and after photos when we get it cut.

For now, I hid ALL of the scissors.

Yesterday she took something sharp and scratched up the wood on my fancy coffee table.

Does anyone have a leash I can borrow?!

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My 80′s Bulletin Board

Amy — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:56:25 +0000

Today is Friday and my day to post something fun and personal. I was hoping after visiting my family in Oklahoma for a week, I would have some funny stories to tell. But, we just got caught in a spring time blizzard… nothing fun about that!

I did venture up in my mom’s attic and to my surprise found a bag with my high school bulletin board, still intact! Apparently I couldn’t fathom throwing away my corsages. The bag was full of nasty dried out flower dust. {cough!}

I graduated in 1989, so this thing is chalked full of great 80′s memories!! LOL! You have to appreciate my 4 inch high bangs. What’s even funnier is it wasn’t just me … everyone had them! Well, only my friend Lori had good hair. Which she still does to this day:-)

Either there weren’t that many great concerts in Tulsa back then, or I just didn’t have the best taste in music?? I do remember that Cyndi Lauper concert, it was soooo much fun! I think The Bangles (They sang… Walk like an Egyptian) opened up for her. Hard to believe it was only $10. As for Poison, yes… I loved Brett Michaels. There I said it for the world to know. Please don’t think bad of me.

Here is my Rick Springfield ticket stub. The first concert my mom took me to. Ahhhh memories! If you were an 80′s child… you know you loved him too:-)

And who didn’t LOVE Top Gun?

And Dirty Dancing???? Nobody puts Baby in a corner!

Do you remember Sixteen Candles? I think it’s obvious that it was my favorite movie. Half of the bulletin board is full of notes with drawings of Long Duk Dong. I think my friend Sharon drew this. I had several talented artist friends and we would write notes in class which always included drawings of Long Duk Dong! ha! Our poor teachers.

I also noticed everything by my name said “wacky” or “goofy”. I wonder why? hee.

Here’s something you might not know about me… I was run over by a girl named Lisa driving a giant station wagon one night. You remember the kind with the wooden panels? I got out of the car before she had stopped all the way and she ran over my foot. The tire held me under the car as I screamed to the load of girls in the back seat “Tell her to BACK UP!” She then put it in drive and ran right over me. (re-enacted in this note…)

Surprisingly the only thing wrong with my foot was a big tire print on my white Keds. The doctor said if she had backed up, my ankle and foot would have been crushed. Whew! Good thing Lisa didn’t listen to me!!

Did you grow up in the 80′s?
What were your favorite movies and concerts?
Have you ever had your foot ran over?

Hope you enjoyed my 80′s bulletin board. Have a great weekend!

Love- Goofy

The biggest 80′s hair wins!!

Amy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:56:17 +0000

Thanks to everyone who participated in my BIG 80′s Hair Contest! Now remember ladies, we are laughing with you, not at you! ha ha ha!

Get ready to go back in time… Can you hear Bonjovi?

Tina from my MOPS group. This first photo cracks me up! When I asked Tina if she had big 80′s hair, she replied “They didn’t call me the wall for nothing!” ha!

Oh… I had a green metallic dress just like this! I really like your hair here… not ugly 80′s at all:-)

Tina my friend from college.

She had the biggest hair of us all by far!! She can’t win though because this photo was from the 90′s!! ha. Yes, we still tease her to this day about it. I’m on the far left and my bangs are still pretty high several years after the big hair fad, so I can’t tease too much:-)

Below are fellow bloggers. Please visit their sites to see what they look like now!

Some bloggers you may already know, like this pretty mama…

Julia @ Hooked on Houses

She was rocking that perm!!! ha!

Cheryl @ Down in the Bog

I think she was ultra cool back in the day! Cheryl, you’re the only one without a perm… so you were way ahead of your time:-)

Dot @ Dot’s Spot

Wow! Look at those tight curls!! I love that dark red hair! You look the exact same now, just minus the perm:-)

Angie @ The Arthur Clan

OMG! Angie, your hair is not the biggest, but it sure made me laugh the hardest!!! ha! The funniest, was her son looked at the pictures and said “Look at that funny boy!” and then (even better) “That funny boy is wearing a dress!” Hysterical:-)

Susan @ Blessed Nonetheless

This was one of her beautiful model shots. I think she’s making us all look bad:-)

Just in case you missed my big hair photo…

And now for the winners…

Yes! There are two winners!! I just couldn’t decide. So both of you lovely big haired ladies get some Starbucks on me.

Bella @ Bella Casa

These bangs are so high, it looks like you sort of have a mohawk!! Love the glasses… I had them in white! ha. The future’s so bright… I gotta wear shades. (80′s song reference for you young ones:-)

KayVonne

This hair you had going on as a bride’s maid has to be the biggest thing!! Oh, and it was swooped to one side. ha!

Here she is on the far left. Classic 80′s group hair! ha.

These guys look like they are from Karate Kid!! She was a black eyed pea, but the drug store developed the film backwards. Remember film people? Now this is some BIG hair!!! It’s not only tall, but WIDE! ha!

Bella and KayVonne please email me your address and I’ll get your gift card in the mail.

Again, thanks to all of you for making my Wednesday so much fun!!!

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Greekfest

Amy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:34:25 +0000

Ever since my first trip to Europe in the late 90′s, I have been in love with Greek food! We were in Amsterdam, of all places, where all we ate was Greek! ha. The feta, the olives, the spinach. I don’t know how to pronounce all the things I love, but they are so tasty. So, I’m very excited to celebrate my birthday at the local Greekfest this weekend. The food is a plenty, let me tell ya!

Besides all the food, you get to experience some of the Greek culture. Cooking instructions, music and kids from Greek school doing their dances. Scenes right out of one of my favorite movies!

I’ll also be getting out the Halloween decorations. Fun! As you probably noticed, my web site design has changed for the season. Download my free scrapbook kit to create your own Halloween header!

Hope you all have a great weekend. Don’t forget to look for your BIG 80′s hair photos! You have until Tuesday to enter to win a Starbucks gift card.

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