She makes so much effort to bring out their creativity, and it always feels like her children have plenty of breathing room to blossom into their Own True Selves--whether that means her son wants to wear Hello Kitty socks and carry a baby doll named Tom, or her daughter wants to skateboard while on a royal-wedding-weekend-getaway.
"I, however, love problems like this. These are the challenges in life that don't really matter and are just begging to be solved creatively."Yes. Some challenges don't really matter.
Pink also takes beautiful photos...
And is just so durned quirky, sarcastic and down to earth, that though you'd love to hate her for being so talented, and such a great parent, and having such great taste... bahhhhh you CAN'T!!! Look at her! Cute! Quirky! She made a sweater with pom-poms on it!!
And speaking of talented, the reason for all this netluvs is that I wanted to celebrate her publishment: Her pattern for a bridal caplet was published in Love of Knitting magazine. Yays!!! <--I don't make knitting patterns so I can afford to be generous and unjealous. Yays!!!
But I don't knit, so I can't run out and buy the magazine and be supportive. So I'm posting it in case it inspires someone else. I presume one can change the color and--amazing!--no longer just a bridal caplet. Eez cute non? Eez cute.
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It's definitely cute. I don't knit either.
I love people like this. Living their lives as they please without fear or concern for what other people think of them.
Thanks for sharing.
I also love people with this much confidence .. but to be fair re Judy,Judy,Judy's comment - I think we all live with "concern" at some level about what others think - it's inbred in our genes.
But thanks to good parenting, and other factors (the old nurture vs. nature stuff) some of us are able to draw our lines in healthier places than others. They are able to give themselves wider horizons wherein to enjoy life ... ? non?
Verification Wordgame: meners -- what a gud parrent helps yu git but they wernt mutch help with spellink...?
Dad you're starting to sound like me. I would say that while the instinct to care what others think of us, and to blend in, is a good survival instinct, and especially good for us as individuals; the stronger instinct in some to try new things, to push the boundaries a bit, is what helps the species, or on the nurture plane--the society. Hence John Stuart Mill's defense of eccentrics. Interestingly, though good parenting can be conducive to a healthy level of caring less what others think of you (as opposed to sociopathic levels), it's not specifically conducive to acting more as an individual, going against the grain, pushing the boundaries etc. The tortured artist and all that. Hmm. Interesting.
And then... there's just the cute caplet.
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