Graph paper

 (dress: vintage TRINA LEWIS & MARJON COUTURE from Number 24, Frinton; belt: Primark; shirt: White Stuff; Tights: Tescos; Shoes: Asda)

The last time I wore this dress was here. It's fun to wear things in different ways to make it seem like a whole new dress! I made a work colleague a pair of yellow multi-button earrings for Christmas as I'd given her a yellow cardigan of mine (it never made it onto the blog- I couldn't bear wearing yellow.  My tolerance only goes as far as mustard) and she said she could only wear them together and I discovered that she has set items that she always and only  wears together in certain combinations.  I tried to advise her (rather like a clothes version of Yoda) about the ways of the blog-remix and the trying of certain combinations together!

Here I took the tie-waist band of the dress and wore it in my hair as a headband and used the bow-belt instead and matched the shoes.  White patterned material shoes in the wetwinter time= BAD BAD move!  They were soggy and mud-encrusted on my way home!!

Blog title refers to the dress pattern.  How nice it would be to embroider lines on it and axes at various angles to make it really graph paper!

I've started a bit of a 'cartoon bag' epidemic at school.  One of my rather straight-laced colleagues really likes it and is determined to buy the orange satchel version for herself.  She then tried to convince the rest of the staff room that they all need one too. They all said it wasn't her (she is very stylish in a classic, safe way and doesn't really do quirky).  I said not to put her into a box, which she was grateful for!  Hee hee!

This afternoon I took Reception over to the library for their library session which involves reading them a story.  I chose one called Giddy the Goat.  I am always a bit OTT with reading stories to children- I will do regional accents, animal voices, gestures, actions, and all sorts of little explanations (we had Hairy McLary later with a Glaswegian accent that descended into some other accent a couple ot times).  At the end, one of the nursery-nurses asked me if I had worked in reception before (well, apart from cover, not really) and said I read it really well and had a really nice way with them which you could tell because they sat there enraptured for the whole 10 minutes!  How nice that was- I was so touched, really touched.  Because, it means so much to me when someone says something like that. I do spend a lot of time thinking the TAs must think I am completely off my rocker or not very good (a little case of paranoia!) so it means the world to me when someone says something off the cuff like that.  Which makes me think- it's totally worth making the effort to find something nice to say about someone- because it really does make their day.  So, I am going to ensure I share a little love each day like that! How about you?