totally not art..

okay.. so this post has nothing to do about art.. or creating or anything special like that.. lol

but I was going through some old photos this week for a project my daughter needed and I came across some photos of me when I was a kid and just thought that it would be fun to share.. for no absolute reason at all.. but to share.. lol

so this is a picture of my family.. my parents and my 6 brothers and sisters .. right before my parents divorced (I was 7.. don't know the year)..

I am totally loving both my parents VERY large glasses.. I actually think those are back in style! lol. I am pretty sure you can guess which one I am. The only blond one. Hence the nickname from my dad.. Blondie. That house is actually around the corner from where I live currently.. so many good memories in that house.

Love this picture simply because its me, my mom and my sister tia. Love love love it.

 

This is a classic picture! this was when the twins (my two younger sisters) were babies and with my great grandparents, the woods. Look at the cheesy smile. lol I always so enjoyed going to my grandparents houses. My Grandpa had horses and we used to go into the horse barn and steal the sugar cubes and eat them. We'd wouldn't even suck on them.. just down right eat them! lol. SO bad.

This picture brings back SO many memories.. holy cow.. the three of us (my sister Tia, and my cousin Melissa).. getting into to SO much trouble as kids and young adults. I remember the time we all laid out on the trampoline in junior high and used Crisco oil on our bodies so we could be super tan for school that started in a week!  I luckily didn't stay out very long.. that was back when I hated being hot (now I love it).. well my Tia and Melissa stayed out WAY too long and ended up getting 3rd degree burns everywhere from the crisco and the sun!  TOTALLy not fun.. but it was kinda funny. and where the heck are my pants? really?

I'm only showing this picture because seriously? did I not every comb my hair when I was a kid? Oh and there is another funny story behind this picture. We were called the Red hots team.. and at the end of the year to celebrate (i don't think we won very much but still we celebrated).. we had a sleepover at our coaches house (yea that probably doesn't happen much anymore lol).  Anyhow i thought it would be super funny to take the red hots that someone had brought and put them all over my face and be the "red hot" mascott. Yeah well.. that pretty much turned out like my sister tanning with Crisco. It not only burned my face.. it turned it right and was itchy and sore for days! I seriously did some pretty dumb things growing up! lol

Okay.. sorry this picture isn't bigger. Maybe you can click on it to make it larger. But seriously? Yep that's me in the middle. Acid wash shirt and acid wash jeans.. pegged to perfection with the white bootie socks and white canvas shoes. I had a thing for fashion growing up. I watched all those movies like Pretty in Pink, Some kind of Wonderful, Can't buy me love.. you name it and I planned my school shopping according to what outfits I wanted to buy to look just like those movie characters. That white and black sweater is actually mine (that tia is wearing) and that outfit was based off a outfit that the girl in Can't by me love wore. OH and don't forget about that hair!

don't know if that is any better lol

anyhow.. that's pretty much it. If I looked hard in my boxes of pictures I know I have one that you would OH so love. My hair is about 5 " off my head (my bangs are).. and I am wearing pretty much the same shirt and broach (right at my neckline) where the girl from Some Kind of Wonderful wore in that movie. Seriously funny. Maybe I stalked movies.. who knows!

Anyhow.. kinda of a fun little post.. thanks for letting me share! 


 

Comments

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[PAINTEDPICTURECRAFTARTIST]

pretty sure I had an acid washed outfit just like that, and my hair was very Bon Jovi, I got so many compliments! LOL

[Danette Munn]

Let's face it!!!!! Being a teen in the mid to late 80's was TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!!!! Nothing beats our music, fashion, and movies (especially with the "Brat Pack")!!!!!! I so totally love the acid wash denim "suit" you are wearing!!!!LOL I think we all had them!!!

[Sharon Gullikson]

I loved this blog post. I've never read any of yours before---I was just googling you because I saw your beige paper with the dresses on it (tissue?) and it's just adorable. Anyway, I found this blog, and loved reading it and seeing the old photos. Your parents' big old glasses remind me of some photos of my husband and me. Our daughter, 26, loves the photos--- I HATE THEM. But she gets a kick out of them, so I guess I won't burn them...I loved reading about how you used to be feisty, etc. Will you be teaching a class at the next Winter CHA? I'd love to take it if so....

[nicole austin]

awesome! thanks for the trip down memory lane! :) acid wash jeans! why did we ever wear them? ;) i even had an acid wash jean book bag! and the slouchy socks and canvas shoes and big bangs, too!

[Anna Sandén]

I could spend hours looking through old photos, family ones are especially fun!

I have been inspired of your "She art". Look in my blog :)

[Larissa Heskett =)]

OMG!! You are TOO CUTE!! I LOVE hearing your FUNNY stories!! If you think about it though if you wouldn't have been SO EXPERIMENTAL you probably wouldn't be such an AMAZING artist!! =) I can only imagine how BAD the Red Hots on your face FELT!! I'm sure your kids will LOVE reading ng your blog when they are older!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!!
P.S your twin sisters look alot like you (now)!! Esp. in the First photo you shared!! Have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)

[Kelly W.]

HA!!! I LOVE the denim :) What great pics. It's so fun, isn't it to go through old photos. What gems!!!

[Sharon Osborn]

LOVE it! We fondly call the bangs 5" off our forehead, "THE CLAW"...hey-we should make a She-art of them!!!

[Joanne Freeman]

These photos are awesome. I don't even know you but I loved looking at these. Might just have to go and dig out some of mine now. Thanks for sharing.

[Leslie]

I LOVED my acid wash jean jacket!! And Some Kind of Wonderful is my FAVE movie!!

[Pat Healey]

Those were great - what wonderful memories. You are so blessed. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[Donna L]

How fun, I could spend hours looking through old photos, family ones are especially fun. Can you believe we wore such goofy stuff? Right out of flashdance that last outfit!! Thanks for sharing, I got a giggle out that.

[nancy Johnston]

Wow, your parents divorced with 7 kids?
That had to have been insane! You seem to have weathered really well, but I think large families do better.

[Liane Townsend]

So much fun Christy! Wish I had known you then and gotten in lots of trouble with you. LOL

[Lisa Ciaravino]

How fun......thanks for sharing the memories

[Sandra]

it's so much fun to look back on old photos. didn't we all do really dumb stuff growing up? i know i did too! youre not alone. LOL

[Sue W]

My grandfather raised cattle, so there was alway salt in his barn. I'd eat the salt like you ate the horse's sugar!