Uh, still working on that Landfill Chitchen thing so what about this Dream Bedroom?

You maybe can’t tell in this photoooo but that headboard is SILVER! I mean it is the most sparkly silver fabric you could imagine. I could not believe that The Commander bought me a sparkly silver headboard. It really wasn’t her style. But she did it anyway.

I think I moved into that room when I was about six. I slept upstairs in a bedroom next to my parents until then and I have vague memories of floral wallpaper being in that room in those days. I don’t really remember what the room was used for. I don’t *think* that The Commander’s loom was in there. Or her sewing machine. That was always upstairs in her bedroom…

Anyway, in a teensy tinesy little bungalow house on Superior Street in Sault Ste. Siberia way back in 1960 or so, this was my teensy tinesy bedroom. I remember the [persnickety] Venetian blinds better than the curtains but I know that The Comm made those. I remember that beauteous toy stove. I remember the Golden Book encyclopedia there on the shelves. We were buying those things one at a time at the grokkery store and I was *reading* them. Yes. I probably stopped at about H or whatever.

I remember that skirt (sorta). I was (and am) a weird combination of girly-girl and tomboy. I think that is a good combination to be but (alas) I wish I were better at OWNING that in my own life. Maybe more people like me speaking up and taking (ulp) leadership roles would help the world value women a bit more… I am outta words about that for now… Sigh…

That boy in my bedroom? My little brother. I guess we were playing nicely that day and The Comm or Grandroobly got a good photo.

I loved this bedroom. The Commander created it for me and it was so beautiful. Eventually it did have a sewing machine in it. One that I used to sew my own clothing when I was in high school. Was it ever messy? Yes it certainly was. But I periodically cleaned it up. There wasn’t quite enough stuff in there that it was ever all that hard to clean up.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2012 at 6:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.