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[jeshyr]

Migraines suck.

Usually the 'hemiplegic' part of my hemiplegic migraines is just that half my body hurts a lot. Only really bad ones like today actually mess up my movement - my left side is all clumsy and tense with spasticity and its slow when I try to move it. It has happened before and I know it'll pass so its not scary, just annoying and boring because I can't do much.

Thank the universe for audio books!! Also thank this iPhone for autocorrect - it's amazing how bad my typing can be and still correct properly!

I have been thinking of making 'spoonie' dolls out of actual spoons like the way people make peg dolls out of old fashioned pegs - good idea or crazy migraine nuttiness??

Or possibly both.

Did I tell you I am being paid actual money to crochet a burnt orange string bikini in 1970s style? I can not believe those ever came back into fashion!! I was born in 1975, so i think i am too old to see them as anything but deeply deeply uncool!! Avocado and burnt orange and macramé and crochet bikinis were still around in my early memories ... I do still like ponchos though, thus proving I was scarred for life by it all ;)

Also I am rambling. Stopping now!

R

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[acelightning]

i've seen "spoon dolls" made from wooden spoons, usually in a (faux) "Early American" style. i've also seen them done as kids' crafts, using the little flat wooden "spoons" sometimes used with individual-serving-size cups of ice cream or "Italian ice". i can see you making spoon dolls with a very different style, and i know they'd be wonderful!

crocheted bikinis have never gone out of style - they provide a way to provide the appearance of observing the nudity taboo, while literally playing peek-a-boo with the pink bits :-)
(burnt orange and avocado are out of style, though, and good riddance to both of them!)

[jeshyr]

I am thinkxing of a spoon version of these, but a bit more grown-up in the assembly I think?? I'll figure it out as I go!!

Hugs,
r

[acelightning]

i just Googled "spoon dolls" (including the quotes) - here are a few different ideas:

http://www.squidoo.com/making-a-wooden-spoon-doll
http://www.balancinghome.com/2012/08/wooden-spoon-dolls.html
http://weefolkart.com/?q=node/181

and once you start making spoon dolls, you'll never run out of spoons! :-D

*hugs*

[dragonsally]

I never did like string bikinis - ugh. I do however have a soft spot for burnt orange and avocado because those were the colours of our kitchen growing up.

I'm sorry you've had such a painful day - those migraines sound awful.

[jeshyr]

I have never been the string bikini type either, but the amount of hilarity I have got out of making this one is truly epic!

I think you are a touch older than I am?? The problem I have with burnt orange and avocado is that by the time I really have any coherent memories - early/mid eighties - it was all old and sort of shabby and mostly did not coordinate with the new 1980's-era appliances and just looked pathetic and dated and slightly laughable.

[dragonsally]

Ah yes, it did get dated. Our kitchen was all new and shiny and very trendy for the time.

[feyandstrange]

Yeah, I didn't mind the goldenrod and avocado and burnt orange stuff when I was a kid - the scary bright burnt orange Naugahyde sofa even. (Took me years to get up the nerve to ask my normally tasteful mum what was up with that. She said that recovering it in the orange was cheapest because orange was 75% off.) But when we moved into our own house in about 1984, the whole house was done in variations on that ghastly theme still, and it was not only shabby and dated but truly horrifying in spots. Avocado and cream wallpaper that looked sort of like cabbages growing crossed with mildew stains. And what was to be my bedroom - I still flinch - neon gold with neon avocado trim, and a cream shag rug with tufts of avocado, gold, and burnt orange. It came with plant hangers, and they probably held spiderplants in big macrame hangers. I think mum has finally eradicated almost all the signs of the Seventies from that house except for one miserable stucco plaster pointy ceiling, but it took years. We cheered when the harvest gold stove went to the dump, I recall. And stripping that mildew-stain wallpaper was a nightmare, but so good when we were done, kind of like ripping off a million band-aids.

[natf]

Those spoonie dolls are a great idea! I'd buy the pattern from you!