The quest for night time wares and the perfect bedroom colours
Ever since I became a parent, I have been dreaming of perfect pajamas, a quest that has amped up to include bed covers and pillow cases-the mint coloured rhino pillow cases that sold out at sunday morning designs were quite awesome. I did buy a nana nightie from Mr Sparrow, which arrived in the mail today. It looks amazingly similar to the design by Amy for Vitalstatix Theatre!
The parcels were so nicely wrapped in old fashioned brown paper, tied with string. It's like 1950s waiting for books to arrive in the monthly posting out by the state library (as my mother experienced). Mum brought back perfect pajamas from Vietnam, toddler size: mint green, cuffed legs, and a screen print of Ho Chi Minh's house. The Kid wants to wear them all the time, fetches them out of washing.
It being super hot, I have spent much time being converted to the online shopping world. I could see this quickly becoming epic, it starts with ordering the back catalogue of the Muppets on DVD, and then you're ordering an entire vision for a kids room (as happened to my friend Meg). Fortunately I'm happy with all my opshop finds for his room, and once I can think of a colour to paint Grandad's chest of drawers he gave me, I'll be set. Yellow? Hot pink? Hot pink with one drawer in violet blue? I keep looking at the colours in the room already: one doona is a mass of rectangles in blue, green, jade, aqua and purple. (Truth be told, I like it better than my real doona cover). The other one is a dark purple red cover, with many stripes: pink, yellow, blue, white, ochre. Then we have a mexican style coloured throw rug, a blanket box (thanks again Grandad) with a padded Mad Men era pebble grey top.
Anyway, I think if I were to design/make pajamas, I would like them purple (a blue purple, half strength), and a little two tone design on the top only. Cuffed legs, long john style. Plain round neck on the top, like the prison windcheater Hugh Jackman wore in Corelli. Maybe I should rethread up my sewing machine? And find a more pliable sewing teacher than Nana (who had some very clear rules, or my Year 8 teacher who wouldn't let us sew our own projects until we'd completed the assignment.
In other news, it has now been 7 days in a row that I've got out of the dishes....
The parcels were so nicely wrapped in old fashioned brown paper, tied with string. It's like 1950s waiting for books to arrive in the monthly posting out by the state library (as my mother experienced). Mum brought back perfect pajamas from Vietnam, toddler size: mint green, cuffed legs, and a screen print of Ho Chi Minh's house. The Kid wants to wear them all the time, fetches them out of washing.
It being super hot, I have spent much time being converted to the online shopping world. I could see this quickly becoming epic, it starts with ordering the back catalogue of the Muppets on DVD, and then you're ordering an entire vision for a kids room (as happened to my friend Meg). Fortunately I'm happy with all my opshop finds for his room, and once I can think of a colour to paint Grandad's chest of drawers he gave me, I'll be set. Yellow? Hot pink? Hot pink with one drawer in violet blue? I keep looking at the colours in the room already: one doona is a mass of rectangles in blue, green, jade, aqua and purple. (Truth be told, I like it better than my real doona cover). The other one is a dark purple red cover, with many stripes: pink, yellow, blue, white, ochre. Then we have a mexican style coloured throw rug, a blanket box (thanks again Grandad) with a padded Mad Men era pebble grey top.
Anyway, I think if I were to design/make pajamas, I would like them purple (a blue purple, half strength), and a little two tone design on the top only. Cuffed legs, long john style. Plain round neck on the top, like the prison windcheater Hugh Jackman wore in Corelli. Maybe I should rethread up my sewing machine? And find a more pliable sewing teacher than Nana (who had some very clear rules, or my Year 8 teacher who wouldn't let us sew our own projects until we'd completed the assignment.
In other news, it has now been 7 days in a row that I've got out of the dishes....
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