Card and Stuff
Posted on | August 27, 2009 | 30 Comments |
Wow, I made a card! I haven’t had a lot of craft time since I started work again last week. Actually I haven’t had a lot of time period! I walked into my craft room the other day and I was so surprised to see it nice and tidy. Even the desk was clean! It felt good making this card but boy, I’ll probably pay for it later this evening!!! So here’s a Christmas card using Dawn’s colors for this week. The card’s inspired by Moxie Fab: vintage and I think it can past for clean and simple too. What do you think?
The stuff… my poor Emma… ya know, the kid in the picture above… school’s just rough for her! I thought I had it bad when the girls use to gang up on me cause I was bi-racial but goodness, nobody ever told my daddy, right on his face, that I was ugly.
Yesterday hubby picked M up from school, the after school program to be more exact. While M was getting her backpack and stuff, this girl came up to my hubby and told him this: Your little girl has an ugly face. My husband loves kids. Kids love him too but when he heard that he automatically went into fight mode and all sorts of bad things ran into his head and if looks could kill, that little girl would have been a goner! It was his sweet little M that the girl was referring to and nobody messes with his little baby girl!!! But he didn’t do anything although he did say: It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, huh? Instead, he just looked at the teacher (who also heard and was in shock) and asked her to do something with that girl.
So my kid’s eccentric. Sometimes, when she comes downstairs her clothing choices would just shock me but she loved every bit of how she looked and that I’m cool with. She’s confident about her decisions and I’m proud of her for that (of course if she wants to wear a bikini to school I’d have a say in it but so far she’s modest… just colorful). Plus, despite her colorfulness (she reminds me of Punky Brewster) she’s not at all ugly. Nothing she wore has ever made her face look anything but beautiful. What makes her more special is that she’s also beautiful on the inside. She thinks everybody’s beautiful and she treats everybody equally.
Hopefully school will be a positive and safe place for her to learn. I hope things will get better (being slapped last week was shocking too) and if not, we’re glad that we’ll be moving soon and hope that the next school (hopefully with nuns in them!) will be better.
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OMG, i cannot believe a girl actually said that (and to an adult–your husband)!! your daughter is absolutely a cutie. i hope this doesn’t dampen her spirits. it may just make her stronger….hugs to her.
Add a Commentnice card BTW!
Your card is stunning…the ribbon and button are scrumptious. That’s so sad about what happened to your “gorgeous and beautiful” daughter. I can’t believe people still think and say things like that in our modern, enlightened age. My son is half Chinese but he was only ever thought of as a beautiful mix :) I hope she will somehow not take that ignorant comment to heart and know that she is stunningly beautiful inside and out :)
Add a CommentOh my!!!!! This is gorgeous!
Add a CommentWhat the heck?!?!?!? Your daughter is STUNNING! Course, you didn’t need me to tell you that :)
Add a CommentWhat does that child get taught (or not get taught) at home?!?!? Basic human kindness and respect clearly…. There are a lot of small minded people who only know how to belittle others – and, unfortunately, they pass it on… Conversely, there are a lot of wonderful, good people out there – I’m sure your daughter will retain her beautiful, independent, open-minded spirit and see past the awful, narrow-minded distractions.
Your card is gorgeous!
Your card is lovely!!!
Add a CommentI know kids can be really mean sometimes, but how anyone could say that about someone else is beyond me!!! I would have been tempted to smack that girl silly! Your daughter is gorgeous! Please tell her that I said that. tell her not to let mean girls bother her. I hate it when kids have to go through stuff like that. I hope things are better for you after your move.
First of all: gorgeous card. I love the color choices! Your cards are always gorgeous, though. :) Second of all: your daughter is GORGEOUS. I know it seems like a long time away, but I had issues with girls and getting along with them until last year when I went away to college. It WILL get better- girls are innately evil sometimes, and I still have no idea how to deal with them. I think the teacher needs to have a talk with that girl’s parents- what are they saying to her at home? Just keep reminding your daughter how wonderful she is and she’ll be fine. Her independent ways just show how awesome she is. :) You have one amazing daughter!
Add a CommentI’m so sad to hear how mean that little girl was to your daughter, but you know, she must be really hurting on the inside and very insecure about her own looks to say something so hateful. Anywhoo great card for Dawn’s challenge.
Add a CommentThis is cute! I think it will fit in both categories! Re: M – you already know what I think about that! England hopefully will be better. Is Montessori school an option? My sis went to one when we lived there.
Add a CommentYour beautiful card fits both challenges perfectly !
Add a CommentYour poor M ! Hopefully you can use this to teach her to be strong and that she IS beautiful inside and out. And that “different” is beautiful. I’m shocked at how cruel children can be. Where I live, mixed couples are more and more common (me being part of one!) … I think bi-racial kids are the most beautiful :)
Great job—what a lovely card! I love that scalloped punch—-MUST FIND THAT! :) Oh——kids can be SO mean—just keep loving her through it—she is so lovely, I just can’t imagine anyone saying something like that—so sorry about it—
Add a CommentHow awful!! Just makes you wonder what type of parents would raise a child like that? I hope M enjoys school and can ignore the bullies that are there.
Add a CommentLove your card, it’s beautiful! I’m so sorry to hear about Emma’s rough go at school…she is so gorgeous, that other girl is probably jealous! Wow, they start young with being mean, huh??
Add a CommentGL with the school issues!
The card is darling! I love the trim!
Add a CommentWhat a beautiful card – I love how you used the colours to make a great Christmas card!
Unfortunately kids can be so mean – your daughter is just beautiful (as you know and we can see), and I do hope that you find a great school for her over here in England.
Add a CommentThe card is the epitome of clean and simple! I love the vintage vibe!
I cannot believe anyone would say that about M! Children can really be nasty, case in point. Not to mention, this little girl needs her vision checked! M is beautiful! Please tell her to ignore the haters and celebrate her uniqueness! {{{HUGS}}}
Add a CommentI was looking at M’s photo of her with camera and was thinking how pretty she was and I could see how beautiful girl she’ll be and how much of headache your husband will have when she gets all these calls from boys, and how other girls would be jealous, and then I read the story and it broke my heart.
I went high school in Ohio and there weren’t that many Asians and I didn’t speak the language. Well, kids did mean things to me like pulling my ears in the bus or put gum on my hair or hit me, etc. But, I was in high school. Poor M~~. I am so sorry.
Add a Commentwhew…are you okay? Stuff like that ‘gets’ me…Hmmm…my ‘positive’ side says that the other little girl is probably tired from starting kindergarten but there’s that ‘other side of me’ that says a ton of other things…poor m and hubby…sigh, sometimes it is hard being a momma…
btw, gorgeous card…
Add a CommentGorgeous creation for Dawn’s challenge! Sadly I’ve had minimal creative time in the studio.
M is one of THE most gorgeous creations!
Kids can be such dingbats. I’m glad M didn’t hear the comment. I hope the teacher did something when it happened. I’d be upset too.
Add a CommentPlease send my hugs to your beautiful little girl.. I am so sorry for what she is goin’ through!
Add a CommentBefore I even read the story, I say the pic of M and thought “She’s so cute”, “She adorable”, and “She’s getting so big”. I am in awe that someone would say that about her … and to her Dad. Crazy. Yes, time to move on. Kids will do some of the most hurtful things. Glad that M is not one of them.
Love the card too. Thanks for sharing.
Add a CommentGorgeous card and your girl is gorgeous! Gotta wonder what kind of parents that other girl has to be so young and talking like that! It is terrible.
Add a CommentOh gosh! What’s wrong with kids nowadays!! Don’t they have manners?? The teacher should have told the girl’s parents about her rudeness! M is definitely beautiful! Nobody in this world is ugly. Please tell M to ignore them and soon they will stop disturbing her.
Add a CommentHi there, I arrived here via Kristina’s challenge and I read this post and felt compelled to leave a note. Firstly, your child is beautiful. She looks young, 6 maybe? You know, this kind of thing is more horrific for the grown ups. Hopefully this incident will be isolated and the kids will get on with the business of kids. I remember once my son aged five would just say whatever went through his head my to my horror. He told a good friend her baby had a pumpkin head, another little girl her rash was disgusting…I nearly died on the spot. He is 10 now and is the kindest kid out. Just remember kids work from a very basic and raw space…That child’s mother probably would freak out if she heard that. So this is an excellent “in” for the teacher to talk about difference and accpetance. Naturally this hurts you so much as a parent, my little girl has come home nursing some hurts from silly taunts and of course I want to boil the other kid in oil! LOL but hey they are kids and i am the grown up and i just help my kids learn resilliance that’s all I can do….
Don’t be sad, don’t be angry with the other camp either, just enjoy that wacky, beautiful kid
Add a Commentin the now! XXX
PS NICE CARDS!
Thanks for your respond! I really appreciate it!! Ya know, I think the kid was just not thinking. I guess kids will be kids, right? But at the same time, the kid was older. Personally she shouldn't have said such a thing. Things are back to normal again… until next time :)
Add a CommentI’m so sorry that someone said that about your beautiful daughter. What makes me sad, though, is that another little girl said this about her. She’s not being raised properly, and I don’t even understand how she would come up with that. I’m so so sorry. Please hug her. Although, I’d say the other little girl is the one in need of a hug. And some love.
Add a CommentI think you're right. The other little girl seemed to be in need of some love.
Add a CommentWow! What a beautiful card! You really nailed it!
So sorry to hear about the school situation. :(
Add a CommentDoes NOT have an ugly face at all! In fact she's adorable! cuter than ever! Kids can be so cruel! That little girls parents need a talking to! If it would have been me and a child came up to me and said this about my little one, first I would have asked her/his name then told her/him that saying something like that is not nice and that I would be contacting her parents to let them know how rude she was. Parents need to know when thier children act like this! Then I would have marched to the principles office and told him that I wanted this child to be talked to about this behavior.
It makes you wonder how her parents are, obviously they arent displaying approprite behavior in front of thier children.
Your card is so cute! before I read your post I immediately had it my head as shabby chic.
and yes it could defintely pass for clean and simple.
Great Card! CUTER than ever little girl!
Add a CommentThanks again for entering the Moxie Fab World Challenge. And everyone is beautiful, on the inside and the outside! Hugs!
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