Tuesday
Jun232009
26 things.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 5:58PM
1. Once upon a time.
2. There was a girl named Yarnista.
3. She was one of those right-brained creative types who always liked to make things.
4. She made bagels.
5. The recipe said to boil them in a large stock pot of water before baking them.
6. The bagels tasted vaguely like hockey pucks.
7. She made bookmarks.
8. The bookmarks were constructed of two layers of posterboard suspended between a sheet of self-adhesive contact paper.
9. She painted abstract watercolor designs on each bookmark before applying the plastic.
10. A stint selling the bookmarks door to door proved worthwhile; she made $50 in one weekend.
11. Not bad for an eleven year old selling fifty cent bookmarks around the neighborhood.
12. Her mom didn't know about her endeavor until it was completed.
13. It's easy to hide things from your mom when all you do are quiet things like, "painting in your room" and "going out for a little walk."
14. Yarnista decided watercolor painting was her thing and asked her mom to sign her up for an evening class.
15. The watercolor painting instructor did not agree that watercolor painting was her thing.
16. The watercolor painting instructor didn't know that Yarnista had already made big money on her paintings.
17. Take that, watercolor painting instructor.
18. Yarnista now paints things professionally.
19. Things like yarn -- maybe you've seen her work around town.
20. In 2nd grade art class, she was given a sheet of plastic mesh, some brightly colored yarn, and a large plastic needle.
21. She stitched I Love You onto the plastic mesh.
22. Except she ran out of room and the U had to be bumped to the line below.
23. Her dad hung it in his garage workshop anyway.
24. The end.
25. Thank you.
26. P.S. Yarnista grew up in Midwest America, where people say Thank You and Sorry About That and No, You First compulsively.
Thank you.
2. There was a girl named Yarnista.
3. She was one of those right-brained creative types who always liked to make things.
4. She made bagels.
5. The recipe said to boil them in a large stock pot of water before baking them.
6. The bagels tasted vaguely like hockey pucks.
7. She made bookmarks.
8. The bookmarks were constructed of two layers of posterboard suspended between a sheet of self-adhesive contact paper.
9. She painted abstract watercolor designs on each bookmark before applying the plastic.
10. A stint selling the bookmarks door to door proved worthwhile; she made $50 in one weekend.
11. Not bad for an eleven year old selling fifty cent bookmarks around the neighborhood.
12. Her mom didn't know about her endeavor until it was completed.
13. It's easy to hide things from your mom when all you do are quiet things like, "painting in your room" and "going out for a little walk."
14. Yarnista decided watercolor painting was her thing and asked her mom to sign her up for an evening class.
15. The watercolor painting instructor did not agree that watercolor painting was her thing.
16. The watercolor painting instructor didn't know that Yarnista had already made big money on her paintings.
17. Take that, watercolor painting instructor.
18. Yarnista now paints things professionally.
19. Things like yarn -- maybe you've seen her work around town.
20. In 2nd grade art class, she was given a sheet of plastic mesh, some brightly colored yarn, and a large plastic needle.
21. She stitched I Love You onto the plastic mesh.
22. Except she ran out of room and the U had to be bumped to the line below.
23. Her dad hung it in his garage workshop anyway.
24. The end.
25. Thank you.
26. P.S. Yarnista grew up in Midwest America, where people say Thank You and Sorry About That and No, You First compulsively.
Thank you.
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Reader Comments (8)
So there, watercolor instructor!! We all know you are a true artist!
But it sounds like I better watch my 11 year old daughter closely - she loves hanging out in her room, and going for walks.... ;)
I love that photo of Pewter Amethyst. I want to marry it.
Your musings are truly delightful!
So that's why I am polite- I'm from the Midwest. hee hee
Glad you followed your heart and not advice from people who don't know how to encourage talent, not defeat it. :-)))
27. And the girl also secretly conducted a phone survey of a couple hundred people, politely asking them if they a. believed in the Loch Ness Monster, b. did not believe in the Loch Ness Monster, or c. weren't sure what they believed about the Loch Ness Monster, then graph-charted her groundbreaking results on a large poster board and presented her findings to her family at dinner one night.
MOOOOO-OM! I was saving that story! JEEEESH!
I love Yarnista stories. And I really love Yarnista's Mom comments :-)
What Allison said. ;-)
FWIW, I make bagels all the time and discovered that the secret is not to boil them for very long. Don't have my trusted recipe handy, but I believe I do them for something like 20 seconds on each side. Drain, then bake.
I'm another one of those right-brained creative types. Unfortunately, I never was able to find an outlet that actually allowed me to make a living. But I'm sure glad that you did!