Self-Image

[liralen]

It's oddly deflating to have someone come up to you and go. "Ooooo! What a wonderful skirt, where did you get it? I'd love to get one of those for my daughter!"

Am I dressing too young? Hmph.

It's oddly surprising and inflating to have a couple of the professional artists at the church ask me to go to a six hour workshop with a silk painter to create banners for the new sanctuary. They really want me to paint for them! Meep, though they did mention that they hadn't quite engineered how to hang them, yet. *grin* That certainly has changed my self-image...

... talking to Mom about the fact that they'd asked me was pretty cool, too. The workshop is during their visit here, and Mom saw it as an opportunity to have a bit more time with Jet. So that was good, too.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Probably the dressing-tall, then. Sort of thing my mom'd have to do, see -- I'm some 3 inches taller than she is, and slightly more ectomorphic. Stuff that I can wear, she wouldn't want to. O:>

Or might simply be someone who thinks her kid doesn't have enough clothes and/or she herself has too many clothes, so when she wants something new, she has to make a gift of it. (*beth gives the kid-section of the mall a dubious look and forces herself to edge away from the pretty and the cute and the simply nice-colored*)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Excellent points. *hugs*