Senior pictures

Well, I just looked at this thread.

Very interesting!
I haven't figured out how to scan pictures into the computer. Need to learn that.Then I could post a 1958 picture of me. This April I went to Modesto California to my 50 year high school reunion!

about half the class showed up. One of the guys came who had not been in touch with any of us for 30 years! It is so neat to get back in touch with someone you knew years and years ago! He is keeping in touch with some of us now.

You all talked about sewing. Yes, I made clothes for my 2 sons when they were little. Made a few clothes for myself, but find it is too hard to fit a pattern to myself!
And then there are the Barbie dolls! I made Barbie doll clothes 35 years ago for one of my neices before velcro was avaiable to the public. Used it for 'zippers' . Had to order it out of a rehab catalog!
No fabric store had it , let alone knew what it was!
She loved the 'zippers' and wore out the clothes!
There was another niece that I also made Barbie doll clothes for.
Just after her 10th birthday, her mother informed me IO was a little late with Barbie doll clothes, that the dolls had been put away! Shelly was devastated! She still liked getting the clothes for her dolls!

5 is a good age to start making BArbie doll clothes for little girls. Some of the girls stop playing with dolls at 9 or 10 years old.

I have been making Barbie doll clothes again - for 3 years, for my granddaughter. She just turned 8 in April. She gets a box of them at
Christmas and then again for her birthday. Has oddles of them.
some are fancy ones .

Time fo me to be quiet ...I have said too much!!

You sound like an expert on Barbie clothes. ^_^ Good stories.

Cute thread! My old photos are somewhere in the attic. But I was class of 1976, long straight hair, parted in the middle. Ouch.
I was a total seamstress! I started sewing pretty young and was making clothes by 8th grade. I did all kinds of needlework, too. Embroidery and crosstitch. I made myself a long jeans skirt out of a pair of jeans and embroidered a copy of cover of Cat Steven's album 'Teaser and the Firecat' on the front. I still have the needlework.
My mom and grandmother were both seamstresses, a skill that I fear is dying out among the younger people. It's actually more expensive to make clothes than to buy them today. Sad. I made clothes for both my children, as well as dolls and dollclothes. Mom made barbie clothes for me, and doll clothes for my baby dolls, too. One year I made my daughter the cutest flannel nightgown, and made her doll a matching one. She loved it. I feel old when I write about this. I better stop.

My mother, I think was born a seamstress. She could do anything and put me through 2 years of sewing classes, Which I can do what needs to be done in repairing, but something I do not really like to do. Love to do Needle point and Crocheting and embroidery.

More of old dolls.

Pixydish, you made me think of having to take Home Ec in High School. The first thing in sewing was a gym bag and I was already making my own clothes. Cooking was a bigger joke, the first thing was hot chocolate and cinnamon toast, I was pretty much doing the meals for six by then. Mom told me what to start after school and I did it before she got home from work. I took a needlework class for fun, finished all the requireds in the first couple of weeks and got to make whatever I wanted the rest of the time. Now I don't think they even offer those classes. And yes, I agree that it's sad about it being more expensive to make clothes today.

This thread is a you know your old if... you can remember having to take Home Ec...lol Class of '72! Board straight hair shoulder length parted straight down the middle, big bell Levi's, toe ring sandals and a pink sleeveless top...that is what I wore for my Senior year picture. In Arizona the pictures were taken in the summer just before your Senior year and it was just too hot to dress up.

I used to love to sew, crochet, knit, needlepoint and embroidery. We had to make a blouse for our first project and I chose one that was fitted with darts from the waist to the breast...lol I only quit the needle work in the last couple of years...when the eyes can't count for cross stitch or you can't tell how long the last stitch was, it is time to put down the needle before you poke yourself...lol
I made my own doll clothes with a needle and thread and no patterns, I even crochet a mini dress for my Twiggy doll. I have some of my Liddle Kiddle dolls and a lot of my baby dolls, I gave all my Barbie dolls to a niece many years ago and she loved them.

I love growing things because it is a hobby I can see...haha I love cleaning house...well not really but I am a neat freak to some degree, so yes I love to clean and cook too!

This walk down memory lane has been fun, thanks Willowwind.

NO, home ec is no longer offered :o(

although sewing and crotcheting live on! LOL!
I taught my 11 yo son how to quilt a pillow (I was making a quilt for my DGS) and then he learned how to crochet. He crotcheted himself a cell phone holder complete with a long strap to wear it around his shoulder, then promptly hid it in his drawer cause its 'uncool' for a boy to sew and crotchet! lol!

Hi all! Class of '73 for me! Bend Sr High School. Graduated exactly 35 yrs ago this coming Sat. I was the very first one to graduate in my family. VERY PROUD to say I started a TRADITION! I have a pic, but can't remember where it is. Hid it away yrs ago! LOL! So here's a pic of DH and I at the Trailblazer game on Mar. 15th.
Susan

Susan, you're trying to tell us you are in your 50's? I don't THINK so!!! You are gorgeous and youthful! (DH ain't bad either!)

Oneanjl, love the son/crochet story!

Sally & Carla, back in the late 50's when I took my first sewing class, our projects were aprons - I struggled through that, then through a blouse. Really wasn't my cup of tea until after my first child was born (I was still in my teens, but had new priorities!).

OH, home ec, Miss Kemper, North Kitsap High School. Flannel PJ's. Loved it. Cooking not so much. Don't do it anymore either.

I was into music, theater, and swimming. Didn't take home ec, didn't sew, cook, knit, crochet, or anything like that. Neither did my mom, who was a single parent often working 2-3 jobs. G'ma and G'pa, with whom we lived, owned a bar-be-que so she didn't do anything domestic around the house either. Great g'pa and great g'ma also lived in the house for a while...it was cool living in an extended family of 4 generations. Great g'ma did sew but mostly repairs and didn't make many items. She did bake up a storm though. *sigh* I feel I missed out on the whole home ec thing but since DH loves to cook, it's all good... = )

lol, I detest cooking and housecleaning... but my DH loves it! lol! perfect pair! I love to bake, specially during the holidays... and he loves that!


Here's our pix from my 20th H.S reunion.... :o)

the baby pillow my 11 yo son sewed :o)

Thank you for the HUGE compliments Murmur, but yes I AM in my 50's. 53 to be exact. I think it's in my genes and also good clean farm life! ^_^ DH also claims it's my hair.
Susan

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wow susan, is that your garden today? I was watching your thread before.... and its really changed! (at least I think it was your thread! lol)

Class of '89 here. I had to scan this from an album because I can't find my others, so it's not very good quality.

I wonder why I had that dumb smirk on my face?

This message was edited May 29, 2008 7:39 PM

Yeah, that's one of them. I have two areas that I garden. One is mostly roses and perennials and the other in the above pic is south of the house with raspberries, elder berries, shrubs, flowers and a flowering plum (pictured). The thread you're speaking of is "I can't wait till my garden looks like this again"! That's the one with the progressive pics.
Susan

It doesn't look like you have a smirk! It's a very nice pic!^_^
Susan

Thank you, Susan. ^_^

You are very welcome! ^_^
Susan

MGH, you have a lovely, sweet smile - beautiful girl!

And Carla & DH, another stunning couple . . . and here I thought we were all just gardeners with dirt on our faces.

So great to put faces (and histories) with names (or handles LOL).

Okay, my DH had this image of us stored on his computer. I am probably 21, he is 19. Yes, I robbed the cradle. These were the 'Jesus' years. This was back when my parents had him confused with Jesus.
Come to think of it, I'm not sure they ever figured out that he isn't Jesus.

This photo was taken in Evanston, Wyoming, before we were married.

Great photo, Pixy! ^_^

Oh Pix . . . that is so Kuh-YOOT!

Wow Pix. He looks like my Son did in 1985, but not a red head. LOL
"Rock On" You look cute to.
^_^

Very stylish couple Pixy! ^_^ You Rock!

Pixy, neither of you have changed a bit!!

Oh Murmur! You doll! Back then, that color was natural. And there was no grey in Mike's hair. (Still none in mine, of course.)

Of course! (Snicker, snicker)

It's amazing how we women seem to grey much later than the men do . . . ;-)

lol, yes katie I agree. I went to my 20 yr reunion... I recognized all the women there...and they all recognized me....but the men? they were all bald or grey and put on weight... only one man looked the same as he did in highschool... or at least recognizable.... the rest no one could ID! LOL!

I don't call it 'grey' anyway. I call it 'platinum blonde'. ;)

The last reunion I ever went to (or will go to), a woman said to me, "I don't remember you being so blonde." I replied, "Well, I guess some turn grey as they age and some turn blonde." She was so catty. I'm in touch with most of the ones I was closest to, so no need to go somewhere looking for insults! LOL

Instead of a class reunion, we have a theater/music reunion every 5 years. All the people involved in music and theater from1965-1975, the years our theater teacher was there. Always a lot of fun and "drama," but no cattiness because we were all strange and unusual (and still are!). Lot more fun than trying to lose 20 pounds, dressing up all fancy, and pretending to remember all those people from a graduating class of nearly 700 kids. The people with whom we reunite are all people we hung with, played with, and basically spent all our time with so we all remember each other quite well. And no sniping at all.

Well, I can't really relate to any of it. I graduated in 1976 and i never saw anyone from my class again. As a military kid, that was just the way it was. Can't say that I ever missed anyone from highschool, either. I know people who go to all of their reunions, even if they are on the other side of the country. But I've never felt a longing to go back.
Sort of like how my DH is from a small town in Tennessee and everyone still knows him there. He stops and talks to his old kindergarten teacher whenever we go back. Even people he didn't grow up with know 'who he is'. It makes me feel a little bit claustrophobic but he is used to it. He's never mentioned wanting to go back for a reunion, but possibly that's because the only people he really hung with have moved away from the town.

I still live in the area where I went to high school, I attended a private school for the first three years and then the school closed and I had to spend my senior year at the public school which was in the neighboring town and I was bitterly disappointed to not be able to finish at the Catholic school and to this day when I get reunion notices I just toss em, I have no interest from the public school. So we all have such varied experiences. In fact it is 38 years ago today that I graduated. Now you know how old I am, hah. Where has all the time gone; it is incredible. Here we are today, dh, me, and B.


Edited to add the hair color is my own. LOL


This message was edited Jun 1, 2008 12:13 PM

Wow. Lenjo, I'm quite impressed at your youth. Surely not 38 years ago? Who'd you have to make a deal with to look so young?

And who is B? Pretty darn cute.

Our first grandbaby and thank you, yep 38 years ago.

That's an armful of cutie pie!