Wild Alice is a Mid-Century Modern Mom who likes to recycle, up-cycle & re-purpose. Her children tell folks she is an Urban Archeologist or someone who likes to muck about in other peoples trash. In reality she is an administrative assistant at a large, very nice company. She works with really nice people and is very good at her job. Unfortunately it is a job & not her passion. Her passion has mostly been floating around in her head until recently when it started to leak out......so here is her story and the stories of the dolls that need to be real.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Thinking of summer

 A long time ago Alice knew a lovely woman from the deep south, her name was Miss Froufrou (yes I made up the Froufrou part) she wore flowery dresses made of chiffon and huge picture hats with long ribbon ties.  She always wore her dark red hair piled in curls on top of her head.  If you were going to create a poster of a true southern belle and you were 17 & living in New Jersey Miss Froufrou would be your poster child!!  Miss Froufrou had a really pronounced southern drawl.  She would say things like "I feel liaake the laaaasssssst rosssssse a ssssssumma".  She always spent a lot of time on her S's.  Alice wasn't sure what that meant but she liked the way it sounded, so dramatic and well... flowery.  It spoke to Alice of a romantic time gone by, of plantations and beautiful dresses, of handsome and mannerly young men and mint julep on the lawn.  Alice didn't like mint but it sounded soooo romantic.  Anyway - many years later Alice moved to Virginia & then Alice too felt like the last rose of summer.  There wasn't anything the slightest bit romantic about it.   Some things are best left to your dreams.
ohhh and Miss Froufrou was from Cape May which is the southern most city in New Jersey........
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