wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 4, 2007 14:22:34 GMT -5
Yeah, unfortunately Hannie was too young to understand that it's good if your bridesmaids look fugly, 'cause then the bride looks even better in comparison.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 17, 2007 0:41:17 GMT -5
Hannie was a real "meanie moo" in this book. Love that word!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2007 19:41:56 GMT -5
LOL! Or, remember alternate spellings? Like, if your name was Amy, you would experiment with signing your papers "Ami," "Aimee," etc. (Good Lord...maybe THAT'S how today's kre8tyv name spellings got started! It's the little girl inside all of us, struggling to get out! ;D )
At any rate, if Karen was a real little girl today, she'd probably be calling herself "Kairynn" or something...LOL
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 9, 2007 23:19:11 GMT -5
It's funny that this thread started again today because I was just thinking about this book. Had my mom cut my hair yesterday (it's long so she just had to cut straight across and I was too lazy to get a hair appointment and too cheap to pay for a 2 second job ) and she got it a bit shorter than we both intended. She was freaking out and kept saying "I gave you a Glorianna cut" (I've told her all about this book) "It's Karen's bad haircut!" I just laughed and said "at least it's not a rat tail - I don't want to be Hayley Braddock" This is one of my favorite LS books. I'll have to go reread it.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Apr 10, 2007 16:09:45 GMT -5
My boyfriend gave me a Gloriana cut one time. At least it was just my bangs. They still took months to grow out properly.
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Post by fluffycakes on Jun 3, 2007 23:05:04 GMT -5
... The topper- Hannie won't let her be in her "wedding" because she looks fugley- MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA. I'm ashamed to say that that's why I never got to read this book. When I was about six and I got this book as part of a box set, I took one look at the cover and decided I didn't want to read it because Karen looked horrible.
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Post by aln1982 on Jun 3, 2007 23:42:46 GMT -5
Hannie was so mean in this one! But I kow how you feel about not wanting to read books with ugly looking people on the covers, fluffycakes. I'm also ashamed to admit I'm the same way, not with this one or BSC books but a lot of other ones. The ones that always bother me are the Dear America series where the poor girls look dead. (Now I'm feeling like a "meany mo" ) Poor Karen, though. I can relate to feeling like an "ugly duckling".
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Post by dawnomite on Jun 4, 2007 13:24:51 GMT -5
WEll, in my elementary and middle school, if you came in wearing makeup, either the teacher would send you to the bathroom and make you wash it off, or you would get sent to the principle's office and they would make you wash it off. One would even go WITH you to the washroom to make sure all of it was gone. It was definitely covered under the dresscode- along with no "out of the ordinary" hair colours. And it's not like we would come in wearing Karen's harlot red lipstick either, lol. I do think changing names is totally a little girl thing- when I was four, I convinced my kindergarten teacher that my name was really Sparky, and both she and all the students would call me that. Boy, were my parents surprised when they came in for the first parent-teacher interview, lol. ....and if I was changing my name, why the hell did I pick Sparky? My four-year-old self has some 'splainin' to do. Sparky! I love it. I actually managed to convince my Catechism Teachers that my name was "Katrina" (which was my Dad's nickname for me growing up actually) or at least convince them to call me that. My parent's where pretty surprised too.
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Post by Karen Brewer on Jun 7, 2007 18:23:16 GMT -5
It kind of makes me afraid to go to the hairdresser, lol. Karen showed Glorianna a picture of what she wanted done and Glorianna just ignored it and did her own thing.
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Post by mckay on Jun 10, 2007 21:01:34 GMT -5
I had a hairdresser who totally Gloriana-ed me. Thank god she didn't give me some freakyass mullet, but she totally ignored what I wanted and basically cut all my hair off up to my shoulders.
I haven't had a professional haircut since, twelve years later.
To the person who called herself "Sparky," there's a character in the Animal Inn series who's called Sparky as a nickname. Did you ever read those? I think it's actually a really cute name! For a nickname, at least. When I was about that age, I demanded my mother tell me why she hadn't given me a nice name, like "Oprah!"
Weirder still, this was before the Oprah Winfrey show debuted (according to my mother, but it wouldn't have been on long even if it had already started), and my mother never watched it anyway, and I was in preschool starting at age 2 1/2, so there's no way I would've seen the show. I have no idea where I got that name from. I also wanted, at various times, to be named "Daisy," "Crystal," "Tiffany" and "Melissa," but I think those are pretty typical names little girls like (except maybe Daisy. Of course, my mom was a hippie, so maybe it's just in the blood.)
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Post by Katie on Sept 3, 2007 23:40:10 GMT -5
I've had plenty of horrible hair cuts. I have a really uncooperative hair type which varies from just wavy to spiral curls but everyone tried to cut it like straight hair no matter where I go. My grandma used to lop it off into a chin length bob which is fine for straight hair but not mine.
Did they have hair extensions back then? If they did Watson could have paid a decent salon to fix Karen's hair. Or at least he could have bought her a wig that resembled Karen's pre-Gloriana hair.
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 3, 2007 23:56:34 GMT -5
^ ;D Now I'm picturing some type of Hannah Montana wig. This book is one of my favorites ;D
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Post by Karen Brewer on Sept 4, 2007 8:32:01 GMT -5
I've had plenty of horrible hair cuts. I have a really uncooperative hair type which varies from just wavy to spiral curls but everyone tried to cut it like straight hair no matter where I go. My grandma used to lop it off into a chin length bob which is fine for straight hair but not mine. Did they have hair extensions back then? If they did Watson could have paid a decent salon to fix Karen's hair. Or at least he could have bought her a wig that resembled Karen's pre-Gloriana hair. Come to think of it, this book never really told us anything about how the people at the Big House reacted to her hair. I love Watson and all, but he's been known to be quite stingy at times. He's a member of the Cost Club (is that right?), he made Karen pay half for her new bike, that incident in Babysitters on Board........ ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Sept 4, 2007 9:48:44 GMT -5
^ I would assume the costco thing is to buy in bulk for the army they have to feed ;D Just read the thing about the bike and they didn't really make her pay for half of it except in theory because the way she got the money was by selling stationary for $1 a sheet to Watson, Elizabeth, Nannie and the others in the Big House. So she really "earned" the money from them. Watson was the one to set the price, too, if I remember right.
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Post by Katie on Sept 4, 2007 21:54:59 GMT -5
We've had children show up (I work at a montessori preschool that also has full day child care) in make up and trashy clothing. We've washed many faces clean of it and safety pinned low cut tops for modesty and put sweaters over little girls in halter tops. It scares me that those things are even made in child sizes.
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