My Red Dress

One of the Blogs I follow is The Bloggess.  Absolutely nothing to do with quilting of fabric...or creating anything. But she is hilarious, and smart, and brave. Others have described her as "outrageous and irreverent and perhaps even a bit frightening,"  I have linked to one of her funniest stories before..the Giant Chicken...I still laugh so hard when I read this that tears roll down my cheeks!!

But her post about The Red Dress is very touching and meaningful.
“I want, just once, to wear a bright red, strapless ball gown with no apologies. I want to be shocking, and vivid and wear a dress as intensely amazing as the person I so want to be. And the more I thought about it the more I realized how often we deny ourselves that red dress and all the other capricious, ridiculous, overindulgent and silly things that we desperately want but never let ourselves have because they are simply “not sensible”.”





We each have a red dress...something that we want....something that makes us feel good, or pretty, or smart...but we know it is totally silly, or it is something that we will never actually use...... but we each have a red dress.

My Red Dress??
Pointe shoes! Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to dance in pointe shoes. I grew up on a farm, no access to ballet classes, so sadly pretended in my socks!

I did take Adult ballet classes a few times, and although they were fun...not to mention hard work and good exercise....they did not progress the Adults to pointe shoes!

So....

one day, I went and bought myself a pair of pointe shoes!

I was trying them on with all the other budding ballerinas.... 10 year old ballet students.
The sales lady kept suggesting that I check with my ballet teacher before using them....... I assured her that I would! No sense worrying her!

 Yup...and I wear them in my kitchen....and feel good !

Do you have a "Red Dress"?              If so...go and get it!