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Pink Stockings

 For 2020 (as part of my whole Embracing pink realization) I decided that I wanted to find a Christmas stocking for my 'inner child'; something fun and sweet, perhaps even silly... and (most likely) PINK!

I was looking around at Hobby Lobby when I came across this sweet pink swan with rhinestone collar [note: the purple heart detail was added by me using Gallery Glass]. I found iron-on letters in the Wearable Arts section in order to add my childhood nickname of Racheigh [thanks, Grandma] to the top of it. And as for it being a swan - yep, it fits as I always felt like a bit of an 'ugly duckling' as a child. Guess what world - I've grown up and discovered who I am, lol. So I thought my 'quest' for a stocking was complete.

But then...
While browsing the ornament section at Walmart I came across a particular fuchsia stocking. Hmmm... there was NO WAY that I was gonna let this one go!

"CAUTION:
Wine...
may increase
chances of
getting on the
NAUGHTY list."

Ok, so I don't go out and get wasted on wine... but I liked the humor of it. Sometimes you've gotta throw caution to the wind and just embrace life! And with me wanting more laughter in my life... well... this too was 'right' for me.

PINK!
The original color for baby boys [nerd time: the original theory was that red is a warrior color so boys were dressed in the lighter shade of pink - which would deepen as they matured - while girls were placed in pale blue in honor of the virgin Mary]. Yet it has become the warrior color for Breast Cancer [I had my own scare at age 20 with a fibrous cyst], and more and more women have come to embrace the strength which it holds.

Pink Christmas stockings... for my precious 'inner child' and for my outward fun loving adult self.

You go and have [another] great day!

Rachel

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