Notes from the Basement: My Sticker Book – Wacky Packs

I recently took my prized childhood sticker book off the shelf, dusted it off, and flipped through it. There were the shinies, the small scratch ‘n sniffs, the large scratch ‘n sniffs, the fuzzies, the puffies, the googly-eyed puffies, the fuzzy puffies… I remember so carefully organizing them into this archived hierarchy of stickers. When [...]

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Notes from the Basement: My Journal, Age 15 (Part 2)

Okay, so let’s discuss. Like I mentioned in my first post about my recently rediscovered age fifteen journal, I was a superior, stuck-up little snot who disliked pretty much anything popular or mainstream. I prided myself on being so different from other kids my age, and liking exotic things like Woody Allen movies, e.e. cummings’ [...]

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Notes from the Basement: My Journal, Age 15 (Part 1)

The first page of my “Thoughts Book #3″ (AKA my journal), 1991, age 15 – gad, what a stuck-up, pretentious, superior little snot I was. Me, age 15 – this was my extremely cultivated ‘Annie Hall’ look – of course none of the teenyboppers and idiots at my junior high got it. Am I really [...]

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine Pt. 3 of 3

Recipe Thursday will resume next week – I’m having too much fun with this trip down memory lane! Wow. Epic. Don’t you love the Swatch watch in page 12′s ponytail? And how the book reviews are front and centre – ’cause you gotta have your make-up essentials, but you also gotta have a good book [...]

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine, Pt. 2 of 3

For Part 1 and an explanation, click here.

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Notes from the Basement: Sunshine Coast Magazine, Pt. 1 of 3

‘Notes from the Basement’ is an occasional series featuring bits of nostalgia and memories from my life as a kid/teenager, recently dug up while going through boxes of my childhood stuff in my mum’s – you guessed it – basement. My love of fashion magazines started when I was about twelve, when I spent my [...]

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Notes from the Basement

Class photos. Old journals. (Many, many old journals.) Notes from my junior high best friend. Play scripts that my sisters and I wrote. Tooth fairy pillows. High school I.D. cards. Au Coton and Colors of Benetton catalogues. Childhood combs. My favourite My Little Pony. Boys’ phone numbers. Old zines. E.T. stickers. My prom dress, even. [...]

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