I started to go through the family photos looking for some nice vintagey ones of Mum to put into her mini album and came across some truly tragically cute photos of me. Its a shame I didn't have more photos of me because I really was tragically cute in a sad kind of way... I have hair and EAR issues! I was born with one of the flappy parts of my ear folded down over the rest of it and during an infancy of breastfeeding, mother dearest tried to stick it back up to the side of my head. As a result, I have a 'wing nut' ear... see for yourself... I'm the cute one on the bottom with the wing nut ear...
In this one, I'm a little bit older. I think I was around 2 1/2 - 3 years old. Here is the first of many hair issues. This was all first hair. No haircut EVER. I had just woken up and short of mother spitting and dabbing, she plonked me in front of the camera and told the photographer to go for it. I still think I was cute... in a tragically cute bad-hair-day kinda way... Thats me on the far right... the really cute one with the wing nut ear...
In this one, I am fairly confident that Mum had it in for all three of us... It was an unfortunate hair day all around. I'm the cutest one with the best of three really bad hair dos... Yep! Mother was our personal stylist again... I'm even more cuter because she covered up my wing nut ear...
Here, she decided to cut my hair and put it in rollers and curl it for the nice photographer... yep... wing nut ear...
So... as you can imagine, by the time I was 10 years old, I had a HUGE ear/hair complex. Mother decides to cut my fringe the day before photos and... well... see for yourself here too...
This one here is perhaps the most tragic of them all. We have names for these mothers that send their children to school on photo day with hair resembling that of an all night shagger... with a wing nut ear...
Here is one of the day I got married. It had been raining for about 4 days so when I was at the hairdressers getting my wedding 'do' she gave it a really good lacquer so the curls wouldn't drop. I had below bra strap length hair. Curled, it went up to bra strap length. Under a veil that rubbed against it for a day, it matted itself into quite a sizeable dreadlock. It took me 3 washes and a bowl full of bobby pins to finally feel like a person again.
As for the dress and head piece... WHAT WAS I THINKING????? Hearing the "ooohhhhs" and "aaahhhhsss" as I walked up the aisle (giggling hysterically from nerves) was confirmation enough for me to believe that I looked beautiful! Sherryn! you should have told me I looked ridiculous! I would have told you that you looked like a big blue Elvira too!
Here, I was a new mum of a 5 week old baby boy, Jayden. I was having a 'not feeling like a yummy mummy' crisis so I went to have some glamour shots. There are others around somewhere here too from the same shoot that have me looking like a madame complete with feather boa! Thats me in the red... I'm the really cute one with the wing nut ear...
I need to get a hold of some photos of my 'Big Hair' days...
Watch this space...
Haaaaaaaa!!! You were a cute little elf weren't you!
The grade school photos remind me of Meg Tilly, the actress. Do you know who she is? You look a lot like her in those. Especially the last two.
And that veil! MYYYYYYYY! That's quite a work of art. And I love Sherryn's floofy sleeves. You girls were stylin'!
Posted by: donnapiranha | 25 November 2007 at 06:12 AM
Lynette you were adorable. You still are! That last pic of you looks like a "gone with the wind" photo. You are simply gorgeoussssssssssssss!!! I just love looking at old photos. Well and new ones. Can't wait to see your big hair!
Posted by: Janette | 25 November 2007 at 06:26 AM
Donna, waaaay back then Sherryn and I were chicky babes with AMAZING dress sense, good colour coordination and extremely hot! haaah! I even thought I looked fat in my wedding dress!
Oh my, my, my... I have not one photo of our wedding out for public display! I have not one photo of me adorning any walls or cabinet or shelf! Even after those glamour shots they stayed right in the sleeve they came in! I thought I looked like Rosanne Barr at the time. I still had all that new mama fat everywhere!
Neither of you mentioned my unfortunate wing nuts...
Posted by: Lynette | 25 November 2007 at 10:09 AM
Hey Lynette I really don't notice your wing nuts. I think you are gorgeous in that glamour shot. You should scrap one of them. :) That is my challenge to you! =D
Posted by: Janette | 25 November 2007 at 11:04 AM
Nah uh! Not. No. Nada! Ack!
Posted by: Lynette | 25 November 2007 at 11:17 AM
I for one do not notice these tragic wing nuts you speak of. Maybe they just are not as obvious in these photos as you think? So funny to look back at childhood pictures- I often think THAT was how Mom "prettied us up"- haa! Don't you love when they get a hold of the scissors and cut hair like they knew what they were doing? You were the really cute one...
Posted by: melinda | 25 November 2007 at 01:17 PM
HAHAHAHHAHAHA OMGGGGGGGGG im gonna stalk this page now, You was soooo luffly!
Hell funny thing tho we were looking through all the old pics and the one thing my girls gave me grief about was my hair... i blamed mum of course! Lordy you look like a Tangaroa!!!!
Posted by: Raewyn | 25 November 2007 at 02:01 PM
And I came across some mighty lurvily ones of you too, Rae!
Got some nice ones of the mother as well. She makes me feel 42 and fat! haaa! go figure... =D
You need a blog too so we can stay up-to-date on your babies.
If some of you haven't already figured it out Rae and I splash around in the deep end of the same gene pool. She's my cousin in New Zealand.
Posted by: Lynette | 25 November 2007 at 05:36 PM
just what i needed a good laugh but you were very cute. Why don't you let your mum cut your hair nowwww????????? lol
hi Rae
Posted by: tory | 25 November 2007 at 11:24 PM
Okay, commenting on the wing nuts. I don't think they're that BAD! The second photo, it just looks like you need to grow into them a bit, but it doesn't help that you're sitting next to a baby with petite ears! I guess I just focus on that cute nose and don't notice the wing nuts.
Love that crocheted poncho in the wild hair school photo. I had one of those.
Posted by: donnapiranha | 25 November 2007 at 11:32 PM
aw man, look at the little cutie! I have some of those very same, mom was my hairdresser...what was she thinking, photos!!
smiles,
Posted by: cricket | 26 November 2007 at 01:52 AM
I think my mum and your mum went to the same hair dressing school!....One of those photo's you look so like Zane!...and as for those big hair days..let me know I can pull out a couple of you!, happy to help. I thought you wanted that big head piece so you and I could be the same height?! - and as for my do, I could have housed your headpiece in it! PS I love your wing nut ear.x
Posted by: Sherryn | 26 November 2007 at 09:45 AM
Hmmm . . . a wing nut ear . . . I need to see a "straight on" photo of you so I can see both ears without any hair covering up your "good ear". LOL!
Weren't you a cutie.
Never let your mother near scissors again.
Posted by: Kristi Smith | 26 November 2007 at 01:05 PM
Lynette, you have a habbit of making fun of yourself and it appears to me that it is for NO aparent reason. I see nothing wrong with your ears. That one shot of your hair.... well obviously we all have one of those photos hidden deap at the bottom of a photo box somewhere.
Posted by: Cathy | 26 November 2007 at 09:58 PM
you are funny! i don't see the wing nut thing either... not at all???
My "mum" had issues with taking us to the cheap hair people for hair cuts, that suited her. "Oh you are in 5th grade and you will soon really care about what you look like... lets go cut your hair off. THEN people will ask if you are a boy or a girl."
I actully think some of your haircuts are very stylish now! ;)
Posted by: keri | 27 November 2007 at 02:27 AM
Hmm i wondered if you had any hideous pics of me and you have just confirmed my deepest fear. Well the circle of life is coming round to bite me in the butt becoz my girls blame me for there haircuts and i never even cut it ....hows that for unreasonable!!
Me thinks i might have to start one of these pages.....
Posted by: Raewyn | 27 November 2007 at 04:17 AM
Well Lynette. No fluffy luffy cushy wooshy soppy stuff from me. Yup you've got a wing nut going on! and a cowlick, and those (ex) bumps on your feet. Love from your DD'd, double chinned, kankled girlfriend. x
Posted by: Sherryn | 27 November 2007 at 08:37 AM
LOL - that was a great post Lynette!!
Love all the pix - you were a cutie child even with the wingnuts and bad hair ;)
xx
Posted by: Julie Heard | 27 November 2007 at 11:39 AM
Lynette, you were gorgeous. Peyton looks so-o-o much like you :D Didn't notice the wing nut ear either. My Mum was a master with the scissors - not!!! One day I did something to upset her so she grabbed me and a kitchen chair and set me up on the front lawn so all the neighbourhood could see her give me a 'bowl' cut. Yes ladies, with a bowl. How tragic did I look? Memories ..........
Posted by: Bev | 27 November 2007 at 01:56 PM
OMG Lynette....I'm..**sniff**...soooo...very...sorry.
**sniff**
Posted by: Jill Geraghty-Groves | 27 November 2007 at 03:06 PM
Am I the only one who does not know what a "wing nut ear" is? Whatever it is, you wear it well. You were adorable!
Posted by: kendra | 28 November 2007 at 11:34 AM
OHMYGOODNESS . . . Kendra McCracken doesn't know what something is!!! WooHoo, yippee, party is at my house!!!
Posted by: Kristi | 28 November 2007 at 04:03 PM
Haaah!! Kendra, 'Google' is a very good thing!
I think I confuse Kendra because she doesn't know whether its a play on words or something Australian. This time, Kendra, it's the similarity between a 'wing' nut and my ears! Its like I will say "that looks like a pot!" and Kendra will think "does 'pot' mean the same in Australia as it does in the US?" Well, maybe that was a bad example because 'pot' is not exactly a receptacle to boil something in or put a plant in in the US. We Aussies tend NOT to call it that but call it 'happy bakky' or 'hooch'. 'Hooch' wouldn't exactly be the name you would call 'pot' but more or less something looking a bit 'tarty' which, if you were English, would be something you would put in a pastry case and... etc, etc. Get my point?
Kristi! I'll bring the dip! ('Dip' in Australia is something that you would scoop a corn chip in or dip a bread stick into...)=D
Posted by: Lynette | 28 November 2007 at 06:08 PM
"HOOCH" as in Hoochy MA-MA?
Posted by: Cathy From Chicago | 29 November 2007 at 12:43 AM
Yeah! See what I mean?
Posted by: Lynette | 29 November 2007 at 06:05 AM