Well you all know I just went to an stamp expo. I scored this awesome BLING paper there. I have NO CLUE who its from, but I love it.
Sorry for the GLARE-its hard getting a photograph of BLING paper! LOL!
When I look at it ALL I can thing about is “stardom” LOL! You know rock music, rock stars, rockets, and outterspace stuff. I of course associate those with black and silver. Anyway……
The first card is ROCK STAR-get it?! LOL!
I used Sweet Baby Jane Alpha and Holy Tomoli stamp sets by Green Grass.
Used my silver Encore ink for the “rock” The star was done using my MM tag maker (whick I am definitely in LOVE with these days). I colored the star image with my Sakura glitter pen.
I got this cool stitching guide at the expo as well from LAsting Impressions. LOVE it! I stitched the bottom using that.
Now onto the next one.
I have wanted this IPod image since I laid my eyes on it. I am lovin this layout too! You’ll see it again
You Rock!
So, once again-used my MM tag maker. For a POP of color! I also got some Sakura gel pens at the expo and this was my first time using it. Used my Sakura glitter pen for the sparkly screen and dial. All in all wicked simple. Great for the TEENS and gender. Where was this at Christmas when I was giving our teen cousins Itunes gift cards? Hello?! How cool it would have been to make this a card holder.
Oh well, next year. By then I’m sure these will be outdated.
Do you feel like the older you get the harder it is to keep up with all this technology. Good grief, I dont want to become my mother. I dont want to get stuck in a time warp either. I want to stay young! And up on the “trends” but find that I dont like alot of the “new” music! GASP!
Tell me what you remember from your “era” that you feel dates you, and reply to this post. I think it will be so fun.
Here are some things I remember-PLEASE tell me you do too! Im only 29 not 99!
Here is a link to toys from the 1980’s!
Shows
BoZo the clown, Captain Kangaroo, the Muncheechees (cartoon about monkey type animals), He Man, Transformers, The Wuzzles (Disney show) Mickey Mouse Club, Smurfs, Care Bear, The Fraggles, 90210, ALF
TOYS
Koosia (?spelling basically the cabbage patch kids pet), Peaches and Cream barbie, The barbie Poodle, Keepers (they were animal things that you open with a special “key”, Popples
Style
Pegging my jeans! Big hair, ESPRIT bags were hot as were Reebok “pump” sneakers, CB jackets (in my school were hot) or should I say cool and rad. 80’s was all rock
Movies
Gizmo, BIG, The Mannequin, Ghostbusters
I could go on and on but want to turn it over to YOU! Tell me decade you grew up in, then share all you want!
I was obviously the 80’s.
Cant wait to read it!
17 Responses for "You Rock Star! And Memory Lane! Please share."
High school was the ’70’s/childhood the ’60’s…memories include Mr. Ed, Hawaii 5-O, Mighty Mouse, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Star Wars (the original ones!), Saturday Night Fever, Peter Frampton, Elton John, wedgie shoes, mini skirts & jersey dresses tied in the back, long hair, bazooka bubble gum & chicklets, watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.
Oh, this is gonna be fun! The years just kinda blend together, however I grew up during the 70’s & 80’s.
Fav TV shows: Charlie’s Angels, Miami Vice, 90210 (maybe that was more 90’s)
Fav Music: Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, INXS, and anything 80’s.
Most memorable songs from my younger days: Disco Duck by Rick Dees, Lady Bump
Movies: Grease, ET, Star Wars (first one, now the 4th I think)
Clothes & Hair: OMG in retrospect, how bad were the fashions during the 80’s – BIG shoulder pads, BIG hair with lots of mousse, harispay and gel, perms – especially if your hair is a straight as mine!
The thing I find funniest about today’s music is that most of it is recycled from years ago, and the ‘kids’ all think it’s new! BTW I’m 38.
I am so with you. I am 33 so I grew up in the 80s too and watched Fraggle Rock (they have the dolls at Target now… that was a trip), Smurfs, 90210 and all that stuff you mentioned.
I pegged my jeans too. That was insane….whoever thought that was a good style trend???? Oh… wait…. I did! haha!
Big hair=Aquanet!! haha!
Grease 2, Gremlins, Freddy Kruger, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna!!!!
Colored jeans that matched your shirt!
Oh, and guess jeans. Everyone wanted that triangle on their butt!!
I could go on and on!!
OMG!!! ALF!! My husband and I watch Alf religiously! We have all four seasons on DVD. One day we were at Target and my husband says “We should get Alf” and I’m going “OOOH, yeah right!” Well I caved in and am in love again! That show is funnier now as an adult than when I was a kid (I’m 25 now). We quote things from the show all the time, we’re obsessed! I would highly recommend it now, especially if you have little kids.
Oh, and do you remember jelly shoes?? I was obsessed with those as a little girl!
Too funny! I have to chime in on this one – I was born in ’72, so I guess I was a child of the 70s, although I don’t think I really identify as much with that decade as I do with the 80s. But here goes, I remember rushing home everyday at 3:30 to watch… The Brady Bunch – best show on earth! -he-he! And who doesn’t remember Flashdance and Footloose, flourescent socks that had to match the flourescent, sequined studded shirt from WHAM (aka former George Michael) that went with the stocking tight leggings that we actually wore outside in public! I actually wore green sneakers, I think they were suede with get this, green striped baseball socks up to my knees – cool huh! Oh – one more thing, LEGWARMERS – need I say more??? God, I hope someone else remembers those (I was a northerner) – was that only a Northern thing?
Oh, and Julie, yes I remember jelly shoes; they came after Dr. Scholls were popular in the 70s early 80s – saw a pair the other day in a closeout store here in VA. Couldn’t believe it!
Your post could basically be mine…I pegged my jeans, wore IOU shirts and Z. Cavaricci’s (big baggy guido-ish type pants) Big hair, and all that jazz…some of my favorite toys were Strawberry Shortcake, popples, Care Bears (I think it’s so cool Shannon likes them too), I didn’t have the doll, but had a rainbow brite sleeping bag!
Muppets, Fraggle Rock, Smurfs, Richie Rich, Josie & the Pussycats…Loved them all! Thanks for the memories Lauren!
Awesome cards, and that paper…OH my! love it!
I love these…so here goes.
I am 35 so my teen years were in the 80’s.
I loved leg warmers, I am from Texas????
Wonder Woman Underoos
I use to wear my roller skates and hold a single cassette player (with Rick Springfield tape) and skate the neighborhood.
I loved unicorn stuffed animals.
One pair of my jeans in the early 80’s, had french fries on one back pocket and hamburger on the other pocket.
Friendship pins that you use to wear on your shoe laces.
Dallas, Dukes of Hazard, Love Boat and Fantasy Island, which terrified me, but I watched it anyway!!
Poltergeist
Pac-Man
Prince and Duran Duran.
I had about 10 Swatch watches.
I wore banana clips in my hair.
Better off Dead-still love that movie!!
The Breakfast Club-still love that movie!!
Late 80’s hair with big, fluffy bangs, the bigger the better. Oh, with the side wings to go along with it and they were both plastered with a whole can of hair spray. My hair never moved.
All my jeans were tappered with zippers and were acid washed. I loved them so much I said those were the only jeans I would ever wear. (GAG) What was I thinking?
I owned serveral Liz Claiborne purses that were ugly bright colors and looked like they were made of plastic with little tiny triangles all over them.
Those fads make me cringe!! The 80’s were so tacky!!
I cant stop laughing reading the posts. I too grew up in the 80’s total hair band girl.
Cinderella, POISON (Brett Michaels is still hot!!!), RATT, LA Guns (remeber Nelson ha!ha!) I could go on for days.
style-Hi-top Reeboks with about 3 pairs of socks on in different colors. Colored jeans with colored jean jacket to match. Jelly shoes and bracelets. Aqua net hairspray to hold up the spiderweb you teased for bangs and to hold your sidewings out!! tee..hee..
Shows-Carebears, Smurfs(still love today), Popples, Get along gang, Wuzzles, Snorks,90210, Melrose Place, 21 Jumpstreet (hellooo..johnny depp!!! hot even pre-pirate days)
toys-strawberry shortcake, popples, carebears, pound puppies.
Too fun Lauren thinking about all this stuff. Its funny that alot of this stuff has resurfaced and I have to get it for my kids b/c it so reminds me of being a kid. My oldest daughter is all about strawberry shortcake and my youngest daughter is care bears. I dont care how old I am 80’s cartoons were the best!!!!!
OMW!!! Have to wipe the old cobwebs from the brain for this one.
I’m 27, so I really have to did far back to remember some of these things.
Big elephant leg pants were a fad during the 70’s. The ones that were low on the hips and huge at the bottom. Wedge shoes, and sizzler skirts were also big then. Also, jeans with leather trim.
My heartthrob was Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy (oh my!)))
TV shows were Capt Kangaroo, Mighty Mouse, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Petticoat Junction, Mr Ed, and used to have to watch Lawrence Welk with my mom every Sunday night.
Music was CCR, Elton John, Peter Frampton, Captain and Tenaille.
I actually remember more of what everyone is saying, since my kids were growing up during the same time as most of you?!? My oldest son is the same as as you are Lauren. Boy, talk about feeling old!!!!
Adorable cards! I have a few things that age me…I was born in 1971. My father had a boat with an 8 track player in it…I remember listening to the 8 track all through my childhood. I also remember 3/4 length sleve baseball type shirts and long knee socks with red or blue stripes at the top. I remember when knickers were hot (for about 1 year during elementary school). I remember putting a comb in my back pocket, feathering my hair, and flipping up my collar. (All of these were elementary or Jr. High.) High school – the 80’s….BIG hair…and yes, I had it….used LOTS of Aqua Net hair spray!
Thanks for the walk down memory lane!
Let’s see – My childhood was the 70’s….
I watched the Partridge Family & The Brady Bunch, Dukes of Hazzard and The Love Boat (that might have been early 80’s – I don’t quite remember!) I loved School House Rock! and can remember some of the songs – Conjunction Junction, When a Bill Becomes a Law, etc. Wish they’d have those on for kids today!
Technology: console Tv’s! Huge console record players with the speakers built in – my kids have no idea what a record player is! VHS tapes.
Toys – I remember having a huge barbie collection complete with RV. Loved Strawberry Shortcake, skateboards, and banana seat bikes. Jump rope was big – trying to remember the Teddy Bear song for my DD who’s now 7 – and the grades K-12 that we used to do with the jump rope.
Music – (I think this is early 80’s) – Styx, REO Speedwagon. Definitely 80’s – Alabama
Family vacation for a week at the lake fishing and swimming.
Best memory- Friday nights – mom would let us pick out 1 candy bar – my favorite was either the Sky Bar or Necco Wafers – and we could have it while staying up till 10pm watching TV.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Lauren!
Love the cards and the paper – nice job!
Well, I was really young in the 70’s and playing with my Barbies and the Sunshine Family. (Anyone remember that?) I was also very into “Fashion Plates” that had fashions and texture plates that you rubbed with a crayon and the colored in with colored pencils. Kind of a precursor to what I do now, with stamps, I guess!
In my town Members Only jackets were big, then Nikes, Calvin Kleins, and Izod shirts with the collars up. Oh, I had Mork suspenders (rainbow), too!! We also dressed up quite a bit – in our Gunne Sax dresses or our “power suits” – a plaid skirt, silky cowl-necked blouse and a wool blazer! We wore this to SCHOOL in 7th-8th grade!!!
I was in college when we were pegging our pants and wearing “Colors” by Benneton perfume and leggings with big, baggy t-shirts. Acid-washed jeans (high-waisted, pleated, SO flattering!!!) and t-shirts layered with their sleeves rolled up was also hot.
The hair was SO cool! I had an asymettrical style for a while, with my left side really short and the right side poofy and feathered back. Adorable!
I liked all of the popular music (and still do) just not a LOT of the heavy-metal hair bands.
50’s 60’s – Fats Domano, Pat Boone, Elvis, Buddy Holley, Little Richard, Rock and Roll.The first color program was Bonanza. We were one of the first on our block to get a color t.v. set. Sock Hops, poodle skirts, bobby socks. duck tails for the guys and ratted hair for the girls. Middy blouses for the girls and vests for the guys is what we wore every friday to school. We would be allowed to be ourside until the street lights came on. Traffic jams were four people at an intersection at the same time.
We would rush home from school to watch American Bandstand and Mickey Mouse Club. Everyone loved Annette, Cubby, Karen, Spin and Marty, etc. etc. etc. Gidget was a great movie. Frankie Avelon, Fabian, Annette etc were hip and cool. Had to watch all the movies like beach blanket bingo etc. I used to walk to the corner store almost every day. Milk was delivered to the house in bottles, a loaf of bread was 15 cents. All of my friends got allowences. It was a great time to grow up. I lived an hour away from San Francisco and they had a dance program like american bandstand. We use to drive over the bay to be on the program every three months or so. Loved that time of life being a teen and carefree.
I remember all of that stuff because of my kids but Captain Kangaroo has been around since I was a a kid. My basement is full of those wonderful toys waiting to be handed over to grand kids someday. I could sell them but why when I sometimes get out the Star Wars figures hand have my own little scenerios.
I want to play…
I’m 40 years old, graduated high school in 1984. I remember watching the Dukes of Hazard every Friday night…loved those Duke boys! We thought we were so lucky when we got an Atari game system…loved playing pac man! As far as clothing…I had every color corduroy Levi’s ever made, Nike Cortez sneakers, and this wooden handle pocketbook with four buttons on either side to attach the hundreds of covers I had to match all my outfits. Oh…and inside the pocketbook was lip gloss…you wouldn’t be caught without it…I had one in every flavor. I wore Loves Baby Soft perfume…that was another must have. As far as music, I had many albums….loved Van Halen and Aerosmith! We used to drink Mello Yello soda. I remember when I got my own phone in my bedroom…push button (not rotary)…so cool. I used to talk to my best friend, Bobby, and we’d talk until we fell asleep and keep our phone lines tied up all night. lol
What a fun trip down memory lane 🙂
I was born in 1962 so I grew up in the 70’s. Bellbottoms were big. Feathered hair (Farrah-like) was big too. I remember watching Brady Bunch (first runs, not re-runs), Partridge Family, Hardy Boys, Charlie’s Angels and a bunch of music variety shows…Captain & Tennille, Donny and Marie, Tony Orlando and Dawn. My favorite music was Captain & Tennille (still a fan to this day), Aerosmith, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Styx, REO and Journey. I remember when VCR’s first hit the market I think in 1977 or so and I begged my parents to buy one. They were over $1000 at the time. I think we finally bought one in 1980 or 1981. Pop Rocks were popular and they were much more explosive than the one’s you can find today. Bonnie Bell lipsmakers…everyone had at least two or three different flavors (I loved Strawberry). Earth shoes, the front was slightly higher than the heel so it felt like you were always walking uphill. Satin jackets, like Shawn Cassidy wore. Oh my goodness, I could probably go on and on.
Here is one for you. I grew up in the fifties!!!!! I have a son who grew up in the 70,s. I watched all the Captain Kangaroo!!!! Loved him myself. I have another son who grew up in the 70’s and he liked Electric Company, not liking it, myself. My daughter was brought up in the 70’s and 80’s. I remember all the stuff you kids do. When I grew up, no televison, no computers,no good camera’s, and I bought all the stuff for my kids that you kids liked because my young life was full of poodle skirts, ugh!!!, CYI dances with all the nuns and priests, good football teams, record hops, street dances, no drinking, no smoking, etc. But I still like the Eagles, Beatles, Bon Jovi, and all the memories that I was able to enjoy with my kids. I loved reading your comments. Have fun, kids.
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