242 Bandanas

242 Bandanas

Object: Two bandanas

Acquired: 2007-09

From: Nature's Classroom

Notes: These two were not gifts, but rather were lost-and-found objects left after the kids were gone. One I found under a mattress in the dorms, the other I think I got right from the lost-and-found bin. No one ever tried to get them back, so.

And I washed them first thing, don't worry.

241 White Bandana

241 White Bandana

Object: White bandana

Acquired: Unknown

From: Unknown

Notes: I had 19 bandanas last spring. I can only find about 15 of them these days, so I'm letting this bandana represent the missing ones. Sadly, aside from the two red ones, I can't even recall which others I had. sniffle.

240 Blue Bandana

240 Blue Bandana

Object: Blue bandana

Acquired: Unknown

From: Garage sale

Notes: Bandanas are expensive in stores, but even in thrift stores they cost more than I personally want to pay for something that I'm going to drag through the woods, use to wipe up dry-erase marker ink, lend to children, and any thing else I end up doing with them.  I got this one, and a missing red one, from a garage sale for a quarter each (or something else similarly cheap). It's a bit smaller than my others, and I think it was actually batiked by someone at some point, maybe even died with actual indigo.

I'm rather upset that the red one has run off, since it had an older pattern and was thus cooler.  It was still giant paisleys, don't get me wrong, it was just slightly different from all the millions of other bandanas in the world today.

I actually had two red ones, and I think Mom borrowed them and failed to return them.  On one hand I'd like them back (they are mine, rawr), but on the other hand it's not like I use them these days.

238 Batik Bandana

238 Batik Bandana

Object: Bandana

Acquired: 2006

From: Tiny store in Peterborough, NH

Notes: It was a tiny textile and imports store, with like thread and African card cloth and worry dolls and so forth.  They were having a going out of business sale, so I got some neat stuff, one of which was this.  I like it, it's got...a pattern. I use it to decorate my room usually, although right now it's just living with the other bandanas. It's faded a bit over the years, too.

237 Bandanas

237 Bandanas

Object: Three bandanas

Acquired: Unknown

From: Store

Notes: These are bandanas that I bought because they are awesome. One is Halloween-themed and has cats and pumpkins, one is a map of the Caribbean, and the third is a simple brown camouflage. I always needed more bandanas, although I tried to prevent myself from buy tons of them because they are too expensive in stores. Sometimes I couldn't help myself, though

236 Bandanas

236 Bandanas

Object: Three bandanas

Acquired: Unknown

From: Nature's Classroom

Notes: These were gifts that I got in different seasons, since you can always use more bandanas.

235 Teal Bandana

235 Teal Bandana

Object: Light turquoise bandana

Acquired: 2009

From: A student

Notes: I was switching out to work at another site one week, but I needed one more bandana--seriously, my life in outdoor ed was one long lack of bandanas--so I 'borrowed' one from the site stash.  The kids I had that week were fun, and one of them had a bandana the same color as the one I'd borrowed.  I saw hers and got excited because it had keys on it (my nickname is pronounced as key), while she saw mine and got excited because it didn't have skulls--she'd only gotten it because she loved the color.

So we traded. This is the one that used to belong to that student.

234 Orange Bandana

234 Orange Bandana

Object: Orange Bandana

Acquired: 2007-ish

From: Lydia

Notes: I was bemoaning a lack of bandanas to my little sister, who said that she had two spare ones she could give me. This is one of those. The other one was green, and it's been missing for awhile now. Sad, really. I liked that shade of green.

(I used the bandanas during outdoor ed, almost often enough to justify how many of them I have)

233 Halloween Bandana

233 Halloween Bandana

Object: Bandana printed with orange clouds and gold spiderwebs

Acquired: 2008

From: The Woods

Notes: I found this one while out on field group. It was soaking wet and abandoned in the woods. I brought it back on a stick (I wasn't gonna touch it, eww) and set it out to dry. I may or may not have put it in the lost and found, but when the kids left it was still there, so I adopted it--after throwing it in the wash.

076 Handtowel

076 Handtowel

Object: Light purple handtowel

Acquired: Unknown

From: Unknown

Notes: This may look like object 026, but I actually have three purple hand towels. Two are identical; I'm not sure which this one is. (Or where the third one got off to)

075 Washcloths

075 Washcloths

Object: Three 'magic towel' washcloths

Acquired: Unknown

From: Tilly, Dollar store

Notes: I think I have four total of these? I'm not sure where the last one is right now.  I got three of them as 'tilly' gifts--a 'tilly' is a summer-camp-style secret santa. I liked the three I got, so I went and bought my own fourth one (and it had a dragon).  They are those "magic towels" where you get this hard chunk of dehydrated and compressed towel, and after it soaks in water it turns into a washcloth. I've always thought calling them "towels" was a bit of false advertising, but they are kinda fun.

074 Pillow Case

074 Pillow Case

Object: Green plaid flannel pillow case

Acquired: Christmas, unknown

From: Mom

Notes: I made a quilt with green plaid turtles (I really like plaid), and I really, really wanted a set of sheets to match it.  Mom got me some for Christmas one year, but...let's just say they didn't remain fuzzy long (it was winter and I'm a sweaty girl, shutup), so I didn't use them for very long. I did hang onto one or two of the pillow cases, though. And here one is.

I'll also say that as far as plaid goes this is like the most unexciting pattern ever, so I wasn't too disappointed to lose the sheets.

073 Towel

073 Towel

Object: Beach towel

Acquired: 2009

From: Walmart

Notes: My then-boyfriend also got a towel with the same colors so we could match.  I think it had more to do with the hilarity of it than making us into some sort of sickly-cute couple--at least, that's what it was on my part. Perhaps that's why we didn't last?

035 Bandana

035 Bandana

Object: Handmade and hand dyed bandana

Acquired: College

From: I made it in weaving class

Notes: This started life as a piece of black fabric, and then I made a vinyl stamp and stamped some bleach on it, making it into that awesome orange color.  The pattern's pretty neat, but you can't really see it in this image.  I also hemmed the edges so it doesn't fall apart.  It's a bit smaller than a traditional bandana, but my head is smaller than most, so it doesn't bother me.

027 Towel

028 Towel

Object: Hand towel, grayish green

Acquired: 2001ish

From: Gift from Beloit College

Notes: You wouldn't think a towel was very exciting, but this was a gift from my college--I don't remember why, exactly; it was something to do with a paper calendar and either I won something or they were giving towels to everyone who went to certain room on a certain day. I was supposed to use it for soothing strained muscles with warm water, but I usually just use it to dry my hands. I feel it's one of the more useful things to come out of college, actually.

026 Towel

026 Towel

Object: Hand towel, light purple

Acquired: Sometime since 2002

From: Unknown

Notes: A handsome handy hand towel.