kaity made it

Per the request of the feature "Making It," I made.... an Alice band. I used fabric my friend Kyla gave me back when I lived in Chicago, which is printed with text (in French) that says "extra refined sugar" and little red hearts. [Anyone who knows me will find this hilarious. It would only be better if it said "sirop de mais a haute teneur en fructose <3."] I stitched the thing by hand, because it felt like the right thing to do. I'm not sure about incorperating this into my

Sassy Jan. 91 R.I.P. Tom Carvel, 1906-1990 No. 34 To the best of my knowledge, this was the first issue of Sassy I ever received. I think I had subscribed through one of those school-sponsored magazine drives at my brother’s middle school. I was in 4th grade, and clearly torn between being a girly girl bow head and a tomboy. Hopefully this new magazine can offer some guidance.... On the cover is a 14 year old girl, the winner of the Sassiest Girl In America contest. She pla

It was all happenstance, how Sassy magazine even came up in conversation that night in Chinatown over all the kinds of meat in gloppy sauces. Matt wanted to know if I thought I might have saved, in a stack somewhere in my parent’s office (nee my childhood bedroom), the Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love issue. I said I probably had. Within a week or so, the box arrived in the mail. I sorted through and organized, month by month, almost 4 complete years of my adolescence (minus an