I Never Knew

I have never really liked the Winnie the Pooh character, or Mickey Mouse shirts or Pluto slippers. I didn't really understand why people would dress their children in these characters, I thought it was silly. I am not trying to attack anyone's character, I just don't really like "character" clothes. It's fine if you don't like rainbows or you think that scrapbooking is for weirdos, I don't mine, but I love it! So anyways, I was totally against this character charade and dressing your children in it or doing their whole room in a Mickey Mouse theme, but then along came Beck. My litt;e man, my little Lightening McQueen lover. He calls them Queens. There are Mama Queens and Daddy Queens, they are his "Ween cars." and he loves them. Of course it started out with the movie, but has moved on to his apparel, his pillowcase, pillows, socks, the cars at Wal-Mart that are $2.97, and yes, I do search for the ones that he has not collected yet. Like the infamous Mater that took me forever to find and my mom found one in Burley and sent it to him. I get giddy when I find Lightning McQueen silverware or water bottles or Car crayons from Target. I don't know when it really started, but I know that Christmas last year was a big thing because I found a whole bunch of $1.00 Car stuff at Target and stocked up. Beck also enjoys Thomas the tank engine trains and has collected quite a few of them as well. I always ask him what he wants to wear and he says "Ween!" (Lightening McQueen shirt) He has two Queen T-shirts, one that actually lights up and a tank top courtesy of our friend Jessica. He used to want to carry his Queen cars around with him everywhere, so I made him a bag out of Cars material to put them in and it says "Beck's Queens" on it. So that brings me to this crayon wrap that I made today that a friend posted a tutorial on our Craft Blog. I used the left over material from his Queen bag I had previously made, which started my sewing addiction by the way. When I gave it to him he said, "Ween!" and he didn't even know what it was. Then as he was unrolling it he said, "Wow..." Yeah, he likes it, go me! I am the coolest mom ever and my name is Korbi and I am a "Character" lover because it makes my boy smile.......