When I was a little girl I lived to play dress-up.  I had collected many cocktail dresses, gowns, scarves and jewelry from sympathetic relatives and I would spend hours every day creating new and wonderful ways to wear them.  I was also a morning person back then, and would routinely traipse into my Mom’s bedroom at 5am to show her my latest creation… a story she shared for decades with just about anyone who had an interest in hearing about my childhood exploits, usually brand new boyfriends (much to my chagrin).  It was a good thing my father, an engineer, was always traveling all over the world for work. I don’t think he would have been nearly as tolerant with my early-morning fashion shows as Mom was.  Mom would always at least crack one eye open and mumble an appreciative, “Oooooooooo.”

Anyway, I just came across a website I would have LOVED as a kid.  It’s called GirlSense and it’s a budding fashion designer’s dream.  Girls (and I hope some fashion-forward boys with progressively-thinking parents) can design their hearts out creating trendy fashions, display them in their own original boutiques that they also design themselves,  and “sell” or auction their creations to other GirlSense members.  How kewl is that?  I would have *lived* on this site when I was a kid, and probably actually would have become the fashion designer my mother was convinced I was going to be.  I’m equally sure Mom, who worked at night and got home at 2am, would have loved it as much as I would have.  More.

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