Giveaway: 9 Most Influential Scrapbookers 2010
07.20.10
I snuck my way into the scrapbooking industry.
Traditionally, scrapbookers have had to hope for a spot on a prestigious design team, or get noticed by a magazine to get a place in our competitive little world. I didn’t do that. Izzy wanted to produce a scrapbooking video tutorial. I was a scrapbooker and I have performance experience. So we combined our skills and created the Paperclipping Video Tutorials.
People started watching, and then people started purchasing memberships. It was really an amazing experience.
Full of ideas, we have since turned Paperclipping into a multi-show and event website: I started the first live scrapbooking show over the internet a few years back, and we now have two audio talk shows where we gather together interesting people with interesting things to say about our hobby — again, unlike anything we’ve ever seen in scrapbooking. It’s been fun!
We’ve just been here having a great time while expending a lot of sweat and love in order to provide the ultimate experience for scrapbookers. So it made me happy and grateful to be noticed when I got the letter from Ella Publishing, announcing they nominated me as one of the Nine Most Influential Scrapbookers for 2010.
Thanks for noticing me, Ella! 
Each of us nine nominees contributed to this book, which you can purchase for only $4.99…
Or you might try and win the book, along with 9 other prizes. . .
Giveaway
I get to give away a prize from each of us nominees, plus the book from Ella. . .
- A $20 gift certificate from Ella Publishing Co.
- Two digital-scrapbooking template packs (20 templates) from Cathy Zielske
- A six-month Paperclipping membership from Noell Hyman
- A “Play Date” product pack from Jenni Bowlin
- A place in either a beginner photo-editing class or a beginner digital-scrapbooking class from
Jessica Sprague - A spot in the “Beginner/Intermediate Online Photography Workshop” from Maggie Holmes
- “Paper Girl” and “On Holiday” product packs from Margie Romney-Aslett
- A $50 gift certificate toward any class on reneepearson.com from Renee Pearson
- A place for you and a friend in both “Love Your Pictures, Love Your Pages” and “Journal Your
Christmas” from Shimelle Laine - A place in either Elizabeth Dillow’s “Inspiration Defined” or Karen Grunberg’s “Book of Stories”
from Stacy Julian
How to Enter
I will pick randomly, but you have to answer a question! Here’s the question:
When you were little, were you attached to a baby blanket? A thumb? A stuffed toy? What were you attached to? Or were you so independent you didn’t need anything? Please share.
Tomorrow I will share my own story of emotional childhood attachment. You have until tonight to enter the drawing with your comment. Ten people will win!
ETA: Thank you! This contest is now closed! I have emailed the winners, but in case you’re interested, here the random numbers and the names of the winners:
82-Pat Hines * 526-Lizzie * 583-Heather C * 311-Kate Blue * 804-Nitasha * 740-Britta * 278-Nancy * 689-Sylvie H * 172-Liz Freeze * 146-Jennifer Alfonso
Congratulations!
My favorite “comfort” toy was a dark brown stuffed dog similar to a “beanie baby” of the current day. My Aunt Lynda gave him to me when I was in the hospital as a 2 yr.old. Thanks for the giveaways Noell and congrats on being nominated for the Ella book!
I was a thumb sucker – big time! I think I sucked my thumb until I was 13 or 14 when I slept. My parents tried everything to get me to break the habit – sour apple spray, a small thumb cage thing, nasty tasting nail polish. Nothing worked. I just gradually grew out of it. Now I’ve got a thumb sucker of my own and you can bet I won’t be trying any nasty sprays or devices to get her to stop. she’ll grow out of it just as I did. I didn’t go off to college still sucking away and she probably won’t either.
I wasn’t attached to anything as a toddler. Once I learned to ride a bike, that was my favorite thing. It had a banana seat with blue glitter…I thought it was sooo cool.
I didn’t have a blanket, or suck my thunb but I did have a teddy, aptly named ‘Bear’ that went everywhere with me and I was very sad when he lost one of his eyes!!
Thanks for the chance to win and looking forward to checking out some of your work xxx
Nice giveaway. Here’s my answer to your question. I definately was attached to a blanket and I still have it and love the way it smells. I was attached to my pointer finger rather than my thumb.
I don’t think I was attached to anything except my mother. Apparently I didn’t want anyone else to take care of me-including my dad and grandmas. But I turned out pretty independent. Too funny-that deserves a scrapbook page.
As little girl I was attatched to my right thumb.Thankyou for the chance to win. Already have to of Ella’s e-books and as a newbee to scrapbooking I need to find out all the little secrets about scrapbooking
Linda
I was one of those babies that did not rely on any item but I did have 2 beautiful boys that each had their own pieces of comfort
I was not atached to a stuffed animal, but our cat had to sleep in my room, which he always did.I have so much sweet memories about that cat. Congrats for you on your nomination!
I don’t remember being attached to anything. Hmmm. Thanks for the giveaway!
Congratulations! I’m so happy for you…I think your influence should spread to more people
As a kid I think I was one of those independent types…didn’t really have a “thing” I was attached to!
Noell – congratulations!
I don’t think I was attached to something! But I should double check that story with my Mum!!
Congratulations on being on the list!
I was not attached to anything, actually! No pacifier, no thumb (my teeth are thanking me today), and no blanket. But my family did get a kitten a few days after I was born, and it slept in my bed all the time. So you could say that I was attached to a stuffed animal (without stuff).
This award is so well deserved to you and your husband. I never miss a PRT or PDS episode and I think both of you have done a GREAT job getting people to love this lifestyle!
To answer your question: I used to have a tiny 10×8 sized pillow which used to comfort me through my childhood, I even used to reach back into the closet at the age of 8 in those moments of despair and it always used to work. I now find my own young daughter being very attached to a soft square piece of fleece fabric which has loops of silk ribbon sewn along the edges. So adorable and so worth it.
Have a great day!
Congrats!! I had a baby blanket named Yellow (it was, um, yellow. No points for originality here). I slept with it so long my mother worried I would take it to college…..
My right thumb!!!
It lasted until I was 5 or 6, so my Grandma wanted to dip it in mustard (YUCK…)
Congrats on making MISA
I did not have anything. My sister had a stuffed pink panther.
Congratulations Noell! Your shows and design principals have definitely been a huge influence on me over the past year or so and you deserve this recognition.
When I was a little I had a dress that had a picture of a girl wearing a dress with a picture of a girl wearing a dress. I loved it. The girls in dresses may have gone on forever, who knows. I think my mum got it shipped from Mothercare in the UK. I don’t think I have any photos but just writing about it I can still see it in my mind.
I was attached to my thumb and my “blankie”. I would lay in bed and suck my thumb, while rubbing on the velvet trim of my favorite blanket. I was willing to give up the thumb lone before the blanket. I think I was around 5 or 6, when my aunt convinced me that being a big girl meant no blanket. I wanted to be “grown up” like she was at the ripe old age of 15! I asked my mom to put my blankie in the chest at the foot of my bed. I wanted to know it was still close. I slept fine, and the blankie stayed packed away.
So that is my “attachment” story.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Laura
I don’t remember any special blanket or any stuffed animal. I’ve always been so independent
I don’t remember being attached to any one thing, but I do still have a plush rabbit that my father gave to my mother the year before I was born and she later gave to me.
I had a stuffed mouse that wore a striped stocking hat that I was very attached to. Loved him and carried him everywhere. Still miss him some days too when I need a little comforting.
Congratulations!
Me, I was very attached to ‘Bunny’ (my imaginatively named toy rabbit)….
I would suck my thumb as a little tot and in bed I would suck my thumb whilst pulling fluff of my blanket or even piggling at the wall paper!
Nothing- I had a reputation for being a really easy baby.
I was attached to my enid blyton novels, i was reading them for years and years and always had at least one with me, yet i still dont think i was reading them as fast as she could write them LOL
Congrats, its a great show.
Oh yes, I had a childhood blankie. It was a soft yellow knit with satin edging. Really thick satin edging in the exact same color yellow. I got to hold it for naps and bedtime. Naps everywhere, but I didn’t drag it all over the house, I reserved that honor for my Teddy. I was so lucky to have both! I think my mom still has my blankie tucked away somewhere at her house (but Teddy’s in my closet!).
My teddy for a long time was as big or almost as big as I was. He was my first gift. A big, blond furry guy with brown eyes, a white belly and red tongue. He is still blond, but the only thing left of his tongue is a patch of red-stained glue. His ears are scarred from having stitches repeatedly from me operating on his ears and mom repairing him. His fur which I still remember being fluffy is matted together from all the “love” and washing machine trips he had. I still love him though.
i wasn’t attached to any “thing,” but i had (have!) a lot of brothers i was attached to. way more fun than a security blanket.
I had a stuffed lion named Leo that I couldn’t sleep without.He was big enough to be my pillow. Glad I grew out of that one.
Congratulations!!!! I was attached to a stuffed toy, a little dog which wasn’t very cute and I still have it (not in a perfect condition but it survived!!!)
Vaguely, I remember a small blankie. What I remember more is that my parents told me it must have been left in the car when they sold it. Selling the car devastated me more. It was the most beautiful red and black 57 Plymouth. I loved that car with its swooping fins and lovely colors. I still remember the tears….over the car!
I had a Blanket…a pink one…and I loved the corner of it…KERNER…and I would tickle me arm with it
I wasn’t really attached to anything. And for some reason I remember thinking as an older kid and even as a young adult that I wish I would have been attached to something as a child. It just seemed like a part of childhood that I missed. Happily I live through my son’s strong attachment to Mr. Bear. He got is when he was a few weeks old and has it to this day. He is 13!! Of course the attachment has changed as he has gotten older but it is still there
Congratulations Noell! A well deserved honor.
When I was a child I was a attached to a teddy bear, who in the end was in horrible condition, I love looking at pictures with me & him & how I always dragged hime around.
I had a big bear that my grandparents bought for me before I was born. Unfortunately, when I was 5 the bear was swept away when a cyclone took the roof off our house and the floodwaters rose
– I’ve never been quite so attached to anything since!
I had a bear that went everywhere with me. He’s actually still around.
Thumb…I sucked my thumb as if my life depended on it. I finally stopped at age 6 when my front teeth were knocked out in an unfortunate accident and I was told I’d have NO teeth if I didn’t stop sucking my thumb that instant. I stopped.
I was attached to my teddy bear…and he still sits of my shelf
I was very attached to a handmade crocheted blanket until it fell apart and my mom had to hide it from me. She hid what was left as a keepsake! : ) Thanks for the chance to win.
I was attached to my mama! Seriously…my poor mom.
Congrats!
I have always been independent. My mother says she tried to get me to sleep with a doll & I would throw it on the floor.
My security “blanket” was a stuffed Winnie the Pooh. Oh, how I LOVED that bear. I swear I slept with him til I was 12 or something! I still love the stories of Winnie the Pooh and some of my fondest memories are of reading those stories to my own kids!
Loved my thumb for a few years, then Winnie the Pooh.
I was attached to my thumb until 4th grade
. I miss it sometimes haha.
I was attached to a blankie..when I was 13 months old and was having my tonsils out and in surgery the housekeeper took all my sheets, plus my blankie. Dad loves telling me this story all the time..they had to run around finding one exactly like it before I woke up.
I had a stuffed mouse. That I saw in a store one day when I was just one, and grabbed off the shelf, while my heavily pregnant mother looked the other way. And I refused to give it up, screamed, cried. There wasn’t a lot of cash around, mum had to put something from the groceries back, so she could pay for mouse.
I still have him, beside my bed (safely outta reach of my own kidlets! Over 30 years later, hes VERY battered, no longer squeaks, but hes mine!
So yeah, very attached
I had a Raggedy Ann doll that eventually earned the title “Raggedy”. I loved that doll! Thanks for the chance and for the inspiration.
Congrats on your nominee. I have really enjoyed the Roundtable and the Digi Show podcasts.
When I was younger, I was not attached to anything. My husband however still sleeps with his blanket when my daughter doesn’t swipe it.
I don’t recall being attached to anything. We spent hours and hours outside just playing whatever. The neighborhood was mostly boys, so a lot of baseball was played.
I had this blanket . . . (just call me Linus!) that I took with me EVERYWHERE. I even took it off to college with me; it was just that much a part of me. I now have the poor threadbare thing packed away, but you’ve got me thinking . . . this part of my life should be scrapbooked! lol
I guess I have to admit to being attached to my thumb (until I was almost 8–yikes!)
I don’t know about when I was a baby. I don’t think I was a thumb-sucker. But when I was four I had the ugliest stuffed monkey with plastic sneaker feet and plastic hands, one holding a banana. I loved that ugly monkey!
I didn’t have any special attachment, nor did I suck my thumb. I think that was probably a good thing because after my mom had me, she four boys. I think I needed my hands to defend myself
(Love all my brothers!!) Thanks for the chance to win!
Congratulations Noell! Love what you are doing to further the scrapbooking industry.
When I was little I was attached to my bottle!
Funny, I don’t remember being particularly attached to anything when I was younger. I do remember my brother’s little snippet of a blanket he called “dedo”. Why do I remember that so well? That’s surely a therapy session somewhere….
I do remember having a teddy bear (now named Mr. Sleepy by my 4yo son who ADORES it!) that I couldn’t part with when I was a little older. In fact, when I went to college and studied abroad, he came with me! That’s one well-traveled bear!
Nothing that I remember, or was ever told of. Congratulations on your award!
Congrats, Noell!
I had a ragdoll named Öppö.
I was going to say no but I vaguely remember a stuffed doll that ended up as a scrap of fabric. I think she had a name, but I don’t remember what it was. I do remember the day it was lost forever (I still suspect my aunt, who was a teenager at the time, made it disappear.) I got over it.
wow, your story is awesome Noell!!!! I’d love to win one of your prizes!!! Funny, when I was little, I loved my stuffed snoopy and slept with it all the time, even up to my teenage years
Congrats on your achievements!! Kristie
I don’t remember any special toy or blanket – wish I had a cool story to tell but, no, I’m pretty boring!
I was attached to a soft blanket. i took that thing everywhere!
I know my Mother always talks about how my brother had a blankie… apparently he took it everywhere – and in the end it got so grubby that Mom cut it into four pieces – so he’d always have one piece whilst the others were in the wash. She’s a bit of a neat freak
I on the other hand cannot recall having anything like that.
Congrats Noell! Thanks for the giveaway!
I wasn’t attached to anything when I was a baby.
I had a “blankie” with silky edges. I’m told that it became a very rag-tag mess before I finally gave it up! To this day, whenever I travel, I pack a favorite fleece blanket my daughter made for me a number of years ago….some habits never go away!
Congrats on the award and thanks for the awesome giveaways!
I knew of you and Paperclipping through iTunes slightly more than a year ago. Thoroughly enjoy the fresh ideas and tutorials! So I say, it’s a well-deserved nomination!!
I didn’t have any comfort item till I was, say, 5? It was a pink bear-ish stuffed toy I named Carmela. Even took her out for outings, etc.. I still have her in my boxes of stuffed animals somewhere…
I was hooked on my “binkie” (pacifier) until maybe 3 yrs or so? I left it with the milk and cookies for Santa Claus one year. What a genius idea from my Mom to get rid of it w/o too much fight! haha!
Congratulations on your selection! these are great giveaways too!
My earliest memory of being attached to an object: is being attached to a book. My mom for most of her life had been short of money and as kids, we were practically raised in the library. It was a very frugal place. I’m finding a certain symmetry to this whole thought process. I’ve been moving into my current home for about 10 months; I was at Ikea yesterday buying more bookcases. Can you ever have too many books or bookcases?
I was attached to a purple quilt. I could not sleep without it and was 13 years old before I let go of it. It was the quilt on my mother’s bed that she used to snuggle with us. I took possession of it when she died. I could feel her wrapping her arms around me each night went I fell asleep.
My right index finger curled up and sucked upon while holding the silky edge of my blanket. Even now, thinking about it, it makes me feel happy.
I had what I called a “suck-a-pillow”. It was just a winnie the pooh pillow and pillow case, but I would hold the pillowcase between my first and middle finger and push it up against my nose. Then I would breathe into it like an oxygen machine. I am 35 now and still have the pillow. I also had a stuffed dog that I named cuddles. Never gave him up, he went to college with me, to the hospital when I had both my babies and now sits in my daughter’s room. Thanks for the chance to win.
Congratulations Noell for being nominated!!
I was attached to a puppy (a grey rabbit), but I lost it when I moved to another flat, so after that “anything else” would “attache me”… This is my story.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
I had a blanket I called my Bah Bah blanket (because it had sheep on it). Then mysteriously, one day it had disappeared. I loved that blanket and I remember wondering where it went, but it didn’t take very long for me to forget about it. As a matter of fact I had totally forgotten about it until I was in college.
I was a stuffed animal girl but I didn’t have just one favorite-I frequently changed my mind. (Not much has changed as I’ve grown older!)
Oh I was so attached to my thumb and my satin-edged blankies. I had a callous on my thumb from my teeth until I was 30! I loved to rub that smooth satin across my upper lip with my index finger. So soothing and relaxing! I still love that feeling today!
I was attached to any stuffed animal! I always had to go to bed with the one that I liked the most at that time! Thanks for the give aways!
I was attached to my thumb and my pillow. Thanks for the giveaways…and Congratulations!
I was attached to a scrunchy bear growing up it was a bear that shoprite would sell at christmas time years ago now you can get them whenever. My mom always hada backup just in case he got lost.
Congrats on MISA. I wasn’t allowed to have any “security blanket” type things.
I had a stuffed bear given to me by my older sister. One side had a happy faced bear, the other sad.
I’m a little ashamed to say I was attached to a blanket – until my first year of college :0
That’s when I met a certain man (now my husband) and decided I needed to ditch the blanket.
Definitely attached to my thumb – it took a long time to give it up! I also remember a monkey stuffed animal named Clifton that I think was probably my constant companion for several years.
Hmm..I don’t remember anything that I was attached to but both my girls sucked their thumbs until they were around four. Loved the feel of them snuggling on my shoulder, sucking thumbs and playing with my ear!!
I don’t remember anything special–I always loved paper though, especially masks and dolls.
Congratulations! I had a fav blankie that I was totally attached to. It was loved and mended and mended until the material was falling apart. I still miss that thing. LOL.
I had a pink elephant. I still remember the day she came out of the washer in pieces. I was devastated. On an up note – my Mom recently found a picture of my room with the pink elephant sitting on the bed. Sometimes the clutter in our pics isn’t a bad thing.
I definitely had a special blanket – one my mom quilted for me. SHe also made a doll-sized one! It had a special place in my bed until….highschool! yikes!
(weird since I am fiercely independent!)
Congratulations! You deserve it!
Congratulations on your big & well deserved honor! I had the cutest little light pink blankie that I was attached to…but it must have gotten thrown away at some point because I don’t still have it. I wish I did, though. I could have passed it on to my daughter, or framed it, or at least taken a picture of it and scrapped about it!
oops! Stuffed donkey and binky
I can’t really remember that well (it was a long time ago) but there’s a distant recollection of having a cot full of dolls. There was probably only a couple and I still have 2 of them.
confrat for your nomination .. and thanks for the giveway
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So when I was a child I was attatch to my thumb and my little “pink rabbit stuffed toy” .. and to tell you the truth . ;my rabbit is still “hide” in my bedroom
Congrats to you Noell. I’m a subscriber to Paperclipping and PRT and have attended one of your live web shows too so I’m really happy to see you recognised like this.
I’ve always been independent and never really had a security thing but my 7 year old son is very attached to his “Cheeky” rabbit
I had my Dad’s old Kermit the Frog puppet. I would carry it around and say it was my brother. At that point, my parents decided I needed a sibling
I was attached to my thumb. Maybe a blankie? But I definitely still have my thumb!
Like my 7 year old son I loved my thumb! I didn’t have a blankie or any toy that I was attached to in case I might leave it behind – anyway, who needed one when your thumb is utterly portable and really difficult to lose?!
Many congratulations on your well deserved recognition! What an amazing prize – the lucky winner will have Christmas in July!
Congrats on the nomination!!
I was very attached to a stuffed Minnie Mouse doll when I was little. I took that doll to school with me everyday in first grade. I even took her with me to the cafeteria for lunch. At some point that year, I started earning a sticker for every day I let Minnie stay at home. Why are stickers such a powerful reward? I still have Minnie, although she’s packed away now. Might have to go check on her!
I was attached to a pacifier, but when I turned 3 the “birthday man” came and took it away. No permanent damage done.
I had a blankie
A ratty yellow blankie with flowers on it. Thanks for the memory…I had forgotten all about it. I’ll have to dig up a photo. Congratulations on your nomination!
I was attached to my thumb until my Mom said I couldn’t go to Kindergarten if I sucked my thumb!
Congrats on your nomination!
Great ideas, and awesome giveaways. Thanks!
Congrats. I was attached to my thumb until the 3rd grade, when pierced ears became more coveted than my thumb and I gave it up.
Okay, so I was not really super attached to any one item, unless you count my mom! One day in first grade she dropped me off at school and I bit my teacher’s hand to try to get away from him and go with her!
Now my kids have gone through stages of the clingy-ness!
To my knowledge, I wasn’t attached to anything as a child — when I grew older, I “tried” to create an attachment — but it didn’t stick. So – I guess I’m one of the independent ones!
I had a stuffed lion that I named “Tigger” – I am sure after the Disney T-i-double ‘guh -er. But it didn’t look anything like the real Tigger – guess I just liked the name!
Congrats on being one of the 9 scrappers – hugs!
Congratulations for the nomination.
I didn’t have a thing I was attached to. I was attached to my tonguetip. I had it between my lips in a special way and when I became older it turned out my teeth where wrongly aligned by it.
I had a blue elephant. My sister had and still has (at 45) the satin ribbon off a blanket. My mum cut it off when she realized it was only the ribbon that she used! The “addie” as it was called remains in the pocket of her donkey which sits on her bed everyday! My elephant I have no clue what happened to him! Hope I can win and don’t tell me sister I told!
I had a pillowcase with little pink roses on it, weird but that was my lovey. I carried it with me all the time. In the summer my mom would put it in the freezer for a few minutes to get it nice and cool to snuggle with
I don’t think I was attached to anything. I remember a small ragged gold teddy bear that was in a couple of pictures but I was small decades ago and have no mom now to ask. My daughter slept with her baby blanket until her senior year in high school. She left it at a hotel in Disney World and was crushed. She still doesn’t want to talk about it two years later.
I remember this stuffed bunny with a rubber face. My Mom found it a while back. He was as big as I was on my first Easter. Thanks for your scrapbooking ideas!
Congrats!
I was pretty independent, I think… I don’t remember being attached to anything.
Oh, yes, except mine wasn’t a blanket. My mom had to wear a ‘smock’ at her job at Singleton’s and I would make her wear it at home. Just so I could sit on her lap and twirl is around my fingers while sucking my other fingers. I had a whole set up. In fact when my mom quit the job, the manager let her keep it just so I would have it. How sweet is that? Wonder where it is now? I still remember it! light blue and sooo soft!
I was attached to a blanket that would never be out of my sight.
WHen I was little I was most attached to my cocker spaniel dog, a little blond dog called Junior. I learned to walk by holding on to Junior. Junior was very patient.
Congratulations! I was very attached to a blanket when I was younger. It even rode in my pillowcase on sleepovers!
- Courtney
I have no recollection of being attached to anything and don’t remember by Mom ever saying is was. I am 71 years old so no way of confirming this as my Mom has been gone for some years.
I had a stuffed frog called Pete. He fell apart a long time ago but he is in a little plastic bag in my closet…38 years later
I really need to do a page about him.
I was attached to a to a piece of cloth (it was the time o cloth diapers back then…) that I called baby. My mom had to wash it and dry it at night while I was asleep.
Congratulations, Noelll!
I was very independent as a child – no blanket or toy for me!
I was very attached to my thumb and my Lambie (at the same time:)
Congratulations on winning one of the MISA!!
I was a thumb-sucker for a long time and then, magically, I just didn’t want to do it anymore. Then I started collecting unicorns. Correlation? I’m not sure, but the unicorn collection is still in my attic…I just can’t part with it!
I don’t remember this, but my mom has told me numerous times about my teddy bear that I could not sleep without. I loved the bear very much…so much so that I would twirl the fur with my fingers for comfort. I did that until the fur came off and then I would eat it (I know – gross – and I wouldn’t do it now of course) My bear ended up being bald very quickly and as a result, I had to loose the bear.
Thanks for the chance to win.
Congrats, Noell!
I had a teddy bear (named, creatively, Teddy) that I was attached to, especially at night. He’s extremely tattered and patched, but I still have him!
Congratulations!!! I was all about being independent, so I wasn’t attached to anything. LOL Thanks for the awesome give-aways.
I was attatched to a pink satin blankie (well it was actually a long dress) I wouldn’t go to sleep without it. I love the feel of satin. I am pretty sure I still have it still!
No special toy or blanket here until my sister was born a year later, and then, I wanted whatever she had
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My thumb! I don’t know why it kept me secure but it did and I was able to take it everywhere. LOL
I was not attached to anything, all four of my children however loved there waffle blankets:)
I had a stuffed unicorn that I could not live without. Got it when I was four and it was practically the same size as me. Still have him, even though he’s lost over half his stuffing
Both of my girls have her treasured “sheepy”, and I often wonder why I didn’t have something equally as special…but I didn’t…love your blog…love your idea of removing the TV…I’ll be adding you to my “must reads”!
I never walked around with a blanket but I always had a favorite that I liked to sleep with. I remember that they came as a set of two and amazingly, one has still survived.(i’m 44, so that’s a pretty long time)I always curl up with it while I am under the weather and it always makes me feel closer to my mother.
congratulations!
i had a few special stuffed animals when i was little, but i was never particularly attached to them.
I did not have a special blanket or stuffed animal either, at least not that I remember! I will have to ask my mom and see what she remembers.
I was definitely too independent to have a “night night friend” as my girls call them, which is why I love watching my girls with their special things. My older daughter has a duck named Lulu whose color has been rubbed off completely (and her ribbon literally disappeared) from loving and rubbing her so much, and my younger has a blankie named Cici that, when I do get it away from her to wash, she immediately dirties so it smells just right again.
Congrats on the scrapbooking honor!
I didn’t have a blanket, but I did always have my Jenny doll. I actually still have it, it is in my hope chest in the bedroom. Not that she sees the light of day anymore with a house full of boys.
Thumb sucking – and having a REALLY soft hankie that I could rub under my nose whilst sucking my thumb. Wow, that actually sounds like I was bit kooky when I type it out like that!
I dont recall being attached to anything necessarily for comfort, however, I did have a favorite toy. A yellow tonka truck. I loved to play with it outside – using my imagination to pave roads, build forts, etc. It was a dump truck and I loved the movement and what I could do with it. I suppose I should have been an engineer. My other favorite childhood thing was a jumper dress combo. It had apples on the dress portion and then the jumper was cordoroy with a large red apple as a pocket with a long piece of ribbon as a stem that went shoulder to the pocket. I wonder where I get my love of texture? Interesting question and look forward to hearing about your story.
Nothing! I wasn’t attached to anything!
I guess that’s a good thing? I’m not sure.
Congratulations – I had a special teddy bear that I always had to have with me…I still have him a “few” years later – only now I can leave the house without him!
I wasn’t really attached to anything, but the blanket on the double bed was super soft and I always rubbed on my cheek at night. Thanks for the chance to win and congrats to you!!
Until Mom took it away, I loved my soother. I don’t have any memory of my own, but have plenty of stories that have been told countell times.
And, Congratulations Noell!!!
Congrats, Noell!! I was excited to find you on the list – well deserved! I was attached to my green blankie (don’t tell, I still have it stashed away in a closet). In fact I remember bringing it on vacation when I was little once and leaving it in the hotel. My parents (bless them!) called and had it shipped back to us at home. I loved that nasty polyester thing!
I was attached to a really old stuffed (or may I say formerly stuffed) dog that belonged to my dad and then my uncle when they were little. I could not sleep without it. I also needed a blankie and sucked my thumb. When I was around 8-9 years old, I decided they were no longer necessary. I still have the poor but very much loved doggie in a drawer.
I was most definately attached to my blankey! It was a soft yellow flannel with satin border. I even took it to college with me and slept with it tucked under my pillow.
I had a brown teddy that I was quite attached to…But I don’t know that I dragged it around with me or anything, it was just my favorite one to sleep with. As for the rest of my stuffed animals, they would all live on the top bunk when I was sleeping on the bottom…and then we would switch bunks every few days to make it fair.
Congrats Noell on a well deserved award!
I had a white blanket that I slept with every night until I was in grade 1. When I turned 6, I had to go to hospital for surgery. When the doctors came into my room, I wanted to show them I was a “big girl”, so I hid my blanket underneath the covers. The blanket was lost in the mix of sheets and I never saw it again. I didn’t have any other transititional object, after that I was pretty independant.
Congrats! I was attached to my stuffed monkey that my dad had given me
I was attached to a doll named Mandy. My mom saved it, and I gave it to my younger daughter. She loved it even more than me – it went absolutely everywhere with her. Sad, though – I brought it up to her the other day and she doesn’t even remember it!
Congratulations, Noell! I’m so thrilled for you.
It’s not the same as a blanket or stuffed animal, but when I was a baby, I was “attached” to water. When I was fussy, Mom would give me a bath, and I would cheer right up. As a little girl, I was the last one out of the water at the beach.
Thanks for the chance to win!
I had a pink elephant that my cousin gave me when I was three months old. Pinky was my sleeping buddy and I loved him. I actually still have him and he’s been with me all around the world. He has retired with my mom now so I see him when I go home to visit.
Congratulations Noelle! And thank you for the chance to win. Dana
I used to suck my middle and ring fingers while I rubbed my nose with my index finger. Totally random, I know!
Congratulations on the nomination Noell!
Congratulations, Noell!
I used to have a blanket that I was attached to when I was young…It had a pink rose pattern on it, and I called it “puff” (though I have no clue why). I also had a stuffed rabbit that I called “green rabbit” who went everywhere with me…back in the day.
Definitely my thumb, lol. My mom had the HARDEST time getting me to stop sucking it too! I’m soooo glad neither of my daughters had that problem.
Thanks for the chance to win and congrats on your great accomplishment!!
- April W
Congratulations!!! I’m delighted to have found your blog through this! I was definitely attached to my thumb … so much so that by third grade I had to have a corrective retainer for my overbite. It was purple.
I had a stuffed dog named Morgan that I just loved, and actually still have!!
I was too busy being a tom boy to be attached to anything really. It was a battle of my mother and I trying to get me all girly but that didn’t happen till I hit my twenties LOL
You know, not that I would remember from that long ago…heck, I can’t even remember what happened last week! But my mom said I was pretty independent, and had nothing…I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but I am still that way. I love doing things with friends and family, but I still have my alone time for crafting, reading and walking. (unless you count my ipod!)
Hey Noell congrats !! I was attached to my blankie & would rub it with my thumb & sometimes on my lips !!! I think my mom really struggled for me to give up on it !!!
Thanks for a chance to win !
I’m an independent girl! Hear me roar!
I was attached to my Grandpa growing up. We lived right next door to him and my Grandma, and I spent hours upon hours at their house playing cards and listening to his stories. I miss him terribly still, though he’s been gone for over 16 years already.
I absolutely had my blankie and a favorite doll. My grandmother crocheted the blanket (and fixed many holes over the years) and I slept with it until I was 8 or so. The doll was a Madame Alexander little huggums with a soft body and plastic head. I named him after my daddy and carried him around for ages. My grandmother even had to make him a new body when I wore him out — but she put in the squeaker from the old body so he would still make sounds when I patted his back.
Congrats! I was attached to a blanket my mother made for me. It was about the size of a twin bed blanket and it was Holly Hobbie print with flowers on the underside. I had that blanket forever and than my eldest son used it but I have no idea where it wound up. That blanket shared all my happy and sad times.
I was attached to a little plastic doll I named “Baldy” (because I cut off ALL her hair, of course!) LOL
I loved that doll so much. My mom made doll clothes for me, and I took her everywhere. I think having her, planted the seed that I would love being a mom!
Thanks for the chance!
I can’t remember anything that I was attached to but my daughter was attachedto the “silky” part of her blanket. When she didn’t have the blanket with her she used her “silky underpants’. After that we cut a piecee of the ribbon off the blanket and she kept jt in her little purse.
Congratulations on the MISA! Well done!
I was such a thumb sucker! I carried on until I was 10 (nearly 11) until the day I had my brace fitted by the orthodontist. I never sucked my thumb again from that moment (can’t say it wasn’t hard!!!) I had a blanket or rather the satin bindings of a blanket for many years that I called a “goy” – I have no idea why! I guess I should ask my mum! Maybe that is a scrapbook page in the making!
I really didn’t have anything that I was attached to as a child. Everyone else always had one, but not me.
Congrats on the honor. I was attached to a yellow Care Bear(Sunshine) my father gave me. I slept with it every night and even took it to college with me. I only gave it up when I started sharing a bed with my DH
Congratulations!
I was very attached to “Pink Dollie”. She has a fabric body and a plastic face and her head is pointy. I still have her, and she has been gray for about 30 years! She sits on my shelf in my scrapbook area, but i have to turn her head away from my husband’s work area so that she doesn’t stare at him. Pink Dollie freaks him out.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Congratulations!
As a child I was totally attached to my Monchhichi monkey. I thought it was the cuties thing ever. Actually I still do…
I don’t think I was attached to anything…which may explain a lot…Hmmmm.
I was never a doll or stuffed animal person, and my mom is the most meticulous person I’ve ever met, so I can’t imagine her letting any of us drag around a blanket. Of course, I was the 3rd of 4, so maybe always being surrounded by people was comforting enough? Interesting question.
I don’t remember when I was really young but from age two on I always had a babydoll in my hand…
I was attached to a baby blanket and pillow set…mostly the pillow. I had forgotten about that for a while…it was a serious love! Thanks for the giveaways…GOOD fun!
Hey Noel! Congrats!! I love the PRT and listen weekly. I would love to win a spot in the photography class. The prizes are awesome.
I honestly don’t remember being attached to any one thing. My kids both have blankies they have slept with since birth. My daughter has a special bear she has slept with forever.
I loved to twiddle my dad’s hair between my fingers. Also had a stuffed kitten that I rubbed off all the fur!
Congratulations for your nomination!!!
I had one doll that were bigger than me. That was one huge doll! I would carry her all over in the house and she would sleep with me at night.
I was attached to my thumb until my mom told me it was shrinking and I stopped immediately!
I had a little square shaped bunny pillow with two long ears as a baby…I still have it.
From elementary school until college (!!) I slept with a stuffed toucan – it had a long beak that I could put under my neck. Who needs a pillow? vb
Congratulations Noelle!
hmmm – I had a stuffed monkey (Zippy) for a bit. . .and a lamb. . .but nothing stands out that I remember all on my own (with no aid form pictures or my mom)
btw – congratulations – I agree that you are a big influencer int he scrapbook community. =)
Hillary
I had a blankie when I was little. I slept with it every night for a long time. I don’t think I gave it up until I moved in with my now husband right after high school. I still have it though – just can’t get rid of it
I wasn’t attached to a blanket, but I had a pacifier, called my plug, that I didn’t want to get rid of. At 3 my parents took it away and i screamed for 3 days straight.
I had my Teddy……I still have him and he still plays music when you wind him up!!!! Congrats~Noell!!!
I had a blankie that I loves and carried everywhere. When my brother was born I passed it on to him. Believe it or not, he is 31 this year and still has the blanket!
Congrats-well deserved recognition!
Congratulations Noell. As for baby comforter, I was a very self contained child and didn’t have anything, though I must have realised I was missing out on something because all of my children did.
Congratulations on your nomination! I’m pretty sure I did not have any childhood attachments. It’s funny because both of my kids had serious attachments to stuffed animals.
I sucked my thumb and had a ‘gonk’ which I loved and went everywhere with me until the age of 10, when I was convinced ants had got into my gonk and as I couldn’t cuddle gonk without sucking my thumb I stopped sucking my thumb! Congratulations on your award and thanks for the chance to win
I don’t remember a strong attachment for myself but my next sister had a fuzzy bear named Duzzy with a blue ribbon around his neck that she carried everywhere. My girls loved their special blankies.
Congratulations and thanks for your Roundtable and the Digi Show!
Found your site via Cathy Zielske’s, and I have to say — how did I not know about you before?! I’m totally enamored.
I was attached to a blankie of sorts — I think I slept with it until I was 10 or 11.
I was attached to my thumb, but my real security attachment was to my dad and that continued to this day! He died at the end of April and I have felt kind of lost since.
Hi Noell,
Awesome on being an influential scrapper. To answer your question, I don’t recall having an attachment to anyone stuffed animal as a child. I know I didn’t have a pacifier or favorite blanket either. As I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten more sentimental about items, but not as a child.
My mom encouraged independence as we traveled a lot and I don’t think she wanted to have to remember blankies and such. I am the opposite now – I highly encourage special snuggly items; makes new places less scary!
I had a blanket, but I wasn’t attached. I was fairly attached to the pacifier until my parents “accidentally” lost it when I was two. I’d say that more than anything, I was attached to my mom… and now I have my own Little Shadow who follows me everywhere and does everything I do.
Congratulations! This is my first time visiting your site and I found your story interesting. I’ll check back again! Wonderful giveaways!
My mom tells me I was very attached to a pacifier and would twirl it around in my mouth with my tongue as I scooted around the floor on my bum! She cut the tip off trying to get me off of it, but I didn’t mind and was still attached to it!
Hmmm….no stories of me being attached to anything special….pretty independent here.
Can’t wait to read your story tomorrow.
Congrats!!!
I was a thumbsucker from the beginning and until I was way to old, about 10. Of course at that age it was only in front of the TV. My parents plan for stopping me was to give me .25 cents everyday I refrained. It worked and I bought my first record player with the money.
Congratulations!
I had a little red pillow that I slept with every night. I still have it in my hope chest.
I had a cloth diaper that I carried everywhere with me and sucked my thumb too!
My mother use to tell me that I was never attached to just one thing, it was everything. She said i would change my mind in second and have to have that one item with me right then and there…..I was a handful!
I do not remember having any special attachment toy. Maybe there was a doll or two along the way, but none that I can specifically remember. Thanks for a chance to win.
Congratulations, Noelle! I am a digital scrapper, but I always learn something from you!
I can’t remember being attached to anything (I don’t have many childhood memories). But, when scanning years and years of family photos, I came across a sweet picture of me about 2 yers old and my older sister, about 13, showing clearly that I was attached to her very firmly. Made me very happy.
Congratulations Noell!! I was so attached to my thumb that my mom had the dentist attach this metal prong piece to the roof of my mouth which kept me from even attempting to suck my thumb. That would explain why I gave my boys binkies at birth.
Apparently I wasn’t attached to any one thing. My son — that’s another story. He has these two blue blankies that he still (at the age of 7) likes to have with him to go to sleep. Pretty cute, and it doesn’t interfere with his manly reputation in public.
Congrats, Noell! I’ve so enjoyed the roundtables and your series of posts on scrapping vacation albums.
I was attached to my thumb, an expensive attachment when it led to braces years later…
I remember a yellow Teddy bear that was ragged and thread worn. He must have been my favorite because he was well loved. Thanks for the chance to win.
I was soooooo attached to my thumb AND a blanket with a wide satin border. My mom said I was GREAT on long road trips ’cause with those two things I was happy as a clam!
I was attached to my baby blanket1 I couldnt even sleep at night without it! I think I was 10 when my mom took it.
Lanks for the chance to win,
Becca
According to my mom, I did have a teddy bear I was pretty attached to, but she can’t remember what happened to it (and neither can I!).
I had a large assortment of dolls and stuffed animals, but I don’t recall an attachment to any one in particular. Maybe I had too many to pick a favorite?
I was not attached to anything either….I was independent then and still am today
My daughter (5) on the other hand, has to have her blankie wherever we go. We once bought her a “back-up” one so we could trade them off and wash them, but she found out that she had two of them and then she had to have both of them with her.
No “physical” attachment… but a few imaginary friends! I was lucky enough to be read to by my mother and grandmother and aunt and I “played” often with Heidi and Laura Ingalls and Raggedy Ann and Andy. I had conversations with the Bobbsey Twins and the Happy Hollisters before I fell asleep at night. And I don’t think I ever outgrew literary “friends.” I still hold convos with Sookie and Dana Sue and Scarlett!
Oh yes, I had a blankie that I used to bring everywhere and I sucked my thumb. I remember my mom telling me that kindergartners don’t have a blankie or suck their thumbs so I was forced to stop because of peer pressure.
Congratulations on being nominated and thanks for sharing your talents with us!
I had a ducky pillow. It was a pillow a friend of the family made, with a duck printed on satin on one side. When I was 12 and had back surgery, I wanted my ducky pillow in the hospital with me. I removed all the yucky stuffing, but I still have the ducky pillow casing!
My sister was attached to a cloth diaper. Sad, isn’t it?
Hello! Thank you for the chance to win
I don’t remember having a “lovey” of any sort when I was little, though tere was a particular Disney tshirt that I wore for at least 3 years, from about 2 through 4 (when waaaay too much tummy showed)
As far as I know, I wasn’t attached to anything. I know for sure that I didn’t suck my thumb or fingers. I’ve been thinking about this topic a lot lately, as my 22-month old is very attached to his blanket, and I’m wondering how hard it will be to wean him off of it before he goes to school!
I had a little teddy bear that I loved so much his face was worn off!
I was attached to a small teddy bear I carried everywhere, wouldn’t go aywhere without it! I still had this bear into my teens, after many repairs, I finally had to give it up, thread bare & falling apart!
I was attached to my favorite doll, Lauren. I got her for Christmas when I was 2 and I wouldn’t let her out of my sight for years! She wore my old baby clothes (I was tiny!) I loved her so hard that she lost one of her eyes, so I carried her around with a big ol’ gauze patch taped over her eye, until finally my mom couldn’t take all of the puzzled stares and sent her to the doll hospital for an “eye transplant”! Now that I’m a grown-up, Lauren still lives at my mom’s house, but whenever I go home and have a minute of alone time in my bedroom, I always give her a hug & kiss her plastic forehead!
Cograts on this honor. I love my Paperclipping membership and listen to Roundtable faithfully. I guess I was too busy telling everyone what to do when I was young to have any attachments to a blanket or thumb.
I had a rainbow blankie that had fringe all the way around it, and I called it my “sheep blanket”, because I would use it to “count sheep” as I feel asleep, which (for some reason to my childhood imagination) meant counting the individual strands of fringe, which I called sheep.
I was a weird kid.
I had a blankie – it’s still in the garage in a box of childhood mementos, and a pacifier. The only reason I gave up the pacifier was that my younger sister (by three years!!) did NOT need a pacifier, and my dad told me that Santa would bring my Big Girl Toys to her – not me! I gave them both up at that time. Every once in a while I run into my blanket – it’s all braided together because it had fallen apart.
I was indeed attached to a small stuffed animal – it was a seal. It had a golden locket bracelet that it wore as a necklace. I don’t remember that the seal had a name, but I do remember telling it my deepest darkest secrets.
I really don’t know. That is a good question. I’m going to have to ask my mom!
I remember my sister being attached to a stuffed kitty, but I don’t remember anything special to me! Hmmm…
My thumb was my friend, now its my daughter’s turn
I had a doll named Joanie Carol. I still have her – she sits on a shelf in our bonus room (play room/scrap room).
I just discovered your blog through Ella, congrats!
I had a White ‘blankie’. There was silk trim around the edge. Also I had a rainbow Care Bear, which I still own (although he is very shabby now). We left him behind in a hotel in Hong Kong once, on the way to the airport my mum had To get the taxi to turn around, I remember it quite clearly!
I don’t think I had any attachments, but my kids all have a silk scarf of mine that they sleep with – started when they were little and they liked to rub my silky nightshirts.
I had a yellow blanket with satin trim, oh how I loved that blankie. It’s in a trunk somewhere still! Congrats on the nomination!
In almost every picture of me when I was little is my Mrs. Beasley doll. She went everywhere with me.
LOVE this question, Noell! I was super attached to my “horseys” Breyer statues,but they aren’t very cuddlesome, so I had a little grey bear that one of my older sisters made in a middle school Home Ec class. I adored that little bear – wish I still had it… [sigh].
I had a Ragedy Ann doll that I was pretty attached to. I still have her and keep meaning to do a layout of her.
I had a baby blanket I loved and kept on my bed until I was in my teens! I didn’t need to take it with me on trips but it was sure nice to see it on my bed when we would return home.
I actually had to call my parents because I couldn’t remember! Apparently I was an independent little girl and I did not have a specific object I needed in order to sleep. My 7 year old son, however, is still attached to three of the receiving blankets we had when he was born.
As a toddler my parents took me to the toy store and picked out a cute pink bunny that you wound up to play music. Apparently I wanted nothing to do with this little stuffed toy because I was all over this brown ugly raccoon. I kept that raccoon for years and still have it to this day (decades later) in a box packed away, haha.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Cheers,
Lisa
Wow, what a great honor. Congratulations. In answer to the question…. my thumb is the only thing I remember.
I was not attached to any material thing. I have a twin sister-I was probably too attached to her! Thanks for a chance to win!
I wasn’t attached to anything that I remember, but all four of my kids need their favorite blankets to sleep (up to age 10!).
I really can not remember being attached to any one item. I would usually only last a short time with any one thing. Funny, most of my kids are the same way!
Thanks for the chance to win, and congrats on your MISA! I wasn’t attached to anything as a child, but both of my kiddos still have their baby blankets.
I had a green (?!) bunnie. I recall the car being turned around to get the binnie that was left and Grandma’s house. Dad was NOT happy!
a blanket – i still have it!
I still hear stories about my dependence on a pacifier. My “binky”. I even got to the point where I would chew on them, throw them away, and then ask for a new one. My mom put an end to them at that point. After that I had a favorite stuffed animal or doll – my pink bunny and a Raggedy Ann doll were my faves – both of whom I still have even though they look pretty bad. Both saw more than their fair share of childhood tears. Angela
As a child, I was attached to a small pillow even up to (would you believe it) high school?! Pathetic huh? I couldn’t sleep without hugging it.
i had a blanket that i loved. i still remember my mom finally getting rid of the last bit of if (probably a 2×2 square). it was VERY traumatic. i do still have my 1st/favorite stuffy though, a sweet little lamb named, oddly enough, lamby!
Nope. No attachments as a child. Well, not to things, anyway. I was hugely attached to my family, and I still am.
I had a stuffed beaver named Frankie the Keener Beaver. weird, right?! (My mom said the store was out of teddy bears.)
I didn’t really have anything.
Thanks for the opportunity!
I had a “mankie” — which is what I called my blanket, and you could not convince me I was pronouncing it wrong. I apparently picked at its fuzz in my sleep and it became so threadbare that my mom “made it disappear.” We joke now that when I have to go to therapy, it will all be because she threw my mankie away. I’m 40 now, and she recently found a blanket just like it, so she bought me a new “mankie.” I love it! (Oh, and over the years, pretty much all of my blankets have become threadbare thanks to my fuzz-picking habit while I sleep. Some things never change.)
I was attached to a stuffed dog I first named Baby and then changed to Stanley. I slept with him every night until I was probably 5 or so and then he was displayed in my room on a shelf. I would take him down whenever I needed a shoulder to cry on or someone just to listen. I still have him although he is losing his stuffing and has been repaired several times. I don’t think I will ever get rid of him.
I was pretty independent; I never had a blanket or a stuffed animal I had to have with me.
Congratulations!
I was attached to my thumb and had a hard time giving it up. I only had one thumb-sucker child and have always wished for more. I think thumb-suckers are very unique people!
I had my thumb and my “bobby” (ratty, old, stinky, cotton, knit, piece of a blanket). It had to be held by the same hand that was having it’s thumb sucked…the right one.
I did earn a stuffed animal(lamb) and a pair of roller-skates for giving it all up before 2nd grade!!!
I have given your question some thought, and I don’t seem to be able to remember having any sort of attachment to any one thing. I remember playing with things, especially dolls. My parents bought a large trunk-type case, and stored several of my favorites inside. I still have it. It contains dolls, stuffed animals, doll blankets that my mom crocheted around the edges of. I cherish all these items, especially the blankets, as my mother passed away when I was only 13.
I was attached to both blankie and thumb. In fact I stuck my thumb through a hole in my blanket and then sucked on it. That is until my grandma noticed the hole and repaired it. Thumb sucking cured. And I’m told that I didn’t care for my blanket after that either. Congrats on the nomination!
Wow I wasn’t attached to an object, unlike my baby sister who had an organe knit blanket that ended up a tiny ball of fluff after many years ~ I swear she ate it!!!
I don’t remember this, but I was very attached to my pacifier. My mother tied them with yarn and would hang them around my neck so that I wouldn’t lose them. There’s one picture of me with 1 in my mouth and the other hanging around my neck.
I’m afraid I had a dummy (I think that’s a pacifier in the states ?) nothing else, unlike my youngest son who has an eight yr old cloth bear, a very worn, holey and stinky bear !!
Congratulations! I was attached to my left thumb; only the left thumb. I don’t remember a “lovey” but I suppose I had stuffed animal too. Thanks for the chance to win.
Congratulations on your nomination! I don’t remember if I was attached to it but I still have a handmade bear that plays music. He’s from a Swedish toy company and was really a splurge for my mom who was finishing her degree when she gave birth to me. I think that’s why I’m so attached to it now. He sleeps with my 2yo dd every night =)
I really enjoy your site.
Apparently, I was attached to cleanliness! My mom’s favorite story to tell of me was one day when I was a 2 year old playing outside, she could hear me screaming hysterically. She frantically ran out ready to come to my rescue–there I was with my little white corrective shoes standing in the middle of a mud puddle, about to hyperventilate over my filthy distress! And I have to confess, not much has changed–I still hate getting dirty!
I guess you’d say I was attached to a little lamb toy. It was plastic and had marbles on the bottom on its feet so that it would roll. I still have Lambie – she sits high on a shelf in my laundry room and makes me smile! Of course, she seemed so much bigger when I was so much littler.
Hey Noell, when I was little, I was attached to a stuffed animal . . . I (very non-creatively) named it Bambi (duh, yes, it was a deer) because I apparently liked the movie. More what I think I liked was the song of the movie titled April Showers because I think it was so cool to have my name in a song! LOL Thanks for the chance to win some awesome goodies, Noell!
Congrats on a very well deserved honor!
I had a blanket and a baby doll named Sally, I still have both and won’t let my little girl play with them because I don’t want her to ruin them, not sure what I am saving them for…..
I had a stuffed raccoon named Jimmy (I actually still have him on a shelf in my daughter’s room!) He went everywhere with me! The first time I went on a roller coaster I yelled the whole time, “Whoa Jimmy!” I’m certain the folks around me thought I was nuts
Congrats on such an amazing honor.
I don’t recall having an attachment to a material oject. But I agree with Melissa (comment #1) that would be a great topic to ask my mom about.
I don’t recall being attached to anything in particular although I may have been a thumb sucker (judging by my need for braces – 3 years – to correct an overbite). I also need to check with my mom to make sure.
I know you have influenced me. Congrats on the recognition. As a child I was attached to a lot of things. There was a blanket, and my thumb and at Christmas, I drug my little Christmas tree around like a blanket well after the new year. Blanket went a way pretty early, but the thumb sucking stayed until first grade. I manage to keep my Christmas tree in one place now.
I’m going to have to ask my mom, but I don’t remember clinging to anything, but then again my oldest memory is when I was five, so who knows. Now my son, on the other hand, has memories going back to the womb – he’s bizarre that way! And congrats on your well known and greatly appreciated papercrafting influence award! Very deserving!
I brown bear, with a silk ribbon around his neck. I still have that bear in my bedroom today. He just fit so ice against my chest and tummy and his arms could drape over my arm, the perfect snuggly bear.
I had a “blankie” which originally was a blanket, that had to be knotted up to stay together by the time I was 2-ish. I had that in my bed thru elementary school, and then in my closet thru my 20′s.
I was attached to a blanket… but more so to stuffed animals. I still am… my Patti Bear is my go to when I’m really upset. *grin*
Congratulations on your nomination! By the way it also provided the way to discover your site.
About my childhood attachment…I don’t really remember having one but my mom will probably know better.
Thanks for the chance of winning too.
It wasn’t so much when I was super little, but I had a Cabbage Patch doll named Benji. I was in and out of the hospital a lot in my mid-teens and Benji went wherever I did.
Congratulations, Noell! I love the Paperclipping Roundtables!
I had a stuffed elephant that an uncle gave me that I wore out…I think it was the inside of the ears that were pink satin that I love so much. The ears and tail had to be re-sewn on several times
When I was a kid I was attached to a baby blanket that my grandparents gave me the day I was born. It is pink and white with a unicorn on it. I still have it put away. I carried it EVERYWHERE with me up until I was a teenager. My dad’s best friend used to call me Linus because no matter what, I always had that blanket with me. I still love that blanket and I hope to pass it down, if I have kids in the future.
I was attached to a brown stuffed dog named, of course, Brownie. It was given to me by my father.
I had a little teddy bear with one good eye and one broken eye (orange glass). I was devastated when mum sucked the broken part up the vacuum cleaner!
I had a white and pink stuffed rabbit, Bunny Foo Foo. My mom kept it and my girls play with it today.
I just discovered your blog and paperclipping site. I have lots to explore. I don’t remember being attached to anything special when I was younger but I was a thumb sucker, so I guess I always had it with me.
Evidently, I had an attachment to a blanket with a beautiful soft pink satin binding. And I drug it around until it was in tatters. I don’t remember it but my mom swears by it!
I was definitely a blanket girl – waiting by the washer and outside on the line to dry. And come to think of it, I was sucking my thumb while I waited. Two-for one!
I had a blanket that I still have today, of course it is tucked away now. Congratulations
I was very attached to a cloth doll with a plastic head, feet and hands. I loved the clothes right off thing so it was a very strange looking doll. Especially after the hair got all matted
Don’t recall having an attachment to something…and none of my baby pictures show anything either. Probably just attached to my mom!
Congrats Noell! I think you are awesome (and belong in the book of awesome
) you are even more famous now! I wasn’t attached to any one stuffed animal but I did collect them. My Dad built three shelves on my wall in my room for me to put them all on and then I would take turns sleeping with them.
I guess I’m going to have to check with my Mom on this one
I remember my Chatty Cathy doll very well though so maybe that was one of the things I was always with. Congrats on being one of the nominees.
I had a large collection of stuffed animals that I was very attached to and would pick a different animal each day to carry around with me.
Oh man, I’m gonna enter and enter till I get those CZ templates. (Though Jessica Sprague or BPS classes sound awesome too.)
I loved stuffed animals. My Snoopy was a particular favorite – and I still have him, floppy neck and all.
Congrats to you on the award, too!
I sucked my fingers – first 2 fingers upside down. So strange! Plus I always had to have one of my Cabbage Patch Dolls with me – they travelled everywhere!
Congrats Noell (and Izzy) – I love the roundtable and digi podcasts! So inspiring!
I had a Teddy bear, that is now very worn, fixed many times, and shows much love! My own son now has a “lovey”, a scrap of soft blanket with a Pooh bear head in one corner! He can’t sleep without it!
I know I had a blankie, but I don’t think I was incredibly attached to it. I’ll have to call my mom and ask!
Congratulations Noel. I don’t remember being particularly attached to anything. My daughters do however..one has a blanket that goes everywhere with her and my youngest has a stuffed animal that she has to have with her to sleep.
I don’t recall having an attachment, although I do remember as I was a bit older (6-9 or so) sucking my thumb. Earlier than that it was probably a book, any book, but I’d have to check with my mother. Congrats on the spotlight!
I had a blankie I dragged around EVERYWHERE. My mom and I had constant arguments about it, because I’d refuse to leave it at home
I still have it in my hope chest. It’s threadbare and ragged from all the years of use 
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I had my blankie with me all throughout my growing up years. I tried to give it to a friend’s baby brother, but took it back two days later when I saw the friend using it instead. When I grew to big for it, it was placed at the foot of my bed – it even went to college with me. When I got married, it was retired to my Hope Chest – which remains at the foot of my bed… Always and Forever!
No blanket, thumb or stuffed animal for me. Can’t remember anything I was particularly attached to, just some favorite dolls I loved.
I had a doll at my grandmas house I was attached to. She actually gave me the doll a few years ago when she had to go into a nursing home. I keep it on the shelf in my closet, so I see her every day when I get dressed. Congrats and thanks for the chance to win!
I was attached to a blankie of sorts. It was actually a baby sheet, but I used it as a blankie
Congratulations! My comfort toy was a little stuffed brown dog that I used to carry with me everywhere! My mom has several photos of me carrying it around.
unfortunately i don’t remember a lot of little things like that from my childhood. as an abused child i learned to block things from my memories and unfortunately the good went with the bad.
I don’t remember having any form of “security” item when I was young. Being the oldest of 6 made me pretty independent. My mom depended on me to help her with my younger siblings
I don’t recall being attached to anything, but my Mom has mentioned that I always wanted to have a bottle to suck on (I think she put water or nothing in it).
Congratulations on your nomination. You deserve it! I love the Paperclipping Roundtable and would really love to win a six-month subscription to your video tutorials!
Congratulations on the recognition! You and Izzy make great videos and I love love love listening to the PRT. Keep up the great work!
I don’t remember being attached to anything (thumb, blanket or stuffed animal) so I just called my mom and she said she also doesn’t remember me being attached to any one thing. She said (and I remember) having lots of stuffed animals and Barbie dolls when I was little but there wasn’t one thing that I had to have. I can’t wait to hear your story.
Stuffed animals of all sorts were my thing. I LOVED to sleep with one nestled in my arms. All. the. way. through. college. Yeah, I said it.
I am so grateful for this blog tour. I had no idea how much you had out there in the scrapbook cyber-world, Noell! Congratulations on your honor.
Mine is strange…my mother’s hair was my attachment item. I loved to grab a handful of her hair. For some reason that eludes me now, that was what comforted me. And my two children have done the same exact thing. Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize!
Well, growing up I was not attached to anything. I don’t even think I had a baby blanket that was a main stay. I do remember a small Minnie Mouse pin I received as a gift that I still have…but oddly that is one of the only childhood items I can recall.
I was a thumb sucker and I also had a old stuffed animal that I call my Fuzzy…it was so worn that when I finally gave it up, it was only the head, the arms/legs had long ago lost its stuffing and was only fabric! LOL, thank you for giving me that long-ago-memory!
I was attached to a pink blanket knitted for me by my Aunt. I slept with it everynight until I was married. It is affectionately called “B” and still lives in my pajama drawer where I can look at it everynight before I go to bed.
Congratulations Noell! I’ve been listening to your Paperclipping Roundtable, but had never been to your blog. But I linked to it from Ella last Friday and read your post about not watching TV at your house. It made me think really hard about the amount of TV/movie watching going on at my house.
My comfort object when I was little was a stuffed animal that I called “Sleepy Dog.” He was white with a black felt nose and black felt eyes (shaped like quarter moons, to indicate that they were closed/asleep). I loved that dog so much, the nose and eyes fell off, and eventually all the fuzz came off too. It was only after my first child became attached to “Lamby,” a stuffed white lamb that I realized that my Sleep Dog was probably a lamb.
Sleepy Dog currently resides in a box in my mom’s basement. I should go get him; Sleep Dog and Lamby belong on a scrapbook page together. Plus, he’s probably lonely over there in that box…
I was both a thumb sucker and a blanket carrier. Usually couldn’t do one without the other. Congrats on the wonderful achievement!
I was an only child, so I was pretty independent. I don’t recall having a favorite blankie or anything that I always had with me.
I wasn’t attached to any particular toy/blanket/bolster.
in which I felt like perhaps there was a need to because
when I grew up, I found out that almost everyone had a
special something they cling onto when they were little.
it made me feel pretty left out. hmm.
I’m dating myself I know, but I remember that my twin sis & I always carried around our “Baby Drowsy” dolls for like forever! As a military brat, we weren’t allowed to keep too many toys but SHE was def my “lovie” when I was bout 3 YO…I have a vintage one in my studio!
I had a green blankie that was so worn, my mother had to work some sewing magic to put it back together several times. My daughter has it now. I also had Henry, a stuffed dog that looked a lot like Snoopy, but was brown. I still have him, also, but he is sitting in a honored place in my bedroom.
I was VERY attached to my stuffed monkey .. I loved that guy! Congrats on your award
A “tigger” as in “tigger & winnie the pooh.” I still have him. I think he is living in a modge podge of stuffies in my youngest daughters room. He still gives me a feeling of peace when I rub his still soft tail!
tammy
When I was little I was attached to my blanket that had a mommy duck and a baby duck on it. I think I loved it so much because my grandpa would have me sit on it and he would pull me around the living room and sing “The Lindsay Parade” (A song my Dad and Grandpa made up about me when I was litle. I still have that blanket but it’s now tattered from many years of use, the memories from that blanket are some of the last I have of my grandpa.
Congrats Noell! You so deserve this. I love your roundtable discussions. I even listen to them at work sometimes. I did have a baby blanket but I didn’t carry everywhere I went. I still have that baby blanket but my son didn’t get attached to it either.
I really liked my Baby Beanies doll.
Congrats! I am new to your blog but I will definitely be a follower now. Thanks for the inspiration. I can’t really remember an attachment…maybe pooh bear.
Congratulations! I was attached to both a blanket and a doll and I was a thumbsucker. My goodness, I must have needed a lot of comforting when I was a kid.
I was attached to a blanket, my “bankey” to be more exact. LOL! I loved that little tattered thing to pieces. . . literally! Finally had to throw away the small piece that was left. (sniff) Anyway, Congrats Noell! I am addicted to Paperclipping Roundtable! Thanks for a great show every week!
I was very attached to my bottle, didn’t have to have anything in it, just had to have it with me.
I used to suck two fingers. Yes, I know, what a weird kid. My mom tried lots of things to get me to stop. I think it might have been the hot peppers that finally got me unhooked.
I had a Baby named “Honey”. Im pretty sure if I could find her I would still have my Baby Honey stashed in my purse. Haha
I was definitely a thumb sucker – My mom said I’d just point and grunt for the first two years of my life because I wouldn’t pull my thumb out of my mouth!! LOL Congrats on the nomination!!
YES i carried a blankie around, it was definatley my comfort peice, i loved the way it felt and smelled, one of my favorite things from childhood. unfortualtley i overused it and ripped it to shreds all i have left is a 12×2 inch peice left, and i still sleep with it at night and it is still one of my greatest sources of comfort!
Megan
I was not attached to anything as a toddler.
I had a sheep toy I called Russ:) went nowhere without him!! well done on your nomination.
I LOVED my bunny and my 4 year old found him last week. Better than my DH “Larry Bear” that he cut all the hair off. He named him after his Uncle Larry because he is bald.
I was a die hard Winnie the Pooh fanatic. I got a stuffed Pooh when I was 4 and carried it with me everywhere.
And yes I still have it. He’s tucked away in the top of my closet for safe keeping…and the occasional hug.
First congrats to you Noell! I found you (and PRT) through Ali Edwards and I am so glad I checked it out. Now I am there each week.
This girl was a MEGA thumb-sucker as a child. What a hard habit to break. I made sure all my kids took a binky instead!
Congratulations on the accolade! I have been glued to my iPhone since discovering Paperclipping Roundtable and the Digi Show. I was attached to my thumb (despite my mom’s best efforts to stop it with bitter nailpolish…she only put nailpolish on one thumb so I would merely switch thumbs) and my pillow (instead of a blanket I always brought along my pillow).
Congratulations Noell on your new title!
I have to say, I wasn’t crazy attached to anything as a child, but, I still have a Sesame Street (twin size)blanket that my mom made me. I didn’t drag it everywhere I went, but I took it to college with me, and my kids use it now to snuggle up on movie night.
I really wasn’t attached to one particular thing as a child, except maybe my poor brother. He was older and I followed him around all the time!
Unfortunetly my thumb was my security until the first time I wanted to attend a sleep-over. Oh how they worried about my teeth.
I have my baby blanket (my mom embroidered and grandma quilted) but it doesn’t have any frayed edges so I’m guessing I didn’t carry it around. I have my stuffed bear, too. And again, no holes, so I must have left it alone. From these, I’d have to say I was an independent litte bugger and wasn’t attached to anything.
According to mom, I was too independent so no attachments for me to a blanky or stuffed animal. My daughter on the other hand is 15 years old and still has a Pooh sweatshirt that I used to wear when she was a baby and she still sleeps with it.
I don’t think I was attached to anything as a child. I did have a favorite teddy bear when I was a little older because it was big and just the right size to drape my arm over when I was sleeping.
I had a rainbow colored floppy dog that was my favorite companion. He was given to me by my parents at 4 years of age when I was in the hospital for a procedure. He was my friend until I left my parents’ house. Wow, I haven’t thought about him in a while… I wonder where he is now….
YAY for you Noell! Well deserved! I had an attachment to my baby blanket…slept with it until I was eight years old, then I put it on my dollbed at my bedside so that if I needed to touch it in the middle of a scary night, I could still reach it. To this day, it holds a place of honor on a shelf in my closet…it’s pretty sad to look at, but I love how comforting it has always been!
I had a pink soft blanket with pink satin trim. Eventually it got holes and looked very tattered but I loved it. While traveling when I was 4 or 5, we left it in a hotel room. Mom may have had a hand in “leaving it”. Otherwise I wasn’t going to give it up.
I had a favorite stuffed animal- Leo the Lion- and he went lots of places with me, but I don’t think I was attached to him in a “needy” way. I have always been a fairly independent gal!
Congrats Noell, silly girl, how could they not notice you?!?!? Me? no real childhood attachments, but I did always rub my sheets between my fingers to help me fall asleep. I was the first child, and so I think my mom didn’t know about silky blankies
I was very attached to my Cabbage Patch Doll! I loved her and names her Annabelle.
I was super attached to a stuffed polar bear, Pierre the Polar Bear. He lives in my twins’ room now, on top of a chest with my husband’s childhood bear.
I was attached to 3 things – my thumb, my blankie and my stuffed blue elephant, Elphie. I still have that precious blue elephant. While he has seen some better days, Elphie has become a dear friend to my daughter.
Thanks for letting me share and congrats to you!!
I was attached to a white waffle-weave blanket…my grandmother sewed a green satin border on it once, and I cried so much — it wasn’t my blankie anymore! — that she had to take it off.
I was one of those ‘rough on things’ ‘kids. I always had a doll with me, but her hair would be matted and her dress torn. My yo-yo string would have a knot. I played my toys to death. I love Little Kittles and their play town. I wore it out!
When I was little, I remember a favorite baby doll that went everywhere with me. Congrats to you Noell, love your Paperclipping Talk shows!! Keep influencing us!
hmm, i don’t know if i was attached to one item, but i do know i carried dolls or stuffed animals with me.
congrats!
I was attached to a clown blanket that my babysitter made for me as an infant. I still have the blanket.
I had bunny. I got him on my first Christmas and he lived on my bed for about 25 years.
I was attached to a soft pink blanket. But it wasn’t really the blanket part that I loved the most. It was the satin binding that went all around it. I would rub that in my fingers and loved it.
Congrats on the recognition and thanks for sharing!
I don’t remember being attached to anything, but I remember a favorite toy. My grandparents went to Australia and brought me back a stuffed Koala bear. It was the cutest, softest bear I had ever felt!! I was definitely a favorite childhood toy and memory!!
I was attached to my pony. I started riding as a toddler. I used to revel in going out to his stall to pet him, brush him or even scoop his poop. I got over that last fascination quickly once I had children and an infinate number of baby diapers to deal with!
I *still* sleep with my blanket!! My mom and grandma quilted it (it is the softest tricot) and I have carried it around with me for 40 years!
Thumb sucking with a comfort blanket. Secretly though, the comfort blanket still has to go everywhere with me, I fold it up and stuff it in my bag – if I don’t have it with me I get a little anxious. And I often find my thumb gravitating towards my mouth, yes at 27 years old lol. Luckily hubby understands – he still sucks his thumb too
Congrats on winning
I have my copy of ebook already!
Craziest thing…I sucked on my two first fingers and rubbed my Dad’s old t-shirt collars. My kids…they both suck on two fingers and sniff a blanket. I even have photos. I plan to scrap this most definitely!
I had a doll that I named “Delly” but I honestly don’t remember being that attached to one thing. I also sucked on two fingers rather than a thumb…but my boys were all thumb suckers and are attached to either a little blankie or stuffed dog. I secretly love that they have ‘lovies’.
I had a blankie. I would hang out by the washing machine until it was done washing when my mom would take it to clean.
I was a thumb sucker with a blankie
I would think that i would get my engergy from my blanket through my thumb… still have the little knot of what it is today!
I was an ‘animal’ attached baby… No wonder my kids are also animal-attached kids, too!
Congratulations! I was attached to both a blankie and my thumb. In fact, don’t laugh, I think I sucked my thumb till I was like 10! Something I didn’t share with my 7-yr-old when we were trying to get her to quit!
I was attached to my kitty. Not a stiff stuffed fake one; this was a real, live kitty. Fat, fluffy, and oh so annoyed with me, this cat spent his last few lives running from my grasping hands and excited squeals. Poor kitty
But I loved that cat.
Congrats Noell! How exciting!
I had “lambie”. And somewhere in the depths of some closet is what is left of lambie…eye missing, fur missing. I’m sure it looks quite the site!! Great question and WOW those are some fine prizes
I don’t think I was attached to any one item in particular but I did have some favorites. I still have the stuffed hippo that I got when I was born. Her name is Henrietta!
I was very attached to my baby blanket. It sat on the end of my bed through high school!!
The only thing I remember, and still today, is sleeping with my own pillow each night.
I did not have a special toy to which I was attached, but my “go-to” thing when I was feeling insecure was to twirl my hair–I was certainly “attached” to that!
Strangely enough, I didn’t have anything like that as a child, nothing I held onto and wouldn’t give up, but now I’m an inveterate packrat!
I don’t remember having a special attachment to anything in particular from when I was a child. I went through phases with different things, but never just one thing that I had to have!
Congratualations! You are such an inspiration.
I was attached to my American Girl doll…Molly.
Congratulations! I love listening to the Round Table while I am creating. I had a stuffed bunny rabbit as a child that I remember having with me at night. I don’t think I carried anything around with me during the day. I had a Chatty Cathy as KathyL mention – and I know I played with her alot – I think I loved her to death in fact.
I had a little teddy bear which is now 48 yearsold and I still have him
I don’t recall ever having an attachment to an object but I did have an imaginary friend named Tad I was rather fond of.
I don’t remember being attached to anything but my son’s attachment is a stuffed pooh bear—it was given to me at my baby shower and is definatley his fave!
Congratulations on the nomination. I don’t think I was attached to anything as a child, maybe my older sister because I used to follow her everywhere.
Congratulations Noell! I so love Paperclipping.
Ok…maybe not for making me go to the hospital 
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When I was a child I was attached to my thumb. I was always sucking at it and one day my mum had the crazy idea of putting hot pepper on it to make me stop. We ended up in the hospital because I rubbed my eyes with my very “hot” fingers. Sometimes my mum makes the strangest things on earth…but I love her for that.
I had a stuffed rabbit named Jennifer — my middle name, and (at the time) the name I preferred.
She was originally white and had a flowered dress. She ended up with grey fur, a re-sewn nose, ears that would no longer stand up straight — in other words, she was real (a la The Velveteen Rabbit).
Carmen.
I was attached to a stuffed elephant, but not until I was about seven. I even wrote a song about it that still haunts me…
I had a stuffed panda bear. I loved him so much and we rubbed noses so much, that he had to have a new nose attached monthly. I would rub it right off of him. Sometimes wish I still had him.
I was attached to a stuffed animal – a small Winnie the Pooh. I’ve saved it all these years and had it by my dd when we did her 3 month pics!
Congratulations, love your work. I had my teddy bear.
I don’t recall being attached to anything except my Nancy Drew books but my sister still has a silly little furry doll called SnowJet. It was a mascot for a brand of snowmobile.
I’m the oldest in our family and I was just independent – right from the beginning! No blankets to be attached to because my younger brother needed them! Congrats on being named to this list! And thanks for sharing awesome giveaways
Congrats…..I was attached to my Steiff Teddy Bear
I do not remember anything!!! Great question as I will have to ask my mom to find out. Love the roundtable!
I guess it would be a rag quilt my grandma Malone made for me! I loved it and when I went to kindergarten, we brought a quilt for nap time (yes we had nap time) and that was the one I took.
Congratulations – well deserved nomination! I was attached to a stuffed gingerbread boy – 50+ years later, I still have it.
I had an invisible friend. He didn’t have a name, he was just there. As a teenager, when I felt no one was listening, I would have conversations with him in my head. I don’t even know when he went away. He just did.
I was attached to stuffed animals – I slept with so many it was like a zoo!
I was pretty attached to my teddy bear, imaginatively named “Teddy.” His face is permanently smooshed in from many, many hugs (and I still have him on a shelf in my closet).
I had a red fuzzy pillow. My mom covered it with a new fabric and I gave it up!
Wow, Im so glad that I stumpled upon your site! Its lovely and now I have a new hobby that I can take with me anywhere.
When you were little, were you attached to a baby blanket? A thumb? A stuffed toy? What were you attached to? Or were you so independent you didn’t need anything?
I’m an only child and I was raised by my mother until I was around 11 years old. We lived in California and yes, I was a “latch-key” kid. I had this old blanket that my mom would wash and spray her favorite perfum on. I have that blanket still today!
I wasn’t attached to a thing, but to a person. I’ve been told that I was a “Mama’s girl” when I was little.
Congratulations! I had a blanket that I ‘had’ to sleep with even in my adult years. I forced myself to give it up about 10 years ago. I don’t even want to tell you how old I was at the time!!
I was attached to a blanket my grandmother made me. It had the precious babies stitched in from a pattern he had and I loved it so much. I wish I had it when my daughter was born so I could have passed it down to her. Thank you for a chance.
I don’t remember being attached to anything except my storybook. Mom read to me a lot and I credit my lifelong love affair with reading to those early years.
I was never really attached to something as a child, but when I was in high school, I slept with a Snoopy doll my boyfriend gave me. He’s my hubby now, so I guess it all worked out
I iddn’t have a lovey, blanket or stuffed animal when I was little. I’m not sure why. I was a little jealous of my younger sister’s love for Teddy, but not enough to move me to get one of my own. Guess I was always an independent gal.
I had a stuffed beaver…yes, I know it sounds bizarre…but his name was Bucky and he had a red knit hat. His fur was very bare on his sides from my arm over him at night. He really looked pretty pathetic by the time I was a teenager!
I don’t remember being attached to anything. Other than the adults in my life. I always wanted to be around the grownups (my parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc). I was content if I could be sitting in the room listening to what they were talking about.
Congrats Noell! I knew you’d be one of the picks!
Congratulations Noell – you’re very deserving of a MISA.
The only thing from my childhood that I remember being attached to was my cat named Precious. Her & I were practically joined together.
Thanks for the opportunity to win these great giveaways. I’m looking forward to checking out the eBook.
According to my mom, apparently I was not attached to any object. I was completely independent.
I had a satin-y blanket that I was totally attached to. One day it disappeared (I think I was around 5), and I thought the little girl that my mom babysat had taken it… to this day I still don’t know what happened to my blankie…
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Congrats on your nomination! I don’t remember being “attached” to anything as a child, but I did play with my Barbie dolls until I was TWELVE!
I was attached to a blanket. I liek to twist corner, which calmed me down.
I don’t recall being really attached to one item as a child…so not surprising to say that even today i have no attchments to “things” either. Just my family
Okay, as embarrassed as I am going to be, I’ll admit it. My grandma made a little cat pillow for me when I was about 9 years old. It was a simple pattern of a cat’s face cut from terry cloth. The face was embroidered on one side with opened eyes, the other side had closed eyes.
I slept with that little pillow every night–and I mean EVERY night!! It went to college with me, even though it was nearly a rag by then.
When I married, it went with me to my new home. My dh was completely dumb-founded. I told him I just couldn’t sleep without it.
Funny, though, it didn’t take long to ditch the thread-bare kitty pillow when I found how comfy my dh’s arms were for sleeping
a pacifier!
I really wasn’t attached to anything, but I love my granddaughter’s names for their special blankets….Sweetie, Blankie and Dottie (a polka dot blanket).
Ok, I’m not trying for the sympathy award, but my story does sound pitiful! For some reason which I am unaware of, neither I nor my older brother and sister had any tangible “comfort item”. My younger sister, the baby of the family, did have a teddy bear. I’m sure it was a coincidence!
However at 4 yrs old, I had an imaginary friend, “Nancy”, that my mother was required to wait to close the car door until Nancy was in the car, say goodnight to each night, and I would often tattle on because she wouldn’t be quiet when I was trying to sleep. (My mother took me to the doctor because she was afraid I was retarded)
My first real love came when I bought my self a stuffed Mickey Mouse doll at Disneyland when I went there as a high school senior on Grad Night. I still have him, and still love him!
I have slept with a Pooh Bear for as long as I can remember. I still sleep with him after all this time, even marriage and two children. Lucky for me, my husband is very understanding of the “other man in my life.”
I was very attached my thumb and remember that my folks tried many many different things to separate the two of us!
A small pink rabbit known as Bunbun. I was quite little though when my Bunbun got lost after that I toughed it out on my own.
Thumb and blanket both. Thumb went around 4 or 5, but I was around 9 when I threw the shreds of my blankets away. I remember sobbing. I’m a fine, well-adjusted adult, but it was traumatic at the time.
I had a white bear named Paula – she went with me wherever I went. She now sits in my daughters room with her special stuffies
I loved a little light green blanket with the softest satin edge!
I was attached to a crocheted blanket that my grandma made for me. Congratuations to you!
congrats!
i was very attached to two small blankets that a close family friend made for me. in addition to a tiny little bear i named Sweetheart. they currently reside in my dresser drawer (where the blankets are occasionally used as a replacement for my own children’s blankies.
I was really attached to a Cookie Monster pull toy that was kept at my grand parents’ house.
I LOVED my teddy! And I still have my first three bears, the one from 0-12 months, 1-4/5 years and the one that lasted clear into high school. I took my bear EVERYWHERE – my parents were always having to backtrack when I would leave it somewhere. I should really scrap themm….
Congratulations on the nomination! I was attached to my thumb and my much beloved stuffed bear, “Charlie”, that I’ve had for 43 years!
I was so in love with my pink blanket. I took it with me everywhere. It made me feel safe and secure!
I am a big fan of Noell, the Paperclipping Roundtable and the Digi Show. I am continually inspired by the panel and the topics they discuss in the show. Congratulations Noell!
I don’t really remember being attached to a comfort object. We were not from a well to do family and my parents never got a chance to document my childhood, so I guess I’ll never know.
When I was very small, I was apparently very attached to a pacifier named “binky”…my dad nicknamed me that & it just “stuck!” People still call me by that name today!
A small white bear named Charlie, who of course didn’t stay white for long.
I was extremely attached to a blanket with a silky edge that I would rub between my thumb and finger. I was also extremely attached to my own thumb. My mother has a picture of me standing next to the laundry line where my blanket is hanging, sucking my thumb and rubbing the blanket edge.
I had a stuffed dog that I LOVED! I also remember having an Eeyore stuffed animal that was very special to me.
Thanx 4 the chance to win!!!
Congratulations..
I’ve never been to this blog before and I’m looking forward to reading it. When I was little I used to suck my thumb with one hand and my other hand would be playing with my belly button.
I was very attached to a green blanket. So attached that when my brother put it in his mouth and tried to take it, I pulled his tooth out!
I was attached to my thumb, which my mom got me to finally give up in lieu of fingernail decals when I was almost 5.
I can’t think of anything that I was attached to.
I don’t recall being attached to a blanket or sucking my thumb. But I do remember this “Cinnamon” doll I had, whose hair could “grow” out of the top of here head. My sister had one who was named “Violet”. Haven’t thought about that in years!
Congratulations! It was the thumb for me.
I had a CheerBear carebear. In fact I still have him somewhere!
When I was little, I was attached (literally) to my thumb and also my blankie. I give, I was a night time user. Once, my Mom thought she could hide blankie from me to break my habit. But… I found it, as I had in bed with me that night.
As a child, I would always take my doll with me. It did not matter where we went or what we did. I always pretended to be a “mommy” to my doll. I treated her just as if I was a “real” mom.
The only thing I was attached to as a child was my mom. I loved to twist her hair and rub her nightgowns between my fingers.
I was attached to a pacifier. When I was two, my mother told me that Santa would not bring me any toys unless I gave up my pacifier. So I gave it up and got lots of gifts! I don’t even remember missing it.
I was pretty attached to two “rag” dolls I had. My aunt made them for me & I named one for her & me.
I didn’t have any objects, but when I was old enough to walk, I would sneak into my parents’ room to sleep on their floor. They would wake up and find me there every night!
I was attached to a doll that I named Elizabeth (which wasn’t really original, as it’s my middle name). After a few years, Elizabeth broke, and my parents bought me Elizabeth II and Emily. They were all Gerber dolls. My parents gave me Elizabeth I back when I was older, as they got her fixed. Currently, they are stuck in my parents’ attic, as the ladder has broken… One day, I will give them all to my daughter!
I wasn’t attached to anything that was actually “something”. I had an imaginary friend named George who went everywhere with me. My mom has told me that once she put me in the car and I was maybe 3-4 years old, she shut the door and then went to get in and I started screaming and crying that she was going to leave him behind. I apparently kept screaming and throwing a fit to the point my mom got out of the car, walked around and opened to door to let my imaginary friend in. Once she did that I was perfectly fine.
Congratulations on being chosen
I’d say my pillow! I remember having a yellow and white diamond patterned pillow when I was little but there started to be little holes so my mom sent me off with a cousin so that she could sew me a new pillow. The outside of the pillow was new and decorated with my family members names and birthdates. The stuffing was from the original pillow!
I LOVE this people and took it everwhere with me until I was a teenager and Hurricane Iniki hit Kauai!
Oh the memories of my favorite pillow!
I don’t remember being attached to anything, but then again, I’m getting pretty old LOL That may be why I started to scrapbook, to record the things my children did, so they wouldn’t lose the memories
Great job Noell (& Izzy too) I love your site and all the podcasts. Thanks so much!
Nina
When I was little I had a rabbit that I named Robbie Rabbit. I slept with Robbie Rabbit and loved him more than any other doll or stuffed animal. Robbie had a plastic face that eventually got cracked and broken, but I still loved him. His body wore out and my Mom used an old shirt of my Dad’s and made him a new body. Don’t know how she did that as she really didn’t sew much, but she did a wonderful job. Now I’m 54 yo and Robbie is in a box in my attic. Can’t bear to part with him.
Congrats!!! What an honor! Thanks for the chance at the give aways!
I used to have a pound puupy that I took everywhere with me. It even came in when I got my tonsils removed. My daughter has a lambie. We’re stuffed animal people
I had a special quilted blanket that was made by my great Aunt Helen. It was squares of pastel print cotton fabric & the backing was a soft flannel. So cozy (yes I still have it along with my Teddy)
A stuffed Huckleberry Hound (guess I’m showing my age).
congrats…what an honor:) I have such a vague memory of my childhood or I just didn’t have an attachment to anything I can remember. Wish my mom had captured my childhood!
Congratulations! What an honor! I was very attached to a stuffed gray seal that I got in a little store in Monterey, CA–how I loved that little seal! Wish I still had it!
I was attached to my homemade quilt my grandma made me! Thanks for the opportunity to win a giveaway & congrats!!! Well deserved!!!
Congrats!
I didn’t have any type of security objects, neither did my husband but all of my four kids do! Their blankets!!
noell…thanks so much for the wonderful paperclipping roundtables…they make my workouts so much fun…although i get weird looks when i laugh out loud at the gym
i wasnt really attached to anything as a baby…which is odd…cause now im very sentimental about objects
Hmmmm…more than a blanket, I was attached to the silky edge of my blankie.
I used to have a panda. I’m told it was given to me as a Christmas present when I was about 18 months old and once opened I didnt want anything else! I took it everywhere and couldnt go to bed without it! (except when it started to fall to bits and my mum had to send it to ‘toy hospital’ to be mended! Actually I’m now 45 years old and I still have it, although very threadbare! Congratulations on the win, I love listening to the Paperclipping Roundtable! Thanks for the chance to win!
Congrats! I really do not remember any sort of blanket or thumb type attachment…hmm…I am going to have to ask my mom….
I had my teddy bear Suzie Q. I’m an only child and she slept with me and comforted me all through my childhood and into my adult life until I married my husband. I’m 40 and still have her, but she is on a shelf. She is tan, her fur is no longer fluffy, she is a bit battered and her nose is seriously rubbed from years of snuggling. I just love her ever so much.
Thanks for the prompt to remember such a special girl in my life!
Congratulations Noell!
I had a blanket that I’m told kept getting smaller and smaller till it disappeared. I don’t recall any name I had for it, and as a 65yr old, there’s no one alive who might remember more! It must have served it’s purpose because apparently I was not a thumb sucker.
Thanks for some wonderful giveaways here.
Three weeks before I was born, my parents attended my dad’s work Christmas party. Since they didn’t know if they’d have a baby yet by then, Dad had filled out the “Santa Gift” paperwork for a baby toy. (Children of employees could sit on Santa’s lap at the party, and would be given a gender/age appropriate toy, based on that paperwork the parent filled out.) The gift my parents were given for me, was a stuffed Pilsbury Doughboy. After I was born, that doll never left my side. I carried it everywhere for ages. In fact, it’s packed in a box upstairs in my new baby’s bedroom, still lovingly hanging around some 30+ years later.
Funny thing is, I have a large collection of Pilsbury Doughboy items now. Particularly Christmas ornaments. Everyone gives me Doughboy stuff, because I was so attached to that doll for so long.
I had my thumb – for quite a long time. I had to break both wrists and have them both in Plaster before I finally gave up!
I don’t remember being attached to any certain blanket or stuffed animal, but I know I always (still do) like snuggling with a pillow or blanket or stuffed animal when I sleep.
Congrats on your nomination!
Sorry can’t remember. I do know that I have 2 of my dolls and they both hath no hair, maybe held them by their hair? Love them both.
Sucked my thumb until 1st grade. Wore braces because of it until 9th grade!
I was attached to my thumb and my mother was always upset over it. But I survived childhood. However, I spent my youth in the basement playing in my craft corner…with paper of course!
I had (ok, still have) a blanket and a red cotton cat called “Kiki” that I dragged around everywhere. The blanket is almost torn in half and Kiki’s ears are chewed on but I am too sentimental to get rid of them. The night before I gave birth to my son my husband and I watched “Mr. Mom”, love the scenes with the “woobie” (the youngest son’s security blanket)- so we took a quilt to the hospital, still have it on the bed, it has become the family woobie!
When I was a child I had a teddy bear that I adored and must have carried it everywhere. My mom still has it, and it sure shows its wear. As I got older and my parents divorced, I became attached to a stuffed dog that my daughter loves and snuggles with to this day.
I had a teddy (panda) bear but sadly i threw him out! Geez the things we do when we are leaving for college!!!
BTW….congrats to all!
I had a stuffed bear that I loved as a child and the fur is mostly gone and I still have it in my things even 40 years later.
I was not attached to anything expect my bed!! My parents always tell the story of going on vacation when I was about 2 years old and me saying “I want my own bed”
I was attached to a little pillow, I couldnt sleep without it, so my parents had to take it everywhere we go.
latest roundtable was amazing, keep up the good work!
I only recently discovered you, Noell, and love your Round Table! I started with #1 on my iPod and am working my way up to now! I love your live shows, too! Keep up the good work! (Izzy is cool, too!)
I was never attached to anything when I was little…I was always Miss Independent and never wanted any help.
Congrats on being nominated !!
Oops… I didn’t have a ‘lovey’ that I remember…. but I am quite partial to ladybugs….
Bravo Noell! When i was a little girl i had a doll bigger then me,who i use to drag around where ever i use to go.
Apparently I sucked my first and second fingers on my left hand. And my daughter does it too. I think I gave it up before I have memories though. I do remember being very attached to a certain blanket, and being heart broken when my mom got rid of it when I was 5 or so. My daughter has a blanket like that too.
Oh my gosh I was big time attached to sucking my thumb and when my bottom teeth came in I would scrape and dig them into my thumb to this day I have a scar on my left thumb.
I had a blue bear named Cindy that I loved and carried around with me.
When I was little I didn’t have a favorite comfort item but when I went away to college I took this old, ugly, scary plush fox that my dad had given me as a baby. I slept with that thing for 4 years! I still have it even though I’m in my 50′s now. It is in a box in a closet because that thing was so scary.
I wasn’t attached to anything but now as a mother of my own I am so very attached to my children! Showing them how much I love them is worth so much to me. Even digital scrap-booking lets me show them how much I love them, and the scrap-booking I make will be there for many more years!
Lots of love from Sweden.
I loved my bottle & a pillow that my greatgranma made me. She loved to sew, so she had sewn me a pillow & light blue pillow case with tiny blue polka dots on it. It was the best pillow! To this day I still have the pillow case although the pillow itself is long gone. It couldn’t stand the rigors of life I’m afraid.
It was my thumb!
I was attached to a blanket that had a quilt-like pattern on it. Then I had two younger sisters who one by one claimed MY blanket. Almost 30 years later, we are still arguing over that blanket! (But I have photographic evidence that it was mine first!) Ha ha … got to love your sisters!!
I had a stuffed bunny that was snow white, I kept that thing till I was a toddler. However, by then that bunny had lost an eye, half of one ear and turned gray!
I was attached to a doll that had a stuffed body then plastic arms, legs and head. I one day grabbed it by the hair and cut off all the hair except where I was holding onto her. My brothers would torment me by putting her in the trash all the time. I kept her till I was an adult and her body fell apart. But those are the fondest memories of my childhood was with that doll.
I love the Paperclipping videos and how awesome for you to be recognized. You deserve it! Now… as a baby I did have several attachments… I had a blanky and a dolly that had to be with me at all times. Sometimes I didn’t need to be holding it but did need to be able to turn my head and know that at least one of them was nearby just in case.
I don’t remember having anything when I was younger (stiff upper lip in the ’50s you know!) but I had a lovely doll with auburn hair and clothes made by my grandma when I was a little older….4 or 5 maybe?
My comfort was my thumb… and I twirled my hair. {Unfortunately many times my Mom had to cut knots out of my hair!}
I had a stuffed monkey that was my friend. I still have it although it’s missing his hands and feet and lots of hair.
I still have my ‘spiffy’ doll from my childhood. It was a raccoon that sucked its thumbs and I carried it around for years.
Ooh, this question sparked so many memories! I had a white cotton cloth that I took EVERYWHERE! I called it my snug snugs! I just loved it, I remember hanging onto it until I was almost 10, particularly at bedtime. I then exchanged it for a Gloworm! I’m not sure if you guys in the US got them, but they were cute little plastic critters that you held up to a light bulb for a few minutes and then it would glow in the dark!
I was attached to my baby blue blanket. It had so many holes in it. I don’t remember where it went? I will have to ask my mom. Thanks for allowing me to remember
I had a blanket…it was super cool…like a sleeping bag blanket that zipped up. I wonder where it is now…
Great giveaway! I was attached to a stuffed bunny when I was younger. I still have it – I handed it down to my daughter who loves it.
Congrats! The only thing that comes to mind is a laundry basket full of all my “paper stuff” that I loved dearly! I had stationary, magazines, books everything paper! I’ve always loved it!
Well when I was little I had a blue blanket. Apparently my parents were hoping for a boy and got me but the blanket stayed. So I still have my blue striped blankie today and my daughter has her blankie, seems to run in the family…LOL
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Congratulations!
I had a teddy…still do although it doesn’t get much attention these days.
I don’t remember being attached to anything…funny my son wasn’t attached to anything either….
I sucked my thumb until I went to my first slumber party in first grade and then I stopped. My blanket which was named the woobie is a yellow blanket for your bed that you can probably still pick out at any store today. It is a lot smaller for all that it has been through, but I still have it. My sons use it every once in a while.
Congratulations on your nomination! What an honor!
I like your question – it makes me laugh. I had a little blankie – “pibby” – that I was attached to. It was actually a cloth diaper. When I was too old to have an attachment, I also had a kitten that was attached to my pibby. When we went on vacation and boarded the cat at the vet, I left my pibby behind with him, but when my mom picked up the cat, she did not return with my pibby, and thus it was no more.
I’ll look forward to your story!!
I had my banggie – one of those air-cell blankets that got smaller and more raggedy as time went on! I also had a teddy that is still with us today and my DD takes ‘care’ of!
I had a pillow with a cat’s face on it that my Aunt made for me. I named it “Mitsy.” Congrats on the honor, Noell!
Congrats! I wasn’t attached to anything as a baby, or not that I can remember. Note to self: ask Mum today. Thanks for the chance to win.
I never had a comfy blanket or toy — I never even sucked my thumb. I have four kids, and each of them has had something they cannot sleep without — my nine-year-old has to have her blankie even now. And my youngest son, just 12, cried a couple of years ago when we had to retire his because it was in shreds.
Congrats Noell! Highly deserved!!
I had an attachment to my thumb and a stuffed sheepdog named Muckluck. My mom still cannot explain how I named the dog but something about it still feels right to this day. Thanks for the great giveaway!!
I was attached to my Chrissy doll. I thought she was beautiful. Long Marcia Brady hair (like my babysitter, whom I adored) and I could shorten or lengthen it at will. She was so special to me.
I had a “sheetie” which was a piece of brushed cotton sheet. I used to suck my thumb and hold my sheetie. I also had a “Dougal” toy – a wooden dog, covered with real fur. I used to rub it up and down my face until it was bald. Years later my mum threw away this old bit of wood and i’ve never let her forget it!
Well done on being selected – thank you
Congrats on the nomination & recognition! I was attached to my thumbs. My mother tried everything to get me to stop sucking my thumbs but finally gave up when nothing worked. I finally stopped on my own around age 9, however, my “attachment” resulted in stunted thumb growth and issues with my palate. I had to wear a retainer for years and to this day, my thumbs are not in proportion with the rest of my fingers.
I had a pillow and a teddy bear. I loved them!
First… I LOVE your videos and your scrapbooking style.
I don’t remember being attached to any one thing when I was little and to be honest I have never asked my parents. I was seven when my family fled Cuba in the early 70s. We left w/just the clothes we were wearing, because we were not allow to take anything w/us. My Mom left her wedding ring and everything else we own w/her sister. Years later when her sister came for a visit, she brought with her my Mom’s wedding ring and a handful of photos. Those photos are some of my most priced possessions.
I had a yellow stuffed dog that my paternal grandfather gave me as a birth present and I loved that dog out. I probably still have it in all of the stuff my Mom saved from my childhood but I know it is very threadbare.
I had a baby blanket and a musical puppy dog named Clarence. My blanket had one of those satiny edges, the color was a cream. I still have a small rectangle of that blankie in my hope chest, but was afraid I would lose it. And my mom said if I didn’t stop biting my nails, my blankie would get smaller- and it did. Once I met my husband, I didn’t need to sleep with my blankie- we have his crocheted pink and blue blanket in our hope chest too!
I had a “silky blanket” that my Mom gave back to me (in very tattered and unstitched condition) just a couple of years ago. Thanks for the giveaway and congrats!
I was attached to something…my two sisters!One happens to be my twin. I didn’t have any special blankie or animal but if I could crawl into bed with one of my sisters, I was fine.
No special loveys here. I remember getting a teddy bear from my grandmother when I was six and consciously deciding I needed to be attached to it like some kids were to stuffed animals or blankets because I felt I’d missed out! I loved the bear, but it wasn’t the same!
I sucked my thumb for a very long time – like until I was 7 or so. My mom tried everything – painting it green, dipping it in tabasco sauce. I remember sneaking sucks during movies watched at school. Then I just quit. I’d had enough. I was done. My sister had a blanket that she wore down to just the silk edging, and my other sister carried one of the velour pillows from the couch until she accidentally dropped it out of the window of our moving car on the highway. My mom didn’t turn around.
I had a stuffed bunny that kept me company at night for many years. Got so raggedy that I had to let him go to that great land-fill-in-the sky when I was in my early teens. Sad day.
I was attached to a doll named Candy. When I got her for Christmas when I was 3 yrs, she was taller than I was. When I held her hand and walked, she would walk with me. I’ve kept her all these years and now my daughter has her in her room.
congrats on the nomination! i guess i was ‘miss’ independant chick, not having been attached to anything as a child. go me!
thanks for the chance!
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I had a rag doll (yellow gingham) named Abigail that was my favorite! I wish I had a picture of her, but being the youngest of four kids there aren’t many pictures of me at all… let alone my Abigail!
Congratulations! I was attached to our scruffy dog Cassie. She wouldn’t let anyone near me, particularly when I was in trouble with my parents.
I was attached to a baby blanket
I don’t remember having a lovey. Doesn’t mean I didn’t, though.
I don’t remember having anything, but my sister had a small stuffed cat that someone had made for her. It slept with her every night, went to college with her, and she was ready to take it on her honeymoon when the groom said, “No Way!”
I loved my stuffed Koala bear that my grandmother brought me from Australia.
Hi, I found you via Ella/Shimelle/Kathy! Glad to meet you and I’ll be back again, to see what’s happening…. How lovely for Ella to choose you!
As for when I was a baby. I had a pink & white rabbit, a tiny pink koala and a white rabbit with long legs and looong ears…. I remember being upset that I lost the big white rabbit. I still have the other toys in the loft! Don’t think I had a blanket or other attachment though.
Well I really loved a cloth doll which was the cutest ever, and I carried her with me at all times, but I was more attached to my little brother we are only 11 months apart, so he was my baby and I have loved him ever since!!!
I’m so old I can’t remember that long ago! Actually, I do have a vague recollection of a one-eyed brown teddy bear but I don’t recall that I was all that attached to it. What happened to it? I’m guessing it probably got passed down to one of my younger siblings.
My blanket was a piece of red satin, I called it “squishy,” cuz I loved to squish it between my fingers. My daughter now has her own squishy, only hers is purple.
Congratulations! My comfort thing when I was little – my stuffed Pooh Bear. Still have him too!
I was probably most attached to a doll. I had several special ones. I have always been very mothering!
I did have things/toys I was attached to, but I changed them often. One week it would be one doll and the next week a different toy. I think I am still that way now.
I was very attached to my brown dog, named Brownie. (I wasn’t too original as a child, or even now for that matter.)I slept with him every night, and then as I grew older, he had a special place in my room. I’m now in my 50′s and he still has a special place, although this time in my walk-in closet. Congrats on being in the 9 MIS!!
I never sucked my thumb and I don’t remember a blanket. My mother has never mentioned it, so I don’t think I was attached to anything, except maybe my dad’s leg.
Congratulations! I love Paperclipping.
I had a blanky. In fact, my mom says that she had two of them in case one was lost.
My mother who never saves anything, saved my baby blanket, since I apparently took it everywhere with me as a toddler. My mom worked, so I guess my blanket was my “security” at day care.
Leslie
I remember being supremely attached to a stuffed toy in the form of a German Shepherd dog. I used him as my pillow. I was so sad when I had to throw him out, but he was worn, shedding the stuffing and I guess I was just too old to have stuffed animals anymore….
I had a blanket but don’t think I was attached to it.
glad you gave the option of no childhood dependencies…as i can think of none…a doll for a little while…then it was just the great outdoors.
but holy moly….that’s alot of loot you get to give away.
as an adult i am now dependent on all things paper related…does that count?
I didn’t have any attachment items. I really liked my Rainbow Brite doll, but wasn’t attached to it.
Congratulations btw!
I wasn’t attached to anything that I can remember. My mom did give me a blanket that must have been mine from long ago but never told me anything special about it. She has since died so I can’t ask her about it. One of the sad things about losing your mom. Not being able to get this history back when you think of a question.
Hi Noell…this is my first time to your site, and I just want to say congrats on being included in the new ebook…I’ve listened to some of the paperclipping discussions, and they are always entertaining!
Let’s see…the blanket and the bottle (“baaa”) were close by my side most of the time. And even though I gave up the bottle pretty early on (thankfully), the blanket stayed with me at bedtime till well into elementary school.
I was sooooo attached to my “blankie” I even remember when I lost it. We went to Disneyland and on our way home I realized “blankie” was gone. We were already 5 hours into the trip there was no turning around. I was devastated.
Funny thing, both my girls also have an attachment to their blankets.
I must have been attached to a doll because my mom saved her for me and gave her to me about 5 years ago. It was fun to see her again. It triggered vague recollections of time spent with her, including the time I borrowed my mom’s lipstick to put on her lips and elsewhere on her face. She’s still sporting lipstick stains on her forehead.
My straw-stuffed teddy bar-which I still have. My Mom used to sew clothes for him-by hand and I still have some of those. I can start drawing my social security soon-and bless him, he still gives me comfort.
I did have an attachment…it was a baby blanket and even though I am 32 years old now, I still have it!
My favorite stuffed animal was this adorable white teddy bear that I named Snowflake. I just recently pulled her out of my cedar chest and am letting one of my girlys love one her.
I had a stuffed elephant (how’s that for appropriate for today’s ELLA blog tour!!!) which my Dad gave me the day I was born. He was white with a pink tummy and he was called “Flumpy” after the heffalump in Winnie The Pooh. I still have flumpy in a cupboard upstairs
And congratulations Noell – you deserve your nomination!
I really wanted to say congratulations! You really do deserve this award for all the hard work you put into all the shows you guys do.
Attachments… I actually really can’t think of anything- I think I was a very independent child. I do still have somewhere a ragdoll that I got as a child- she’s on at least her 2nd face and hair, so perhaps I was more attached to that doll than I thought!
I had a lamb…appropriately named “Lamby”! LOL!
I didn’t have a special doll or blankie as a child. However, now I have a blanket that my grandma made me as a child that is very special to me.
My thumb and a cloth diaper (clean, of course) which I held under my nose with my fingers as I sucked my thumb. I guess I liked the feel and the smell of the cloth diaper (back in the day…)
I wasn’t attached to anything as a baby! Thanks for the giveaway!
Definitely a my baby blanket – it was comfort and security all in one. I wore that thing to tatters – still have the scraps saved though and holding it transports me in time. I think I may have to do a scrapbook page on it! Thanks for the prompt.
BTY – I just love love love the Papercipping Roundtable!
I had a little pink elephant, which I called an effelant. I loved her so much that when my Dad put up new white wallpaper, I decided to draw a pink portrait of her right there on the living room wall!
I wasn’t attached to any item at all as a child. Sorry…no fun story there, but I did have a good childhood with many good times!
Cool! You totally deserve to be recognized…I just found out about Paperclipping Roundtable and love it. I had a teddy bear (very little) growing up. I still have it actually and gave it to my daughter. It only has 1 eye left and is pretty bad for wear but I love that I still have it thanks to my mom!
I had an old fashioned cloth nappy for comfort thanks to my Mum! She said she gave me a nappy to hang on to because that was something she always had with her and it was replaceable too! (smart mum!)
I sucked my thumb for security.
Congrats! Yeah, a new site to check out. I use to have a sleepy looking puppy w/ long floppy brown ears. It was in laying down position with a zipper that went all around the side of his body. I would roll up the ears and make them stay, so they would look like he had hair rollers on! And it was stuffed w/ a baby blanket. The blanket wasn’t anything super special, but I used it for everything.
My thumb when I was little, but later on I had a pink monkey who stayed with my constantly — I still have him, patches and all, although I have not looked at him for many years. Hmmmm, there’s probably a scrapbook page waiting here . . .
Congratulations on this nomination. My attachments as a child were sucking two fingers and twirling the hair of my favorite doll.
I was and still am attached to my baby blanket. No, I don’t sleep with it at night, but it will be a long time before I throw it out. It has been with me through good and bad. It is a dear friend that I don’t want to say goodbye to.
I was attached to a blue and pink crocheted blankie that my mammaw made for me when I was born.
When I was little, I was very attached to my pillowcase (I remember it actually had different smells in different spots) and a Winnie the Pooh stuffed toy–so much so that his eyes and nose eventually wore off!
First thing I remember being attached to was my Dale Evans fringed skirt. Didn’t want to give it up as it kept getting shorter and shorter. All the cousins got Roy Rogers or Dale Evans western wear for Christmas one year. Yes, I am very old.
I was attached to my baby blanket, it had little yellow duckies on it, and I still remember the day my mom burned it!
I’m sad to say that I kept my bottle until I started school. I’m not really sure why and really don’t remember this.
My niece has a quilt that my grandmother made when she was born. She is now 25 and still has her quilt. It even went on her honeymoon. We have had to make many repaires over the years.
I had a blanket, which I called my wubbie. I still have it and I still call it that. LOL!! Congrats to you!!!
No attachments for me, might have been easier on my parents if I had one
Congratulations on the Ella honor!!
I didn’t have a comfort object as a young child–but certainly took great comfort in having a sweet little sister I did everything with!
Thanks for the chance to win the great giveaway prizes!!
Continued success to you & Paperclipping endeavors!
I do not remember being attached to anything when I was a child. But now there are just a few things I do not attached too.
‘Fraid no blankie or particular toy for me when I was little
The only toy that has made it through to present day is one of the first dolls I was ever bought – she had a string to pull which made her move her limbs a little. She still works (just, though I’m sure she moved a lot faster once!).
I don’t remember having any attachments to any particular object. I come from a big family (I have 4 sisters) and we had each other to play with, so I didn’t have a favorite blanket or toy. Interestingly, none of my three boys ever developed a need for that kind of attachment to a blanket or particular toy, either. They are definitely independent-minded, and I guess I am, too!
I was attached to a pink bean-bag doll. Just today, I was rearranging some things in my scrapbook studio and I found an oil painting that my dad made of that doll! I think he painted it so it would be easier for me to give the doll up.
Very independent (and everyone’s favortie also)! I didn’t have anything, not even a teddy bear. Maybe that is why I am such a hoarder now.
I didn’t have anything in particular I was interested in besides walking and running as a child. I ended up breaking my nose 3-4 times!
Hi Noell! Congratulations on the nomination – I love Paperclipping and the Roundtable, so you totally deserve it! for my 2nd birthday, I got a Cabbage Patch Doll the I LOVE…. She still sits in my closet high on a shelf safe and sound!
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Thanks again for the giveaway!
I guess I was so independent I wasn’t attached to anything. But two of my boys sucked their thumbs and two had a special blanket.
I had a blanket with satin binding that I loved. It started out pink, but when last seen, it was a faded beige color. I carried it everywhere. All four of my kids have loved their “favorite quilts” as well–maybe it is genetic!
Congratulations on being nominated! Yeah!:-) I was attached to both my blankie and my thumb. I could not go to sleep without my thumb in my mouth and without my blankie. There was something soothing about laying there and rubbing the cool, silk edge of my blanket. My mom still has it somewhere. She likes to tell the story of when she washed the blanket and hung it out on the line to dry, how I cried and ran outside to get my blanket. She found me standing there with my thumb in my mouth clutching the blanket that was still on the line, practically asleep standing up. I was four when I finally quit sucking my thumb. The only way I was able to was to pick up a sparkler on the wrong end after dropping it on the ground. I remember I cried myself to sleep for a few nights after that.
I had a little doll that i remember distinctly. She was made of terry cloth with a hard plastic face. Her face was surrounded by a terrycloth hood, with yarn bangs peeking out. I have no idea what happened to that doll. Wish I still had her!
I was attached to my “lovie” as I called it. It was a crocheted blanket (kid size) in a blue, pink and white ripple pattern. I think my mom had made it, but now that I think it, not sure — need to check it out. Anyway, slept with it everynight until I was 10 or so…My parents still have it, in the room my girls use when we visit them. My daughters us it to play dolls.
My favorite toy was a so-called doll named Linda. Her arms and legs moved and if you did it right, she could take a step or two with the help of her owner. My little brother put mud on her face and later tore one of her arms off. I was so sad about it. I still played with her and put her arm back in its socket but it would fall off an was never the same again.
WHen I was little I was attached to my teddy bear that my dad bought me, it went everywhere with me and it is still sitting on the bed in my guest room and I am over 60 now
P.S. Linda was a so called “life-size” doll. Sorry for the oops!
I had a stuffed kitty named Midnight. I loved that thing, and still do. I still have it.
Pinky and my noonie. They were always there for me. Pinky was a sock clown dressed in a pink polk-a-dotted suit. (Think sock monkey but more circus orientated!) He came home from the hospital with my Mimi and I slept with him till I was in 5th grade and he was falling apart. And a noonie is a pacifier, I’ve since passed the name down to my children and they are attached to theirs as much as I was to mine.
Interesting question. I was not attached to anything as a child, and as it ends up, I am a very independent woman as an adult. I never really thought about that way before, but I guess it makes sense. Thanks for the giveaways and congratulations!
The only thing I was hooked up was my mum, and it took me 18 years to admit that I can leave by myself (that was the worst “cut” ever). But I have to admit that, even at 33 years old, when things go wrong, there is nothing more comforting than holding my mum’s neck and smelling her hair!
I carried around a Huge stuffed mouse by his nose, he was as big as me. I kept him until college, when he was lost in a fire.
I wasn’t attached to anything. I have three daughters and two of them were attached to their fingers and still are, even though they’re six & five. I guess it’s technically good that they’re physically still attached, but we’re already socking away for the orthodontist that they’re going to need when they’re older. That’s the good thing about pacifiers, blankets, etc. – they’re takable!
congrats on your nomination.
i had a stuffed bear that i was attached to. it belonged to my dad when he was a child. my mom still has the bear along with his toy tonka truck. he would have been 73 on aug 3rd.
thanks for the chance to win a fab prize.
donna
the earliest thing i remember is a small gray stuffed kitty. i called her love kitty. she would come to the hospital with me every time i had an asthma attack, which was often. i just found her in my mother’s hope chest a few weeks ago!
I had a blanket that was made for me by a family friend. It has a teddy bear on it. Yes, I do still have it.
I had a stuffed dog that my Dad wanted me to leave for Santa when I was about 3 or 4 but I wasn’t ready so we gave him to the Easter Bunny instead!
Congratulations, Noell! I just found Paperclipping not long ago…so cool! Anyway, I had a stuffed lion named Richard the Lionhearted. He had one of those funny rubber faces and the softest fur. He was bought the day my parents took me home from the hospital – and survives to this day. I love the fact that most of his fur is so worn…but behind one ear, his mane and his ear look brand new!
My thumb, definitely. It only took a short lesson on parasites in first grade and I was instantly cured!
Congratulations and good luck Noell!!!
I don’t remember it but my Mum & Dad said they had to take me for drives in the car to put me to sleep, no wonder I am so quick to nod off when we go on road trips
I didn’t have a childhood attachment, but i do have a sister who is 14 months younger than me and we shared everything. Our parents thought it cute to dress us alike (She in red me in blue – for the longest time we thought that those were our favorite colors!). We did everything together, we even had our own language.and now alas we live thousands of mile apart, but we have daughters who are 7 months apart.
I had a cute little bear with a red bowtie. My mom had gotten him from the grocery store as a surprise for me when I was about 5. I just recently found him in my moms attic
I was never attached to anything as a kid but now you can’t gets away from my computer.
I was attached to my Dressy Bessy doll. I had to have her everywhere I went. Then I got my first Barbie doll and that was the end of Bessy. Thanks for the giveaways and congrats on the award!
When I was little my mom decorated my room in a ‘Bambi’ theme, baby blue walls, lots of stuffed animal and the centerpiece was a quilted comforter with all the Bambi characters printed on it.
I kept that blanket for my entire childhood, from the comfort it provided at preschool to the familiar days of the school years, through the tumultuous years of junior high to the burgeoning independence of high school. And when I went away to college, the Bambi blanket graced the single bed in my first dorm room. By that time, it was practically falling apart. It had more patches showing than cartoon characters. By the end of that year, I had to retire the Bambi blanket because it could no longer be washed. But I packed it away…until I had my own child. I used a portion of the Bambi blanket to create a wall hanging and another in a baby quilt.
I love seeing a tangible, visible representation of so many years of my own memories in the hands of my son as he makes his own memories.
I really don’t remember… I also asked my mom amd she doesn’t remember too. But I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT MY KIDS: 2 of them were connected to the dummy, one to the thumb and the oldest to his.. doll named KATIA.. OK- BOY- DOLL- NOW HE IS AN ARMY OFFICER AND WILL BE A DAD IN 5 MONTH- SO IT WENT OK WITH A DOLL AFTER ALL..
My childhood was so long ago I really don’t remember if I had a blankie…but I definitely had a habit of twisting a lock of my hair,twirling it and then pulling. I still have a bare spot from doing that, to this day.
I don’t remember having a special article as a baby, but I do remember Raggedy Ann at some point. She was a special friend.
I had a favorite white receiving blanket with a satin binding. luckily it could be replaced by new ones or mended frequently. I slept with one into highschool!
I had a little doll named Honey that I absolutely loved!
I had a blanky I was pretty attached to … still have it somewhere.
I don’t think that I was super attached to anything! Just mommy! but I still want to win
I was fiercely independent, even as a child, so no attachments for me!
Congrats on the nomination!
As a toddler I had a set of teddybears – a mother bear and a baby bear. The baby bear came everywhere with me until one day when I was about 3 I left him behind somewhere… then the mother bear became my favourite. I still have her stashed away somewhere.
Congrats on the nomination and keep up the good work! <3
My sister and I are less than a year apart in age and I remember we each had a doll that was the same size as us. Big doll or so I remember. One doll was blonde and the other was brunette just like us.
I didn’t have any kind of childhood attachment but two of my children did. My oldest daughter was a thumb sucker (which ended up costing quite a bit in braces later on). My son had a favorite baby blanket that he had for so long that by the time I managed to get rid of it, it was just a ball of string!
I think that I was attached to a stuffed animal — it was actually a stuffed Pluto, the dog from Disney fame. I still have him — he is very worn.
I think I was too independent that I don’t remember getting attached to anything! And since I was the eldest in the whole family of both my mom and dad’s side, followed by a younger brother a few months later, I’d say I got the attention but nothing else….
I wasn’t attached to any particular item, but I was attached to the silky edge of any blanket. I would rub the silky fabric together (shh… sometimes I still do if I’m stressed, but that’s a secret
}, until it would start to shred. So all my blankets had very rough looking silky edging, which was not very pretty looking.
Noel – great prizes! When I was little I had to have a blanket that was lined with satin and I would rub the satin edges to go to sleep. You could find me curled up with a blanket, anywhere, fast asleep.
I had a handknitted bear that my sister had made me ( I’m the youngest of 7 – so she was old enough to knit when I was little). I don’t know that I slept with it, but it went lots of places with me.
It’s demise came when some of my brothers were playing hunters in the backyard and speared it for their ‘tea’. Mum did sew it up, but it was never the same.
I was not attached to anything, and not sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing! But there you go. Well done to you and your success and thanks for the opportunity! Cheers,
Yes had a blanket that I had –mom made me give up when I went to kindergarten. Next was my holly hobbie doll which i still have today.
I don’t remember being attached to one thing particularly, but I was a doll girl I was always carrying a doll. It was usually a cabbage patch doll or a pound puppy. I don’t recall when I stopped carrying around toys.
I was attached to a pink blankie and a Cabbage Patch doll named Terry. I still have both of them but the blankie is pretty tattered. Congrats!
I had a blankie. I was so attached to it that my mom finally had to cut it in half so she could wash it–one half at a time. 28 years later, I had to do the same thing with my own daughter’s pink blankie!
Congratulations Noell! As a little girl I had a Mrs. Beasley doll that I carried with me everywhere I went. She became so ragged my mom would have to sew new clothes on her so I wouldn’t be with out my friend. I loved her so much. Where she is today I don’t know and thankfully I don’t remember how we parted from each other because I don’t think I could handle knowing. Thank God for that. Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us.
I had a blanket, but my “real” security item was my imaginary friend Zagar- who was a gorilla who protected me. he was fierce.
I can’t remember if I had an attachment or not, but I think it may have been my thumb
Congrats. I really enjoy your digiscrapping talks. Keep on. please! I was very attached to my thumb and my feather pillow. (Don’t tell anyone, but this was until I was about twenty or so. Then I just stopped. I wish I could “just stop” bad habits nowdays!)
I had my thumb and a floppy pillow I had them both till I’m embarassed to say middle school! My 2 year old daughter has sucked hers since she was in the womb and I’m fine with it HECK I turned out OK
I am sure it is why I am where I am today — I had nothing. I was the third child and there wasn’t time to mess with a pacifier, blankie or lovie… I think I was lucky if I got to sit in a carseat — it did have a steering wheel with maybe a horn in the center!!! The carseat had metal bars that fit over the car’s FRONT bench seat! There was no strapping a kid in!
I had a blanket that I wore out – it had such big holes in it that my mom had to take it awya because she was afraid I would get tangled in it and choke.
I carried around a lion from Harris Bank (that my parents had gotten after opening an account with them). He’s still at my parents’ house.
I wasn’t attached to anything but my 23 yr old was attached to her pacifier until she was 3. We had to stand over the waste basket and cut it up with a scissors to get rid of it.
i had a little white and blue teddybear. It has now lots its nose but it has a spot in my dd’s bedroom.
a thumb and a blankie that i called meemee. story goes, i couldn’t say “mine, mine” and hence the name. i’m in my mid 30′s and can tell you meemee is still tucked neatly away in my closet, though much tattered and torn. still brings me back to my happy place…
Great question! I had a white baby blankie that I loved so much. In fact I still have it and just took some photos of my 6 month baby girl snuggled in it. So fun to see her loving the same ol’ blankie =) Thanks for the chance – I hope I win!
Oh yes, I was seriously attached to a pink blankie. I slept with it way into my teen years. It ended up being a dingy off-white color and nearly falling apart from being washed a zillion times. I loved that blankie!
Two stuffed toys: Curious George and Rufus the Lion, I got them when I was 4. I’m 41 and both reside in my hope chest. Rufus has a pull string that even works, albeit in a craggly voice. I slept on Curious George so much that his head is permanently squished to the side. Love them both!
First of all… Congratulations!! What a fun question
When I was a child a had a blankie that I loved till it just about died. I still have what’s left of it packed away safely. I also carried around random stuffed animals. The fun thing is now my girls have animals they carry around & just like me they rotate between a few favorites
I had a yellow and blue butterfly blanket I could never give up. I still have it’s tattered remains
I have a blanket my mom made for me about 30 years ago. I am 40 now and I still use the blanket to cuddle up with when watching TV and when I am sick. My parents kid me about having a security blanket to this day!
I was seriously attached to a pink blankie named, not surprisingly, Pinky.
I had my yellow blankie, with the glorious satin trim, and I had a special corner that I would hold all the time. Then my mom tried to “fix” it by putting on new trim, I almost lost my mind! But finally I was able to rip the new trim to my liking, returning it to its former soft, satiny glory
(Funny the details from a 4-year-old’s mind that will be with you forever!)
I was big on pillows and blankets. I would drag one of each around with me in the house, in the car, if we went away…still find them comforting, now it’s just not a particular pillow or blanket.
Noell,
Congrats on this honor. You really deserve it. The tutorials are great as are the podcasts and the ning community.
My mother tells me I was a thumb sucker which she quickly nipped in the bud with a little hot sauce to the thumb. LOL. Aside from that I have not heard any stories about needing a blanket or special toy. I just go with the flow.
Thanks
Rosann
I don’t remember being attached to anything — I was quite independent as far back as I can remember, so perhaps I just didn’t need a comfort piece.
I was never particularly attached to any object and neither were any of our children. Maybe it’s genetic!
I was a physically abused child so I became very independant and in the struggle to survive I really only clung to my real live pet-a siamese cat!
I had a blue and white bear that I named Ted E. Bear when I got older. Very clever, I know!
My “blankie” was an ivory cotton flannel with pink satin trim. It smelled so good when it was washed. Grandma must have batted it with her kisses. I loved that blanket. Mom gave it to me when I got my first apartment. It was so much smaller than I remembered.
When I was little, I had a little lamb that played a lullaby. I would put it under my pillow every night and played the music until I fell asleep.
I had a stuffed rabbit, not a bunny, more along the lines of a bugs bunny type of character. Not sure what happened to it.
I had a bear, aka “Big blue bear” who I still have 40 years later.
I don’t recall any specific attachments – not like my kids have today. I had stuffed animals around but no one special
Loved reading your story Noell!
Somehow (story is lost) I won a HUGE bright ORANGE dog at a fair. I slept with that dog in my twin bed for years! It took up the whole bed. Thanks for making me remember this story…. I see a scrapbook page in my future.
Holy comments!
My comfort toy was a little doll. With light pink arms, legs, and face and a darker pink dress. By the time I was older, she was missing a leg.
I had a beautiful little quilt with appliqued horses on it. Because it was homemade, it was as soft as feathers. I quite literally wore it out. I didn’t ever carry it around, but I did love it even as an older child for naps. As a teenager, I was upset when Ii found out my mother had actually thrown out this treasure! Old quilts can be used to sew the greatest little teddy bears! Alas, my horsie quilt never had a chance for a second life.
I was a thumb girl. I actually remember when I quit – someone told me that I would have a mark on my thumb for 5 years and did I want to go to school with that? I was 4. LOL! Great question!
I was attached to my “duckie” that was a gift when I was born. 33 years later, Duckie is still with me looking nothing like it did the day I got it, but loved nonetheless!
Congrats on the nomination!
My favorite childhood comfort was a sock monkey made for me by my grandmother. Yes, I still have it!
Congrats! I was a thumb-sucker! I remember it took forever to break that habit
hmm…something i was attached to as a child. that’s a tough one! i had tons of notebooks and markers/crayons to play with. i remember going to a baseball game when i was maybe 7. can’t remember a thing about the game but beforehand my mama took me to the dollar store and i got a new notebook and 4 new markers! i was utterly content to just draw in it the whole time
I didn’t really have to use a lovey for comfort but I do still have my Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy Blanket (at least part of it). Still trying to decide what to do with it to preserve the memory of it.
Congrats on being part of the most influential scrapbookers. That’s totally cool!
Congratulations!
I was not attached to anything that I can remember. God that was a long time ago.
I was attached to my ‘Winnie the Pooh’. I would cry when my mom used to wash him. I use to think my Winnie was in pain being line dried hanging by his poor ears by the clothes pin. I still has my washed out no nose Winnie the Pooh!
I carried a yellow satin security blanket until I was 13 – brought it (secretly) to sleepovers too
I carried a little notebook with me because my brother and I tried to see who could get the most license plates written down (this was in the late 40′s) and also my Captain Midnight ring. Congratuations to all the wonderful nominees.
I was attached to my middle two fingers and a little stuffed animal. I even have a cute little photo of me in the crib with me sucking those two fingers. I didn’t fingersuck long though I think-I don’t remember how old I was when I quit. The little stuffed lion – I still have it perched by my bed. I got it used not brand new and it is really old looking. I used to believe that when I closed the door he and the other animals and dolls would talk and play and move about until the door opened and I came back into the room. I was attached to it as a friend but I didn’t drag it anywhere or anything.
I was not attached to anything that I know of as a child. At least not that I was told about.
As a child, I was a thumb sucker for longer than I care to admit. I’m quite relieved my kids don’t have that same issue.
I don’t remember any special “things” to which I was attached although my childhood was a long time ago and my memory isn’t as good as it used to be. I think I was attached to people — not things. Especially, I was a daddy’s girl.
Yellow blanket with satin trim…until my grandmother told me it was lost. I then forced myself to connect with a red blanket with satin trim; which I still have tucked away! BTW, found the yellow blanket in the laundry room one day…that’s just wrong, Nanny!
I never really had any items I remember being attached to. I don’t have any pictures of me as a child with a “special” item. Thanks for a chance to win!
WOW I finally see where to leave a comment. I had a binky that I called a “chew chew”. Thanks for the chance to enter.
As far as I know, I was a very independent since I don’t remember anyone kidding me about dragging something around like my sister did. She had a cat pillow that went everywhere – and it stunk!
I can’t remember being attached to anything in particular. I did have a LOT of stuffed animals and an imaginary dog.
Congrats to you and Izzy. I enjoy the roundtable. I cannot enter the contest because I cannot answer your question. I am finding since my mother passed away last fall that questions crop up weekly that I can no longer ask her about (this part. question is the least of the things I want to know!) Record your history now!
I was most definitely attached to my blankie with a satin edge. My grandmothers faithfully sewed the satin edge back on any time it would start to come undone. Still have this blankie today.
I was a thumb sucker… thank goodness for braces!
I still have my rabbit and blanket from when I was a baby…I’m 43!
I slept with a PeeWee doll. They don’t make them anymore — probably because their accessories were held in place with straight pins! I would never give one to my children but who knew back then in the ’60s!
I was not attached to anything as a small child, so I thought it especially precious when I gave birth to a baby girl that had to have her stuffed bunny! She’s four now and her passion for the bunny has just started to wane.
Thanks for the chance to win the give-away!
I have no idea. My mom never mentioned anything & I’m pretty independent and stubborn, so I’m going to go with nothing! Congrats on your honor-very much deserved.
Ok, paint me embarassed, but I’m going to share. I drank from a baby bottle till I was 6 years old. There was a spot on my leg that I would rub while I drank. My mom threatened to tell all my school mates, but I didn’t care. There was just something about drinking from my bottle that made me feel safe.
Allison
Congratulations!
I was attached to a blanket and 40 years later – I still have it with me, after graduating HS, college, and 17+ years in the AF!
I sucked my thumb until I was in second grade. My next door neighbor and best friend also sucked her thumb. Together we decided to quit together. I will never forget the day she walked in on me in the bathroom sucking my thumb after we had agreed to quit! Luckily, I did eventually quit on my own and I am now thumb-sucking free! : )
i didn’t when i was really little, but when i was about 8 was when i started collecting stickers…that became an obsession!
First off, congratulations!! I listen to the Roundtable every week and love it!
I was an independant type of kid. I didn’t have a blanket or stuffy as a kid. But, I do have a favorite pillow, now! I can’t sleep without my pillow and bring it with me where ever we travel.
I was very attached to a pink cat (stuffed toy). Kitty (Yes, I was very inventive in the name dept. lol) went everywhere with me. After a while my parents bought a new one – but I would not be swayed – and never accepted the “impostor”. I still have the now grayish, fur-less cat around somewhere.
Congratulations!! Listen to your PRT and the “offspring” digi show, and love them both. I had an imaginary friend that went EVERYWHERE with me. My parents were very concerned when I started kindergarten, and went over and over the fact that my friend could NOT go to school. So what happened? There was a girl in my class with the same name as my imaginary friend (Dana, which was not that common of a name!) and after many tears and conversations, my parents finally understood that my imaginary friend had become a real one.
Had a blankie, pink knit with wide satin binding. Eventually just a corner, the satin binding was the best part. Congratulations on the nomination.
I was attached to my teddy – he became so threadbare over the years but I could never have parted with him. At 44 years of age I still have him and treat him with care
Congratulations on the honor!
I had a stuffed koala that I carried everywhere, all the time.
I haven’t thought about “Euca” in years – thanks for reminding me!
I had a Mrs. Beesly doll from Family Affair (oh man– this ages me!) It was stolen when I was in second grade. My mother bought me a new one, but it was never the same. I still miss that doll. I still have the new one — it is in almost new condition!
I had a little stuffed doll that I carried around until I was 8 or 9. I named him Tubby. Not sure why. LOL!
First off…. CONGRAT’s NOELL!
For me… I was completely attached to my “Annie” doll. Loved, loved her (and the movie). I left my doll at a friend’s house one day and actually *had* to have her back to sleep that night, so my poor parent’s had to go back and get her! I was attached for sure.
I had a special pillow and I called it “Little Pillow”. My aunt made one for me that was yellow and one for my sister that was blue. I took it on all vacations with me and used it until it was almost white!!!
Congratulations!
I was most attached to my baby blanket. Still have it in fact
Great question… I wasn’t attached to an object, but I was very close to my dad, who became a single parent when I was three and my brother five. He was, and still is, a wonderfully loving, sensitive man.
Although I think it’s very endearing to have had an attachment to a blanket, bottle, teddy..etc as a kid, I didn’t have any (at least that I can remember).
I had a blankie and my thumb! As my mom was trying to break me of my thumb sucking, she used to wipe my thumb with a Handi-Wipe….yuck!!
Unfortunately i was a thumb sucker which was attached to a blanket. My mom tells of washing my blanket, hung it on the line to dry, looked out later to find me standing by the clothes line holding onto my blanket and sucking my thumb. Wish i had a picture of that!
I can remember a Snoopy stuffed toy. I loved that thing and kept it until my teenage years when our puppy at the time decided to use it as a chew toy. I was not happy but more concern that she didn’t eat any of the stuffing.
This is such a great award from Ella, as I am learning about a whole bunch of scrapbookers that I never knew about! Congrats for your nomination! I was a thumb sucker! II was a thumb sucker up until I was starting school. Big girls that went to school didn’t suck their thumbs, so I actually started to wear mittens to bed. Every morning when I woke up I would check to see if they were dry and that is how I knew that I had not sucked my thumb, but if they were wet, well it meant I had been sucking my thumb and I would have to keep wearing those mittens!
I had a stuffed panda bear named Charlie. He was given to me by my Dad’s friend named Charlie. Orginal huh?
he was and is ugly but I still love him. Charlie now resides on my closet floor. Poor Charlie. At least he is still with me.
When I was 2 my uncle gave me a doll, Victoria. I slept with her until the day I was married. I only needed her to fall asleep, she stayed on my bed until night time when I would tuck her in beside me and we would fall asleep.
I was not attached to any item but I was always very attached to my animals
I had a stuffed owl called Herbie who went everywhere with me. My little girl actually found it a few years ago and has now adopted it!
I had a white quilted blanket with satin ribbon edging on it. It was that ribbon edging that comforted me. I used to rub it between my thumb and forefinger. My blanket was called my Smoothie. I really loved it and I think I had it until I rubbed holes in all the edges.
My first toy was also special — a bunny named Hop Hop. I carried him by the ears all over the place and my mom sewed them back in when they fell out until he was just unable to be patched up that way any more. We still have him, tucked away, earless and just about furless, demonstrating that love makes you real
just like the Velveteen Rabbit.
To be honest, I don’t remember being attached to anything specific, so I guess I was pretty independent!
) Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
I didn’t have a thing to keep me company- just my mom and dad who made me feel extra special!! Noell= u r awesome!!! No texting required:)
I don’t recall a softie, but my kids are addicted to blankets. They found some old ones I had stashed and acted like they won the lottery. They are/were all good sleepers though!
I remember my uncle taking out all my stuffed animals and putting them in the center of the living room. He told me to sit in the middle and smile! He took a lot of fun pictures! My favorite toys were in the pic with me, a rag doll and my Lucy doll. I still have those pics. He then told me to put them ALL up! I think that traumatized me. Lol. I don’t think I liked stuffed toys much anymore.
Congrats!!! When I was little I was not “attached” to any small item that I recall, however, I was the type of child who never went far from home. I did not like camp as a child, as long as I was with my family I was fine, even sleepovers at a friends house was fine just not “camp”. So maybe I was attached to my home and family? Thanks so much for the opportunity to win!!!
I didn’t have any attachments, but I was pretty possessive with my stuff. I’m sure I’d outgrown my shirts, pants, and dresses, but I did NOT like it when my mom handed them down to my sister. I can see the sense of it now, but not back then.
Congrats!! My favorite toy was a Big Bird doll. He went everywhere with me.:)
I had a “Baby Beans” doll. She was light blue w/ little white flowers on her. She had a string on the back of her neck you pulled to hear her talk. I liked to twist her nightcap that was attached to her sleeper outfit. I still have her actually! LOL Her string still works too. My girls now love to see what I had when I was little. I think it helps my oldest (who’s 9) still feel ok about sleeping w/ her little baby too!
I moved a lot so didn’t get attached to much more than my own mother
Then when my brother was born, me at age 4 was a mini-me of my own mother and when he went to Kindergarden, he was attached to me… funny how life works. Now as adults we’re one big huggy happy family – all married with our own kiddies but inseparable none the less 
When I was very young (early 60′s) it was not encouraged to let a child become attached to a blanket, pacifier, etc. That makes me sad. I loved seeing what my own children would make attachments to … I think it’s a normal thing to do! My oldest daughter was attached to a giant stuffed dog that was received at her baby shower, my youngest daughter to a Tweety blanket I made for her while pregnant, and my son to his binkie. Great topic for a scrapbook page!
As a child, I don’t remember being attached to an inanimate object, but rather my Mom. During my early childhood, my mother was battling breast cancer and I can remember being very cliny to her. I didn’t understand really what was going on, but on some level I felt the fear of losing her. Lucky for me she lived for many more years before we had to said goodbye to her for the last time.
I love my little orange and white teddy bear. I even had little felt clothes for him. I keep searching ebay and antique stores hoping one day I will find him again!
I had a favorite doll with blonde pigtails and a blue and red dress and matching hat…until we had a house-fire when I was 5 yrs old. I cried and cried about losing her.
unfortunately….I loved my thumb…and my teeth suffered!
When I had just learned to walk I broke my leg ridding my tricycle and once I got the cast off I would only walk on blankets for a long time LOL…so I guess blankets were my thing!
I had a “My Friend Mandy” doll from Fisher Price and she got lost somewhere along the way; but recently I bought the same doll on ebay in excellent condition for five bucks! Amazing & she is so cute.
I was very attached to a “Princess Summerfallwinterspring” doll from the Howdy Doody show. I still have her minus one of her legs. Not bad for a 60+ rag doll.
Hmm, I think I was attached to my doll named “Aunt Mary” but more than that, I think I was attached to my grandmother as opposed to anything physical.
Nope…I don’t recall being attached to anything…independent indeed as a child. However, nowadays, I seem to carry my two lovely boys with me everywhere. Not so independent afterall, huh?
Congrats on your nomination…you inspire many of us!! And don’t take this as an easy task…scrapbooking is my weekly therapy…so: thanx!!
I had a doll named Sarah that I took everywhere. She was a gift when I was 6 months old. She had a soft body and her arms, legs and head were plastic. She had a voicebox that you put a 9 volt battery in and she talked to you. Surprisingly enough, I still have her in my closet (minus the voicebox) and I used her to teach my 5 year old son, Nathan, how to hold a baby prior to his baby sister being born in October 2009. Sweet eh?
CONGRATS!!!
I don’t remember my having one but both of my daughters had stuffed toys, Clawdie doll & Wubby dog. They are among my treasures and I hope to give them back to them when they have their own children to display in their nurseries. They appear in many of their childhood photos with them. They bring back a rush of memories of the way my precious babies felt & smelled & looked so many years ago.
I don’t remember having a favorite toy but I did have a favorite quilt that my grandmother made for me.
I do not remember being emotionally attached to a thing… but I used to suck on my bottom lip whenever I got tired. Not a good thing in the winter time when it would get chapped. It is a good thing I grew out of that habit.
i was attached to my nan. i always wanted to be with her and loved (still do) her very much. she is the sort of nana everyone wants, bakes, plays, does craft, chops up your food into tiny bite size pieces. will let you sleep in her bed, always smiling and gives the best kisses and cuddles.
I had a blanket
Congratulations Noell. What a great honor. I would have picked you too
I had a little pink teddy bear that my dad brought back from a business trip to England that I used to sleep with. The poor fella had lost most of the stuffing out of his belly but I loved him. I bet my mom still has him up in the attic. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite toy was a Glo-Worm and I carried it around everywhere.
I had a kitty with a silky ear and a blanket (“blankie”) with a silky banding. I would suck my middle fingers and rub the two on my cheek. They were my comfort items in childhood:)
I was very attached to dolls. My grandma would give me one every Christmas. She passed away over 20 years ago, and I was given a beautiful doll with a yellow dress and hat that belonged to her. She sits on the bed in an extra bedroom, just like she did on Grandma’s bed.
I had a little quilted blanket my grandma made me. I slept with it until I got married – even during college.
My favorite LOVEY… was a brown stuffed weiner dog named “Rover” How I loved that soft dog. My mom replaced his tongue and eyes quite a few times!
my comfort item; a soft blankie
My brother, sister and I all had the same favorite item… a big silky blanket that we called “The Silky Blanket” or just “Silky”. (I know, not very creative!). This blanket at some point was white with big pink/mauve cabbage roses, circa 1960′s, but through the years and through many cycles in the washer, it had faded to a soft pink and white, barely noticeable pattern. This was the blanket that Mom used to “snuggle” us in if we didn’t feel well or were just having an off-day. If you saw someone laying on the davenport with the Silky Blanket, you knew to leave them alone!
One Thanksgiving years later, after we all had children of our own, I ran across the Silky Blanket stuffed in the back of Mom’s linen closet. When I pulled it out, all three of us, in unison, said “Oh, it’s Silky!!” Yep, our children and spouses thought we were a little crazy as they watched three grown adults snuggle in good ol’ Silkey.
Thinking back I don’t think I had anything attached to me. I have racked my brain and have come up blank. wow I guess that is nothing new. lol Neither of my children had a special item I guess love was enough for them. :+)
Congratulations on this honor.
“MaryJane” was my very best friend…my doll. She’s made of cloth, and two sided; on one side of her apron is written “Don’t Be Sad, Flip my hair….” then on the other side of the apron is written “And I’ll Be Glad!” Her blond yarn hair looked just like mine. My grandmother traced her and made a copy for me when I was in my teens. She went to college with me. I still have them both now. Someday, they will go to my daughter. Or more likely, I’ll keep the original for myself!
That was sixty years ago, but my mom told me I sucked on a finger on my right hand for comfort. Back then things were pretty basic. Forty years ago, my son had a “blankie” and sucked on his thumb; oh, how times have changed.
Thank you, Noell.
Congrats, Noell!
The only toy I can remember being attached to was a white stuffed bear named Cupcake. I’d received him + a rocking chair for one of my birthdays. I remember very clearly that my parents had to take Cupcake away, because I developed a rash, and it turns out that I was allergic to the toy!
I wasn’t really attached to anything. I did have this rectanglar pillow when I was a little older that I slept with forever until it pretty much disintegrated!
I was attached to holding on to my dad’s back pocket, when we were in stores etc. I always walked around holding on to his pocket.
I was attached to a slip. It was black with flowers and I wore it over my head like it was a wig to pretend that I had long hair. And I would sing Dolly Parton songs. I know. I was a strange child!
I hope this doesn’t sound like a cop-out answer, but I never had a security blanket or other toy that I know of. I was the first child and the most photographed child, but none of the pictures have me carrying any particular thing, so that’s why I think I didn’t depend on anything. I don’t want to say that I was secure, because I know I wasn’t!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I had a deep obsession with bottle. Talked about marrying it and everything. Luckily for my husband, that passed:)
I was definitely attached to sucking my thumb. That was a habit my parents struggled to break until I was 10 years old. At that point they started pinning wool socks over my hands, to my pajamas at night. A couple of nights with a wooly mouth and I gave up my thumb.
I wasn’t attached to any thing in particular. I was very attached to my grandma, though.
When I was a kid, I had a teddy bear to cuddle when I was upset. I don’t think I carried it everywhere, but I did need to have Ted close by when I was sad. I still have Ted – even though my kids think that’s strange….
Thanks for the chance to win!
Congratulations to you and the other nominees! All of you have such inspiring ideas and projects for people like me to ooh and ahh over.
While I didn’t sleep with my favorite object, it was never far from me during my waking hours. I had a large cardboard box full of paperdolls and I spent countless hours playing with them and designing clothes for them. I still am drawn to the paperdolls of the ’50′s….and like to use them in my layouts.
Congratulations on the recognition of your contribution to the scrapping industry. As a child I remember a teddy bear given to me and each of my 5 first cousins at the time-from a spinster great aunt. We all treasured our teddy bears.
I wouldn’t call it an attachment or obsession, but I was very fond of my Mrs. Beasley and my Kathy Quick Curl doll. (Does anyone remember them…from the early-mid 70s?) LOL.
I didn’t have a ‘lovey’ as a child. But both of my boys-with no coaxing from me-loved their burb cloths. My 5 year old still asks to sleep with one when he is really tired or emotional. They say they love the smell of the downy.
Congrats on your new title. You deserve it.
I just wanted to start by saying WOOHOO for you and congratulations NOELL! You deserve the nomination, as you are always an encouraging and creative individual! As a child I had a very independent nature… when waiting for my parents to go for a walk to my greatgrandparents house, I waited a bit for them, I was about 4yrs old. My baby brother required diaper changing or something, and since no one was coming, I started out on my own, walking along a road that has a 40mph sign posted, crossing a major rural route, & railroad tracks, then walking alone, unattended, w/out adult hands held for about one mile. I was on the front porch with my great grandma when my parents and grandparents FINALLY showed up with “that baby brother” of mine. I remember waiting, and waiting, and finally left, besides, greatgramma’s house was really neat because she didn’t have an “inside” potty! I also remember another time when I walked home from Kindergarten all on my own(5yrs old and 7-12 town blocks)… Mom remembers getting a phone call from a classmates’ parent saying I stopped by to see her son and thought she would call to let her know where her daughter was, and she says she came and got me… I remember walking home! The world seemed so much safer to me then, as a child. As a parent, my prayer each day is that my children are safe in the exploration of their world. “Look both ways” and “Don’t talk to strangers” were simple rules then. Still good ones too!!!
I had as a toddler, and still have today, a beat up, raggedy, frayed, painted over rag doll that I named Jill. She looks like something picked out of the trash, but she is a much loved doll that I will never throw out for as long as I live.
I can’t remember being attached to any security blanket or stuffed animal. Thanks for the chance to win some great stuff.
what a neat giveaway and fun question! i was always in possession of a stuffed animal of some sort — it changed occasionally, but one that i loved a lot was a bear with a sash & angel wings…i still have it & he travels with me
I must have been pretty independent because I don’t think I was overly attached to anything that I know of.
Thanks for the wonderful giveaways!
I remember i had this stuffed snoopy dog that i slept with every night! It was so best up and ragged when i finally outgrew it. My mom put it up for me thou and I still have it to this day.
I don’t remember a blanket, but I used to sleep with an old t-shirt of my dad’s.
I don’t think I had anything. I had a blanket, but it wasn’t as worn as my brother’s. His had to be refurbed multiple times!
I had a blanket that I called my ee-ee AND a right thumb I sucked until Kindergarten!
I had a blankie…mom tells me it was so gross she finally ‘lost’ it.
I had a blanket, named simply “Yellow”. And I had a bunny whose name was “boomy”
Love the podcasts (clipping and digi)…just started watching the LIVE.
I was a bit attached to a dog I called floppy. Not to badly that I couldn’t survive without it though. I actually was more attached to having lots of belongings around me. I would take a bag of stuff everywhere I went, LOL
I was a binky girl. I actually had my binky until I was 4 years old… then I threw it out the window of the moving car… twice. The first time my parents were crazy enough to stop and go back and find it, but after the second time I was out of luck.
Congrats on your nomination!!
my childhood nickname is Roo. And it is because when I was little, I was so attached to my pacifier, I would hide it away in my diaper from my mom so she couldn’t take it from me… I guess they compared it to a kangaroo and her pouch!
Oh, most definitely! I had a yellow security blanket and one of the corners is completely worn from rubbing it. My daughters each have their own too- taggie blankets they can’t be without.
Congrats on your big honor!
I was attached to a care bears sleeping bag that I outgrew and it then became a blanket. It started to come apart at one point and I sewed big loopy stitches in it with brown thread. Keep in mind it is a nice pale yellow.
It’s on my bed right now.
I had a stuffed toy dog called WowWow. He went on to be my sister’s fave toy, and then her son’s as well. WowWow now has none of his original features or fur, but we all still love him.
I love Paperclipping, and I’m so glad you now have a digital show. Way to go, Noelle! I was obsessed with my thumb. It was my right one. It is actually longer than my left one – Mom says because I sucked it so much!
By the way, what time zone is this based on? My post that says 3:46 am was posted at 8:45 PDT!!
No, I did not have a blanket or binkie; I am very independent today and may have been when I was small. My pictures from back then do not show any item that was always with me….
thanks for the op to win!!! I enjoy you guys….
I had a binkie until I was about four. I’m pretty sure I carried around a small pillow that was as thin as a blanket as well.
Well since there are 752 people ahead of me, I have a slim chance of winning for sure! I was attached to sucking my two fingers (middle and ring, which left the pointer finger’s location, of course, in my nose. Super fun question! Congrats on the honor!
I was attached to a bear that my brother gave me for christmas. It wasn’t so much the bear, but the fact that he picked it out for me as a surprise. No one helped him. He was just being nice. Kind of unusual for an older brother to do for his bossy younger sister!
I had a baby doll (hard plastic head, arms and legs)that I named “Bridget” and carried everywhere with me.
I would say I was not attached to any object but I was fortunate to have a twin, who was my attachment. I think we were inseparable. We still love to be together and drag our husbands along. The fun twins can have.
I don’t think I was attached to anything. I don’t remember and my mother never said anything about it.
I had a snoopy that I took everywhere.
I had a small pillow with a satin cover – always slept with it, it was small enough to pack to take to friends. I finally quit sleeping with it after I got married (but it’s still packed away in the closet).
Congrats! I was attached to a teddy bear. Slept with it every night!
I was a thumb sucker until somewhere in my kindergarten year my sister, Kim, decided to check my thumb for wrinkles every morning- she told me the other kids would tease me if I didn’t stop- so I did! I was so proud when I finally woke up without a wrinkly thumb!… and she was too!
Great giveaway. I must have been pretty independent because I don’t remember being attached to anything and my mother never told me about anything.
I had a very amazing odd little brown and yellow ratty bear. I was quite sick at the age of four or so and threw up all over it, and that was the end of that! there are actually a couple of photos with me and this bear…interesting! he was thread bare little thing too!
I don’t remember having an attachment to anything specific, but I remember stcking pretty close to my brother all the time. Thanks for the giveaway!
I had a doll. Her name was Susan. Her ‘skin’ was some rubbery material and she was stuffed with tiny bits of foam rubber. She was so old that the tips of her fingers had deteriorated and the stuffing was coming out. So my mom took thread and tied it around the very tips of her fingers so I could get a few more years of love our of her. Crazy. Haven’t thought about that doll in a long, long time.
Not a blanket but definitely my second finger, right hand. It took a while to kick the habit. Mum was worried about my teeth but it all worked out. Neither of my kids have sucked their thumbs/fingers. Just me!
I had a baby blanket that I loved to pieces. My mom gave it to me as a wedding shower present…I thought it had been thrown out!
I was totally independent! My mom says that some nights I would go missing and I would have already tucked myself into bed. And 36 years later, I still walk to the beat of my own drum!
Always a stuffed animal, which one varied, over the years. I remember sleeping with a red & white chicken, a Christmas Snoopy with antlers and a leather E.T. among other things. I usually hugged it the way some people hug a pillow while they sleep. I even took one with me on trips most of the times. I even slept with one most nights into my college years.
My attachment was flannel. Not any particular piece, just anything flannel that could be rubbed across my lips. It was my ‘nuey’. Always got me to sleep. Congratulations on your award! Thank you for the memory, and sharing.
I was never attached to any item because I had so many family members around that I was hanging on to one of them. I was used as a doll by the girls and as a girls attention getter by the guys. That was many years ago and fun to think about now.
I was completely attached to a small yellow teddy with a tartan body which I was given once when I was sick.
Congrats on being chosen! I think it was a very appropriate selection. Love your show! Yes, I was throughly attached to a blanket. A yellow and green silky type of fabric. My mom still has the bits that were left after I finally let it go.
xoxo, Christine
I had a stuffed lamb I loved. He was lost in a move. It made me quite sad.
Congratulations! I don’t recall being attatched to anything in particular. Being an only child, I was pretty independent and pretty much loved all of my toys about the same!
I had a brown bear. I have several pictures from the 1960′s with that old tattered bear. I do not remember his name, but I do remember constucting a vet clinic for him and my other stuffed animals using TV tray tables and blankets. Thanks for the memories. I had forgotten about him.
I was attached to a lot of things… I sucked my thumb way too long and I had a red baby blanket that my Grandma made for me. I didn’t want to throw it away or store it anymore, so I cut a corner of the blanket off and it’s in my childhood scrapbook
I also LOVED my doll my Mom made for me- I name it “Candy” because “I love Candy and I love my doll”. I actually loved it so much that I wore the fabric off of it’s face, so my mom made me an identical twin named Candycane. I still have my dolls
Congrats on your exciting and well deserved award!
I so wanted to be attached to something, the closest I got to an attachment were my blue jeans. I was such a tomboy!
Ahh, I believe I was independent. No cuddle objects for me that I recall.
I believe I had a blanket but gave it up pretty quickly.
I’m 57 and don’t remember if I was attached to anything. That’s why I scrap for my now grown kids, so that they’ll have the memories I don’t have.
I was very independent. In fact, I would often sleep in the unfinished basement so I could be alone
I had a wonderful white blankie with a super soft ribbon edge. I used to rub it against my face at night until I fell asleep. I completely wore out the blanket, and I think my Mom finally had to throw it out. But, it was wonderful while it lasted. I can still make myself fall asleep by rubbing a ribbon-edged blanket against my face!
I had a little gray stuffed dog that I received when I was very young, and I loved it so much that I even took it to college with me! Hugging him always made me feel better.
Congratulations on this honor, Noell, and please keep inspiring us all.
My Mother was very ill shortly after I was born, and an Aunt raised me my first year. She never told me of any attachments and there isn’t anything in any of my baby pictures, so I guess I was independent. That makes sense, because I am very independant as an adult.
I was attached to a red, silky blanket. Not sure why I loved that thing so much, but I sure did!
I have racked my brain trying to remember something I was attached to, but I guess I was too busy following my older brother around trying not to be left behind. That or too many things interested me, so I couldn’t focus on one.
Congratulations!
MMMM- as a toddler, my security blanket was (shhhh) my thumb. I also had a stuffed dog named Rover (who doubled as a sleepover bag) Still have him today -
Congratulations on one of the Most Influential Scrapbookers 2010 awards! It’s awesome.
I don’t remember being attached to anything in specific, but my mum says I had a dummy, and loved playing with a wet flannel?!#*!, I would drape it over my face, toys, anything, anywhere, it just had to be wet
My thumb, I was a thumbsucker. Until I was about 6 or 7, then I started biting my nails, then later smoking, but now at 35, I have quit all of it, I no longer need to comfort myself with my thumb, my nails, or cigarettes, I think I am growing…
The best part is, my two daughters have no habits like that!
Had to go to the source for this one. I didn’t think I was particularly attached to anything, but apparently it was my thumb. So THAT’s why I spent so much time at the orthodontist…
I had a stuffed dog named muffin. He was Yellow. I would not go anywhere without him. I still have the dog to this day…
I was attached to a pink blanket that I slept with every night up until I got married. I think it was habit and also a very comfortable blanket. But now that I think about it, I’m not sure where it is…:(
Congratulations Noell!
Hey there-I’m one of those eldest children, you know, driven and independent. Never was really attached to a “lovey” but have sure loved making sure my grandchildren have theirs.
I had a pacifier for too long. So long that I was old enough to remember that I watched the garbage man carry it away in the garbage. I seriously think I was around the age of four. We were visiting family in Georgia and my mom actually bribed me with a Rainbow Brite doll in exchange for throwing away my “binkie”. I was worried I’d have the same issue with my little boy, but he gave up his binkie before he turned one–all on his own and doesn’t have any real attachment to anything right now.
Congrats on the nomination!! Have been wanting to take Maggie’s photo class forever! Would love to win!
My Womble cup was quite a fave! Can’t actually remember which womble particularly though! Congratulations!
Ahhh, I remember them well. My blankie and my stuffed bunny, both originally pink, now just a blush of color. They still reside in the bottom drawer of my dresser. I don’t recall dragging the blankie a la Linus, but, it was always in my bed ss a child. I must have been a “holder” because to this day, I awaken with my fist holding tight to a corner of my bedding. Yes, my fellow blankie-ers, the satin corners are the best. I remember, as a teen, re-connecting with these comfort items. I would cover my pillow with the blanket and sleep with my cheek against it. My stuffed bunny (so, Velveteen Rabbit) had once satin lined ears, worn down by love and time. Also as a teen, I decided to name it Blythe, as I read that it meant happiness. I haven’t used either of them in decades, but, find solace in knowing they are just right there, in my dresser drawer.
I was attached to a silky blue blanket until it was torn and shredded. Then, it was taken away…don’t know what age that was.
Ooh, I had both thumb and blanket – an unshakable unbreakable combo that could solve any problems and put all the world to rights!
I was a pretty independent child, but as a tween/teen I got all “angsty” and that’s when my woobie (blanket) became a fixture. So happy for you Noel!
Don’t remember a special blanket or anything, but I did suck my thumb.
I had a pink and white rabbit complete with orange carrot. The carrot and the rabbit are no longer attached… but the rabbit sits on my bedroom dresser along with my teenage sons’ favourites. Loys of happy memories!
I don’t recall having a favourite toy or a security blanket. I was the youngest and mostly wanted whatever the other siblings had.
Congratulations on the recognition!
Congratulations on the award. I was attached to my dolly called Muma. It went every where with me until I was about 7 (I was a sook)
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Congratulations. I had an Andy Pandy doll my Mother made me. Thats the only thing I remember carrying around.
CONGRATULATIONS!!! What a great journey.
Childhood: what on earth was that? So long ago I can’t remember. No attachments that stick in my memory.
Congratulations on such a wonderful honor. As far as I know, I had nothing to which I had a special attachment as a child. I wonder what I missed?
Congratulations for being nominated Most Influential Scrapbooker. As to your question, I do not remember being attached to anything in particular. I didn’t have too many toys as a kid. Maybe that is why I make up for it with my scrapbooking toys hehehe. Thanks so much for the giveaway.
Congratulations! I have this baby pillow since i can remember that I am so attached to. I slept with it till I moved out of my parents house. It’s still there in my room at my parents.
I didn’t have a comfort toy, I had a comfort phrase!! One time when I was frightened at night while my Dad was away my Mum said everything would be fine because Daddy was coming home tomorrow. So I went back to sleep saying over and over ‘Daddy’s coming home tomorrow.’ I used thisphrase may times after that even if he was asleep in the room next door.
To my knowledge there were never stories about an attachement I had to anything as a baby. Sorry no fun story share.
I was very attached to my thumb. I had an overbite to show for it but thank goodness for braces!
I was pretty independent. I don’t remember any toy or blanket.
I was attached to a blanket – I still have one now (at 31) but just for bedtime and when I am really unwell
My little boy (age 1) has a comfort blanket too – it’s a lion and he will not be parted from it or use a substitute when Lion is in the washing machine or the tumble drier 
As a child I was very attached to a green knitted elf my granny made for me – he had very long arms & legs, with red trim around the ends of his sleeves & pants. He had a round face, black hair & on top a little green & red hat. Not sure what became of him after all these years, but memories last forever !
Congratulations!!! My favorite was a Panda Bear that I named Pooh Bear after Winnie the Pooh. He was my favorite friend until my parents took him away. The other one was a dog name Flippy. He was white and had floppy ears. These two traveled with me wherever I went.
Congrats on your nomination. I don’t so much remember being attached to anything as a child but in some photos of me there is usually a blanket or toy floating around somewhere. I did have a favourite bunny that got loved to shreds.
I was seriously attached to my thumb. I sucked my left thumb till I was six. I have a scar to prove it. Congratulations!
I had a beautiful Blue Cordaroy Teddy Bear!!!
I can’t remember being attatched to things so much as people, I liked to be with my Mum & Dad & would get really stressed when they went anywhere without me
I had a huge stuffed mouse that was bigger than me. I called him Hector, short for Hector the Inspector because I loved the rhyme! He is old and battered but still well loved today!
Congratulation! I don’t recall being attached to anything and I don’t have many pictures of my childhood either; that’s why I scrapbook for my children in part too. So happy for you and amazingggggggggggg give away!!!
Congratulations on being named in the top 10. It goes to show that innovation is so rewarding.
As for my childhood toy obsession. I had a doll named Janey. She had a hairdo in the shape of a pyramid. It was that way because of how I carried her with her head tucked under my arm.
Anyhow, I lost Janey whilst traveling with my family. Her final resting place was a toilet in some petrol station
congrats on the nomination! The only thing I was attached to was my older sister…and that drove her crazy!
Congratulations on the award and thanks for giving us prizes. I was a thumb sucker for quite a few years apparently.
Enhorabuena por estar entre esas personas más influyentes del mundo del scrapbooking!!
Creo que siempre he sido muy independiente pero recuerdo especialmente un peluche de un perro….seria mi favorito??no se….quizás ; )
un saludo
I was VERY attached to a blanket given to me when I was born. I slept with it until I was nine and still have it in my bedside drawer. I pull it out every now and then to show my kids. They can never believe how tattered and torn it is!
Congratulations Noell!
I had a blue teddy bear. Not sure why it was blue – maybe they were expecting a boy. Funnily enough the only picture of me with it was a professional family portrait where bear was hand-coloured yellow.
just like fancyscrapper…i too had a stuffed lamb that was my favorite when i was a wee little girl. it got to be so worn out that there was literally no fur left in almost every spot. and then it grossed me out and i got rid of it. sad, but true. wish i had the little guy now. my kids would get a kick out of it.
Nothing for me, but my sister had a blanket until her boyfriend moved in. It was a huge blanket, so when she went on holiday she would cut a corner off it to take with her. She used to pick the fluff off it and put it up her nose!
Congratulations on award. I did not have anything but my kids were all partial to muslin cloths. Eldest daughter called it her cloth and sucked her thumb, and eldest son called it his “muzzy’. Youngest daughter was given a hand crocheted blanket by her great grandmother (Nana papa) that I wrapped her up in. She is fifteen and still has it at the bottom of the bed. It is called “blanky” and is kind of grey now and full of holes and the ribbon has unravelled but she loves it. Nana papa died when she was 9 but she still remembers her whenever she looks at blanky.
Nope, Noda, Nothing….weird as I have never thought of that! And now that I do, my daughter is the same way.
Congratulations! I had a stuffed dog called Soppy, but sadly he got lost in a car park when I was about three. I also sucked my thumb and luckily for me that didn’t get lost. But it did make my teeth slightly wonky on one side.
I don’t remember & I have been told that I was attached to anything in particular. However, around 7 I remember being afraid of sleeping in my room & before bedtime I would snuggle in all my stuffed animals and then tuck myself in the middle very E.T. like so that if bad guys came into my room they wouldn’t see me
I was attached to a blanket as well
I was attached to my…MOTHER. I still remember her dropping me off at kindergarten in a trailer with glass doors at the front. I stood there beating on the glass because I didn’t want her to leave me there all day. I NEVER grew to like school, either…even when I was in High School I remember feeling like we were in “prison”.
I was very attached (and to an extent still am) to my thumb with a piece of well worn, but frayed and clean cotton diaper or cloth. To this very day, I love the feel of soft cotton on my body. Climbing into bed in the softest of sheets is just the warmest, most relaxing feeling. Even the coolness of them in summer gives me a warm, fuzzy.
Thanks for this opportunity and love the blog.
I was a thumb-sucker, it was the thumb in the mouth and my other hand was in the back of my shirt playing with my tag…strange I know, but comforting to me (but apparently very annoying to my sister who went around cutting all the tags out of my pjs)lol
What a good question! I think I was independent, and not a “needer”. Same way today – I have lots of toys, comforts, but not sure if I “need” any of them. Congrats and thanks!
I remember a doll that I played with so much it’s cloth sides came apart. My Grandma offered to take it to the Doll’s Hospital to get it fixed but then turned round and said it couldn’t be fixed. I never saw it again. She bought me a new doll but it wasn’t the same
Congratulations on the award
My dad always said that I was as independent as a hog on ice. I needed nothing to be attached to. Not until I met my DH, anyway!
I don’t remember being attached to anything. I know I had sisters that did but I don’t remember having something that was specific.
Congrats!! I remember watching your podcasts a while back (when I had more time
( )… and they were awesome!! Maybe I’ll have to find the time again and start watching once more! Anyway, my attachment was my thumb… never lost it, never forgot it, it was with me always! ;o) And still is today, although I do use it for other things now!
I had sooo many stuffed animals that held a prominent position in my bed that there was barely any room for me. Of course they all had names, and their particular spots they liked to sleep. My absolute fave was a pink elephant.
btw… I am thrilled to find your blog through Ella, Noell. I’ll add it to my regulars
I carried my baby doll everywhere I went.
I had a stuffed monkey who I had for such a long time and took everywhere with me that my mom had to make him new clothes!
my attachment (literly) was my thumb. Worse habit to break…but great thing was I always had that comfort w/ me. Even now I think back and it makes me smile. thanks for the memory!
A soft white blankie with the satin edges.
I still have it – folded up in my box of special treasures.
As the oldest of 4, I was pretty independent because I don’t remember any special comfort item. But each of my kids has one. They love their “pretty”, which is a blanket my mom has made for them. I don’t know when we started called them “pretty” but it makes me laugh especially when I realize they are now 17/15 and still have it with them (in their beds).
Congrats on earning that title! You deserve it!
As I child I was BEYOND attached to my pacifier. My mom said that I was nearly 3 before I “gave it up” … she said that I would constantly lose them, and she thought I was too old to still be using them so she told me when I had 3 left in my stash that those were the LAST 3 and that when I lose them they would be gone forever. So one by one I lost them, when it came down to the last one she told me that when I lost that one I would have no more, she said that I agree’d and was ok with that. She told me that when I lost it if I didn’t cry for it and I was a big girl about it that she would let me pick out ANY toy that I wanted. So evidently I lost it and was ok, she took me to the toy store and out of EVERYTHING I could have gotten there I picked a stuffed Big Bird
HI! I’m so glad I found your blog, it’s awesome!
Anyway,
When you were little, were you attached to a baby blanket? A thumb? A stuffed toy? What were you attached to? Or were you so independent you didn’t need anything? Please share.
I was attached to several! I had a baby blanket with little yarn twisties my Granny made me. And still to this day (34 yrs old) I can’t go to sleep without having a blanket with those yarn twistied on it to twirl in my fingers as I fall asleep! Now my 23 month old does the same thing with her Tigger binkie.
I also had a stuffed dog that I had to fall asleep with and I was a thumb sucker! Then a braces wearer!!! Thankfully my DD hasn’t picked that one up.
Hoorah for you! I loved my blankie until some turkey stole it from our machine at the laundry mat. Now who would do that?
Congrats! Quite an honor, and you deserve it!
I loved tickles. Ya know, that silk stuff on the edge of blankets? Not the blankets themselves, mind you. I usually ripped the tickles off and kept them in my pocket or around my wrist. Very strange, but i still love the feel. Occassionally snag one of my daughters blankets with it! =)
I was a thumb-sucker … until I was 12 (LOL I was ATTACHED!!). Congrats on your nomination!
As the fourth child my parents don´t remember these details.
Now I scrap them for my children so that we can always recall it when they grow up.
By the way, wasn´t familiair with your blog but I love it. Thanks for the inspiration!
a sun bonnet sue blanket my great grandmother handmade.
Congratulations!
I used to suck my thumb. I told people it was strawberry flavored. I also had a stuffed lamb that I was pretty attached to. I’ve recently created a sb layout of it.
Congratulations! I had a stuffed bear that was my Mom’s – she now has it back and it sits on display.
I was pretty independent I guess, because I don’t recall having been attached to anything special!
Congratulations. As a child I was attached to my thumb.
Didn’t have a Blanket, lamb, or anything. But my sister loved the satin edge of her blankie while she sucked her thumb. When she was four and on her fourth blue blankie mom started cutting it into smaller and smaller pieces. Until it just disappeared.
Definitely my thumb… but I also have my favorite elephant and music box… both of which my kids are attached too now, but not my thumb – thankfully it is still mine!
Congratulations on sneaking in and getting awarded! I love your website and will definitely be checking it out more since I found it!
Congratulations! I was independent. I don’t remember needing anything.
Congratulations… I love your work…
I was attached to my pink lace baby blanket. Thanks for the chance to win the FABULOUS prizes.
The honest answer is “I don’t know…” My mom has never mentioned any type of attachment that I had, but you’ve inspired me to ask! Congrats on the nomination!!!
I can’t personally remember being attached to anything, but my sister definitely was! One of my earliest memories is driving around in the middle of the night with my dad to find her a replacement pacifier! (I do remember sucking my thumb – and after that memory of my sister, I encouraged my own kids to do the same – you can’t lose your thumb lol!)
I for sure was attached to a blanket. When I was two, Mom asked the Dr. what she should do about this obsession. He told her to cut a little piece of it off everyday until there was nothing left to cut. Well this worked until it was the size of a wash cloth. Then I just started carrying around wash cloths!
I don’t believe I was attached to anything as a baby. I’ll have to ask my mom.
I don’t think I got in on time, but just wanted to say Congrats anyways!!!
I had a tattered and torn yellow blanket that I called “nana.” My mom finally had to hide it when I was five, or I would have taken it to Kindergarten with me.
I was attached to books, especially Little Bear. It was the first book I read by myself.
This is such a great giveaway! I never had a blanket or dummy, but I did have a toy monkey. He had velcro paws and was just the right size for a little girl to hold. i still have him, but he is a little bit thread-bare! Abi x
I can’t say I was attached specifically to one item. I did have a favorite doll that I got when I was very little and I loved it and would sleep with it all the time, but I was ok without it. My son had a lizard toy that he use to clutch in his hand at night and when I would check on him while sleeping, his fist would still be clenched around it. It was so cute.
i was attached to a blankie that had silk on the edges and as the blankie got worn, it just became the silk edge that i dragged around. ;o)
I didn’t have a blanket, or stuff animal that I remeber….I had an identical twin sister! Who need anything else?!
Congrats on your new status of influential.
I had a very pale pink, satin edged blanket that I kept for many years — probably until I was about 12! It never left my room, but lived under my pillow during the day and was there waiting for me when I went to bed. My kids were both attached to hand-knitted blankets, and now all three reside in our cedar chest. For what, I’m not sure. Probably just for me.
Congrats on the award! I find your website very interesting and unique. Well done!
I was a blanket baby all the way! Slept with it for years, I think I still have a small piece of it in my cedar chest.
My mother told me that I used to be attached to my “per” and it was a cloth diaper. It could be any cloth diaper, but I always carried one around and called it my “per” because I couldn’t say the whole word diaper.
Congratulations on the award!