Picture the scene:

It’s the dawn of the 20th century. You’re a kid at a fair.

But not just any fair, mind you! It’s the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis!

There, all your sugar-coated, sweet-tooth dreams just came true. You plunked down 25 cents – which was a lot of money! – and bought yourself a box of “fairy floss.”

And someone captured you in a photograph delighting in what we now know as cotton candy.

About ten or so years later, your doting mother took that photo to a photography artist and had it hand-painted, because by about 1915, hand painted photographs were all the rage.

And your family has treasured the keepsake ever since, each generation contending that the newest edition – little Fred or sweet Sally – looks just like Great (Great) (Great) Uncle Charlie or Aunt Dahlia in that old photo of the Kid at the Fair with the Cotton Candy.

All I can think of when I pick up my latest monogram-embroidering endeavor is Vintage Cotton Candy. I’m pretty sure it looks just like the cotton candy you were reveling in, back in 1904.

And I’ll be honest: though it seems like a sweet thought, I’m not all that sweet on the current outcome!