Fancy Nancy

Last night, my Bible Study class had a ladies' night. Last month we decorated scarecrow cookies, and this month was a "fancy" tea party. The idea was to wear all your grandmother's jewelry at once or pull out your fanciest tiara, or whatever - ham it up with the "fancy". So, I complied.

I didn't have many "fancy" bases to start with because, while I've lost all the baby weight (reminds me I need to update the tracker at the top), I've still got about 10-15 pounds to go to get back into a lot of the clothes in my closet. But I had this beaded top and a black skirt that I could get myself into, so I started there. Thankfully, my cute little shoes still fit fine.

I started with some earrings I have worn for dressy events (probably could have gone a little crazier on the earrings, but didn't have a lot of time to find things), the necklace I wore for my wedding (covered by the boa in the picture), my grandmother's cocktail ring, my mom's diamond and ruby ring, a diamond ring my mom bought me in high school, another "diamond" ring that I think also belonged to my grandmother, and a huge gaudy ring that was given to me. Then I put an ankle bracelet on each ankle, and put on 3 toe rings.

Then I went to the dress-up bin . . . I found a crazy-long string of "pearls", a pink feather boa, a rhinestone belt (hard to see against the beaded top), and the best find of all, a little hat that belonged to my great aunt or my grandmother (not sure). The hat has some sort of animal fur trimming it (mink I think, but Mike said I looked like I had a dead squirrel on my head!) and I think it's meant to go around a bun, but I slid it around my ponytail. To top it all off, I put some glitter on my eyelashes and cheeks. I was super-fancy!

We mostly just sat around and ate some "tea party food", drank some tea, and talked. It was fun to see people dressed up, although only a couple of other girls went quite as far out as I did! Most of them wore their everyday clothes and threw on as much jewelry as they could fit! One of them had on a tiara that is just like one my nieces have - you push the heart in the middle and it lights up and twinkles! I thought about borrowing one myself, but decided I had enough stuff on already!

Here's a pic of Catelyn asleep after she had rolled onto her tummy. She almost always turns herself at a 90 degree angle in her crib too - it's funny and I'm not sure why she does it. It does render the blocks we put under one end of her bed to help with her reflux, pretty useless! But she's awfully cute, so I think we'll accept her turning around in her bed!