I am a Mother in Law!

This past weekend my son got married! It was a great wedding and I love my new daughter. Anyone who loves my son must be a wonderful person. My son takes after me and is a bit of a ham...

Roy and Bethany

A friend of ours provided this beautiful 1954 Cadillac Limo

I am so fortunate to have three good looking boys. The brothers, Andrew and John.


The bride and all the lovely young ladies of the bridal party.

 

The brides Grandmother was calming her before the ceremony. Bethany was shaking like a leaf.



The beginning of a very great adventure indeed.

Chchchchanges....

In the past couple of months, I've sold my house three times. Two did not stick, but the last time seems to be a winner. The past month I've been cleaning out the white house and moving everything into the blue house. I cannot believe all the junk I have. I am going to be opening an Etsy store to get rid of some of it. Really...why do I have a basket full of cameras from the 60s through the 80s. I also have one of the ugliest dishes I've ever seen that my son found online selling for $50. Go figure?

In between selling the same house over and over I....

Visited Peanut and Miss Ruth. MRTB participated in Ladies Night at Rillos again this year. Check out Miss Ruth's Time Bomb Blog for the video of the Fashion Show. This years theme was "Circus"!

Peanut sorting through her inventory for clothes to take to Las Vegas for the Rockabilly Weekend.

Miss Ruth pricing items

Here are the clothes we modeled at the Fashion Show.

...Went to the Casting Crowns Concert with some friends.

April and Lori

The lovely Denise (Her family is from England)

Me and Lori

"Casting Crowns"

...Celebrated Passover with friends and family.

...Went to my son's first Art Exhibition.

I've been feeling a bit 60's and 70's lately.

Orange Jacket and tan turtleneck - Goodwill

back zipper slacks gifted

Geometric dress - Goodwill

Missed you gals...I have a ton of blog reading to catch up on now.

Week in Review

The weather this week has been bi-polar. One day it is like Spring and the next day it is like Winter again. I think the Sun has finally been out long enough for me to get some Vitamin D. I actually caught myself smiling and feeling happy. I didn't realize it until I looked at my pictures. I am trying out my $1 finds from Community Aid.

Winter day outfit

Maxi skirt $1

Suede fringe belt $1

Sweater retail clearance $6

Spring day outfit

Frock $1

Sweater $1.25

I used the same wood necklace with both outfits. A relic left from the 70's during my Bohemian period.

Here are some of the highlights of this week...

I found my button box.

The crocuses started blooming

I found a whole bag of earrings for $3 at the Charity Shop

(I rinsed them in alcohol to sterilize since some were pierced)

My husband and Number 3 son got fitted for their tuxes for my Number 1 son's June wedding.



Looking forward to more of this...

Dance If You Want To...

We just found out this week that a long time friend of ours is finally being beaten by his long time enemy, colon cancer. He has been given only a few more months on this earth. Before we first got married 28 years ago, we would spend hours way into the night playing UNO and laughing and having our whole lives ahead of us. Children came and life sucked up our time and before we knew it, we were old. We are going to visit him next week and it will be one of the hardest things I have done in my 54 years. I don't want to make you sad with this post, it is just a reminder to dance if you want to, cry if you want to, wear plaids with polka dots and bows in your hair! We don't know what tomorrow may bring, and I don't want to say "I wish I would have..."

Last week Peanut from MRTB asked me to dance at the Annual Fashion Show. At first, I thought I am too old to do anything like that. Now I am thinking that I will dance for myself and if anyone wants to share in my joy, they are welcome to. That is what any kind of artistic expression is anyway, whether it be music, singing, dancing, fashion or drawing; it is just the love, joy, pain, happiness and sorrow inside of each one of us building up inside until we can't contain it anymore and it bursts out!

I think that is why I love all of you Blogger Girls, because "YOU GET IT!". You are who you are and if that is too much for others to deal with, "Oh Well".

Keep Dancing!!!

Do Something!

I have always made excuses why I didn't pursue college. I'm done making excuses. I don't know if this is where I am going to attend, but I am starting the process of beginning my college career. Here is the first one that I have visited. Of course after the sweet little girl helped me get course information and get signed up for aid and grants, I told her I needed her picture for my Blog.

This is Shakiyya from Phoenix University. Hi Shakiyya!

She helped me take my first step in moving ahead.

Since this is a bold move for me, I wore a bold blouse. This is one of my $1 finds at Community Aid.

I paired it with my leopard print headband.

Sorry, it is a little dark.
Unfortunately, I will still have to get another job, but I am not going to let that stop me. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time.

New Camera!

I finally gave up on trying to nurse my old camera back to health and broke down and got myself a new camera! ...hence the lack of posts lately.

I couldn't wait to try it out and had to snap some pix despite the eye bags after a long day.

I am still unemployed and trying to figure out what I really want to do. Seriously, I don't know if I have what it takes to work for someone else. I am searching my soul to see if I want to work for myself again.

Until then, I'm trying to keep busy and positive. I got a new haircut and went blond. I'm slowly working my way to peroxide blond, hoping that the gray roots won't show as much.

I don't know why I insist on wearing horizontal stripes, but I do. I've porked out some since being home, but I'm working on being healthier. During Menopause, you gain weight when you eat too much, too little, the wrong thing or the right thing. I refuse to be defeated by my body rebelling! Besides, Peanut of MRTB has asked me to be in her annual "Ladies Night Out" Fashion Show held at Rillos Restaurant. Peanut would like me to dust off some of the old dance moves for the show, so I better get practicing. More on this later.

Community Aid had their Winter Clearance recently with all items for $1. I stocked up on frocks, thirteen in all. I've been leaning towards the Hawaiian and African prints lately. Now that I have my wonderful new camera, I'll be showing these lovelies off.

This red skirt is one of my $1 finds...

Thanks to my new followers and I'll be adding links to my Blog site!

If you haven't yet, check our my son's blog "Got Beard?". He is posting his artwork there.



Holly Inn

I am not a very good "stay at home" person. Maybe if I had a car, but my son has absconded with it until we can get his out of hock from the garage. I'm finishing some projects as I finally have my sewing machine. I mended some dresses and got around to fixing my curtains. The curtains were just a scarf which was meant to drape over a rod. I wanted to use them as cafe curtains so it had to be cut in the middle and put a hem in them.

I am pretty happy with how they turned out.

Fringes Good!

Over the weekend we got a chance to go to the world famous Holly Inn to a music fest with "The Hillbilly Gypsies", "Cabin Fever Project" and "Tuckahoe Ridge".

The lovely K and her BF "Bob" treated us to a night out.

I decided I needed a jean skirt and went to the local Charity Shop. I found one for $2.50. I already had the blouse that I found in one of Miss Ruth's $2.00 bin.

I didn't have a hair piece that matched so I dug through my sewing box and found some bits to make a hair clip.

My total outfit cost less than $10 including the red "Dingo" boots.

It was mostly just a relaxing night listening to music. K and Bob tried to dance but there was so much beer spilt on the dance floor that they just kind of stuck to it. But the music was pretty good, and three bands for only $10 per person was good too.

Hillbillies + clogging + holding beer = sticky floor.