Princess Diana

Speaking of Hats Did You Know 4 out of 7 Royals are affected by hat blindness?

Because Blogger is Dumb I'll Put More Wedding Hats Here. ;)

The top hat is definitely a favorite of mine, along with the tricorne. As long as it's a smaller hat that perches on the head and adds height. I'm five four and heavy...if I wore a huge picture hat I'd resemble a mushroom. LOL My favorites are still the blue ones in the first post.

Royal Wedding: What Hat To Wear?

I'm psyched about the upcoming royal wedding. Sure, I'm american & won't get a work day off. In fact since I work at a tea house I'll be working very hard. But I'm still jazzed. It's nostalgic to me. I was a small child watching the wedding on TV with Mom & all her friends, a party atmosphere. This wedding promises to be very different: it will be royal but more understated, more modern. I wish the couple sucess. Marriages can be hard even under normal circumstances. I hope they will stay happy and keep things going well. I love that Kate is modern but still lovely...she does not have the doe eyed demureness of Princess Di but she seems sparky and intelligent and able to hold her own which is important. And she rocks a very nice hat! I love that the hats have remained. I also like feather fascinators but they don't have the same oomph as a good hat. Even a small hat is better than a fascinator, especially for a big occasion like a wedding. What hat would you wear to the wedding? Here are some of my favorites.

Easter @ my Parents & Dad's Birthday

Happy Easter everyone! My husband made breakfast for everyone at our church after sunrise service this morning. Then we did family stuff. This is my Dad playing the Easter bunny. He is a good sport and I love him. :)This is my nephew Sam's first egg hunt. He didn't care about any money in the eggs, just the toys, of course. We followed him around collecting discarded dollars in a plastic toy truck. LOL

We tried to get Sam to wear the bunny ears for pictures, but no dice.

They looked really cute on my parents, anyway. My Mom is a lop eared bunny. LOL

My Dad's birthday will be this week. He will be 63. My parents are a really big blessing to me.

A boy would be the son of France, but you Marie Therese shall be mine.

So my sister is going to have a baby girl. I am so thrilled! I love all of my nephews dearly but I'm excited about a baby girl around again. Particularly since my one neice Lyssa is now sixteen...it feels like only yesterday she was a flower girl in my wedding. I know, it's sappy. Can you imagine how I'd be if I were a parent? Mooning around singing Sunrise Sunset. Or maybe dancing for joy when they finally turned 18! Mhwhaha! Anyhow, this news has made my Good Friday that much gooder. Easter weekend, new baby coming, all the flowers coming up...I certainly wish the weather would oblige. I'm worried that Spring has been outsourced to China...or maybe laid off by the Easter Bunny. He wouldn't do that...would he?

Rit Dye Part Derp: Always Say Dye!

The Rit Dye binge continues! I wanted pillow shams another color. I have a duvet with lots of colors and thought blue would be a good one to bring out. :)

I love how the scalloped edge is slightly different. Very cool.

A lace curtain that I use over my vanity is now a delicate seafoam green. Probably turned out pale because of how synthetic it truly is. Oh well!

A dingey white cotton cardigan becomes daffodill yellow. Yup, I have an addiction problem. LOL

Crafty Stuff

Occasionally I do stuff other than find interesting music, movies, books, jokes & other fun or pretty stuff to share. Occasionally I, oh, I dunno, make my own stuff! The recession has made things suck for us big time but the good part is at least it does force one to finish old projects laying around. I don't buy new materials for new projects anymore. I just use what I got. Kinda makes me feel connected to my grandma. Except I don't have drawers filled with rubber bands, canning jar lids and Leggs' plastic Eggs. I'm kinda sad about the no Leggs' Eggs because those were AWESOME! Especially this time of year! Weren't they fun to pull apart and play with as a kid? LOL

Anyway, one of the things I'm doing is refreshing old whites with Rit Dye. I bleach old white tees, towels, etc...but in spite of that they look not so white. City water and all. Bear with me, I took no before pics so just imagine dingy white for before. First I had a king sized matelasse white cotton bedspread. I wanted a spring looking color so I mixed three boxes of purple in the washing machine & here's what I got:

I love how the raise pattern on the one side is a lighter shade of lilac so when you turn down the bedspread it contrasts!

Marie Antoinette

This is so not from the movie but I LOVED this! I really want a Hostess Cake now...or a coconut zinger! Mmmm...

This image is my favorite. I LOVE the scenes with MA & the court children!

Sofia with Kirsten off camera.

The Duchess Polignac in the goodbye scene, judging by the somber traveling suit.

I am a complete zealot of this movie. Its not a history thing at all, more like a dream from a teen queen point of view about what she wore and ate and who she hung out with while at Versaille. This movie was how I got hooked on art tea! Amazing. I had once found a quiz about which Coppola MA dress would you be? Kirsten wore over 60 of them! My result was the mauve dress when she and Louis were discussing whether to flee Versailles...a more sober gown, but still lovely and pretty appropriate. If I could figure out how to make a similiar quiz I would! Anyway, I tried to dig up some SC MA pics that are lesser known to enjoy. :)

Kitties...I know LOL Cats are overdone & all but I can't get enough.

Bunnies & lambies & peeps oh my! :D