a sea of red hats

a sea of red hats

Thursday 30 May 2013

Sewing away on a new project


Pirate day is coming up.  Thought I would make something to put into a raffle for it. This is the first section.  A silhouette of a pirate ship.  Moon in behind..

So far so good.  It took me a couple of weeks to get this far. I am just putting bling around the outside now. Beads.

Next section is going to have a parrot on it.  Beautiful coloured bird on a branch.  Hoping this will turn out as good as the ship did.

Then it will have a background of crossbones and skulls.  On the back I have a piece of material that is purple and has crossbones on it.

Well I will keep plucking away at it and hope it turns out.

As for red hat things going on.  There is not much in this month except the international hoot day.  There are two of them close by here.  One is at the tulalup resort in Washington.  The other is in Stevenson .  You just drop in and socialize then do your own thing for the rest of the time.

I am not sure whether I am going to either of these.  They are a bit of a drive.  I did say I wanted to spread my wings and do this stuff.  If I am feeling a little better I may go to one of them.  I asked for the day off so will think about it.

So since not much else on the books will close on a short note here tonight

Saturday 11 May 2013

So things coming up and things have already been to.


So last night went to a play in Mission.  Here is a picture that was taken after the play was over.  It is a picture with the cast.  The cast was a blast to talk to after wards.  They are such a fun bunch of people and fit right into the parts they were playing..

In the front is Darlyne then me and then one of the cast members and then the queen of our group Pauline.  The lady in back second from the left is a queen from another group.  She had a part in the play.

Th play was called Nanas Naughty Knickers.  It was about a granny who lives in a rent controlled building.  She is making more money on the side by making langerie for plus size ladies, but she does not tell her landlord or he will kick her out or raise her rent.  Her granddaughter comes to stay with her for a few days.  While she is there she has to keep her secret from her granddaughter.  Her granddaughter is getting friendly with a cop that helped her carry her boxes up stairs.  Now the granny has a cop and granddaughter and a landlord she has to keep a secret from.  But now she has a client coming to pick up some items. Mishap starts to happen and eventually the granddaughter knows about the naughty knickers and is trying to keep the secret as well but is so recourse about itbecause granny   has not claimed any of the taxes or income to the government.  So now figures granny will head for jail.  The landlord soon figures out but before he can evict her the big client comes in .  The thing is the big client just happens to be the landlords wife.  She convinces the landlord that if granny is kicked out and the business is closed then there will be no more naughty knickers that she will be wearing anymore.  So the business goes on and granny gets to stay in her rent controlled apartment.

The play was a laugh a minute to watch.

Before the play I had picked up Pauline a little early and brought her up to my house to see my crafty stuff.  She really wanted to see my crafts.  So I showed her around the house.  Impressing it was to her.  She loved all the things that I had made and are now displayed down stairs.

Well onto other things now.  Upcoming events that aim planning on going to.

In July I am going to take a night cruise along the Fraser river and and watch the fire works from the water.  There is a dinner served and drinks.  Sounds like it will be a great night.

August I am going to Sacramento to a funvation.  This one is called somewhere over the rainbow.  It will go with the theme of Dorothy and her time in oz.  so one night is a a consume ball that I still have to get together and make.  Another night is very dress up.  Okay how do I get a fancy hat there in a suitcase without rushing it.  I am going out on this one with a few ladies from around here.  This will give me my first experience of a funvation

September I will be going to Reno.  O boy it is only three days but I should have a great time.  This one I am trying on my own.  I may see a few ladies there that I know from around here, but will not be traveling with them.  My new adventure of seeing whether traveling on my own is going to get rid of some chicken shit in me.

The third one is in ferndale.  Just across the border.  Going to go down there for the day and watch a fashion show of such.  What the ladies that are walking the runway are doing as modelling lampshade hats.  They had to decorate them with dollar store items.  There is dinner along with it and lots of fun.

Then there is almost a year from now were I will be heading to Las Vegas for a week and then there is Oshawa next April.  So I now have palate full of things to be doing

But now I find out there is another one I just heard about.  Should I go or not.  This is a big one.  Going to be so many red hats at this.  It is suppose to be like the big one they had in Atlanta this year.  It will be held in San fransico.  So can I save enough to go to this one as well as all the other things I am going to.  I think I can.  I think I can I think I can!!!  I do really want to go so I better buckle down.  Then I am going to pester off and only go to one or two a year.  I can't keep spending like this or I will not be  able to go anywhere when I really need to go.

There is also the fact that eventually I will not be to move around as much as what I can now. Which will make it so I am not able to do anything anyways. I am going to keep it up as long as I can but once my problems start getting too bad I will be limited in what I can do.  Travel may be one of them.  If the arthritis gets too bad I will be limited in what I can do.  So get the best of it done now before things start to take over on me.

So now life for me is limited.  I do what I can now because in the future I may be not able to do what I should have done when I was able to.  So red hatters away.  Lets have fun, fun, fun now until not able to do anymore.  Meet new friends and enjoy life.