These are my friends...

and they are certainly a strange bunch of posies!

Oh gosh - here comes college, and everyone always says "out with the old and in with the new!" but honestly I'm not ready to chuck out the old.  Heck, if anyone tried to pull that stunt on me I'd sock 'em in the eye, make them smell cat litter after safely rescuing my darling oldness from any haphazard chucking. 

I get the feeling that sentence didn't make much sense so I'll try to rephrase in plain engrish:

To my dear buds - I don't care if I'm expected to lose touch with you over the years.  I don't care if we end up two million light years away.  I don't care if we all meet darlin' new friends and all.  

If anyone tried to out-with-the-old you -

I'd go dumpster diving for you.

I don't know who this dude is - I just though it was really funny that he was on the cover of a magazine!

Let you guys go?

I say HELL TO THE NO!

Prom pom pom prom

That Title was supposed to sound like a drum - like the little drummer boy (p-rum pum pum pum?)

Neato - anyway!

I figured that even though Prom was a long time ago, I might post some photos because my dress was pretty much my most intense clothing accomplishment of the season, and well this is for those outfit lovers out there (and those of you who like to read the newspaper.)

IT TOOK A LONG TIME.

The Process:

 The Results!

NU PROM:

 CF PROM:

My face says "I'll punch you in the gullet! 'cuz I'm from the wilderness!"

I like feathers - feathers are nice!

THE STATS:
Goodwill dress on inside (just incase something ripped!)
100% newspapers on the outside (plus some thread, duct tape and safety pins)
All the newspaper (minus the top) is painted with waters colors and watery-glue mixture, some of them are just painted with watery-glue for extra stability and non-rippage.  Dress lasted for about 5 outings I think, and is still in decent condition but I'm going to take it apart soon because I don't think it's really a long term garment!
I implore you: please appreciate this because it took many a day, many a week and loads of procrastination!

When you say Captain - I think ship

So I was invited to a Murder Mystery Party, which was quite exciting!  It was one of those types out of a box where everyone is assigned a character, comes in full regalia and proceeds to be given top secrete information out of a book that only he or she knows about.  With said information you can then interrogate other characters and have a rousing game of real-life Clue! Quite thrilling - no one knew who the murderer was (not every the murderer!) until the last round!  So about 2 hours before the party, I was informed that I was invited to the party (isn't it great having forgetful friends...)  

Here is how the text went:

Your invited to that murder party it's in the 40s and youre a captain

Naturally when someone says captain I think:

(so pretty)

So I dressed like this:

(notice awesome Greek Captains hat borrowed from Dad!)

But apparently captain in this case meant pilot!  Anyway - that was no problem because I just borrowed some goggles (not swimming) stuck them on the hat a voila!  I turned into quite a jerk because I found out throughout the game that I not only sucked as a pilot - but I was kind of running a prostitute business.  That's not a nice thing to find out about yourself!  The character was supposed to be a man, so I had to improvise a tiny bit - that also might explain the prostitute business...

In the end we were all fooled by the innocent(ish) princess who wasn't the princess at all! She was actually the supposed murder victim who had disguised herself as the Princess and killed the real one off! 

EGADS!

SHOCKING! 

Somehow after hours of brutally accusing each other we bonded again...over cheesecake.  It's really quite amazing what a good confection can do for your friendship!  Hopefully someone on facebook will send me pictures, because I quite liked our "cast" photo!

FULL STEAM AHEAD!