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Sadly, there are storms predicted for tomorrow How dare it rain on our Father's Day BBQ! Of course it will probably fit my mood. I am not really looking forward to my first ever Father's Day without my Dad I plan to have my little urn with me by my seat while we eat and I don't care if people think I am weird He will be with me tomorrow dammit!

Ahhh! That is so precious FC! I bet your Dad would love it too!

Have fun at the wedding! It sounds fun!

I am biting my fingernails about my auction since it ends today. So far it looks promising with the bids, but I know from experience that sometimes it poops out way earlier than you would hope. *Keeping my fingers crossed*

TTYL!

Thanks! I am glad you don't think I am weird! At least if you do you are not saying so

The wedding is at a very fancy country club! I am excited about that. I do not get all "dolled-up" very often!

Good luck at the auction. Actually, I am not one of the watchers. I have the link and will check it out again. So you have one more real watcher than you thought

No, I don't think you are weird at all! Eccentric? Yes! Would I do something like that too? Yes!

Oo-o! Fancy country club eh? That makes it even better! You are going to look smashing with your coordinated jewlery ensemble!

Have fun! I will be taking one of the horses and Cole to the mountains today, so after the auction we will be gone too until early this evening.

It is supposed to be 80 and sunny today. Summer has officially arrived here!

Eccentric?! Cool!

Taking your babies to the mountains sounds awesome! Looks like we both have amazing days planned!

Yes, every piece of jewelry I am wearing is an FC original! Well, except my watch! But I am thinking about making one of those too! You can buy the time piece at Hobby Lobby and than do the beading etc. yourself. That is what I plan to tackle next. Maybe I can make custom watches for Xmas presents.

Talk to you tomorrow! I know I will get home too late to see you tonight. It is a two hour ride back from the Country Club since we have to go out of our way to take Mom home and than drive back to our house. Justin is going to pick her up and bring her to our house so we can go from our house to the Wedding.

Have the most glorious time in the mountains!

Good morning!

Glad you sold your ring. Sorry you didn't get a bit more, but hey - it is a good start toward your body!

The wedding reception was spectacular!! I am not kidding! You would not believe that place! It was beyond gorgeous! We were in this incredible ballroom with a chandelier the size of a huge boat! Satin covers on the chairs with huge satin bows. The table settings were gorgeous. There were poems on the table that were held up with fancy little bride shoes. Fancy little take home gift baskets. There were throw away cameras on the tables for people to take their own pix. The room was huge with a great dance floor. The BEST part was the whole huge back wall was glass over looking a golf course with two huge lakes with waterfalls and shooting spouts of water with multi-colored lights that put on a show and real fancy gazebos. We were on the second level and you went out the glass doors to this huge wrap around balcony with beautiful fancy tables and chairs. So after dinner if you didn't want to stay in and dance you could go out on the balcony and sit and watch the water show from outside. There were gardens all around too with walking paths and you walked down these winding staircases to get to the gardens and walk abound the water. The weather was PERFECT so we spent most of the time outside. I cannot tell you much it all looked like something right out of a place movie stars would have a wedding! We all said it was by far the most gorgeous wedding we had ever been to!

The bride was breathtakingly beautiful. Her dress was the most amazing gown with a super long train and all of it covered in sparkles! Lord you know how much I love things that sparkle! These wedding cost $40,000 (my cousin told me) and it looked it! Oh, and my cousin was kind enough to put all us cousins of his at the table right by the huge wall of glass so we could look out on all that beauty the whole time we ate and drank *pets my sweet cousin Bobby* It was just the perfect afternoon and evening! Had a blast! Oh, and it goes without saying the food was to die for! Prime rib and grilled chicken with lots of fancy veggies.

Oh, and there was a fancy winding staircase ala Gone With The Wind that the bridal party comes down to enter the ballroom! Just a dream come true for any young bride! We felt we were at the wedding of a princess!

You can view some pix of the East Ballroom (the one we were in) and the grounds here! Be sure to click on them and make them big!

http://www.odysseycountryclub.com/tour.asp

We didn't get to bed until 1:30 AM and of course I was still up at 6:30 My body just will not sleep past 6:30 AM!

Sadly, unlike yesterday we are having a stormy day. At 7:00 AM we had a damn monsoon! We are suppose to start grilling at 3:00 for the BBQ and I think I may be breaking out the George Foreman Grills I have Oh well, I won't complain too much because we did have that awesome weather to be at the wedding. Rob's grilled in the rain before. Just looks like we all will be hanging out indoors instead of out. No biggie I guess.

Well, hope you all have a fabulous day!

TTYL~

Glad to hear you literally had a ball at the wedding! What a beautiful place and setting. It does look like the setting for a celebrity wedding for sure!
How fun to celebrate in style like that. We don't get to do that very often.

Too bad the weather isn't good today for your BBQ. It is another lovely day here in the low 80's. Our afternoon in the hills was just perfect yesterday, had a great day.

Yes, the auction kind of fizzled out. People will not buy used jewlery unless they can steal it, which I expected. I am selling some wigs and clothes on DOA to help make up the difference. Well, I got in on a group Fairlyland order to save some money on the body. No extra heads this go around. There is a raffle for free heads they are getting, but I'm sure I won't get one of those.

I Pm'ed you a photo we took yesterday. Hope you have a great day!

Good morning!

Actually, the rain went away for us and the sun shined all afternoon! We started grilling at 3:00 and the town of Yorkville (about 15 mins. away) was getting hammered by a severe thunderstorm. Rob kept the radar up on his laptop while grilling to keep an eye on the storm and it never came our way! We couldn't believe how clear we stayed! So a nice time was had by all - even though we missed my Dad.

Found out my BIL also suffers from RLS. We didn't know that. So now I am thinking it is in hubby's genes.

I'll cross my fingers for the raffle!

It is suppose to be a sunny week! Rob is off all week. Also cooler temps. 70's all week! YAY! So I hope to take some pix this week.

The auction for the Cheshire cat ended while I was busy with company so I missed out since I wasn't there to up my bid. It is OK since I have the smaller one coming. Now I am interested in finding a mini deck of cards.

Got to run, kids coming early this morning!

Have a great day!

Glad your gathering turned out so well weather wise! We had a nice one too. About 85 and sunny. I made some flank Steak with Chimichurri sauce-yum!

Well, the guy that bought the ring is brand new to Ebay, but I received notice that his payment through Paypal is pending, so that is a relief! I put 3 wigs and two outfits up for sale on DOA for good prices, so we'll see what happens. I would really like to have 1/2 of the funds for the body in my Paypal account balance by the time the order is placed. It will probably take a month to get the body- so maybe end of July. That is fine, because that will give me time to get the wig and eyes paid for that I want.

I still have'nt ever gotten that Sweeney Todd wig from JPOP that I preordered back in March...I have spoken to Grace once back in May and she said they were coming that week. Guess, that did'nt happen. I am really in no hurry about it though. I really want to have her let me exchange it for a black one for the new head and give me a credit for whatever is left. I think I will email her to do that for me since it seems the other one is not coming anyway-and really I need the other one more.

Well, better go get ready for work! Have a nice day off with your hubby!

Good luck with your sales!

Hubby is off, not me though. I only have 4 kids today so not too bad. I will be off with Rob on Weds. and Friday. Friday I am taking Justin to the eye doctor to get contacts He is finally tired of wearing glasses! I have been bugging him to get contacts since he started HS. I teased him that girls don't make passes at boys who wear glasses Guess maybe he has his eye on a girl

TTYL~

Well, I got the little deck of playing cards off ebay express. While checking out what else the seller had I saw that she had re-ment tableware like I had tried to win on ebay but they were always won by bidders willing to go higher. So I grabbed them! I am getting the cards and tableware shipped for $9 total! I am so pleased!

You are going to have everything you need for the perfect Alice in wonderland photoshoot! I am so excited to see it! You could take the bling off that tophat I gave you and make it more Mad Hatterish somehow for Milo....

I already thought about that I will have to see what kind of items of clothing it would take to make him look Mad Hatterish

I wanted the tableware to go with the pretty dishes I got for them. I've been waiting on setting their table until I had the knives and forks.

Well, I am a little sick right now. Grace from JPOP just got back to me telling me the Helene wig I pre-ordered back in March was mailed out a month ago....I never got mine I guess or she screwed up and sent it to the wrong place. 45.00 down the drain.

WTF????? No insurance -so I guess I am screwed. I will never do business with her again.

Gotta run, Have a great day! yes, I will get over this...but in the mean time I am fuming!

OH NO that Sux about the wig. I can't wait to see FC's Alice dress up.

Hey why don't you dress some of your dolls like The Tudors??

Oh no! That is such a shame! I cannot believe Grace won't reimburse you after many orders. I have ordered at least 10 wigs from her so I sure hope she would trust me and give me credit!! That is a lot of money down the drain. Too bad you didn't order it from her ebay account so you could leave negative feedback! Does her site even offer insurance when you order something? I know I only pay for the insurance when I order dolls.

Well, I hope you can have a good day anyway. Trust me, I am in an incredibly down mood today too. I won't get into why, but I feel like all the wind was punched out of me

Tudors would be an awesome theme! Wish I could afford that!

TTYL~

Yeah! Grace is sending me a wig tomorrow! She said she had 2 extras so will send it to me! I think she forgot about my order to be honest...but, all I care about is I get what I ordered and she has been really nice about it so I guess whatev!

So sorry you are down my lady.... Penny for your thoughts...

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Hey why don't you dress some of your dolls like The Tudors??

Oy, I would seriously love to do that Aerwin...but I would really be in the poor farm to get the outfits to replicate that era! I have seen some absolutely beautiful dresses for my size dolls that go for in the 200-300 range! Nothing about these bloody dolls is cheap!

Oh I am glad that Grace came around! She has always been super nice to me and I have always received everything quickly. I hope you get this one right away!

I sent you a long ass PM cyber crying on your shoulder

Yep, trying to do a royal family with BJD would be a small fortune! Not so bad to do with Pullips though. Lots of Barbie and Ken clothes would work OK.

I got the Cheshire Cat today. Just need the cards. I think I will take a few pix tomorrow of Alice with the White Rabbit and CC. Milo too. I will hope for another sunny day! The last two days have been perfection!

Is the cheshire cat as cute as the white rabbit?

The Cheshire Cat I got is like the one from the Disney movie, since I did not win the won that was from the book. I think he is cute, just not as interesting as the White Rabbit since he is based on an old book instead of a Disney character. But he will do nicely and the price was right Justin would have preferred I got one like the one from some new version of the story. It is a really scary looking cat Don't think he would go with my Alice

So it is stuffed like the rabbit with clothes and everything? I can't wait to see Alice and all her props together!

*I will keep my fingers crossed that the weather cooperates with an outside photoshoot this week*!

Part of me was hoping Grace did not have another Helene wig...so would have to let me change to a 7-8 Leeda for my new head girl! But alas, I will try to make the 8-9 wig work for it or use it on Willow for a while until the right SD head comes along that needs it I guess. Or turn around and sell it if it does'nt suit my needs. It is a limited edition and one of the gals that ordered a minimee Helena Bonham Carter head may want it.

No, he does not have clothes. He is stuff though. None of the Cheshire cats I was seeing on ebay had clothes - not even the one from the book.

It looks like it will be sunny. We have had very windy days though so we will see how it goes. If it is as windy as it has been I would at least be happy to have the sun shining in.

Good morning! So far it looks to be a gorgeous day! I asked hubby if he thinks the neighbors will think I am crazy taking pix of dolls outside and he said "Yes!" I will do it anyway!

A poster at PS has a Marie Antoinette BJD!





Hope you have a great day ladies!

Hopefully I will be posting some good pix later! (crosses fingers!)

OOOH I love her. I LOVE the dress. FC Have you seen some royal type Barbie clothes?
You know I have Princess Diana dolls , like about 10 Maybe one day I will take some pics of them . They are not as extraordinary as your dolls .

Yes, Aerwin! You must take some photos of your Princess Diana dolls! I loved her...and her style was so impeccable.

I adore that Marie Antoinette doll! Just wow! I bet that dress alone cost a bloody fortune!

Good luck on a successful photoshoot today FC! Who gives a rip what the neighbors think!

Oh yes Aerwin!! I am dying to see your dolls!! I loved Diana too. I sobbed through her whole funeral I kept thinking of her missing her beautiful boys grow up. It was clear she adored them. Such a great loss.

That is the first thing I thought of Luca. The dress probably cost as much as Milo!

Thanks for the good luck wishes! I hope I can make them come out OK. I am mostly worried about dropping them on the patio and ruining them