What a fun evening we had. Red Hat Mardi Gras in Greenville, PA at the VFW. Here I am at the beginning of the night. I brought my WebKinz Love Frog, Smacks. She needed a night out too.

Here is our group - Darlene, Priscilla, Kathe & Phyllis Rose.

Here is Smacks on a boa and ready to play the kazoo and the light wand.

Kathe's mask was getting to hot so she slipped it to the back of her head. Her halo of feathers.

A view of the room with all the Red Hatters ready to have fun.

Time for dinner. So where is the end of the line?

After dinner the entertainment started. Here Kathe, Darlene & Phyllis Rose were playing kazoos and waving light wands to the music.

Here are some of us doing the Chicken Dance. That was fun.

The next dance was the Macarena. We made the front page of the Greenville Record Argus with this dance.

And here is a copy of that front page. In the front row is Erika Daisley, Priscilla Sharp & Mary Ann Marshall & then right behind Erika is our own Divalicious Darlene.

Darlene had a very long day. She was in Chicago at noon this day but still managed to come out and have fun with us. I think she was reaching the delirious stage here. LOL

Kathe & Darlene decided to cut a rug.

A view of others that were doing the polka.

We met at Darlene's home at 11 AM for the start of a wonderful afternoon together. We first went over some business of up & coming events. The Mexican part of our day was our lunch. Everyone brought something to go with making tacos, nachos, taco salad. It worked out really well.

While we were sitting talking after eating, someone said now it was siesta time, well, Betty didn't feel like making our craft so she sat in one of the comfortable chairs and pretended to take a siesta.

Our craft for the day was making cards. Melissa brought supplies to make 2 stamped cards, one had the bees and one the bear. I took supplies to do 2 Red Hat designs and Kathe brought supplies do do Easter or any kind they needed. Here is Melissa, Phyllis & Phyllis Rose working on cards.

Here is Darlene, Gert & Kathe working on cards.

Everyone busy doing cards.

I think we were starting to clean up here. Take a break to look up and SMILE!!

Here is the whole group together. Thanks Harley for taking the pictures.

Here we are with our Smiley Cookies from Eat n' Park. I'm going to send the picture in and see if they use it in their flyer. We could win $50 if they do. AND WE DID GET PUBLISHED IN THEIR MARCH NEWSLETTER - YAHOO!!

Bite off that Bunny Ear!!

We had so much fun. Special Thanks to Darlene for hosting us at her home once again. We love that new room. Special Thanks to Melissa and Kathe for bringing the card supplies and being our instructors for the afternoon.

We met at 11 AM at Gert's home. After a bit of talking we decide to eat first. Phyllis & Keith made a very good soup, Gert had made BBQ pork for sandwiches and everyone brought bits to put together for a great salad and for dessert Melissa brought Angel food cake with strawberries to go on top, Mm mm good.

Here is the crew gathered around getting ready to eat.

Darlene & Phyllis Rose

Here is Kathe, Betty, Melissa & Grace between eating and starting the games.

Gert had Jelly Belly jellybeans in a couple different bowls that we all were enjoying. Here Melissa was sharing her Jelly Bellys with Betty

We took our group picture before we started our games, since Darlene had to leave early.

Although we had several games we could have played, we started out with Pictionary and were having so much fun with it, we played it the entire time. Here is Melissa drawing her word "Grandfather"

Here is Phyllis Rose with her drawing of the word "Takeoff"

And here is Phyllis with her drawing of her word "Bathroom"

Here is Kathe with her word "Point"

And Gert with her word "Forearm"

Grace's word was something to do with a bird, I'll have to ask her and get back to you.

And my word was an action word, didn't know how to do it, but they finally got it, it was "Frisk"

"Friends"

Here is Princess Melissa in her new hat she finished that morning and Queen Priscilla

Yes, it was St Patrick's Day but it wasn't specifically a Tea about that. Last year we all attended a Tea that benifitted the Stateline Cemetary Association. Well they weren't doing one this year but Lois Bates who was in charge of it invited us this year to come to her church, The First United Methodist Church in Warren, they were having a Tea. Well it ended up being only 3 of us that went but the others really missed a great time. The theme was The Seasons of Life.

Lois' table was the Wedding Season. That is where we sat.

The table was very pretty, the center had all kinds of wedding pictures and other items representing things in a wedding.

Here is another table that was neat. The table looked like it had water all over it and sea shells and light houses.

This was a 50's-60's theme. Each table was different and each hostess had different favors and food.

Here is one more table, done in a Victorian theme. She had really cute little picture frames as the favors.

We viewed all the tables and then went up to the beautiful Sanctuary where the program took place. The entertainment was a woman named Tia Ciferno and she talked and sang songs that she had composed. It was wonderful. She has a beautiful voice and her songs were wonderful.

After the program we came back to the room and had our Tea. It was so nice. Here we are - Betty, Priscilla & Phyllis Rose. Thanks Lois for inviting us. Hope to do it again next year.

We had a lovely time today. We first met at Thiel College at 2PM and saw a very funny play called "I Love you, Your Perfect, Now Change" They did a great job on the play. Afterwards we went to 3 Sisters Coffee House for a drink and or dessert. We are at the Coffee House in this picture.

We have the Birthday Girls here. Mary and Kathe both have birthday's in April, 2 days apart and Grace's birthday is next month in May. Don't they look smashing?

We were invited to join the Red Vibes and the Hadley Hatters for the Red Hat Society's 10th Birthday party. Our theme this year is a Decade of Sparkle. Here is a view of the room at Carini's in Greenville, where we met. We hat about 25 ladies show up. We each brought a wrapped White Elephant and after dinner we each got to choose a gift. They played the game where you can steal a gift already open if you like. Some did, some didn't.

Here is Kathe, Darlene and my Mom, Betty, at our table. I think we were done eating by this time.

Here is Phyllis and Gert. Not sure of the ladies name that Gert is talking to.

One of the tables of ladies. I should have gotten everyones names, but I didn't. I think this group is from the Red Vibes.

Here is Mernee McElhinney and Judy Beuchat, the Queen and Vice Queen of the Red Vibes and I don't know the other ladies name.

Here is Sharon Pachis, the Queen of the Hadley Hatters and some of her ladies. They got together and all made purple hats to wear this year since the Exhaulted Queen Mother, Sue Ellen Cooper, declared that we could switch our colors all this year, not just our birthday month.

Here are the rest of the Hadley Hatters. Sorry I don't know all their names either.

Gert took this picture of me, since I was taking pictures of everyone else. You know you don't get in the pictures when you are taking them. LOL

We did get a nice group picture taken in front of the fire place before we left for the evening. Fuzzy Pickles!!

We met with 3 other Red Hat groups down at the Fleamartket for a couple hours of shopping. I guess I was too busy shopping to think about taking pictures of us shopping. LOL But we all met up at the Hartville Kitchen for a wonderful lunch. Here is Grace and myself before our food came. Oh it was so good.

This is Kim Mears, or Queen Clumsy Coral. She was there with 6 other ladies from her chapter. She got us all together for the day.

Here I am with the other 2 Queens. Queen SassyKatDeb and Queen Rita.

Here are Kountess Kathe and Lady Dee - Great picture. Lady Dee was our photographer for the rest of the day.

This is Queen SassyKatDeb in the back with the ladies from her group - Doris, Jeannie & Becky - all from the SassyKats N RedHats

This is Queen Rita and Empress Kathy from the Red Hot Flashes in Newton Falls

These ladies are from Queen Clumsy Corals group, Joanne, Brenda & Bobbie

More ladies from her group - Renee & Georgieann

And this is Nancy, also from Queen Clumsy Corals group

Here is the whole group on the staircase, with Mary taking the picture

THE QUEENS

QUEEN CLUMSY CORAL, QUEEN RITA, QUEEN SASSYKATDEB & QUEEN OF DELITE

Our group - Duchess Grace, Kountess Kathe & Queen Priscilla

The theme of this years Happy Feet is "The Sweet Life". Jan ask us all to come out to the side yard and spread our wings. Well as we were headed out I noticed this beautiful butterfly with it's spread wings on a late blooming Lilac. Two of my favorite things, Lilac and butterflies.

A couple of us were asked to get the bubbles blowing and the others were to catch a bubble and as they did were to yell out a childhood dream or wish.

More wishes being caught. It was a lot of fun. I think we would have done it a lot longer but it was a very hot & humid day and we were starting to get tired in the heat.

What fun it is to play with bubbles! Here Darlene, Kathe and Phyllis blow some bubbles.

One last bubble from Phyllis

Before we started to soak our feet we all had bubbles to play with so we got them flying in the air. We had 9 there for Happy Feet. Around the room was Kathe, Darlene, Mariah, Mary, Phyllis, Betty, Phyllis Rose and Grace. And I'm taking the picture of course.

BUBBLE TIME!!

A small thank you to Jan for doing these Happy Feet at Jamestown SoapWorks for us. We really appreciate them. I know my feet look forward to them.

Our day started at Kathe's home with a Craft Card Making time. Some of us worked on Christmas in July cards, a couple birthday cards were made and a wedding card too. Here are Betty and Phyllis Rose working on cards.

This is Phyllis being creative. She made birthday cards for her grandchildren. They were really nice.

Show off!! The cards everyone made were so pretty, very creative. Here are Phyllis, Kathe, Betty and Phyllis Rose holding some of the cards made before we headed out to Happy Feet.

Happy Birthday to ME!! LOL When we arrived at Jamestown Soapworks the place was all decorated for my birthday. Balloons, streamers, signs, presents. Thanks ladies, especially Mary.

Inside was this pretty Pink Hat cake. A creation of Mary and Mariah's Thanks ladies, it was beautiful and very tasty.

Jan had a couple games for us to play. This is Phyllis Rose playing Pin the Feather on the Hat. Each hat had a name on it and you had to find the hat with your own name on it. It was fun. Everyone had a turn.

Then we had a Pinata to try and break open. This is Grace giving it a try. I think we each had 2 turns to hit it 3 times each. We got to giggling so much and then swinging the pinata so that it wouldn't be hit. Made it hard to break it so we got to cheating to...someone started poking it from the bottom. LOL Fun was had by all. Once it was broke there was candy inside, along with products from Soapworks. I think everyone got something from the pinata along with the candy.

After playing games inside, we headed outside to eat. After we finished eating I started to open all the lovely gifts all my ladies brought for me. Who doesn't like to open presents? LOL

Just showing off more gifts.

After all that fun we actually soaked our feet and got them all nice and soft until next month when we have another Happy Feet.

We arrived a little early. We were scheduled to rock between 2 & 3. We got there about 1:20. Saw some familiar faces rocking already. Ladies from the Red Hot Flames & Ruby Red Divas.

More ladies from the Red Hot Flames

Then I walked around and found more ladies from the Sparkling Red Hearts

This is Betty and Vonda sitting waiting till our time. Vonda is my neighbor and I asked her if she would like to come rock with us. We rock and talk on her porch in her rocking chairs.

Melissa was the first to sit down and start rocking.

Then we all sat down and rocked and talked and laughed. Cracker Barrel ladies kept coming out and handing out goodies to us and then there were clowns there that were entertaining. It was a lot of fun. After our rocking time was up, we went inside Cracker Barrel and had something to eat and talked and laughed some more. It was a good day.

Before our time for Happy Feet at Jamestown Soap Works, we had a craft time at Kathe's home. We played with polymer clay. It was fun. In this picture you can see Katie Maloney (Mary's granddaughter), Phyllis Rose, Kathe and Darlene.

Mariah brought her girls to play with the clay. This is Shaila, Meaera & Mariah Shannon. And then Darla joined us for playing also, she is a friend of Kathe's.

Here is Phyllis Rose, Kathe & Darlene

This is a close up of the beads Phyllis Rose was working on. We thought they looked like candy.

After we had our craft time, it was time for Happy Feet. I didn't take many pictures this day. It was a bad day for me. My Precious was missing. We did find her so it was all good in the end. Just a really rough 55 hours for me and I'm sure her too. Anyway, this is Mom, Betty after our foot soak. Kathe had gotten a little birthday cake for her. It's there on the table with a smiley face on it. We sang Happy Birthday to her and the ladies had given her gifts back at Kathe's house.

Here is Betty and Kathe after we sang Happy Birthday to Mom.

In September two of our lady Jewels, Mary & Grace, took a trip down south to Myrtle Beach and met up with a group from Myrtle Beach. The groups name is Red Hat Tamales of Myrtle Beach and their Queen is Jennie. This is Grace with Mary, Kathy, Gerri and the Queen Mum Jennie that came out to play that day.

HATS - Sunday, September 28, 2008

Grace and I went to see HATS the musical on September 28th along with 13 other ladies from our area. It was in Sandusky, OH. The theater was full of red and purple. We enjoyed the day and the play very much.

I drove my van and 4 other ladies joined Grace and me on our journey. This is a picture of the ladies. Jane Rhodes from the Bodacious Ruby Cuties, Reba Gizdic from the Bodacious Ruby Cuties & Red Hat Mamas, Boe Knight from the Red Hat Mamas and Betty Stubert, Queen of the Bodacious Ruby Cuties. All wonderful ladies. We had a nice trip together.

On our way home from the play, we stopped off at Cracker Barrel in Austintown and had dinner. This is Grace and me after eating and paying our bill. We are ready to go home. It's been a very enjoyable day but a long day.

We all met at the Olan Mills in Niles for a fun Photo section. We each had our individual photos done and then a group picture. When they come back, I'll have to share them with you. Everyone looked beautiful. After our glamour shots, we headed over to Sakura's Japanese Steakhouse.

Kathe, Darlene and Mary are showing off their colorful drinks.

Here Kathe, Darlene, Mary and Phyllis look on as our cook entertains us with his culinary skills. He is working on the fried rice here.

Our onion volcano.

Here is Betty and Grace looking on as he prepares our lunch.

Here Phyllis, Gert & Phyllis Rose await their portions of our delicious lunch. Love that fried rice, with lots of shrimp sauce.