A formal night out

Well, here she is, as promised. Gorgeous youngest grand daughter in her formal dress.

Now I hope you are not going to be bored because this post is mostly pre formal photo's.

Lovely Chloe...

I took my little mother over to see Chloe in all her finery 

a couple of hours before she was due to go out.

It was a bitterly cold  night and the wind was blowing a gale

so we said we would take the dress to her rather than her come over for it.

with her Dad...

She had her makeup done by a friend of her mother 

and her hair done by another friend who is a hairdresser.

Sometimes we older people come in handy...

especially when it comes to contacts.

her beau...

They went over to her boyfriends' home and their group left from there.

The boys looking dapper in their suits, tuxes or whatever they wore, 

I'm out of touch these days, and of course the girls were gorgeous.

and her friends

Photo's were taken by all and sundry,

some on cell phones so not quite as clear as they could have been.

But still a nice record. 

Then it was into another friends' Jeep Cherokee 

to be chauffeured to the ball in style.

the hairdo

An evening of 

 dinner, dessert and dancing.

What more could you ask for?

joining in with:
roses of inspiration

And that's it for now.
See you same time, same place, 
next week.
Diana

Extremely loosely connected stuff...

Life has been very quiet of late and there I was last night

 lying in bed thinking that as soon as I get to the end 

of this chapter I'd turn the light off.

Then in the distance I heard a rumble then a bang and an earthquake hit. 

By the time I slammed my book shut and commented  that

'this is an earthquake' and my GKB replied

'I think you're right " it was all over.

No time to leap (it's amazing how fast you can move when you have to) out of bed

and go into earthquake mode because it was all over in about 10 seconds. 

So we lay there for a few minutes waiting to see if  there were going to be any more.

There weren't, but eldest daughter rang to check in and have a chat.

She was home alone with 2 teenagers and just wanted a bit of reassurance. 

It was centred only about 10 miles away as the crow flies and quite shallow

so it was quite a jolt and gave a lot of people a fright. 

Youngest daughter's youngsters slept through it 

but the teenager was on the phone to her boyfriend at the time.

She hung with her mother and father for a wee while after that.

What have feijoas got to do with an earthquake you may ask.

Not a lot but the tree next door that hangs over our fence 

is absolutely laden this year and so when I went out this morning

 there were quite a few windfalls lying about.

But I rather think they were 'quake falls this time. 

Never mind, I still harvested them and have a nice little bowl full.

Now for something completely different.

I just bought this painting of the butterfly about a week ago.

I had been eyeing up another painting for several weeks which was much more

abstract but had all the same bright colours. 

They go well in our lounge.

But when I showed my first pick to my GKB he wasn't terribly impressed. 

He pointed out a butterfly painting that he quite liked

 but it wasn't anything like what I was wanting.

 Then a couple of weeks later we came across this colourful butterfly, 

the colours I wanted with the not quite so abstract picture he wanted. 

A nice compromise.

And ... it was a fraction of the price of the original one.

And talking about butterflies, youngest grand daughter 

is going to her school formal in a couple of weeks.

Her mother arrived over today with her dress which is now hanging in a wardrobe here.

They have 4 cats at the moment and she didn't want to take the risk of them

(2 are kittens) using the dress for climbing practise.

It's rather lovely on her and later I hope I can show 

you a photo of her all dollied up ready to go out with her beau.

And this is just another random picture I took 

in an ice cream shop while we were up at the caravan a while ago.

The walls on the left of the house are all lined

 with small cubby holes filled with jars of lollies. 

It's quite a delightful little gingerbread house.

joining in with:

roses of inspiration

Keep well 'til next week

Diana