~*O.E.O*~

Hello and welcome to the Wizard of Oz Gala,

hosted by

Twyla and Lindsey at Two Crazy Crafters!

To get the party started, let's have some wine~ shall we?
Back in April, we went to see a Wizard of Oz museum in Wamego, KS and next to it was a great little winery; Oz Winery. I just LOVE their logo, cool eh?
The wine was wonderful! I've never experienced such a good wine tasting, there was *something* special in each one.

Isn't the tin ceiling gorgeous!?
It was hard to decide which wine to take home.... so it came down to which bottle I liked best, lol! I chose the O.E.O. An incredible, flavorful dry red wine with a hint of vanilla. They all had cute names too, such as Witch in a Ditch~
Ok... let's get on down the yellow brick road... (just don't drink and drive!)
Here I am in my ruby slippers, ready for some candy a few years ago~
This was about the third time I had worn the outfit for Halloween. The dress is very special to me because my Grandma helped me make it. Not to mention I was huge when I first wore it... and had to take it in twice, woohoo!
Nova was only 18 months old! Doesn't he make a "dandy" lion?
I looked all over for a good tutorial for Dorothy's hair. These are the best two,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRoxdOPQvdE
andhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wttn0HoLDrw
Both of them always have awesome hair videos.
I do my Dorothy 'do a bit differently, but much like the first video. I wanted to do a tutorial for you but didn't get around to it. Plus, it would've been alot better before I cut my long red hair and dyed it brown~

My hair was layered in that pic so I had no fluff to curl at the ends.

Being a hairdresser, I can't help myself but watch the hairstyles in movies like a hawk. I can always tell when scenes were redone, ect.
Look at how short and kind of thin Dorothy's braids/curls are in the black and white segment... and then notice how many times her extensions change during the scarecrow scene. Cracks me up! Her haircolor varies as well throughout the film; reds are notorious for that... Just like Rose in Titanic.

Before getting to Wamego, we stopped in Kansas City for a Wiz exhibit at Crown Center.

Nova liked pretending to be a tree...

And melting the Wicked Witch!

I made a special dress just for the trip, in Wizard of Oz fabrics. (Hi Colleen!)

The pattern is Retro Butterick 4790.

Help, help!!
Going into the haunted forrest inside the Wamego museum... ooooohhhh I DO beleive in spooks!!
I enjoyed seeing all the different books by Baum, such beautiful covers! Both the Crown Center and Wamego exhibits were fun, filled with tons of memoralbia. Lots of dolls, books, and info. I bought a book, "The Wizardry of Oz".

A must for Wiz collectors!

Next up.... you just won't beleive your eyes!

An amazing hand made quilt by Sarah Lassiter. She quilted every scene in amazing detail! I love how she used the sepia fabrics for the black and white parts.

Dorothy and Glinda's dresses were 3-D! These photos do not do her talent justice. I stood there in awe for quite a while!

I didn't touch it, honest! I just held my finger up to show the scale and unbelievable detail. Did you see the little hand stitched monkeys flying out of the witch's castle?

Do you know who this is?
Why, it's Billie Burke! She played Glinda. Isn't she beautiful? She was born in 1884, can you believe it? She was 55 years old when she played the good witch of the North~


I tried loading a copy of a cassette tape recording of me reciting the WIZ when I was 8 years old... er, almost 30 years ago. It is quite a hoot! But youtube rejected it for length, so back to the drawing board. I'll figure it out some time!

Thanks for "dropping in"! You'll have to catch a balloon ride or click your heels to get home. But before you go, be sure to visit the other participants in the Wizard of Oz Gala over at Twyla and Lindsey's!

You may also see my past posts on OZ, which include the Wamego, KS OZ museum, how I made my poppies dress, and how to make your own Ruby Slippers! Click here.
What's more, many photos can be seen and enlarged on all of the above in my flickr album.

Happy 70th Anniversary

OZ!
*And don't forget, the Gone With the Wind Ball is coming up! Click the button in my sidebar for details!

Some recent junque in my trunk~ all for about $50!

You know times are tough when you have to save money to go YARDSALING. Geesh.

Yeah.

We had a town wide yardsale recently and I found quite a few goodies. I was SO excited because I hadn't been to a sale, fleamarket, or anything in a very, very long time.

First up we have a gorgeous little chandy, are you ready for this?

FIVE BUCKS. Yes. And to think I almost didn't even ask because I ASSUMED it was going to be more than the $35 I had with me!!

I was able to straighten the crooked arm. I found all but 6 of the crystals next to it.

Might go in my bathroom redo upstairs, but for now we hung it in the foyer as we didn't have anything there and it keeps it off of the floor~

LOVE this darling aqua vintage phone for only 75 cents!

Will be so cute with a floral motif added in the center of the dial~

These are hard to find where the receiver hasn't yellowed.
A darling little tin basket!! No lid but that's ok. The colors are so sweet!

Vintage clothespins for crafting...
And this gorgeous mug~ sorry, not the best pic!
Don't be scared! I needed another mannequin head for practice, was so glad to find her and the stand! She has since been shampooed and cleaned up rather nice~
Great vintage fabrics! There's enough of this cute butterfly material for a sundress.
A sweet cherub for a quarter~
I've been wanting to learn ribbon embroidery and found these at two separate sales, woohoo!
Gorgeous vintage bed that my sister and BIL gave me. Has a headboard too, not pictured...

Awesome vintage jewels and hairsticks.... FREE with the $5 CHANDY!!
And last, this beautiful old print. This was at a local consignment shop about a year ago. I really liked it but couldn't think of anywhere to put it. Plus, they wanted like $40 for it.

A few months later they marked it down about ten bucks or so. I thought about it.... but still too much $ and I'm trying to watch what I spend more than ever now.

Next time I went in it was GONE.

Well, of COURSE I wanted it then!! I pouted about it for a while and got over it.

Fast forward to the present... went in last week and it was BACK! I had $28 on my account there and the picture was now $24. SOLD. It's MINE. *wicked laugh*
It is in my dining room now, which is too green I think... will probably go in my parlor when it's finished.

I love the frame too!

Thanks for junkin' with me!

I've also been getting ready for my Gone With the Wind party, have you?

Check a few posts back or in my sidebar for details!

Hair today, gone tomorrow~

My sister and I had both been itching to cut our locks after the wedding. Here's a before shot taken at the bachelorette party~ Stone Hill Winery in Hermann, MO.

I cannot figure this picture out as I am actually a bit taller than her and we both had on flip flops with the same height... hmmm.... did you stand on your tippies at the last second Sis or is that old floor that warped, lol!

For those who may be wondering, we are 13 years apart.

Jonna knew she was going chin length. She liked the pic on the bottom right, only not so short around the face. (click to enlarge)

I was so excited to start cutting!!

Say buh-bye!
AYE-AYE-AYE-AYE-AYE!!!!



Jonna's hair is incredibly thick. I mean really, REALLY thick. I razored it quite a bit to soften, but if you razor or thin it out too much it can make thick hair even more poofy; and make the layers lay funny.


Cutting all the weight off unleashed some great natural wave. She'll be able to scrunch it and difuse it for a different look.

Here I dried it using a hot air brush by Conair. This is my old brush that she uses at home. The newer ones have soft bristles to help grab the hair. If you are able to use a round brush and separate dryer, that's great! But these are wonderful if you aren't that coordinated.


There's nothing like a big round brush for volume and lift. Use the largest one you can fit in your hair if you don't want any curl.

After I dried it I went over the bottom layers with a flat iron. (I use a Chi iron in the salon)


Ta-dah!

No more tangles!! LOL!

Here are some more befores of mine. I admit, I'm rather missing it now~ but I'm still glad I cut it. I really only liked it when I curled it... and had to sleep in rollers then sit under the dryer for an hour the next day!
So you can guess I didn't do it often.

Straight and natural~

Red fades so quickly, I wish it would stay like this!

See the diffrence in fading in a month? Geesh. This was taken on the 4th of July.

And here's the after. I lopped off about 8 inches too. I slept in rollers the night before this pic~

Dress is vintage, late 40's-early 40's. My pockets are stuffed with my cell phone and junk; can you imagine that back then? LOL!

You'll hafta click to enlarge if ya wanna see the back. Not that exciting. The same, just shorter!
Uh oh!
Bathroom snapper!

This is in the Japanese garden at the Missouri Botanical Gardens, or Shaw's Garden.

Be sure to stop by Sheila's at Note Songs for more
Bathroom Beauty Snappers!

I scrunched my natural wave here~

And threw in some victory rolls for this shot.

Whew, what a load off!

A Valentine wedding~

Congratulations to the happy newlyweds!

On Valentine's Day our friend Ku married his long time girlfriend, Kristin.
It was a gorgeous wedding! The bridesmaids wore classy black gowns with red sashes.

The tables at the reception were so pretty adorned with rose petals~ there were chopsticks for the guests and red fortune cookies, which I think were strawberry flavored!

Ku, Kristin, and their families took part in the traditional tea ceremony. I really enjoyed this.
Ku stated that if you dishonor your spouse you also dishonor your family.


Sorry for the crummy pics, but I didn't want to "intrude"~ I had to zoom in on this shot for you all.
Speaking of family, Ku's family has THE BEST hunan style chinese restaurant in-da-world! Their crab rangoon is to die for. We would go eat there and his mom would be making a batch of like 300.... yum.... I just wanted to take them all home!

Ok, so I totally LOVED the chopsticks. I knew as soon as I saw them I would keep them for my hair. There were many empty seats at our table so naturally I swiped some extras! Thank you Kristin and Ku, lol!



During the break between the wedding and reception, we did some shopping. We were at Whole Foods grocery store and I did some Bathroom Beauty Snapping for Sheila at Notesongs!
I totally got busted on this one, can you see me looking over to the side, (the door!) How embarassing. They must have thought I was nuts! It startled me, thus the blurry pic~
Re-take!

Besides, I wasn't in the Beauty Snapper "stance" in the first pic!



So anyway, this is what I wore and I had a major wardrobe malfunction. I had on a slip and my outfit was SO full of static! The slip kept riding all the way up and making a huge bulge. I tried wetting down the ensemble several times, only to have the same thing happen. I finally took off the slip at the reception, but then I couldn't get up to dance or anything because you could see through my dress....wahhh!


Just how does one use chopsticks in their hair? Well, I'm sure there are several tutorials on Youtube, but I did a quick one for you. It's rather dark but you get the idea... and you get another sneak peek at our bathroom redo! (Which I will be revealing soon, gee I might make you wait for the 1 year anniversary, lol!)


To see more of this dress, how I did my hair in pillow rollers... and one of my favorite posts, "Cherries Jubilee", click here and scroll down.

Now.... back to those fortune cookies! Surely you all know about adding "in bed" to the end of each fortune, right? Well, Kevin's "fortune" was a thank you from Kristin and Ku. Yah~ let's not go there, lol!

However, MY fortune was one of the best ever. At least in a romantic sense... because we've had some pretty funny ones over the years!

Ok, ready?

*ahem*

"Couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking"...
(In bed.)

........................Awwwww.......................