Red Hat Valentines

"We cannot tell the precise moment when a friendship is formed." - Boswell

Today was Red Hat luncheon day and we were having an old fashioned Valentines...which meant we were exchanging valentines like we did in our younger days. This year I decided to make some special cookies I'd seen at the Better Homes & Garden web site. They were white chocolate cherry shortcake cookies. Yummy sounding, huh? I knew there was trouble with the recipe once I started....no liquid of any kind. I improvised and went ahead with them anyway. They taste fine but the texture is not the least bit shortbread-like....boo hoo. So I didn't finish them (they were suppose to be dunked half way in melted white chocolate). No special cookies for my Red Hat sisters. A quick trip to Albertsons for some Hersheys kisses and I was ready to go with a new plan.

Hubby and I will have to endure and eat them all ourselves! LOL!!!

Here are Tink and I all dolled up for lunch at the casino -- not exactly a Valentines type of place in my mind. :)

Our bags of goodies.

Love my Red Hat gals!

Funvention

I spent last weekend with 350 other women at the Red Hat Funvention in Portland. I love Red Hatters. I love the whole intent of Red Hatting.
Tink and I are not old enough for being “official” Red Hatters – thus the pink hats -- no red hats to wear till we are 50. Why join early you ask? Because I am living the closing lines of the poem by Jenny Joseph called “Warning: When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple”. (The Red Hat Society got its inspiration from this poem). It goes like this: But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised when suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
I say amen to that!

This is my Vice Queen Maxine and Queen Mum Nedra. Aren't they cute? Can you tell what their necklaces & earrings are made out of? Look carefully. :)

Tink and I arrived safely and begin our fun!

Silly Tink. Silly is also part of the Red Hat fun. This is the night of the "Sock Hop". Elvis showed up but Elvis kinda sucked. The dancing was fun, though.

It's a small world. I run into my step moms Queen Mum. We are all gussied up for the Gala Event.

Such cleverness in creativity is abundant at this event. Tink and I felt very plain. Can you guess what this clever gal made her hat out of? Besides the feathers and flower?