Project Runway

I was selected to be on next year's Project Runway.  Can you believe it?   I pinched myself and started shaking!  It is a shock and a dream,  and I screamed when I got the news!     Me, no way....

That is right!  I am still screaming-April Fool!!!!   I am the fool, though.  My daughter has a Colorguard performance next month.  It is called, On Thin Ice.   Guess who is on thin ice....me!   She announced she needed her costume, for this Wednesday's dress rehearsal.   "What?"   I started shaking, next hives popped out like cherry dots and my head started to spin.   I felt like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.   I want to shake her and scream.   I felt like I couldn't breathe and a full throttle panic attack  was coming on.   We have gone around this outfit for months.  I ordered a white drapey outfit, but it is plain and needs to be upcycled into a vision.  I was original told, stormy winter colors...gray, white, silver, and stormy blue,  Fishermen knit gloves, leggings and tights.   BUT now, it is FROZEN GLAM!   I am gasping for air at this point. "Are you kidding me?"  

I have a great relationship with my daughter, but not when it comes to costumes.  We are more like Patricia and Stanley from Season 11.   Patricia is arts n' crafty and Stanley is a bit rigid in his design.  Yes, I have been in the attic to collect Christmas items I can tear apart-not a lot of luck there.  The Project Runway feel started yesterday when my husband dropped me off at the entrance of a  big box store.  He said he would wait in the truck and I had so many minutes.  I wish I was shopping at MOOD. I can hear Tim Gunn say, "Make it work."  

 I am sitting here with a pile of fabric, feathers, snowflake buttons and rhinestones.  I want to pull my hair out...but I'm lacking in that department.   Yes, I am the fool On Thin Ice.  My daughter knows want she doesn't want, but I have to pull teeth to get her to tell me what she would like.  We have a long history of costume drama. It started at age three, when she decided she didn't want to be Minnie Mouse for Halloween.  Her exact words were, "I'm not wearing that."   WE agree on most everything, but not costumes.  I had this cute black dress with polka dots in rainbow colors, adorable shoes and of course the ears.  I had the makeup  to add the nose-but noooooo.   Instead I dressed her all in pink and said, "You are Barbie."  This is the girl who at this age told me she wanted pink hair.


I want to say a  Big Thank you to DL Hammons and the  Blog Blitzing crew~!!  Go here if you want to join in on the fun!  It was amazing and wonderful to be selected, but I was sad my internet was down-another April Fool on me.  Our ISP sent out the big trucks(see photo-we had another one up on the corner of our street arrive later).  It has been lagging for days  and then gone.  I was beyond touched by all the lovely comments.  I promise I  will visit all of you, once the costume drama is complete.   I felt bad, too about NaPoWriMo, but family comes first.  This is, fingers crossed my last costume to make. I didn't say never...    Daughter will graduate this June from high school-yeah!   So, I must remember now that the wave of panic has gone to enJOY this last costume-and make it magical!