This Friday night is Jordan's Grad Winter Formal. This is the second of his grad events -- the first one being the grad cruise. For the cruise he got new dress pants and a sports jacket. For winter formal, he (or rather we, cause it was our money!....) got this outfit.
Forget that the tie is tied crooked for a minute (Doug was out of town, and what the heck do I know about ties.....) -- but I think he looks pretty darn good. He chose a chocolate brown pinstripe Alfred Sung suit. His shirt is a wine color and his tie is a subtle golden, caramely color. I love it! I also decided to go ahead and get him matching brown Steve Madden leather shoes, cause it just wasn't working with black shoes. This ensemble put us back about $600, but here's the good thing -- it was a buy one get a second at half price....so Doug got one for himself in navy. Good timing as well, cause he really needed a suit too. Apparently from the other moms, we have it good with our sons. The girl's dresses are really expensive and they have to buy 3, cause no way can they show up at each event unless they have different outfits. God help me when it's Alyssa's turn.
Now, there's only one more event left -- ant that's the actual prom/dry grad and he'll be in a tux for that. This is only the beginning of the money drain. Next year he goes to UBC and the thought of tuition gets me hot and bothered....and not in a good way!
I don't have a new card to show you, but here is one of the cards that I am teaching as part of my "Love is in the Air" class at Clipper Street.
This card uses the St. Valentine's Day clear set from Fiskars Cloud 9.
I used my cuttlebug to add texture to the some pink cardstock and then tore it before gluing on top of patterned paper from Kaisercraft, called Blushed Devotion. If you live in the Metro Vancouver area, I'm teaching this class in our Langley store this weekend, January 25. Click here for the deets!
what a beautiful card Eleonor............
I miss you heaps, when are you coming to Australia to teach some classes.
Posted by: Joanne DeCelis | January 21, 2009 at 05:00 AM
As usual, Eleonor, a great class, wonderful cards. Enjoyed visiting with you today...Looking forward to the next adventure!!
Posted by: Pat Chadwick | January 25, 2009 at 05:47 PM
Wow, this is gorgeous!
Posted by: Jane | February 01, 2009 at 04:55 PM