tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54539930452448770622024-03-13T03:16:40.475-07:00Pink Preppy Party GirlEntertaining, Shopping, Decorating, Traveling and My Life.. While Wearing My Lilly PulitzerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-75536440327493947692016-05-09T21:50:00.000-07:002016-09-15T19:05:25.070-07:0015 Minutes of Fame<br />
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1. My husband in Iraq assisting with reconstruction efforts in IRAQ and made Bill Khakis Free Press.</div>
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<a href="http://www.billskhakis.com/about_bills/press_fall2004.html">Bills Khakis Free Press Fall 2004</a><br />
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2. My husband is credited for getting the Chinese to release the US spy plane and is featured on the front page of the New York Times.<br />
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<b>3. There is even a cartoon in the NY Times about him.</b></div>
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Well, my husband has been:<br />
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1. Interviewed and quoted above the fold in the NY Times;</div>
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2. Had a political cartoon made about him and his actions while meeting with the Chinese Ambassador when our plane was being held hostage;</div>
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3. Has been featured in a national Bill Khaki's Newsletter (Bill Bradly was the quarter before) while in Iraq;</div>
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4. Testified in front of congress</div>
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5. Has run for political office</div>
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6. Received the Order of the Arrow award for Boy Scouts</div>
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7. and was one step away from being the Ambassador to the Dominican Republic in 2002.</div>
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Me, I run a successful business for 18 years, MSU Dance team in college, community leader and PTO president, chosen for Leadership Michigan when I was 22years old, etc. Not above the fold in the NY Times that's for sure, but I feel fairly accomplished, but have many years to go.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-31070673872517499982013-09-15T18:17:00.001-07:002013-09-16T10:13:02.063-07:00Big Excitement in Sorority World--AXO Gets a Lilly Pattern!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Being a Kappa girl with know a Tri Delta daughter, we just love the Lilly patterns. Lilly P. took a poll to determine the next sorority deemed worthy of a pattern and those darling AXO gals came out in full-force to make sure they were the winners! Big excitement for the AXO's. </div>
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Again, sorority rush is in full force at the major Universities. The University of Alabama again publishes its 96 page <u>Greek Chic</u> book about sorority rush at Bama. The University of Texas book only is 44 pages. Sororities rush is big business down in Alabama.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-80693998742202998952013-05-29T06:03:00.000-07:002013-05-29T11:58:25.397-07:00PROM-A<br />
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Well, another prom...done! Dress, date, hair, nails, shoes, make-up, boutonniere, photographs and pre-party; what a busy day! Most of the girls at my daughter's prep school are BCBG MAX AZRIA dress fans, so because BCBG MAX AZRIA has such few styles, the girls even have a facebook page to post their dresses so there are no repeats. Also, BCBG dresses seem to be well made and you can get a variety of sizes. The girls at my daughter's school tend to dress conservatively for prom--not a lot of glitter, diamonds or shiny material. As a group, the girls and the boys looked really great! Most of the boys wear black tie too-my daughter's date actually tied his own bow tie and wore his dad's Gucci loafers; he was very cute! No white tuxes or strange ties here! The prom is at the Henry Ford Museum in Greenfield Village. Our school is one of two proms that are held there each year. It is a very nice and special event.<br />
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Black prom dress... well I am not crazy about black for young girls since as a woman, it seems like you have to wear black your entire life, but this is the dress, color and size that worked. We returned the first dress 3 days before the prom and at the last minute, there were very few (no) options. The good news is that dress, shoes and jewelry were all on sale! Sometimes if pays wait until the last minute. My daughter looked beautiful.<br />
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Nail Polish & Lipstick: Red<br />
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After attending many graduation parties in my day, one thing that I like is a nice photograph display.</div>
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Everyone gets very emotional about their children's photographs as they grow up, hence huge display boards at graduation parties with 100's of photographs. Maybe grandma and grandpa will take the time to look at all the photographs you displayed of your little darling, but most of the world really does not care about the picture of your child loosing their first tooth. I actually had an email from a reader asking me what I did for my graduation party last year, so here is what I did:</div>
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1. SHADOW BOXES (for permanent display my daughter's room) displaying her tennis varsity letter with a few photographs, etc.; one of her senior project which was a dog collar line, and one of her Prudential Award she received. I displayed these on the piano in our living room.</div>
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2. PHOTOGRAPHS: Selected 14 of my favorite photographs of my daughter and blew them up to 14 x 17 and made them black white-about $1 each, and framed with inexpensive frames from Michael's. I attached these frames to the walls with magic hooks. They decorated the dining room.</div>
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3. SLIDE SHOW--for our family graduation day lunch (which was a separate event), we put together a slide show of family members with my daughter and a few key photographs. Our family watch it during our family lunch and really enjoyed it. We put this on our huge computer during graduation party-but no one (besides family and close friends) really looked at it--KEY include your family members and close friends in the slides.</div>
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Well, I am starting to help again with our local Kappa Kappa Gamma chapter. I decided I better find my pin--ok, it is on my wedding garter belt (why did I wear one of these?) along with my husband's Sigma Chi pin. I left my wedding dress and garter at my mother's house 20 years ago and have not bothered to look at them since my wedding day.</div>
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I must say, the Kappa's have a great pin; you can recognize it a mile away. You may have it embellished with diamonds, sapphires (2 colors now), pearls, plain or a combination. My pin (well, that is if I can find it) is sapphires and pearls. Pi Beta Phi & Delta Gamma are pretty nice and easily recognizable. </div>
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I like those that you can put jewels on-and so, there you have it! </div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Great little website that shows old sorority </span><a href="http://npcsororitybadges.blogspot.com/">NPC Sorority Badges</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-17079248635756125262013-02-14T07:17:00.001-08:002013-02-14T07:17:06.530-08:00HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, this is what was in my email that I finally checked yesterday. I have 3556 emails (mostly junk) and this one happened to survive my arbitrary, mass deleting. Even though this email is over a year old, it still feel good that my opinions are valuable to someone out there. NOTE THE DATE:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-31206306915148336102012-12-11T10:00:00.000-08:002013-04-02T15:46:04.617-07:00Christmas Gift for the Over-Achieving Boy Scout Mom and Why I am a Boy Scouts Fan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, I had the pleasure of purchasing for my fashion conscious friends, a "designer" (in the Boy Scout world), mother's ribbon necklace. Typically when the boys go up in rank, mother's get a pin attached to a little 6 inch piece of red ribbon that they wear on their shirt. The necklace and charm makes this special! <br />
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Well, another year of a great committee decorating the bathrooms at the St. Joe Ball (or more formally called the Lounges). This year, the theme was Alice in Wonderland and raised almost $800,000 for the NICU department at St. Joe Hospital in Ann Arbor. We had many highlights in our decorations including a graffiti artist from Detroit (SINTEXT) creating the shrinking room, a silhouette artist, Isabel from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/italsma">Cut Away- Art by Isabel Talsma</a> on Etsy, making four commission silhouettes of Alice (check out her work, it is pretty amazing!), and a Queen of Hearts dress made out of duct tape by my friend Jane G. It is funny how the bathroom committee is composed of Drs., politicians, politician's wives (yes we had 2 body guards present), moms, and business people all wanting to make the ugly stadium bathrooms at little nicer. Here are the four bathrooms we decorated.</div>
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Well, DD#2 (16 years old) is an intern for the National Republican Convention in Tampa. We had just returned from Florida after dropping DD#1 at Stetson, in Deland, Florida and my hubby just took a plane 24 hours later back to Orlando (car is in the parking lot) and over the Tampa. Yes, we are nuts!<br />
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The rest of us are flying out Sunday and we are hitting Harry Potter at Universal (VIP Tour) and Legoland. I may go to a few of the parties at the convention and watch a few events from our friend's suite, but the hanging around the delegates is a little too crazy for me. Wish I had time to order one of these phone cases from etsy. <br />
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Well, driving around the University of Michigan campus last fall, I started to notice a few more Jeep Wranglers(the 4 door version) being parked at the Kappa Kappa Gamma and Tri-Delt house. We all know that Lilly P choose the Wrangler as her car of choice to plaster her print all over, but now it is becoming the HOT CAR FOR PREPPY COLLEGE GIRLS. <br />
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Well, I am busy writing recommendations letters for Kappa Kappa Gamma for my DD's friends. One of the letters went to the University of Alabama. I checked out the rush website, and I must say, Sorority Rush is big business for the Crimson Tide (my daughter was accepted here too--but loves that Stetson U!). I am sure other schools are the same, but I have yet to see a 30 page guide with advertisements and a promotion for dorm meal service during rush week. Check out this book--rush participation at University of Alabama is $150.<br />
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While I know that a lot of people are not fans of sorority rush and sororities, I do believe they give young women and men (fraternities) some valuable life lessons that I am sure the panhelletic council would not like me to promote. Well, here they are:<br />
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What do you get the high school or college students for graduation? Well, I made my daughter a picture book on Shutterfly of her senior year and gave her a monogrammed travel wallet from Asprinal of London. She actually really liked it and my second daughter said what color she wants when she graduates too. I chose the black (with a red interior) because I thought it would be good for a lifetime of use. Red interior added a little something extra!</div>
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Our school prom is at Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village. They close down the museum just for our school. The kids take luxury buses to the prom, have dinner, dance, tour and come home on the bus. It is very civilized and safe. Only two schools get to have there prom at this museum; we are fortunate to be one of them.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5453993045244877062.post-75799767519157883502012-03-14T11:09:00.006-07:002012-03-14T11:21:36.797-07:00Endless Bragging! Metro Parent-Prudential Spirit of the Community<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXrUoG83v4o/T2DgI-NkBbI/AAAAAAAABp8/koU3pcIF9Ww/s1600/prudential.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXrUoG83v4o/T2DgI-NkBbI/AAAAAAAABp8/koU3pcIF9Ww/s400/prudential.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5719817971503990194" /></a>
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Well, my daughter has had a good senior year. She won the <a href="http://spirit.prudential.com/view/page/soc">Prudential Spirit of the Community</a> Award for Michigan high school students, which means a medal, cash and a all expense trip to DC for our family, etc. There were over 26,000 applicants throughout the USA and she won. They are awarding 5 national prizes in DC-so we will see.<div>
</div><div>The Prudential Spirit of the Community PR machine also featured her in<a href="http://www.metroparent.com/Metro-Parent/March-2012/Ann-Arbor-Teen-Helps-Kids-and-Wins-Community-Award/"> Metro Parent Magazine</a> today which produces 260,000 magazines distributed to Detroit. We are very proud of her.</div><div>
</div><div>Bragging over!</div>
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Well finally, I am stealing the Steve Jobs book from my 15 year old daughter. My other daughter is reading Blake <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Mycoskie's</span> "Start Something That Matters". Blake is the owner of Tom's Shoes.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">
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</p><p>Raising kids is tough. I do think it is a worthwhile endeavor to help them take risks and start businesses when the are young, Having and learning to run a business when the risks are low, is a really great thing. I started my business when I was 23 years old in my apartment with a computer. I met my first client in a bar (happened to be from a Fortune 500 company and wanted to so some research). Next thing I know, I had the average starting salary in my hands for a three month project.</p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">Fifteen years and 150 employees later, I was a business owner. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">
I believe young people need to be encouraged to follow an <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;"><b style="cursor: pointer; "><i>entrepreneurial </i></b></span> path. My oldest daughter had a Princes Camp for 7 years and, well my younger children are not quiet as willing, but I have not yet given up. My oldest made a lot of money, turned it into a non-profit for sick children at hospitals, and now is creating a dog collar where the proceeds will support animal shelters. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">
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</p><p>Lots of kids go to college and get jobs. Then they graduate and at 50 years old, complain about not having control of their schedule, bosses, money, etc. While they are young, it is time to teach them to take a risk, learn by doing, and go for it.</p></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">My favorite quote by Steve Jobs....</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">
</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; ">" Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" Steven Jobs</strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>
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Well, we happened to be in Chicago after Steven Jobs died we were at the Apple Store and i actually was one of those geeks who wrote something on a post-it note. I wrote:
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</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>Steve Jobs... </b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>I-came</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>I-saw</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 23px; font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>I-did it.....life well done!</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 23px;font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;"><b>
</b></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">I appreciate Steve Jobs for not only what he invented, but his <span style="cursor: pointer; ">entrepreneurial<i style="font-weight: bold; "> spirit.</i></span>
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Cute little book that I picked up in northern Michigan which is not the deapest read, but I think that is the point of the book. Most of the mothers in this book are wearing pink and Lilly Pulitzer. Even there dogs are dressed up every day. Where I live, I have only really met one woman like this, so in a venue like New York, I am sure these mothers are around in larger numbers. Quick read that has short chapters.</div>
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