HAPPY NEW YEAR....2011

PLEASE go over to GLORIA'S  HAPPY TO BE blog...
She is throwing me the most
halarious
birthday party....ever !!
THANK YOU, GLORIA, you silly, silly girl, you !
I love ya!! 


 I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A FABULOUS

NEW YEAR'S EVE...

I sure plan to have a fun one......

'CAUSE....IT'S MY BIRTHDAY...

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how fun is that to have a birthday on

NEW YEAR'S EVE....

everyone celebrates MY birthday.....;o)

I sure hope they don't put CANDLES on my cake...

73 is just gonna SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE....

WHEW !! GOOD GRIEF...

.GREAT BALLS OF FIRE..

.GOOD GOLLY, MISS MOLLY...

SHA ZAM !

73 !!!

OOOO, I am so blessed to still be here....

 and I am making my very own birthday cake this year..
LUSCIOUS STRAWBERRY  DREAM CAKE...
(the photo is from the net...I will make mine
on Saturday morning...so it will be nice and fresh
FOR THE PARTY....

AND
we always have the BEST party, either on
NEW YEAR'S EVE, my birthday
or
like this year,
on NEW YEAR'S DAY.
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We are going to a NEW YEAR'S EVE party at our wonderful church and
it is going to be so much fun..
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HERE I am...

I wore at hat of some kind until I was 2 years old because I was so bald...:))

I was a little roly-poly here....

and of course, this was into 1938....

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the dress style of  the 30's

and i have ALWAYS loved hats...
but always have looked like a DORK in one.
My mom could always wear one so good...
and my daughter, STACY LEIGH, looks like a fashion model in
every hat she puts on...

OH MY GOSH....

what a PRECIOUS, OLDEN 1937 CAR....

I WANT ONE !!

well....maybe not

" Labor union women on strike against Woolworth Department Stores in 1937.
They won a forty-hour work week and a minimum weekly pay of $20.00. (Library of Congress) ""

aren't those waitresses the cutest things you've ever seen!!

I worked in Woolworths when I was in high school in the '50's...
I loved it.

YEP.... THE Five and Dimes were all the rage
with F.W. WOOLWORTH leading the pack...
.I can remember, years later, loving to roam the isles of the
FIVE AND DIME STORES ...
a lot of the wonderful treasures I have from my mother came from
WOOLWORTH DIME STORE....
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The dine stores had MUCH nicer things than our DOLLAR GENERALS.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
was released in 1937.....
How amazing !
and MY grandchildren still love it to this very day....

AWESOME..
Cute little SHIRLY TEMPLE starred in
HEIDI
in 1937
The actor, VAL KILMER, shares my
DECEMBER 31 birthday...(well, NOT the year ...DUH !)

Oh, how great he was as DOC HOLIDAY in TOMBSTONE..one of my favorite movies!!

and, SIR ANTHONY HOPKINS is also a
NEW YEAR'S EVE baby...and he was born in 1937, too....

OH MY..... as HANNIBAL LECTER, he just scared the fire right out of me....whew....
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TONIGHT, WHEREVER YOU GO...WHATEVER YOU DO....BY ALL MEANS...

STAY SAFE.....
remember....
YOU ARE LOVED ....
and...
HAVE FUN !

HAPPIEST NEW YEAR'S EVE...
love, bj

DON'T forget to eat BLACKEYED PEAS on the 1st...for GOOD LUCK the whole year.

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I'll try to get photos of the party to share next week.

GOOD GOSH...I'll be a whole year older !