Let's have a fun dress discussion
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Smart pot mix, lets have some fun
Comments (19)As I said in the other discussion: I do substitute compost for some or all of the peat when using the mix in fabric Smart Pots that are on bare ground. The earth acts like a giant wick so the pot is more like a mini raised bed, and there is no perched water table. The roots actually grow through the bottom of the pot into the ground. When making 5-1-1 for regular containers, I don't use compost or manure because the fine material can make the mix too water retentive. In any case, I don't count on the compost to meet the nutrient needs of the plants in a container. I use mostly chemical fertilizers in both situations. When growing in a regular raised bed or directly in the ground, I prefer organic fertilizers and amendments....See MoreLet's discuss Christmas gift-giving
Comments (28)Wow, lots of neat traditions. I find shopping for gifts wearying. I usually start in October and try to be finished by the end of November. I try to leave time in December for decorating, cookie baking and wrapping gifts. We are also away for about 9 days total in December as our kids play in 2 international junior squash tournaments and so this takes a huge chunk out of our Christmas preparation time and also means we cannot have a real tree as we are away and can't water it. We buy for our 3 kids, in-laws, our staff (about 8 people), couple of aunts and uncles, and assorted family. We have done a draw for the family in previous years so that all the adults names are put in a hat and each person then draws and only has to buy 1 gift. But this has fallen by the wayside as part of the family had moved away and sometimes comes back for Christmas and sometimes doesn't. I am more conscious now in trying to buy gifts that are useful or consumable as we all know how easy clutter comes into our homes and how difficult and time consuming it is to take it back out. Traditionally my DH and I usually buy small gifts for each other, most of which will fit in our stockings, requisite gifts are chocolate bars, socks, paperbacks, I always receive a "For Better or For Worse" comic book and the year's stamp set (Canadian), and a CD, you get the idea. We also buy lots of little things for the kids' stockings. Sometimes there may be one big gift for the family (one year it was a large screen T.V. ) and then, the other gifts will be smaller and fewer. I usually get an Odyssey set of tapes (from Focus on the Family) as one of the gifts for the kids as we do lots of driving trips and the kids like listening to them in the car. Just wrapping all the stocking gifts takes forever, but they are so much fun to open Christmas morning. Christmas Eve, the family goes to Church as our Church does not have a Christmas morning service. Then we open presents Christmas morning, have brunch and relax and then start cooking Christmas dinner late afternoon, in-laws come and another round of gift opening takes place. I really like it that we don't have to go anywhere on Christmas day, it really is quite relaxing. My DH jokes that it's the only day in the whole year when the car doesn't leave the driveway!...See MoreLet's discuss food date labels again
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I think anything goes, including Marilyn monroe, and everything Amy Lou describes! I just know I don't want to look matronly, I don't think I can do a tea length dress which I love (too short it would cut me off at the wrong place), and that's about as far as I'm getting.
Heck, I keep looking at this dress and I know it's not right at all! Wrong fabric for winter, not really all that long, but it sure would cover up a multitude of sins.
Slap on a bunch of jewels and a jacket of some sort and I'm there.
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Here are a couple of one shoulder dresses that are a bit more....well glamorous I guess. I do not know about the slit but no one really juts their leg out like that to call attention to it anyway.
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Nice!
How do you know I don't leg jut? 🤣
I forgot to mention, there's also dinner and dancing. So what about a Christmas-y dancing dress? I didn't think about trying to dance in a long dress. Hmm
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I would wear this, even though its not pink! Christmas red is perfect for a December wedding!
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Well you asked for it. ( I own this dress. I wear it to work. I have never tried to dance in it but it would probably look great mid-twirl. Especially with the bright red petticoat I wear underneath it)
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3 years agoI think glam, I think shiny fabrics and feathers.
I think Bette Davis...they did a lot of low back back then...
Or I think of Nora Charles/Myrna Loy
Or maybe those fab gowns by Edith Head. Something in ice blue with feathers? But if you are going up against drag queens, that's quite a challenge!
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoGinger Rogers had some fabulous gowns - I believe she designed a number of them herself...
P.S. I posted this before rob's post showed up for me. My apologies, since I see the green gown now - and it looks fab 😀
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Well since you asked...
I also bought these.
(Loved the feather boa suggestion, but I just couldn't find any for sale)
And these I already owned
Or I may buy something else.
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But we haven't even talked about the hair?! Or makeup
Kidding.
I have often worn my hair Lauren Bacall style and I'm betting that's what I'll do again. Or not.
We can keep going... heh.
ETA: I was joking around with kiddo this morning and I asked if this was too much. Seriously JOKING!
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I could never go that big.
If I were to do anything like that, it'd be more Holly Golightly.
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Like this summer? This is what I ended up getting. It cost as much as the dress did.
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rob333 (zone 7b)Original Author