Christmas with the Queens!

Pictured left to right~Top row: Queen of Disney, Queen of High Maintenance and Her Stalk Stud and our Royal driver, Buddy; Queen of Dippity Do, Queen DIVA Doc, and Queen Easy Rider Bottom Row: Queen Camil Feaux, Queen de Bling, Queen Mum, Queen of Sold, and Queen of Hearts





Well, the queens/DIVAs represented Habitat well in this year's Christmas Parade, which was held downtown along Main Street. We had sooooooo much fun it was ridiculous!!!! Ya'll make sure and come out and see us next year, since we have decided to make it a yearly event, sugars!!!! Sorry about the sideways pics, hunnies, but ya'll know I am not gifted in the technical department!!!!

Winna....Winna....Chicken Dinna, Hunnies!!!!!

The 2008 Sugar Cane Festival Parade was a BLAST! We all loaded up, queens, wannabees, and DIVAs alike~with out big hair and boots and tiaras and costumes and rode through downtown New Iberia, delighting the crowd with our dancing and bee-you-tee-ful appearance. They gawked and admired us from afar, thanks to our "SECURITY" personnel, who did a FINE job, I might add of keeping back our throngs of admirers. We passed out strawberry Twizzlers, flashingblinky rings, plastic jewels, strawberry Mardi Gras beads, and various other asundry things to the crowd and played sugar type music and acted up in a family friendly way. It was a great day and a great memory. I'll have more pictures to follow!




































Well, hunnies, WE DID IT!!!! It was a whopper of a night and I don't know about the rest of MOQs (My Other Queens) and my DIVAs 'n such, but I had a he-helarious time and am still sufferin the "after-party" effects, which I am O-fficially calling THE AFTERGLOW and LUV'n it! Words cannot express how thankful I am to each and every one of the fine people who made this whole shindig possible and allowed my dream to reach its "fruit-ition"!!!! Totals are not in yet, but it seems we have exceeded our 5000.00 goal by over 2000.00!!! The board and I are tickled pink, to say the least so everyone who participated, came, or gave should be very proud of theirownselves!

The tables were bee-you-tee-ful, the wigs were gi-normous and fun and my DIVAs played the part to the hilt and the crowd just luv'd them all! Lawd--there were soooo many moments when I thought my jaws were broken and my sides hurt from laughin so much! Sandra Babineaux's comedy had us all rollin in the aisles and Brenda Lowry's song "Big Ovaries" wherein all the Stalk Studs sang along was too too kewt for words. I am sendin ya'll some pictures to enjoy and although it cannot quite captured the fun--ya'll can get a little idea of what it was like! I'll write more later, but I need to go clean up myownhouse and spend some time with Dr. Chop, MAA and CLB, who have been sufferin lately from lack of my presence!

Finally, I must say that indeed, it is truly GOOD TO BE QUEEN!!!! Parade time is right around the corner (this Sunday) so we are getting ready for that and I want ya'll to know that from the moment they attempted, but were sadly unable, to put that gi-normous crown on myownhead--I KNEW that my life would never be the same! I suddenly had no ill feelings anymore for Amy H. (crown stealer) and I resolved then and there to put the past behind me and accept this new tiara with heart-felt and totally pure purpose for honest to goodness WORLD PEACE..(sniff!sniff!) so God Bless You, ONe and ALL, sugahs!!!!

by the by...I know some of the pictures are sideways, but I cannot get the blankety blank photo CD to edit them, so I figured I'd share them anyway, til I could figure it out!

Berry Queens' Hi Tea 2008

Special quest and Stalk Security, Cherie Lord, wore a hat she designed her veryownself!

The 2008 Berry Queens and helpers

Queen Mayor,with hostesses Queen de Bling and Queen of Hearts

Most of our DIVAs came and looked FABULOUS!!!!

Queen Cruiser enjoys the fashions!

Many thanks to Lane Walker of Lemondrop for all her fashions and door prizes, too!

Our host and hostess, Carl and Pat Richard (aka Queen of Hearts!)

Queen Muther and Queen Green of Beausoleil had amazing hats!!!! Queen Green's (of course) was vintage and recycled!!!!

Queen Cher Be'be' had a marvelous hat and her ho-made Creme Brulee thingy was to die for in the Berry Crock-A competition!


Is it the picture, or does this jacket make me look fat?????

DIVA queen, Katherin Bordes shows off her Lemondrop fashions!

Queen LeTigre shows off her Lemondrop fashions and her new little tiger on the way!!! Congrats to her, Jason, and Adeline by the by!!!



Queen Faye Dough Dough shows off her Lemondrop fashions

Queen Kilowatt shows off some fashions from Lemondrop

Queen of Fine Arts and Queen of Dippity Doo show off their A-mazing hats!

Queen Mumm, Queen of de Road, Queen of the Scene, Queen Prim & Proper and Queen Catin Dure toast Iberia Habitat for Humanity!

Queen de Bling poses with Ellen Nora, special guest

Well, the 2008 Second Annual Berry Queens' Hi! Tea went off without a hitch and we had the kewtest ladies in the most precious hats you have ever seen, ya'll, including our veryown Mayor, Hilda Curry(who is just made to wear a hat). Queen of Hearts house and yard were decorated to the hilt and the food and drink were MARVELOUS and plentiful, which all us queens do so appreciate, sugars! We had several special guests and the queens brought Ho-made cakes for our first ever BERRY CROCK-A competition and there was a hands down winner--thought I'll not tell until the night of our First O-fficial Berry Queens' Ball and Pageant, so don't even TRY to get me to!!! Even money, jewels, and Brighton type gifts would PROBLY not sway me, though, if you have to try, you can....(Tee-hee!) Can't wait to do it again next year! Hope to see you all at the ball--it will be sooooooooo much fun! Here's to the Queens, DIVAs, and to Iberia Habitat for Humanity!!!! Special thanks to Queen of Sold, Tessie Dore, for donating a ton of door prizes, which we are going to be able to use for the ball and to all our queens for baking or picking up desserts out the whazoo for our First Berry Crock-A competition and bake-off! All of ya'll who were there are positively precious and I just couldn't live without one of you!!!! For those of ya'll who couldn't make it--I MISSED YOU!!!!! Looking forward to seeing you there next year!

LUV ya'll,

Queen de Bling, (aka Jerre Borland)
Board Member, Iberia Habitat for Humanity
and Self-appointed Head Berry Boss Queen