Berry First Artwork...

Since our budget is let's say...SLIM...and we do not have the money for hirin an artist to do the artwork for the posters and such, Queen Em Cee suggested that I use CLB (Cutest Little Boy--myveryown son) to design and paint the art, cause he is pretty good for five years old and works for Airheads and Icee's, which is good for the Berry Queens! I wanted to show you his canvas that will be used for many of the things we hand for the ball/pageant and will also be used on the programs. If anyone out there has the ability to put this canvas in digital format or knows someone who can do it out of the goodness of his/her heart and for a good cause, please let me know!!!!

Be sweet!

QdB

How the Berry Queen Thing Came About...

Once upon a time, a few years ago, a woman in THE BERRY (New Iberia, LA) had a dream…

She stood at THE SUGARCANE FESTIVAL parade and watched as various floats went by, toting around many BONAFIDE queens and small children wearing large sparkly tiaras AND as flatbeds and tractors passed by full of drunken people carrying plastic cups waving to the crowd as music played. She watched the sequined and blinging dance girls; saw all the people from New Iberia out with their families enjoying the celebration, when suddenly—she had a light bulb moment!

It was then that the idea of THE BERRY QUEENS began to form. Having been an honorary member of The Sweet Potato Queens since her late 20’s, she suddenly could envision a group of women “of a certain age” dressed in sequins, big hair, and enhanced costumes of amazing flamboyance and sparkliness dancing and sashaying on a float playing most excellent and “sugar-filled” music and whipping the crowd into spasms and frenzy. At the top of the float stood the HEAD QUEEN of them all—HER ROYAL HI-NESS, Queen of THE BERRY! She was a vision of LUVliness—Hair big enough to make a grown woman from an Alabama trailer park weep with envy, dress shining brighter than the sun on account of all the sequins and such, breasts and buttocks standing proud and large—showing all the under 30’s women what a REAL WOMAN is actually made of! She was extra-ordinary in her bee-you-tee-ous-ness and her pageant wave and scepter motion were simply
A-MA-ZING!

But how, she asked herself, would such a being be found to ascend to said float and represent The Berry in such a fashion? She could not answer this, and so the dream was put away—temporarily forgotten—and she went back to her daily routine of mommyhood.

Two years later, the same woman found herself on the Board of Iberia Habitat for Humanity and LO and BEHOLD! She was asked to be on the Fundraising Committee. It was then that the IDEA began again, coaxing her into thinking about meshing the two—the quest for THE BERRY QUEEN and raising money for Iberia Habitat. A WIN/WIN situation was in the making!

After a lot of planning and a lot of begging, pleading, threatening, coaxing, and sucking up—she secured her queens, the location, the favor of the Mayor and the City Planner, and the date was set. She will gather queens from all over the Queen City of the Teche and have a competition to find HER ROYAL HI-NESS, Queen of THE BERRY in a Ball and Pageant event to be held Friday, September 19, 2008 at The Evangeline Theater in downtown New Iberia. Once the queen is found and crowned, the queens will ride on a float in The SugarCane Festival Parade and represent Iberia Habitat for Humanity and The Berry and her dream will finally be realized!




First O-fficial Berry Queens’ Ball and Pageant
Friday, September 19, 2008
8:00 P.M. until 12:00 A.M.
“He-e-e-y sugah!Be sweet!TellyourmamanemIsaidhi!Whodyathinkuhlwee-un?”
http://berryqueensunite.blogspot.com

T-shirts are HERE!!!!

"Say to yourself, 'I'm beautiful, I'm bubbly, I'm marvelous,' and pretty soon you will be.":--Jacque Mercer

Queen de Bling, her travelin' hair and MAA(Miss Attitude America)

The back of our shirt!

The front of our shirt!

The Berry Queens' T-shirts are in and they are soooooo kewt!!!! They are available for purchase for $16.00 and come in ladies sizes S, M, L, and XL. E-mail me at MsJerre@aol.com if you want one!!!

Back From Baton Rouge and Jill Conner Browne!!!!

The Berry Queens pose with THE BOSS QUEEN herownself!

THE I-DA-HO Queens

THE BOSS QUEEN

THE BOSS QUEEN WITH CUTEST BOY IN THE WORLD

Whoo-Hoo! We got back from Baton Rouge last night before 11 p.m. and boy was it a hootenanny! Jill Connor Browne is HE-helarious and the queens bout busted a gut listenin to her and meeting Cutest Boy in the World, who, thought VERY type A, was pretty fun, too, and kewt in a married boy way! There were a pile of folks there, but we managed to get ourselves on up and get a copy of her new book, THE SWEET POTATO QUEENS GUIDE TO RAISING CHILDREN FOR FUN AND PROFIT. The Berry Queens asked her a few questions, left her a little sussy from THE BERRY and we met some wunderful queens from St. Francisville called THE I-DA-HO Potato Queens. There motto is "U Not Da Ho, I-Da-Ho!!!!" There symbol is the Flamingo and sum of them wore some flamingo glasses that were quite extra-ordinary! They were a downright mess and a half and we promised to look them up at the SPQ St. Patty's Day Parade on the weekend of March 14-16 when we are headed to Jackson once again to represent our fine Berry as THE BERRY QUEENS!!! We did get a picture of us in front of THE BIG A$$ BUS, but Queen Em Cee hasn't sent them to me yet so I can load them up for ya'll. Hope ya'll can join us next time we have a road trip! Til then, BE SWEET and tellyermama'nemwesaidHI! P.S. For those of ya'll who want to learn more about the trip and bein queenly, you can go to my Queenly Blog at http://msjerre.blogspot.com, but you must NOT be easily O-ffended or you should probly just stay on this page, where it is Disney friendly on account of Habitat 'n all!

Mattel Announces New Barbie Line for Acadiana...

In honor of Bein' Queenly in The Berry--I hope you all can enjoy this with a little grain of salt. Talk about STEREO-types!!! I'm kinda miffed they aren't comin out with an ALABAMA TRAILER TRASH BARBIE, come to think of it!! Where's the LUV for all the BAMA girls!!!! Thanks Queen Faye Dough Dough for passin this along!

RIVER RANCH BARBIE
> >
> > This princess Barbie is only sold at River Ranch shops. She comes with
an assortment of Kate Spade handbags, a Lexus SUV, a longhaired foreign
lap-dog named Honey, and a cookie-cutter dream house with a lawn service.
Available with or without tummy tuck and face lift. Workaholic ex-husband Ken comes
with a Porsche.

BROUSSARD BARBIE

This modern day homemaker Barbie is available with Ford Windstar
mini-van and matching gym suit. She gets lost easily and has no full-time
occupation or secondary education. Traffic-jamming cell phone sold separately.
Available at Target.

EVANGELINE THRUWAY BARBIE

This recently paroled Barbie comes with a 9mm handg un, bowie knife, a
'79 El Camino with dark tinted windows and a meth lab kit. This model is only
available after dark and can only be bought with cash, preferably small
bills, unless you are a cop, then we don't know what you are talking
about.

GREENBRIAR ESTATE BARBIE

This yuppie Barbie comes with your choice of BMW convertible or Hummer
H2. Included is her own CC coffee cup, credit card set and Red's membership.
Also available is Shallow Ken.

CARENCRO BARBIE

This pale model comes dressed in her own Wrangler jeans two sizes too
small, a classic Metallica shirt and Tweety Bird tattoo on her shoulder.
Wants to major in NASCAR at LSU. She has a six-pack of Coors Light and a Hank Williams, Jr. CD set. She can spit over 5 feet and kick mullet-haired
Ken's ah-yes when she's drunk. Purchase her pickup truck separately and get a
confederate flag bumper sticker absolutely free. Available at Big Lots &
Dollar General Stores .

OPELOUSAS BARBIE

This tobacco chewing, brassy-haired Barbie has a pair of her own
high-heeled sandals with one broken heel from the time she chased Beer-Gut
Ken out of Carencro Barbie's (D! isconti nued) house. Her ensemble
includes low-rise acid-washed jeans, fake fingernails, strawberry lip gloss and a
see-through halter-top. Comes with Barbie's dream doublewide trailer.
Available at Wal-Mart. Cheap.

LE TRIOMPHE BARBIE

This collagen injected rhino plastic Barbie wears leopard print
Spandex and drinks cosmopolitans to new age music with friends at the
Lodge. Into crystals. Comes with Percocet prescription and botox
treatments.
Also cheap.

GRAND COTEAU BARBIE

This Barbie comes with a monogrammed tote bag, a collection of credit
cards in her daddy's name, expensive hair highlights, cell phone and an
enormous sense of entitlement. Available in two models: eating disorder
with natural breasts or eating disorder with breast implants. BMW X5 or Chevy
Tahoe. ESA Ken (with Toyota 4 Runner and iPod) is also available.

UNIVERSITY BARBIE

This doll is made of actual tofu. She has long straight brown hair,
archless feet, hairy armpits, no make up and Birkenstocks with white
socks. She prefers that you call her "Willow". She does not want or need a
Ken doll, but if you purchase two University Barbies and the optional
Subaru wagon, you get a rainbow flag sticker free.

YOUNGSVILLE BARBIE

This doll is pregnant, drives a new Ford Excursion and is perfect in
every way. We don't know who Ken is because he's always away hunting
or in Japan on business. Youngsville Barbie aspires to become River
Ranch Barbie. Not cheap, but still very naïve

First O-ffical Berry Queens' Meetin...

The first meeting of the Berry Queens came to order at BoJangles on Thursday, January 23rd, somewhere between 7 and 7:15 after all the drinks arrived and everyone had visited for a bit. we discussed many important queenly topics related to the upcoming Ball and Pageant and I wish to share some of these with you today:

1. We will be traveling by mommyvan to Baton Rouge on January 23, 2008 to see Jill Connor Brown at B&N and get a signed copy of her book RAISING CHILDREN FOR FUN AND PROFIT. Contact me at MsJerre@aol.com if you are interested in going along.

2. T-shirts for the First O-fficial Berry Queens' Ball and Pageant, which has all the ball info on the front and "It's Easy Bein' Queenly in the Berry" on the back and are sooooooooo kewt!!! will be available in women's sized starting January 23rd for $16.00 each. Stalk Stud t-shirts for the menfolk will not be available til we pay off the women's ones, so I'll let you know when that happens! You can e-mail me to let me know if you want one and I'll give you all the info.

3. The queens are heading to Jackson, MS, the weekend of March 14-16, 2008 for the Sweet Potato Queens' festivities. We will leave Friday afternoon and return Sunday afternoon. We have VERY limited space for this trip, so let us know if you want to go ASAP!

4. Rod Antoon, DJ and one man band from BoJangles, has kindly agreed to write and produce the very first Berry Queen's Theme Song for us. Isn't he just the sweetest thing!!!!????!!!! He even played a song he made up right there on the spot during out meeting about the Berry Queens and we had already told him there was no money in this gig to be made and he is still in!!! We are making him an "Honorary Stalk Stud" just because he knows how to worship queenliness when he sees it!

5. Gordon D. has agreed to work with us on holding the Judges' High Falutin' Meet-n-Greet at BoJangles. We are very thankful to him and would like to bestow on him the title of "Honorary Stalk Stud" as well!

6. Tickets for the First O-fficial Berry Queens' Ball and Pageant (September 19, 2008, 8:00 p.m. -12:00 p.m. will start being available in July/2008 so talk to one of the queens, or call Iberia Habitat for those. You will find the Habitat link on this site for the phone #. They are $35.00 per ticket, including entertainment, dancing, and food. There will be a cash bar provided and we are going to have fun!fun!fun! and along the way, crown the First Her Royal High-ness, Queen of the Berry!!!