Berry Queens' Hi! Tea 2008

Well ladies, I am just FLAT OUT excited to announce that we will be holding our 2nd annual Berry Queens Hi! Tea on Sunday, August 17, 2008 at the home of our veryown DIVA, Patricia Richard from 2-4 p.m. The event is a fundraiser for Iberia Habitat for Humanity and is the kickoff for 2008 for our First O-fficial Berry Queens' Ball and Pageant event which will be held on Friday, September 19, 2008 from 8:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m. The next day, Saturday, from 10:30~ish until noon, we will have our First O-fficial "Kane You Hang?" Brunch at Clementine. Doesn't that sound like fun, ya'll! Any-hoo, back to the tea info~We are very pleased to announce that Lane Walker has agreed to give us a LEMONDROP Fall Fashion preview at our event this year and once again, the event is BYOH~(BRING YOUR OWN HAT) and I can't wait to see all of the bee-you-tee-ful hats ya'll come in, seein as last year, those of ya'll who came just outdid ya'llselves, truly ya'll did!!!

This year, our Queens will be competing in our Very First BERRY CROCK-A COMPETITION, which ya'll will no doubt get the benefit of. The winner will be awarded at the Hi! Tea and I for one can't wait to see who the winner will be!!!

(Just for clarity, I am including the rule sheet for the Berry Crock-A Competition so you can get the gist, sugahs!)

First O-fficial Berry Crock-A Competition
Rules, Regulations, and Explanations

The First O-fficial Berry Crock-A Competition will be held at The Berry Queens’ Hi! Tea on August 17, 2008 at the Home of our own DIVA~The Queen of Hearts (aka Patricia Richard) from 2-4 p.m. This competition will be held amongst ourown Berry Queen competitors and will require them to submit a Ho-made cake. These cakes will be displayed at our BERRY SWEETS table and will be judged according to the following standards:

Bee-you-tee~fulness
Decadent/Sin~funess
Dee-licious~ness

All non-competitors at the Hi! Tea will vote for their favorite Ho-made cake and the winner will receive the coveted “Berry Crock-A” Prize which will be awarded at the conclusion of the Hi! Tea during the door prize portion.

“Ho-making”: (Gerund) Describes a person’s ability to delegate out a difficult task to someone else who does it better, pay them for it and then take credit for “allegedly” doin’ it his/herownself, since it is legitimately his/hers because he/she paid for it! Now some folks, for reasons I do not understand, will gather a bucket load of ingredients and perform an old, out-dated ritual called “making something from scratch”. Some of the culinarily gifted and overachievin’ queens may decide to make just such a cake and that is also allowed as a submission, though I would not encourage you to do so, by any means, because it is just PLAIN HARD and too much WORK! Other folks, like me, “Ho-Out” such tasks to people who do a much better job of it, have better equipment, a bigger kitchen, and better culinary skills. Do not be offended by the term. It has nothing whatsoever to do with S-E-X, but in queen’s language is a reference to making the most of one’s lack of skills and another’s abundance of skills. It’s a WIN/WIN, hunnies! (Adjective form=Ho-made; Verb form=Ho-make; Other terms include “Ho-Out” which is the act of gettin’ something Ho-made done for oneself.

Each submission must have an “original” name and you must bring your own cake plate to sit it on.

Luv ya’ll, QdB