Escape to the 80s

On December 30, 2008, Dr. Chop and I attended an "Escape to the 80s" Party in honor of the turning 40 of four most excellent queens in our community. Although it is not O-fficial Queenly Bidness, it was such a good time that I decided to share it with all of you~my Berry and Habitat people. I hope you enjoy and that for those of you who were young in the 80s, it brings back fond memories. I also wish you a totally tubular 2009~Like, totally!!!!!

Queen Green and The Incredible Professor came as Square Pegs and The Jock

Stalk Security and newly crowned Berry Queen, Queen Cherie poses for the camera.

Stalk Stud and host, Kurt, gives us his best RISKY BUSINESS moves! Party ON!

Queen Karen sports her Mt. Carmel uniform...Memories!

Real Queens are not MADE, they are simply BORN! Queen de Bling


Queen Donna celebrated her coming of age. Welcome to the 40s girl--they are GREAT!

Queen Beth and her Stalk Stud, The Naturalizer

Queen Beth enjoys the music of FLASHBACK!

Queen Kilowatt and Gen'ral Lectric

This was kinda like me in the 80s for awhile, sans the black wig--except for the being sober part!!!!! Tee-Hee! (Sorry mama!)

Does this take you back to High School or WHAT!!!

Queen Kilowatt and I, along with EVERYONE THERE had a BLAST!

FLASHBACK played the most awesome music and the lead singer looked just like Bret Michaels!!!!!!

Gnarly!!!!!

Cyndi Lauper was in the house!

Queen Gillian (far left) was one of the four hostesses of the Escape to the 80s Party. Her backup singers and guitarist came with her.


Queen Cher Be'be' and THE MAN were in attendance.

Queen Angel brought herveryown brother to the event, bless her heart!

Queen Angel and myownself, Queen de Bling~She was one of the hostesses to our tubular time!

Now I know you are not surprised to see Queen Faye Dough Dough and Brick house at a party! She, surprisingly did not have the biggest hair at this particular event!

Queen Donna and her Stalk Stud, Kurt. She was one of the four hostesses of our radical evening!

Queen Martha and her Stalk Stud, Mitch~she was one of the four hostesses of our most excellent event!

Chop and I went as Joan Jett and the Prep. Did ya'll even recognize me without my bling on?

Queen Kilowatt and Gen'ral Lectric and friends

Queen Cast-A-Net and The Guv'na

Queen Nan and her Stalk Stud Waxon Waxoff...

2009 Calendar of Queenly Events!

Here is an updated calendar of events for our upcoming 2009 year. I hope it is to your liking. It is not set in stone, but it is at least a better idea of what to look forward to…

January 24th General Queen/DIVA Meeting and Get Together
Location and time TBA
I would like for ya’ll to be putting together a list of POTENTIALS~DIVA Queen/Queen/Queen-in-Waiting and Wannabee candidates to attend our Potentials Meet-n-Greet in February. I will need their names and addresses, so e-mail or bring to the meeting. If you cannot attend, but want to suggest something for our new year, please send that info with a Queenly friend or send me an e-mail prior to the meeting so we can discuss it. (Sorry I had to postpone our meeting, but my sister-in-law had my niece early, bless her heart!)

Saturday
February 21st Potentials Meet N Greet
Location and time TBA
We will have open spots for DIVA Queens, Queens, Queens-in-Waiting, and Wannabees

Dues will be due on or before March 6th for DIVAs, DIVA Queens, Queens, Queens-in-Waiting, and Wannabees and our final roster for new members (our Beta Group) will be set for 2009.

Thursday/Friday~Sunday
March 19-22 SPQ Weekend in Jackson, MS
Shall We March, girls?

Thursday Big Hat Tea
Friday SPQ Ball
Saturday Parade, Big Ah-yes BBQ (or whatever) and PJ and Pearls Ball
Sunday Brunch

We will probably need to book our rooms at the Hilton by early to mid February to avoid having no place to stay, so be thinking about whether or not you want to go.

Saturday
April 18th 2009 Berry Queens’ Hi! Tea
Location and time TBA

Friday
May 31st S.W.O.T.’s Up Planning Retreat and PJ Party
Location TBA

Friday 8pm-12am
September 18th 2nd O-fficial Berry Queens’ Ball and Pageant
I have reserved Cyr Gates for this event just
to make sure we have a bigger place. Our tables
this year will be rectangular (6 feet).

Sunday
September 27th 2nd Annual Appearance in the Sugar Cane Festival Parade

Thursday
October 29th Berry Scary Bar Party
Location and time TBA

Tuesday
December 1st Downtown Christmas Parade 2009



P.S. We welcome our new Her Royal Hi-ness candidates: Amy Courrege, Cherie Lord, Nicole Estis, Jeanne Schenk, Shelli Helms and our two DIVAs who have decided to compete: Queen DIVA Doc and one more to be named at a later date, ya'll!!! We have 7 and only need 1-3 more to complete our competitors!!!!

If you have wondered onto this site and would like more information about becoming a queenly candidate, please e-mail me at MsJerre@aol.com!

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!