Happy Derby Day!

15 followers?!?  Thank you.  *blush*

I was born and raised in northeastern Kentucky and still live within a couple hours of my childhood home.  I believe University of Kentucky basketball is more important that any other sport.  I love Ale-8.  I love driving down the road, passing someone, and they wave--simply because that's what we do, not because I know them.  I love the rich history and tradition of my state.  I bleed blue, as they say.

Now...all that being said... 

I've never been to the Kentucky Derby.  I've never even been to a horse race.  (WHAT??!?!)  So why am I wearing a hat, all decked out derby-style?

Friday we took all of our 5th graders to the track and ran our very own derby foot races.  All the teachers decided to wear dresses (we are a casual school--dresses aren't the norm) and derby hats.  We had taken E to the doctor earlier that day, so I didn't have too much time to spend decorating my hat.

I used some leftover tulle from E's tutu to use as the hat band.  I hot glued black jumbo rickrack to the top of that.  I made a flower from some fabric scraps I had.  I layered that on top of of larger tulle flower and secured two buttons on top--a little white button on top of a flower-shaped black button.

(I've been scouring the internet for a tutorial to link to that will give you an idea of how I made this flower.  Why can't I find one like mine in the 4,347,758 fabric flower tutorials there are out there?)

There's a giveaway scheduled for Monday!  Stay tuned!