Mississippi Magnolia Southern Belles' Big Day!

Since we just had our second Southern Miss. Belles get together yesterday, I thought I will link with Chari's Sunday Favorites at today, to reminisce what we did last year.

Tomorrow, I will be posting pictures of our get together here at home and Natchez, which was held yesterday. We all had a l ot of fun!

Thanks Chari for allowing me to repost this.

The long awaited day has finally arrived! September 25, 2009, marked the day we, Magnolia Southern Mississippians, all drove from different cities towards Flowood, very excitingly anticipating to meet each other face to face for the very first time.

And so we did!

From left to right: Katherine Ellen (http://katherinellen.blogspot.com/), D (http://sunnysideofthesunporch.blogspot.com/), yours truly (http://christineshomeandtraveladventures.blogspot.com/), Debra (http://memawsblog.blogspot.com/) and our host, Lady Katherine (http://ladykatherineteaparlor.blogspot.com/). It was a very hectic and long day for me. Actually it was a very busy week since I had just arrived from California a few days before and I was still trying to catch up with house chores. I wanted to bake some macaroons for the girls but ran out of time so early in the morning, I drove downtown to buy fudge at Darby's, a well known place here for delicious fudge. I am glad Vanna of http://lvroftiques.blogspot.com/ suggested this. While John was making rounds in the hospital, I filled the vehicle with gas and then picked him up. On our way to Flowood, I created these individual gift bags with fudge.
There they are all done! I bought 5 flavors: vanilla pecan, chocolate pecan, chocolate peanut butter, choco-vanilla swirl and pumpkin spice. Of course I was eating some while wrapping them up, lol! Yummy!
This beautiful Fall tablescape greeted us. I couldn't believe how much work Katherine and D have done while waiting for our arrival.
Everybody in the restaurant was admiring our table and people around us kept asking Katherine for our blog addresses.
Of course, it was well worth the trip to meet all these lovely ladies.
Our cameras were very busy as you can see from Katherine Ellen's picture below. Good thing 3 of us brought hubbies along so aside from them being our chauffeurs, they functioned as photographers as well. Even John who is a quiet guy, had a good time.



Lady Katherine couldn't have picked a better place than the Corner Bakery Cafe. As we were driving there, we noticed the area to be so different from the Flowood that we frequently visit. We never knew about this part and so glad to discover it cause now, it will be on our shopping trip list.



And do you see the pretty little pumpkin bowls and teas that Katherine gave us all for gifts? Thanks, Katherine. I love them! Another good thing for me for bringing John along cause he got a gift too.:-)



This is what I had for lunch. It was delicious!

They call themselves simple man and woman but they are too sophisticated to justify that. You should see everything that Katherine brought, it was like Christmas. And the table centerpiece was awesome! She sure took so much effort for the preparation of this big event and we truly appreciate that. Thanks, Katherine!

Debra and Wallace

The happy group! We couldn't stop talking and laughing while trying to get to know each other.
more smiles and laughter
And look! I won a door price! Isn't this just the prettiest thing? I am still trying to decide where to put it.
Thank you girls, for a very memorable day for me. I hope we get to do it again someday.

I wish we had time to go check out the shopping area but we had to head back home to attend a scheduled cooking school.

Thanks, Katherine for all your hard work and for the marvelous presents. The event was definitely a BIG success!