Gayla - iz nawt so hard. Poot teh cawfee down. (ai craks maiself up). Ai lerned it wunz wehn ai wuz in Don Giovanni! But wuz lawng tiem ago - so ai just went fur a bit o help!

Just taek mai hand an mirror mee!

* Minuets are in 3/4 time. The basic minuet step-combination consists of four steps in six beats (two measures) of music. Begin with a plié on left foot flat on up-beat and rise to ball of right foot on beat 1, straightening both legs, heels close together. Plié on right foot flat on beat two, and rise to ball of left foot on beat 3, straightening both legs, heels close together. Keeping legs straight, walk forward on ball of right, then left foot on beats 4 and 5 (or 1 and 2 of second measure of music). On beat six, sink into plié on left foot flat. Start again on beat one, rising to ball of right foot.

and remember to taek teh daintee steps!

ai has mennee nyse costyooms:

litely padded boneded bodices with lacy parts an panniers 4 teh laydees(teh paddin is tu not feel teh bones so much. let’s lean over grrls an help our grrlparts to sit up nyce!)

embroidered cutaway suits with contrasting waistcoats an tights for teh gennelmens.

Wigs awl aroun!

Woodchuck, if you wouldn’t mind, mebbe you could take a speshul fursty-belleh-spin aroun teh floor in yer nyce extra-absorberent-velvet waistcoat wif hand-painteded glass buttons and take up a liddle of teh sploosheded cawfee?

Dainty steps everywun!

swy Janet………u lawst me at put the coffee doawn……..I nawt cabable of that yet. Dory decided 3 am was the PURRRFect time to play and she would NAWT let me go back to sleep– she is a very nauwty kitter (and a very insistant one)

*dances on head*

ifnz da princess mu is hear, wez mus hab a ball! sweep out da dusty ol ballroom, shine da silverware, prepares da banquet an getz out beeg floofy dresses
den we can saraband and minuet, an gavottte awl dais!

momcat

cSmall haz been so kind. She brawt EVEREE thing we need fur the moast byeootiful ball in the whirled. Just need to get ebbrywun dressed (wif wigs) and tehn we kin begin.

cSmall - ai’m shure u rememberered to bring the prawper undergarminz, rite. Modern girls harlee wares the underpants, let alone teh . . . ooo - whut do we callum? Ai’m havin teh brayne freeze. (Sounds MUCH bedder tahn “Senyur momint..”)

Ai laiks teh idea of teh sittin up girrrlparts - mai girrrlparts is suffrin from teh gravy tea tehs dais. I can has corsetry?

oh yes:

we can has teh chemise(lyk a tee shrt) unner teh corset, teh(litely padded) boneded corset, an teh bodice on top. If yer grrls r feelin a leedle exposeded, yu can has a fichu of a vry delicat layce.

on teh bottoms, never yu fear - we can has teh panties, den teh tights, den teh panniers for teh gud sidewayse shaype, an mebbe a petticoat or 2. we can also has teh pantalettes wif awl teh layce aroun teh bottom edge becawse owr skirts will be lifted up to jus abov teh ankle - we can has teh Fwensh Countryside shorter gownses for easier dansing.

i can has one too - usually i never gets to dress up, but dis is a bawl i wanna dans at!

oh wut wonnerfull fun!!! fank joo sew much! nyce coyagraphie der Janet. da costumes r beeutifull csmall!oh the ballroom is juss loverlee.

oohh ah heer da music, ah step thru da entrance… oh ebriwun lukes sew nyce!

dis is da best ball evur!

cSmall - u kostoomer-er-er? u nowes berry wel teh midew-agie fwipperies…

*I* shawl hep owt wit teh muzziks - playz teh reekorders an sushlike…

Naow waer’s mah muzziks?

yesh. ah iz costyoom dessiner. costumère, as teh fwensh kitteh wud sai. dessignadora des vestuarios as hims espanish fwend Manuel wud sai.

we can has 18th century costyooms 4 teh minuets. maibe 2morrow we can has mildew agey costyooms(is moar lyk teh 12thcenturyupto15thcentury)

*step down frum lecturn*

c now ah no *U* no yawr kostyoomin’ bizz… tehr is BIGG dif-furr-ense beetwin teh minuettin’ kostyooms…an teh mildew agey onez… az izz in teh muzziks!

(joo don’ play teh WoW…dyoo u? dat wud bee mitey cwinsidennal)

cSmall, iz a smallest whirld ai useded to bee a costuum deziner two !!!! jest four teh liddle whiel…..ai dezineded an maed teh costuumez four a vadeyville an teh mallodramaz theeater……iz waz sew (ai maed a plai on teh werdz trhetr) muches funz…..

awn teh vadeyviille pawrt ob teh ebeninz enteratynmentz, tehy hadda bee able to RIP teirh closeses off ina BIG hurriest tyme an den frow teh new onez awn rilly rilly fasty, sew ai lerneded to LUB teh VELCRO, ifn u gotta ripz yer closses off, dat iz teh stuffies to can has!!

iz waz hectic tyme butt ai lubbed it…….

Please to forgive my dispensing with lolspeak for the nonce, but ……on one of my exs and my trips to England and Scotland, we went to the “Queen’s Hall” and saw an afternoon of dancing and music …..what made it special was the place itself had two opposing walls with floor to ceiling mirrors with ginormous chandeliers, that echoed and reechoed (visually) becoming tinier and tinier as you looked into the mirror.

and the dancing was done in costume and the music played was played with the instruments of the time and it dipicted the dancing styles from about 1400 to the late 1800s.. and as the people danced
there was a person explaining the dances and why any particular dance was popular at the time……I absolutely loved it……what an unusual treat.

for example there was a time when the dance had people with their feet a’ flying, but their upper bodies almost perfectly still. …..it’s because the bodice part of the clothes they wore were very tight , but the skirts had lots of room, ……

and I would bet the Minute is such a “stately ” dance because everyone was trying to keep their wigs on !!!!! they were huge and topheavy things and they didn’t have the good glues we do nowdays !!!

it IS a cSmall werld!
yah. i sed it! pthpbbtttt!
teh vawdeyville sownds fun-dyoo has pics?
ah don plai teh WoW, ’cause ah don get enuff werk dun as it is!

Is OK Gayla! Just purrtend u mented to du taht liek nyce Moe says. Ai will do it with u so no wun will notice so much. OK - furst - cello posishun. . .

hee hee……it is so nice to be able to be stoopi and peeoples jus take care of u anywai :D) I feel da love mannnnnnnn! Where is Teho? he is prolly rollin his eyes rigt naow. lol

ai’m shur he haz awn hiz gogglols to purrtekt hiz ayeblols.

an speekin ov Teho - ai wuz totallee swooning with dellite teh otter day - u must go to hiz blog! He nawt onlee haz a flashlite, he haz a pikshoor ov a pitchfork fur an ombrella!!!!!

SJ!!! SJ!!! u must luk, too. (it wuz SJ hoo furst sugjested taht we use r pitchforks fur r ombrellas)

Ai is reglar lurker on Teho’s blog, Janet, du nawt wurry. I am very mush in luv wit his simeeez kitteh.

Rikki onlys luk symeez. hims mama is tabbeh. if u luk cloes u cans stil see teh stripeys. heer is hoel fambly (befoar adopshins)…
http://www.a7.vox.com/6a00c2252668128e1d00d4143dd8473c7f-pi

Huh - he rilly luks meezy. Ju shoor he’s nawt adopted? ;o)

I still lubs him NEwais - an is prolly gud ting fur yr drapes taht he is nawt meezr - tehy sure dus luv shreddn stuf. Such a kewt fambly. Teh blak wun on teh windosill luks laik sumwun sed “luk rlly rlly laik a kitteh. As catlike as u can. Kittehness personifried”. (ok it maeks sens to me, maybe is taim fur meds)

hmmm…
my coment iz eeted.

what is the pitchfork thingie?

also, teho, you haz da lubley kittehs. the tortie closest to the kamera looks like my tortie.
and you neber no about the meeze. it could be in da dna.
i haz a kalico. she is teentiny. maibee about five pounds. she is 7 years old. she is thin and sleek. her legs are long, long, long and her tail is almost as long as her whole body.
her head is triangle shaped. and she TALKS and TALKS and TALKS!!
iffen i had drapes she’d prolly climb dem. i dont doubt she has meeze in her dna.

No, no - u nawt needz the meds - at leest - nawt tihs tiem. ai offen think, wehn mai kittehs r striking teh moast cat-liek ov poses -”‘Oh -luk - he/she iz lukiin so much liek a kitteh. Hao clefur.”

Oar- ov coarse - cud bee we BOTH needs the meds. LOL (as Gayla says)

dem kits wuz AWL fosterkitters. alls bin adoptimaterd nao. (eksept wuz us wut adoptifyd Rikki, ob corss.)

Teh burgrs is BAAAACK!!!! *dus teh “brgrs is baaaaack” danss*

w00tnez! w00tnez!
hooty tooty pleh!

moi assaoussii (my mousi??) non, vreiment! ai two can see hiz do taht…..

Fetch the cow!