Way to go Girl

Kate has now officially finished high school!

She wrote many essays and exams,
 
 went to prom,

 went to WonderGrad (a one-night event for graduating seniors at Canada's Wonderland, an amusement and theme park),

and had a tea party with her friends to celebrate exams being done.

Kate's a little shy about being on the blog, but rest assured she does have a head.  That's her in the black dress channeling Audrey Hepburn, and her friend is in the yellow, dressed to go to prom. 

I have to tell you a story about her friend's dress.  She had been excited for months about going to the prom and even sewed her own dress.  When Kate and I went down to her friend's house, so I could get some photos of both of them, we were greeted with a flurry of activity - the zipper on her dress had broken and they had had to break the zipper-pull to get her out of the dress.  This was now about an hour and  a half before the limo was coming to take them to grad.  We brainstormed some options and finally decided to sew the zipper up as far as we could so that she was decent at the bottom part of the dress and then take some yellow material from the ragbag, cut it into ribbons, and sew two on either side of the zipper and tie the dress shut.  It worked beautifully and the ribbons hanging down covered the zipper opening so it actually looked fine.  The truly amazing part was that Kate's friend was calm and composed throughout the ordeal - I think I would have been alternating between flipping out and tears.  Kuddos to her, though - it was grace under fire!

Kate and three of her friends also got together after exams were finished for a tea party.  One of Kate's friend's, Gabriela Hansen, is an uber-talented photographer and took some photos of the tea party, which I was glad about since I was at work and didn't get to see it. 

 Gabriela is only 18 years old but has already sold some of her photos, has an amazing portfolio, and is going to the Ontario College of Art and Design next year to study photography. 

Gabby, not only graciously allowed me to share some of her photos here on my blog, but also wrote about me on her Facebook wall, and said: " She has possibly the best decorated house I've seen."   What a sweety, eh?

At the tea party they all dressed up, made cupcakes, brewed some tea, set a pretty table, and had fun. 

Aren't they adorable!