Red Hatters Create Fascinator Hats at Le Spirit in Alamogordo, New Mexico

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Members of the New Mexico Roadrunner Chapter of the Red Hat Society in Alamogordo, New Mexico engaged in a fascinator hat making event at Le Spirit Arts and Crafts Supplies on New York Avenue on Saturday morning, March 25, 2017. Proprietor Pennie Espiritu, presided over the event and was most helpful in providing small hats, beads, feathers, gemstones, ribbon and hairbands for the creating process. Different types of tubes of glue as well as glue guns were also used to attach decorations to the small hats. Amazingly, every fascinator was different - no two alike - out of ten. Thanks to Gail Swineford for her event idea and arranging everything for us.

Hatters had so much FUN visiting and laughing while they made their fascinators (small hats to wear on one's head). When finished, we all went to an Asian restaurant for lunch, where two members who couldn't make it earlier, joined us.

Jean Courtier and Trudy Reese waiting to get started

 

Our fashionably late VQ Donna Williams next to our hostess for this event Gail Swineford, and Bobbie Tanner

Lu Mattson and Rosanna Heath

Bobbie deciding on what color hat she wants and Margie Percella

Margie decorates hats all the time so she is well along with her creation at this point

Jean in creative mode

Trudy contemplating her next addition

Lu assisting Rosanna

Margie's is turning out to be quite colorful

Gail is finished with her adorable fascinator

Bobbie appears quite pleased with her cute fascinator

VQ Donna with her finished creation

Queen Ladybird aka Carla, happy to be "fini"

This is Jan Jennings' creation and she appears to be adept with that glue gun

Pennie Espiritu giving instructions

Trudy modeling her fascinator

Rosanna's darling little fascinator

Jan with her cute fascinator

Just a sampling of some of the adorable little fascinators

Margie with her lovely fascinator

Dorothy Edwards and Flo Dean who were only able to join us for lunch

This is Margie's shrimp fried rice and it had FOUR little shrimp in a quart of rice!

We had a delightful time as always and made a decision never to return to this restaurant. It was a comedy of errors from beginning to end, beginning with the dishwasher being our waitress (her maiden voyage she told us). But, you can't keep a group of Red Hatters negative for long. We were all laughing as we went out the door! #ChooseFun

This is all I have to say for now.