Ruby Slippers: part 1

i had a sangria party once while sharing a sublet on 8th Street in Troy (the one where i used my orange sectional couch as a bed - i wish i still had that!) with 2 uptight female grad students.

they must not have been around that evening...

i made the sangria with my secret recipe (which includes an entire bottle of wormless tequila).

Cole wore the boom-boom skirt (i think this may have been the last time i saw her in it, since this would be the night i introduced her to her future husband, John).

i wore THE silver v-necked pantsuit, pink rhinestone studded cats-eye sunglasses, black & white striped leggings and a pair of ruby(ish) slippers that left a trail of glitter everywhere i went.

i made the ruby slippers from a pair of over-sized women's blue suede(ish) shoes that i had previously worn as part of an Elvis H'Ween costume (i need to remember to get that story up here some time soon!). I covered the shoes in Elmer's glue (a bit too liberally) and then doused them in glitter. I didn't have enough red (I always had glitter on me in those days) so I mixed in some pink .

if you've ever tried to do this the way i did, you know it didn't work well.

i think Conon may have been at this party- although i'm not sure.

i may have just met him.

i don't think anyone appreciated the ruby(ish) slippers as much as i did. They were relatively difficult for me to walk in (being too large and having clunky heels), and as a result i kept clomping around in them leaving chucks of glittery still-wet Elmer's glue all over- which in turn was finding it's way onto everyone else's shoes, etc...

i didn't last in them the whole night and by morning they were a bit of a wreck, but i kept those shoes.

and later i used their symbolic power in much the same way Dorothy did...