The Understudy...

Jenni asked me what I would wear to become Lucille Ball. After looking at several of her photos, I came up with this...

*She almost always wore pearls
*She almost always wore a dress or skirt, very rarely would you see her in pants...never jeans.
*She wore her hair up in curls (this will be the challenging part for little ol' straight as a stick hair me)
*She wore fake eyelashes...either that or she had eyelashes to envy!
*She always wore red, RED lipstick

So, in an effort to maintain frugality, my pearls will be coming from Dollar Tree, I will just be wearing a skirt with a black top and over that my cute apron. I am going to make an "I Love Lucy" heart to pin to my apron. Hopefully I can find some fake eyelashes for cheap, and red lipstick too!

This is all contingent on the fact that my husband agrees to this whole crazy idea! He has been working overtime and I haven't had a chance to tell him my idea yet.

But I have fallen in love with the idea of becoming the dynamic duo for a night...we might even win the costume contest...who knows!

The only problem I have with my costume is she has blue eyes and I have brown. Mr. Q's costume will fit him perfectly...he just needs to perfect a little Cuban accent to his english..."Lu-ceee you got som' 'splainin' to do!" Oh, the other thing that he wouldn't be able to do is Desi's slicked back hair...my husband can't stand his hair longer than two inches...lol. He used to have the poufy slicked back hair when I first met him, I have pictures to prove it...problem is I don't have a scanner that works :( So maybe I should find him a Cuban-looking hat? Or we can pretend Desi got drafted?