WILLOW MANOR BALL

Welcome to the first Willow Manor Cyber Ball!!!

We cleared the furniture from the living room and rolled up the rugs
for a perfect dance floor! Please check into the comment section and
tell me what you are wearing, who is accompanying you and what
music you would like to hear, or just say "hello" and let me know you
popped in. Thank you so very much for coming and I hope you enjoy
the evening, which is miraculously lasting all day long!! And please
don't forget to sign my guest book in the comment section. I'll add
your name to the drawing for the door prize!


Oh, well. What's a royal ball? After all, I suppose it
would be frightfully dull, and-and-and boring,
and-and completely... completely wonderful. ~~Cinderella



I'm wearing this dress, once owned by Princess Diana. Yes, it's the one she wore to the Cannes Film Festival. I won the bid at Christie's Auction House for just under a quarter of a million dollars. What a steal! And it fits me just perfectly! It reminds me of the gorgeous gown Grace Kelly wore in the Hitchcock thriller To Catch a Thief. Cary Grant's here...I wonder if he remembers it?



Sir Anthony looks dashing in his tuxedo and dances like a god. He has graciously agreed to play a bit of the Goldberg Variations, he played in Hannibal, for us on the piano later tonight. He started out as a young pianist, did you know? And yes, that is me dancing with him here. Don't I look incredibly cyberlicious? I magically lost thirty pounds for the occasion. It's amazing how we can all dance light as feathers in cyberspace! Isn't this fun?! I'm glad I chose the flats. Looking him directly in the eyes while dancing is making me absolutely weak in the knees. I think I'll swoon so he can catch me.

Mr. Leonard Cohen was kind enough to make room in his busy schedule to come to Willow Manor to be our Master of Ceremonies. Of course we must start with Dance Me to the End of Love, which no other could sing but the masterful Mr. Cohen, himself. He's such a nice guy. I want to hear Take this Waltz and First We Take Manhattan, too. And where is that Mr. Brynner? I need to have a little father/daughter chat with him while we waltz to the strains of Shall We Dance. He should be easy to spot. He's wearing his King of Siam outfit, complete with the slippers with the turned up ends. Et-cetera, et-cetera, et-cetera.


There are literally crates of fabulous vintage champagne! I think I'll help myself to a glass of bubbly right now. Would you like one, too? Here, let me drop in a strawberry! Oh, how pretty! Oops...don't spill it on my Queen Victoria slippers! They have to go back to the Victoria and Albert Museum tomorrow.







I made sure hundreds of my favorite yellow roses, with just a few pale pink ones scattered in, were in every nook and cranny of the Manor and the scent is absolutely heavenly.



Please help yourself to all this wonderful fancy food, including caviar and seafood tapas. No expense was spared in hiring the best caterers in town. I don't know about you, but I'm starved after all this hopping around the dance floor! Don't be shy. Let's dig in!!! Please tell Tom Hanks not to scrape off any of the caviar garnishes.


And last, but not least, for all of us who have a sweet tooth, there are lots of lovely desserts, including this scrumptious chocolate mousse tart with raspberries. Umm! And since these are cyber desserts we can eat as many of them as we like and not worry about gaining a single ounce!! How fun is this?!

The weather is gorgeous tonight! The patio is lit and set with tables. Come on out! It's soooo romantic.

Be sure to keep an eye out for these dreamy special guests. I know you'll want a spin around the dance floor with some, if not all, of them! And thanks to Tangobaby, the famous Argentinian dancer Juan Carlos Copes is here gracing our dance floor with his magnificent tango. Be sure to take a turn with him! (see clip)

Ta-ta!! It was a lovely evening, was it not?! And don't expect an early
morning post from me tomorrow! After dancing until the wee hours of

the morning, I must get my beauty sleep. Stop in for some coffee and
brunch around noon and we'll chat about all the fun dance scuttlebutt!

~~Willow x x~~