Divorce Party and New Pretties

Alright, so....I had a divorce party. If that bothers you, come back another day for another post. If it doesn't, the party was pretty awesome and hilarious and you should keep reading.

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So...how to write this post?

On the one year anniversary of being final, I threw a little party at my house. If you know me but at all you would know that I wasn't celebrating divorce and I wasn't celebrating my divorce, I was celebrating that I have come a long way since I was separated, since I was married even, and I wanted to celebrate the awesome woman I have become with the awesome people who have been by my side through it all, tears included.  And you know what? I have come a long way and I am better because of all of this and I wanted to celebrate it. Is that so wrong? No, I didn't think so.

Now, since this was my party, I could do whatever I wanted. So, I ordered the same cake that was my wedding cake and had the bakery inscribe "Weir Done" on it, because it was only fitting - I had so much fun with that name, I couldn't let my last chance go to waste, you get it. The cake was a huge hit.

I may have made some off handed comments - hey! it was my party - but all in all, the party was a success full of laughter, lots of love and a stripper. I will say that I felt tremendous love and support and thought I could make it through a toast, which was a joke. If I remember correctly, I pour champagne for everyone, told everyone I was making a speech, got up there and said, 'I love you all' and couldn't make it through anything else. I don't like that kind of attention on me.

Oh yeah, back to the stripper. A friend of mine rented a stripper (wait, 'rented a stripper'? that sounds weird, what's the right way to say this?). He was disgusting and I think everyone at the party was excited for him to GTFO. He showed up in military fatigues (first no) and then he was smelly and gross (all of the rest of the nos)

my friends know me too well!

Now for the second part of this post.  I have been sitting on the diamonds from my engagement and wedding rings for all of this time. I, initially, wanted to sell it but the jeweler I took it all to offered me a silly-low price and my mom was very adamant about me repurposing the jewelry into something that I would wear which gave me a little anxiety. When I thought about it, I thought that it would be too sentimental and I didn't want to spend the money on something that I would never actually wear.  Skip ahead to January 2016, 16 months after we separated. I was chatting about this dilemma with a friend and she showed me this gorgeous tiffany necklace that I could model my jewelry after. I told my mom and she reminded me that I also had the diamond from her engagement ring from my bio dad and that I should try to incorporate them all together. 
So that is what I did. I took the two diamonds, from my engagement ring and my moms, and made them into one necklace that is both white and yellow gold (because you never know your mood) and I had the jeweler make a sideways cross that curved out of the diamonds on my wedding band. I wanted the chains to be on the shorter side because I wanted to be able to layer them with other necklaces since they are so dainty. 
I could not be happier with the outcome. I wear them all of the time and I always get compliments on them. And the best part is that the necklaces were ready for me to wear at my party! It was awesome! 

Tiffany necklace inspiration