that's not a necklace

My mom gave one of her girlfriend's daughters a bridal shower a couple months ago.

The bride's mother (Mom's friend) lives in Kentucky and traveled down for the shower. She forbade her daughter from buying hostess gifts for my Mom and the other hostess. She wanted to buy them herself. She has been friends with my Mom for many many many years and I would say...or would have said...that she knows her quite well.

The hostess gift for my Mom that she chose was a wallet. This wallet had to be the gaudiest most tacky and flashy wallet you have ever seen.....and I am so NOT kidding when I tell you I googled looking for it and actually found a photo so I'll let you be the judge....

No, I'm not kidding. And in person it looks like a green glittered bowling ball with a convenient picture window.

I can see that you are blown away by the sheer beauty and cleverness of this gift.

I keep wondering what she was smoking that day she picked out the hostess gifts and I almost thought it was a joke when Mom showed me. Not a joke. This was serious business. The only difference is that Mom's doesn't have a little Mariachi band leader from South of the Border in her picture window but she does have a cute nameless toddler holding a kitten. Presh.

And her friend's hostess gift (which she promptly gave to my Mom so that Big One could play with it) remains nameless. We couldn't actually figure out what the hell it was supposed to be. It kind of looks like it might be a piece of jewelry or something. It's bendy but not flexible. It's very strange but appears to be made of silver. Apparently they are all the rage in Kentucky. So we let Little One play with it and see if she came up with anything.

The look on her face says it all.

*** If you are in fact from KY, please enlighten........and please tell me that isn't your wallet