My California Themed Farewell Party

A few years ago a woman I really admired by the name of Yvonne Kai,  moved to California to attend FIDM. Before leaving she hosted a party called, “ California Dreamin”. It was a California themed party full of the dye shirts, fun food and sunglasses. I remember this party vividly. 
I attended with my best friend EB. There were some other inspirational women in attendance:
 
Catriona of Coco & Cowe
Jennifer Le of I amJenniferLe
Shannae Ingleton
 
These woman have gone on to be moguls. Catriona is a mega influencer who owns various businesses and most recently, Halo PR firm. Jennifer Le is a shoe designer who self funded her  own shoe empire. You may have seen her designs on the Kardashians and Nicki Minaj. Shannae is a magazine powerhouse by day and streetstyle icon by night. She is also a mommy to be. And Yvonne… she took her hand-poured organic soap business to the big leagues and now it is sold at Bloomingdales.
 
When I first tested the waters with fashion in 2005, these were the women I looked up to. They were the ones I wanted to be like and now I am on my way to being on their level. After getting rejected from medical school without a valid reason, I took the leap into building my own personal brand.
 
Thank you Yvonnne.
Thank you Catriona.
Thank you Shannae
Thank you Jennifer.
 
Thank you to the many others. I appreciate you for putting the inspiration in my view.
 
Slowly… getting… too… emo in this post.
 

I planned my own “ California Dreamin’” Farewell Party.
 24 women at a sleepover.
 4 Bedrooms
1 Ballroom
5 Bathrooms
Lots of fun to be had.

My guests were welcomed the mansion I selected with a map of California, with their assigned rooms listed.
Each room was named after a famous place in California, Hollywood,  Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beverly Hills

My friend Cherith brought her mobile nail salon and did nails all night. She even had a storefront called ” Punkey’s Nails hop”.  The jokes flowed just as much as a non-alocholic wine. The host of the night was my friend of 25 years, Tiffany of StylebyTiffanyDawn. She led all of the games and activities. The best game was the ” Make Aquila A Damn Song Game”. HAHAHA! The girls were divided into two groups and each group had to create a farewell song in my favourite style of music, TRAP. It was  hilarious. Head over to my Instagram for a clip of the songs they came up with.

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 Each person was given a gift bag filled with girlie treats from body chains to shower combs. Our gift bags were sponsored by London Ivy Products, a natural hair care company that I love and Beauty Collection INC, the beauty store of choice in Toronto. More on them later.
​Thank you for filling our gift bags with things we love.

​The following morning we woke up to a beautiful breakfast spread where we chatted more and ate.
It was my final hangout with my girls.
Very emotional and a beautiful evening/mornining with some of my closest and long time friends.

Here is the winning song of the night…

To the Tune of ” Come My Way”- Fetty Way

” Quilla Won’t you come my way
Driving down a San Fran Way
Living in a DogPatch way
​But first of all Let us tell you this…

Wife by Night, Blogger by day
In Your Red Soles you Don’t play
Maybe you will come back with a bae bae”

#Dead
#QuillsgoestoCali
  
-MsChurchDress