First Lady Fabulosity: Let the Party Begin!

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First Lady Michelle Obama is throwing her first big party, as Washington rolls out the Red Carpet for India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur.

Politico talked to Inga Guen, owner of DC’s couture resale boutique Once is Not Enough, about the event that she compared to “the red carpet at the Oscars.” Guen cautioned guests at tonight’s big dinner to avoid showing too much flesh.

The Miss Manners of the DC protocol crowd expects to see Michelle Obama more covered up than usual this evening.Mrs. Obama marches to her own fashion drummer; we only know that she will look ravishing and memorably photogenic for the occasion.

On the entertainment agenda for this evening is the National Symphony Orchestra; Jennifer Hudson, the singer and Academy-Award winning actress for her performance in Dreamgirls; Kurt Elling, the jazz musicians from Chicago; and A.R. Rahman, the Indian composer who wrote the score to the movie “Slumdog Millionaire.”

Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack

About 320 guests will enjoy the festivities at Washington’s hottest social event in the big tent on the White Houses’s south lawn this evening. This morning’s rain moved welcoming festivities for India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh indoors.

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Think Different: Christmas Trees

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Creativity is about thinking different. And while I love a beautiful Christmas tree, especially in Carvesville, they’ve gotten very expensive in the last decade, especially in your passion is blue spruce.

We love Christmas trees because they can be very grounding and purely uncontaminated, noncommercial experience, assuming that you didn’t totally break the bank at Neiman Marcus for decorations.

via Flickr’s leanndraThis year in particular, I have a sense that we cannot go home again in America. The country must change, and us, too. Life these days is like trying to ride your bike backwards without falling off.

Nevertheless, this is America. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”

We’re living in topsy turvy times, so why not reinvent the idea of our Christmas tree and please make those recycled ingredients, if you don’t mind. Even Martha Stewart writes about her passion for aluminum Christmas trees.

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