Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper! Super-duper!

The five reasons we're asking people to dress up for Mardi-Bras this Friday:

1. You'll never know who you might lock eyes with that evening and you'll want to look your best.

2. Dressing up lends an air of sophistication to any gathering.

3. Yes, you're fighting breast cancer while attending Mardi-Bras, which will make you feel good on the inside, but dressing up in your Sunday best will help you feel good about your outside too.

4. Fighting breast cancer is serious business.

5. Dressing up is fun -- did you see our Mardi-Bras queen from last year? Hubba-hubba!

Despite the incontestable logic of the above, if you feel you can better fight cancer in your jeans, shorts, bathing suit, Batman costume, whatever, we will certainly not turn you away at the door.

If you have any questions about our event, please go to our FAQ section on the Mardi-Bras website.

A mover and a shaker!

As mentioned in an earlier blog post, we have a fabulous halftime show lined up for Mardi-Bras this coming Friday with belly dancer Kristina Shea, who performs under the name Kaharamana.

However, if entertaining our guests at the halftime show weren't enough, she has also kindly stepped forward to be one our models for the fashion show!

Kaharamana - which is Arabic for blue diamond and pronounced as Sahara - has been a belly dance performer for the past 10 years. She has performed all over, from the Middle East to Las Vegas. She is presently a certified dance instructor in Burlington, Ontario, teaching dance and belly fitness at Cedar Springs Health Club. Kaharamana performs for corporate events, grand openings and ladies' nights, and teaches group and private classes. Her Student Troupe Habibi also performs at various events in the GTA and always is looking for new dancers!

Kaharamana has been so kind, so enthusiastic, so giving with her time and her talents for our event that we had to do another post about her as she's such a wonderful person!

Thanks Kristina Shea!

The Super Bowl ain't got nothin' on our halftime show!

Hooray! We recently got confirmation that we will have a wonderful halftime show during the Mardi-Bras parade -- which is less than two weeks away!

Keeping with our celebration of the human body, we have a belly dancer to entertain our many guests as a break during the runaway section of the show. Kristina Shea is a professional belly dancer from Burlington, who will dazzle and delight you with her belly dancing skills.

We look forward to Kristina's performance and know that you will enjoy it as much as we will!

The First Mardi Bra!

You may remember Paper People Clothing from last year. Jenn was our first contributor to the artisan bra show and she's done it again! Paper people clothing has contributed the first Mardi-Bra of 2009!

They've also redesigned their website since last year and it looks awesome. Check it out

Thank you so much Jenn of Paper People Clothing!