Skip to main content

Pageant History (Part 2)

Good evening all!

So title update before I start, I got my crown and sash paid for and got a cute sweatshirt so I can proudly rep the Miss United States Organization!

ON TO PART TWO, the second pageant I took part in was Miss Crosby-Ironton 2012 and it was a little different than the 2011 pageant. Now I found it interesting how I got signed up.

One day when I was waiting around the house to see if I was gonna get a call to work (I was a waitress at the time at a hometown restaurant) I wanted to go for a drive around town. As I was driving I thought of getting a cup of coffee then I was thinking where to go. Home or the hospital's coffee shop?

I then decided on the coffee shop that's where I ran into some family friends a gal who works with my mom and her daughter that I've known since I was young. We got to talking about the pageant and if I was gonna compete again. That's when I got the go to do it again. I got the call to go to work and then after I went to the director's house to sign up again.

Through this experience I was a little better about not getting caught up in the lights. Also better with hanging out the director less. But I was talked into doing a talent, now that I think back about it, wish I would have done differently. I spoke about my story on having a cleft lip and palate. It was cool but I wish I could have done more talent than talk. That's just me.

I got along with the girls way better this time round. That being I knew all of them and was able to talk with them more than last year's contestants. This made practises and appearances fun!!

I also did something to hopefully make myself standout even more that year!! I held a fundraiser at my work and raised a little over $1,300 for surgeries for children in third world countries to get surgeries. The organization I donated to was Operation Smile! I followed that organization since I was young since they help kids who were just like me with the birth defect!

As the time was getting closer, I was blogging even then!! If you want to see more in detail on how that went go to http://mnpageantlife.blogspot.com/ for all the blogs of the past.

As the night came upon us, I was ready. I felt like I could do it and could walk away with the title of Miss Crosby-Ironton 2012!

Feeling good as I was up on the stage, my second home! I felt like I nailed my onstage question, talent a breeze now let's talk evening gown!

I loved the dress but I could have had it longer! YOU COULD SEE MY FEET! That is a big no no in pageants! Anyways something else I could have changed here was MY WALK! I could have walked slower and way more elegant! Yet I blame it on the music, it was "You Don't Know You're Beautiful" by One Direction! Terrible song to walk to but it is what is is.

Then THE CROWNING MOMENT...Miss Congeniality...not me.
Crosby-Ironton Princess....not me.
Miss Crosby Ironton 2012...not me...
There was still a shining light at the end, a new title, Miss Heritage Days Princess....but it went to my good friend. I was SO happy and proud of my amazing friends!
But I didn't walk away empty handed, I got the Life Achievement Award, which not sure to this day what this award stands for but on the plaque it talked about over coming life's obstacles and still coming out a winner. No contestants voted on this...the director just did it. Not to sound rude but I don't think much of this because it was completely random and it felt like she was just doing that to make me feel special...

But at the end of it I noticed Bill and Vicki once again, in my last blog I mentioned them as the directors of the titleholder I met up with. They were so nice and gave me hugs and congratulations. Then Bill mentioned maybe they should make their pageant at the time an open pageant, so anyone in the state could compete because at the moment it was closed. Then Vicki said I should go on the website and check out the pageants that are open...that's where I went and where pageant three happened!

Before I sign out, I want your vote on something!
I have an instagram and this blog but I was thinking of creating a facebook profile so I could just make a facebook page for the title! So my question is, would you guys be interested in a facebook page or just what I got?

Vote below!



God bless,
Tiffany Paul
Miss Central Lakes United States 2018

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Pageant History {Part 1}

Hello all my fabulous people! I thought of an interesting blog idea…I would love to tell you all about my previous pageant history. I’ll tell you all about my previous 7 pageants I’ve done starting with my  first  one, Miss Crosby-Ironton 2011. I also have a surprise for you all at the end! So stay tuned though the whole thing! Miss Crosby-Ironton (Miss C-I for short) is my hometown pageant. It was brought back after not being held for 15 years in 2010. I helped my dad as a stagehand and that’s where my love for pageant started. I did get quite crazy with it. As the summer progressed and time got closer and closer I was practicing as hard as I could. My mind was focused on one thing…BEING MISS CROSBY-IRONTON 2011! That is dangerous; never have your mind focused just on the title please! :D Now I did something that no contestant should ever do, spent a lot of time with the director. I would spend time at her house and help out with anything she needed or talk about pageant stuf

Pageant History {Part 7}

Wow we did it folks! Welcome to the most recent pageant I did, part 7: Miss Queen of the Lakes United States 2017! This was my first time I ever competed in the system! Though I wasn't a stranger to it because I helped the night of the first Miss Brainerd/Baxter United States pageant a few years back. It was fun to try something new and it was a BLAST!! I felt something in my gut to try this system and I wasn't sure how I would do but I knew I would enjoy the ride. As I walked into practice that one Sunday, I was certainly intimidated by everyone but not for long. The beautiful Vicki came to give me a warm welcome and told me to jump right in. The girls were so nice and it was fun to get back in the pageant game. The thing that is different with this pageant is Bill and Vicki (Miss MN US State Directors aka most amazing people ever) work with their girls from day one. They will meet with you individually and work on whatever it may be. They bring an amazing attitude to