Texas Renaissance Festival season is upon us, and while I have many costume options to wear during most of their themed weekends, I’ve never attended during 1001 Dreams (think: fairies and fae folk) nor do I own a single pair of wings. With not enough time to make a set of dragonfly wings, I decided […]
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A Regency Sunrise on the Beach
I spent the better part of last year (the pandemic) working on sewing and craft projects. And with the pause in travel, we’ve been spending about a weekend each quarter in Galveston (about an hour drive from my home). On one such trip, I brought a couple pandemic projects to take pictures on the beach. […]
The Pandemic: A Year in Review
A year ago today was the first day of lockdown (and working from home) caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. And what a year it’s been! Stress shopping led to me buying a couple of those awesomely horrible (or horribly awesome) Target dresses that spawned the #targetdresschallenge, and I decided to wear it to highlight all […]
Costuming Adèle Blanc-Sec
In “the before times” (aka pre-pandemic), my Costume College partner-in-crime, Tina and I were planning some sort of steampunk or Edwardian/Victorian explorer costumes to wear together. While scrolling Pinterest for ideas, as one does, I was repeatedly captivated by a character in a foreign film I had never seen or heard of. Tracking her down, who […]
Disneybounding Darth Vader
Last year on my second trip to Orlando for RunDisney’s Wine & Dine half marathon and Taste of Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, I Disneybounded for the first time. I Disneybound as Ursula and my beautiful flawless friend, Melissa, Disneybound as Darth Vader. This might look familiar to you if you’re no stranger to the blog, as […]
Disneybounding Ursula
Last year on my second trip to Orlando for RunDisney’s Wine & Dine half marathon and Taste of Epcot International Food & Wine Festival, I Disneybounded for the first time. And since I have two Ursula costumes, Disneybounding Ursual just felt right. Disney villains fit my personality, and my eyebrows! Here’s how I put together the outfit, and […]
Exploring California Wines with Ron Rubin Wine & Food Pairing
In this edition of Supper Club Sips, we continued to explore California wines made by Sonoma vintner Ron Rubin. With so many different microclimates, winemaking methods, and varietals, it’s easy to get intimidated by California wine options, so instead we celebrated diversity with another Ron Rubin wine sampling. In the range of $14-$25 per bottle, these were […]
Exploring California Chillable Wine
In this edition of Supper Club Sips, we explored more California wines made by Sonoma vintner Ron Rubin. With so many different microclimates, winemaking methods, and varietals, it’s easy to get intimidated by California wine options, but these two samples of Ron’s Chillable wine blew the roof off pretentious expectations. Wines that we sampled: River Road Ron’s […]
A Socially Distanced Regency Picnic
Towards the beginning of this summer, and pandemic, we got invited to a socially distant Regency picnic by a member of the Houston Regency Society on their private property. It was so nice to have a historical costuming event to prepare for, as other events were being cancelled left and right. I had a Regency outfit […]
Visiting Fredericksburg During a Pandemic
Because of the pandemic, every trip and cruise I had scheduled got cancelled for the rest of 2020. It has been at least 6 months since I’ve travelled outside of the Houston area. So we felt like a long weekend in Fredericksburg would make up for some of the experiences we’ve missed out on this […]