EPSO Fundraiser...Fini

Sunday, August 30, 2009


The day has finally arrived...nothing more I can do...



vintage cowboy boot floral centerpieces...Fiori did an amazing job!

Click on image above to hop over to Fiori's blog...you can see the process and learn more about their amazing work!




front lawn of country club



1st drink of many




my chicas...



auction tables






the glowing begins...it was a little hot



this was the photo The Main Man was originally supposed to take...



there were about 15 of these shots on the camera this morning!



Sisters Morales performing



my celebrity moment with the Sistahs!




It's over!! For another year...


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Sentimental Shoes...

Saturday, August 29, 2009
I wore a pair of red lizard Rene Caovilla slingbacks to my "exchange of vows" with The Main Man. I love the mix of textures and materials...sexy, feminine shoes.
These are on Sale! Price: $1130.00 Now...$395.50


These, alas, are not...

Today is the big day...three months of work putting this symphony fundraiser together. I woke up this morning at 4:00am. I'm feeling fairly confident...but I really want it to be a success...so a bit nervous as well. I was shooting for netting more money than last year, but this economy has put a pall on table sales. We have great silent auction items and three great live auction items. One being a dinner at my house with chef Bobby Griffing for 10 people. I hope someone bids on it...might be a little uncomfortable if no one bids on it...like picking teams in grade school and no one wants the fat chick with buck teeth on their team. The concert should be great. Its basically out of my hands at this point. I'll be at the venue all day helping to set up. Pray for NO RAIN, please.

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What I'm Wearing...





I'm wearing this...I ordered a flower clip for my hair from Forever 21. I paid for 2 day shipping...did it arrive...NO! The one I ordered is prettier than the headband shown. I'm going to have to do a little last minute shopping before I head over to the club to find a replacement flower doilie for my hair. The dress code is Haute Honky Tonk/Texas Chic. I didn't want to look too costumey. I found a really pretty vintage necklace two days ago. Hopefully it pulls together. I can't do the whole redhead bombshell look with this crowd...but, I want to look pretty enough so that someone bids on my dinner party and I don't end up being a wallflower!

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Deco

Thurley...Flora Garland Flapper Dress...$495.00

Thurley...Black Beaded Jazz Dress...$649.00


Thurley...Black Deco Motif Cocktail Dress...$595.00 at Frockaholics
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Laced...


Leonor Fini...Corset Chair
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Devilishly Sexy with a Message...

Friday, August 28, 2009





Thank you SexUtopia! I would not have seen this video, if not for your post. I've always thought Alan Cumming is devilishly sexy...I bet he makes a fabulous friend...witty, debauched, elegantly turned out with a louche twist. Just like TJB at Stirred, Straight Up with a Twist. He spread the love today and I'm feeling frisky and...well, loved!

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Hipper Than I Wanna Be...Cont'd.

Remember this? When you go thru a car wash with menacing red eyed skull wheels, you end up with a flat tire and a spare that looks like this.


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Bloody Goddess


Click on the Nile River Goddess Statue image for more info...




I'm a True Blood fan...it embarrasses me to no end that I watch TV...I have no idea why...it's like my guilty pleasure. It's not like the entire planet doesn't watch TV and I'm the only one who does. I wasn't made to feel guilty about it as a child, although reading was pushed more than sitting in front of the television. Ok, now that I've confessed to being ridiculous, I'll continue.



Maryann Forrester is my kinda chick. I want every stitch of Maryann's wardrobe. I wanted to BE Maryann until she started eating dirt. Pica just isn't for me. I found a post here on a fansite about Maryann's goddess style.





All hail to Bacchus or whoever the hell she is...

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Slippers

Thursday, August 27, 2009
The Main Man has several pair of Stubbs & Wootton slippers. He wears them with a tux and when I have dinner parties at home. You can create your own bespoke pair. There used to be a hair stylist to the social set in Houston that had a custom pair. They said on one shoe...BLO and on the other WME. This always made me laugh.

















I have several pair...one with the skull and crossed swords and another pair with a freshwater trout fly...I just don't wear flats much anymore. The Main Man is so much taller than me...he can't seem to be able to restrain himself from patting me on the top of my head when I'm not sporting heels. I do like the mules shown below with a little heel and the chinoiserie motif slippers...I like, but I don't think I'd wear.







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Out and About...


The Main Man saw this on a utility truck at the car wash yesterday
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Etro...

Wednesday, August 26, 2009




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Mystery is Solved...

Thanks to one of the reader's of Jason's blog Night is Half Gone, I have discovered the book written by the mysterious "J"... my mother had quite the stash!

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EPSO Fundraiser

The fundraiser I'm chairing is right around the corner!!


Sister duo brings special sound to El Paso Symphony fundraiser
By Doug Pullen / El Paso Times

EL PASO -- San Antonio's Sisters Morales figured they might have found a sympathetic El Paso audience last month at their hotel in Ruidoso.
"We walked into the hotel where they put up a big sign that said, 'Morales Family Reunion,' " said Lisa Morales, who had been in New Mexico to perform at the Spencer Theater. "There were all these Moraleses from El Paso. We were telling them about us, so hopefully they'll all be there."
"There" is a Saturday country-style dinner (fried chicken, cornbread and such) and concert on the front lawn of the El Paso Country Club. It will be the siblings' first public performance in El Paso.
It's also a key fundraiser for the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, made possible by prominent local fans like Marti and Russ Vandenburg, Robert and Sherry Brown, and Woody and Gayle Hunt. They ponied up the money to pay the Morales sisters.
If all goes well, the orchestra could raise between $30,000 and $40,000, said EPSO Executive Director Ruth Ellen Jacobson.
The concert is an extension of annual garden parties started in 2006 to mark the symphony's 75th anniversary. The first three were in private homes. Symphony brass decided to move to a bigger and more accessible location this year.
"There are some homes that will hold 300, but not a lot," Jacobson said.
The country club is a far cry from the smoky bars and noisy festivals to which the sisters are accustomed. They've been honing their sound, as solo artists at first, then as a duo, for more
than 20 years.
What a deceptively unusual sound it is.
On the surface, Lisa and Roberta Morales are a contemporary singer-songwriter duo, deftly blending personal lyrics with strains of folk, blues, country and rock. But their roots run deep into Mexico. It's an undeniable element in their music, which they sing in English and Spanish.
Their father was an attorney, their mother a poet with a Ph.D. The sisters were exposed to a variety of music growing up in Tucson, from the traditional Mexican music their parents loved to their older brother's Buffalo Springfield albums.
They were solo artists before getting their act together in 1989. "I hired (Roberta) to do background vocals for a project I was doing in Houston, and she never moved back to Tucson," Lisa Morales said.
Lisa had more of a country and folk sound; Roberta leaned more toward blues, funk and R&B.
"We brought what we were doing to the table, left it at that and added harmonies. We became each other's backup singer," Lisa Morales said.
They put a strong emphasis on harmony, a la the Everly Brothers.
The more proficient they became as writers, the more diverse their sound became. The Mexican strains became more pronounced after the sisters quit chasing the elusive record deal.
"We quit writing for record companies a long time ago, quit writing for that bin you sit in at the CD store," Lisa Morales said. "We just stopped and said, 'Let's go. Let's just do our thing.' "
It really shows on their last two albums. "Para Gloria," released in 2002 on their Luna label, is their third album and first all-Spanish record. New album "Talking to the River," produced by Los Lobos' Steve Berlin, combines tender originals in English with traditional Mexican and Colombian songs.
They tend to sing in English and Spanish, though Lisa Morales said there's a special parental connection they share en español.
"All these Mexican songs are all we have of him," she said of their father, who died when they were teenagers. "They hold our memories. When we go to those songs, we actually see our parents dancing in the living room. It's just a comfort."
Especially since their mother, Gloria, died of ovarian cancer in March. "It sucks," said Lisa Morales, whose song "Blackbird" is about their mother's illness.
The sisters -- who are accompanied by guitarist David Spencer, Lisa's husband of 15 years -- have learned to trust their instincts, no matter what the language or the venue.
"I just want it to be all about connecting," she said.
That's what they'll try do here. They will also play a private luncheon in El Paso in December.
But Morales admits that they'd like to play a club here eventually. "I just want to play that funky room," she said.
EPSO's Jacobson said they can make Saturday's show as funky as they want. Eleven percent of the orchestra's budget comes from fundraisers, and the orchestra is adding a third one this year to counter declining donations and tight economic times. The "Christmas Tour of Homes" will showcase residential holiday decorations Dec. 5-6. The organization's other main benefit is its "March Madness" NCAA Final Four basketball viewing party in April.
"The symphony is not a promoting organization; it's a producing organization. There's a difference," Jacobson said of the 80-employee operation.
"We don't just bring people in and present them; we actually are El Pasoans. Our orchestra works here, lives here and buys clothes here. ... We are an economic engine for El Paso, too."
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