Poppin Bubbles

MY BFF KTL, Carmen Marc Valvo & Bubbles

Fashion has always been a passion of mine and I can remember from an early age taking an avid interest in what I wore as a child. My dearly departed mum used to make a lot of my clothes and sometimes she would even sew us matching outfits. I even had a Strawberry Shortcake Sewing Machine and to this day I still cannot sew, oh the shame! Anyway that still did not stop me from having an interest in fashion and finding time to watch Style with Elsa Klensch on CNN after school.


I recently had the opportunity to attend Fashion Houston 2011 with my BFF KTL, in fact you should try to check out her blog too @ ClassicallyChic.blogspot.com. I had an awesome time and thoroughly enjoyed the both nights we attended. I was extremely excited to see Carmen Marc Valvo’s Spring 2012 collection, but by far the surprise of the shows for me was Bibhu Mohapatra. I was totally floored with his pieces and fell in love, and guess what? His pieces are sold at Neiman Marcus Stores nationwide. I wanted to share with you a couple images from the shows, as well as a couple chronicling my Fashion Houston 2011 Experience…
My apologies for the delay in publishing this post, however "Betsy" my not so young anymore laptop has been experiencing some technical difficulties, but hopefully Santa saw that I was extremely nice this year and I get her replacement...














Houston Designer/Extraordinaire Todd Ramos & Bubbles

I know I have not posted in like forever, but I hope everyone enjoyed their summer! I did and those weddings I mentioned in the last post I published did go off, not without hitches, but they went nevertheless... We are well into the fall season and it is unseasonably warm here on the upper east coast right now, but there is one thing you can depend on every fall and that is the Olive Garden's Never-ending Pasta Bowl Special Promotion... I love Italian food and you can count on them to provide some very tasty mass produced Italian food. Well As most if not all of you know, I moved a couple years ago this month and there are some things that have changed and somethings which have not...

Well I have this really good friend, who for purposes of this post I will refer to as "Hollywood". Well Hollywood and I have had this tradition of going to the Never-ending Pasta Bowl Promotion every single year since we met, starting in 1998. The first year we missed was the year after I moved... This year as soon as I saw the television ads for the Never-ending Pasta Bowl Promotion and I called her immediately, to let her know that it had started and even though we were no longer in the same city anymore, that I still planned on going and she agreed with me too. Well that might be the end of the story, but it gets even weirder...

I kept planning to go to Olive Garden and I kept putting it off, until recently on a trip to Boston, I was visiting with a friend and I decided it was time to go, before the promotion ended. The next day I called Hollywood to tell her that I had finally gone to Olive Garden and continued with our tradition and she told me I was there yesterday too. After further conversation we figured out that not only did we both go to Olive Garden's Never-ending Pasta Bowl Promotion on the exact same day, at about the exact same time (4:00 pm) in two different parts of the country (Midwest and East Coast, but we both had the exact same pasta sauce for our first dish. We could not help but both ROTFL... The coincidence was surreal... We had not conveyed our plans to go to each other, but there we were continuing with our tradition in tandem and it got me to thinking about life and all the things that happen coincidentally or maybe not. I am a firm believer in things happening for a reason and everything in its own time. I have always just smiled at those moments when I felt a sense of deja vu, but this was so different that it merited a fully belly laugh.

Anyway I hope you too get to enjoy one of those moments in life where explainable things happen... It's Another day and Another Bubble Popped!!