Here’s something I hadn't thought of before that I’d been hearing
all night. Trans-Lesbians. They do not consider themselves crossdressers so…are
they interested in things I say, my blog stuff, I mean…I think initially I packaged
trans-lesbians in with my straight crossdressers theme, at least in my mind. I
guess...whoever decides to read my blog for…whatever reason, be it
entertainment or curiosity…anyone can feel free to read it. You don’t have to
be a straight crossdresser to read this blog…I guess you just have to be
interested…or just really bored with nothing better to do. Either way, Thank You
for Reading! :D I am just about a year
and a half in to exploring my interests in crossdressers. There is a lot I don’t
know. A lot of psychology, a lot of books I haven’t read, a lot of conferences I
haven’t been to. I’ve just really been to websites and parties…do drag shows
count? Cause I’ve been to some of them too. I hope I haven’t offended anyone
(too harshly if at all) with any of my thoughts. I just hope for one day when
anyone can dress in a way that represents who they are regardless of any
specified ‘gender rules’. I mean if you wanna boil it down to the biblical…men
& women wore dresses way back then. (American) Women (& women in many
other lands) wear pants now just as men do and are not thought of as breaking
gender rules (yes I know they kinda had to fight for it). Only recently (in America)
have men been ‘allowed’ to wear kilts as manly fashion without getting too much
flack for it. …ok…I think I’m done. Laterz!
Monday, November 26, 2012
Raven 12 - Utopian Weekend 10-10-12
2 weekends ago was the 12th Raven event Hosted by Jen Bryant at
The Raven which has an Award Winning Restaurant with a Bar & Club. This was
my 3rd visit to a Raven event. Original plan was to stay for the
whole weekend but it turned out that my weekend was kinda double booked (would
have been triple booked if i'd attempted to go to Phil-Con which I realized I
couldn't do). At Raven 11 Paula and I Went to the Saturday Dinner & Dance
Party and Sunday morning Breakfast at the Eagle Diner. This time we went to
Sliders Bar & Grill on Friday night...Fashionably late (as usual...it takes
forever for Paula to get ready) While there we met up with some familiar faces
and made a few new friends. I got some yummy food from the bar (and a few
drinks) everything was pretty good. We had some pretty awesome discussions as
well. We had a discussion with Lisa Empanada (guest writer of this post) about
Straight crossdressers. ...Ok...It kinda came up due to a major Faux-Pas which
I committed. I mistakenly referred to Paula in the
masculine. Something I never do when referring to her
online...you know...where I can edit myself when I make a mistake... The thing
is, I usually see Paula in guy mode. Also Paula doesn't care if she
is referred to in the masculine or feminine. Also knowing we were in
the company of ‘like’ individuals I guess I was a lil more lax. I think it has
to do with the divide of not really feeling like a girl but enjoying her
feminine side. Well...most of it was Lisa asking Paula questions about straight
crossdressers. Lisa is a trans-Girl. She identifies as female and doesn't
really 'get' people like Paula who...are fine living their male lives but also
like to indulge their feminine urges. It was quite interesting hearing the uber
masculine things Lisa did before she became Lisa.
I was also surprised...the whole weekend how many of the
Gurls were married to women. I was told by one that she considered herself a
Trans-Lesbian. She believes if she were born female she'd still be attracted to
women. More of the girls were married to women than I expected. I was kinda surprised I think I'd just grouped trans-lesbians with straight
crossdressers...but...I guess technically that's not true even though..I guess
physically it's true. I'd always thought to myself that if I were born male that I'd be attracted to females but I was born female and am attracted to males...but I lean towards pretty/androgynous males...or males that dress like females...that look like hot chix when dressed en-fem. :D
While we were there I told Paula, "Ok, I didn't really plan
on coming tonight. I came because you wanted to come. This is a meet &
great, so...go meet someone new and make friends." So I had Paula lead the
way & I followed. Paula walked up to a gurl neither of us had met before
& introduced herself. Her name was Charlene...or was it Charlize It turns
out that she was there because we were there. She is on the same meet-up group
that we are in. She noticed that a majority of the girls on the group are way
older than us but that Paula and I were around her age. That gave her
confidence to come out. (Whoot!) She & Paula exchanged email addys and we
all made tentative plans to hang out and see a movie. We hung out with her most
the rest of the night. There were a few photo sessions that happened. Jen was
posing on a pool table and other girls joined in posing on the pool tables.
Even Paula joined in. I took a few shots of Paula on the pool table. Then we
took a few shots in the foyer. Then the party continued at The Raven’s dance
floor. Our new friend took some pics of Paula & I on the dance floor. I
took a lot of pics of our new friend with her camera as well all night. She wasn't ready to have any pics taken by any camera but her own. We left around 1:30-ish AM and picked up my
good friend Jerome from a karaoke party that I couldn't attend due to the meet
& greet. He was my stand in for the night with my karaoke host Dr. Thunder (yes we also do parties). We had a
sleepover at my house where I got a little sleep.
I woke up a few hours later on Saturday morning. I had a religious
assembly to attend from 9am-4pm. Went there and got back to my place around
5pm. Paula had already started getting ready. Jerome was just about ready. I
got the rest of Paula’s make-up on her after I finished up the corset that we’d
started on Friday (which I didn't mention earlier. Made another duck tape
corset, this time w/boning. Paula lost a good deal of weight since we made the
first one and it no longer fit properly.) I needed to put/hammer the eyelets
into the corset that was nearly permanently attached to Paula the night before
(I cut it off of Paula before I went to sleep). I also had to take in Paula’s red
dress, she had gotten it online and it was bigger than expected. My mom helped
with that by pinning it while on Paula so that I could sew it when I was
finished with the corset (yes my mom is also cool with CD’s). I got myself
together as quickly as I could. I wore a women’s pinstriped suit with a Black
& Gold tie, and we were off. We got there…I think around 7:30PM. We were
seated by the fire. Jen’s Official Photographer took a few pictures of us. We
got/ate our delicious meals. I had a Manly Meal of Ravioli…Jerome had Chicken
cordon blu and Paula had a chicken salad…she couldn't eat much in that corset. We
saw some familiar faces from our seats as well. After we were done eating it
was time to Party!
I handed the camera duties to my good friend Jerome while I go
touch up my make up in the ladies room where I met another lovely lady who is
married to a woman. She says when she’s dressed as a girl she feels like a
girl. When she’s dressed as a man she feels like a man. I think she said she
considers herself a trans-lesbian. I put on my lip color and I was off to dance
& have a good time w/o having to worry about taking pics, yay! But, of
course…I was a bit shy to start dancing right away…this looks like a job for
Liquid Courage!!! Had a bit o’ booze. And did a bit o’ dancing mostly w/ Paula.
We met up with our friend from the night before, Charlize (I really need to ask
her how she spells her name), and the 3 of us danced a bit. We put what few
flyers I had for my blog in Jeromes hat. Looked like a press hat after that. And
he was off taking pictures of just about everyone there. At some point I met up
with one of my online friends that had come to the previous Raven event but I couldn't find on that day. I saw the many tattoos and saw the face and it was
them!!! Chris & her Fiancee, 2 beautiful blondes, I had to get pics with
them. I planned on meeting up with them again later but, alas, t’was not to be.
I also saw a GG I had chatted with at Raven 11, Maureen, was nice to see her
there again & it’s so great that she supports her husband’s crossdressing!
I went outside a few times; it was a bit chilly, I was so glad I had decided to
wear pants at this Raven event. I sat with Paula and met a new gurl there. I
think another Straight CD. We had a nice conversation which I mostly forgot
cause I’d been drinking. (I really need to keep a notebook with me at these
events so I could write down names and key things to remember.) Jen came and
then…and then… I called Lisa, Jen. I’d have been wayyyyyy embarrassed if I were
sober (but had I been sober I wouldn’t have made that mistake) But after my
sincere apologies and praising her for her grace & beauty she forgave me
and came over to have a picture with me. (wow…I had been rubbing Lisa the wrong
way a bit too much that weekend) Unfortunately my camera started to act up around
that time (I found out later that it was my external flash) so pics from about
that time to the end of the night were half blacked out. Thankfully it happened
at the end, instead of the beginning of the night. At the end of the night we all
drove back to my place because staying locally for the night could get quite
pricey. It would have been nice to stay closer and go out to breakfast w/
everyone but…maybe next time. It seemed like everyone had fun.
Monday, November 5, 2012
Crossdress-O-Ween
The end of last month, October, is somewhat of a crossdresser liberation time. The time, where crossdressers can crossdress in relative freedom knowing...they can always just say its a costume...
...Ok...in reality thats less than Ideal. People would prefer to dress as they'd like whenever they'd like and not be judged harshly for it. Generally around halloween time is when it happens. Guys dress as girls, girls dress like whores (or atleast its generally acceptable to do so)... and everyone can get away with it with their reputations intact because its a 'costume'.
Which bring me to this year's festivities. I...don't celebrate Halloween, but I do LOVE to dress up in costumes. A friend, a couple of months ago, asked me if I'd come to a party if she had one cause she was scared no one would come due to her being in NJ and most of her invited guests are in Philly. I told her i'd come even if no one else did. She was at least relieved. Since I'm still borrowing Paula's car (long story) I invited Paula as well. I felt compelled to ask if Paula had ever dressed as a girl for Halloween. To which I was somewhat surprised that the answer was No. I got to thinking of some of the other CD's I know...some others have never donned girl gear for halloween as well, they were afraid they'd do or say something and be found out. Yet most of the Men I know have gone girl at least once in their lives for halloween. It's like a rite of passage. So I suggested Paula do so. Paula was apprehensive to do so especially since we were scheduled to go to a party at his friend's house as well but...I can be very convincing. I told Paula I'd dress as a guy, that way there would be less to no suspicion. I'd wear a suit & tie and even don a fakie beard/mustache. Paula agreed after that. ...Turns out his friend's party wound up being in Virginia...was a bit far so we just went to my friend's party. He was a bit relieved knowing he probably wouldn't see any of his friends.
So Saturday October 27th arrived. Paula and I step out to get a few things from a few stores. Paula was in desperate need of flat shoes. Paula found that the womens shoe size that is supposed to be worn is a size 13 and that Payless has that size. My mom told me there was a Payless in a mall near my house and we should try there first. Since we had to go to that same mall anyway to get a new wig we figured we'd try there. We went to the wig store and didn't really see what we were looking for at first. Walked around a bit more and decided on just getting a ponytail extension for the wig Paula already had. We wished we had the wig with us to check if the color was right...but it was. Pebbs is the awesome!!!
Next in search of Payless...which was not in that mall. But we did some browsing in the shops anyway. We came across the Rainbow clothing store. They had some sales so we figured a browse wouldn't hurt. What we found there was pretty awesome! We found a brand new ensemble for Paula there. New shirt, skirt, leggings, jewelry, only thing we didn't find were shoes...which was our next destination. Off we went to Payless to get shoes. We went to one in Delaware...I can't remember the strip mall's name... but it's on Rt 202...the mall that also has a 5 Guys next to a 5 below...coincidence? I think NOT! lol. So we went there and found that Paula did indeed fit a size 13 shoe. Also we found some very nice flats and some wedge heeled shoes that Paula found quite comfortable. I had a coupon for 10% off but the lady who worked the register has a coupon for 30% off that she let us use! Yay! The price for 2 pairs of size 13 shoes were $30...and like 26 cents or something like that... but basically $30!!! So Ladies, if you're looking for shoes sized 13 and below check out Payless. Their website will tell you which stores carry larger sized women's shoes.
Next we stopped by the dollar store. I needed mascara for my fakie beard. I tried to use my brand new Avon Mascara and...well...the bristles are perfect for my lashes but too advanced for my face. What I needed was a cheap mascara wand. At the dollar store I knew i'd find something to suit my purposes. I found a mascara and eyeliner pencil set for $1. I got it in brown/black because black was a bit too dark on me when I tried it out the night before. I also discovered that i'd look horrible w/ a mustache.
Back & the batcave aka my house we set to putting our looks together. Paula got all dolled up, with my help of course, using some new Avon products that I bought from...myself, as well as the Bare Minerals makeup Paula purchased on a previous outing with me (click here for details on that) we got Paula looking Great! All Dolled Up Paula looked like a teenaged girl going to the prom...even though the outfit wasn't traditional prom style. I even put a tiny tiara on Paula's head.
I...looked guyish. I braided my hair back the day before. I put mascara on my brows and below my brows to make them look bigger. I noticed, guy eyebrows are closer to their eyes and girls brows tend to be above the eyes a bit more. I also put mascara in the beard area. Gave myself a chinstrap beard...it at least didn't look bad on me. I borrowed a shirt & tie from a friend and wore my younger cousin's dress pants, he and I wear the same size and I borrow his jeans often. I wore my own blazer and my work shoes which are pretty unisex. Then we were off.
Ok so we left the house about an hour after we'd planned...Making Paula look perfect was time consuming. We got to my friend's house about an hour late. Everyone thought our 'costumes' were pretty awesome. I had Made my friend's Elf costume over the week leading to the party between having to work etc. Her costume was lovely as well. Her boyfriend was the wolf man and his twin brother went as...him. lol, at least thats what he told us. It was a fun time. Ended a bit earlier than expected so we went back to philly to Dr. Thunder Karaoke!!! Where I usually co-host. Karaoke that day was at Headhouse on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. We went there I sang a song or two. Met up with some of my friends there as well. Fellow Karaoke Hosts for TNT Karaoke, Ray & Marci. It was fun seeing them there in their costumes. Marci was Storm, from the X-Men. She looked Amazing! and Ray was...one of the guys from KISS...I can't remember which guy...but he was Awesome as well!!! Dr. Thunder was dressed as...Viking Dr. Thunder! Which was also fun.
All in all it was a good night. As I reflected on my look for that night I had come to discover... I am not into looking fully like a guy. I like looking like a girl who is wearing guys clothing. I like my pinstriped suits and my fedoras but I will also wear lipstick & mascara cause thats what I like and how I like to look. Goy Style!
Laterz!
BTW, Below are some Pics. Are there any CD's out there who did dress as a girl for halloween? How's that go? I'd love to hear about it.
...Ok...in reality thats less than Ideal. People would prefer to dress as they'd like whenever they'd like and not be judged harshly for it. Generally around halloween time is when it happens. Guys dress as girls, girls dress like whores (or atleast its generally acceptable to do so)... and everyone can get away with it with their reputations intact because its a 'costume'.
Which bring me to this year's festivities. I...don't celebrate Halloween, but I do LOVE to dress up in costumes. A friend, a couple of months ago, asked me if I'd come to a party if she had one cause she was scared no one would come due to her being in NJ and most of her invited guests are in Philly. I told her i'd come even if no one else did. She was at least relieved. Since I'm still borrowing Paula's car (long story) I invited Paula as well. I felt compelled to ask if Paula had ever dressed as a girl for Halloween. To which I was somewhat surprised that the answer was No. I got to thinking of some of the other CD's I know...some others have never donned girl gear for halloween as well, they were afraid they'd do or say something and be found out. Yet most of the Men I know have gone girl at least once in their lives for halloween. It's like a rite of passage. So I suggested Paula do so. Paula was apprehensive to do so especially since we were scheduled to go to a party at his friend's house as well but...I can be very convincing. I told Paula I'd dress as a guy, that way there would be less to no suspicion. I'd wear a suit & tie and even don a fakie beard/mustache. Paula agreed after that. ...Turns out his friend's party wound up being in Virginia...was a bit far so we just went to my friend's party. He was a bit relieved knowing he probably wouldn't see any of his friends.
So Saturday October 27th arrived. Paula and I step out to get a few things from a few stores. Paula was in desperate need of flat shoes. Paula found that the womens shoe size that is supposed to be worn is a size 13 and that Payless has that size. My mom told me there was a Payless in a mall near my house and we should try there first. Since we had to go to that same mall anyway to get a new wig we figured we'd try there. We went to the wig store and didn't really see what we were looking for at first. Walked around a bit more and decided on just getting a ponytail extension for the wig Paula already had. We wished we had the wig with us to check if the color was right...but it was. Pebbs is the awesome!!!
Next in search of Payless...which was not in that mall. But we did some browsing in the shops anyway. We came across the Rainbow clothing store. They had some sales so we figured a browse wouldn't hurt. What we found there was pretty awesome! We found a brand new ensemble for Paula there. New shirt, skirt, leggings, jewelry, only thing we didn't find were shoes...which was our next destination. Off we went to Payless to get shoes. We went to one in Delaware...I can't remember the strip mall's name... but it's on Rt 202...the mall that also has a 5 Guys next to a 5 below...coincidence? I think NOT! lol. So we went there and found that Paula did indeed fit a size 13 shoe. Also we found some very nice flats and some wedge heeled shoes that Paula found quite comfortable. I had a coupon for 10% off but the lady who worked the register has a coupon for 30% off that she let us use! Yay! The price for 2 pairs of size 13 shoes were $30...and like 26 cents or something like that... but basically $30!!! So Ladies, if you're looking for shoes sized 13 and below check out Payless. Their website will tell you which stores carry larger sized women's shoes.
Next we stopped by the dollar store. I needed mascara for my fakie beard. I tried to use my brand new Avon Mascara and...well...the bristles are perfect for my lashes but too advanced for my face. What I needed was a cheap mascara wand. At the dollar store I knew i'd find something to suit my purposes. I found a mascara and eyeliner pencil set for $1. I got it in brown/black because black was a bit too dark on me when I tried it out the night before. I also discovered that i'd look horrible w/ a mustache.
Back & the batcave aka my house we set to putting our looks together. Paula got all dolled up, with my help of course, using some new Avon products that I bought from...myself, as well as the Bare Minerals makeup Paula purchased on a previous outing with me (click here for details on that) we got Paula looking Great! All Dolled Up Paula looked like a teenaged girl going to the prom...even though the outfit wasn't traditional prom style. I even put a tiny tiara on Paula's head.
I...looked guyish. I braided my hair back the day before. I put mascara on my brows and below my brows to make them look bigger. I noticed, guy eyebrows are closer to their eyes and girls brows tend to be above the eyes a bit more. I also put mascara in the beard area. Gave myself a chinstrap beard...it at least didn't look bad on me. I borrowed a shirt & tie from a friend and wore my younger cousin's dress pants, he and I wear the same size and I borrow his jeans often. I wore my own blazer and my work shoes which are pretty unisex. Then we were off.
Ok so we left the house about an hour after we'd planned...Making Paula look perfect was time consuming. We got to my friend's house about an hour late. Everyone thought our 'costumes' were pretty awesome. I had Made my friend's Elf costume over the week leading to the party between having to work etc. Her costume was lovely as well. Her boyfriend was the wolf man and his twin brother went as...him. lol, at least thats what he told us. It was a fun time. Ended a bit earlier than expected so we went back to philly to Dr. Thunder Karaoke!!! Where I usually co-host. Karaoke that day was at Headhouse on Lombard Street in Philadelphia. We went there I sang a song or two. Met up with some of my friends there as well. Fellow Karaoke Hosts for TNT Karaoke, Ray & Marci. It was fun seeing them there in their costumes. Marci was Storm, from the X-Men. She looked Amazing! and Ray was...one of the guys from KISS...I can't remember which guy...but he was Awesome as well!!! Dr. Thunder was dressed as...Viking Dr. Thunder! Which was also fun.
All in all it was a good night. As I reflected on my look for that night I had come to discover... I am not into looking fully like a guy. I like looking like a girl who is wearing guys clothing. I like my pinstriped suits and my fedoras but I will also wear lipstick & mascara cause thats what I like and how I like to look. Goy Style!
Laterz!
BTW, Below are some Pics. Are there any CD's out there who did dress as a girl for halloween? How's that go? I'd love to hear about it.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Drag-Gasm 2012 - RuPauls Drag Race Edition
I nearly had a Drag-Gasm last night!!! Thanks to Paula (who got us VIP tickets), I saw about 90% of my Favorite Drag Queens all in one place at the same time up close and personal. I even got to take pics with them & hug them and...AAAAHHHH!!!! (I totally didn't wanna let Raven go) I was on cloud 9 all night! I made little cards for them to remember me by cause...well...I wanted to. I wanted to do something a bit extra. I spent days working on a lil photo compilation of...well...me to give to them. I wrote a letter to RuPaul, which I wanted to ask Michelle Visage to give to Ru but I wasn't able to meet Michelle before or after the show so the letter is still in my bag :(. I personalized everything for everyone. I have recently started selling Avon so I included some lipstick samples in the envelopes, I even put temporary tattoos in each one. I did something extra special for Manila Luzon. I hand-made a card for my Favilla Manila that was very simple-ish with a couple of pictures of Manila & her dearly departed Sahara Davenport along with everything else stated above. I put the address of this blog on the lil picture cards, in case anyone was interested in knowing a bit more about the weirdo who gave them pics of herself... yeah.
I first saw the Absolutely Gorgeous Shannel! I...I Love Shannel. So beautiful, So nice! I had to take my pic w/ her 3 times cause the pics were blurry (accidentally left on manual mode...oops. finally put on auto focus for Paula to take pics for me). Then I went over to Manila and gave my card and had a pic w/her :). Manila seemed grateful for the card (though she, nor anyone else, opened their envelopes in my presence, they all had their cards sent up to their...changing room I guess) There were...kinda lines to get to each person so some waiting/pushing ahead involved with getting close to each one. Next was Miss Pandora Boxx. Love that funny girl Pandora!!! Was awesome to meet her! (and meet her again at the end of the night) Then we made our way over to the Gorgeous Jujubee. I Love Love Love these awesome Queens!!! While I was waiting for Raven, who appears right in front of me but Yara Sophia!!! I gotz pic w/her! Then Finally to my Raven! I have Raven hugs...and didn't wanna let Raven go! She Loved my Tika!!! Ok Everyone loved it & I made it myself (bonus awesome points for me!).
No more All Stars were there at that point. The ones that were there disappeared up the stairs. I spotted one of my Favie Queens of YouTube fame, Misty Maven!!! She was having a convo w/ some people so I waited a bit, got her attention and Got a pic w/ her :). I also told her about my blog, and guess what. She wants to Read it!!! AAAHHH!!! ...She may even read this post...where I'm yelling like a crazy person about her saying she wants to check it out...I should probably erase those few lines...but i'm not gonna :)
Next I saw some friends and sat in my seat next to Paula and waited, listening to some pretty good music, for half an hour or so before the show started. Show was AWESOME!!! Will be posting pics! After the show saw & got pics with my Philly Drag queens! The Goddess Isis, Porcelain, Omyra Lynn & Misty Maven!!! Gave them all the cards I had for them. Porcelain is soooo adorable looking in guy mode, even with the many tattoos. Omyra Lynn as well. Such good looking guys. I've seen Isis in guy mode as well...strikingly beautiful guy!!! And Male Misty is Gorgeous as well (though i don't think i've seen guy mode in person yet)!!! Next back upstairs and got a pic of Paula w/ Pandora and I got a pic with Tammie Brown. It was such an Awesome night!!! (I tried to catch up with Mimi Imfurst twice, each time I lost her before I could catch up w/ her, ah well)
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH PAULA!!!
(will post a link to the rest of the pictures when I have them uploaded)
I first saw the Absolutely Gorgeous Shannel! I...I Love Shannel. So beautiful, So nice! I had to take my pic w/ her 3 times cause the pics were blurry (accidentally left on manual mode...oops. finally put on auto focus for Paula to take pics for me). Then I went over to Manila and gave my card and had a pic w/her :). Manila seemed grateful for the card (though she, nor anyone else, opened their envelopes in my presence, they all had their cards sent up to their...changing room I guess) There were...kinda lines to get to each person so some waiting/pushing ahead involved with getting close to each one. Next was Miss Pandora Boxx. Love that funny girl Pandora!!! Was awesome to meet her! (and meet her again at the end of the night) Then we made our way over to the Gorgeous Jujubee. I Love Love Love these awesome Queens!!! While I was waiting for Raven, who appears right in front of me but Yara Sophia!!! I gotz pic w/her! Then Finally to my Raven! I have Raven hugs...and didn't wanna let Raven go! She Loved my Tika!!! Ok Everyone loved it & I made it myself (bonus awesome points for me!).
No more All Stars were there at that point. The ones that were there disappeared up the stairs. I spotted one of my Favie Queens of YouTube fame, Misty Maven!!! She was having a convo w/ some people so I waited a bit, got her attention and Got a pic w/ her :). I also told her about my blog, and guess what. She wants to Read it!!! AAAHHH!!! ...She may even read this post...where I'm yelling like a crazy person about her saying she wants to check it out...I should probably erase those few lines...but i'm not gonna :)
Next I saw some friends and sat in my seat next to Paula and waited, listening to some pretty good music, for half an hour or so before the show started. Show was AWESOME!!! Will be posting pics! After the show saw & got pics with my Philly Drag queens! The Goddess Isis, Porcelain, Omyra Lynn & Misty Maven!!! Gave them all the cards I had for them. Porcelain is soooo adorable looking in guy mode, even with the many tattoos. Omyra Lynn as well. Such good looking guys. I've seen Isis in guy mode as well...strikingly beautiful guy!!! And Male Misty is Gorgeous as well (though i don't think i've seen guy mode in person yet)!!! Next back upstairs and got a pic of Paula w/ Pandora and I got a pic with Tammie Brown. It was such an Awesome night!!! (I tried to catch up with Mimi Imfurst twice, each time I lost her before I could catch up w/ her, ah well)
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH PAULA!!!
(will post a link to the rest of the pictures when I have them uploaded)
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Raven 11
Ok I have to start with Friday September 21st. Friday is not Raven related,
though The Raven party started on Friday, but was awesome and I gotta talk
about it! My good friend Kandice bought tickets for us to go to the Beats
Antique Concert in Philadelphia a lil over a month ago. She wound up not being
able to go because she had to go back to Massachusetts sooner than she
expected. So she gave me both tickets so I decided to take Paula (in ‘guy’ mode)
with me to the concert. Zoe Jakes = teh Awesome!!! It was one of the amazing
shows I have ever seen live! Oh and Lynx! She was Amazing!!! I had never heard
of her before but now I will never forget her! Her voice was beautiful…then…then…She
Beat-boxes too!!! Wait… & she Raps! But like…she is Awesome! You don't know…you
don’t know… I have clips (scroll to bottom of page for clips). So we went and it was an awesome show. Zoe even crowd
surfed at the end of the show! Ok, Ok, now to the Raven.
Raven 11, Saturday September 22, 2012
Ok, so Paula and I drove up there a lil later than planned. I went to a housewarming party before the drive up and I lost track of time a bit…oops. We shared a room @ the motel owned by the Raven. When we got there, around 5-ish we started getting ready… took WAY longer than expected. Paula had to do a bit o’ shaving, meanwhile I had to pick up a few things from Rite-aid. I needed to get some clear coat for out nails as well as some q-tips and bobby pins. I got back and Paula had started applying the make-up as instructed but had a bit of trouble with the eyes. I did the eyes for Paula, helped style the hair and…well…helped with everything else that she needed help with. Meanwhile working on myself…we took so long we totally missed the Red Carpet! Ah well. We tried. The nails took a while. 3 coats of the silver then 1 coat of the black crackle. Loved how it came out! Looked great on Paula as well as myself. I had re-fashioned some of my jewelry so that Paula could wear it. Turned some of my fav earrings into clip-ons. A necklace I had brought for my outfit, before I got the perfect necklace a week before, was de-constructed and fitted onto another necklace that went with Paula's ensemble. Then another matching necklace that I grabbed before leaving the house that just happened to match perfectly and also a nice noisy anklet from my jewelry collection. Paula looked like a greek goddess! Next on to getting myself together. Thankfully i'm quite used to handling my own makeup in a generally quick way. Then into my dress & shoes and we were off. We were staying at the cabin in the woods, which was across the street and up the block a bit from Raven. We decided to walk...was not the wisest thing to do in 5inch heels... But we did. When we finally got there it was maybe 8pm. Dinner started at 7:30pm so we were a bit late. When we arrived there we met Jen, the organizer of the event, and had a bit of a chat and also met a few other lovely ladies. Then we headed in and actually got seated in the dining room. Ok...it was in a cramped corner, but whatever, we were in the room w/ everyone else who were there for the party. We ordered and then I got up to say hi to a few people. I met a married couple. Was their first outing to one of these events. I was recognized as being the writer of this blog. We had a nice convo. The out appetizer came out. As I made my way back to the table I...tripped on my dress & knocked over Paula's drink onto the bruschetta...oops. Our Awesome waiter, Marty, came over and remade out table and quickly got us another one...I decided to stay seated for the rest of dinner so as not to destroy more food. I had the salmon & Paula had the grilled chicken salad. The food was awesome! After dinner we had a really nice conversation with Marty. Marty is also a Drag performer at the Raven!!! I would LOVE to see a performance! Maybe one day I will get to see him perform. We also conversed about crossdressing and my blog.
Next off to the dance floor...kinda. We went to the dance hall area and I was immediately called over by a lovely crossdresser. I thought she wanted to talk about my blog...but she wanted to take me out to dinner. 2 seconds in there and I was already getting hit on! lol. Since I came there with a date, I thought it might be rude to set up a date with someone else while already out on a date. I gave him a flyer for my blog and went to the other side of the hall to look for a seat so I could put down my camera and rest my feet (5 inch heels...yeah...) I was determined this time to try to keep my shoes on all night, where as last time the shoes came off about half way through the night and most pics of me were shoeless.
I set about taking some pictures and mingling a bit. Saw a few people I remembered from my last visit to Raven including Allielee & Jamie. I also saw a few people whose names...i just can not remember. I wish my memory for names was better. Paula and I had a seat in the gazebo and got into a conversation with another person named Jamie. Jamie lived in NY but was in the area, one of Jamie's friends told her about the Raven event happening that night so Jamie came. Jamie is the 2nd Married (to a GG) CD I had met that night. Jamie's wife accepts it and has gone out with Jamie while Jamie was dressed as Jamie, which I think is Awesome!!! Reena came over and spoke w/us as well. Reena is also married (to a GG) but Reena's wife isn't into it, but doesn't mind if Reena goes out and has fun dressed up, but at least she doesn't make Reena restrict her from dressing at all. It was about then that we took a nice group picture (which I used for my facebook page 100 likes as pictured below).
Went in danced and talked some more. The night ended, took off my shoes and walked back to the room. The next morning Paula & I were kinda late to the breakfast meet up (I was helping Paula get ready, took a lil longer than expected) Went to the diner and had breakfast. First time for Paula out in the day time...and at a diner with a mixed crowd which included the elderly & children with Paula dressed as Paula. We missed meeting up with Jen, but she did say she saw us through the window and that Paula looked great.
All in all, it was a very nice time. Can't wait till the next one. Sorry it took so long to finish this post. While at the diner I started feeling sick and I was sick for a good 2 weeks. Was hard to write while sick. Other issues happened and well... I'm finally finished. I do have Pictures & Video (of the Belly Dance Performances) which I will post links to here.
I am curious about something. I have over 500 hits a month on my page and only 2 subscribers... Its a bit disheartening to have so few subscribers, but it makes me feel a bit better seeing so many hits. I just wonder if my subject matter is too embarrassing to subscribe to? I guess it might be but I'm not embarrassed.
I Love you ALL! Ans now for links to Pics & Videos!
Raven 11 Pictures by Pebbles
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