The Rest is Just Icing A Daily Account of Style and Inspiration

Photograph: Marcos Gurrola

On Saturday, March 27, 2010,The Woman’s Club of El Paso will host its annual fundraiser and fashion show. The Jewels of the Desert 2010 Civic Benefit Luncheon and Fashion Show will take place at the El Paso Country Club at 11am. This fashion extravaganza will treat guests to a dazzling runway fashion show featuring the hottest new styles of the season. Local designers from the Fashion technology Department at the El Paso Community College will showcase their creations and for the first time in El Paso International designer Guillermo Jop will be presenting his GUiSHEM of New York and Guatemala collection. The designs will be presented by Bazaar Models (www.bazaarmodels.com).

The Woman’s Club of El Paso was founded in 1894 and has an impressive history of community support and involvement. They are a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that has been holding Civic Benefits and fundraising events for over 26 years. The money raised at these events is donated yearly to charitable organizations in the El Paso community. This year they have chosen the Highland Presbyterian Northeast Food Cupboard and Bob Kelly Trinity Methodist Food Pantry to be the recipients of the 2010 benefit. Both of these non-profit organizations are local and most deserving. The need for food has increased dramatically in the past year in El Paso.

Reservations can be made through the Woman’s Club of El Paso at 532-6131. Doors open for the event at 11 am. The Silent Auction will be from 11 – 1pm. Monies are raised at the Benefit through ticket sales, a raffle, a silent auction, and underwritten through community support. Southwest Airlines has generously given two round trip tickets, Hyatt Tamaya Resort donated a two-night stay at their lovely resort, and the Inn of the Mountain Gods gave two rounds of golf on their beautiful course. Last years successful event had an attendance of 400 and was able to contribute $20,000 to the Baptist Free Clinic in South El Paso.

I hope you all had a fanstastic weekend and are feeling refreshed and ready for a great week. I had an exceptionally fun second weekend in NYC meeting new friends, old ones and seeing my beautiful sister, who's in town for the weekend.

Last night, I met my sister, Kiki, and her friend, Kivas, at Earth Matters, a delicious health food cafe in the East Village. After dinner, we wandered across the street to well-known pool bar, Max Fish. To my surprise (and delight!), Kivas is great friends with former Scissor Sister drummer, Patrick Seacor, whose music studio is underneath the bar. Well, long story short, we were invited to an impromtu jam session of sorts, where I had the honor of attempting to play the hand drum to Patrick, Kivas and Kiki's badass (real) drumming and listen to some great music.

I only had my iPhone on me, but here are a few photos I was able to take. Such a fun, surreal night.

Kivas keeping up

I shot a quick pic backstage as the orchestra warmed up