April Stitch Fix Box - Oh Em Gee

Wow, my Stitch Fix boxes just keep topping themselves! This box was full of awesome items of clothing that I loved! I told my stylist that I've been looking for a nice dress to wear to semi-fancy events, and shorts for the summer time. My stylist, Sarah, somehow managed to read my mind and pick some things that I really loved!

Pixley Dexter Faux Wrap Dress

This was the first goody I pulled out of the box, and I nearly squealed when I saw it. It's this gorgeous, soft, beautiful faux wrap dress in purple, no less. This literally couldn't have been more perfect, like, seriously, for real. 

Loveappella Canon Button Detail Striped Knit Top

I was able to get 3 items in one picture with this one! First, I'll talk about the top. It's a soft striped black and cream t-shirt with button embellishments on the sleeves. It's pretty much a classic me top! As soon as I saw it, I was like, 'Yup, this will be going into my regular rotation.'

Liverpool Kaiden Cuffed Denim Short

These shorts fit like a dream! They're slightly stretchy, despite being denim, so they're not restrictive like denim often feels. They're soft and cozy, and the perfect length too. I have a feeling I'm going to be wearing these a LOT this summer.

Octavia Jolene Zipper Flap Crossbody  Bag in Mint

I love that my stylist sent me this because I pinned something similar in my StitchFix pinterest board. I love this kind of bag, and I'd been looking for a new bag for summer. The color is great; I typically don't have many green things, but this mint color is great for summer, and a nice complement to the purple things I wear! I started using this bag literally the day I got it.

Skies are Blue Ernie Crochet Detail Top

To be honest, I didn't super love this tank top. But with the 'buy all 5' discount, it was actually cheaper to include this in my purchase than to leave it off! That was interesting. It's a nice top, I didn't just didn't particularly love it, especially compared to how much I loved all the other pieces. But tht's okay! 


Overall, this may have been my favorite box so far. I'm definitely going to keep going with my subscription and I can't wait to see what the next box has in store for me! Thanks a ton to my stylist, Sarah!

America's Family Pet Expo 2016

This weekend we went to a Pet Expo at the OC Fair & Event Center. Multiple events were on-going throughout the weekend, including shows like a weiner dog race, bird show, and police dog demonstrations. Several buildings housed many different kind of animals to see and pet!

The very first thing we saw (after some horses and llamas) was a diving dog show. These dogs had been trained to run and leap into the air after a chew toy, landing in the pool below. They didn't always catch it, but darn it, they tried their best!

Next, we walked past some of the rescue shelters areas, where all the dogs out were available for adoption. Then we made our way to one of the buildings where they were showcasing all different kinds of dog breeds. 

Apparently, literally every breed of dog has an advocacy group devoted to it, and most of them were there. All your favorite dog breeds, plus every single one you've heard of and several you didn't, had booths set up, with information about the breed and a few dogs out that you could admire and pet.

I didn't get very many good pictures of dogs because I was much too concerned with trying to pet them. But rest assured, there were SO MANY cute and soft and fluffy dogs.

Including, one of my favorites, CORGIS. If only I'd brought a bigger purse, I could have tried to smuggle one away with me.

We headed into the next building, which was full of reptiles! They had snakes you could buy, and they stored them in these weird plexiglass containers. I've never seen anything like it before! 

The next section had fish, which was pretty boring, but they did have some very cool tanks set up, like this one with neon fish and neon rocks.

The building next to that was the cat building! They had a few breed groups, like the dogs, but most seemed to be rescue groups with cages full of cats. There was even a corner for bunnies!

They also showcased some dog houses you could buy that look better than most people's actual homes.

The Pet Expo was pretty fun, though it was extremely crowded. The aisles were often hard to traverse with everyone gawking at the cute dogs, which is understandable. The sheer amount and variety of pets was pretty astonishing. There was something for everyone!

Disney California Adventure's Food & Wine Festival - Kurt Russell Q&A!

This past weekend, we attended the Food & Wine Festival at California Adventure. This is the first time in several years that they've held this festival, due to all the construction that took place. This festival celebrates all things food and wine. They have a festival marketplace set up near Cars Land, where you can purchase bites of all kinds of culinary delights, as well as glasses of wine! The festival also offers beverage seminars, where you can learn about wine, beer, and spirits from experts, and celebrity kitchen seminars, where you can learn about food from top chefs!

This was actually our second visit to this festival this year, but the first time was not nearly as exciting as this time. Our first visit, we went to a special tasting hosted by the Silverado Winery, which is owned by Ron Miller and Diane Disney (Walt's daughter). The head winemaker gave a short talk about the winery and how they operate, and we had 3 tastings of wine while sitting outside at the beautiful Sonoma Terrace.

The Blue Sky Cellar is also a special AP-only area, much like during the recent AP days, where annual passholders can get a special pin, sit for a while, and charge your phone. They also had a cool display showing the design process for a recent Mickey balloon-shaped popcorn bucket.

During the trip this weekend, we went to a special celebrity kitchen with none other than Kurt Russell! Kurt is an apprentice winemaker and has his own winery, GoGi Wines.

The event, held in Stag 17, had several rows of chairs and tables set up, with forks, napkins, and water glasses already in place, along with a notepad and Disneyland Hotel pen.

A bearded Kurt Russell spoke for about an hour and a half about how he first became interested in wine while on vacation in France, about opening up his winery, and even got super technical, talking about what kind of dirt the grapes are grown in, the all the different clones of merlot. 

We first got 2 tastings of his Chardonnay, called Goldie, and a viognier that he only makes for his mother! He had to ask her to spare a few cases for this event, which is why it wasn't as full a glass as the other tastings were. Both were delicious!

We also got a full plate of food, to taste along with the wine and see how different flavors were brought out by each. There were several kinds of cheese, nuts, raisins, dried pineapple, strawberries, and cheese on a piece of toast.

The 90 minutes flew by, and before we knew it, it was time for some Q&A. People asked him questions about his early career, when he was a kid working for Disney. He talked about Walt Disney congratulating him on his baseball championship win, and about playing catch with Elvis. What a life he's had!!

We also got a nice tasting of his red wine as well, plus a chocolate dessert!!

At the end, everyone got to have their picture taken with him and chat for a quick second. During our turn, my boyfriend mentioned that we'd recently bought a bottle of Tiger for a friends' dinner party, and Kurt laughed and said he loved drinking that wine!

And now for a bonus duck story!! While having a glass of wine prior to the Kurt Russell event at Sonoma Terrace, we saw 4 little baby ducklings quacking along. Everyone in the vicinity, self included, immediately started 'awwww'-ing. But where was their mother??

The ducks wandered off into some bushes, and then the momma duck came down a nearby flight of stairs with two yellow baby ducks in tow, quacking what I can only assume meant "where are you damn kids?" in duck-language. She walked around and people tried to shepherd her over to where the baby ducks had been.

I lost track of them until we were heading out, and saw this happy sight of the momma duck reunited with her lost ducklings. It's like a Disney movie!!

Bonus Fun Wheel at night picture! Ooooh.

WonderCon 2016, Like A Month Ago, So... Whatever.

So... I completely neglected to do a WonderCon post. And now it's like a month later, and I feel like, should I even bother? It's so long ago, no one cares anymore, right? But... I took all these pictures and I even went to the effort of editing them and everything, so... screw it, I'm gonna write it up anyway.

This year, and this year only, WonderCon was held at the downtown Los Angeles Convention Center. For the last several years, it was at Anaheim, which is great because I love Anaheim's convention center, plus Disneyland is right there, so it's really convenient to do both in a single weekend, which is awesome. However, this year their convention center wasn't available, so they moved it to Los Angeles. Here is how I feel about LA's convention center: meh.

We have to go back! Back to the future where WonderCon is once again held in Anaheim, which should be next year. Woo hoo! I so need this time machine console.

And this miniature clock tower! They also have the Lyons Estates gate, but someone was standing in front of it. Move, bro.

Playing Super Mario Bros with a giant controller seems problematic at best. Would be a cool coffee table, though.

For the honor of Grayskull! This She-Ra statue is pretty awesome.

Someone shed their Lego cosplay skins, probably to go to the bathroom. These do not seem comfortable for long term wear.

Stormtrooper in a tutu. Stormtrooper in a tutu!!!

The Awesome Mix from Guardians of the Galaxy.

A BB-8 shaped vinyl record. Can you even play this on a record player? I don't know very much about record players.

The usual 'from the con floor' picture. It was pretty crowded. Not Comic-Con crowded, but it was a lot of people.

Easter Bunny stormtrooper! WonderCon usually takes place on Easter (not next year though) so you'll often see people with easter baskets and/or bunny ears.

I need this BB-8 ice mold in my life. Why can't I find it anywhere? Why won't you let me give you my money in exchange for goods?!?!

Lego Batsignal, hopefully for signaling Lego Batman. I'm excited for that movie! Darkness, no parents!

Guy getting made up to look like Thanos. I wonder how much that chin prosthetic weighs.

A stuffed Mr. Pointy!?!

What Iron Man would look like as a Transformer, I guess?

Giant BB-8 Funko!

We stayed downtown by the convention center at the JW Marriott. It was very fancy and our hotel room was really nice, so we actually ended up spending a lot of time there. Like, probably more time there than at WonderCon. Oops.

These are the views from our window looking out over LA Live.

I did end up buying a few things, but of course. I got a couple graphic novels, an official WonderCon shirt, some Disney pins, several Funko Mystery Minis (Batman vs. Superman, and the newest Disney line, of which I got 2 Tianas and an Olaf. Always an Olaf). Also, I won a DVD box set of the entire The Guild series on DVD, along with a pin and magnet, just by rolling a D20! Very exciting. 

I also, as per usual, succumbed to a mystery grab bag. This one was at Bellzi, which is a booth I see at probably most conventions we go to. They make SUPER CUTE stuffed animals, like narwhals, bunnies, raccoons, foxes, pretty much anything that can be made to look cute, is. When I saw a brown paper bag with a question mark on it at their booth, I just couldn't resist. You have NO IDEA how excited I was when I opened it up to find a CORGI. They recently introduced this one into their collection, so I was a little surprised to find it in a mystery bag, but whatever! It also came with 2 lanyards, a keychain, and 5 pins. Pretty much probably the best mystery bag I've ever encountered.

Look at this corgi. LOOK AT IT.