Hello everyone!

I must apologize for the massive reblog spam. I’ve been off Tumblr for quite some time lately, due to (good) upheaval in my personal life, so there’s a lot to catch up on.

Thank you to you, all my lovely and loyal followers, for sticking with me! :)

That moment when you search your own blog for a particular Phantom post and realize...

“Lot 666, ladies and gentlemen...”

Tis the Season...

So I found a(nother) top hat at the flea market yesterday, and a person who saw me carrying it around asked if I was going to be a certain character for Halloween. (Mind you, I hadn’t really given any thought to my Halloween costume yet. I know, the horror!)

I initially said “Nope, just buying it for steampunk/Victorian dress up.”

But after some consideration...

Why not?

*decorating the top hat and rummaging through closet for appropriate costume pieces*

All will be made clear in due course. ;)

Hello to all my wonderful followers, and welcome to my new followers!

I’ve been off Tumblr for a few weeks due to personal reasons, but I’m back now.

So, do you know what that means? ;)

It’s Paris Fashion Week and there are so many gloriously opulent and fantastic looks coming out of the Fall/Winter 2015 collections, so please bear with me while I go into haute couture spamming mode!

Just a word of warning to all my lovely followers that tonight’s reblog extravaganza is going to be heavy on fashion, but I will still mix in my other usual visual fare! I crave your indulgence in this. :)

Well, my lovely followers, I do apologize for being a bit scarce on Tumblr of late.  Just had a very busy, and at times extremely stressful, week. So, to make up for it, I’m doing another round of reblogs tonight!

Starting .... Now.

A friend and I went to see Man of La Mancha at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, yesterday. We met up with the awesome Lindsey of phantomonabudget, who I haven’t seen in years and it was wonderful to meet her in person again. You can read her post about our adventure here.

We had particularly planned to go see this production because Anthony Warlow was cast as the lead of Cervantes, and of course being the enormous Phantom geeks that we are we were thrilled at this opportunity to see this classic former Phantom in another classic musical/role. Alas, as fate would have it, Warlow was not on for the performance we had purchased tickets to.

Happily, our disappointment was short-lived, because the production was phenomenal. Due to Warlow being out, there was a sort of chain-reaction of understudies for a few of the featured roles. Everyone, particularly Dan Sharkey (understudy for Warlow), was amazing - incredible acting, and many fantastic vocals - and no one seemed to be fazed at all by the switching up of roles.  The production design was interesting in that there was a single, unchanging set design, and most props were things that were already onstage - repurposed and adapted to different scenes as needed. I will also note that the interpretation was very intense; much darker and disturbing than other versions - and all performed in a single act with no intermission.

If you have the opportunity to go see this production, you really should! It’s every bit as good, and even better than many things I’ve seen on Braodway or national tours. 

Note: Photos show phantomonabudget and me posing with the marquee poster outside the theater featuring Anthony Warlow, and with the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Tony Award for best Regional Theatre (2012). Very cool!

Soooo..... remember that time I went on a Nadja Auermann reblogging spree?

I did it again. Just with Stella Tennant this time. Because she's amazing.

Just a heads up as you scroll down your dash tonight. :)

I don't usually do two reblog spams in one day, but I have a LOT of stuff sitting around in my Likes and I'll never get caught up if I don't do another round of reblogging tonight.

So, there's that. Tumblr world problems

Oh, and there might be a significant amount of Najda Auermann mixed in tonight and tomorrow. Because she's one of my favorite models and I trolled her Tumblr tag for a while on a whim. Oops.

Alright, more stuff coming right up!

Soo.... I may have discovered the Ralph Lauren official Tumblr and may or may not have totally did gone through their entire archive for all the dark. dandy, and glamorous images I could find. So - sorry about the RL overload in tonight's reblogs!

But not really sorry. ;)

So sorry to my wonderful followers (and my new ones, *waves* hello!) for my week-long-ish hiatus.

Epic reblog spree to compensate, coming right up!

Welcome and apologies!

It seems I've picked up quite a few new followers over the past week. Welcome and thank you for your patronage! I hope you enjoy your stay.

To all my followers, I must convey my sincerest apologies for my absence over the past few days; over the course of my favorite holiday of the year, even. Alas, I was much occupied by the demands of "real life" and as such I was not as present, nor as festive, as I would have liked to be otherwise.

I shall endeavor to be more attentive to my blog than I have been of late.

Kind regards,

Madame C.

So I'm trying to figure out what costume I'm going to wear for volunteering at my church's Bingo night tomorrow, and my thought process is to avoid costumes that:

1) Will be too warm and cumbersome to move around the tables with

2) Will require contact lenses because I don't like to drive with them in at night, and I really hate fussing with putting them in and taking them out anyway. (Sorry, Phantom is right out!)

3) Will terrify the little old ladies

4) Will get me excommunicated in case the Pastor stops by

This is going to be problematic.

I took a bit of a reprieve from Tumblr this week, for various reasons. You could think of it as a mini Tumblr vacation.

So to make up for it I've got an obscenely large number of likes saved up for tonight.

Brace yourselves. Reblogs are coming.

To all my wonderful followers, I'm sorry for being quiet for the past couple of days. Just had some real life drama to deal with and wasn't in the mood to be active on Tumblr.

The good news is that I was able to get things sorted out, and turn a disappointing situation into productive energy to finish a project I started a while back.

Translation: You get an epic reblog spree tonight, and as an added bonus, some artwork by yours truly. Hope you enjoy, and thank you! :)