Returning Monday......

It has been a very busy and hectic week with 50+ hours in. The Mistress isn't used to all the work! With store holiday trim and windows being prepped for installation, store events and meetings, another Rachel Zoe fashion show a possibility ,and a charity drag show, plus two more trips to the city, it has been insane! I even stayed in Jersey two nights at the Lads house because I was just too tired to drive home. What made me think I'd get rest there? So needless to say, I'm going to relax this weekend with a few things planned, so I 'll be away for the weekend, so don't do anything the Mistress wouldn't! And have a cock-atail. After all, as Kasha Davis says,"There's ALWAYS time for a cock-a-tail!

We Endorse Carmen Dell'Orefice

We at the Casa du Borghese LOVE supermodel, and I mean that in every sense of the word, Carmen Dell’Orefice, who if you can believe it turned 80 this year. The style icon has been modelling ever since she got on the cover of Vogue in 1946 at 15 years old! Carmen is also known as the world's oldest working model, and she lost her fortune not once, but twice!!!!!! And gained it back. In the 1980s and 1990s, Carmen lost most of her money in the stock market. She was forced to auction off her famous modeling photographs from the 1940s-1980s through Sotheby’s. In 1994, with what little money she had left, and with money from boyfriend Norman Levy, she invested with Bernard Madoff. Levy died in 2005, at age 93, and Madoff was the executor of his will, which had $244 million in assets, according to Carmen. Madoff further used this money to lure in about 13,500 individuals and charities. She continued to regularly have dinner with the Madoffs after Levy’s death. In December 2008, a 68-year-old friend who invested her life savings with Madoff, telephoned Carmen to inform her that she too, had been swindled. Carmen said, “For the second time in my life, I’ve lost all of my life savings.” Well, she gained it back again and through all this, still kept classy and stunning as ever. Dames like this are a rare commodity. I endorse her for all her fabulousness! She seriously takes this queen's breath away.

No Kindle for Now......

Thank-you all for your feedback about my complication over getting a Kindle, but for now I think I'll stick with my old one......

Grande Dame

Misty Stevens is an entertainer in Kirkland, Washington. She started performing in 1971 in Ashville, North Carolina. Misty considers the late Tiffany Jones to be one of her drag idols who helped put her in drag and win a talent contest at the Red Door in Houston, Texas also in 1971. Misty has been performing ever since. Her career has had her living and working in such places as North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Washington. In Seattle she was the show director for “The Fabulous Fakes” show for 13 years at the Golden Crown before it closed in 1993. After a 10 year hiatus, Misty is now producing a show called “Retro Divas” and she can be seen at various venues in the area. She is quite the stunning diva no?