Humming under her breath Matilda carried on unpacking her bags to set up the stall for the festival food fair, taking a bite out of one of the cookies to ‘test’ it was still good. She knew it was still good but she had also missed breakfast thanks to putting the finishing touches to some of the henna style decorated macarons so she was a little hungry. Ducking down beneath her table to pull out another box of cupcakes the brunette saw a shadow of a person fall over the stall and stuck her hand up above the surface to show that she was there with a small wave. “Down here! Bare with me I’m just grabbing a box and I’ll be right with you, everything is labelled, but if you have any questions I’m right here.” As she popped back up with a bright eyed grin even though it was early in the morning. “Hey there! Morning!” @crystalcitystarters
CRYSTAL CITYS ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS; EVENT 003
Run every year by the Crystal City Heritage Counsel, in collobartion with the Crystal City Synagoge, St. Anthonys Church and the Hindu Temple of Crystal City is a one month long celebration of winter holidays. With Diwali, Hanukkah and Christmas happening all around the same time, the city decided to honor each one with special events for four and a half weeks each year. On the weekend before Christmas, the heritage counsel will also throw a Festival of Lights Gala, a night to dress up, mingle, dance and learn about each culture and holiday. All proceeds from the gala will be split between the Synagogue, the Church and the Temple.
When: November 26-December 25th, 11 am-10 pm
Where: Ronson State Park, Crystal City Counry Club.
What: The Crysal City Annual Festival of Lights/The Festival of Lights Gala.
THINGS OFFERED:
A Holiday Market: this is offered everyday from November 26th through December 25th, from 11 am until 10 pm, the market includes vendors from diverse cultures and places. A great place to find gifts for your loved ones, or special things for your home. The market also has multiple food and drink vendors.
Entertainment: Each week celebrates something different, a different culture, a different celebration. It will be announced in the beginning of each week what events will be happening then, but music, fireworks, shows, poetry, etc can all be expected.
OOC INFORMATION:
The event will start on Friday, November 27th and end on Friday, December 25th. The Gala will be December 19th but will stay open until the end of the full event on December 25th. Since the event is a month long, not all starters have to involve it, but do feel free to use it as a base for your starters for the month! For the gala though, starters for that start on the 19th and you must follow the two starter rule.
You do not need to stop your normal threads, but we do encourage you to use the event for plotting, and open starters!
tag starters with crystal.event3, as well as tagging the starter blog/tag and feel free to tag the inspo blog ( @crystalcityinspo) with any musings/insta/pictures and outfits related to the event!
There are fireworks going off in the background, loud and bright and everyone is cheering. He has just finished his set, a mix of his own music and traditional Hindu music, music that made him feel whole in the moment in a way that all of the partying and drugs never did before. He’s still on stage, but he’s facing the water, and the fireworks display going off over it. Crystal City, he thinks, is not exactly where he had pictured his life before, it wasn’t Los Angeles, where when he was young he had expected to be living in some mansion, but it was home, and things like tonight felt like he was where he was supposed to be.
“Thank you all for coming out tonight, and this week, to celebrate Diwali with me, I hope you enjoyed the show. Saal Mubarak” he says into the mic, waving one last time before heading back and off the stage, wiping his face off on his shirt. He downs a bottle of water, and then stops when he finally sees a familiar face in the crowd.
“Hey! Thanks for staying! did you enjoy the show?” he asks, eyes bright from the adrenaline from being on stage. “Come on, come with me, I’ll buy you a drink.”
“This is exactly the kind of party my parents would have their hands all over,” Eden states, martini glass in hand, filled with a peppermint, Christmasy themed drink that was right up her alley. It’s not that she’s against this sort of thing ,especially when they’re involved in giving to charity, but she’s also so terribly used to them, having been attending them since she was at least fifteen years old. But there’s a difference this time, as she stands here in a gorgeous green gown she took from back home, twenty-six years old, a mother, a friend, a business woman. She doesn’t have anybody she has to pretend for here. That’s the beauty of it all, she doesn’t need to pretend she’s the perfect daughter for anyone here, headed towards Yale. She can just be Eden. “Come on,” she finally says, taking a drink from the glass in her hand “what do you say we go check out that display outside?” @crystalcitystarters
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An all expenses paid 4 day stay in a luxury apartment in France, depature and reutrn flights on a private jet. (Donated by Casey Wells and Elias Morgan)
A one year fully paid membership to Crysal City Country Club, all amentiies included. (Donated by the Crystal City Country Club)
A free spa day for two (Donated by the Crystal City Heritage Council)
A fixed up 1997 C5 corvette (Donated by Bren Clery)
A guitar signed by Slash from Guns n Roses’ (Donated by Zayne Desai)
Season tickets to the Crystal City Ice Devils hockey games. (Donated by the Crystal City Ice Devils)
a newly renovated fishing boat docked in the harbor (Donated by Veronica Leon)
Free breakfast for a year at Rosie's diner (Donated by Veronica Leon)
free salsa dance lessons (Donated by Veronica Leon)
Alphonse Mucha's Four Seasons as mirror Prints (Donated by Chhaya Bhatt)
