Monthly Newsletter: June 2022 (No. 5)
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This is the fifth newsletter and monthly feature highlighting events, happenings, and general news of all channels of Our Technicolor Life.
We have a lot of new subscribers and we wanted to welcome everyone and thank you for following us! For those new to Our Technicolor Life, we are a husband-and-wife team that lives a vintage lifestyle and has a passion for the arts. We entertain, sing, travel, create, and host tea parties out of our historic home. Follow along each channel - tea, travel, entertainment, art, lifestyle, and more that make up Our Technicolor Life.
TEA
In May we hosted several fun themed tea parties, both private parties and public tea events. We hosted bride to be, Rachel and a few returning guests who had previously had bridal showers tea parties with us here at The Old Capitol Tea Room.
We host private parties for groups of 10 or more weekday or weekends based on schedule availability. Our private parties are a great way to have the full tea room experience with your family and friends. We frequently host bridal showers, baby showers, birthdays, book clubs, church meetings, appreciation celebrations, or just an excuse to play tea party with your own group.
To schedule a private party, please fill out our private party form and we will check the schedule for availability.
The tea room is closed the month of September. Our private party availability October - December is very limited on weekends with the public tea events on schedule, but we are happy to look into weekday or weeknight private party dates during October, November, & December months.
This past month we also hosted a themed private party! Did you know you can theme your private party? We have add-on packages if you would like to add a theme to your special occasion. We offer character add-ons, decoration add-ons, as well as music and entertainment add-ons for your tea party experience. Our most popular add-ons being having your tea party hosted by Lucy & Desi, Professor Dumbledore and Professor Trelawney, or Alice and Hatter. We hosted a Harry Potter themed private party birthday party. Hosted by Professors Dumbledore and Trelawney, the parents of the birthday girl even got in on the fun dressing as Professor McGonagall and Hagrid! We played pin the nose on Dumbledore, Would You Rather Harry Potter style, and had a hat sorting.
See our full list of character add-ons under our private party FAQ page.
You can also add live music by the Tin Pan Alley Cats to your tea party. The Tin Pan Alley Cats are the perfect touch to your tea party celebration featuring live music of the 1920-1940s while you enjoy your tea.
It was also a very Jolly Holiday with our Mary Poppins Sing Along Tea Party! Mary Poppins and Bert couldn't help themselves but sing with so many smiles at The Old Capitol Tea Room! We are always looking at new ways to add singing elements to our tea party events so we are thrilled to announce we will be adding Musical Monday's to our tea party schedule which will include such musicals as Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, and Chicago, just to name a few we plan to add.
In May, we also brought back fan favorite, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party hosted by Alice and Hatter. This tea event always makes for such a whimsically fun afternoon. We celebrated real birthday's and a bunch of very merry un-birthday's at this tea party.
June events have sold out but we recently added a few more Tuesday Tea & Trivia nights as well as a few other weekend tea events in July and August. Tickets tend to sell quickly so if you see one you would like to attend, don't delay, grab a table when the events go live.
Upcoming Tea Parties:
Under the Sea Sing Along Tea Party
Sunday July 10th at 3 pm
Villains Tea & Trivia Tuesday
Tuesday July 12th at 8pm
The Office Tea & Trivia Tuesday
Tuesday August 2nd at 8pm
I Love Lucy with Tribute Show
Sunday August 7th at 7pm
Breakfast at Tea-ffany's Tea Party
Sunday August 14th at 2pm
TRAVEL
After 2 years, Jeff's work conference was finally rescheduled. Jeff is the general manager for Kasgro Rail Corporation. Kasgro provides shippers with one of the most modern fleets of heavy-duty flatcars in the world. Jeff is part of a five-member team in fleet management for Kasgro. This five-member team is responsible for the daily management of more than 500 heavy-duty cars with capacities ranging from 190,000 to 1,000,000 lbs. The car management team works with all major and short-line railroads to facilitate the movement of all KRL cars and works with various shippers, ports, and logistics companies to fulfill car orders on a daily basis.
Check out more about Kasgro Rail Corporation here!
The Railway Industrial Clearance Association (RICA) was founded in 1969 and is dedicated to serving the heavy and dimensional transportation industry. There are over 400 members and the annual conference hosts representatives to explore opportunities and seek solutions to the challenges that arise in transportation regarding railways. Having been postponed since 2020, the RICA conference was rescheduled for May of 2022 and we finally made it to New Orleans for the return of the annual conference.
We love New Orleans so this two year hiatus just made the return even more special. Jeff and I have visited the Big Easy several times before and we headed down a few days before the start of the conference to visit some tried and true favorite spots and check out some new places! We found a wonderful Air BnB on Algiers Point called the Little Green House! Check them out on Instagram! Our stay in this gorgeous 1883 home was such a treat! We were just a short walk away from the ferry and had some lovely views of the New Orleans skyline from the River Walk, plus Algiers Point really is the New Orleans best kept secret! Just charming and great local coffee shops, parks, and eateries, not to mention plenty of stunning houses to admire on your neighborhood walk.
As you should in New Orleans, we ate out a lot! After putting this trip on hold for 2 years, we figured that we could indulge a bit. We brunched, walked, shopped, and then hit some favorites in the French Quarter, Garden District, Bywater, and made our way down to River Road to see some of the historic homes. We also took an insane amount of pictures! Check out our day by day blog posts for where we went, shopped, and ate while in New Orleans. Here's a little taste of our time in the Big Easy!
The conference is usually held towards the end of June but with all the postponements, we found ourselves in New Orleans Derby week! It was a whirlwind trip heading out of New Orleans Oaks day and 11.5 hours later we arrived back home to make it to the track for Derby Day!
