Check out these great shots of Kat Graham attending US Weekly’s Hot Hollywood “Stars Who Care” Event. Doesn’t she look awesome?? I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, I love Kat Graham’s funky style. A lot of what she wears reminds me of my 80′s days. And then her makeup is always perfection, and she does it herself. She’s an amazing makeup artist. Thanks to Katerina Graham Source for these photos and you can view many more over in their gallery.
(Thanks to @ace1977ca for this photo, more can be viewed HERE)
As everyone knows, I was able to attend the benefit Ian Somerhalder hosted this past Saturday for St. Tammany Humane Society, and I wanted to give you guys a little recap of my experience. Also, as you know, even though I was already attending this event to support this wonderful cause, I was given the opportunity to represent The Vampire Diaries fandom and presented Ian with a donation in the amount of $11,100 that was raised due to a project Natalie of the-vampirediaires.com started for Ian’s birthday.
Huge thanks to Natalie for choosing me to represent her project and St. Tammany Humane Society’s director, Vaughn Maurice for giving me the wonderful treatment when I got there. I was given my own table for the event, with my name on it and then to top it off, I was also invited to attend the exclusive champagne reception prior to the main event. So I will start with my experience there.
(Thanks to Romancia for this great photo!)
Champagne Reception with Ian
When I first arrived at the champagne reception, I met the wonderful Romancia Love of Romancia Online. She had volunteered to help with the benefit, and had gotten permission to set up a live stream of the reception. I just want to send her a HUGE thanks for doing this. This allowed many fans to experience this who didn’t get a chance to attend the event themselves, and I’m sure they are all forever grateful, because they received an unexpected treat, when Ian walked over during the reception and spoke to everyone, blew kisses, etc. So yeah, a pretty epic moment for the fans. Fortunately, Lisa Capuletco captured a bit of it and uploaded it to youtube. Click HERE to view her page.
Actually, you will see in this video, where I first meet Ian. Romancia had mentioned to the fans that I was right next to him. And he didn’t realize I was there, so I tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Hi, I’m Ruthie.” So he leaned over and smacked me on the side of the face with the biggest kiss. So yeah, a pretty amazing first encounter with Ian Somerhalder. Immediately, he started thanking me for everything, and I told him that we had an early birthday present for him, and we would be presenting him with it during the main event. We posed for a few pics, and then he had to go to the main event.
Last night, I had the opportunity to attend a very exciting event held by St. Tammany Humane Society hosted by none other than our wonderful Ian Somerhalder. Not only did I attend the event, I represented the Vampire Diaries Fandom who had donated to Natalie’s (of the-vampirediaries.com) birthday project and presented Ian with a donation of $11,100. It was an amazing experience. Here are some videos that were captured during the event thanks to the awesome Romancia of Romancia Online including the actual presentation to Ian and the director of St. Tammany Humane Society.
So later, more to come including pics and possible videos. Stay tuned! Thanks to lisacapuletco for capturing this portion of Romancia’s Ustream of the Champagne Reception where towards the end, Ian gives me my first smackeroo of the evening. :D
Champagne Reception – Ian on the Live Ustream
Many of you that are attending the Unleashed: Bash On the Bayou event on November 13th have asked how things will proceed. Thanks to Natalie of Blood Falls, we now have a detailed schedule of the event. The following is a message Natalie received from the director at St. Tammany Humane Society in response to fans questions.
Meeting Ian:
The Champagne Reception is the best way to meet Ian and chat but after the reception he will be in the main ballroom and will be going around the crowd. Bring cameras. We have only sold 39 raffle tickets to win 2 tickets to the reception so people have a good chance if they want to buy a raffle ticket. The event is Cocktail attire.
Basically the schedule is:
- Main ballroom event opens at 7:00 and goes to 11:00 (food, drinks, silent auction & dancing)
- In a small room from 7:00 to 7:45 is the Champagne Reception with Ian
- After the reception Ian will go to the main ballroom to spend the rest of the evening with all 845 (at the point) fans
Main Ballroom Music:
- 7:00 to 7:30 We3
- 7:35 to 7:45 Alysha Black Wimberly
- 7:50 to 8:40 Christian Serpas & Ghost Town
- 8:45 to 9:20 Chelsea Field
- 9:25 to 11:00 The Distractions
We have 20 different restaurants providing all kinds of awesome food
To purchase tickets to the event, please visit the St Tammany Humane Society website.
The other day Ian Somerhalder tweeted about an event that will be taking place in his home town. He will be the host of “Unleashed: Bash on the Bayou“, an event being held to benefit the St. Tammany Human Society. The event will take place Saturday, November 13th. Here are some more details, and click the photo below for ticket information.
This upscale, Cajun themed, benefit includes music from three awesome bands, dancing, open bar, silent auction, and is fully catered by many of New Orleans area’s finest restaurants such as Zea Rotisserie Grill and Copeland’s.The Chairman for the evening is Covington’s own Ian Somerhalder from the CW’s Vampire Diaries! Now, you definitely don’t want to miss this event.
Tickets are $60 a person in advance and $75 at the door (if it’s not sold out). All the proceeds benefit the homeless animals here at the St. Tammany Humane Society.
If you want to spend the night with Ian, help animals, enjoy great music, food, and much more! Get your tickets before we sellout.
I have exciting news! I have been fortunate enough to meet a new friend, Cindy (be sure and check out the site she runs with her friend Christina, The Salvatore Boarding House), who only lives about 45 minutes away from me. And she and I will be attending this event! We are so excited and are planning a whole weekend trip to New Orleans. It’s going to be a blast and it will be for a good cause too. Our plans are to head down Friday, and return on Sunday. So if anyone is planning on going, please let us know! We are going to try to schedule a fan meetup before the event! You can DM me on Twitter or send an email to vampirediariesonline@gmail.com, would love to hear from you!
Check out this really cool video interview of Katerina Graham when she attended the Starlight Children’s Benefit. This is one of the most adorable videos I’ve seen! :)
Here are some shots of our beautiful Vampire Diaries stars at the Grey Goose Characters and Cocktails Winter Fundraiser in London.
Over the weekend, Katerina Graham and former cast member Kayla Ewell attended the 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade! Here are a couple of pics courtesy of Katerina-Images.com (view the rest HERE) and huge thanks to @djscorpia for the heads on this video of an interview from the parade.
