The vibes have been haute, haute, haute as Do-it-yourself Hope’s inaugural Cooking Up Type soirée took over Tootsies on a rescheduled (however oh-so-worth-it) Monday night, Jan. 27. Regardless of a wintry shuffle to the date, the glamorous gathering delivered loads of sparkle.
With greater than 160 trendy mates in attendance, the night started with mingling, buying, and swooning over raffle prizes like Luke Bryan rodeo tickets and Diamond Membership seats for the Astros. Visitors bought Rodeo-ready whereas the beats of Johnny Bravo introduced power. Bravo did double responsibility because the night’s emcee for the primary occasion: An elegant runway present that includes group leaders, fashion experts, and philanthropists modeling appears to be like from Tootsies and Festari for Males.
Do-it-yourself Hope’s Blair Bentley Ozenbaugh, founder and government director, spoke concerning the group’s impression — empowering at-risk kids with after-school culinary lessons, mentoring, and life-skills programming.
Strutting their stuff with panache have been Alex Heins, Adam Greer, Dr. Brittany Owen, Lisa Woods, Margot Delaronde, Josh Marcell, Scarlett Hankey, Ellecia Knolle, Janessa Younger, Beverly Bentley, Trent Kelley, Mary Lou Pringle, Oliver Stevenson, Haniyeh Mirdamadi, Younger Son, Dr. Monica Patel, Michele Leal, and Brooke Bentley Gunst. Every introduced their very own swagger, incomes cheers from the group.
Greater than $75,000 was raised for Do-it-yourself Hope.
Noticed have been Jeff Gunst, Brent Ozenbaugh, Debbie and Rudy Festari, Cam Canion, Barton Bentley, Peter Doyle, Katie Tsuru, Cyndy Garza Roberts, Lila Sharifian, George Farah, Melissa McWilliams, Julie Thomas, Cindi Rose, Amal andDr. Khaled Khalaf, Danielle and Jason Johnston, Louise Jamail, and Kristen Berger.
