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Disney's Food & Wine Festival 2015

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN! After missing last year's festival, I aggressively prepared for what was sure to be the most epic Food &Wine Festival yet at Disney.

It also helps that this year is the 2oth Anniversary of the festival! So hang on tight because I ate a lot.

20th Anniversary Merch

But first! The merchandise. Disney takes its anniversaries seriously. This means mountains of merchandise to commemorate the year.

I don't have the heart to tell you how many of those items I now own. But let's just...

Summer is for Music: New Bands I Discovered

Firs things first - I know this blog says my last post was in May, but actually, I've been blogging all month at theSwoon Readsblog as July's featured Swoon Author! Did you miss my witty posts (the GIFS, though!)?No worries. You can find them overhere on the "Other Publications" page.

A strange phenomenon happened this summer: I discovered multiple bands/musiciansI loved so much on first listen, that I bought all their albums immediately. Yes, that’s right. Are you saying that’s normal?

Not f...

Summer of Swoon Tour: Kim's Recap

*warning: this blog post is long, mostly because of tour photos.

I'm a terrible diarist. When I was little, I kept a diary, but never managed more than a handful of entries before giving up. Then trying again. Then stopping again. My problem was that I wrotetoo much, determined to remembereverythingthat happened after each day, no matter how mundane. And that meant that my entries looked more like little novels than, well, a reasonable diary.

Thankfully, I've become slightly less obsessed with...

Blogwarming Party!

When I first started blogging on Blogger in 2010, I never thought I'd leave it. I was in my second semester of graduate school, still young and innocent and green (probably from teaching anxiety), and I remember deciding that blogging would be one big step towards becoming that writer I wanted to be.

2015. With my debut novel on the way,it was time to move on. So please say hello to my new internet home on Squarespace.

Squarespace is SO different from any other platform I've used before. I lov...

I've Moved! New Author Website!

Hello there!

These past few weeks, I made an important decision: the decision to move to a website, rather than just a blog.

So, I won't be blogging here anymore.

I have no plans on closing or redirecting I Wear Milk Crowns for now, though - I'm too sentimental! But for any new blog posts and news, please visit my new site:

http://kimkaralius.com/



See you there! 

Disney's Flower & Garden Festival 2015: Let the Fun Begin

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN.

After missing Disney's Food & Wine Festival for the first time in forever (it still haunts me), I swore that nothing on this planet would stop me from attending Epcot's other annual festival: Disney's International Flower & Garden Festival.

This is not my favorite festival of the two. March is usually sweltering, and it certainly is again this year. Right on time. Also, my mom is notorious for jumping and screaming at the mere wing-beat of a bee or wasp - they are...

Barbie Dream Date and Other Valentine's Day Shenanigans

This is a Valentine's Day post. I swear. But since making plans for this blog post, a number of Interesting and Newsworthy things happened. If you find books and blood pressure romantic, then hang on. You're in for a treat ;)

Since I last said hello on this dear blog, life has kept me on my toes.

Not the kind of toe-keeping that you see on medication commercials, where the actors wear big smiles and play casual sports in the park. More like where-has-my-life-gone-oh-it's-February-time-for-laund...

The Very Last 2014

People always ask me what I'm doing for New Year's Eve. Usually, my answer is the same: nothing. This isn't because I have the energy of an old lady, and like to go to bed at 10pm. More so, it's knowing that New Year's Eve is THE ultimate party night: counting down to 2015 in a room full of strangers does not sound appealing, especially when you're sure to run into a few traffic accidents on the way home (with no alternate routes. That's why I'm complaining).

Tonight is the perfect night to re...

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Long time, no write! How are you doing? 


I've missed this blog. November flew by so quickly. NaNoWriMo tends to speed November up, but guys, it's already December. I can barely catch my breath.

The reason I'm able to write today is because of a cold. I woke up yesterday morning with a pounding headache and a sore throat. This morning, it was a stuffy nose and earache, due to a buildup of congestion.

Apparently, I am too old to have the common cold. Noooooo. I have to be plagued with extreme...

Challenge of the Pantser: NaNoWriMo 2014

The weirdest part about participating in NaNoWriMo is that the rest of the world only sees the next 30 days as "November." Non-writers continue to do laundry, eat, scrub the bathtub, party with friends, NOT THINK ABOUT WRITING 24/7. I don't get them. Especially when I reach the halfway point in the month, and everyone around me is too cheerful.


But for us writers, the biggest challenge of the year has arrived. Some of us get scared. Some of us live for the thrill. I'm a mixture of both.

If you...