10th Anniversary Collin County Home & Garden Show!
Great couples event! Perfect family activity. Spend the weekend looking at what new in decks, pools, spas, entertainment systems, storage solutions under one roof.
For all of you gardening enthusiasts, you’ll have the opportunity to question a Master Gardener about creating your perfect Spring Garden in Plano.
Ask the Master Gardeners all your toughest questions because they are experts on our local soil, climate and native plants! Master Gardeners will be giving seminars on the Celebrity Stage throughout the weekend AND available to you at their “Ask The Expert” booth all weekend! They will also be providing soil sample bags and hosting a plant-a-seed activity for the kids.
The Master Gardener program in Collin County is an educational and volunteer program affiliated with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of the Texas A&M University system.
Find out what’s hot in home remodeling for 2019 and how your garden grows in our hot Summer sun.
One of the hottest remodeling trends for 2019 is creative and decorative storage. When it comes to storing your wine bottles, Nancy Higgins at Wine Cellar Specialists says, “Why not utilize the space under a staircase or an unused pantry to carve out a refrigerated wine room? We find that these bold, unexpected glass showcase cellars delight your guests and beautifully show off your wine collection. Combining glass walls with metal racking and LED lighting with clear, frosted or etched glass comes off as the height of sophistication.”
While you’re day dreaming about your home and garden, you can also do a little shopping and tasting at the yummy treats are or from one of the many food trucks onsite!
Allen Event Center | 200 East Stacy Road | Allen, TX 75002
Show hours:
Friday, Feb. 08 2:00pm-6:00pm
Saturday, Feb. 09 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday, Feb. 10 11:00am-5:00pm
Wine Cellar Specialists Design and Construction can be reached at 972.454.0480
The Epicurean World Master Chef’s Society will be hosting their annual Food & Wine Festival benefiting Feeding Kids Right and the EWMCS Scholarship Fund at Rooftop Event Spot located in Historic Downtown Plano.
Thursday, Nov 08 2018 at 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm Add to calendar
Rooftop Event Spot, 1000 14th Street, Plano, Texas
Presale Tickets $65 Purchased at the Door $75
Don’t miss the annual Lights at Legacy celebration!
The holiday season hits full illumination when The Shops at Legacy flips the official switch Sunday, November 18th, with Lights at Legacy, Plano’s premier event heralding holiday magic.
The Lights at Legacy begins at 2:00 pm, but get there early. You can enjoy holiday crafts with Mrs. Claus, magic with Mr. Scrooge, rides on the Atmos Energy Christmas train, live entertainment, caricatures, face painting and photos with Santa.
The holiday season in Plano officially starts with the lighting of the new Legacy Texas Christmas Tree at 6:30 pm on November 18, 2018.
DNeath the Wreath Holiday Gift Market – Plano, Texas!
The Junior League of Collin County is excited to kick off their 23rd Annual ‘Neath the Wreath Holiday Market. Our four-day holiday gift market at Plano Event Center is visited by over thirteen thousand shoppers throughout Texas. Our market features the best in unique holiday and home décor, ladies clothing, accessories, gifts, jewelry, children’s items and gourmet food from over 100 carefully selected merchants.
The Junior League of Collin County is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
2018 MARKET DATES: NOVEMBER 8TH-11TH
PLANO EVENT CENTER: 2000 E SPRING CREEK PKWY, PLANO, TX 75074
Taste Bids Kitchen is a custom-designed Kitchen Event Studio specializing in fresh and unique cooking events. Kitchen owner, Eden Bullock says, “Our mission is to be the top culinary entertainment experience in Plano for kids, families and adults by engaging and delighting our budding chefs in the kitchen.”
Plano’s Taste Buds Kitchen will celebrate it’s Grand Opening on October 26th, with fun and exciting culinary classes throughout that weekend.
If anyone in your life is Dreaming of the Perfect Wedding, this weekend is the time to grab her and go enjoy the Plano Bridal Show together!
Talk about a fun afternoon of ooooohs and ahhhhs. SUNDAY, SEPT 16th at the Plano Bridal Show at the Plano Event Center from 12pm to 5pm is the perfect girls afternoon out!
What can you expect? Fashion Shows
Door Prizes and Giveaways
New Wedding Trends
Lots of Pretty things!
AND if you just can’t make it to the Plano show, scoot on over to the Allen Bridal Show at the Allen Event Center on Sunday, September 30th from noon to 5pm.
The Chocolate Festival, presented by Dallas Chocolate.org, is coming to North Texas September 7th through the 9th!
This year’s festival not only celebrates chocolate, it explores the “Future of Chocolate.” The three-day festival brings in over 70 chocolate makers and chocolatiers from around the world and locally.
It’s probably not coincidence that local artist, Emily Mantooth is the director of the festival. She says modestly, “I don’t so much make anything but bring together a world-renowned group of chocolate artisans for three days of fun. My business partner, Sander Wolf, and I spend the year looking for the most interesting and delicious chocolate makers and chocolatiers from all over the world. We bring them to Dallas to share their talents to help to educate local chocolate lovers about the complexity that is artisan chocolate.”
Event spoiler: Part of the Future of Chocolate is Craft Chocolate. Collin County chocolate maker, Troy Easton of Sublime Chocolate describes craft chocolate as creating chocolate from the cacao, or cocoa beans that grow on trees are grown within 20 degrees of the earth’s Equator.
Troy explains the process, “The cocoa beans are harvested from pods then fermented for up to seven days, then dried. The beans are then shipped to us and we sort them to make sure we use the best of the shipment and that there are no foreign objects that make it into our process. We then roast the beans at very low temperatures, anywhere between 225 degrees to 350 degrees. These temperatures are dependent upon the bean being roasted and their flavor profile. After a cooling period, we crack and winnow the beans in order to separate them from their outer shell or husk. Once the beans are winnowed, they break down into nibs. We grind these nibs into cocoa liquor.
Troy continues, “At Sublime Chocolate, we refine and conch the nibs during the same process. This can take up to 72 hours depending upon the flavor development we are looking for. Refining is basically crushing the bean down to a certain particle size…usually around 20-30 microns. Essentially, the mouth feel you should get, at this point, is very smooth. Conching is a process which helps to develop taste, smell and texture. Then, we let the untempered chocolate cool and harden before storing it for a few weeks to keep developing flavor. Finally, we temper the chocolate, then poor it into molds.”
At the Chocolate Festival, you’ll learn why the finished product is worth all this time and effort! You’ll learn about, taste, and experience the artistry and craftsmanship of quality chocolate!
The Chocolate Festival includes a Friday night VIP Party and Saturday’s family-friendly expo offering samples, chocolate shopping ops, demonstrations, and classes at Fashion Institute Gallery in Dallas.
Sunday’s hands-on workshops, including a Chocolate Tasting class and a Chocolate Making workshop, will be at held at Whole Foods Market on Preston Forest Shopping Center.
Visit Dallas Chocolate Organization for details:
Fashion Industry Gallery
1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75201
and Whole Foods Market at Preston Forest Shopping Center
Admission
$35 for adults. $5 for children 10 and under
If you’re a hot air balloon enthusiast, then 3 days of balloons, balloons, balloons in Plano’s Oak Point Park is a “must go, must see, must do” event!
InTouch Credit Union’s 2018 Plano Balloon Festival runs from Friday, evening at 4:pm on September 21st through Sunday night, September 23rd at 7:pm and the event is packed full of exciting things for the entire family to enjoy
The festival kicks off with a concert on the KLUV Main Stage with a performance by Downtown Fever, then at 5:30pm the RE/MAX of Texas Parachute Team will amaze you with a jawdropping skydiving exhibition. Downtown Fever comes back on stage to perform at 7:pm before the first Balloon Glow of the festival at 8:pm!
Plano Balloon Festival executive director, Jo Via says of the Balloon Glow, “Balloons inflate and light themselves from within. The sight of hot air balloons lit up like giant light bulbs is breathtaking. Pilots will coordinate ‘all burns’ where they fire up their burners illuminating their balloons all at once and also perform ‘count downs’ which are very crowd participatory events. A Glow is a MUST SEE at our festival!”
Plano Festival Balloon Launch: More than 45 beautifully, colorful hot air balloons will launch Friday at 6:00 pm, Saturday at 7:00 am and 6:00 pm, and Sunday at 7:00 am and 6:00 pm. Then at 8:am Saturday and Sunday mornings, another group of balloons launched from remote locations will fly over the festival grounds, aiming for a target on the launch field to see which balloon will win the Fly In Contest! And as if that wasn’t enough, there will be fireworks, food vendors, a Kids Fun Zone, and a half marathon, relay, 5K run/walk and 1-mile Fun Run.
Plano Festival Tethered Hot Air Balloon Rides by Rohr Balloons
If you’re looking up into the sky and wishing that you could float through the sky yourself, you are in luck! Rohr Balloons is providing the Tethered Balloon Rides for the Plano Balloon Festival again this year! Owner and balloon pilot himself, Brian Rohr reminds us of the Balloonist’s Prayer, “May the winds welcome you with softness. May the sun bless you with its warm hands. May you fly so high and so well that God joins you in laughter and sets you gently back into the loving arms of Mother Earth.”
See the Plano Balloon Festival website for more details.
Friday: 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday: 6:00 am – 10:00 pm
Sunday: 6:00 am – 7:00 pm
General Admission:
$10 – One Day Ticket
$20 – Weekend Ticket
$5 – One Day Tickets for Kids 3-12 years old and Seniors 65