More workshops!

Bling!

Here´s the line-up for Thursday´s gig @ Bar 7 Blings, located at Radisson Blue hotel on Mikonkatu, Hellsinki. Showtime is at 9pm, see you there :)

Tinker Bell by Kaylin Idora

Pepper Sparkles by Jirina Alanko

Our pick up beauty Dahlia Darkstorm

The Shangri-La Rubies by Kaylin Idora

Cherry "Turrrbo-Cherry" Dee by Kaylin Idora

Yours truly by Kaylin Idora

Springtime is here!

Here are some picture evidence from last Saturday´s evening of Springtime in Tampere! Thank you everyone who attended and all the crazy girls backstage! You are a hoot and a half <3 Lot´s of gigs coming up in the near future so be sure to follow the little box on the side of this page, changes might accure. 

Talking about crazy & wonderful ladies, Kaylin Idora wrote a really cool review of the Helsinki Burlesque Festival for 21st Century Burlesque , you can read it here! 

Putting on glitter eyes. Photo: Emiliano Melantri

Photo: Emiliano Melantri

Walk-throughs before the show, Pepper Potemkin & Grams on stage.

Leopard lady all packed for travel!

Albine fierce!

With Swedish hotties!

Pepper Potemkin, yours truly and Grams Blackbird

Albine A.Dorable and her horns (smaller this time to fit the stage!)

Say cheese!

Hostess with the Mostess, Stella Polaire.

All rolled up for the fruit hat!

Some more Kaylin

As I was surfing I found a post from  Kaylin Idora about a video shoot with the 69 Eyes they have made in New Orleans... beautiful location and beautiful women, among others the amazing Perle Noire...not to mention a very nice song, mellow and somehow a bit sad. Maybe it´s just this darkness :) So cool that rock bands are using burlesque performers in their videos. I stole the link to the video, you can go check it out.
Came to think of all those wonderful photos Kaylin has taken while visiting Finland, so I snuck in on a couple of friends facebook sites and stole these pictures, thanks Tink and Sandy <3
And Kaylin, baby you need to come back!!!

Shake it, Sandy!

The amazing Tinker Bell

Doing what must be done....

My "Kiss (of a shy girl) outfit.

Sinsational Spring

You know that feeling when you have sent like a million job-applications but the phone doesn´t ring?! Yeah well, that´s me right now. I try to keep my tail up, to think positive and not feel like a worthless loser but I´ll admit it: it´s not working out 100%. I have mentally prepared for a lot of different options if I don´t find a teaching job for next Fall, none of them are bad- hey, I´m damn good at waiting tables and I have been cleaning and I´m not afraid of doing odd jobs...it´s just that I *like* what I do. I never got the fact that some jobs would be "less worthy" than others. If it pays my bills and puts food on my table I´ll do it! I have been a very lucky girl so far that most of my plans have worked out in life and I´ve been able to educate myself and work in pretty damn cool places. With the amount of tattoos I have these days I guess going back to being a flight attendant is out of the question, though.
I guess there´s a meaning for everything and I will just figure it out later. Maybe this is the time to start my own business of burlesque and sex counseling? Maybe I´ll just be a trophy wife for the next year. Shit. I think I´m too old and not blonde enough for that.
I have been working since I was about 15, first weekends and summers and then all the time while studying but it´s always been working for someone, a firm or such. The idea of being self-employed is actually a bit scary to me. I know to artists this sounds ridiculous :) And being married to a self-employed farmer it makes it even more funny... But there you have it. My Spring promise is that I will start thinking in new spheres and allow myself to open new doors and dig in to new possibilities. Yes! But give me a month to get those last exams written and my students graded, my classroom cleaned and ...

In the meantime ya´ll should get tickets and come spend this Friday with us at Kaisaniemi- the Sinsational Spring Awakening is ON! Showtime is at 9pm and the line up includes such delicious people as Sir Willy Waterlily, Bent van der Bleau, Tinker Bell, Anna Fur Laxis, Kiki Hawaii, Koko La Douce, Frank Doggenstein, us Dizzies and if the weather permits Bettie Blackheart will light those tassels in the garden!

Another cool thing is I got my pictures from Kaylin Idora! They turned out great, she has such a personal style of doing photography. I´ll leave you with a few, maybe some ideas of my next year?

I could dust. Definetly.

I also climb to those hard-to-reach places!

I could be a lamp. Promise to be very still and not make any ruccus.

Let me read you out loud! Or, I could probably work in sales? 

I make a pretty neat couch decoration as well. Very Easter-ish.

Photoshoot with Kaylin

I did a photoshoot with the wonderful, funny and very talented Kaylin Idora while she was in Finland during the Helsinki Burlesque Festival in Febuary. I got the first picture from her today and thought I´d share it with you. Have a great Thursday! <3

Kaylin Idora Photography