Monday inspiration

Howdy!

What a weekend! Kiki hawaiji got married to her Miro and it was a fantastic Soviet-Space-Star Trek goes folklore-wedding <3 Congrats you sweethearts, once more!

This Monday has been saved by three things: a nap, hot yoga and a video of the coolest kid EVAH dancing. I´m so in awe, it´s so inspirational! That´s why I want to share it with you: you´ll feel so happy after watching it, I promise :)

Link here !!! have a great beginning of the week!

Me at the wedding, photo by Tuomas Lairila

Backstage!

Friday gig was Tiina´s and Esa´s wedding in Ruissalo, Turku. As usual a picture tells more than a tousands words so here´s the backstage photos from Friday!

Pepper helped me with my hair in the car...crammed on time, we were.

Lipschtick check at a gas-station

Bettie & Frank getting ready for their wedding zombies

Louis Cypher and Frank

Victory rolls in a moving car (Sir Willy was driving)

Handsome men Louis & Willy

<3

Brides Bettie and Souci

Tic-toc...

...time is flying! Only a couple of weeks to Helsinki Burlesque Festival so if you haven´t got your tickets GET THEM NOW! There are still single tickets for Friday and double for both days but Saturday is sold out and you can buy them here !!!

Remember these dates in Feb!

It´s going to be busy,busy,busy until that...Besides rehearsing like crazy and trying to get all props and outfits done plus on the 12th of February I´m participating in V-day reading the Vagina monologues at Teatteri Takomo in Helsinki. There will be wonderful women reading and the profit goes to end violence against women. Workwise I´m starting my class for sexual counsellor and am *really* looking forward to that! But that, of course, means that there will be classes to plan for my substitute...oh well! I have been sitting with my calendar all morning trying to get everything to make sense...
Last night though it was all about love - me and my sweetheart attended the wedding of a friend of mine. I do love winter weddings! The bride was gorgeous, the groom was handsome and all in all atmosphere was just right. Here´s my outfit from yesterday, have a gorgeous Sunday <3

Dress Stop Staring!, bolero Big Beautiful Barbara Brown, hair piece Sally Vanilla

Earrings  gorgeous art deco ones from Hoochie Mama Jane

Colors and a bit of a wedding

 It´s a gorgeous day; sunshine, the colors of Fall...and I´m sick again. This time I also lost my voice. Trying to keep my spirits up with positive thinking, which made me look at this piece of art I have at home: the cake-topper from our wedding made by the awesome Tapani Kokko. He is a friend and a neighbor and a well-recognized artist who has had exhibitions both in Finland and abroad, latest Paris and Rotterdam http://festivalwww.nl/en/artist/tapani-kokko-finland/

I love his work! It´s a mix of naïve and grotesque, lots of colors, skulls, sexuality...reminds me a bit of South American stuff, the Day of the Dead and such.
Add a bit of Autumny colors; pumpkins, apples and gerberas and it made a pretty stilleben. Sunshine is a nice bonus :)

Photo by Roy Bäckström

Staring at the topper took me back to that wedding day. We celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary in the beginning of September - time flies! This photo was taken in the car on our way to church. I was really nervous and the driver kept joking that we still had time to turn around and he could drive me to the airport if I´d like that.

I´m glad I chose not to ;)