SUNDAY; HATS, RAIN AND SUNFLOWERS

Today we went out for a croquet picnic in the park organized by the "Enchanting Hat Walk"-community; in other words, hats were mandatory.


I was hoping to be able to play croquet and go all "off with their heads!" as I felt my outfit entitled me to do so. (I also felt this is pretty much what most five year old girls in the world would want to look like at their birthday parties...)


But- the weather turned so bad we turned around pretty soon and went back home; the rainy day option of sitting in a cafe sipping champagne instead did not really suit the 5-and 10 olds in our party. (And as you can see the rain and humid air did not only ruin the plans, but also instantly ruined my fluffy curls, always as annoying.)


So the only sun we got were the sunflowers on our balcony.


(And just for the record, I love love love sunflowers!)


So it was just off with the princess clothes and on with the casual Sunday wear. I am getting older and what I earlier in my years would have referred to as more boring as I nowadays almost -or pretty much always actually- prefer less fluff and more plain. Well you know, that's the way it goes in the end I guess.

(By the way, that little olive tree of mine in the background looks pretty ridiculous. But it is still alive, so so far so good.)

The dress is an old one from Trashy Diva, the hat by Frollein von Sofa and the shoes my waterproof Melissas that sometimes are super comfy (like today) and other times not. Strange. My blouse is from Vivien of Holloway. Eddi pointed out today that it is actually a very nice one.

HEAVY BAGGAGE

Oh my! Looks like I'm about to do some traveling?


But noup; no! This is just the basic pile of bags I have to drag along when going performing...this time only to do two numbers - you can imagine what I have to carry when doing a full night's show! However, I have to add; the IBTC-suitcase does contain a small city, hence the other bag. (If that last sentence confused you and made you go all WTF? then you might want to refresh your mind with this post :)


The dress is the Trixie sarong dress from Trashy Diva (summer decided to linger a little longer, yey; I got a chance to wear it this year still!). The shoes are from Andiamo last spring and the jewelry vintage. And yes, I have rollers in my hair; this is usually how I leave home for a show; huge-headed.

JUNGLE CATS & DEMON NIGHTS

You may remember the jungle shoot from about a month back?


Photos by Emma Jo
(post production by me)

Do check out the whole series over at our BITTY-BLOG!

And you can see the new IBTC-crew perform together for the first time tonight at Kokonut Kult's Demon Night in Kokomo! And a bunch of other great performers so some might say this'd be an event one would not want to miss...

SATURDAY BY THE HOUR

Last Saturday I spent in the habour and later at a great rocking gig in town, but this is what a few Saturdays ago as looked trough my phone:

09:00 - I wake up and start pin-curling my hair for a gig at a wedding I will have in the evening. I thought it'd be a lot faster now that my hair is short, but I need to make the curls smaller in order for the to actually be curly and not just a little bent. Alas, my arms still get tired during the procedure...



10:00 - do about an hour of yoga out in the garden. The cats are as awlays very eager to join.



11:00 - pick some left over wineberries to put on my breakfast sour milk.I wish I'd have had the time to pick some earlier are out in the freezer. (But the freezer did break down recently so good thing in the end I did not pick those berries on time; it would've pissed me off big time to have seen them ruined!)



12:00 - We're about to head back to town and I say goodbye to the lambs. They get to stay out all summer and are re-located a bit according to how fast they eat the vegetation up. Right now the female lambs are just outside our house.



13:00 - Driving home trough summery fields.



14:00 - Change of plans! Since somebody's ex wife has a little different way of comprehending schedule and agreements than the rest of the world we have the kids arriving a few days earlier to us rather sudden and need to re-organize everything and change the dinner plans I had with my sister; we'll do take away in stead and have it at our place after our show - which means a quick tidying up and cleaning! (PS: the bottle does say NON-toxic cleaning, although the picture tells it a little different :)



15:00 - Still panic-cleaning...



16:00 - Packing for our gig! I'll be doing my old Finnish movie summer themed number and Eddi will be part of the show too.Last time we did said number was in July a year ago.



17:00 - my sister and her hubby has agreed to do some extempore babysitting during our show. Here's their little Lily dog with it's huge bone! Lily is quite the hit with the kids, serving as a never ending source of fascination...



18:00 - Arriving at the veune before all the guests and hiding away backstage as we are suprise perfomers. Sir Willy Waterlily, Mis Sandy Jungle and Lola Vanilla are also performing tonight which means quality time make-upping and hanging out.


19:00 - Stil waiting... Here's lovely miss Jungle.


And Lola Vanilla, drag queen extraordinaire.



20:00 - The staff at the place is great; we've performed there often at different events. They send us up some bubbly.



21:00 - Showtime! Here's me and my co-star just about to go on stage. And oh yes I do this number to some good ol' rautalanka; my favorite.


22:00 - Back home; pick up children sister and boyfriend and have lots and lots of sushi. And edamame and kimchi and wine and I'm telling you; I could have this every second day, at least!


Later - A while after this I fall asleep on the couch.