STAIRWAY SNAPSHOT IN A - WELL YES - CHECKED SKIRT

Well, yes, how surprising, I am wearing checks again. It somehow came to be the theme for this fall, (and now winter) it seems. My skirt is one of those 'hello remember me'- pieces that I had forgot excited, it belongs together as part of a vintage suit with the Pendleton jacket that I got earlier this fall. I had thought of it as too tight for me but ta-fuckin-da it wasn't and au contraire sits rather well!
And nothing says Christmas like a red tartan skirt. (Well, quite a few things actually, but clothing wise this is quite high at the top I think). Because it's all about Christmas now the following 18- or so days! (I'm trying to keep it that way at least, along with all the other 1001 thins going on...)

The coat is my old coat that I revamped for last winter. The shawl Eddi brought me from his latest trips to Bolivia.

BLACK CATS EVERYWHERE

My youngest sister gave me a set of Polkka Jam pastel cat prints for my birthday (she has a history of giving me cat-tings) that I now put up in the kitchen. I've always liked Polkka Jam's prints and I had always thought of putting something on that wall so these came in handy.


The theme of the prints also serves as a nod to our other kitchen, the one in the farm house, with the rugs and wood stove and so on.

And to the cats of course. But that does not even need to be mentioned.

SPECTACULAR SPECTACLES AND A WHOLE LOT OF GLITTER

Here are some pictures on-and-off stage from our first night of SPECTAC-O-RAMA.

The second nigt was last Saturday and even though I was still flush and with a voice that would have made even Tom Waits jealous I made it trough the night; we all did it with a bang and the house was full again!

 

 

Spectac-O-Rama is a two hour show with rockabilly music and burlesque inspired by cabaret and vaudeville. Those who have seen our shows in the early years, and our mutual shows with Sweet Jeena from those times, got a lot of old school stuff as we performed our classics like the Western Revue and The Bikini number but with new, live music twists. Birdwatching gentlemen, mescaline cacti, cardboard horses, thirsty cowboys in despair, angry monkeys and so on. The usual. We also had Mr drag n'roll Mia Li Moon and our student troupe the Shangri-La Showgirls on stage - it's rather impressive actually that we managed to fit so many people onto that small space!

Btw. You can see more of our Showgirls and what we've been up to with them and with the rest of our students as well when we organise this year's Under the Mistle Tease  - the Christmas show & party of our studio and burlesque school - next week! And here I have to mention that we also have an intern working for us (wooh, adulthood points!) who we so could not have managed without during these nights as she carried a lot of stuff around and did a lot of dressing us up and down during the two hours were we change clothes so many times that I don't even want to think about it now afterwards. We'll, this production is not totally over, new stages awaits later on!

Photos by Janne Porkka and Tuomas Lairila

THE TABULALAND DRAWING

The Tabulaland art give away is over and the person who will win a print of Saara Salmi's artwork is Agnes! Check your email for info!