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08.37At the end of the month The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret will head over to Tampere for an ordinary night of decadence; the fifth edition of Burlesque Cocktail! Or well, part of us will - it is still too early in baby life for me to travel to another town to perform...
The event will take pace at YO-talo as usual, August 31, featuring the crème de la crème of Finnish burlesque and hosted by "the moistess hostess in the world", Lamey Crackhouse. There's of course not en endless amount of tickets available , so get yours in time if you want in.
Or - you can try your luck by commenting on this post, as one of you has the chance to win a set of tickets (you+avec) for the evening!
I will draw the winner randomly a week before; Friday 24. So you still have time to plan your outfit and so on.
The competition is open to everyone everywhere - as long as you have the chance to be in said town at said night.
You can find out more about the event on it's FaceBook page.
The IBTC on stage earlier this summer (about the same time Dag was born :).
Pic by Tuula Ylikorpi.
PS.: you still have some time to enter the Years Since Yesterday giveaway!
The winner will be announced tomorrow night.
I was sent this dress, in a soft fabric and perfect blue colour, from one of my affiliates, Shabby Apple.
Apart form shirtwaist dresses, wrap around dresses are also pretty handy when your body is going trough changes, one direction or the other - this one is not an adjustable wrap dress, but anything with just a few buttons can be easily adjusted if needed -in this case I actually made the highest button the lowest one as it sat strangely right in the middle of my bust. I got a lot more room by chancing it and it still did not affect the hemline.- hopefully I one day soonish get to move all three inwards to make it tighter, heh.
Anyway, the dress is from a so called Emerging Designers collection, which means it was designed by an independent designer for Shabby Apple on a win-win basis - Emerging Designers is a program created to help start-up fashion designers manufacture and feature their clothing. The designer submits the designs and manufactures the items (with the possibility of being mentored in the process of productions) while Shabby Apple takes care of the rest; logistics, taxes, marketin campaings, customer service and so on. The designer receives 40% of the sales revenue from their collection.
The program is open for designers world wide, but please note that it means you can't just have a bunch or nice drawings for pretty dresses, but have to be serious about it and prepared to actually produce (as in fund) the clothing yourself. So nothing for me...yet at least - I do like the idea :) If it sounds like something for you can read more and apply for the program via the Shabby Apple site or by clicking the banner below (also in my sidebar):
But back to me and my dress - did I mention it has pockets? And you know what I think about dresses and skirts with pockets don't you? WIN.
If interested, the dress is the Carousel dress, runs a bit big but rather small around the shoulders, although it stretches a bit. The scarf is by Boo Boo Kitty, bag from Tunisia and the sandals are old.
Ta-ta!
Today Eddi and I posed and acted in some nostalgia mood shots filmed at our farm for a upcoming TV-production. Old Finnish cinema all the way!
The series will air next winter.
And, speaking of nostalgia, the Years Since Yesterday giveaway is over now.
Miss Fortuna decided on Julia for the winner of the giftcard to the Years Since Yesteday Etsy shop.
Congratulations & yey back to good ol' Sörkkä Julia!
If you want to stay up to date with the latest vintage additions in Ina's store as well as some other Americana and old Finnish retro inspiration you can like her Facebook page.
Late nineties nostalgia!
Then on another note, as it sometimes seem only bigger happenings in life brings out reactions here on the interwebs (like, getting married, buying a mintgreen smeg or having a baby) I put up a little poll there in the sidebar so you can click on themes you'd like to see more of here. Although I kind of know the answer as almost everyone will click OUTFITS anyway.
...and not that I will change anything though, I'll still keep on posting what I feel like posting and what I have time for but you know, it's always nice to get to do some clicking online isn't it?
(And haha, there will only be so many giveaways as I find interesting products or get good suggestions of. I just put it there as an option because, well, because :)
Today I made some fruit sherbet of watermelon, pear, lemon, rhubarb juice and agave syrup with my ice cream maker - the cutest little ice cream maker in the world! We got it from my parents last Christmas. Too bad only it actually is quite small, as in produces small amounts - but then again my dresses in waiting will thank me for that. (Although of course, sherbet like this is very dress friendly, small and big amounts alike.)
This summer there were days when it literally would not stop pouring down. I am not the one to start climbing up the walls if I have to spend a lot of time inside, but sometimes it's nice with something else to do than spending the whole day by the world wide web (it's crazy but true) or reading a book. Those rainy days might just be what you need to get those things on your want-to-do-list done; so I made some pictures for the wall with cheap IKEA-frames and a piece of wallpaper I always wanted to use, but had no actual use for.
As wallpapers usually have a nice texture it's nicer not to hide them behind the (plexi-)glass, so I glued the paper on the plexi instead of the cardboard. I intended to put a layer of varnish on the "paintings" too to be able to stand the moist but then decided to skip that phaze and hang these in the hallway instead. Which was good as I found the old tin ad for the bahtroom instead.
Outfit.
This is actually one of my best dresses, although I don't appreciate it enough I think; I forget how simple but nice it is. It's vintage; found it some years ago at my grandparent's summer house (as you may remember from my Elovena post, a post I relly like myself - I really was that kind of city person I'd go "Look, live cows!!" when seen form the car window; and now I have those right outside my living room in the ocuntryside! How things change...But OK, I still kind of tend to shout "Look!" when I see animals while driving...). I've modified the dress a bit; added some seams for a better fit. Good I didn't add too many, as this is one of few I am able to wear now post partum.
But here's what it really looks like; the outfit in action.
The shoes are Clark's originals and the belt old. My baby-stuff bag is from Cath Kidston and the pram (originally a bicycle bag, but works well on the pram!) bag is from Rascal's Etsy.
Maybe it's autumn and all it's colours approaching, or maybe it's just me being inspired by some of the fabrics and wall paper I've been checking out for upcoming home-pimping, but I've been having these urges lately to mix colours and patterns, lots of patterns!
I have finally stopped waiting for the summer heatwave that never came and have started feeling quite good about the idea of warmer cardigans, socks and cups of tea .
I always get a new interest and urge for plants at the change of seasons. And so I've updated the plants and flowers at the country house to "autumn mode". We've been out there for most of the week and I've been fixing about, running around the yard with the pram, buckets and soil, wearing my old harbour boots. They are great for anything countryside, especially since I never manage to remember to get myself a pair of rubber boots.
I could also have called this post hellofalotta onions.
These are from the vegetable garden at the farm. I can't take any pride in digging these up though (or growing them either), Eddi's aunt brought me these.
We got a vintage lamp from Eddi's cousing that they didn't need, but goes perfectly well with our wallpaper. I love the floor lamp we used to have by our bed before, but it was getting a bit crowded with the crib in the bedroom too, so letting go of the old lamp to get more floor space cleared up the room nicely. I'm taking the floor lamp to the countryhouse instead - the house is so big there will always be a corner for it somewhere to stand in...
Someone had done something strange at some point to this lamp though; it did not have a switch but had to be plugged in and out, and the chords had been modified and attached in a weird way. I took it to an electrician who fixed it with proper old school switches too for a very decent price. It's really worth getting your old electrical equipment checked and updated by someone who knows what he or she is doing; this applies to other than just lamps too of course!
Calming down after a little marathon of shouting.
Well yes.
Anyway. I got myself something I wanted in some form for about a decade already; a pinafore dress! Reminding me of the ones I wore as a kid. This one is from Marimekko and has A LOT of pockets.
Just the way I like it. It's a super-practical mommy dress.
The shoes are very very old as you can see (falling apart, but I just can't bare to throw them away), shirt from American Apparel and the red cardigan I got from H&M just because it was less than five euros, and it's turning out to be my best cardigan this fall. What do you know.
PS. Dag is wearing my old romper. It makes him look like a candy cane.
Ahahahahaha: A blast from the past!
From the early 00's, at least ten years back. I remember we took these at a photo course when I was studying. About first time I ever used a digital camera I think.
I've been trying to clean some files on my computer - a dreary task that does not go so well as it is both boring and interesting at the same time; I start browsing trough old stuff that I find. I have no idea how I have these pictures at my computer, as I did not get one myself before 2005. I must have copied them from a CD. Hahahah, again. (But then again, there are even some works that I saved on diskettes, floppy disks, way way back...)
I also remember, when starting my studies, reading a sign in the computer room saying "remember to clean your working space when leaving" and thinking of it as the actual working desk, not desk top. Hahahaha one more time.
But of course, none of this was funny back then.
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