Summer tidings

It seems that finally autumn has arrived and summer is just a warm memory for the next seven to eight months... sigh. I really should be going to sleep by now, but I thought that I'd drop by first to post some Instagram photos ranging from May to September, to reminisce the past, wonderfully warm and sunny summer and welcome the darker seasons again.

In May we celebrated the anniversary of our engagement. ♥ That chocolate cake was pretty good and we ate it at our favorite café called Bisketti. :)

In August for some reason I got inspired and did my nails! I'm usually super lazy with them and just paint them plain black most of the time but this was a nice exception for that. :)

August was really productive month for me, well, except work-wise (or maybe because of that, hahaha!) and I even had time to pluck berries at our summer cottage. ♥

In August there was also the Night of the Arts and I was there also, this time illustrating post cards and fridge magnets with guys from Oulu Comic Club. That triskele skull I made for Mr. Wolf. :3

I guess Mr. Wolf must have loved this little gift, since soon after he took me to dinner at Harald! It is a viking themed restaurant and really good at least here in Oulu! I had salmon, vegetaables, this pancake thing and cider, nom nom nom!

We have also traveled a bit, with Béla of course. He seemed a bit bored at our in-laws, poor thing. :D Should have brought his toys with us I guess... :3

This same weekend we were spending time at our summer cottage, celebrating the season ending. I simply love being there, I wish I could stay there longer and more often.

The ending of summer season also means a bonfire. It is so beautiful when all people there at their own cottages light bonfires and candles and it all reflects to the pitch black sea... love it. ♥

 Just a little while ago we went to movies! I love eating Ben & Jerry's at the movies with that adorable shovel... haha! We watched RED 2 and actually I liked it really much! Over the top, but just the right way!

Finally, last Saturday I spent a couple of hours at Fantasiapelit Oulu, selling vanity press edition comics, made be me and bunch of other cool people. We sell them there every third Thursday of the month, if somebody's interested in coming. :) There was also some sort of Magic the Gathering tournament at the same time, which seemed quite fun, so if I dare I think I'll take part in that at some point also!

So, my summer in a nutshell, or at least some highlights. How was your summer, dear readers and are you looking forward to autumn and winter? Personallu summer is my favorite season, but I also love the darkness and falling leaves of autumn, perfect season for drinking red wine and do something creative (indoors). ;)

Burlesque road trip

Phew! Yesterday we got back from our burlesque road trip to Vaasa! Just to be clear we went there with Madam Hardware and the Kinky Carnival to perform in Viva La Burlesque, since the lovely Lily Kiss Kiss & Le Rouge Mirage. ♥ Our trip was probably one of the best things I have ever done in my life! I think I did all right with my show, even though I had a slight wardrobe malfunction, but audience seemed to enjoy themselves so it's all good. Mr. Wolf also came with us, since I don't want to perform if he won't be watching and he was also our driver / body guard / general support guy. :D

Sadly I didn't have much time to take photos myself, but one of our lovely new members took a bunch, I'll post some as soon as I can. For now, I'll post a couple of shots from my phone and a few from the shoot we had before the show with Pauli Tavasti. Just so you know, the theme of my show was absinthe fairies and I actually drank real absinthe during it! Sadly the only absinthe you can buy from here is Pere Kermann's Absinthe, which tastes like poison, I cannot recommend drinking that crap in any circumstances. I should have ordered my favorite absinthe, which is Jacques Senaux Green online, but somehow I just forgot... boohoo. But enough rambling now, let's see the pictures!

It was wonderful to perform, but I'm really bummed that we couldn't actually see Lily Kiss Kiss & Le Rouge Mirage performing, since there were so many people. Luckily they took video footage, so maybe I can at least watch that later. :) I would like to go see burlesque myself for a change, but there hasn't been any shows lately nearby... What about you, dear readers? Have you seen any great burlesque shows lately? Who did you go see, where and when? Do tell me! If I have to travel to see burlesque I might as well go see your favorites! ♥

Oh, one more thing! The song that I used on the background was this wonderful track from The Damned! ♥

 

Rubber

Firstly, I need to apologise the rather poor picture quality. Firstly, Wolf (who was super sweet to take these pictures) is rarely at home during the few hours of sunlight, especially at the same time as myself and secondly, from now on we probably have to use our cellphone cameras since our only memory card reader broke. :< I wont buy a new reader or cord since I'm planning to buy a new camera anyway in a few months. But yeah, some pictures of the clothes I bought on our trip to London and some other items as well. :3

I bought this Lip Service Ring A Ding Ding Pinstripe Vinyl Skirt from some store in Camden, I think it was DarkSide. :) Such beautiful piece of clothing. I would like to buy the matching shirt also, but I haven't found one in my size (which I think is small in Lip Service) with a reasonable price tag

 also. :< If someone has the One For My Baby Cap Sleeve Top in black and size small I would be interested in buying it. :3

I'm also wearing my new hand bag. I don't remember the brand but I purchased it in Romeo & Julia in Oulu. My poor Demonia bat bag broke (didn't even own it for one year, come on!) so I needed a new one, fast. I really like it, except for the insides, which is black. Just like everything inside it. So I really can't find shit. :D But it is pretty. x3 <3

This latex outfit was the main thing of the London shopping trip. It is actually a playsuit and a high-waist skirt. Both of these are from Honour, but the brand is Skin Two. I totally loved Honour as a shop! The personnel were really nice, the shop well organized and beautifully decorated. I think I tried on half the latex items in the store. :D While leaving both my wallet and heart felt light as feathers... *sigh*

The last piece in this post was a gift from my lovely friend Neeppu. Latex panties from Westward Bound! Awwwwwwwwh I cannot even describe how happy I am! Thank you lovely woman! <3 I definitely have to get some Alice in Wonderland outfit, just because of this lovely, lovely sky blue and cream white coloring. <3

So yeah, pretty much all the nicest pieces of clothing I've bought since summer. :3 Some basic pinstripe pants from flea market and maybe a t-shirt... but so basic I cant be bothered to photograph them. :P Actually I'm selling/throwing out like 75% of my clothing at the moment. Table is reserved and the best pieces have already been bought by friends. I want and need SPACE. But well, I guess that's all for now. :3 I'm off to bed, since I have a draw and paint class early tomorrow. Buh-bye!

Dead and buried

Ladies and Gentleman! May I present to you... dead things in London! And some other curiosities as well. We spent one day in London visiting different museums and I definitely loved that! Even as a child I always wanted to go to the Finnish Natural History Museum whenever we were in Helsinki. The two-headed calf was my absolute favorite. ;) The museums in London were free too, so if you ever visit London I suggest you skip the Tussaud's and the Tower, save your money for food/drink and shopping and go see the London's finest dead and buried!

Anyway, I took a shitload of pictures but in most of them there's some kid photobombing the image since apparently people of London considered us a curiosity as well... ù_ú; Oh well, I'll post some (way too many still...) anyway, starting from the Science Museum.

We stopped by the Science Museum just really quickly, but it was full of wonders and you could easily spent half a day there. The lighting was poor though and my crappy camera said no can do so only a few pictures from there.

Next stop was Natural History Museum, which was right next to the Science Museum. It was really cool except for the fact that the area containing taxidermy was full of kids running around, pulling your clothes, photobombing pictures and their parents asking if they could take pictures with us... so pretty exhausting, though the animals were amazingly cute!

I had never seen a dodo before I think, so adorable things! Also, the dinosaurs and other prehistorical creatures blow your mind with their size and all! No wonder Jurassic Park used to be one of my favorite movies as a child!

Imagine my face when I found a container filled with bats! Some of them were huge! Pure love. <3

My favorite thing in the whole museum however was the "jar department". All kinds of things preserved in glass jars. Just look at them! Mr. Wolf was quite dumbstruck when I was running around squealing happily and taking pictures. :D He doesn't really share my enthusiasm in this... xD

By the end of the tour we were quite tired already but I took a couple of more pictures. Then we went to get drinks in some pub and continued to our final destination, the British Museum.

The British Museum is wonderful even as just a building. It really takes your breath away, I can assure you. And you could easily spend the whole day there. We didn't have that much time so we went for the things that interested us the most: the mummies and other historical relics.

It still amazes me how well a human body can be preserved if the conditions are right. I swear some of those mummies could have just been very thin people sleeping...

I had never seen a mummified cat before! The position is very odd... so human-like. o_o

Even though I loved the mummies best the museum is packed with relics, such as swords, jewellery and art. I highly recommend this place for basically anyone, but especially those interested in history of humans.

The rest of our vacation consisted of eating, drinking and shopping. :3 Unfortunately, I still haven't got pictures of the stuff we bought... I'll try to ask Wolf if he has time to take some tomorrow but we'll see, since time is very limited due to the short period of sunlight... :< Anyway, I hope these previous posts have inspired some of you to visit this wondrous city!