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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.







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







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.





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!





A while after this I fall asleep on the couch.

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So, here are a few photos from our wedding on the 3rd of June in Vegas!
As you can see, The King was there too.


Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Since rather few knew about the wedding and since everything was very hetic before the trip there was no hen-night for me. But the Itty-Bitties threw me a mini bachelorette party the morning of the wedding; champagne, chocolate strawberries and a quick treat at the hotel spa!
(The vintage necklace was the old, of course, the shoe pads new. Borrowed was a song lyrics quote -a greeting from Ina- and blue some Finnish mint liquor...that I forgot (or, well, Eddi packed) in my carry-on bag and was confiscated at Heathrow...)

Graceland Chapel, where it happened! Picture snapped from Olivia Rouge.


Waiting outside for our turn. All rather excited and nervous at that point.


The ceremony! All short and sweet. Elvis was late though, caught in traffic, so in the end the wedding did last a bit longer and the waiting sort of boosted up the whole thing even more :)


Newly weds. Pictures by Tuomas Lairila.

Mr. & Mrs. by Aino.

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With the Bitties on town.


Zombie Marilyn.
Creepy Marily'ns skirt is eternally blowing on a parking lot in Vegas.



We did some show girl-shopping.


Before the show, byt the pool (pic by Aino).


Some minor sunbathing with Tinker Bell.


Now as some of you may remember the reason for us not doing this whole trip in autumn as first planned was the fact that we attended and performed at the Burlesque Hall of Fame. For more and proper pictures of that you will have to search the realms of the internet.


Tiki drinks after the wedding. I might post some more wedding pictures once I receivve them and get them organized.

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My friends Onyxei and Helmut in other words Atelieri O.Haapala have done it again; a set of totally amazing photos shot at the Champagne Circus last month! An event which I could not attend and thus did I not get myself a circus themed portrait. Which is a pity very very much indeed. Sigh.

In the photo above you can see the photographers posing themselves. Fabulous ain't it? See the whole set on their Flickr.

You can see some earlier works of the duo under my Atelieri-tag.

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Marked "Hellsinky September '99"
The pictures of me, a little before i turned 18, and my friend Izu in the park were taken by some Italian guy who stopped and asked us if he could snap some photos. He later sent them to me. He also sent me a picture of him on a vespa but that one I no longer have.


Look at all that hair of mine... I still have that 60's dress. Only somethign tells me I will not fit in to it anymore.


A couple of my best friends at the time, Izu and Maria. Izu is now an artist living in Berlin and Maria is the mother of a first grader. I developed the photo myself and accidentally flipped it, as you can see the text is wrong.


In France one summer before. I was there some weeks on a French course. Check out those sandals...!


Hippie shot of Maria.


Well this one you have seen before, earlier. I recently bumped in to a girl that had been a few grades under me, and had sung in the same school choir. She recognized me and said "you had a thing for butterflies back then". Well, um, yes, I guess I did.

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