Around And About

It's been a week of ups and downs - figuratively and literally as I've been up and down the country!

I finally got myself to the fabulous London Wonderground to watch the final show of Tempest Rose's House of Burlesque and it was fabulous! I especially loved Leonie Soprano's 'The Lady Vanishes' act but the whole show was great fun.

London Wonderground

On Thursday I went along to Proud City for another finale performance as Ben Brown and Jonathan Finch headed off to Singapore for six months! They went out with a bang though; their double act was truly stunning!

 

Ben and Jonathan ** At the bar with the boys

On Friday I took myself off 'oop North for the fabulous Frou Frou Club with Lady Wildflower - it was a great show and it was so lovely to see so many people I rarely get to hang out with!

Mirror Picture! Burlesque Totem-pole with Glorian Gray, Ivy Wilde, Lady Wildflower and Em Brulee

My stage rider for 'Dancer and the Pearl' - appears to call for half a horse???!!!

After spending the night drinking Bucks Fizz and gossiping with Glorian Gray I came back down to London and Proud City for a wonderful Saturday night show with a great line-up. 

Mirror Picture! With Jolie Papillon, Joe Morose, Ruby Deshabille, Taz Zebrowski and Helen Orford!

It's a rare pleasure when I find, after a show, that I have energy to do more than crawl home to bed, so Saturday night was wonderful for all those reasons as we stayed dancing til the wee small hours!

 

With Ronnie, Sam, Ruby, Joe and Valerio ** Posing with Valerio

Aaaand Joe, posing with Valerio!

I ended my week in my favourite fashion - with a much needed pyjama day while I worked on a custom Etsy order - ably assisted by a minion!

 

I gots a minion! ** Custom Etsy order

Showgirl Whirl

I realise I'm a whole week behind on my blog. I have no excuse other than being unreasonably busy and not having the time!

I've had a whole bunch of shows....

Mirror Picture! Proud Cabaret with Joe Morose, Ruby Deshabille, Michael Standen and Leah Debrincat!

 

Mirror Picture! Privee with Girlesque ** Outside Proud with Bonnie and Carli

Joe Morose... yep. This happened...

 

Oh... and this ** ...and this... poor Felixy Splits!

Mirror Picture! Proud Cabaret with Jolie Papillon, Lili La Scala and Missy Fatale!

I was rather proud of my make-up this weekend!

Last weekend I also got to go on a much needed night out; taking in Tempest Rose's birthday party and Chrys Columbine's new show at the glorious Hippodrome Casino. I will admit to partaking a a couple of alcoholic libations and the next morning found some unexpected pictures on my phone... here is a random selection of images...

 

Joe Morose face photobomb ** Felixy Splits arm photobomb

 

Dolores Delight and Joe Morose ** Me with Dolores and Joe

 

With Dolores and Vicky Butterfly **  With Dolores, Chrys and Vicky

 

Joe Morrow on stage ** Chrys Columbine on stage

I was spoiled this week by getting to go and watch not one, but two amazing shows; on Tuesday I attended the London Cabaret Festival Fundraiser at the Bethnal Green Working Mens Club. It was a truly spectacular event - you know you're watching a good show when you think 'I have no idea what I'm watching right now but I'm thoroughly enjoying it!'

Lili La Scala and Mat Ricardo hosting

 

The Boy With Tape On His Face ** Abi Collins and willing assistants!

I've also been spending a lot of time at the ice rink and working on stuff for my Etsy store! So - busy busy busy!

 

Skating ** Etsy

Big Week - Little Blog

Another rather busy week here in Cabaret Land!

I've had another full week of shows, skating rehearsals, photoshoots and 'real-life' work so I'm enjoying having a lazy Sunday off while working on a gorgeous bespoke headband for a customer of my Etsy store.

Roses and Rhinestones

This week I had two shows at the gorgeous Privee of Knightsbridge and a double Saturday show at beautiful Volupte Lounge. I had a shoot with Zebrowski Photography and hopefully got some good shots in there, and also took a trip to Cellar Door to watch Felixy Splits and Jaz Delorian perform a fabulous show!

Busy Busy!

xx

 

Zebrowski Photography Studio ** Jaz and Felixy at Cellar Door

Mirror Picture! With Vixen DeVille, Tempest Rose, Jolie Papillon and Dolly Rose in the background!

Just Add Coffee...

Well I have had a remarkably busy week!

For those of you who may not know, I have a little part-time job in Covent Garden and I have put in a *lot* of extra hours this week as I aim to invest a chunk of money in a new act and I'm shoring up my defences against the cost!

Alongside working a full-time week (which I am *not* cut out for!) I have also had a couple of shows, ice-skating rehearsals, site visits for forthcoming shows, and business meetings! Somewhere in all of this I also found the time to finally set up my Etsy Store, so I am definitely enjoying an afternoon off today before I start all over again tomorrow!

I do love it though, and I'm not complaining at all!

I did manage to find a little time out though to go for a coffee with one of my favourite burlesque ladies, the gorgeous Chrys Columbine. I'm so pleased for her as she now has her own, amazing show at The Hippodrome Casino, starting in September. I'm going to the opening night and I can't wait!

 

Chrys Columbine's new show at The Hippodrome Casino!

With ice-skating rehearsals for Burlesque On Ice ramping up, I went with the shows producer for a site-visit to the venue: the fabulous Bush Hall in Shepherds Bush! It's so beautiful! We had an exhausting day laying out stage and seating plans, working out capacity and pretending to ice-skate across the carpet! As you do... :P

Stage and Ice plan at Bush Hall

Also this week, I had a couple of shows: both at one of my favourite venues, Proud Cabaret, alongside two amazing line-ups!

Wednesday night is always a funny one as I never expect the audience to go wild so it's a pleasant surprise when they do - although it was probably helped by half of the cast of Burlesque On Ice being in the crowd! I loved the show and especially loved meeting the wonderful Missy Macabre properly at last.

Wednesday's Mirror Picture! With DeVees, Missy Macabre, Ben Brown and Joe Morose!

Saturday was a typically raucous affair, buoyed by the audience being half stag parties which is an unusual occurrence! It was lovely to meet the host for the evening, Paul Roberts, as I'd heard a lot about him: he is a vintage-crooner host with a spine-tinglingly good voice (although all agreed; he reminds us all of the singing sword from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' who in turn was inspired by Frank Sinatra, so that's all good really!)

Mirror Picture! With Taz Zebrowski, Missy Fatale, Paul Roberts, Michael Standen and Jolie Papillon!

And finally; I've set up a shop on Etsy and had two sales this week already - which has made me a rather happy bunny!

Etsy supplies!

Get Your Skates On!

Well I've been not so cryptic over the last couple of blogs about a new project I'm involved in - and now I can officially announce that I have joined the cast of a fabulous new show...

Oooh yes! So I'm learning to ice skate and this will be my second home for the next couple of months!

At the moment I'm not particularly good, obviously - but I have until November to learn some good stuff and the show is running from the beginning of February so practise will make, if not perfect, at least proficient!

The cast so far is amazing and it's so exciting to be part of such a unique project. I've been to the rink four times this week and hopefully I can keep up a similar momentum!

Showgirls on Skates! With Jasz Vegas and Felixy Splits!

In other news, I was back at the beautiful Proud Cabaret this weekend with a fabulous line-up

 

 

Stage Snapshots: with Joe Morose, Chrys Columbine, Jolie Papillon and Jonathan Finch!

It was a bit of a bonkers night (or 'sausage fest' in the words of Mr. Morose!) as there were a *lot* of stag parties in, which is unusual for a burlesque night, but the whole crowd were lovely and every single act got an amazing response!

Mirror Picture! With Chrys Columbine, Jolie Papillon and Joe Morose!

It's been a busy week with various things and I'm enjoying my Sunday pyjama day! I'm working on a couple of personal projects and will hopefully have them up and running in the next week or so but for now I'm off to do some off-ice training to get my ankles stronger for ice skating this week!

xx