I readed this LJ entry and it brought me to tears: http://community.livejournal.com/corset
In short words for those that don´t want to read it all: A ladies husband was diagnosed cancer and he only has a few more months to live. Now they ask for donations for either a auction to cover the costs for treatment and funeral or a paypal-donation.
Even just to imagine this horrible thing could happen to me or someone I like makes me deeply depressed and breaks my heart. In fact I cry a little while typing this entry. And so Iam wondering: What would I do if I only had a few more months to live and knew that?
I think I would sell most of the things and would take the money to visit everyone that had a impact on me, wether a good one or a bad one. Those that were good to me and those that did me wrong. And no matter what they were to me I would probably give them a big fat hug and a kiss if they let me and thank them for everything good and and bad because let´s face it: Everone that made and impact MADE ME WHAT IAM. And my masterplan is to die in peace with everyone and everything. Do you think any of the people that love me or even any of the people that don´t could deny me that? I don´t.
I would return the visits I promised or at least try (they pile up. I know I know... Acually I have to at least stop by the US and some are wating in England and in Switzerland and god knows where else that I forgot).
How about a goodbye-party as well??? I won´t have much of my funeral, so how about celebrating life a bit before passing?
However I hope I still have many years to come and get at least as old as my great-grandmother (99 years old! She died last X-Mas) and can do it little by little instead.
Yesterday I felt like googling walk in wardrobes (a girl can dream, can´t she?) and my eyes fell on a display for sunglasses. I was like "damn, I could need one of those, too!!!". So I went to ebay and found some plastic ones for 8 glasses each for 15 € + 6 € shipping. Nahhhh!!!! I don´t see why I should pay like 42 € (I have damn many sunglasses) for something I don´t need badly... But than I got an idea.... I took cardboard, glued some pretty lightblue paper on it, cut out some squares, glued a ribbon to it and tada.... A display for my sunglasses. Price? Maybe 1 €? Yes, the squares are a bit uneven, but who cares ;-) I also took my glittering hair acessoires and clipped them on the feather boa that I have drapped around my mirror. Now I can see what I have with one look and don´t have to search.
I plan to put more of my acessoires on the wall such as the masks and the devil horns that you can see. I have tons of fans that will look pretty up there.
I made a nice bargain today as well. 2 € for a dressing gown. It´s a warm one and one I can actually wear to run into the floor to pick up the mail which I obviously can´t in my satin and lace ones ;-) I guess it is from the late 60s, possibly even early 70s, however how can you NOT love royal blue clover leaves???? And for 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! €!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don´t give a damn.
The orders for the last special have been received and placed to the whole-saler... Time to start the next one! This one will be valid from today until the 2nd of december!
Todays offer is a very special treat. It is a beautifull set consiting of a powder-puff style fascinator and matching pasties. You don´t need to be a genius to draw the conclusion that those don´t only look good. They will feel damn good as well!!!
It doesn´t matter wether you just wanna wear the fascinator for a night out, want to use this set for a shooting/perfomance or just for the privacy of the bedroom... You should grab the chance NOW!
modelled by: Missy Malone
The pasties are about 7,5 cm wide.
This cute set made of marabou feathers is hand sewn in place and a satin bow to top it off. It is available in a wide range of colours in order to match exactly whatever you wish for! Available in Royal Blue, Baby Blue, Turquoise, Hot Pink, Baby Pink, Cream, Red and Black. With bows in black and red.
Each is handmade by UK-based burlesque performer and boutique-owner Miss Amber Sweet, Please don´t forget to add details such as which colour you want and which bow is the one of your preference....
The price for the set is 30 GBP/33 € plus shipping. Hurry up! :-) Drop me a mail at gurusari1@aol.com
If you want to use the special offer that I posted last week you really got to hurry as it will expire tommorow and I will put up a new fun one!!!
You didn´t see the offer? Check it here: http://retromodelsari.livejournal.com/1
Drop me a mail if you are interested!!! The mail-adress and details are in the link. I think those beautifull panties could make a fabulous X-MAs gift, too!!!!
Hugs,
Sari
it starts to get really really ugly outside! All I want to do is to curl up with a good book and wait for spring... Now... what do I want? I want something nice to look at, interesting to read and to learn from. Hence I recommend this books for all photographers, models and those that just wanna how how pretty photos of the past were made.
Bernard of Hollywood - "Guide to Pin up Photography": Very nice for beginners, as it also illustrates where the light is, the position of photographer etc. etc.
Peter Gowland - "How to Photograph Women", "Electronic Flash" and "Figure Photography": Dear MR. Gowland. Iam your fan! You explain how to do nice photos with available light and other not expensive possibilities! When I do my selfs I just don´t have any fancy equipment and have to rely on daylight and flash. Thanks to you I know that I mustn´t be ashamed. In some books I even found posing guides, which off course catch my interest and inspire me for my shootings!
Bunny Yeager - "How I photograph myself": Admittedly Bunnys hardest to get book, but it is worth to look out for it. Now I´ve seen places where it went for more than 100 bucks and that is insane. Be smart and wait for a bargain!
Robert Dance & Bruce Robertson "Ruth Harriet Louise and Hollywood Glamour Photography" - If you want to know something about the life of an Hollywood movie studio photographer in the mid 20s to the 30s this will be a treat for you!
Enjoy!!!!
Sari
Photos by: Stefan Junger
Note how wonderfully Me, Miss Giggles and Pinky matched our clothes in red and black without even knowing. Even Peter fits in with his black shirt :-D Also pictured the carefree panty pad that some bachelors gave Pinky as a gift on the trainstation :-D
Me and Pinky
Photo by Akphotographie:
I rarely drink. Maybe 2-3 times a year and even than I drink way less than everyone else. This is a fact in order to explain why it is unusual that Iam awake after having drunk a few Proseccos and one Caipirinha. I actually slept for some hours, but than at about 5:30 I woke up and couldn´t get myself to sleep again. I can´t even explain why. I didn´t have nightmares. I felt slightly thirsty when waking up, but I drank some water and actually should be back in dreamland by now (7:10 in the morning as Iam typing). Weird.
What´s even weirder is the fact that I lay awake remembering a old anecdote about me and my best friend Fids. Many many years ago me and my best friend celebrated the fact that I found a job some hundred kilometers away from where I grew up. So we did something very untypical for us. We decided that we "go shopping in Frankfurt". As neither of us had a car and Fids is still up to today the only one of us that made a drivers license, we borrowed my Moms car. This meant that we dropped Mom at her office in Darmstadt and than we drove to Frankfurt and where supposed to pick her up again after work. The way to Frankfurt was no problem. Many signs going there as it is one of the major cities in Germany. The way back however.... Horror. No signs to go to Darmstadt or any place we knew to be close to there!!! Just places where we had never been to and had no idea where that was. And no petrol-station to ask at as we ended up on some odd country road. My Mom also had no real map stored in her car cause than we could have used that to navigate. We found a "special map" though. A map which illustrated in which districts there is the biggest danger to get infected by ticks. So we used that to get an idea about where we are. It did not include streets. While we spended 3 hours on a country road somehow, trying to make our way back to my Mom, her office closed and she had to wait in front of it. Boy was she pissed when we finally arrived :-D Why do I think of that story? I have no clue! I just woke up thought "Damn am I thursty" and than out of the blue "damn, we really were driving around totally crazy 6-7 years ago!!!"
ACTUALLY it would be more proper to write about the exibition we went to today... (me, Pinky Paradise and Miss Giggles). MY day started rather odd. As I waited for Miss Giggles in Starbucks having a Toffee nut Latte and a cheesecake the only free place was not that far from a homeless guy that kept asking everyone for napkins. So I sat down like 3 meters away from him and as I was sorry for that poor confused guy I gave him a napkin as nobody else did. Than however he turned over his highly bandaged foot and I saw it was full of purulence (I hope that´s the right word - used google translator) and smelled of that so much, that I had to escape my place to keep my breakfast in me. I felt mean for escaping, but if you had smelled it yourself you would have run, too.
However this was the only unpleasant event for the day and it got really nice later on. It was fab to hang out with Miss Pinky and Miss Giggles as we hadn´t seen in AGES. And we drank a lot of champagne. The exibition itself was very good, too (but than I wouldn´t go to a exibition I expect to be less than at least very good anyway;-) and we got to talk to some nice people. Some we already knew by name as we´re all in the same photographer community :-D By accident the three of us even matched our outfits. We all came in black and red outfits and many photos where taken of our lovely retro-trio that evening. I have no clue where they will end up though so I can´t even tell wether I can show you some of it?! We´ll see. Peter, that exibited, asked us to socialise with his friends - we even danced for them. Iam not sure Peter actually liked that part of our socialising, though :-D If you find any youtube video titled "Drunk Pin ups do a weird improvised dance"... that is probably me and Pinky :-D I hope you notify me in that case, so I can link it ;-)
After some hours the three of us left to stop by a coctail-bar just around my corner. Usually there is nothing happening in it whenever I go there (ok, admittedly the last time I went was X-Mas three years ago when Fids drove me home all the way from Höchst/Odenwald) this time it was full of arabian teenagers... Strange. It seems to have become hip since I went there the last time....
However all led to a discussion wether it actually pays off for me to be a good person in the long or short run or wether it is better to be not so good. As we kept twisting and twisting the topic we didn´t come to an definite end. I think I´ll stay good and won´t hate people.
And Miss Giggles never heard about the Bielefeld conspiracy!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_
THAT WAS SHOCKING!!!
Next Saturday I will go to the premiere viewing of "Rockabilly Ruhrpott". Yes, this Docu is finally finished!!! I did an interview for it last year telling about my views about Pin up and Burlesque. And I´ll be wearing my beautifull new Able Grable dress. Let me count.... I must have gone to events/concerts this year 4 times. That is a damn lot for me. Am I turning into a "social butterfly" now??? :-D
Holy crap!!! It´s dawning!!!
Alinka just sended me the first photos from out little shooting!
( Corsets, stockings, tears and corpses.... )
John can´t stand to see me sad - even if it is just in a photo. He likes the backview photo though :-D
It is amazing when I start to think about that I´m already doing pin up since 5,5 years. I may repeat myself over and over, but when I started off no one thought my modelling has a future. The first photographer I actually applied to and met so he can show me some pictures said to me "you can only do nudes" while I had clearly applied for head shots, fashion and lingerie photos. What can I say? Don´t listen to some photographers that can´t even read which segment you want to work in. Up to today there exists no nude photo of me :-D
Anyway it was hard to break into pin up modelling as nobody here had a clue about it and so it was considered weird that a model specialises on it. However there were A FEW that already appreciated this art-form. I was working as a mainstream model, however I was bored by it after a few months already. My actual interest was to earn money and to search for someone that could do some pin up pics with me. Despite the fact that I had nothing pin up in my online sedcard some guy named Peter Odefey (http://www.retro-pinup.de ) contacted me and asked me to pose for a pin up painting. I wanted to do that anyway and I had started to collect outfits so off course I said YES. I had no idea about hairstyling at that point, so we just put my hair in an up-do :-)
Whil the painting was still in progress I made my first pin up shooting with an make up and hair artist and I had the perfect timing as the German Fetish Model Tessa (alias Miss Giggles http://www.missgiggles.info ) had just decided to change from before the lens to behind the lens and specialise on....... PIN UP. Off course we ran into each other as soon as we had our photos out there and the only ones specialising on it at this point and as she was basically neighborhood we got to work with each other. Over and Over and Over and Over again. She holds the record in snapping Sari pics and Iam sure you have seen either our photos or at least the video that Express TV made about us before...
So you may wonder why I tell you that. Ok.
Recently Mr Odefey photographed (he has switched from paintingto photography - why I do nt know) Miss Giggles (she still does a little modelling once in a while) and is doing a exibition with the photos tommorow in Düsseldorf and as I have seen neither of them forever I´ll be going. What a blast! I´m revisiting my past!
as I have already people asking me what the principle of my Special Offer-Thing is...
This fist special offer is a little test-run. As I do not have the extra room to storage items and do not have the extra money, too I will collect your orders on one special offer for one week. Than I will order from the company the exact amount of goodies that you wish and forward it to you. I save storage room. I don´t run a financial risk and I do not have to throw extra charges on the suggested retail-price to make it all work out somehow.
You won´t have to browse the web all the time to find cute stuff. Just stop by my blog every week and see what I have ;-) You may get your hands on things that would be hard to get otherwise (for example: No one in Germany carries the new Kiss me Deadly panties yet! But I can get them for you and spare you from searching fo a retailer that will send them to you actually)
I will offer things that I want by myself or that I already own and adore! If you are someone offering amazing stuff and are willing to join the fun you are more than welcome to contact me (gurusari1@aol.com) and make me an wholesale-offer. I will promote my special offers via twitter, facebook and German model platforms, so you might get some new customers through it ;-)
If you haven´t done already, check my recent offer: http://retromodelsari.livejournal.com/1
Hugs,
Sari
Kiss me Deadly just released their new line Jezebel which features two beautifull knickers. One of them is high-waisted and the other is rather deep. The high-waised one looks like a longline panty girdle with bow sash that ties at rear. It is made of black mesh with black satin centre panel and black/peach satin bow. The deep brief has bows at side and front, satin ruffles to top of rear and peephole cut out. Both are available in size S-XL.
You can order those from me NOW. Just drop me a mail on gurusari1@aol.com and tell me what you want and I will gladly order it for you and send you a paypal invoice. This special offer is valid from NOW ON and it lasts for one week (the 26th of November). After this I will put up another cool offer in my blog,so stay tuned ;-)
I might do such offers regulary as it is easier to do that, than to spend time up-dating my online-shop. I also assume more people peek nto my blog than into my online-shop ;-)
yesterday I went to a warehouse as I had a voucher left that my ex-workmates gave to me when I left my last job. Actually I wanted to buy just a little bit of black velvet, but than my eyes got stuck on the Halloween leftovers!!!
I was like "Oh my god, that´s a hell of a eye-cancer causing fabric! The bright green! The crazy huge novelty prints all over!!!!! I LOVE IT!". And I felt like it has my name tag on it. There was only 1,90 m of it left, so I bought it all, despite the fact that I haven´t sewn anything in almost a year ;-) My big problem is that I can´t make up my mind... Do I make a tight pencil skirt with it (and if there is left over fabric maybe a matching top as well) or do I do a playfull circle skirt?
I would love to do both, but there is no way that I get more of that fabric (I tried ebay and no luck) and there is no other warehouse of that chain here that features a fabric department. So what would YOU choose? I can´t make up my mind really.
Have you ever danced Can Can?
if someone can it´s Can Can Ann
She kicks her legs so fucking high,
she´s even known in Paraguay.
Don´t try to mess with Can Can Ann,
she´ll beat your ass with a pan.
Her hair started turning white
but don´t take chances she´ll win the fight
Can you can can at 170 bpm?
No? I can! Yes! I can!
She can can can since she´s thirtan
cause she used to be a Rednex Fan
till she was put under ban.
But still she´s good old Can Can Ann
and makes hearts beat with all she can
Worldwide school-children will hate me for this than, but their teachers will have a very funny time :-D
Some men are easy to gift. Usually it is the kind that says things like: "When I was a boy I used to read this and that comic". Than they take you by the hand, run to a comic store with you. Look at the Special Edition and don´t end up buying it in the end cause "It´s soooo expensive!". That´s were you come into play and visit ebay and amazon to buy it for them... Or they mention their favourite movie/tv-series and as a attentive girlfriend/wife/platonic friend you´ll buy it and wrap it in nice paper to lay it under his X-Mas tree.
Some men however aren´t that easy to gift, cause they are like "I don´t know...." or "You don´t need to give me anything".
So here are some X-Mas Ideas for the gents in our lives..... Be carefull... Most shops also offer beautifull stuff for us... ;-)
( Clickedy Click )
X-Mas shopping is getting a topic and as I see cute stuff all around I though I start with a few sugestions....
Every year it is the same... I try to fix a X-Mas Shooting, but the photographers don´t have time, get ill or cancel for unknown reasons. In short: For 5 years I tried to make X-Mas photos, but it just didn´t work!!!
This year it worked another way. I did a X-Mas Photosession on my own using my good old self-timer and my very very very basic photoshop-skills. I like to make my photos look like they were painted, so the biggest flattery was when John asked me "Is that a drawing?". Strrrrrrrike!!!! I´m sorry that the parcel in one of those pics looks so shitty. Until X-Mas I´ll figure out how to make it nicer.
My favourite German lingerie store totally striked again!
( New Burlesque line at Ars-Vivendi! )
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