HALLOWEEEEEEN

Last year was Horror film Halloween, remember? Two days in a row actually. This year as the actual Halloween is in the middle of the week one kind of gets to celebrate it twice, as very few things nowadays are ever celebrated in the middle of the week. So we're doing it now!
(alhtough of course, the one and only day really is October 31....)
And we're doing it in a slighly lighter verison tan last year; old horror and skeleton cartoons! Booooh!







And ot to forget; find you Halloween playlist HERE!

NEXT MONDAY

Just a little hint that next Monday you can see me int he new talk show on FST5, A Night With Anne and Hannah. I will be in the end after the actor Pirkka-Pekka Petelius and presidental candidate Biaudet. (Let's see if my un-rehearsed little two minute fan work shop in the very end of it all makes us look elegant or like dorks with feathers :)
So that's 21.00 on Monday 31, you can watch it on Areena later! But inly in Finland I suppose.

(Photo shnatched from the show's blog.)

COUSIN PAUL'S BOX

I've been trying to light up the flat again as The Dark Times are approaching - I've already lit up the bedroom lights as you know. It's not yet time for any Christmas lights (although Stockmann already has opened up their Xmas department - AAAAA!) so I try to come up with more neutral ways to cosy it up. And I kind of prefer lights I can leave all year round if I so wish.

The lanterns I hung in the kids' room last year never were that good as led lights give such a cold light. So I went and bought a set of La Case de Cousin Paul lights instead. They are, ladies and gentlemen, interior balls.
As annoying as that may sound and seem they actually are pretty nice! I stumbled across these last year while Christmas shopping and got a set in beige white and silver for my sister. Now I noticed Stockman has them again. Only left in purple turquoise and lilac though and I was a bit disappointed as I had hoped for warmer colours, but mr. 5 year old who was with me told me they were nice (but that only applied to the blue balls; we could put the purple balls in our bedroom).

At home and after dark turns out the lights, regardless of their blue hues, are rather warm and cosy anyway! (The purple lights were also accepted by the boys.)

And now I have complete interior ball mania. More! More!

GO WIMBLEDON!

As you may remember I just ordered myself a summery straw hat. Since the ground will soon freeze I decided to go all ying and yang; even things out and get one hat for winter too, which I did; from Eka Wear. And that hat is great but I wil return to it later on - in the same time I emailed with Gilly who is the mastermind behind the brand and here's what will happen now:
One of you lucky ladies will have the change to win yourselves a Wimbledon headband!

I have had one myself for a couple of year sand really like mine; it can be both sporty and preppy, cute or elegant at the same time, depending on how you style it!



Eka wear is ecological, ethical, vegan and hand made. They make knitted acessories for both me and women as well as some interior items too. You can and should read more about Eka and the way the products are made HERE!
Visit the site at ekawear.com and the shop here.

The winner can choose the headband between the four available combinations: Red with Black Ribbon, Brown with Mint Green ribbon, White with Black Ribbon or Black with Red Ribbon.

So, to enter the give away, visit me here on freelancersfashion.blogspot.com directly and leave me a comment on this post. You don't have to be a follower of my blog to participate, but really, if you just googled "give away" to end up here then maybe you shouldn't bother.

The winner will be drawn randomly so please leave me only one post per comment.
However, if you tweet/blog/mention and link to this post you may get another entry by leaving me a second comment about it, linking to the mention.

Be sure to have your profile available or that you leave me an email so I can reach you! You can enter no matter where you are located.

The give away is open until Friday night next week; November 4!
Good luck!

THE WRAP

Until about now it has been pretty warm this fall. And I don't know how it's possible, but I have kind of felt I haven't had any suitable jackets to wear, even though it actually might (read: is) be that I have too many in-between-seasons jackets compared to the time we are able to wear those here. I wore my red little jacket to bits and pieces last year but for some reason this year I've skipped it. And the other ones too...

But instead of buying anything new I've been wearing scarves instead - it's so easy!


I just wrap the biggest one I have around me and tuck one end in from above and the other one in from underneath the wrap. Works well in winter over the jacket too.

And then you can go around looking all arty.


The other way to do it is just to take a scarf that is long enough and wear a mathcing cardi underneath, drop it a bit on the shoulders, wrap it around and fasten with a belt!


Ta-da, easy as that!

(My skirt is by BooBoo Kitty, the black scarf old frmo H&M, checked scarf from Sokos last year, belt vintage and shoes from Melissa and the black-and-beige ones from Next.)

SOME DAY MY NAME AND HERS ARE GOING TO BE THE SAME

Guys in matching suits:

Some Friday pop to go! Bus stop by The Hollies from 1966.

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW : MINOR MULTI TASKING

Been sewing on an updated outfit for a number of mine. (Last minute as always; the show's tomorrow. We're heading to Lahti for the whole weekend to perform!)


And I made myself a huge pile of manna and apples. Haven't had manna porridge in ages and was lucky to have some grains at home. Childhood memories, my grandmother made the best manna porridge!


In the same time I've been trying to figure out that to wear for a talk show I'm just abotu on my way to now.


And Pekka says hello! From among my clothes. Gnaah.

Soudntrack for today HERE.

BACKSTAGE AT THE GALA

I took some pictures last Saturday at the Finnish burlesque gala:

Candy rollers!


Last minute fixing.


Some more last minute fixing.


Lots of bubbly.


Cheers!


Cherrie.


Brushing out hte curls.


Sequins and sakura.


Sandy and Gigi.


Fiona.


Olivia.


The giant gingerbread and the pirate.


And here come the skeletons!


Booh.

The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret on the other side of the doors.

You can see more photos at blog.ittybittytease.com!

GORGEOUS PACKING IS HALF THE FUN pt.2

I heard this took about half an hour for the clerk to pack :)

What I had heard before receiving this was that Kielh's is supposed to be real good and as they had just opened a store in Helsinki my sisters gave me a package full of their products for when I got older a little while ago. Now it's just to wait and see if the stuff is as good as it looks. A good start, it was joyful to open.

EVIL VOODOO SKA SKELLITONS

SUNDAY. PANCAKES COWBOYS AND IKEA

Sunday after a great big show. I just made us a huge pile of banana pancakes and a berry smoothies. Now Eddi is off to the farm and I am off to IKEA (yey, love those trips!) to pick up some stuff for our new rehearsal studio and then heading there with the other girls to try and manage with the drilling and hammering ourselves.

But before that some sunday music:

The Soft Sunday list keeps on growing but today we'll do something different and listen to som cowboy music; TurrrboCherry: Songs for Cowboys on Spotify.

When I was little my favorite food was what mother used to call "cowboy food"; baked beans and bacon with white bread. All of us girls loved it. Perhaps partly due to the name too :) Haven't had it in quite a while since I've been without meat for a decade, but perhaps I should try and make some one day with veggie bacon...

FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER

Here's me early (REAL early I tell you, harbour-morning early. Only with glitter lips this time) with that other new hat of mine on my way to the morning TV show with Bettie Blackheart to talk about burlesque.

It was live and I'm doing an 18 hour day (yey!) so I haven't had the chance to see it online yet. You can view it online here for about a week: LINK
...but it will not work abroad. I know, since our god damn server here at work is across the Finnish Bay. So it won't work for me even though I goddamit am right here in Finland right now.

Well, anyway, here's me some hours later, just before sunset.

My life is all about contrasts.

GORGEOUS PACKING IS HALF THE FUN pt.1

(Or, sort of at least :)

I opened up a box with a sea of confetti!


And with a straw hat inside! That will, I'm afraid, have to wait for the seasons to change a couple of times before I will be able to wear it, but hey; there is logic in buying a summer hat just in time for winter? Some sort of logic from some parts of the world at least, laet's say so.

And there was also another lovey hat among the confetti, but I think you will see more of that tomorrow.
At FST5's morning show 07:45 to be precise!

The hats are from Frolllein von Sofa.

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Under a bridge in Helsinki -


There is a steamboat.


And last Saturday on the lower deck...


...there was a party.

Our 30-year x 2 party!


And we are SO the party masters.
Kristina and I used to share a rather notorious flat with Mr.Drum n'Bass in the early 00's and threw a bunch of great theme parties back then. And we still know how to do it!
Can you guess what the theme was sort of about?

We had us an Andy Bellefleur there (would he once have been young and hot). And a whole bunch of other great people (didn't manage to snap any photos during the shows tough) :




Ten points and a parrot badge (ancient Finnish saying) if you can guess which song mister Marty is playing here?


(Sookie & the fangbanger! :)

It was a great party! You can listen to the soundtrack here: Tupelo Honey by TurrrboCherry.(That's a lot of banjos for you I tell you!)


You can see some more photos via the Freelancer's Fashonblog's Facebook page.

Next up is 40 then! (Seems pretty far away though as I can't recall what I did when I turned 20...)