Bewitching Burlesque, photos and more!!

The Bewitching Burlesque April show was FABULOUS!!!


I'd like to introduce you to the incredibly sweet and lovely Katie S. She was one of the very lucky winners of the Bewitching raffle contest. I'm sure all the girls were quite jealous of her very pretty light blue fan with vintage seashell jewelry centerpiece. It was such a fun springtime item, one that I knew would look great on any hair color, that's why I choose it. She was very happy with her prize and I hope that she enjoys it for a very long time.



The performances were all so great. So much talent in one small space!! I took lots of photos, but there was a smog machine right next to my booth so all of them came out looking very foggy. I can tell you, I had no clue there was a smoke machine next to me.... So when I noticed a bit of smoke passing underneath one of my lamps... I flipped out!! I was pulling stuff out behind my bar area looking for the fire! It took me quite a while to understand that it was just a machine and that I wasn't going to catch on fire. Can we say "PANIC!!!!!"?



So here's a few shots of my table that I took before the smoke machine started pouring out all over the place. Here's me at my booth, if you ever see me out make sure to stop by and say hello!

Thanks to the lovely Phoebe Fireball for this photo!




Some Teardrops, Mini Clips, and a few Fans in the background.




See, told you I was making pasties! I think they're all very pretty and sexy, perfect for those awesome Tassel Twirling Vixens!!




Here's my special Flower holding trellis and my platter o'pasties. I'm working on bringing out more spring and summer colors.


Thanks so much for everyone that came out to support this wonderful event! Thanks to everyone that put in countless hours of work to make this a wonderful event!!

New items!! Onsale April 24th

At the request of some local performers, I decided to try my hand at making some new stuff. Whatever could it be.....

Pasties!!!

They're sparkly, bright, tassel-y, and fabulous!! I'll have three sets on sale this Friday at the Bewitching Burlesque show in Dallas, TX. I'm really hoping that these find great new homes on some great breasts. I even got the absolute joy of creating a custom pastie set for a beautiful local performer. I'm already impatient to see her try them out on stage and I haven't even given them to her!! What can I say, I just love seeing my creations go to use of lovely women.


Please come out tomorrow to the local Dallas event, Bewitching Burlesque! Many wonderful performers in one night, it's going to be a BLAST! I'll be selling my designs in the corner directly to the right once you walk in the door. Come by and say hi!

Also check out my new myspace page for Decadent Dame Designs.

Shopping.... Decadent Dame style

I usually spend at least one day a weekend running around town hitting up sales to try to find my jewelry and what other vintage bits catch my eye. It's an exhausting ordeal every time. But so totally worth it when I get home and lay everything out to go over what I bought. Going to try and make it a tradition to post images of my finds. They're my treasures, I always try to find out the back story on interesting bits or at least a time period that they're from. It's like taking a walk through history, though sad to say that many of the items come from estate sales so everything I hear is at least second hand knowledge. I hope the people who owned my items before me are happy that I put a lot of care into making their old belongings anew, creating something beautiful and new with them.


So here's a couple shots of the items I found this past weekend. I spent most of my sunday afternoon at an antique fair, where I found all of my items. I tried a couple other stops around town but was sadly unable to find anything of value to me.

This first group here is a variety of buttons. I really like the beaded ones that just sparkle and catch the light. But the soft and simple mother of pearl buttons are just simple and elegant. The old looking military button is something I need to find out a little more about. My father, a marine man, says that it looks like a very old army button.



I was on the look out for some Steampunk themed items on Sunday. Found some!! Though I'm thinking it might be wise to update my tetanus shot.... These little gears are sharp! Digging through a big bin full of them was fun but a little worrisome due to the sharp edges. Not sure how I'll be putting these together, but I'm excited to play around with them.



Seems I was really lucky on finding Cameos! They can be really hard to find in good condition for reasonable prices. I try very hard to keep my prices reasonable, I know that at this point in time not that many people can afford to pay high prices for a fascinator, as much as they may want to. So even though I see a fabulous item of jewelry, I have to hold my self back if it's too expensive. I've often had to pass on lovely items for just that reason. I don't want to have to pass on those expenses to my buyers, so I put in the extra effort to find good items for good prices. I'm also the queen of getting discounts. You never know unless you ask! The sparkly item in the top right corner is actually about 1/2 of a vintage brooch, it was broken who knows how long ago. But I plan on fixing it up enough that later on no one will know. The teeny tiny cameo at the bottom in the middle is actually from a ring! The ring band was broken off just outside of the design, but I know I can still put it to work.


A little fact for ya... Back when cameo's were very popular, people would wear the black on black cameo for mourning. Have to stay fashionable even after the passing of a loved one.

So that's what I found this past weekend, I think I did fairly well. Can't wait to see what comes out of it!

Bewitching Burlesque April 24th

So this lovely group of women are all going to be performing at the Bewitching Burlesque THIS Friday! We'll have some of the local favorites as well as 4 brand new performers making their debut at the show! And I'm very proud to say that I'll be selling my fascinators here as well. Please come by and say hello to me! And always feel free to try on my items, they'll look *much* better on you than they ever will on a table!

The beautiful girls you'll see here on stage...

Courtney Crave
La Divina
Vivian Vermuth
Erin Gaugh Braless
GlamAmour
Honey Cocoa Bordeauxx
Miss Malicious
Miss Coco Lectric
Sugar VonTassel
Andrea VonFrankenstein
Cora Coquette
Ruby Manhattan
Aviva Voila


The details...
Bewitching Burlesque at the QuiXoTic Theater
April 24th, 2009 Doors open at 8pm Show starts at 9pm
1116 Akard St. Dallas
$15 cover- cash bar!

This is going to be a very small and private venue, so you'll have a great view of any and all tassel twirling. Tickets will be sold out, so please please please buy them early! No one wants to be left out in the cold when there's beautiful women just a few feet away. Get there early and snag one of the chairs too. Doors at 8! Drink prices are very reasonable too, that's always nice. Dress to the nines, I'm positive there will be tons of people with cameras handy.

I'll be selling my fascinators in the back corner "wine bar" area. Please bring cash!! If you already bought one of my items in the past, wear it! I love seeing my designs being worn, and I love being sent photos! If you're up for it I may even post your photos wearing my stuff on my blog.



Here's some shots from the last Bewitching Burlesque performance.

GlamAmour...

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Vivienne Vermuth...

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Ginger Valentine...




See you there!

More Photos! The beautiful Ruby Redlocks

This one here is the lovely Ruby Redlocks. She normally does the hair styling for shoots but this time around she gets the fun job of being in front of the camera! I think she looks fabulous! The photoshoot was the day after we met and chatted at the Spring Swing where she bought the white fan fascinator. The vintage jewelry centerpiece even came with an awesome back story! It was originally on sale at a one of the Nau family pharmacies in Austin, TX. The woman that ran the shop passed away a while back, and the boxes of jewelry were put into storage. After quite a long time, the family decided to sell some of them off at an estate sale. And that's when I came across it! So the jewelry piece on this fascinator came from anytime around the 1940s to the 1960s. A rare item indeed!
Model; Ruby Redlocks
Photographer; Greg Daniels


Have to add some of the other shots from this shoot. I think they're all so beautiful! Can't stop at just one. I love how your eye just is taken on a trip around this photo. So many beautiful little things to notice.

This last one here... wow. just wow. Looks like a frame right out of an old Film Noir movie. The beautiful female lead actress, in the midst of her big scene.
So lovely.

Photography of my work in action

I have the absolute joy of having tons of beautiful friends in fabulous places. Some of them are performers, some models, some photographers, some stylists, some hair and makeup artists, and many more that just enjoy seeing creative people doing what they love best.

Courtney Crave wearing the gift I gave her for Xmas 2008. It was one of a batch that was my very first attempt at making fascinators. Not my best work, but you gotta start somewhere! It's a soft pink fan shaped fascinator. The focus item on it is a small group of fabric flowers with little rhinestones in them. Girly, pretty, feminine, sparkly... it just screamed Courtney at me.
Models; Athena Fatale, Courtney Crave, and Kira Von Sutra
Photographer; Miss Missy

1st entry, Welcome!

Ok, so decided to start my own little blog here. Wanted a place where I can update on what I'm up to, where I'll be, and to share tons of photos. Please bookmark me as I'll be adding tons more stuff in days to come!
Best wishes,
-DD