Post - TX Burlesque Festival in Austin

Meet Amanda. She's an awesome girl that really helped me out this past weekend at the TX Burlesque Fest. One might say she even saved my ass. I know I was incredibly lucky that she was able to roadtrip with me to Austin, help provide me with a place to stay, and be an incredible Booth Buddy. Thank you so much Amanda, you are such a sweet person for helping me out and I really appreciate everything. This was her first experience with burlesque, so seeing 50 performances over 2 days was a great education in the variety of dance styles. She really liked it! We both cheered loudly for the shows, so much so that we nearly lost our voices by Sunday. But always worth it to show our support for the hardworking performers.



I took this shot of my booth on Saturday at the start of the show. I got to chat with and meet so many awesome people this weekend! If you bought something from me, remember to send me photos of you in your DDD fascinator, I'd love to post them up on my blog.



Here's some of my newest designs. They're the classic fascinator on a disk pad. The ivory one in the center is going to a very sweet girl, Brittany T, to be worn on her wedding day! I cannot say how incredibly flattered to have my first bride-to-be as a customer. She has a vintage 1950s ivory wedding dress that is going to look fabulous with the fascinator.



So as with any road trip, Amanda and I stopped for some of the fun sight seeing places along the way. For anyone who makes the Dallas <--> Austin trip regularly, you know allllll about how just north of Waco you have to stop for the Czech food places. We made our pit stop at the Czech Stop for some yummy sausage kolaches. They were delicious! I snapped this photo with my phone of the to die for pastries under the counter.



This photo was taken and sent to my favorite German girl, Courtney Crave. Her response? "mmmmmm sausages" Totally fitting response, I say. Sausage fridge!



Bacon mints? I thought these were more internet myths. Evidently they are real. And I bought a pack for a friend, he's a big fan of the bacon flavored junk online. I'm just morbidly curious enough to want to taste one.... briefly.



Had a blast, thank you everyone that helped put on such a fun show!!

TX Burlesque Festival - Austin, TX - May 15 & 16

Be there... or be square!



Decadent Dame Designs is extremely proud to be supporting this awesome event with a vending table up all weekend. Two... count 'em TWO days of incredible performers! I've never been to a burlesque event this big. Can't wait though!! I'm driving all the was from Dallas to Austin just for this show. Road trip!!!!

I am looking so forward to this event that I can barely sit still. Well that and trying my hardest to make as much new stuff as possible has led to me taking almost no down time all this week. I've been one busy artist! The glue barely has time to dry on my hands... *pick pick*

Lots new pasties!!
Some brand new rhinestone pasties...
More tassels and sequin pasties...
Polka dot pasties!!!
And possibly a set of red leather pasties! (depends on if I can get them finished, fingers crossed!)


Brand new fascinator designs!
I've been trying my hand at the classic fascinator with the disk base. Quite hard! It's a whole new skill set I had to figure out from the ground up. No photos of them right now, you'll just have to come find my booth this weekend and check 'em out.


The fabulously hot Athena Fatale will be at my booth following her performance to sign autographs. Come by to meet her and buy her prints! I have it on good authority that she likes my stuff, so feel free to make her one happy lady and buy her something!


Any idea how many performers are going to grace the stage at Emo's this weekend? A ton! That's how many. FIFTY performances. 50. The big Five - Zero.
Curious as tho who they are? I'll tell ya...
The official Texas Burlesque Festival line up is as follows




Friday Night

MC: David Lampe
1. Erin Go Braughless
2. Cardinal Syn
3. Southern Sirens
4. Miss Ritta Book
5. Maye Applebottom
6. The Finer Things
7. Ruby Joule
8. Garriet Reist
9. Coco Lectric’
10. Marla Mab
11. Tomahawk Tassels

INTERMISSION

12. Sahsa Dahl
13. Hottie McNaughty
14. Abbey Rose
15. Jigglewatts
16. Angie B Lovely
17. Miss Scarlett
18. Viva Le Meurte
19. Whitney Oh La La
20. Ruby Rico
21. Athena Fatale
22. Cathie Shariden
23. Michelle L’Amour
24. Kitty Kitty Bang Bang




Saturday Night

MC's Adam & Doryan
1. Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
2. Cha Cha Velour
3. Miss Via Vixen
4. Renea La Roux
5. Leggs Black
6. Treats in Tights
7. Katerine Lashe
8. Mary Ann Moan
9. Philip Coquet
10. Ruby Review
11. The Mystic
12. Rosie Rawhyde
13. Tomahawk Tassels

INTERMISSION

14. Kiss Me Kate
15. Natasha Minsk
16. Red Hot Annie
17. Venus & Lewis
18. Bon Bon Vivant
19. Carousel Cabaret
20. Miss Kayla
21. La Divina
22. Ruby Rocket
23. Cathie Sheridan (Vocalist)
24. Finer Things (Cabaret Music Duo)
25. Michelle L’Amour




Here's all the pertinent info


http://www.texasburlesquefest.com/home.html
www.myspace.com/texasburlesquefestival

Buy tickets online!

When: May 15th & 16th, Friday and Saturday
Where: Emo's at 603 Red River, Austin, TX
Hours: doors open at 8pm, show starts at 9pm

New estate items!

Going shopping for interesting finds at estate sales is quite hard work! I put in about 6 hours of work on Saturday driving all across North Dallas. That's not including how much time I searched online and the papers for my stops, printed descriptions and maps, and mapsco'd the spots to find a route to travel all before leaving my house in the morning.

So made a number of stops, found some stuff at some places, but not all. Even got the dreaded "garage sale claiming to be an estate sale." Rough! So here's one of the items I found at my first stop, a big triangular jar full of really old buttons! Yeah, I know "woo... buttons... exciting..." But you see, there's really a huge variety here, with no limit on the uses I can come up with! Some look to be extremely old, I have never even seen wooden buttons before. Some with the metal square shaped openings on the back, which I've learned can be from the 1920s and earlier, possibly the 1800s. Got a bag full of vintage lace and ribbon scraps also here. I also picked up some old dice, most likely made of bone.




My last stop on my trip on Saturday turned out to be the best. It was the home of an 89 year old woman who is a painter. She painted in pastels and oils, and her home is just covered in all of her beautiful original artwork. She moved in with family recently to be closer to her loved ones, so the family was selling off a portion of her belongings. Her name is Ina Wood, and she's of the Walter family that was some of the original inhabitants of Lewisville. Her family and friends were very nice and I'm happy I got the chance to meet and chat with them.

From her house, I took home a wonderful assortment of items! I found 2 very pretty white aprons with lace. Some clock parts for my Steampunk fans. 12 Sets of jewelry! I loved her jewelry selection, very colorful and shiny and perfect for my fascinators! Here's the jewelry I found at her place as well as the bone dice from an earlier estate.


In a back bedroom of Ina's house I found a closet with a wonderful selection of hats. I brought home all six and their boxes! Two fuchsia ones, 3 black, and one jewel encrusted blue one. Most came with veils, which I was thrilled about. The veils are in a variety of conditions, I'll have to work to either fix or replace them in time. Here's one teaser shot of my selection. Hopefully I'll get some photos soon of some local ladies wearing my hats out and around in town.



Looking forward to getting new stuff made from my finds!

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.