.upcoming awesomeness.

March 15th 
Geeks N' Freaks: The Comicon Afterparty
Two nights of full Cosplay and Comic Con after party Burlesque Revelry. 18 + All Kingons welcome! Featuring the Demons of Flame, The Brimstone Brothers, both nights! Chris "The Beard" Arnone of Blizz Pro Weekly, K.C.'s Trivia Wiz and Author will be gracing us with his presence as Emcee. 

I'll be performing Saturday evening, chain in tow. You do not want to miss it!


March 21st
The Raqs Bohéme 2nd Anniversary Extravaganza
With performers Amy Jo, Melody Gabrielle, Rebecca, Kaleela Renae, Christina Hentzen, and Crazy Boy Coy!

April 5th
Dance Party Fundraiser @ The Bridge

Join Moon Belly for a night of visual and sensual delights and full-on dance party at The Bridge! We are hosting this event as a fundraiser toward a new studio space in 2014!
Living art installations, beautiful dance performances, live DJ dance party and incredible silent auction.

I am an American Bellydancer (pt1?)

This was originally intended as a response to a certain article by a certain woman, but it got away from me - and honestly the whole situation was so exhausting and then there are at least two other responses that put everything so much better than I ever could and in the end...
...I'm mostly just really sad that in an opportunity to write a feminist article, she chose to attack other women.
#1 - I'm a white woman and I bellydance. 
#2 - Why I can’t stand neo-segregationists.

                                                           

Just in case you hadn't noticed yet - it's right there is the title.
While I believe my ethnicity has little, if anything, to do with it - I am as far as I know of European descent. Polish and French if it's important to you.
And if that is important to you in the judgmental kind of way, please just exit my life right now.

I first saw bellydance back in 1999. I was seventeen, and stayed late after a Swing Dance class to talk to the instructor. Then the bellydance class walked in, with veils and hip scarves and at the time it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen in my life. I sat there with one shoe off and one shoe on and my jaw slack until the teacher came up to me and asked if I wanted to join in.
I asked when the beginner class was.

.throwback thursday.

circa 2006 I believe,

the first wedding I ever performed at

.sketchbook wednesday.

.lies.

Dollar ninety nine tissues.
Niether are they soft, nor are they silky.

Lessons have been learned.

.throwback thursday.

Apparently this is a thing - posting old photos (or whatever) of yourself.

circa 2005 or 2006

I don't know.

And now back to my regularly scheduled hermitude...

.things of recently.

• It was horribly cold out, and now it seems to be warming up - which means my sinus cavities will hopefully stop trying to claw their way out of my skull, and my nose may actually stop trying to bleed out.  TMI? Probably. I don't care. I'd use a Netti Pot but I'm afraid of the brain eating amoeba I keep hearing about.

• Dance Projects! I've been working lately with the lovely Azadeah on a duet we'll be performing in the near future.

• This Friday and Saturday I'm performing at Naughti Gras in St. Louis. Information is here. I can promise that one performance will involve me balancing a tumbler full of alcohol on my head - the other might be in that Slave Princess Leia costume. You have been informed.
Also there might be fire.

• I also managed to pull my Dance Head out of my proverbial Dance Ass and will not be quitting bellydance after all. You probably didn't know about that. But that's a whole other post.
Maybe.

• Solid lotion bars with the scent of "Colony" will very very soon be available on etsy in small and large sizes. Yay! They smell like what I imagine the inside of a beehive smells like - warm and sweet and a little earthy - Honeysuckle, Copaiba Basalm, and Blood Orange. And these bars are the only things that keep my skin moisturized nowadays.

• Shimmer Glitter lotion bars are in production...or experimentation. Whichever. Testing. Yes, that last one. They are being tested by unlicensed lotion testers.

• And a Lupercalia Sale! 20% off with coupon code :BLOODYHEARTS
Use it or it expires!

Now back to sewing.