Grace and Glory - Tearsheets

Hello everyone,

my printed copy arrived and here are my photos :-)

 

Photos & Retouch by Satin Paula Kopczynski

The book "Grace and Glory" is available on Amazon

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who´s the naughtiest of them all?

The queen, at home, went in front of the glass and said, looking-glass, looking-glass, on the wall, who in this land is the fairest of all.

Then it answered as before, oh, queen, thou art fairest of all I see, but over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, snow-white is still alive and well, and none is so fair as she.

When she heard the glass speak thus she trembled and shook with rage. Snow-white shall die, she cried, even if it costs me my life.


Thereupon she went into a quite secret, lonely room, where no one ever came, and there she made a very poisonous apple. Outside it looked pretty, white with a red cheek, so that everyone who saw it longed for it, but whoever ate a piece of it must surely die.

 by Tajana´s cosmos

Places I need to go to in Stockholm....

Hello everyone,

it is barely another week until I finally go to Sweden again (yay yay yay) and I can barely think of something else! It´s a little bit of Retro Wonderland - only that they are not aware that it is. So here are things I totally NEED to include into my travel schedule (and if you ever make it there you shoul keep those in mind). Considering we have been to almost every museum we are trying a few new things this time...

Tiki Room 

Yes, Stockholm has a own Tiki Bar and sadly I have never been there as of yet! But this might be the year!!! While alcohole is very expensive in Sweden, so I am sure this will not be an exception, how could I resist? There used to be a Tiki Bar in Düsseldorf but it closed some years ago. So imagine how much I look forward to re-visiting a Tiki Bar. The usual cocktail bars are just not the same thing!

Ghost Walk

I hope it won´t rain when I am in Stockholm because I booked the Stockholm Ghost Walk and if the weather is shitty they cancel. I would really love to find out about Stockholms spooky history! So far the only thing beeing scary about Stockholm is that way too many exes of mine live there. ;-) Think of me on the 20th October and cross your fingers the weather will be fine.

Burlesque Festival

I made a little happy dance finding out that I will arrive just in time to see the Saturday evening show! The announcement says:

Octbooberfest is back with a twirl and support for breast cancer research when the Tassel Twirling Championship will crown a new champion. Followed by two unmissable sets of Swedish and International stars compered by the incredible Laurie Hagen who will mesmerise and entertain you throughout the show. 

Fancy Chance (UK/US) - Lolou D'vil (Fin) - hosted by Laurie Hagen (UK) 

Octbooberfest Annual Tassel Twirling Championship (Cancer fund event) - A'dora Derriere (Aus/UK) - Apathy Angel (US) - Fräulein Frauke (SWE) - The Great Leo (Bel) - Knicker Kittens (Swe) - Lady Francescca (Swe) - Lady Lou (Aus/Ger) - Les Femmes Brachiales (Ger) - Miss Diana (Rus) - Peggy de Lune (UK) - Ruby Luscious (Swe) - Wrong Note Rusty (Can) - Yvette Les Fesses (Swe)

Sounds like me and John gonna have a loooot of fun! I still try hard to find a dirndl for Octbooberfest, but will probably have to consider another option.

Södermalm Shopping Marathon

Well, this is not an official event, this is something I pretty much made up myself (and it´s nothing new - I do that every year. But I love it so much I mention it anyway;-) It includes me running through the entire Södermalm district visiting at least 20 of the 30 vintage clothing stores there (or as many I manage to visit before John starts to cry). You want to go to the capital of Second Hand? Stockholm is your perfect destination!

Marions Gastro Diner

I just discovered this so I cross my fingers that I don´t forget going there. It´s a retro style bowling place and the food looks delicious, too! Usually John and me only bowl on his Xbox, but I am very tempted to try it in real life (and grab a milkshake and a burger!)It is definately something were we could spend a rainy afternoon :-)

I just remembered that I have a book on retro lifestyle in Sweden so I will check that out and possible add more destinations to my list ;-)

Oh, on Sunday I actually have a shooting, so hopefully I can add new photos to the blog soon.

When I grow up.... Part 3

 ...I´ll go to Paris as an Au Pair girl and get lost in translation.

When I grow up..... Part 2

... someone will kiss me every day.

I actually made the nose and the ears out of Latex myself :-)

Life is not allways black and white (but sometimes it is)

I will allways remember how I jumped into the moat to rescue a ball for hadys bobtail Spence.

When women love too much.... A Film Noir Story

It was a dark and cold Friday evening. "I go playing poker with the guys" he had said. Not the first time for sure. He did this very often lately. However his beautiful fiance Tedrodo Toxin didn´t mind. She figured she´d just spend a calm evening at home reading and possibly do some laundry.... Well, his favourite coat could use a washing. Clark had a tendency to forget things in his pockets. Usually things such as dollar bills or cigarettes, so it was allways advisable to check before soaking his things in. This time he had forgotten something else in them.... A very fatal mistake.

Oh, she knew that woman on the photo, a lady of a more than questionable reputation and suddenly so many things started to make sense and some appeared in a entirely new light. Slowly a plan started to form in her head. She would have him all for herself and get some garbage out of town.

 Later that night Miss Sari von Bolanden received  message. "He was only here yesterday" she thought, however was not the kind of lady to turn down the request for an rendevous. She´d better get there quick she figured. He never had that much time "Business, you know" he used to say but never gave details which business it actually was. Whatever... She put on her little keyhole number and got ready to go...

 A thick fog was all over the harbor and it was as dark as the human soul. Nobody that saw the distant silhouette of  this stranger would have thought much of it. However there was nobody around at this place anyway. Nobody that is, exept for some rats it the corners. 

"Hello honey" she said and threw herself into her lovers arms. But something was not quiet right this time around.  She got goose bumps and thought "It must be the cold night" and at first she couldn´t tell why this strange feeling of terror was creeping up her skin. "It must be this damn fog" she thought. But than she looked up and the cold pretty face she looked at sure did not belong to her lover. Terrified she freed herself and attempted to run away, but it was to late.

 "Good night bitch!" was the last thing she heard. Ever. 

The End.
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 No Sari´s were harmed during this shooting :-) 

When Werner contacted me to do a Film Noir Shooting I immediately knew I wanted to be on board. The weather however prevented us doing it as soon as we wanted to. In the end we split the session into two parts to at least get started. We shoot the indoor scenes in my own apartment which made it the most convenient shooting for me ever. As I had shot with Werner before we even had the photos at hand that Tetrodo Toxin than could find in Clarks pockets. 

Part two happened a few days later at the harbor of Düsseldorf. We were lucky cause this time it did not rain.

Photographer & Original idea: Werner_R.
Light and Fog Assistant: outtake
Models:  Tetrodo Toxin and old me
Short story: me (and now we know why Iam a model and not a writer anymore)

Changes

Hello everyone,

I divided the blog into topics now (on the left site on top) so you can browse in the sections that interest you easily. My fingers hurt now from all the typing and clicking, so I hope you appreciate it ;-)

And some more photos from my shooting with Abramis!

Greets,

Sari

First outdoor photos 2012

Hello everyone,

this is not my first outdoor shooting (you will see photos of that later on -we shot at the harbor of Düsseldorf), but the first outdoor photos I can show you.

At first we shot at an abandoned butcher and later in a park in Aachen because it was a sunny day.

The hat in Pic 1 is by Frollein von Sofa and the flower in my hair on the second picture is actually a real one (in oposite to my hair which is my red clip in extensions. I need to cut my real hair again though because it is getting so long it won´t hold curls anymore. it´s about the same lenght of my extensions, minus the curls. blaaaaahhhh). We made pictures with orchids in my hair as well, but well.... I will post those later. Photos were taken by Abramis Photo

Happy Easter,
Sari