The bargain hunter strikes again!

Hello everyone,

I bought some nice new things for myself because I am a good girl using my "Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012" and "Zumba Rush" programs for the xbox 360. It was time to give myself a treat especially after I realised the setting to Your Shape were wrong so I burned 3 times as much as the program told me! I guess this means I can start a cheese cake orgy without the least bad conscience ;-) 

The fact that some nice sales were going on helped A LOT ;-)

I bought this lovely Curvy Kate bra and a matching Panty at Brastop and can really recommend them if you are on the big chested side of the rack. I got the set already and it´s comfortable and looks fantastic. Will HAVE to shoot with it soon! You can still grab a lot of delicious bargains. The dress was technically a gift from John. I sported it in the Trashy Diva sale! I got two of their Trixie dresses some years ago which were nothing but divine!!! But the dresses are usually out of my price range, so I could only admire them from a far.However this dress includes about all I need in a dress: It´s pretty, it has great detail and features many of my favourite colours and many colors that go with my eye color! There was NO WAY I could resist! Would have LOVED to buy wayyyy more but I really need to save up at the moment. I am sure I will use it in an upcoming shooting.

Next week I will be having vacation for 2 weeks and 2 days. It will be so great! Most of it will be spend at home but I have high hopes I can work on my pile of things to sew and alter (and off course relax as well :-)

When I grow up.... Part 3

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

Finally getting some work done!

Hello everyone,

cause I can´t leave the house I get things done that I did not find the time for yet... I updated my galleries and news on www.retro-model.de and added the Guten Abend RTL Video from last year to youtube.

Enjoy!
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

Man eater? No, Matroschkas!

Hello everyone,

when I was 17 someone looked at me and said "Ah, you´ll become a vamp and man eater!" This route was never something I considered (I turned out to be the opposite). But Matroschka eater? Well, that´s something else!

Bon Appetit!
Sari

Hello everyone,

I am sure you still remember the green dress I wore on "Guten Abend RTL"! Here´s another lovely piece from Anne-Marie!!! <3

available here: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/fraeuleinwunder (the dress, not me off course ;-)

Valentines Day is surely improving!

1989: My grandmother died

1999-2003 and 2005 - 2006: the "oh no one will ever love me" depressions (most of us have been there I guess) 

2004: a fight in snowy streets including me beeing thrown down on the street and me giving a guy  the first and only slap I ever gave.

2007 - 2010: Yay at least I have a sweet boyfriend eventhough he doesn´t do anything on V-Day

2011: a paper heart from a gay friend

2012: a valentines day breakfast, a plant that will hopefully blossom soon, 3 cards (ok, two were from children:-), 3 roses and a little bag of candy from unknown sources and John wants to get some chinese food for us tonight!

Iam thrilled to actually have sort of a REAL Valentines Day for the first time in my life!!! (though the paper heart 2011 was very very sweet, too!)

If you have someone to love, LOVE! 

If you don´t: Things will evolve and get better little by little! 

The Ukulele arrived!!!

Hello everyone,

it took almost 2 weeks, but my Ukulele arrived! After some first difficulties ("I think you have to hold it in the other hand!") and so far fruitless atempts of playing "Frere Jaques" which is recommended as the first song to learn on many websites, I figured I make a quick photoshooting with my self timer because I got a lovely blue 50s laundry box the same day and it all goes nicely with my walls!

 And while I was at it I figured I take some "naughty" ones. Well, naughty for me anyway. Those nudies are so implied, you can barely call them nudies!

As it got dark outside the second picture didn´t turn out, but because of the unsharpness due to slight movement it looks like Iam rocking hard, so let´s just pretend I intended it to be this way and it is art...

Trivia... Last week I reposted an oooold photo from one of my self timer shootings and ended up having like 130 Likes on my own site and one that shared it. If you don´t follow me on Facebook and now wonder what marvelos photo this must be.... It´s actually just my butt :-D Go figure!

Must go practice my ukulele now....

Random things I bought for shootings....

Surprisingly cheap feather fans! We´ll see how the quality is once I get them. As long as they don´t fall apart during the shooting I will be happy. Plus there is a lovely pink petticoat I can match them with... still need matching heels and a fascinator and Iam ready to go!

 What´s more to add than that LOVE them!

I actually plan to use that Ukulele in "real life", too. I want to learn how to play "Happy Birthday" based on the fact that I had  my birthday last week and that there are 16 other January babies were I work! I´m zero musical, but I heard it´s the easiest to learn instrument. We´ll see...

 Corset Boulevard had a sale on ebay. Not comparable with a custom made corset, but hey, it´ll be nice for a shooting! I have the green version and I ordered a different blue one as well.

Extensions! If your hair colour is goddamnf*ckingred and you only find hair pieces as Karneval approaches go for it!!! I can extend my hair to almost Waist lenght now!

Only thing missing.... the photographer! All but my dirndl shooting got postphoned so far which is extremely boring and frustrating!

Herr Mann the puppy strikes again

Hello everyone,

yesterday I had a lovely evening at the Nomi Burlesque"London Import" Show. It is very unlikely for me and John to stay up long, but we stayed until after 2 in the morning and completely over slept the day. I have no idea how we shall fall asleep again in an hour to get up tomorrow morning...

Anyway I got a lovely new photo from my shooting with R. Scneider Digital pictureworld featuring my little puppy today...

I´m wearing a vintage suit that I got off ebay reeeeeally cheap two years ago or so! More pictures will follow soon!

I am about to plan more shootings, so if you´re interested in taking my picture - just let me know :-)

Things of beauty!

Hello everyone,

the new year started and I haven´t blogged for 10 days. Why? Sick and busy. It only took over two weeks to overcome the horrible cold I was having. And busy, busy work days in addition to that!

Well, but I won´t bore you with how busy and sick I was... I rather show you.... Some things of beauty!

I went to Stuttgart last weekend for a lovely Dirndl Shooting and I spent the night with the lovely and beautiful Ms. Lili Marleen! Technically we´ve known for 6 years or so - but only over the Internet. Considering how long we´re pin uping (and she: burlesque-ing) around we are Germanies Pin up Grandmas. It really was a great stay! And I hope to see her again soon!

Little me in big Stuttgart

 Enjoying a huuuuuuuuge and yummy breakfast in the Grand Cafe Planie, a verrrrry beautiful place!!!!!

 I attended my first fleamarket this year. I went over it once - found nothing. When I left I spotted this freaky green hat. I guessed it would be darn expensive, but asked for the price anyway. Only 10 €!!! Iam not sure it will actually suit me and I have nothing to go with it, but that was a bargain too good to resist!!! The sales lady said someone remarked to her he/she has seen Marlene Dietrich wearing a similar hat in a movie! If anyone knows the movie, please point me into the right direction! Would love to see. 

You just spotted something yellow? Those are ear rings one of my fantastic work mates gave to me. Have I lately mentioned that I have the worlds greatest work mates in my day job?????

Minus having been sick a great start for the year!!! :-)

Xmas is over and Iam sick and tired

Hello everyone,

on the 23rd of December I headed home to celebrate Xmas with my family, acompanied by the leftovers of a cold. By the 26th it seemed to be gone, but now it is back in full power and all the things I planned to do (tidying up, shopping, getting all the stuff off the storage room etc) have to wait! Because I start to shoot again next week and heve to be back on my feet by than. HOWEVER! One thing cheered me up and it is a photo of my last shooting in 2011!

Enjoy!
Sari

I told ya I am back ;-)

Hello everyone,

I was happy to get the photo I posted earlier today.... and I am amazed that I can post even more from the same shoot so quickly <3

 I truely long for warmer days and it´s only the start of December!

 you wonder how we achieved this effect? Well, we had an assistant throw water at me. Believe me it´s not easy to resist the reflex to blink in that moment :-)

 You already saw this dress on RTL and you can get your own one custom made here: http://de.dawanda.com/shop/fraeuleinwunder right now even 12% cheaper!!! Take the chance!

It was warm enough to do a quick out door shooting as well! This is the dress I wore when filming for WDR earlier this year. You can get it here: http://shop.strato.de/epages/15053214.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/15053214/Products/pug140/SubProducts/pug140-0004 Unlike is having some great offers due to X-Mas time so even if you don´t end up buying this one Iam sure you´ll make another bargain, so you should stop by in any case ;-)

Still alive and kicking!

I have been quiet for a while because we changed our internet provider and had slight difficulties. However.... Iam back now :-) Yay!!! the dress I wear on the photo is by www.trashydiva.com - I have had it for years and still love it! :-) I almost trashed the bottles when they relly fell down :-)

Making of....

Hello everyone,

we all are waiting for the Video we made last weekend to be broadcasted on RTL Television. We have no idea when this will happen though.... Meanwhile here are some photos taken in Andre´s Cut Corner at the beginning of the day :-)

Playing with my hair.... 1 pin curl set - 4 looks

Hello everyone,

during fall break I managed to get my hair cut and last Saturday I started a new attempt to bleach a streak into my hair. It worked wayyyyyy better than last time! Today beeing a day off I got to play with it....

I used this basic pin curl pattern for every look: http://retromodelsari.blogspot.com/2011/07/tutorial-time-saving-and-curl_31.html

And here are the results...

No. 1: Front rolls with open hair in the back...

 No. 2: This is not sooooo much different from look 1. In this version I curled the hair in the back a bit under and pinned them together

 No.3: When Iam lazy I like to go with 60s look. Some teasing of the crown and Ian ready to go!

No.4: And often I´ll just make a 60s updo when the hair is loosing curl and I just wanna opt for something easy :-)

 How do you like my streak?

"Style me Vintage Make up" Book Review

Hello everyone,

as I was unable to find a book review of "Style me Vintage Make-up - Easy step-by-step techniques for creating classic looks" I figured I take the chance, order it and write my own :-)

As you might remember the hair edition was just so-so for me cause I felt that a lot of it was pure guess work for the onetryingto achieve a styling. The make up book turned out way better in this regard!!! The only make up were I feel a bit left alone was the Clara Bow look because you never see the eyes shut so it is guess work. Everything else is very very well-explained this time!!!!

Here a few pictures of the book to give you an idea....

Pretty pictures and layout... I chose to try the Twiggy style (it is the one on the cover picture)... and make it Tiki. It was a verrrrrry good excuse to use my suer cute Sophisticated Lady bracelet with loooots of fruits... You can decorate Tiki Mugs with it, too. If you like it here´s the Sophisticated Lady Online Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/SophisticatedFlowers :-D Considering this was the first time I tried to do this look it turned out ok! NExt time will be better. Sadly my eyes are so huge, you don´t see A LOT of the eye make up *lol*

P.s: Checked my statistics for today and they were very high for a day were I didn´t even post something until now..... Than I saw that most came from the same link. Thanks to Mistral for posting about me in the www.bym.de Forum AND writing nice things about me. It has not gone unnoticed and I apreciate it a lot :-)