Dr Sketchy's Easter Bonanza 3 April

Sketchy Mistresses Lola and I show off our springtime décor, ourselves and our audience. Hard work preceeds every Sketchy occassion - mostly on Lola's crafty part. I was designated DJ, but Lola did her part too - sisters in Sketchy-ness.

Miss Diamond

Miss Diamond poses in a saucy sacreligious tableaux! Amen to that!

Lady Francesca

Lady Francesca poses in her fancy, fabulous outfit!

Jolie Étoile

Last but not least of our first Sketchy-hour, Jolie Étoile in a hot hausfrau posing session.

On to the Easter theme - the Easter Bunny was there, so was the Chicken, and Jesus him/herself.

If you ever wondered about those stigmata - here's how it happened...

All in all a very successful Easter Bonanza, Lola and I had fun, the ladies were dazzling, and the crowd was as wonderful as only a Sketchy-crowd can be! Next time is Friday May 29th, also at Judy's, so don't miss out on that! See more Sketchy-stuff at www.drsketchy.se

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Duchess

Final class for the first Showgirl Special gang

March 22 was the last class for my very first batch of Showgirl Specialists - it was a sad occasion for me, it has been so much fun working with these ladies from the very first class last fall and now to see them go, ready for the stage. It has been quite a journey for all of us, and they will always be special to me since they were my first four ladies to finish all the classes.

Left to right: Jolie Étoile, Fancy Lane, Lady Francesca & Miss Diamond

Ingrid Ignition joined us so that the ladies could do their finale performance in front of an audience of at least one (me they're used to). It was also the final dress rehearsal before their very first performance on stage at Kittenville Newcomers' Night April 3.

They were splendid, and I'm incredibly, albeit perhaps unduly, proud - they have worked very hard and created terrific routines. Four very different ladies, four very different routines - but all of it amazing. Lucky me to have the most fun job ever!

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Duchess

Kittens' night on the town 21 March

We keep talking about it - going out, having a nice dinner and just not working for once. usually talk is all it ends up being, but this time we finally made it happen!

Georgette & Pepper on the tube.

First a lovely five-course dinner at Le Rouge in Gamla Stan with cocktails and entertainment - the meal was delicious!

We ate soooo much, and I think everyone managed to clean their plates, except Ingrid who ordered bouillabaise and got food for about five people - but lola and Dixie were only too happy to help her out, and I believe Baby had her fair share of seafood as well.

We had so much fun occasionally we had to remind ourselves we were in a public space, to watch our language and keep it down just a notch.

Their idea with dinner club performances was swell, but they could have done so much better in that departmen (like a bunch of Kittens, for example...). The decor was wonderful, and the food really was delicious, though, so we were happy.

After dinner we went on to HK club to see Miss Indigo Blue, that lovely lady from Seattle we've had the pleasure to meet in Vegas and New York. She's brilliant and we had the best 'seats' in the house, which cost us about 45 minutes of waiting in horrid techno music (why? what for? who likes it? what has it got to do with burlesque?!), it was painful, but well worth the effort when miss Blue took the stage.

She was fabulous as always, and even managed total glamour after slipping and falling pretty badly. The compere sprayed whipped cream on stage before her (clever?), and the person who 'cleaned it up' only rubbed it into the floor, so basically Indigo had a big butter stain center stage - not a good combo with high heels... But she managed even that!

Tara MiSioux did a pretty Sailor Moon routine too, since it was super hero theme night. On the whole, a lot of waiting and bad music for a few good routines, didn't feel worth the money, unfortunately, since they're the ones with the big budget who can actually afford getting foreign performers in.

Used to be a lot better... Never the less, Kitten night is always fun!

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Duchess

Knicker practice

Tonight we had a nice long meeting, debating clothing options for LV in June, and trying to settle on a bikini. We also decided to stay in two different hotels so it's like two vacations rolled into one! Hooray!

We did some dancing as well, though Baby didn't show up because of her cold. Me and Ingrid practiced Minnie with some assistance from Pepper, Lola and Mags, for our Barcelona gig in April. Contessa left early to catch a Salem al Fakir concert, and Dixie stayed for one round of Minnie before she left.

I also booked our tickets for Saturday's HK Club, which I think will be the first visit for all of us together since we left, and only my third visit since then! I'm excited. Most of the time we're working when their clubs are on, and now we're all going after our snazzy Kitten dinner.

Saw some really swell shoes at Mixage, fuchsia satin pumps - oh la la... I'll be saving up for them...

Turns out Pepper also applied for BHoF, so now there are officially three Kitten applications in - exciting! And Sugar Kane, lovely lady, is also going to Vegas, so no matter who gets to compete we're going to have a blast for sure.

Okay, zoning out here, in front of bad TV...

Good night.
D

The Twirly Girl

The fabulous Miss Indigo Blue (coming to Stockholm next weekend by the way) sure puts her money where her mouth is!

Check out this lovely and extravagant twirl-buffet:



I'd better get to work on my twirling practice. Some day I shall master the one-boob-at-a-time-twirl!

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D

Applications finally in!

It takes more time than I think it will to fill in the Burlesque Hall of Fame applications - it's the same thing every year. But now I've sent in the Kitten-application, and I'm very nearly done with my own. I so hope that I will be allowed to perform. It would be great to do "Perhaps..." there, now that I've done it at the NYBF and on TV.

I must say I'm a little proud over the way I handled my skirt malfunction the other day. Out of all the times I've performed the routine, I've never once had trouble with the skirt. It opens with a bow to the side, and buttons. This time the bow got tangled and tied itself into an impossible knot, the kind you can't get up without ten minutes of scrutiny and fiddling aout with the ribbons. I had to look down - I hate it when I have to look down - and I was like "I can't believe it. I'm on TV and my fucking skirt won't open!"

Luckily the ribbons had extended far enough that I could pull the skirt down, which was not at all meant to happen, but no one seems to have noticed. Except Contessa and Georgette, of course. They were in the audience, sweating...

Anywho, my new website is up and running too, check it out at http://www.duchessdubois.com.

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D

Sweden's got Talent....

After three years of performing I've been on many different stages with many different audiences. Some superb, some awkward, some glamorous, some... "rustic", let's say. I've taken my clothes off in small Swedish towns and in Paris, London, New York and Las Vegas. But this was hands down the oddest thing I've done.

Not in terms of performing, although my fricking panel skirt fricking wouldn't fricking open - which has never happened before! But the whole thing was just sooo weird. And, I'm not supposed to talk about it.

Anyway, I was in the first run of performances for the Sweden's Got Talent 2009 TV show. Long ass day, I was the 27th of 30 performers to go on stage. The stage was great though, and all the TV peple were super nice and friendly.

But the judges... Goodness. Bert Karlsson - talk about pet peeve. Not so pet even. I really do not like that man. I don't know how to deal with being judged by him?! Sure, I want to advance in the competition, but do I want him to like me? It's like the antithesis of everything I am!

Interesting day, in terms of social anthropology, but a little scary all the same. Some people were clearly there because they were odd and would make "great TV" - did they know it? And it's really hard to remember who you are and what you think in interviews and introductions the way they go about it. I tried, but I really have no idea how I did.

That's all on that subject for now - there's no telling what will happen.

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Duchess