Jewelry Friday!

Last week I showed you my new lace duster from Hellaholics (you can read about it here), which I found when searching for jewelry to post about. So, here are a few of the jewelry pieces from that same company - We Are The Hellaholics!

Raw Clear Quartz Crescent Earrings

Moon Quartz Necklace

Serpent Snake Necklace

Pentagram Ring Large

Black Onyx Crystal Ball Necklace

Black Magic Gold Tourmaline Ring

Scarab Ring

Starry Night Bullet Necklace

La Luna Headpiece

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Maria Nilsdotter Jewelry

Swedish jewelry designer Maria Nilsdotter creates pieces inspired by a mysterious and dark fantasy world, often drawn from folk tales and mythology. The design is characterized by symbolic figures, unexpected twists and thought provoking contrasts... After graduating from renowned arts college Central Saint Martins in 2007 Maria started her brand right away, creating all her jewelry by herself. Since then her business has grown as demand for her pieces increased. In 2012 Maria was awarded the prestigious Guldknappen Accessoar for accessory designer of the year by Swedish magazine Damernas Värld, and today her jewelry is made by skilled craftsmen in Sweden and England, and is being sold by shops in several different countries, with her flagship store in Stockholm.

If you want to stand out in a crowd by wearing eye catching jewelry, Maria Nilsdotter's designs will certainly make people notice you! As usual, I have picked some of my personal favorites to show you, but to see it all, please visit Maria Nilsdotter's web site here!

Moon Earring

Spider Diamond Earring

Spider+Fly Chain Earring

Weird Necklace

Rose Thorn Neckpiece

Raven Ruby Ring

Jaw Stone Ring

Bat Ring

Jaw Cuff

Feather Tiara

Pearl Dagger Headpiece

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PILL Jewelry

When I first saw the beautiful jewelry made by Jo I was transported to an old, mystical place... She calls her brand PILL Jewelry - made from sweet fairytales and dark dreams, and her - all handmade - pieces combines an nice mixture of old strange photos, bugs and other obscure things. Here are a few of the pieces you find in her web shop, but she also makes custom made things if you crave something special!

The Green Beetle Brooch

The Death Head Moth Necklace

Lily Of The Valley Earrings

Peony Collar Brooch

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Secret Love Locket Necklace

Ribs Earring

Dark Antlers and Moonstone Necklace

The Full Moon Bangle

The Wicca Moon Three Piece Ring

I met Jo at Burleskloppis (The Burlesque Flea Market) a few weeks ago, and there I bought this Big X-Ray Bat Necklace from her. I love bats so wearing an actual x-ray of this fantastic creature around my neck feels great! There are many, many more wonderful pieces in Jo's web shop, so go ahead and visit her place of wonder - you find it here!

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I've missed doing a few of these Full Moon posts the last couple of months. But here we go again! The moon-music I want to share with you this time is Slept So Long with Jay Gordon. The song was featured on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, and I really like the feeling I get from listening to this one...

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Fall has really arrived in Sweden now, and even though I love summer, I have to say I do love fall too. Cozy, misty days among the dying trees... And when the full moon shines through the ghostlike clouds, I feel really good! The music I want to share with you this time is the song Chandelier by Sia. I think this is a really good song, and when I saw the video I was astounded by the little girl dancing in it. There is something disturbing in the way she moves and expresses herself like a grown up woman, when in reality she is only twelve years old! Her name is Maddie Ziegler, and well, she is astounding! Watch the video below and you'll understand...

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A couple of weeks ago I turned a year older, and the birthday gift I got from my sister was Lana Del Rey's new album Ultraviolence. I fell completely in love with her last album Born To Die, and I really like this new one too! Very mellow listening. So for this month's Full Moon post I decided to share one of my favorite songs from this album - Shades Of Cool. 

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Although I love the light summer nights we have here in Sweden, it still feels good now i August, when the nights finally gets so dark you can see the stars and the moon again. So to celebrate this month's full moon, here is a lovely song by John Miles - Music. My mom loves this song too, and she reads my blog. So this one's for you mom!

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Photo: Charlotte Hall

This month's full moon picture was taken by my friend photographer Charlotte Hall. She has shot me many times, and also takes amazing nature photos! The music I'll give you this time might not be so full moonish, but it's a great summer tune with a nice beat - Michael Jackson's Love Never Felt So Good, from his new album Xscape. I'm a big Michael Jackson fan, and I really like this album! It makes me feel good...

Fabergé Friday And Full Moon

As today's Fabergé Friday coincides with the full moon, I made sure to find an object that resembles the moon. And this is what I found - a little box made by workmaster Feodor Afanassiev, sometime between the years 1896 and 1908!

The ovoid gold box is covered in oyster enamel over a guilloché ground. The laurel border around the lid is in two-colored gold, with a diamond set thumb-piece. The center of the lid is set with a cabochon ruby. The size of the box is 0.8'' x 2.1'' x 1.6'' (2.1 x 5.3 x 4.0 cm), and since 1953 it belongs in the Royal Collection.

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As I love both the moon and bats, this picture is pretty perfect in my eyes. Haha! Pipistrelle is a common bat species by the way... But now to this month's full moon music - the beautiful song She by Charles Aznavour. Enjoy!

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A while ago I found a band I hadn't heard of before. It consists of Croatians Luca Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, and they call themselves 2CELLOS. As you might guess from the name, they both play the cello. But they play it in a way you have never heard before... So for this month's full moon music, I give you the video I first saw with them. Here is Thunderstruck!

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As we travel the road to the full moon tonight, the song I'll give you to listen to on the journey this month is Placebo's version of Running Up That Hill. I love this one...

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To get some better videos of my burlesque acts than the iPhone videos from performances I already have, I recently had two of my numbers filmed in a studio, with the help of photographer Qbike. As my newest act is all about the moon, I thought it fitting to post the video of that one in today's Full Moon post! The music I'm using is a remix of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, done by E.S. Posthumus. I had to speed it up a little bit though, to make it better to dance to. I've noticed I've made it very difficult for myself by always using pointe shoes in my acts, as ballet might look a bit ridiculous if you can't take out the steps properly - and many stages you end up on as a burlesque dancer are quite small (which was also the case with this studio stage), and the floor of the stages vary a lot, sometimes being very non-pointe shoe friendly... The stage floor in this video was wholly carpeted for example, which screwed up my balance a bit. But I guess all of these challenges make you a better dancer in the end. I mean, why should anything be easy here in life?! Haha! So here it is - my Moonlight Sonata act!

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We finally got a bit of snow here in Sweden, so for this month's full moon music I decided to give you a bit of ballet - Waltz of the Snowflakes from The Nutcracker. I love this one! The music was composed by Tchaikovsky, and here it is danced by The Royal Ballet.

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Just a few days till Christmas, and the moon is full... So here comes my favorite Christmas song - White Christmas with Bing Crosby! It always puts me in a cozy-Christmas-mood...

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For this month's full moon, I want to share my favorite song by Queen - The Show Must Go On. Very powerful, and true...

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And so the moon has reached it's fullness once more! The full moon music I'll give you this time is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. I haven't listened to them so much, but my landlady Fanny plays their music around the apartment sometimes, and they are really good! She introduced me to a song - and it's video - called Stand Inside Your Love. So here it comes, together with the video, which is beautiful!

New Burlesque Act!

So, as I told you before, the International Stockholm Burlesque Festival is going to take place here in Stockholm next weekend. I'll be performing during Burleskloppis 6.0 on Sunday, and for this occasion I have created a new burlesque act, called Moonlight Sonata. It will be a homage to my favorite celestial globe - the moon - and a while ago I teamed up with photographer Jan Persson to take some pictures of it. Here is the result!

There will be lovely music, lots of sparkles, feather fans, and - as usual - pointe shoes. I'll be on stage at 3 pm, so come see me and some other lovely ladies take our clothes off, at the same time you can do some real bargains at the flea market!

Here is the event of Facebook!

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One of my favorite authors is J.R.R. Tolkien. He wrote many more things than "just" The Hobbit and The Lord Of Th Rings - often connected with these though. One of his many poems is called The Man In The Moon Stayed Up Too Late, and since this is one of my Full Moon posts, I thought it fitting to publish it today. The picture above is illustrator Alan Lee's vision of the poem. Enjoy!

The Man In The Moon Stayed Up Too Late

There is an inn, a merry old inn

beneath an old grey hill,

And there they brew a beer so brown

That the Man in the Moon himself came down

One night to drink his fill.

The ostler has a tipsy cat

that plays a five-stringed fiddle;

And up and down he runs his bow,

Now squeaking high, now purring low,

Now sawing in the middle.

The landlord keeps a little dog

that is mighty fond of jokes;

When there's good cheer among the guests,

He cocks an ear at all the jests

And laughs until he chokes.

They also keep a hornéd cow

as proud as any queen;

But music turns her head like ale,

And makes her wave her tufted tail

and dance upon the green.

And O! the rows of silver dishes

and the store of silver spoons!

For Sunday there's a special pair,

And these they polish up with care

on Saturday afternoons.

The Man in the Moon was drinking deep,

and the cat began to wail;

A dish and a spoon on the table danced,

The cow in the garden madly pranced,

and the little dog chased his tail.

The Man in the Moon took another mug,

and then rolled beneath his chair;

And there he dozed and dreamed of ale,

Till in the sky the stars were pale,

and dawn was in the air.

Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat:

'The white horses of the Moon,

They neigh and champ their silver bits;

But their master's been and drowned his wits,

and the Sun'll be rising soon!'

So the cat on his fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,

a jig that would wake the dead:

He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,

While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:

'It's after three!' he said.

They rolled the Man slowly up the hill

and bundled him into the Moon,

While his horses galloped up in rear,

And the cow came capering like a deer,

and a dish ran up with the spoon.

Now quicker the fiddle went deedle-dum-diddle;

the dog began to roar,

The cow and the horses stood on their heads;

The guests all bounded from their beds

and danced upon the floor.

With a ping and a pong the fiddle-strings broke!

the cow jumped over the Moon,

And the little dog laughed to see such fun,

And the Saturday dish went off at a run

with the silver Sunday spoon.

The round Moon rolled behind the hill

as the Sun raised up her head.

She hardly believed her fiery eyes;

For though it was day, to her surprise

they all went back to bed!