Red Snapper

Who wants mail?

I got some fun postcards to send out from time to time-- all of them safe for exposed postal mailings. The print quality makes them look very vintage.

If I haven't mailed anything to you yet and you want me to mail you a postcard every now and again, message me your address. :)

Kings lose to Stars. Snappers live to face another day.

Recognizing change can be difficult. Learning of the changes in my father's health has been alarming. I have memories of eating cheese and drinking home-brewed wine at the kitchen table in my teens, and eating cheese and barbecue chips with him when I was an ivory kiddo with very few freckles. A man...

Full reveal - "If You Really Love Me"

Shot with the new camera under the fancy lights with the new curtains.

Shot in the home studio, but not in my actual home studio. That room is full of costumes that need to be put away and in-progress projects. The room isn't quite deep enough for shooting and dancing. At least, not how I have it ...

I do love this quilt.

Photo by Mr. Snapper.

I really do love this quilt. I need a new bed to go with it.

When we moved from Los Angeles, we ditched our mattress and ordered a new memory foam mattress from Amazon. (I did two corset commissions right before the move, so I bought the mattress as soon as we arrived.)...

Weekend plans.

Remember how my video camera died and it sucked?

Good news.

Thanks to my patrons, commissions and side hustling as a writer, we’ve added a new weapon to our arsenal.

This son-of-a-bitch shoots video and still. 

This means the home studio now has:

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2018-10-18 19:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post

Big photo shoot weekend ahead!

I have a full weekend of shooting content ahead. I believe I have seven looks planned.

Mr. Snapper is my MVP. He's helping with the styling and a bunch of other stuff. He acts as an assistant during the shoot-- moving my boobs so they're lifted, adjusting stray hairs, helping me dress and hanging ...

I'm more diligent as a stripper than I am as a variety artist.

Mr. Snapper and I traveled to Tucson over the weekend to perform "Buttercup" (AKA the finger in the butt song) at Arizona Burlesque Festival.

When I'm dancing, I pay more attention to what I eat before the show so I don't upset digestion with dancing or have trouble fastening all my layers of clot...

Behind the scenes at the Dalmatian shoot.

Mr. Snapper shot some video while I set up my furry friends for the photo shoot. I talk about the toys I've collected.

The "newest" toy wasn't from St. Louis. I actually got it in Hollywood in 2003 to sit in the back seat of my new car. That one used to wear a pumpkin suit.

Shooting with my best friend.

I love this dog. Having the dogs involved in this photoshoot was unintentional but predictable.

Coca is a rescue from Tijuana. She's also part border collie. High-anxiety and noise-sensitive, she's a handful. I send her to day camp when people come over for a social visit to make it easier on her....

Tub Tales 09.29.18

You now get a private link for each Tub Tales video. YAY! https://vimeo.com/293835517/25042ddf69

Mr. Snapper and I went to Chicago last weekend so I was in a strange tub. (Well, strange to me but not interesting-strange...

Lights! Almost action!

Photo by Mr. Snapper.

Part of upping my game over the past year has been investing in equipment for the home studio. This means buying backdrops, a backdrop stand, and a lighting kit.

Next up is a new camera. I have to replace my trusty but deceased digital video camera after years of servic...

The quilt that took over two decades.

Photo by Mr. Snapper. Derp by Buster.

I've always loved Dalmatians. This quilt was conceived from that love of Dalmatians. (More Dalmatian tales in November.) I had two Dalmatians back in the mid-nineties: Holly and Piper. I started buying fabric to make a Dalmatian quilt. I even managed to make a...

Patreon levels are changing in days!

I promised changes. I'm updating the levels tomorrow evening, and I'm switching to "charge up front" on September 30th.

Here are the monthly subscription levels:

$1 per month – You Like Me

You want to be supportive and this fits your budget. I dig it. You’ll get to...

Detective Olivia Stabler had a show open this weekend.

I watch a lot of SVU.

One of the major projects that was in my queue was a murder mystery script for Viva Dallas Burlesque. (Since you can't just hand a script over to performers and expect them to sort it out for themselves, I also served as a wham-bam director.) While Mr. Snapper and I wrote the...

These are the soul cages.

I have a tale to share with you because that’s what I do here— share my life as a creator.

The TLDR version is that I’m taking September off from posting because there’s some unpleasantness happening in my world and it’s preventing me from sharing the content I’d like.

At the beg...

Tub Tales Noir

Sorry this is late to you. A lot of stuff has been happening. (You'll see that in another post.) The great news is that there's a NEW camera in my future. This one was shot on iPhone. :D

Password is snappernoir

I'm sparkling and I'm laughing.

Photo by Madison Hurley. Melted hair courtesy of Dallas humidity.

I made this corset based on an existing pattern. I think it's called the heart corset because there's a heart on the front.

I didn't do adjustments to the pattern, so the cups are made for a 32B and not a 32F. I had to embelli...

My mental gymnastics will keep me warm at night.

The quilt is too big to lay out on the floor of my studio without moving furniture. The video shows you where I was with the work last week, and I share the significance of the squares.

I've started quilt...

Why half ass?

Photo by Jeff Fuller-Freeman.

I'm thinking a lot about the next new act.  I think it's going to be a corset act. I keep thinking about songs that have lots of guitar and heavy bass. I can't get "Stranglehold" out of my head right now. I don't know if that will be the best fit, but I'll probab...

And now, disco nonsense.

From Viva Dallas Burlesque on Saturday night. Ben Britt is amazing with getting the videos up right away.

It took years to break the habit I have of back-leading. I've been dancing for longer than Mr. Snapper and I have the muscle memory for certain dance actions. It's not unlike ...

Would you believe Kitten Natividad gave me these shoes?

Hair and makeup by LaDonna Stein of Dallas PinUp, photo by Through the Looking Glass Photos.

Russ Meyer girl turned mature and sassy burlesque legend Kitten Natividad gave me these shoes. She also gave me a pair of black high heels (same height) and a pink raincoat.

I can't put these shoes o...

Tub Tales 07.31.18

Password 'distracted by the bubbles'

Boy howdy, I yammer on and on and on in this one. I also keep playing with the bubbles. The days are hot here in Texas, so a warm bath isn't as appealing during the summer months. It was just under 100 degrees outside so I was cool enough for a bubble bath...

Bad girl does good, film at 11.

Friday night I was the Bad Girls Club representative at Texas Queerlesque Festival, selling merch and raffle tickets to raise money for charity.

I was invited to join the Bad Girls Club a few months ago. I've been using my Betty Crocker skills to raise money for different charities as part of the ...

What shall the next big thing be?

I'm sorting out what the next costume and act shall be. I have some investment pieces coming and some large props in my mind. I wanted to create two new acts this year. I did that, but the acts I built were both for Star Wars. I need some good stuff-- some standards that get me the kind of gigs I wa...

One time, I was a zombie prostitute.

This was the second time I wore a corset. (First was in college for a Moliére play.)

Mr. Snapper unearthed these photos from an abandoned photo account we had.

It was a couple years before I landed in burlesque. The casting notice was for an art project in Studio City. Trade for prints. I n...

I clean up good.

Makeup and hair by LaDonna Stein. Photo by Through the Looking Glass Studio/Dallas Pinup.

Seriously, it had been ages since I did a traditional pin-up shoot. I have one naked photo from this one that I'll share later.

My hair looks incredible.

It took an hour and several travel bottles...

Pinup queen time!

You saw the hair in my Tub Tales. It was like hairspray cotton candy.

I decided to get some pinup photos in my crown (and out of the crown) because I have very few current pinup photos. The classic poses, big hair and red lips aren't usually part of my other photo shoots.

I finished my Queen...

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Tub Tales 06.23.18

Seriously, I have huge hair in this video.

Password bread bath bomb

I need to dance to more live music.

Photo by Hershel Self from Poppy Pie's Burlesque Roulette last summer.

There were two shows in Los Angeles that had live music. Both of them had a regular cast, which meant no opportunity for this little stripper to enjoy the live band.

Since I moved to Dallas, I've danced with two live band...