2 Weeks in Pictures

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Top Left - August the 3rd marked the 3 year anniversary of my relationship with my partner Mark. He took me out for a romantic date (at least, romantic to us!) - we saw Martyn Jacques from the Tiger Lillies perform the score to Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.

Top Right - Before we went to the Soho Theatre, Mark treated me to an Afternoon Tea

Bottom Left - I'm planning a shoot with Miss Miranda and shoe-makers, Fabulously Fetish! We went up to their studio to have a chat about ideas. Shoes and cake were in abundance.

Bottom Right - Afterwards Miranda, Anthony and I found an AMAZING Thai restaurant in Upper Street.

Top Left - I went down to Cornwall for a few days to visit my parents. They live in the town just across from St. Michael's Mount, a beautiful castle that is set out to sea. This is the view from my parents' driveway.

Top Right - A proper cream tea with proper Cornish clotted cream!

Bottom Left - Another beautiful town that I love, Mousehole.

Bottom Right - The  view of my parents' glass staircase, with just some of their art.

Top Left - Unfortunately the weather wasn't great on the day that I was travelling home, which caused an hour delay to my journey. 6 hours on the train is not fun!

Top Right - Scouting out the location for the Fabulously Fetish shoot - it's in an old slaughterhouse. We went down into the pitch black basement....

Bottom Left - The Roustabouts have a new toy!

Bottom Right - I rearranged my kitchen somewhat, and put a few posters up.

This week in pictures

I actually forgot to do this for 2 weeks, oops!

Top Left - A rare glimpse at my real hair! Thanks to Miss Miranda's secret tonic I can finally pincurl my hair, and despite the raging heat, it stayed all day!

Top Right - To jazz up a few press events, I organised the rental of a vintage snuff bar. It was so cute, and came in a little suitcase. Snuff was certainly interesting... it's a flavoured tobacco that you sniff, with all sorts of flavours from cupcake to absinthe. 

Bottom Left- On a lovely sunny day I headed to Kent for a shoot with Nandi of Nitemare Photography and Stacey, a.k.a. Sample Remix. Here's a quick snap of my makeup and hair (which I did myself).

Bottom Right - I also had a friend to pose with ;)

Top Left - I had the joy of shooting the stunning Leah Debrincat for Playful Promises Online Magazine (all will be revealed very soon), wearing a headpiece by Kezia Argue

Top Right - Shot with Annette-Bette and she brought along the CUTEST dog!

Bottom Left - Miss Miranda looking mildly surprised by one of Kezia's amazing wigs.

Bottom Right - The Playful Promises team went out for some drinks, starting off at Lounge Lover, which has some amazing decor. I must get myself some anatomical drawings for my studio.

This week in pictures

I am a serious Instagram addict. I did, indeed, climb that band wagon.

But it's so easy for such a lazy/busy person such as myself to quickly snap the interesting little moments in life (and yes, I'm an iPhone addict too). 

You can find me @swiczeniuk, but here is a run-down of my last week!

Top left: There is light at the end of the tunnel. My new macbook pro has arrived with it's fancy retina screen. It's a novelty to be able to open photoshop and chrome at the same time without whirring and clicking. My little black macbook has started weeping....

Top right: The ridiculously talented and lovely Kezia Argue made me this jaw-dropping kokoshnik. It's even more beautiful in real-life and I can't wait to shoot it!

Bottom left: After watching The Woman in Black, I was starting to regret hanging this photograph of my great, great (great?) Grandmother, The Old Bubba, up on the wall of my studio. To make matters worse it's surrounded by other photographs of long-dead Victorian children.

Bottom right: My outfit for the Torture Garden Boat Party! We DJed a bit of electro swing moving into some booty shaking mash-ups. The amazing sailor pants are by Kaori's Latex Dreams, the bra is a customised Playful Promises old style, latex sailor collar is by Eustratia and the hat is vintage.

Top left: It has come to my attention that Mark and I collect a lot of pretty tins. Most of these are from his father, who lives in Zurich. 

Top right: The Roustabouts making silly faces while waiting for our cab after playing a set of electro-swing at Circus Covent Garden.

Bottom left: After a crazy 12 days editing over 60 photographs for the SS13 Playful Promises collections, we finally recieved the printed lookbooks. A mere day before they had to be taken to the Paris trade show.

Bottom right: A little bit of light reading.