Project Eurovision part 2

Soooo
Throwing together fatastic sequin outfits wasn't quite as quick and painless as RuPauls Dragrace and Project Runway makes it seem...It takes a whole day just to cut the damn fabric.

If anybody here haven't read part 1 of this magnificent journey, here it is: 

And speaking of cutting the fabric.. When the fabric is sequin it also means that you will have sequins ALL over your house. Forever. I have found sequins in the bottom of my laudry basket, underneith all the clothes.. Inside books in the book shelf, in the refrigerator, on my fingers right now.. EVERYWHERE!

I'm thinking sequins are the fabulous un-living cousins of the bed bugs. Once you get them in the house you have to burn it down to get rid of them again..

Anyway...

The work is slowly coming to an end. As I'm not exactly a made to measure-kind of semstress at this point, I just cut the pieces of my jumpsuit and sew them together. And I ended up with an enormous blob of a suit. So now I've had to learn to fit it. And now it doesn't look half bad actually :D

So since I only have small details left on it I have started on Matts waistcoat.
IT'S GONNA BE SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD :D

It takes forever to hand sew the rhinestone flag on the back but OH MY GOD!!

And as you can see, if I'm pressed for time to finish the whole Union Jack, Matt is rooting for Iceland. (Even though they didn't make it to the final..)

I hope the Europeans love their Russian too

Jesus Christ I can not even remember the last time I was so Excited about a song in Eurovision. And thank heavens, the stage performance and voice was all I wanted and more.

You can say what you want about Russia, and allegedly some of the audience members did with booing when Sergey performed, but you have t realize this is the best thing since forever!!!

Let's not make it political. After all, Russia themselves are going in, all guns blazing to win the biggest gay festival ever, so let's just enjoy that bit of irony and root for the most deserving person to win the contest in decades.

If any of you didn't get to se the marvel that was Sergeys semi-final performance, here it is

GOOOOO AGNETE!!

The Eurovision artists have arrived, and the ESC-o'rama has begun.

This is the third day of rehersals in Globen, and among those who took the stage this afternoon was Norways own arctic pop- princess Agnete.

And this is unfortunately pretty much all we'll see of her before the semi May 12th.

Normally the artist have a seriously hectic scedule in the weeks leading up to the final, with press and parties and mingling and what not.
Agnete, however, have made it clear that she will not attend any press events or anything else apart from rehersals leading up to her semi-final.

This has caused some speculation among the un-Norwegian press and other interested people, as it's not exactly the smartest strategy if you want to win the contest.

But this is probably the least of her concerns these days.

The truth is that Agnete is stuggling with mental health issues, which she has been very open about. She has told the Norwegian media about her periods of depression from an early age. She is now beeing assessed for bipolar disorder.

Even though she wont do any press she is adamant that she will be on stage on May 12th. She says that Eurovision is a dream come true and that when she is on stage she feels comfortable and in control.

This of course makes me feel like an asshole for beeing so unsupportive of her song...
But Agnete, we support YOU. And wish you all the best. Both in the competition and life in general.

AND, this might be a small unimportant thing in the whole scheme of things but still... It can't be said enough, you outfit is FAAAAAAAAB.
(luckily for everyone watching, she will be wearing this magical outfit in Globen as well)

Here's Agnetes official music video for "Icebreaker". GOOOOO AGNETE!!