the joys of female power part two

my favourite cafe, fabrica584, hosted the second fundraiser, we organised for the east london fawcett society and to my delight for an array or reasons; better location, longer hours, beautiful venue and an outside access for smoking and chilling away from the busy street, with all the restrictions, councils impose, for safety and the law...

plus, i love this cafe and the people who own it, as i consider them friends with imagination, warmth, support and the ability to risk and try different things...

i customised the space and moved the sexy sofa at the back, because i wanted to create a stage for the band and a sitting area near the garden, which, eventually, became a platform for my haistylist! o. yes, we had haircuts from one of the best hairstylists in town, who i proudly call, my girl, as i love her so much!

the glitterball was installed and is now gracing the cafe's industrial ceiling for the next party and the next...

we put the lowboys on the tables for atmosphere and we swapped the harsh white in the standing lamps with warm orange, which cost a deserved fortune and boom! we had ambience, with the rotating glass chips of the ball above us!

we had shoe drawings, beautiful, originals, who were donated by a friend, colouring the brick, red and white walls!

we brought the heavy boxes from downstairs and we set up the busy bar...

i re introduced the east london fawcett society sling, made lovingly with gin, heering cherry liqueur, benedictine, lemon juice and sugar

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the beaver royale, with vodka, creme de cassis and apple juice, as the signature drinks of the event, because i knew i would have new folk, who i wanted to experiment on; in a good way!

as i love to play with jams and spices and syrups as of late, i put on the menu chilli and cinnamon manhattan, with fresh chilli, which was delicious and warm and spicy and full of bourbon; chocolate and lavender in the margarita and ginger in the old - fashioned. 


i had the garden breeze as the non alcoholic beverage and instead of white grape juice, i added apple with the fresh ginger, the cucumber, the mint and the lemon juice and all in the bender with crushed ice! fresh and clean and i believe, excellent also, with gin...


djs, all female and sexy and gorgeous were alternating their great sets, between the band and the short talk from the society's integral members and the charity's representative, money we were raising for: a safer world for women...


we drank and danced and mingled and cheered and we got involved... 


we stayed till the early hours dancing to my iphone's 90s house, drinking the remaining beer and breaking down the pop up... watch this space for our summer party... nymphs and sirens and muses are coming on board!


many thanks to roberto, george, noemi and valentina at fabrica, my beautiful team, anka, andre, andre, holly, georgie, zbigniew, miri, sam, dan, monica, mystique, sophie and zara and the society's, hannah, rachel and gemma.

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dalston emporium

the liquor bar's winterball has been successfully undertaken after plenty of thinking, planning, designing, devising, researching, meeting, talking, tweaking, changing, polishing and purchasing... complete with a glitterball and silver window shimming and a branding board, which doug made in his flat from cut outs of the logo and the theme and cardboard... as well as its own glamorous rollergirl in silver, black and white and a box wrapped around her neck, offering guests the crackers, with titilating liaison...on saturday 21 january 2012... chinese new year, year of the dragon, new moon, sun in aquarius, what a perfect timing and two birthdays to celebrate; first liquor bar of the year; we were busy!


and it was a fine blast! full of white tie, black tie, glitter, evening dress, suit, lace hankies, tie pins, hats, make up, wigs, moustaches and beards, heels and boots and patent, fabulous hairdos and masks, braces and belts and specs and sparking cupcakes and a lot of beverage; with alcohol and not, equally divine!


the winterball was inspired by the glamour of hollywood and the grace of the ballroom dancing, combining swing time and latino classics...


the drinks were inspired by the dances and hollywood divas...


the combination worked and made sense and it was beautiful, tasty and sexy!


i left the design after briefing and conversing to the magic of DHD design and went off to devise the menus, which, this time, included a respectable list of non alcoholic cocktails, as a. i knew a couple of folk were not drinking/ detoxing and b. it is important to consider the non drinkers and create something with imagination and healthy juice...


white and dark rum were the chachacha and rumba, the tequila was the paso doble, i'm in love with this dance; passionate and sexy and so rigorous, which i mixed with butterscotch schnapps, the bourbon became the bossa nova and the gin and vodka, jive and foxtrot!


fun... and it continues...


mary pickford, shirley temple, lucille ball and julie andrews graced the non alcoholic mixes with juices, ginger ale, grenadine, cherries, mint, elderflower and camomile tea and ginger rogers was my detox delight with ginger, beetroot and carrot... spicy and veggie virgin mary was chiling nicely in the jug...


a massive bowl of prohibition punch was scooped up quickly enough and the classics, always featured on my list, were not overlooked either: the chocolate manhattan with a dash of mozart chocolate liqueur was exquisite and the marmalade old fashioned still very popular among the bourbon lovers! there were classic ,martinis flying around too and andre could not help, but improvise with a good variation of a gin daiquiri!


the music was flowing and increasing in tempo, which totally facilitated the performance behind the deli counter cum bar, which was busy till its very end with a persistent massive queue!


i was totally proud of my team, beautiful, committed and professional young people, who seemed to be enjoying what they were doing, with loyalty and efficiency! learning from past mistakes is always good...


and of course the emporium was immensely helpful, from carrying stuff, to storing stuff and loving the whole affair! again, one has got to kiss plenty of frogs to find their prince, get it?


all good, onwards and upwards, i continue better and tighter each time...


happy new year, thank you all for coming and/ or following this and watch this space for the age of aquarius next! 


big love, huge shout to this party's contributors: doug, hildy, andre, holly, luis, emelia, sez, suheyla, holly and wes.


stav B.

additional photo by sez





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