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"You're the best influence I've ever had in my life." - Andrea Martin on MTV's MADE.

"Veronica Varlow sees the beauty in You, and in falling under Her spell, you fall under YOUR spell. " - Coco La Pearl

"I loved the class! I wished it lasted FOREVER!" - Dame Beso

"Veronica - you gave us such great advice, opportunities, tricks, etc! Thank you!" - Miss Amanda Jones

"Your class is like a super-stylish, slumber party!" - Tallulah Luv

Let's make some real magic together! See you there....

xoxox
Veronica

On Saturday, during a rainy and cold day, tucked away in a secret location nestled along cobblestone streets in Manhattan, we did the shoot for Zina Brown's short film, The Hidden Sister. I put on the false eyelashes, got the black kohl rimmed on my eyes and did an old gypsy spell on camera to be immortalized for all time. There was a ball of solid ice, there was fire, there was raven feathers from far off places, there was magic twigs and bark from a special tree, and then there was just the gleaming.... The wind and the rain creaked the building and the sound of Kai Altair's new song "Shine" played as I moved my arms to the sky, golden bracelets stacked one upon another. Magic was in the air.

Things that I learned during the seven hour shoot.....my little dog, Niney, really wants to be a movie star, or maybe she could just feel all the magic her gypsy mama was brewing up and she wanted to be near it. At one point, she was cuddled next to my leg underneath layers of black cloak just to be by my side. We made sure to save the very last shot of the day for her! I held her in my arms and we leaned over the magic table and she was very interested. She is my lovely Familiar.....that is for sure.

Kai took a bunch of amazing pictures behind the scenes on the set which she posted up here. I chose to share this one with all of you because I'm in the middle of one of my spells - being all serious and on either side of me are the butts of two of the things I love the most - Burke butt on the left, Niney butt on the right. Yep. Awesome.

Stay posted for all film release deets! xoxoxoxo

In the early morning hours of Sunday, I had a dream of rain for the very first time in my life. There I was in the dream, in a sundress at nighttime, out on an empty street alone, barefoot and dancing in the rain. I could feel the rain drip down my hair and onto my shoulders. It felt as though it was really happening, that I had found this empty place where soft rain fell somewhere in the corners of my mind. I felt very free and alive.

A female voice called out into the night and said, "Come in from the rain, you're going to catch a cold...."

I didn't listen. I kept dancing and exploring the streets in my slip and my dripping wet hair.

I woke up with a 100 degree fever.

I can't say I wasn't warned....but it was worth it to dance all night someplace far away in the rain...

Today. I'm in the subway, on my way to an audition and I've got crystal encrusted flowers all over my hair, I've got the cause-a-wind-storm-by-blinking huge false eyelashes on, I've got the five inch heels, the vintage wiggle dress and blood red lipstick. Yes. At this point, both you and I are seriously doubting my logic in taking the subway. I should also mention it is 2 in the afternoon, so I'm surrounded by business casual Friday afternoon people who are also confused about this, too.

Anyway... I notice this huge, hulking, very intimidating guy across from me staring. Which, I mean, I'm a sight, so I'm not mad at that. But then the girl next to me gets up and gets off at the next stop and he stands up and sits down next to me. And when I say next to me, I mean - rightnexttome. In which the most genius conversation of my life then happens:

Hulking Guy: Hey! You're pretty! What do you do? What are you doing?
Me: Thank you! I'm on the way to an audition. (Which was true.)
Hulking Guy: Oh really? For what?

And I have no idea what made me say this. But I looked him dead in the eye and said:

"RuPaul's Drag Race."

END OF CONVERSATION.

*WIN*

Thank you and Good night!

Inspired by the VKA and the Kisses Around the World - Project: Blood Donation - I decided it was once again time for me to take the needle at the Red Cross. In the picture, I'm wearing my VKA garrison style military cap that someone made me. I'm closing my eyes imaging a good pinch of the adventure, good luck, and love I've had move with my blood into the bag, so that the person that receives my blood will get a super pick-me-up (and might also have an intense unexplainable urge to wear false lashes and red glitter lipstick).

My author friend, Lisa Beebe, contacted me this week and let me know that Pay it Forward Day, a day to volunteer and help others is happening this year on April 29th, which is also my BIRTHDAY!!!!

So, I am throwing a contest extravaganza over at Veronica's Kissing Army headquarters called Veronica's Birthday Vampy Volunteers Contest!

Wanna get a personalized poster from me, stickers and a special hand written love note? All you gotta do is go out there and make the world a better place by volunteering (helping out at animal shelters, donating blood, helping at a women's shelter, your local library, or a senior citizens home, taking part in a community clean-up, donating your things to a charity store, the list goes on and on!) then blog about it under the Contest Section of the VKA forum before May 1st. Remember, I want to see pictures of your beautiful faces in action! I will pick five winners at random.

Prove to me how hard core you are! Make this world more gorgeous by YOU being in it.

All my love and my red red blood for you, my gorgeous soldiers..... VeVa

The journey started on January 26th from New York to London, and brought us on an adventure covering the UK and Europe in our very own gypsy rock and roll caravan. This ended after almost two months and then we flew over Russia, over India, over Singapore, to our destination of Australia and from Australia we flew on tops of clouds over the sea to Los Angeles, then we spanned the US and here I sit. Our last date in Australia was their last day of Summer, and we landed in the States for our first day of Spring. Time travel, indeed.

Which brings me to my longtime wandering partners....my shoes.

The shoes in the picture above were the very first shoes that took me out of the States for the first time to perform in Germany in 2007. These shoes I wore at almost every single Emilie Autumn show I've ever performed in. These shoes have carried me on stages all over the world from Mexico to Australia, from Latvia to London, from Paris to Prague. I was in these shoes the first time someone ever asked me for my autograph (and I was shocked!), the first time I ever fan danced internationally (it was in Paris in early 2008 at the Locomotive next to the Moulin Rogue!), the first Rat Game I ever played and the first time I met many of you. These shoes mean alot to me and they carry their own magic.

On the last night in Brisbane, Australia, they were almost at the end of their rope. Over the past month, a strap had broken (fixed with a safety pin), the fronts were worn through to the tan material that held them together (which I Sharpied back to black), and the bottom sole started to come off and was expertly duct taped back into place. I knew when I stepped on the stage in Brisbane, completing our Winter 2010 tour and our last Australian date for now, that the shoes were performing their own swan song.

I wanted to bring them home and clean them, and put them in a beautiful glass box for me to look at on occasion and recall all our wonderful adventures. However, my gypsy heart had another idea and it did not involve keeping them locked up in a box in NYC. It was only proper, I felt, to honor these shoes, by leaving them on the opposite side of the globe from where they started, by leaving them in the magic place known as Australia. It was my way of thanking them, these old friends that had carried my feet on so many great adventures, to let them retire thousands of miles from where they began.

I wrote a note explaining their story, and included a line of my own intention....that my feet, missing them, would be called back to the other side of the world always, for more rich adventures.

I am sentimental. I did look back at them sitting there before I closed the door and whispered a "thank you"......

I will return.

I am writing from a hotel in Holland at 4:30am lying beside Contessa and a very tempting opened wrapper of orange chocolate. It is here, on a night off from performing, in the quiet of the wee morning hours, that I want to say hello to you and whisper tales of adventure into your ear.

I will not lie to you. There have been days that we have had internet access backstage that I have turned my back on Charlotte (my trusty Mac) and left her in her case ignored all day as I have roamed down streets in foreign countries I've never been to before and penned in my journal in cafes instead.

I am bursting with so many stories, so many adventures, so many days fully fully lived. I am beside myself with love for all of you that have come out to the shows and waited hours in cold and snow and wind and sleet. On my 3rd year of touring with Em - there are so many of you that have become my family away from home - and seeing you in the audience makes my heart spill over with goodness.

A brief list of things to report from the road:

1. The VKA is in FULL FORCE. Banners galore in the front rows, signs and flags waving, and now apparently pins are being made and distributed amongst the ranks. What have I done to deserve you guys? You are the hard core of the hard core.

2. I have not trashed a hotel room yet. Good for my wallet. Bad for any kind of rock and roll reputation. (EDIT: Moments after writing this I accidentally spilled orange juice all over hotel carpet. Time to throw TV out the window and just get it over with.)

3. I have not played "Hot Lava" this much since I was about 6. When we are in our socks on the tour bus, we don't walk the aisles (which is the hot lava of course and can kill in an instant), but we edge along the lip along where the cabinets begin. We do this while yelling, "Hot Lava! Hot Lava!" We do this every day and it never gets old (I will post pictures later).

4. I bought my first French dress. Contessa picked it out for me, there was only one of its kind and it fit perfect. Wasn't going to buy anything....but you try saying no to a saleswoman cooing at you in a French accent.

5. Had audience members in Italy yell "Brava!" and "Bella, Bella!" during my fan dance. It was a moment I will remember for the rest of my life, and so gorgeously romantic.

6. Had my first Italian cappuccino and followed it by four more. Once my hands started shaking I decided maybe I should stop.

7. Had a spy adventure on an off-day in gorgeous Strasbourg, France.

8. Was accosted by 10 women in pink furry bunny suits during Festival in Munich, Germany.....and I liked it.

9. Wrote a song with Emilie and Contessa in the wee hours of the back lounge of the bus that will almost certainly never be heard by anyone else, but made us laugh for hours.

10. Was moved to tears by the beautiful photo poem my husband sent me on Valentine's Day.

11. Rocked Nottingham and felt all Robin Hood.

12. Got lost in the beauty of narrow cobblestone streets in the snow in Stockholm, Sweden with Aprella and Contesa.

13. Ran out a mere hour before showtime to see the Berlin Wall and snag a German pretzel.

14. Threw off my boots to dive into a gigantic bouncing room (made for kids, but good enough for me!) in one of the hotels we stayed at.

15. Realized that simple sign language learned from years of playing charades substitutes nicely for traveling in countries where you don't know the language. As long as it is done with a smile, it definitely brings smiles to others, too! This technique even got us free desert in both Italy and Germany. Hell yes.

16. Rat Gamed with girls from Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland for the first time. Ratty, ratty, ratty.....

This week's adventures include Eindhoven, Bochum, and Paris - Ooh la la! Stay tuned.

Hope you are making this day an adventure no matter where you are!

xoxo
VeVa

There are some people in my life who have truly inspired me with their actions and with their unstoppable drive to go for their dreams. There is one in particular who never ceases to amaze me with all that she dreams and does....and she is one of my best friends - Karen Robinovitz.

Karen helped change my life because she believed in me. She has a huge heart, a brilliant mind of ideas and makes a living loving what she does. And it shows.

Karen made her dream of Purple Lab Cosmetics a reality and now she's going to be featured on the Home Shopping Network tomorrow, February 18th through the 20th! We always hear about people building beautiful empires from scratch.... now is your chance to be a part of making Purple Lab a success story for the history books. Karen is a true dreamer of dreams and a supporter of all who dream....I know. And she deserves this to be awesome.

Please RT and share with friends. I want everyone to be watching this go down! Let's make this a success together!

TUNE IN TO PURPLE LAB ON THE HOME SHOPPING NETWORK

Thursday, February 18th at 9AM and 8PM EST
Friday, February 19th at 12PM and 7PM EST
Saturday, February 20th at 2AM EST

When Karen is on her Huge Lips Skinny Hips lip gloss will be $22 and you can get TWO for $29.50 for these three days by clicking here.

I wear her lip gloss Red Sole every night on stages around the world. It is my secret weapon to the ultimate glitter lips. Apply and tap on loose red glitter! Voila!

Put this awesome event on your calendar and tune in, Lovelies. And as Karen always says, "MWAH!"

xoxoxooxox

We are all very sad that we will not be touring the next few dates. The fans are SO IMPORTANT to us. If there was anyway that we could do it we would... we will be missing all of you. Please be thinking good thoughts for Em that she has a speedy recovery. There was so many of you that I was looking forward to seeing and meeting again - we shall have future adventures, my Loves....

Kisses, VeVa

PRESS RELEASE:
We are very sad to announce that Emilie Autumn has today been struck down with Tracheolaryngitis. This is basically a serious infection (and subsequent inflammation) of the voice-box and windpipe and yes, it is as painful as it sounds!! Emilie is currently unable even to speak, let alone sing or perform, and she is under strict doctor's orders to rest totally and not use her voice at all for the next three or four days minimum. Obviously it would be impossible to perform her usual show under such conditions, so we have no choice but to cancel the shows in Graz, Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Innsbruck . This is not a step we take lightly, and while we understand that fans will be disappointed, we also hope that they will understand and join us in wishing her a full and swift recovery.

The rest of the scheduled shows will take place as planned, and we will be announcing rescheduled dates as soon as possible... please go to emilieautumn.com for further information!!

On the long drive from Berlin, Germany to Warsaw, Poland on rough backroads made of cobblestones and dirt, I ventured into a land of dreams. Perhaps it was brought on by the beautiful magic presents that some wonderful fans gave me that I was snuggling next to - some faerie potions, a few crystal points, and a deck of exotic tarot from Norway....

In my dream, Contessa and I were dressed as gypsies. We wore patchwork dresses of many different kinds of lace and ribbon. We wore heavy silver necklaces made of beads and bells. We both had multi-colored hair with dreadlocks and we were on a quest to go to all the magic places in the world. We were traveling all over and at one point found ourselves in the Hollywood Hills. We were watching the stars and all the lights over the hills, when Contessa told me that we needed to go speak to a man that she had met before who lived in a cave.

I went in and met a man whose face was half man/ half owl. It was split right in half. He put his right hand on the left side of my face and I thought that quite possibly the left side of my face might turn owl. He said that everything in my life was going exactly according to plan and that I was starting into the blooming....

He was kind and wise. I asked him how the right hand side of his face became owl. He said that his gypsy mother used to kiss him on his right cheek every night when he went to bed, and one day, that side of his face just became half owl.

What happens when I keep kissing you?

As I write this to you, I am hijacking internet somewhere nestled in the middle of nowhere in snowy, gorgeous Norway. We are more than a week into the European 2010 Key Tour and our comfy 1940s mint green double decker rolling house has traveled to so many beautiful cities. The tour has been a huge success - the crowds are fantastic, the fans are loud and amazing and well, Veronica's Kissing Army is in full battle world domination mode.

This morning, I found myself on the second level glass room above the driver's level which we affectionately refer to as the "tea room", and throughout winding small roads of the Norwegian countryside, I watched the sun rise. The colors pierced through the fluffy snow covered trees and lit up the sky - fiery orange and red. I was cuddled in my blanket, the only one awake, watching the world start to stir. In those quiet moments, I thought about how grateful I am for this experience. How grateful I am to be able to get on stage every night in cities all over the world and be able to meet so many of you.

My body is getting used to constantly moving again. We perform and then get on our bus and move while we sleep and wake up in a new place everyday. There are quiet winding roads and the busy autobahn, bridges, tunnels, and ferries. We take them all. We live out of our suitcases and one big flight case that holds all the crystal covered costumes, Victorian lace, masks and feathers. We soak up as much beauty in a place as we can muster because before long, the road will be calling, and we will be back into our moving home and onto the next city.

There is great comfort in the familiar faces in the audience....our extended road family. Seeing the VKA in the audience all dressed up, with banners and signs and all the screaming makes me proud and makes me feel at home anywhere in the world. You have been coming from all over and spoiling us with handmade presents and gifts of magic (songs you made, faerie figures, magic gypsy necklaces, pretty tarot decks and candles) and gifts of comfort (pretty soaps and teas, comfy socks and mittens) and even a gift for my dog Niney (pink rhinestone collar!). Your love and sweetness to me on the road just makes my heart burst with thankfulness. You remind me that this is truly living - being able to perform doing what I love every night on stages of the world and at the same time build solid, supportive friendships with so many of you. We get to experience this journey called life together. And what a fun, wild ride it has been lately! Here is a pic of my amazing Kissing Army UK waiting outside of Wolverhampton NINE hours before the show in freezing weather. This is how I was greeted as I came off the bus.....it was a damn good day.

Thank you for opening your heart to me. Thank you for packing out the houses every night that we play. Thank you for playing with us. Thank you for waiting in this shivering cold for hours ahead of doors opening, thank you for making the audiences loud, thank you for being so very alive, thank you for making this a gorgeous, fun and unforgettable experience for me. This is a time we will remember always.

We are creating this together.

And we have only just begun.

See you tomorrow, my Oslo Beauties....I am so looking forward to being in your presence once again.

Love,
VeVa

Things You Need to Know Right Now:

1. AHHH! Check out my new pretty t-shirt custom made by one of my favorite artists, the amazing
Nana who transformed me into the Queen of Spades! The text says, "And on her lips...a poison kiss." Want it and want to help Haiti at the same time? Go here!

2. This is the LAST TIME I will be offering the puff sleeve babydoll shirts because they are discontinuing the style. I ordered the last of all they had (which is limited) to print a run of Pretty as a Pistol shirts, the original Kiss Me design shirts , and the brand new Queen of Spades shirts. If you have been wanting any of these shirts - this is your last chance to get them in the black puff sleeve babydoll t! Once these are gone that is it!

3. In true VKA gratitude - for EVERYTHING that is sold on Danger Dame from this moment until this Tuesday at 1pm NYC time when I board the plane - 10% of your order will go to Doctors Without Borders to help our Haitian Friends. Part of being VKA is to help serve our brothers and sisters throughout the world who need our help. So let's DO IT!

4. Once Tuesday, January 26th at 1pm hits, I will be taking the new Queen of Spades shirt and the Kiss Me shirt OFF of Danger Dame and taking them with me on tour - so US people - if you want one - get it now!

Please pass this on and let's make this awesome!

See you in London, Babies! Now back to packing....

Love,
VeVa

I woke up this morning to snow falling and an excitement in my heart like something wonderful was about to happen. It's a brand new day. I checked my email and the first one I read was a letter from a VKA soldier halfway around the world in Latvia, named Amechi, who wrote me a lovely letter about how hearing my story inspired her to go for her dreams and as I continued to read, there was another beautiful letter from Kali in Norway who said that seeing me go after my dreams has inspired her to go after hers. I felt so touched by these amazing women and their stories of all they are accomplishing and they both, in turn, inspired me.

This made me know - without a shadow of a doubt.... that we are all in this together.

And we have fires searing our hearts with all the never-ending gorgeous possibilities of the future we want to create. 2010, my Darlings, means the future is now.

In New Orleans, I visited one of the oldest voodoo queens in town and she told me that 2010 would be one of our best years yet. That some kind of shift is happening, that people are stirring from their sleep with wide-awake dreams...

All of you reading this - every single one of you....I will never be able to express how much I appreciate you out there in the world living your dreams in all the ways you can. We inspire each other, my Friends. We feed each other. We have the courage to scream out our greatest dreams to each other and the bravery to make flying leaps out into the unknown to achieve them.

It is not something one can do on their own. It takes an army. A group of dedicated friends, like-minded dreamers and fellow travelers.....and here we are.

I chose this picture that Burke took two days ago in his studio because it shows the beautiful feather that my friend, Deotriese gave me in Amsterdam. It has become my lucky feather. In my mind, it represents all of you who have shared this incredible journey with me, those of you I have met and those I have not met yet, but somehow we have touched each other's lives. It is my medal I am wearing for you. It is the way I symbolically bring all of you on my adventures in the world. And to show you - I am fighting for you just as much as you are fighting for me.

My wish for this New Year is that we continue to break through the boring threads of "reality" and make our lives the things we have always dreamed of. That good and helpful people will cross our paths, that we will walk along this road with friends we will have forever and that one day, we will be able to tell the world that we did it.

Because we will.

It's happening already and we cannot be stopped.

The world is changing and we, as the dreamers, will find ourselves as the Kings and Queens.

Just you wait.

Meet you in 2010.

Love,
Veva

While I am sitting back in NYC right now, cuddled in a fuzzy leopard blanket with my little chihuahua, Niney - I just want to thank all of you who came out to support us and be a part of the tour.

I want to thank EA and my crumpet sisters for yet another amazing adventure that will go down in history. Road tripping with you across America was awesome (Flying J's! South of the Border at 4am!) It just gets better and better. I also want to thank the people behind the scenes that made it happen - Hammer (our Stage Manager), Tammy (his wife and our Merch Girl), Melissa (our tour manager), Tim and Inky (sound guys for tours 1 and 2) and Cyd (our bus driver) - without them, we couldn't have had our shows run so smoothly and easily. They really made me feel like I woke up every morning in good hands and every night on stage we were never alone - they were always there for everything we needed. This crew kicked ass. And for that I give sincere thanks and love. We truly were a family on the road in our tour bus home away from home.

And speaking of family - so many of you that would come out to show after show - I would look in the crowd and smile to see your familiar faces in new and different cities. We even invented secret signals I would do on stage to say hi (you know who you are...) and we would scream along to the words every night, we would dance until the wee hours and sometimes we would hang out for hours backstage, or on the tour bus, or afterwards when we would sometimes attempt to climb into a crashed plane on a mountain (or not).

On this tour, my Dad came out to see me perform for the first time in this show, dear dear childhood friends of mine came out to see me in Florida, in San Francisco and in New Orleans. Friends of mine I don't get to see that often because of distance came out to see me in Seattle, in Kansas, in LA, in South Carolina and in Georgia. I even got to see my little sis, Andrea, from MTV's Made. It was a reunion. It was a coming together. It was a This-is-your-life kind of thing and it was beautiful.

Also, I got a chance to meet gorgeous and dedicated VKA soldiers who I had only known from online and got to meet them in person (and sometimes drag them up on stage to kiss me!) Some of them made beautiful bras for me that were thrown at me on stage (hell yes) - some of them bought gorgeous underwear and threw that at me on stage (double hell yes) - some of them made me necklaces (one had a picture of my dog Niney on it!), and stuffed animals and handmade burlesque styled pins and t-shirts and so many things..... Yes. The VKA spoils me ROTTEN. And you have NO IDEA how much I appreciate all of that on the road. Reading the letters you write to me, cuddling with the stuffed animals you make in my bunk at night, smiling over finally getting a chance to meet so many of you after years of writing on the forum - PRICELESS. You make it all worth while. You make me get up and put that corset on day after day - it's true. I love you all very very very much. I feel like the world is my home with you guys around. You make me feel wonderful every single place we go to.... I really feel such a connection with all of you - especially those of you who have reached out to me and shared your stories.... we are all a family. It's really true.

Okay - so basically, yeah. I love you guys. Thank you for everything. See you in Europe in 2010! Wishing all of you so many great adventures until the next time...

Kisses. Kisses. Kisses....
Veronica