Every once in a great while, someone breaks through the social media bedlam to touch me in just the right way, providing something I didn’t realize I needed so badly. In the case of this Dazzler of the Day, that magical person is Chrissy Flanagan, and when I stumbled upon one of her videos in which she’s grappling unsuccessfully with a lamp which refuses to remain lit, I laughed – deep, stomach-muscle-building laughter, with tears pouring forth from my eyes – and I was reminded of how much joy there still is in the world if you know where to look for it.
Flanagan is a former sausage queen (aren’t we all) and has the meaty background to back it all up, but she has recently moved into a new business venture, one which showcases her gorgeously-infectious energy and enthusiasm – it’s called Chaotic Social, and though it’s halfway around the world (greetings Australia!) the spirit she captures on camera for her online outlets carries over the distance without any sort of deterioration. A sausage queen who can sew and paint and conjure colorful enchantment is my kind of person. (Her fashion style alone is giving me life this week.) Check out her beautiful link tree here.
“The break of up a decade long relationship and subsequent bouts of loneliness have led me – Sydney’s former Sausage Queen, Chrissy Flanagan – to solve others’ desire to make adult friends, as well as my own.
It’s often said Sydney is a particularly tricky place to make friends as an adult. If you miss out on doing any of the big four locally or at all – high school, uni, work, kids – it’s hard to bridge the gap, leaving many of us lonelier than we would like.
And yet, as adults we’re embarrassed or too self conscious to use modern tools such as friend networking apps to solve this problem.
Chaotic Social is seeking to bridge that gap, in the form of classes on weird crafts, mad skills and naked ambition, where you’re encouraged to roll solo and go home with a few new mates in your phone.
While making hectic articles such as creepy dolls, bad badass self portraits and bedazzled tiddie tassels, we will also have big chats and indulge in purely fun sh!t like blue light discos and stand up. Yes there will be games, no participation is not optional.
Formerly co-owner of restaurant The Sausage Factory and brewery Queens of Chaos, my notoriously rowdy and long running sausage classes will continue Sundays at the new venue.”
~ Chrissy Flanagan
