Brushing Indian fashion

It'd been too damn long since I'd worn my dungarees! I love them so.

I went to the ARKEN museum of modern art with my parents some weeks back. They had this exhibition called "INDIA: ART NOW" with a selection of different installations. There was this video one, where items attached themselves to you until everything + the ground was covered. And that room with the fake pinball machines and horrible game soundtrack-ish music playing. That was quiet surreal.

The place was almost empty because we went in the evening on a weekday.

Gigantic heads!

Indian fashion designer.

Also! I'd been looking around for a brush set because to buy them on their own just adds up to a ridiculous amount of money. And then I found this one in Sephora - and it was 50 % off in the January SALE! So super cheap and I am really glad it has a stand, haha. So much more practical that way!

Belated greetings

 A very happy new year to all of you! I hope you all had a happy last day of 2012!

For my New Year's celebrations I went to dinner at Rasmus' along with Tina. We had a great, relaxed time and saw the Queen's speech as tradition says.

With stomachs full we went to Julie's party.

At the stroke of midnight we jumped into the new year hand in hand and a lot of the others went outside the set fire to the massive amount of fireworks that the hosts had bought. I stayed inside in safety, haha.

We played around with some sparklers I'd brought along.

Everyone looked so pretty ! And Rasmus found the table bombers to not be quite in his tastes, haha - it was a party of 15 girls and 2 blokes.

Goofing around is part of the festivities!

Stuffing our mouths with chips, yes. And one of my xmas presents was this caviar nail art kit - so I tried it out for the first day of '13.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Christmas is... taking a trip to the wintery wonderland of Tivoli with my friend Maria. Walking around, singing Christmas carols. Taking part in little games.

Christmas is... Watching as the snow falls from the starry skies and wishing people a merry Christmas.

Christmas is... dolling the Chosen One up with all kinds of ornaments - both new additions and old traditions. 

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Christmas is... getting (one too many) presents for yourself.

Christmas is... eating 1 piece of Spiderman chocolate a day.

 

"Play"ful Disney

A while back Rikke and I went on a small trip to Fredericia Theatre since they were showing the European debut of the Aladdin musical (and my tickets were discounted since it's a Disney production)! Naturally I wore my Disneyland sweater...

We had really been looking forward to it and it was a nice little day-trip with the train, play and dinner.

We were quiet possible the only adults there without the company of smaller children, haha. I was very surprised that it was such a small theatre, but the play on the stage was great. There were some cute things in the songs, some pretty brilliant ideas for the narration and the guy playing Genie really took the play to a whole new world (pun intended).

My favourite thing was  ultimately the scenography,! The objects and backdrops they used were simple but really worked - most clever was the ideas for Jasmine's bedroom and balcony (the latter could separate into two and make room for the carpet ride into the sky).

After the play we roamed the town, looking for a place to have some dinner, ahha. And we found Pacman!

This Friday I went with my mum to see the Royal Ballet's production of Sleeping Beauty, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. The music written by Pjotr Tjajkovskij was of course fantastic and it really surprised me that all the music in Disney's film was taken from the ballet.

It was a gorgeous experience and I got to see Alban Lendorf and J'aime Crandall as the leads ! I couldn't help being amazed when she at one point danced for a full 5 minutes (at least) only on the tip of her toes - her feet must have been aching! But that is why they have 5 women portraying Aurora - the dance is too tough to perform too often.

The costumes and backdrops were breathtaking, so I had to take the program home - that's not something I do a lot, haha.

I also went to see Skammerens Datter (The Shamer's Daughter) with Lea and Cecil. It was such a fun trip down memory lane for us, since we've read the novels again and again when we were kids (and of course we had to re-read them for this theatre experience!). It was a very cute musical and I'm thrilled that it sold enough tickets to make it possible to perform the second book on the stage as well. If we're lucky, we might be granted all 4 !