Kalaidoscope-ism

I have a strange little ism! I love kalaidoscopes. Yep, like the ones from our childhood that form beautiful and colourful graphical patterns when turning the exterior part. Do you remember them? I have just bought one at a dollar store for about 4 dollars, and it stands on my living room table, so when I sit and relax I look through it and enjoy all the lovely colours - very relaxing.

If you would like to buy your own, I'm sure you can find them in most toy shops. All the pearl-thingys have to be in different colours and shapes to form the lovely patterns, so look through it before buying. It has to be pretty.

Record Cover Art

Last week I visited the Design Museum with Rasmine. We saw the exhibition "Record Covers - The Revival of the Vinyl", which I found really interesting. A lot of covers hung from the ceiling, sorted in subjects (the cover, not the music). There were subjects like black and white singers, men and women, groups, graphic, drawings, cartoons, nature, travelling, instruments, etc. etc. There were also a timeline at one of the walls and a lot of vintage record players - I fell in love with quite a few.

I could have spent a lot of time reading it all, but instead I bought this nice book about the exhibition:

There are photos of all the covers from the exhibition, so I can enjoy it for a long time.

The exhibition ended with new vinyl! I knew it existed, but not this one:

Madonna's Confessions on a Dancefloor, made of shocking pink vinyl (limited edition double LP). I have now bought it via eBay for 45 dollars for my vinyl collection.

Glittering Gifts

At my job we are very lucky, we can send our Christmas wishes to our boss, who then buys our gifts online. She also wrapped them beautifully and placed them under a palm tree, which she hadn't decorated though. We were all very curious for a week.

Can you guess what I wished? Nail polish of course ! :) I have wanted these three Deborah Lippmann colours for very long and now they're mine!
From left it is Across the Universe, Ruby Red Slippers and Glitter in the Air. I cannot wait to try them.

For once my men hadn't asked each other what they gave me and guess what I'm now the lucky owner of? The complete OPIs Muppet glitter collection:

And perhaps you all think it is very long time ago I last showed you my nails, and you wonder if I don't do my nails any longer? Of course I do, but it is difficult to take some decent photos with flash. This time of year it is dark most of the time in Denmark. But here are my Christmas party nails:
I wore a fabulous blue sequined blouse and tried to make my blue nails Christmassy with a star made of rhinestones. Unfortunately, it looks like my top coat has made them matte, ouch. The blue polish is from a local dollar-shop and the glitter polish is OPI "Simmer and Shimmer", SO lovely.

And my Christmas nails was a copy of the Nail Nymphs' Christmas design:My plan was to make a reverse version: green nails with red glitter tips, but the day before I made this design on a friend's nails, since she was wearing a red skirt to a Christmas party, and then DH almost begged me to make mine exactly alike hers. I am sure the sweet Nail Nymphs don't mind being copied.

I also want to show you what I gave DH:A pinup picture of myself and my car. I ordered it at Johanna Ost in August when she had a half price campaign. She came up with the motif, she is indeed very talented and I'm very pleased with it - I'm sure DH is too.

Well, I gotta run, I have to test my glitter polishes. It is really a glittering Christmas this year.

Son’s Tattoo

As all other youngsters son wanted a tattoo. His uncle, my brother, has been a tattooist, and as a little boy he has many times seen uncle “sew on” a tattoo (he used a needle). Back then he had those to transfer. He has always said that when he became a big boy uncle should sew one on him. As a little boy uncle often sketched a tattoo on him with his tattoo pen, it could last for days.

At the beginning of the Summer it was time. I did not say no, because I knew he would then have it made somewhere else and choose a silly motif he would regret the rest of his life. So I thought it was better talking about it and telling him to really should think about it. He did, and ended up with a design made of his initials: TGI. “I will always have my name.”, he said. He designed it himself, and I think it is really great:

Here are some photos from the day:

The motif is discussed.

The outlines are finished, son is proud.

The needle is in the skin.

It burned a bit, uncle is having fun.

Brother and I had several days before made him very nervous, you simply have to make fun of those bold teenagers. He was very surprised how little it did hurt, and brother said that son was one of the few men who did not whine at all.

So it was son’s first (and hopefully only) and brother’s last tattoo.

Son's Wall

This is a wall I painted in son’s room a month ago. Dear husband spent a weekend renovating son’s room and I spent almost a day drawing and painting this "mod" wall:

Almost done (son has taken the photos):

DH made me a huge wooden a pair of dividers and we also used different sized pot lids. Son had told me a lot about his dream-wall, so I made a draft in PowerPoint, he approved it (it’s a good thing to have a teenager’s approval BEFORE doing the job!) and then I painted. He was VERY excited with the result and sent SMS’es to all his friends. He could not believe I was that good at it. :) Everybody envy him for his nice room. He had planned everything to be black’n’white –from furniture to candles and vases, so he got it precisely as he wanted. We told him that if he saved half of the amount for the furniture, we would give him the other half.

Here he is – the happy owner (not very spoiled, ha!):

His room seen from his door – biiig smile:

The pictures on the wall at the right are my draft made in PowerPoint:

My signature: