Day 10- party

Today I'm cleebrationg my bday! I'm having some girlfriends over for dinner and then we're going out for drinks!  Letting my body get a day of rest before the full week ahead. Siv is coming to teach at proda again!!!!

Here are some pictures from dress rehersals at the studio:

Foto: Glenn Larsson

early morning photoshoot

I got to take some pictures of  Sofie wearing her new pants this morning. And I found the camera!!! Well, me E did I guess. I am very happy either way!

The fabric is an old curtain that sis in law gave me! Thanks Inger Lise!

The heart is cut from an old pair of jeans.

My label

Light grey color with white embroidered flowers.

mum made

I've been home with a sick Sofie for 3 days, and have used the days to finish up some costumes. I've done 3 more "china pants" and running out of that fabric I made some pants for Sofie today. I wanted to show pictures with her wearing it, but it will have to wait since she really isn't up for it.

Sorry about the bad picture quality, but I think I've lost my camera? I really can't find it anywhere so these are taken with my cell.

sweet like suger tell me what I wanna hear

Sell me candy- Rhianna

That's what halloween is all about isn't it? Candy? Well, that and dead people. I don't like the fact that the costumes have to be all monsters and vampires, so we did it a little different. I'm lucky to have a whole room of costumes at the dance studio, so I brought home some stuff.

an elf

sell me love

good gone bad

the tiger hugging a ghost

arabic princess

I love to face paint, so I did the whole familiy. The only downer was that I didn't have much time to do it since I got home from work just before the party was about to get started. I had done some preparations before I left for work though. Like do hair extension on me and Sofie and lay out the costumes and makeup.

Since we found basically everything for the costumes at the studio and at home, all we spent on costumes this year was some face paint and white hairspray.

Hello friend...Halloween /HalloVenn

I just saw this article  HalloVenn and I gotta say I'm sorry I didn't see it sooner. Soon enough to recomend it to the people arranging the halloween party for the kids in my neighbourhood. I have a 4 year old in my house crazy to dress up like a vampire and ready to scare people, and I'v been twisting my head to figure out how to put a different focus on the whole thing.

The norwegian origin for "allehelgensaften" is actually the "celebration of all souls". The focus being celebrating the life of people now gone. I like the idea of celebrating that. The life. Not just the death/ scary  focus that has no meaning to me at all.

However when I saw this consept I really liked it. Turn it around completely and make it about making new friends. Hjemmesiden til HalloVenn

kung fu

"Hero" Kung fu panda

Today I made the 1'st out of 6 "china-pants" that I need to sew before the christmas show. ( adding that Maria will sew the other 4 since we need 10)

my sewing machine a "singer"

First of all we went down to "greenland" (yeah, that's the actual name of the place) and got cheap fabric.

one leg done

I cut the fabric at work with a little help (or lot) from Bianca, and just went for it. I've never sewn pants in my whole life so I had no idea how it would turn out.

finished!

Now I'm pretty proud I must say, cuz they turned out quite nice!

Only got 5 to go.....

proud!

nuns in disguise

Yeah, it's me and my weird ideas again. My favourite piece so far this season it by far this one. Colourful birds covered up as nuns, dancing to an old norwegian hymn rocked up by "Gåte".

Here are some photos from the first rehersal with robes.