from its smooth shoulders hung rapid wings,to have borne it to the 7th sphere, tipt with speed of liquid lightnings, dyed in ardours of the atmosphere

thought I'd show you the bracelets I have made over christmas - except the ones given away as presents. 

I love the one with the massive jade pearl - think it looks like it keeps secrets - and the totally simple ones with just a single or pair of silver pearls. 

Though the best selling ones are those that are ornamented all the way round, like the green one above. 

The pictures does not show that the black pearls are diamond cut. Quite happy with the gothic-ish fierceness of those, too.

reflecting the light of the sun

Now that I'm a full on helmet enthusiast, I wish for a helmet with a bit of schwung - For instance this one!

Stumbled upon it over at gnarlitude - sadly I don't know where it's from. 

ooooPSydoooOOps

helluwa time for a 50% sale at Kabiri - dey be tryin to murder me!

heres a few favourites. oh dear.

Railway spike necklace by Giles and Brother
Foxy studs by Zoe and Morgan
Neon bamboo hoops by Noir
Cone stud clips by Alexis Bittar

Padlock pendant by CC Skye

elsker nyder spiser flyder

Fetching the tree

Liebe

I'm a really obnoxiuos bezzerwizzerteambuddy. Really. I annoy myself, even. Get sooo exited

yum. 

the boring ones (middle - always chocolate) are mine, the imaginative and sometimes slightly odd-looking are my niece's.

I had the bright idea of putting ginger or paprika in perhaps six of the chocoloate hearts i made, not pictured here. 

At least I thought so. 

Told my brother that some could be a leedull spicy, so after every piece he took, he'd go 'there was curry in that one! I'm sure!'. Only, it was never the ones that actually contained any special ingredient.. Dunno if that says the most about the bio-sweets or his tastebuds.

I thought they tasted fantastic.
My new border guard mössa

christmasgoodtaimzzz

Done

from which they will return gloriously refreshed and chock-full of vim

The Nutcracker 


Happy birthday, Laura darling
Those legs..

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (Fear of long words)

Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth)

http://phobialist.com

recession - ur doin it rong!

My awesomium brother asked for help finding his lady friend a little something for christmas.

EGG-ZAG-LY my kind of task! 

And of course, I had to run amok, overdoing it completely.

These were my suggestions, all of them something I wouldn't mind finding under the tree myself, *coughingobnoxiuoslysuggestively*..: 

All three stud cuffs by Wendy Nichol
Bone bangle by Lady Grey - whom I mentioned before

Tiny band with ruby by Jennifer Meyer

Panther studs by Ginette NY

Safety pin studs by Giles & Brother

Seahorse studs also by Giles & Brother


Thorn ring by Conroy & Wilcox
Woven bangle by CC Skye

Spike on oxidized chain by Alex & Chloe

Baby Herkimmer by Aesa

Most are available through Kabiri

*edit* he went for the spike necklace. Good choice.

kn-kn-kn-knitwear

Oh, don't mind me - just doing a spot of fantasy shopping over at la garconne.

Antik Batik
Alexander Wang (oh, baby)
VPL
Les Prairies de Paris

Right, now hand'em over. Thank you please.

awesomium (Aw)

*soppyness ensues*

Several truly wonderful things and one sad have happened today.

I feel very alive at the moment - and very grateful for it.

On that note, I couldn't help showing you this project over on the great booooooom.com - Free Encouragement - meant to counteract all the negativity around us: "it’s breathing down your neck, it’s not giving you a vacation, it’s talking behind your back, it’s stuffing you in a locker, it’s cheating on you, it’s charging you more, it’s giving you less, and it’s making you miserable!"

Let's rejoice instead - verbal bubbles for everyone!

 

the day the earth quaked

WHUUUT?

earth quake in lil' old Denmark that was big enough to actually be felt - perhaps even the biggest in HISTORY - the Danes are in uproar! 

The weird thing is that I lay awake from four o'clock until 6.30, so was wide awake for the one-second-shake.

 

Did I subconsciously feel it coming?? Bonkers!

It felt as if the bed was pushed vigorously from side to side and D woke and we looked at each other: "It must be the people downstairs redecorating!". Then we fell asleep again in an instant.

Dramatic!

image from politiken.dk

"When we read with fine attention, we find ourselves caring about people who are various, muddled, uncertain and not quite like us (and this is good)"

'Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1, 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel, hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him.'

 - White Teeth

Zadie Smith is one of my favourite authors, her first novel White Teeth leaving me with a distinct feeling of underachievement as she wrote that impressive, wise, different and award-winning masterpiece when she was barely the age I am now.

One of the things I admire her for is that she is able to write with a humour that makes me laugh out loud - without ever succumbing to banality and with a, throughout the pages of her books, brutally honest, almost crass yet still warm and loving way of portraying her characters, whatever their (most human and relatable) flaws. Like taking the piss out of someone dear that you've always known. And funnily.  

- apart from that, she is stunningly beautiful, sweet, unpretentiously clever and seems to appear in every other 'Miss V'-feature in UK Vogue with her secretive smile.

I felt like blogging about her, since at the moment I appear to be having a Zadie Smith-theme week - she pops up everywhere.

 

Yesterday I read a feature in Information about a lecture she gave on the election of Barack Obama and this morning I heard a slightly random and rather endearing audio interview from The New Yorker where she talks about her and her family's relationship to (British) comedy. 

Funny, I didn't imagine her voice that husky.

If you have time, give it a whirl.

She also has a new book out which holds two short stories and is called 'Martha and Hanwell' - must get my hands on that.

image via hoping for happy accidents

the sweetest downfall

TAK for verdens dejligste fest i lørdags, Laura Julestjerne!

tangled she

I'm MAD about Audrey Kawasaki's beautiful art - Bonkers!

At first glance Katrine Raben Davidsen sprang to mind - and in my world that is not very flattering - but as I flicked through her page I became more and more engrossed.

I wanted to write that I feel this is pretty much my childhood fantasy world incarcerated but considering how juicily erotic the majority are that would sound very wrong.

I love the ambiguity, melancholy, boundary seeking and slightly creepy feel in her work - how her mind must work in mysterious ways.

See her home page here

and her livejournal here

and finally an interview from Life Lounge

sshhoo glad I did this show

The compilation of favourite train-wreck, don't-give-a-hoot, divas on Jezebel today is epic.

I went for Liza Minelli as a teaser but they are all completely amazing. 

Even the Celine Dion video was, very surprisingly, a riot. I really don't care for her usually but after this she can come over for a drink at mine anytime she wants!

And don't miss a hammered Courtney Love budging in on a stiff lipped Modanna being interviewed. Unbelievable.  

Liza Minnelli on Larry King (2006)
by RichJuz

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kom kom kom!

                     VELKOMMEN TIL

          

        JULESTUE I Fredericiagade. 

                      

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     Fredericiagade 8, kld., 1310 Kbh K.                

    FREDAG d.12.december  kl. 15 - 19

  og LØRDAG d. 13. december, kl. 12-16 

 KANDER   T-POTTER   

 KOPPER   KRUS   SKÅLE   FADE

Desuden KIRSTEN BLICHERTS TRØJER

BIRGITTE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONES BILLEDER

 OG MARIE WESTENHOLZ´  ARMBÅND

             

glögg/vin/the/kaffe/pølse/ost/brød 

        Ingeborg Westenholz 

        www.westenholz.net

ingeborg@westenholz.net  

bump on a spout let the bubbles come out

att: everybody

Jacob Holdt and Rune Engelbrecht created a video as an open letter to Barack Obama to generate awareness about the state of the public debate in Denmark regarding our fellow citizens and to curb the growing racism and hate campaign taking up more and more media space and becoming gradually more accepted.

I will gladly support it's important and grave message despite the fact that the means of expression seems to me unprofessional and almost comic and I really regret that the video itself is so poorly done and unnerving both visibly and audibly. 

Therefore i prefer this printed version.

Clear proof that it has already had an impact is that critics caused it to be removed from YouTube. 

More about the whole affair on Global Voices 

on my own, always on my way now

like a story in me to tell

Though definitely intended to inspire other types of reflection, this beautiful installation by Felix Gonzales-Torres we saw today at Statens Museum reminded us that we need more lighting!

Maybe we'll try and do a chain of bulbs similar to this only with larger, clear filament bulbs.

Later this afternoon I had christmas good taimzz with the girls, making ornaments, gulping down glögg - liquid quality of life - and playing games, winning packages from each other.

Now D and I are eating christmas pudding and watching The Shining yet again, brrr, nothing like a bit'o'thrill on a cozy sunday night.

A very lovely sunday, yes indeedy

 

Happy advent everybody

I wanna be a little seahorse

Ay Devendra, my absolute favourite 

freak folk freak in the whole world

loveyoumeanitswear

I have to!

ho ho hahaha

just lounging today, in the mood for nothing but blogging, making jewelry, baking and nursing my throbbing head.

Last night was christmas party with work and it was the most enjoyable, festive evening.

As this year's entertainment we had a 'laughter yoga instructor' over for a session of laughter workout! 

Whut! How awesome was that! 

A few thought it was too much and too intimidating but I laughed all the way through.

The instructor had a past within NLP - which is my fovourite aversion and has provided me with abundant mock-worthy material: numerology names, obnoxiously airy voices, the works - and as she said that, I couldn't help feeling a little sceptic, too. 

Yet there was no denying how awesome you feel after an hour's worth of teen-age style laughter fits, your whole body tingling and feeling most alive. 

So as we went on to dinner at my favourite dingy, Galathea Kroen, stuffed full of anthropological treasures from all over the world and cave like nooks to have your delicious Reis Tafel meal in, we were all in very high spirits. 

And tonight it's out on the piss again, yaaay! See ya at Kødboderne!

graphic by the mighty Tauba Auerbach

golden beats

Hey, kom lige:

"For første gang i københavn tilbydes en hel aften dedikeret til Hiphoppens gyldne tidsalder! 

D. 6. december vil dine øregange blive smurt med sprød vintagelyd fra Hiphoppens gyldne tidsalder 1986-92 præsenteret af BLÆS BUKKI, SWINGKING og Fat'N'Slim! Det hele vil blive krydret med relateret video af EMIL ALSBO (TTC,Telefon til chefen). 

Gør dig klar til en aften med funky old school HipHop og god atmosfære! Så snør snørebåndene ud af dine hightops og trop op og ryst ryggen! 

Let it flow - Let yourself go - Slow and low - That is the tempo!"

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Dirty Laundry

Street Dart
Dirty Laundry

Herakut is a german street and fine art duo - Hera and Akut.

Akut's photorealistic style together with Hera's scratchy graffiti style makes an eerily beautiful hole and images that haunted me long after the discovery of them via Juxtapoz' site. 

See them at work here:

They are exhibiting at Covent Garden from this weekend.

More about the exhibit and Herakut's work on herakut.de

come home with me

Taylor Momsen's dress. mine, now, thank you, thaa-anks, (please?)
via Jezebel

via Found Magazine

music to watch souffles by

Pretty prints, pretty prints, pretty prints from Etsy

dance your PhD

This is priceless!

Sue Lynn Lau won the AAAS/Science Dance Contest with this, her enactment of her PhD titled: 'The role of vitamin D in beta cell function'

Who would have thought of that as a possibility - I'll have to totally rethink my way of doing school assignments.

Just imagine: 'Marie will now perform her way through her bachelor project, 'Blogging in the Middle East' 

Instant success.

via Jezebel

serendipity

DICTIONARY

serendipity |ˌserənˈdipitē|noun

the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way : a fortunate stroke of serendipity | a series of small serendipities.

DERIVATIVES

serendipitous |-ˈdipitəs| adjective

serendipitously adverb

ORIGIN 1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.”

THESAURUS

serendipity, noun - the consequence of serendipity is sometimes a brilliant discovery (happy) chance,(happy) accident, fluke; luck, good luck, good fortune, fortuity,providence; happy coincidence.

Dave Aju

whatpeopleplay.com is the most time consumably marvelous music site.

at the moment Dave Aju has got me hooked on his very own type of melodic house and the weird and wonderful tracks made purely out of sounds he made with his own mouth and voice - such as 'crazy place'.

I also love 'anytime', 'with you', 'tapatio', all of them!

You will not regret giving it a whirl

getting warmer