New Year's outfit: sweater

I've found the sweater for my creation. just have to choose color. probably black...

music. maskinen.

Just found a swedish hip&hop(?) group called Maskinen.
Don't know what I think about them yet, still trying them out. They made that horrible song "Alla som inte dansar är våldtäcksmän" (trans: All the people who aren't dancing rape people) but they seem pretty cool. For example, they want to do a concert in a blimp above a square in Stockholm.
crazy....

pärlfiskarna

or Les pêcheurs de perles is the origional title.
it's an opera by Georges Bizet (who also wrote Carmen)
Folkoperan in Stockholm is running it right now and WOW it is wonderful! It might also be because I haven't seen opera in such a long time that any opera at all is wonderful for me, but it really touched me. I cried once over the breaking of the friendship between Nadir and Zurga and I had tears in my eyes the remainder of the time. High D was hit I think and it didn't even sound high. The soprano, Elin Rombo, was great. Not one of the greates singers of all time, but she had amazing feeling. She knew how to manipulate the audience. So did the other main characters, played by Carl Unander-Scharin and Jeremy Carpenter. The tenor Carl was a little weak, but had a great voice. They all had great voices. AND were good actors.
speaking of actors, they had 3 young actors who acted out Zurga, Nadir and Leila when they were young. they were given such small tools, only looks and small small body movements, but they used it well. Names to remember: Sandra Bergman, Viktor Bodelius, and Max Kvissberg. (I could swear I've heard the Kvissberg name before... just don't know from where...)

and the music, the music!!
wow, that I've never heard anything from this opera before. It has it all: climaxes, terror, love, tantalizing melodies, agitating drums, you name it. High C, relatively interesting recitatives, great broad choir sound... wow.

my only problem was the storyline. As in it's a great storyline, but if you read the description that Folkoperan has written I don't really feel that they managed to convey what they wrote that they were going to convey... but they did manage to convey the friendship and the love. Especially the friendship really got to me, and it will stay with me for quite some time.

outfits for new years and christmas

It's soon Christmas, and after that comes New Year's.
Now I don't really mind what I wear. I mean, I like to dive into the world of style and fashion but I'm too poor and actually not interested enough (yet?) to actually wear things like that. With one and a half exceptions: New Year's and a little Christmas. Since Christmas is spent with my family that outfit usually isn't that spaced out, but New Year's. Well up until now I've always spent it with my family, but now...

well I guess it all started with my wonderful clutch i bought before... A new plan has started forming in my mind: I'll use this clutch every New Year's and try to create an outfit to match it.
here is my design for this year:


I'll probably have leg warmers over my heels and not the glitter on. (inspired a little by Jimmy Choo for H&M and Madonna I think...)
the biggest challenge is going to be to find those earrings....