Filed under: Favourites, Halloween, Stuff, Uncategorized | Tags: Halloween, nightmare before christmas, pumpkin carving, pumpkins, stencils
This is Halloween!
Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?
Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Halloween
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It’s our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
I am the one hiding under your stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don’t we love it now?
Everybody’s waiting for the next surprise
Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something’s waiting now to pounce, and how you’ll scream
Scream! This is Halloween
Red ‘n’ black, slimy green
Aren’t you scared?
Well, that’s just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take the chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night
Everybody scream, everybody scream
In our town of Halloween
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace
I am the “who” when you call, “Who’s there?”
I am the wind blowing through your hair
I am the shadow on the moon at night
Filling your dreams to the brim with fright
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
Halloween! Halloween!
Tender lumplings everywhere
Life’s no fun without a good scare
That’s our job, but we’re not mean
In our town of Halloween
In this town
Don’t we love it now?
Everyone’s waiting for the next surprise
Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin
This is Halloween, everyone scream
Won’t ya please make way for a very special guy
Our man Jack is king of the pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King no
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song
La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!
Filed under: Knitting, UFO, Uncategorized | Tags: frogged, kal, Knitting, mysterysock, ravelry, socks
So Kisten Kapur auther of Through-the-loops came up with the great idea of a Socktober mystery sock KAL. I had never done a KAL before, so I thought it was time. Last year I promised my friend Esben a pair of socks. And when I told him about the mystery sock patter (he couldn’t stop laughing 
), he was up for the challenge.
So I cast on using some bamboo sock yarn I had saved for Esben. Clue no 1 went without any trouble – see pic above. But halfway through Clue no2 I was having serious doubts. The yarn was too fine for the needles I had chosen, and them being made of aluminium certainly didn’t help. Secondly the pattern was just to feminine for my friend. Perhaps it would have worked in a different yarn, but I just wasn’t happy with the result. What you see above is now frogged.
This is what they should have looked like (pictures borrowed from Ravelry). I have seen the pattern done in more “masculine” colors, where it seems to work just fine. But I just wasn’t feeling it.
Here is an example of the more komplex version, with cables. Also very pretty – and time consuming.
So all in all, a fun challenge – but not for me, right now at least 
This Friday is for Favourite Knitblogs! Here is my three favorite knitblogs:
- B R O O K L Y N T W E E D – knitblog in English, wonderful pictures and work.
- Yarnstorm – blog with knitting among other things, wonderful pictures and colors.
- Med 2 Pinde - Danish knitblog/adoptionblog very sweet.
I read 65 blogs using the wonderful Google-reader, and I keep adding and subtracting. But these three are somehow special to me
Filed under: Stuff
This past week I had the pleasure of having my sweet sister Sara (the pink-haired one) and her BFF Karoline visiting me for lunch Notice the “lakes” of Copenhagen in the background.
Post lunch I invited them to drink coffee with me, luring them to take a nice walk through Østerbro with me Ever since watching the french movie “Irreversible” I have hated walking in tunnels, but it’s ok if you have company.
I took them to see Classens Have, which is an absolute pearl in Østerbro. I kind of reminds me of the secret garden in the movie Notthing Hill. It is a very “hyggeligt” place, as we say in danish.
I think the girls enjoyed it as much as I did! It’s not every day you get to hang out with your supa cool teen-sister and her supa cool friend, who I have known for just as long.
After the nice walk in the lovely fall weather I waved goodbye to them at Østerport Station as they ventured further into town.
In the first couple of days of Socktober I made these slippers The slippers were a super fast, super satisfactory knit.
The Yarn was a gift from PowerKitty a couple of years ago, it’s some sort of thick sockyarn.
This is a very satisfying knit 
I was so exited when I finished it, that called Rasmus to tell him and then I went around knocking on my friends doors here at the dorm, to show it off!
Pattern: Odessa by Grumperina
Yarn: Evil Angorette, from Anna Belle, 100% Angora,
Skeins: 1×137yds/125m per 25g
Needles: 3mm and 3,5 (I think)
Mods: None, except a handfull of mistakes due to tiny break (one year) of knitting it.
Review: The pearls and the yarn choice made it patience demanding projekt. But I love the end result! And I think I might knit it again sometime, in different yarn. The pattern is very easy to remember.
Originally it was knit just for me, but in end my mom got it for her birthday this sunday And she liked it!
This is a close-up picture where you can see the pearls and the effect the pattern makes, where it all most looks like the knitting is going in different directions. Very cool! My friend Christian said that it looked like something you could buy at Frederikberg (the posh end of Copenhagen)
The Very beautiful model is Sara Brøns, my very good friend. She has agreed to be my muse on the blog from now on
Filed under: Knitting, Stuff, weird knits | Tags: fun, hat, Knitting, R2 D2, Star wars, Stumbleupon
Inspired by Powerkitty’s post kiss the frog.
The R2 D2 hat from “So much yarn, so little time”
And a muffin hat from The Naked Sheep
Just a little something something I stumbled-upon
