Halloween time!

I can't believe it's here again but it is!! So I thought it's high time for a blog update (as I've just realised I forgot to make a Halloween post in the last two years) to give some ideas for those who are about to decide what to wear and how to prepare for Halloween in the last minute.

So here are our costume ideas from 2011.

I dressed up as Sally from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas, I spent a whole day sewing my dress and another making my yarn wig which looked quite nice eventually. I even made some (extremely lame) tutorial photos which I'm not going to post here :) All I did was that I bought a simple black dress from a second hand shop, digged out old fabrics, eg. T-Shirts, tablecloths, etc. and sewed them on the dress according to Sally's outfit. Then I used a blueish eyeshadow for my skin and added stiches with a black eyeliner. It was very easy!

For the wig I tied together a few pieces of yarns and sewed them on a "cap" I made from a pair of unused tights.

Sally

Bonnie & Clyde, Nudist on Strike, Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill, me as Sally, pantomime girl, zombie girl, Leeloo from Fifth Element, Magnum, prehistoric woman and Clark Kent

Last year I dressed up as Ellen Ripley from Aliens, and I even managed to sew a facehugger. I drew the outline of the little bastard on a T-Shirt, cut it out loosely and sewed the outnine on the sewing machine. Then I stuffed it out with pieces of spunge and there it was! :D Okay, maybe it's not as "cool" as the one you can buy in shops but much cheaper and funnier :)

Facehugger

 Me as Ripley

  And the rest of us: Darth Vader, Obi-Wan, me as Ripley, Cruella DeVil, Corpse Bride and The Punisher

Nóri was clearly the winner of last year's costume "contest", as she made the best homemade Darth Vader mask I've ever seen!! :D

More posts of my pumpkin carvings are coming up!

Happy Halloween!!!

4th Annual Last.Fm Summary

My favourite time of the year is here again. The day I make my annual flashback of my music listening habits. I'd like to remark that last year I was listening to much more music on the radio or on my hi-fi, so this chart - just like in the last 4 years - gives only a hint of what I was listening to last year. Well, anyway, here it is! :)

I think I can say wholeheartedly that my favourite album of 2012 is The 2nd Law by Muse which only came out in the second half of the year and took over my charts. And although there's no trace of the third season of Sherlock yet, my adoration for the show continued putting Nina Simone's Sinnerman on top of my Top 10 most played tracks. Although Oh Death came only third I think that's the best Sherlock inspired fan vid's tune. And here it is for your entertainment!

Happy New Year!

Top 20 Artists

1. Muse 273 plays
2. The Beatles 268 plays
3. Paul McCartney 155 plays
4. David Arnold & Michael Price 151 plays
5. Pulp 130 plays
6. Parov Stelar 122 plays
7. Ákos 119 plays
8. Arctic Monkeys 106 plays
9. Tenacious D 100 plays
10. Hans Zimmer 93 plays
11. Red Hot Chili Peppers 82 plays
12. Pogo 78 plays
13. Robbie Williams 76 plays
13. Howard Shore 76 plays
15. Coldplay 73 plays
16. Jack White 72 plays
17. AWOLNATION 63 plays
18. Kasabian 61 plays
19. Noah and the Whale 57 plays
20. Franz Ferdinand 50 plays

Top 10 Tracks


1. Nina Simone – Sinnerman 24 plays
2. Muse – Animals 22 plays
3. Jen Titus – Oh Death 19 plays
3. Pogo – Alohomora (Harry Potter Remix) 19 plays
3. Pogo – Murmurs Of Middle-Earth (LOTR Remix) 19 plays
3. Muse – The 2nd Law: Isolated System 19 plays
7. AWOLNATION – Sail 18 plays
7. Jack White – Love Interruption 18 plays
7. Muse – Explorers 18 plays
10. Snow Patrol – Called Out in the Dark 17 plays