History revealed

It's not only arcaic words that are being revealed these days. Also posters of such epic movies as 'There's Something About Mary' and last but not least 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer' see the light of day. 

Those films premiered in 1998... does that make them classics? 

Love,

Ida

Koncerthuset

I spent nearly 5 hours at Koncerthuset today... bit of a surprise it lasting that long, though.
They held the finale of a chambermusic-competition, and I thought 'hey, why not go'? So I did. It was fine - the right ensemble won, in my (humble) opinion. Two accordionist called MYTHOS - pretty cool guys. (Me and that accordionmusic - yes, Bjarke Mogensen was half of the duo today.)

The first picture is from earlier this month, at my "regular" seat - behind the orchestra.
The other is me keeping it real, being a bit rebellious in the posh building (ha... as if) - and finally the duo celebrating their victory; and a big pile of money - 100.000 dkr. to be exact. Nice.

What would you do with that kind of money?
I'd buy a piano and I'd travel to Asia and maybe New York.

Love,
Ida

The Trees Are Gone...

We have many parks in Copenhagen, but overall, it's not a very green city, which is a shame. 

It hurt me yesterday, when I saw they had cut down all trees but one at Kultorvet. Maybe it's part of the renovation of the street Købmagergade - but still, why cut down healthy, beautiful trees? I hope the reason is, that they had a disease - can anyone tell me if that is the case? 

Love,

Ida

What's underneath...

They've stripped off some signs on a building at Nørrebrogade. I love this. Old signs and letterings become visible. These say damekonfektion and cigarer, which translates 'ready-to-wear for women' and 'cigars'. Konfektion is a very oldfashioned word, and cigars - I mean, who smokes those nowadays? People smoke cigarettes, not cigars. Those words are artefacts.
I wish I had a timemachine, so I could travel back and see how it used to be in those days. Just for a short visit.

Love,
Ida

The Coffee Milkfoam Experiment

Wouldn't the blogtitle be a great name for a band? No, not really, haha!

The amazing coffeemaker at work. I've youtubed latte tutorials, but the images in the milkfoam are still lacking some... substanse. But they're very abstract and up for interpretation.

All but the first picture is taken with the great iPhone (or whatever smartphone you have) app instagram, that the sweet Anne Kristine, with the amazing blog 11.54, got me to notice.
My username is Idabidabum, so you can follow me - some of the pictures don't get on the blog, so it's a bit more Ida-love. Or, I've connected it to Twitter, so you can follow me there, if you like - I'm also Idabidabum there.

Hope you have good things planned for the weekend! I have.

Love,
Ida

My moms hidden talents

What seems like ages ago, I bought a crocheting-needle and some cute yarn when I was in Sweden with my funny friend Louise. Remember? 
I never got the hang of crocheting, but one day I was home at my parents, cussing and cursing at the damned thing, and my mom took an interest. Oh yeah, she'd crocheted some when she was an adolescent. So I gave her the needle and the yarn and forgot all about it. Until I got these wristwarmers for my birthday. Pretty good for someone who hasn't crocheted in 40 years!
Now she's totally hooked on crocheting - and knitting, too. She's making socks and what not. Yay. More homemade goodness for me coming up!

Love,
Ida

Harbinger of Spring

My friend gave birth to a beautiful little babygirl 20 hours ago.
I took of work early and spent nearly three hours with them, craddling and cooing at the little life.

The mother was so calm and radiating with happiness and love; the daddy was proud and witty and caring - and little Elin was a sweet, cute and decisive little lady. I love her so much allready.

So even if it's technically still winter, and Denmark has been covered with snow today, I call her a little harbinger of spring.

Love,
Ida

Skyline

A shadow skyline... the weather is so cold these days, but the sky is amazingly blue and crisp.

Love,
Ida

Locks

My sense of aestetics is in love with this ravaged neon-sign and crumbling facade.

Locks are such a sweet symbol of something that can turn out quite painfull...

Love,
Ida

Plumwine

My dear friend Lene has just returned from a trip to Japan. She had an amazing trip, and I'm very jealous - Japan is my no. 1 dreamdestination.
Lucky me, she brought back pressies!
A darling teacup in faint spring yellow, with delicate blue flowers. And then plumwine... in a tiny testtube-thingy - with what we agreed looked like a mousebrain. Yum.
We decided on a plan:  I'll make homemade sushi soon, and then we'll crack open the braincontained wine. Yay!

Love,
Ida