How we exchanged rings

Ha ha, another scary title:) 

No, nobody got married this time. We were just lucky and by accident discovered the project "Wanna Swap Your Ring?" by Ted Noten in one gallery in Oslo. Of course we wanted to be part of it! We made our own rings (ok, my friend Petra made two very cool conceptual rings) and we swapped them for the pink Miss Piggy ring. I am not very jewellery friendly, but this ring is just super fun!

Puppet of the week

Yesterday I started rehearsals with the team of Theater Savooi. And this is Hendrik. Shy and neat ghost from the Huis van Alijn in Ghent. Sometimes he can be a superhero. And sometimes he is scared even of his own friend Poes - a cat. Excited about the new project! 

Why do I love Belgium #1

Almost a year ago, when we moved to Belgium I decided to find my top 10 things I love about this country. The first one was clear to me immediately. Biking. Not as a sport (oh my god, no!) but as a way of transportation.

Everybody bikes! Young people, old people, two people, little people, babies (sitting in a special cargo bikes). And the bike roads are wide, and signed and they don't just end somewhere... 

This was last spring. We were testing my brand new bike! Since than he went through a lot of rain, mud, even snow (!), one flat tire and two slight accidents ;) But I keep enjoying it and I look forward to some sunny days on the 'fiets'! 

Through the slit

This year started with a responsible travelling and keeping our promises to visit our far away friends. We spend four cool (literally) days in the Norwegian capital, Oslo. Our guide and great host Petra showed us, apart from loads of galleries and museums, also her own work. Petra is a contemporary artist specialised in sculpture, installation art, and she also makes beautiful rings!! We couldn't miss one of her great installations, which she made in the part of Oslo called Grünerløkka. 

Following the river and the map, you can find five objects, or as the author calls them - small observatories. If you look through them and combine them with the distant location you'll get a funny and interesting result. Like, a little guy climbing a chimney of the nearby brewery or jumping into a waterfall.

Unfortunately two of them were already missing and also it was too dark (and cold) to take a proper picture, but here's a small taste of it. Go, find them yourself, the little hidden acrobats in Oslo.

Find out more about Petra P. Petrikova on http://www.trikratpe.com/

Yes, I do!

Once upon a time last summer, we were busy marrying our friends! :) No, they were marrying each other, we just got a very responsible task, to prepare their ceremony. And we did. We prepared for their wedding an extraordinary, superspectacular and original puppet show! We wanted to tell the people their story, but we also wanted to entertain them and make them part of the fun. The solution was to have a priest as a narrator. Our priest puppet is the most sympathetic, a tiny bit senile character. 

The story of Frederik and Rebecca - the marrying couple, was not as simple as you think! We went deep down to their past, and introduced them as children, and slowly we followed the line of destiny, which brought them together! We had a concert of Rebecca's band 'Tigresse', we met Frederik's dog! We even went with them on their first date and than on their snowboarding trip to Austria! We yodelled and watched Frederik making the ring for Rebecca with his own hands! (that really happend!) We had to fight with the greedy Sméagol, who wanted to steal it (that also really happened!!). And at the end, we witnessed their big promise to stay together forever in good or bad ...

Such show happens only once, but that's what makes it even more special and of course it makes the couple's day unforgettable ;) 
Let's see if there will be some more weddings this year, where Kukulu could bring some puppet - fun!