Starry Chandigarh

 Hollywood came to Chandigarh in the form of Kathryn Bigelow's film shooting on US operation of capturing and killing Osama Ben Laden.

Chris Pratt

  Well, I HAD to do some corrections in my post, because so much trustworthy media made a mistake while saying about the cast for this movie. They simply confused two actors (guess how could they do?) Brad Pitt with Chris Pratt! Yeaa... their surnames do sound a bit bit same.. but overall... two completely different actors!!!

  So this is an actor who will be in the movie, his name is Chris Pratt. This is the link to imdb site  where you can see full cast and crew of the upcoming movie. 

 The most incredible thing is that film shooting takes place in one of the most popular Chandigarh markets in sector 15, where me and my husband use to come numerous times! The film-makers turned sector 15 market to the market street of Lahore, Pakistan. Other episodes of the movie is promised to shoot in Patiala, the city not far from Chandigarh. We would like to go near sector 15 sometime in the evening and see what is going on there ourselves. :) Go on, Chandigarh!

Chandigarh sector 15 market while movie shooting

  

First Crochet Bag

  Oh... I was working hard the whole last week, so even use to forget about having food..) Well,  it wasn't like this, though I spent plenty of time on my first crochet bag! And here it is, my lovely pink and white summer bag. I started from a small granny square and read in the internet that "You can expand it then as MUCH as you want", so this was exactly what I did! Also I made a small red rose outlined with a thin  pink yarn. This bag was supposed to be used as a yarn store (you can see yarn through the wholes), but I guess I can take it out sometime.

The Woman in Black in our town

 Well, time to tell about our outing and quality time we spent day before yesterday! Me and my husband went to the PVR cinema to watch... The Woman in Black! Why this?
Explaining. First of all, horror, thriller are my favourite movie genres, and even my husband started liking them. hehe. Second - we both are fans of Harry Potter and of course couldn't miss the movie with Daniel Radcliffe! Third - we have never seen a horror/thriller on a big screen.
 There were not many people who came to see The Woman in Black, but the less were those who came with such special interest like we.
 I was expecting some certain things to be shown in this film like gloomy interiors, grim faces, creepy sounds and all. But beside these constant attributes of  every horror there was something particular in this one. I really liked the English landscape and the weather shown, both to enrich the atmosphere of a tragedy which is happening with the main hero and people around him. I liked the attention to the details of furnishing and interiors of different houses. For example, in the very beginning of the movie when three girls are playing a tea party with dolls in the attic,  you can see girls apparel of that time and toy tea set, the old carpet on the floor and later, when girls, called by an invisible power, start approaching the window, there is an old vintage cupboard with a few scratches on it...
 Another detail I noticed was directly linked to my present hobby. One of the characters - an old lady who lost her son under mystic circumstances, was wearing a white night gown with crocheted laces on it! Isn't it so?

Everything and everyone looked very real and you can't get rid of the thought that the events are real too and could have happened. What made me feel creeps was old toys! I never thought that toys can look scary and make so scary sounds!
Daniel Radcliffe's role in this movie was another attempt to overcome everyone's impression about him as Harry Potter of course. Few times I  did connect some moments of the movie with Harry Potter, but only visual ones like engine (Hogwarts Express) taking the main hero to the village and some other details. That happened only because of J.K. Rowling's realism (!) in her books when she picked up all the peculiarities of English life and brought them in front of us in an interesting form. Daniel Radcliffe DID look different and much mature now:

 I liked the movie overall because it felt  like you were reading a good horror novel.
Next time we are going to see One Week with Marylin which stars... Emma Watson!!! :)

Yarn shopping

  I think that crochet is taking over me... and I am happy! I went for yarn shopping in one of the markets of Chandigarh, in sector 38, yesterday evening. I purchased eight colors and I  love them all! They all are pretty different, but I think I can combine them in an advantageous way.
 There were so many kinds of yarn , I,  honestly, couldn't stop buying! Big thanks to my husband for supporting me in my interests as we were choosing the colors together :) Now have a look at what I got.

Crochet Decor Pieces

Can't imagine how happy I am that I have resumed my hobby in India! These are two cro-cre (crochet creations) so far.
My first crochet table mat! I was quiet confused when making it, because I didn't really know I'd have this in the end. Though I am happy to have this small decor piece on my table now :)

I used remaining yarn of pink and dark purple color, started to knit from the circle using only single and double crochets. Yes, it was an easy way of making a table mat, but a successful one I guess!

cro-cre: crochet table mat

table mat detail

Another cro-cre (crochet creation) of mine is this box suit. It took me one evening to crochet this watch box suit.

cro-cre: small box suit 

flower detail

  I used yarn of three colors to knit it: blue, navy blue and white. Once again even with small amounts of yarn you can create some nice things! 

 So, these are my small achievements in crochet knitting, more are coming!