Me, Rödluvan want to tell about how I'm celebrating Christmas in Sweden. The pictures are taken. 2002 - 2006.
                                          Separate page about the Christmas food
 

Our Christmas tree,  2006
At December 13 we celebrate Lucia. A woman  is dressed as Lucia in white clothes with a red silk ribbon round her waist, and a crown with candle lights in her hair. Lucia does not come alone. She has maidens with her. They are also dressed in white and they have tinsel in their hair. There are boys who are dressed in white with high pointed white hats with stars on them. These boys are called for "star boys." The star boys are carrying a star on e pin in their hands. In the Lucia procession there are also people dressed as Santa Claus and as gingerbread cookies. In the homes Lucia and her attendants come to the people with a tray coffee and cakes on it.
In the homes Lucia and her attendants come to the people with a tray coffee and cakes on it. The cookies we have are "lussekatter" baked with saffron. And gingerbread cookies.
We are drinking hot glögg to the cookies. We both do this at Lucia and Christmas. Glögg is  mulled wine. but you also can drink this without alcohol. There are all kind of spices in it. And this will warm you in the cold. We keep the glögg warm on a tea ligth that is inside a kind of  holder made of glass of ceramics.
At Christmas you can bake a gingerbread house. But often you buy the walls and roof ready and build the house of the parts in the package and after it you decorate it with icing sugar and candies.
Every year there is a Christmas market at the open air museum. I use to go there because I like to take a sleigh ride.  It is the horse Helge drawing the one horse open sleigh. (I'm not on the picture)

Decorations in the tree. I use to have shiny red balls in the tree.
Decorations in the tree. 2005
Decorations in the tree. I have this angel in the tree every year.
And I have a star in the tree. The top of our tree is very soft and that's why the star often is oblique-angled. 2005
Decorations in the tree. I also had some gold balls. 2005
Before we had a real tree. But this was a lot of work with all these needles. And you could not take in it too early. For some years ago we bought an artificial tree. That looked like this when it came.
Ove was unpacking the tree and build it.
The  stand for the tree was difficult to build. And after Ove build it we never take it apart anymore. But we taka apart the tree after every Christmas so it can be stored in the box again.
Now the tree is build and we put in the lights and the decoration. this Picture taken 2005.
The Christmas goat made of straw under the tree. 2005.
Christmas presents under the tree. 2002.
The living room 2006
The kitchen 2006
The red sheets for Christmas in the bedroom.
In summer I have pearls made of glass in colour by the ceramic lighthouse, in winter I have transparent glass so it looks like ice. At Christmas I decorate the lighthouse with small ornaments. 2005
The same lighthouse 2006. Taken without a flash and with other decoration. The light in the lighthouse is a battery light. 2006
This Santa is telling fairy tales. And the angel is reading from the bible. Both are made of ceramics. 2005
This Santa made of ceramics has a lamp inside. You can see the light through the stars and in the lantern.  2005
A Santa made of glass. 2003
Bells made of glass. 2005
A little Christmas goat in my office at work. 2002
 A little Christmas goat at home. 2004
Ornament. Small Santa and angels. 2003
Ornament. Small Santa and a snowman. 2003
Santa and Santa Mother. I bought these 2006
Christmas magnets on the fridge. 2006.
I made a Christmas decoration of this coconut. :-)
This is a coloured tube with lamps inside. This is called "Flexneon". The rest of the tube is in the hall.
A penguin. 2006
The little Santa is made of a twig of a tree. The big Santa is a candle light. 2005.
This is a typical Swedish candle named Änglaspel.  I can't find a word in English for this thing. You light the candle and then the angels begin to run around because of the heath of the flames. There are pins under the angels that hit the small round plates. And then it will sound: "Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding".
Amaryllis 2004.
Another kind of Amaryllis. 2004.
A tulip, berries and a little snowdrop. 2004.
Ove got this flower December 2002. I don't know what it is.
A hyacinth. 2003
A cyclamen in my neighbours apartment. 2006
My neighbour made this. Taken in her apartment, 2006.
A wreath that my neighbour made. There is cinnamon,  chestnut and dried fruit on it. 2006

Christmas 2005. I got a calendar with firemen who are saving cats in Christmas present. And a box of chocolate. It is common in Sweden to give people a box of chocolate at Christmas.

I got Helly Hansen socks. (polar socks) 2005 These are very warm. Smooth at the outside and fuzzy inside. Helly Hansen is a company in Norwegian.
Books that the were wrapped in the shop.
2005. Electric candle. Ove took the picture with a tripod. You can see Ove in the windows and also the snow outside.
Christmas 2005. On this picture the window is a littel snowed in.
Advent candle. Every advent you light one more candle.
A bike house on our yard. (I took this November 2006)
The Christmas tree on our yard. Day time when the lamps were not on.
November 2006. Crazy Rödluvan. :-)
The moon over the yard in December. 2002
White frost taken with flash at night. 2002.
A frozen lilac bush and the bike house. 2002
Me with the kick sleigh Christmas. It was snowing. 2002.
The Christmas tree on our yard when the light was on. 2005
A white Christmas 2005
Snowing at Christmas Eve. 2002.
The  Christmas tree on our yard.  2002
A little Christmas tree in a flowerpot. Decorated with snow. 2004
A burning cresset at our balcony. 2005.
Sunrise. 2005
Sunrise. 2006
Sunrise. 2004
The Christmas present to the squirrels in the woods by work. A big bag with food.
The Christmas tree at work.  2003
The advent candle at my office. 2006
2006. Decoration at my office. But the Spanish clementines and the gingerbread cookies are eaten now :).
A Santa med of ice in town. 2005
The same Santa med of ice in town in the evening with a red light inside. 2005
The shops in the centre of town. Christmas 2005. There are heaters under the ground so the snow will meld and then it will not be  slippery.
A store in the centre of town. Christmas 2006.
The Christmas tree in town. 2005
A Christmas goat made of straw on the market place. You could buy this one. 2005
Christmas goats on the market place in town. 2005.
A cat and dog on the market place. There is a battery inside and then the dog can walk and bark. The round balls are snowflakes near the lens of my camera. 2005
Decoration balls for the trees in a shop.
A big decoration ball.
A big decoration ball hanigng in a shop.
Santa a reindeer and the sleigh made of a plastic tubes with light inside. These tubes are called Flexneon. 2006
A red christmas tree. 2006 This is new I have never seen this before. 2006
A window in a shop. 2006
A window in a shop. 2006.
Santa Claus with the reindeer in our grocery shop. 2002
Christmas Eve. 2005. Our balcony. And a kind of outdoor candle. Vi call this candle "marschall" = cresset.
Lennart with his mountain bike in the snow. He has studded tyres.
Christmas apples. And clementines from Spain. 2003
A Christmas calendar.
A home made Christmas calendar. 2003.
Me, Rödluvan, in the snow at Christmas. 2005
Reading the fairy tale about Red Riding Hood and the wolf. I got this book at Christmas 2003.
A red Santa is coming in the snow with my Christmas present.

Rödluvan's Christmas present 2006. Still Top Secret  :-) (December 23)

But now it's December 24 and here is Rödluvans Christmas present :-)
HUGS :-)
Why should I have a goat under the tree? A tiger under the tree is more cool :-)
Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-10 2016-03-10