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| At night and early in the morning on the second Christmas day, it was snowing. I got finally a white Christmas. | |
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| My happy Christmas planning begin already in the middle of November. I went to the store Åhlens. | |
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| At Åhlens they had wonderful Christmas ornaments. Here the red ornaments. | |
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| And here the white ornaments. | |
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| The Advent candles. | |
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| A Lucia candle. | |
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| I saw there were candy canes in the tree. But this is not Swedish. Candy canes are from the USA. | |
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| A tree and ornaments in white. | |
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| An Advent calendar, December 1 until December 24. | |
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| I bought a lot of things at Åhlens and was making a package that should go to Spain. I liked the towel with the Dala horses. | |
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I found a
checked moose at Åhens and thought this so funny so she was
laughing a long time. :-) I bought one to send in the package but also bought one to myself. |
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| Cressets. Large outdoor candles. We call them marschaller in Swedish | |
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| Cressets | |
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This is an
inflatable Santa that was standing in the shopping galleria. But the
air ran out of the Santa and then it could not stand. Then a smart
passing by person put it on the motor bike so it looks Santa is
driving it. LOL :-) This motor bike is for children, they can put in a coin and rock on it. |
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| This is the Christmas calendar I made for Lennart this year, with bears. There has been a real bear in the woods near his home. And i was joking about this too. But the picture of the teddy bear is the bear he had when he was little. I bought the Santa bear this year. | |
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| Last year I made this Christmas calendar for Lennart. Then he just had bought his car. | |
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| The Santa bear is here in the tree. | |
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| Christmas decoration. | |
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| Christmas decoration. | |
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| Angels and tomtar. (Tomte and tomtar are Santa or gnomes) We have in Sweden a lot of tomte decorations. Also a penguin. | |
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| Christmas decoration and some of my glass things. The lamp is a lava lamp. | |
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| The advent candle and the light tube at our balcony. At the left just over the tube you can see the beautiful Christmas tree of our neighbour condo. | |
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| Tomtar (Santa) and ducks. | |
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| Christmas decoration. | |
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| Ornaments in the tree. | |
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| Tiny tomtar. | |
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| Ornaments in the tree. I sent such a tiny straw Christmas buck to Spain too. The Christmas buck is a typical Swedish thing. | |
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| The flower pot of the amaryllis. | |
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| I got this amaryllis from a mom and 2 dog friends. | |
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| There names are Nilla and Cassi, a black and a brown Labrador. | |
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| I said: Thank you my dog friends for the beautiful flower. | |
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| Then Cassi gave me a lick and I hugged and pet Cassie :-) | |
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| Nilla was too near the camera. Such a face :-) | |
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| Nilla went inspecting the house, she walked in into all the rooms. | |
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| After it Nilla went vacuum cleaning the kitchen :-) | |
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| Now she was tired and was relaxing a while. | |
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| Cassi was looking curious at the drawer. Cassie has a boot on. She had a surgery on her leg. | |
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| Pssst, shall we show Rödluvan how we can fight? | |
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| Here we go: "Grrrrr, grrrr". | |
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| Yyyyyyyyl! | |
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| Growl! | |
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| "Now it's enough" the mom said. And she showed her hand as a sign to calm down. | |
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| And the dogs were lying down and looked so sweet and peaceful. LOL! :-) | |
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| Here they were curious when Ove went out to the kitchen. | |
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| The dogs never noticed the stuffed tiger. Otherwise it had been a dog and tiger fight :) But the tiger 's on a high shelf. I got this tiger last year from Lennart | |
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| Now it was time to go home. Nilla and Cassi said goodbye to Rödluvan. | |
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| When I got the amaryllis it was very little. | |
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| Later it went high and got 4 white flowers. | |
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| Is not it gorgeous. Look, on the other stem there is a bud. (right) | |
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| Later when the 4 flower had bloomed over the other stem got 4 flowers. | |
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| A tomte in the tree. | |
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| Lennart made this ornament in the "Church play group" when he was 7 years. | |
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| Star and heart made of fabrics. | |
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| A ceramic church and an angel. I got this church for many years ago from a friend in the USA. | |
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Christmas magnets
that also are from a friend in the USA. I lost these some
years but found then this year. But O could not get the
magnets out of the plastic. And asked Ove for help. Then Ove was so funny and said. "You don't need to take out them. They will sit on the fridge like this too". I was laughing so much and let it be this way. :-) |
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| The Christmas tree was wonderful this year. | |
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| But the outdoor tree that the condo cares for was very ugly. It's a shame! How can they string that tree like that! But now the whole world can see how bad work they did! :-( | |
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| But God knows how to decorate the tree. Here you can see how our tree in real looks. This is a real growing tree. | |
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| Another picture of the tree decorated by God. | |
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| A beautiful red ball in our indoor tree. | |
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| A tomte in the light. | |
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| When we had dinner, the amaryllis was here. And here you can see the bud that later gave flowers. I'm fascinated how much art there is in flowers. Here you also can see there is a very little pink inside the flower. | |
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| The lava lamp. Rödluvan got this lamp from Lennart in Christmas present for 2 years ago. | |
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| Christmas balls. | |
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| I had many red balls in the tree, and red paper for the presents. | |
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| A wonderful picture of the tree. | |
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| Now the surprise for Ove. Both Lennart and I gave him money in different packages. The money was for a good office chair for him. Ove is smiling about the card I made. | |
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| Because that card said: "We have bought a chair to you. you can pick it up in the store". I took a picture of a chair at work that looked broken. The man of the house caring helped me to make that chair more "broken". The man was laughing about the joke | |
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| Lennart got a book with funny stories. | |
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| I got this book from an American woman at work. I was so happy when I saw what book the friend bought. It's a book about Swedish traditions. | |
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| This is Lennart's teddy bear and Panda bear. Both bears gave him a present. The theme for Lennart's Christmas was about bears. Last year the theme was about his car. | |
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| Here he opening the presents he got from the bears. There was money in it. Lennart got a lot of packages with money. | |
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| I got a present from a friend in the USA. Ove has a Santa hat on. | |
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| I got a star, ornament for the tree, that the friend had made herself. She went very glad. | |
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| Here the star is in the tree. | |
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| A close-up picture of the star. It's wonderful art. | |
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| For many years ago Lennart got these warm indoors slippers for Christmas. They don't fit anymore now and I had them in the basement. | |
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| I made Christmas labels for Lennart's presents with the bear picture. | |
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| But I did more. I wrapped the slippers ( the ones he already had got before) When Lennart opened the present he saw of coursew it were his slippers and not a new present. But I had a paper in it that said: "Computer ERROR, he had already got these before". But I had put plastic bags with mony inside the slippers. He was laughing for the joke :-) | |
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| I bought this ornament to herself. It's a star. | |
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| I also bought this star ornament. | |
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| I got this fleece vest from work. | |
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| I got this book and tea towel from Ove. The title is. Eternal flowers. | |
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| There are quotes and small stories about flowers in the book. In Sweden you can buy this kind of pictures loose and then we call them book marks. In Holland they called them "poetry pictures". But I don't know the name for this in English. | |
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| I also got this cat-and firemen calendar from Ove. (Fireman with scratch) | |
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| I got a present card for CD and bought these 2 CD for it. "Raising sand" by Roblert Plant andAlison Kraus and "I'm still missing you " by Ronnie McDowel. | |
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| After Christmas I bought this tea towel. They had now sale on them at Åhléns. It's the same kind of towel as I sent to Spain. There are Swedish Dala horses on the tea towel. | |
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| Ove and I got this present from a neighbour. It was so nice wrapped. | |
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| Inside was chocolate, a baking towel and this tea. | |
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I got this heart
from the Office shop at the university. This is a rather
special thing. I
thought there was shampoo or soap in it. But
not. It's a kind of "Warming heart". You push on a metal thing that is floating inside the heart. Then there happens a chemical process. The gel becomes like "wet sticky sugar" and then it's getting warm. You can have it in you hand and warm yourself when you are out. Later it becomes cold again but then it is still like a "wet-sugar" mass. Then you need to boil the heart in water a while. And after the boiling the heart has the gel again. |
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| A surprise was waiting for me. 2 packages. One with 2 cute ducks and a home made calendar with beautiful nature pictures. The other package contained a little cute fox and a cone ornament. Rödluvan went so happy. | |
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Here you can see
the fox and the cone that is a box to the fox. A special gift to me, Mrs Hood . LOL :) |
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| Are not the ducks and the fox cute? Oh how I love them! Now the fox may be with the squirrels that I got last year for Christmas. | |
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| When the low sunlight comes in into the kitchen it looks like this. In midwinter there is no sun on the yard and in the street. But I'm living rather high in the house and that's why we get sun in the kitchen in midwinter. But then the sunlight is very yellow. | |
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| Look! "The Thing" from the Adams Family has moved in into the bathroom. Very practical to have a helping hand. | |
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| I bought this shiny squirrel at Åhléns. It's on ornament that you can hang in the tree. But I have it sitting on the table. | |
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| Maybe this squirrel can help Rödluvan the kitchen :) | |
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| We got finally snow. It came at the second day at Christmas. There was a beautiful blue light over the snow . | |
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| The pines we can see from the kitchen. Behind the pines is a skating rink. | |
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| Snow in our street, New Years Eve morning. Ove is waiting for the bus. | |
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| A gorgeous sunset. | |
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| New Years Eve. I made pizza. | |
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| But not a common pizza. I rolled it. | |
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| And then cut it and make pizza buns of it. Normally you make in Sweden cinnamon buns this way with butter, cinamon and sugar inside. But I made pizza buns instead. | |
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| They were delicious. | |
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| Fireworks at midnight. (string on the left) | |
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| More fireworks. | |
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| Rödluvan in the snow at New Years Day. | |
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| Sunrise in the kitchen. 2008-01-05. | |
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| Sunrise, 2008-01-05- | |
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| Sunrise 2008-01-05. The light will return soon. | |
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| Dinner at Epiphany. Reindeer meat, potatoes in white sauce, bacon, fried onions, peas and rowanberry jelly. | |
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Presents after
Christmas 1 Christmas continued for me. I got this from a friend in the UK. The white book is Eua de Toilette. The flower hankies are from Horticultural Society. The purse handbag has glistening small round plates. It's beautiful. The chocolate gold money was inside the purse. The butter finger cookies are delicious. The magnet is now on the fridge. the key ring with the London bus is funny it is the first character of my name, Wilhelmina. I will write small happy memories in the flower note book. I felt glad for the presents. |
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Presents after
Christmas 2 Another day there came a new surprise. There was a package from Spain. There was a magnet of the town Seville a red cat and a red key ring with a good on it. And a card with cats. The card was in en envelope with a horse picture. But that is not on a picture. I could not get the horse right with the camera flash. Red Riding Hood felt glad for the red presents. (there is red in the magnet too) |
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| I also got this beautiful red heart. I have it on the wall now. | |
| Wilhelmina Schedin 2016-03-10 2016-03-10 |