@brittarnhild
December 1st is not far away, which means my advent blogging is coming close. I started "advent blogging" long before blogging was invented, or at least long before I knew about blogging. My first blog post appeared in January 2005, but the oldest "blogg post" saved on my computer is from November 29th 2003 when I wrote this email to a list of family and friends:
I have been looking forward to this week-end for a
long time. It is the week-end to start advent
preparations, and over the years this has become more
and more important for me. It is still almost four
weeks till Christmas, and this period will be the
period for preparations; preparations to open my mind
for the wonder which happened 2000 years ago, and
happens again every year, the Creator became man and
came to this world. The advent colour is purple/lilac,
and our decorations the coming weeks will mostly have
this colour, though all through our house more and
more Christmas decorations will be seen. Tomorrow is
the first Sunday of advent, and already tonight a star
will be hung in our livingroom window, and advents
wreaths with four candles will be set all through the
house. Tomorrow the first candle will be lit, then one
more for each of the coming four Sundays.
I have the advent calendars ready for the girls, one
basket for each with 24 packets in. It was a great
pleasure last night to wrap them all, as it has been a
pleasure the last weeks to use my creativity to gather
gifts for them. It is an aim for me that the gifts
shall not be expensive "use and throw away" gifts, but
small tokens they will like and use. The huge working
table here in my studio is filled with boxes of what I
call "my very own advent calendar". A huge box with
all my Christmas books, a smaller one with the CDs, a
basket with my snowman collection, another with my
angels, several colourful baskets with small and
bigger quilts in progress, my snowglobe collection is
here, and also my home made Christmas stockings. And
not to forget my nativity scenes. I have four scenes
so far, and they are all very special to me. One is
from Haiti, bought when I visited the country in 1998.
It is a coconut with an opening for the door, and the
figurines are made out of clay and painted in bright
colours. I also want to mention our newest scene,
bought in Provence this summer, traditional Provencal
santons.
.....well, just like a child (and at Christmastime it
is important that we all behave like children) I
cannot wait till Monday and December 1st. The first
Christmas cd, Christmas in Vienna III with Placido
Domingo, Charles Aznavour and our own Sissel Kyrkjebø
long time. It is the week-end to start advent
preparations, and over the years this has become more
and more important for me. It is still almost four
weeks till Christmas, and this period will be the
period for preparations; preparations to open my mind
for the wonder which happened 2000 years ago, and
happens again every year, the Creator became man and
came to this world. The advent colour is purple/lilac,
and our decorations the coming weeks will mostly have
this colour, though all through our house more and
more Christmas decorations will be seen. Tomorrow is
the first Sunday of advent, and already tonight a star
will be hung in our livingroom window, and advents
wreaths with four candles will be set all through the
house. Tomorrow the first candle will be lit, then one
more for each of the coming four Sundays.
I have the advent calendars ready for the girls, one
basket for each with 24 packets in. It was a great
pleasure last night to wrap them all, as it has been a
pleasure the last weeks to use my creativity to gather
gifts for them. It is an aim for me that the gifts
shall not be expensive "use and throw away" gifts, but
small tokens they will like and use. The huge working
table here in my studio is filled with boxes of what I
call "my very own advent calendar". A huge box with
all my Christmas books, a smaller one with the CDs, a
basket with my snowman collection, another with my
angels, several colourful baskets with small and
bigger quilts in progress, my snowglobe collection is
here, and also my home made Christmas stockings. And
not to forget my nativity scenes. I have four scenes
so far, and they are all very special to me. One is
from Haiti, bought when I visited the country in 1998.
It is a coconut with an opening for the door, and the
figurines are made out of clay and painted in bright
colours. I also want to mention our newest scene,
bought in Provence this summer, traditional Provencal
santons.
.....well, just like a child (and at Christmastime it
is important that we all behave like children) I
cannot wait till Monday and December 1st. The first
Christmas cd, Christmas in Vienna III with Placido
Domingo, Charles Aznavour and our own Sissel Kyrkjebø
is on the cd-player, my Debbie Mumm The Magic of Santa
mug is filled with spiced tea and as soon as this
letter is finished I have Mary Engelbreit's Christmas
Companion is waiting to be enjoyed.
Happy advent, and remember to take time to enjoy this
very special period of the year.
mug is filled with spiced tea and as soon as this
letter is finished I have Mary Engelbreit's Christmas
Companion is waiting to be enjoyed.
Happy advent, and remember to take time to enjoy this
very special period of the year.
For thfree years I sent out a daily email through December, but then in 2006 I moved it all over to my blog, and since then Advent for me has been a special blog tradition. I know that many of you originally found my blog because of my advent blogging, and every year in October and November I get emails from my advent blog readers where they tell me how much they look forward to my advent blogging.
This obliges me, and the last couple of weeks I have been thinking about what to blog about through advent this year. And I have found the theme.........this year it will be about Christmas cards and Christmas letters. I have some rabbits up in my sleeve and can´t wait to reveal them :-)
I am not a good one for waiting, so I´ll start already today writing the first Christmas letters, but more blogging about it will wait till December 1st.
Write me a comment if you want to be put on my Christmas letter list.
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The photos are from my Blue Garden Letters period.....I might start that again when spring comes.