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December 12th and.......

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Sorry, only Norwegian today, no time for anything else.......but you can always listen to my voice, can´t you :-)
By the way, tomorrow is Santa Lucia Day and I are making Santa Lucia Buns, lussekatter.

 

 

December 11th. The first nativities

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December 10th. The old Advent letters

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Yes, I do think that a few of you who now read my blog, knew me before blogging. And if you did, you were probably on the list of friends to whom I sent out a daily Advent letter. This was in 2003 and 2004, then I started blogging in 2005, and did my daily Advent letters in the blog.

I have kept all these letters, who knows, may be some day I will make a book of them :-), and today I am reading two of them in the Advent vlog. In English :-) Thank you for watching yesterday´s podcast, and commenting. Yes, I am smiling very broadly today. Some of you have been asking for an English vlog, well, today it is here:

 

 

 

December 9th, a lot of snow and St. Frances seeds

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Today is the second Sunday of Advent and two candles in our Advent wreath has been burning almost all day.The ninth calendar mitten is also there of course.

Torgeir, our oldest son, who lives in Stockholm, has been home this weekend. He will not be home for Christmas, instead he is going to Japan for a month, so we made him the tradition Christmas dinner last night.

We do have quite a lot of snow for the moment, and after breakfast this morning both Torgeir and Terje were out shovelling the yard. And I filmed :-) You can see our lovely winter wonderland it the video below. I also sing the Second Sunday of Advent hymn, yes, you can hear me sing :-), and I read a tale I wrote many years ago about St. Frances seeds. I know it was one of you readers who gave me the name St. Frances seeds, but I can´t remember whom?????

 

 

You make me smile from ear to ear if you open the video and watch it, you see, I am counting....... It is very difficult to be seen out in the digital world from YouTube, and I have no idea how to make my videos reach people. So every view, a broader smile :-)

 

December 8th and Anna, the mother of Mary

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In August 2013 I visited the Chora church in Istanbul and was completely fascinated by the roof mosaics showing the tale of Anna and Joachim, the parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus. It was after seeing these mosaics I came home and write the St. Mary Tale, Mariaevangeliet

One day, may be, I will translate this tale, so far the readings I do in my vlogg from Mariaevangeliet are in Norwegian only.

 

 

Today, December 8th, is Feast of the Immaculate Conception. You can read more about it here,
and about my Chora church visit here.

 

December 7th, feeding the birds for Christmas

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December 7th, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LEANDER, and I am making the annual Christmas treat for the birds in the garden.

 

 

 

December 6th and a special knitting project

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December 6th is almost over here in Norway, and I have been too busy to think of my blog. As soon as I came home from work I sat down to finish a knitting project, a pair of knitted wool tights for Leander. Tomorrow is his 3rd birthday and Ingrid wants him to wear the grandma knitted tights in kindergarten, with the nisse hat I knitted a couple of weeks ago.

It took me five hours of concentrated knitting to finish the tights, and then I had to drive over to Ingrid and Marius to deliver it :-) But now it is all done and I have an hour which is completely mine, before going to bed :-)

Maria, St. Mary, arrived this morning. I crocheted her last year, do you remember? And in my Advent vlog today I read the second part of the Mariaevangeliet.

 

 

December 5th and my mother playing the most beautiful Christmas hymn

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December 4th, with a video in both Norwegian and English

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The forth advent calendar mitten, DSt. Barbara Day and a garden walk though the garden after the first snowfall. I hope you enjoy it :-)

 

 

 

 

 

December 3rd and time for another Christmas stocking

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Back to work again today, after my week in London. Well, London was also work, kind of, so I should say back to my office :-)

Coming home from work, I really felt in the Advent mood, and an important part of my Advent mood is to prepare for Christmas. Like knitting a new pair of Christmas stocking.

This is what I talk about in my Advent vlog today, and Ardi, yes, I talk about you and the absolute stunning stockings you gave us last summer.

I have still not designed a pattern for this year´s stocking, but I am working on it.

 

 

 

 

 

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I will do advent and Christmas blogging in three different blogs this year (at least).

Britt-Arnhild´s House in the Woods ( in English)

The knitting blog, maskerade (in Norwegian and hopefully English as well)

and in 

Vandring gjennom året og Vandring mot Kristmesse (in Norwegian)

 

And there will also be a few vlogs or pods over at Britt Arnhild on YouTube

(subscribe to my You-Tube channel to be sure to get them all)

 

 

Use this link to fine my advent blog posts from previous years.

 

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