Merry Christmas, Everyone! I'm pre-scheduling this post for Christmas Eve; so even I do not know when I write this what may be ...

Come on... Wakey-wakey! Christmas Eve tomorrow! High time for you guys to get out of hibernation...  They do look a little sleepy sti...

Here are some more little Christmas gnomes ( tomtar ). As you can see, there are several different sub-species! These all live in my ...

My Christmas tree is 60 cm high, and is celebrating its 30th Christmas with me this year. Originally it came with the lights and twelve l...

Today I'm picking another thing from a kitchen drawer, to ask if you know what it is? Some of you may have been familiar with it a lot l...

Last weekend, Frances Garrood posted a photo of a knitted crib. In a comment to her post I mentioned that my mum used to knit little doll...

These are especially for Sandra the Madsnapper , who posted about her own battery candles recently. Mine are a bit different, as they have n...

I asked yesterday if you could spot the figure in my Christmas crib that really does not belong there. What I had in mind was this little ...

The crib was also put up on its usual shelf yesterday. It's a motley crew... The original crib pieces bought together, once upon a ti...

Laundry, vaccuming, and unpacking the angelic choir. There's another December day gone by!  The calendar angel seems happy to hav...

I have blogged about our celebrations of 13th December as Lucia/St Lucy’s Day several times before – for example last year . This year’s o...

It’s late Friday evening and I suddenly remember that I haven’t put in an advent calendar post yet. Who was it that came up with this ...

Today I was catching up on Meike’s blog From My Mental Library , and among her recent posts was one on Puzzles and Riddles , which stirred ...

The wrist strap on my watch was worn out and needed replacing, and today when I was in town I stepped into a shop to buy a new one. Strap, ...

I think I have blogged about this before, but I take my chanches - if I don’t remember when or where, you probably don’t either! Besides –...

Today, I finished my Christmas cards and letters going off abroad, and put stamps on the envelopes. It’s been an extremely stormy and rainy...

Today I opened a box with drawings from my childhood, and found myself falling down a rabbit hole to the late 1960’s. It seems that for a w...

This afternoon I have been unpacking a delivery of groceries. My supermarket started their online ordering & home delivery service abo...

One of my most frequently opened cupboards is this one – where a whole shelf is set aside for TEA… I always buy loose leaf tea, and mostly ...

For my first Advent Calendar post, I open my top kitchen drawer and take out this: Question for my non-Swedish readers: Do you even know ...