Tomten kommer!!

We spent Christmas Eve at my parent’s. My dad started a fire at the fireplace and the whole house was christmassy decorated.

We had it really comfortable and got spoilt from my assiduous mom.

Like every year she served up a delicious Swedish Julbord (Christmas buffet). Even though she minimized the selection over the years, nevertheless it’s still always too much and I will raise like yeast dough.

But after all the big excitement of the evening was Santa Claus, who would bring all the presents.

Why yes, the christ child isn’t coming to us, but to be exact it is the JULTOMTE. Hector and Irma didn’t understand the whole euphoria, but for Edgar it was a long desired arrival.

FINALLY there was a knock on the door..

and Edgar was chosen to be the little helper.

The next day Edgar was asked if, being 7 years old, he still believed in Santa Claus. He whispered quietly “Vladimir was Santa Claus, but on Christmas Eve you HAVE to believe in Santa Claus”.

And I think Edgar’s words are very wise. You can’t have people mess around with you forever, but you can decide for yourself to still experience and live the magic. And therefor I’d like to thank Vladimir, the Grinch, to join us for the magic.

                      GOD JUL PÅ ER ALLESAMMANS!!

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Zat you Santa Clause?

Here are Season’s Greetings from my brother Lukas!

“Zat you Santa Claus?”

The biggest joy for him are old E-Basses and Bass-Synthesizers. His last acquisition is a Roland GR-33. Other than drums and his own voice he solely used this old Bass-Synth to newly interpret the song “Zat you Santa Claus?” by Louis Armstrong.

I think this version is really funny, especially if you know the original!

A little bit of Tim Burton-atmosphere lies over this version..

Who likes it a little funky too, definitely check it out!

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´Tis the season..

I love this time of the year and am so excited, that we can celebrate with three little kids this year. My two nephews Edgar and Hektor and of course our sweetie pie Irma.

With them the festivities will be even more magical. And I will be able to act out my childish delight without any wry looks.

Vladimir doesn’t really care about the whole christmas frippery and shares my excitement only moderately. But now that there are three of us, he suddenly finds idt “quite ok” and even offered to play Santa Claus this year. After all he senses how exciting this time for kids is und he would do anything for his little girl..

Because I am spending a lot of time at home now that I am a new mom, Vladimir usually is working and Irma is sleeping rather well, I decided to spend my time in a better way.

Enough with watching Shopping Queen and sprawl, this year all the christmas presents will be hand made.

When I told a friend she said: “Oh great! And what kind of things will you do? Straw stars?” No, I hope not!

Of course I will make an effort to create a little bit more exciting presents, despite of personal handicraft work.

We will see, how that is going to work out. Otherwise I may come back to her suggestion. However straw stars are kind of neat.

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