Category Archives: Christmas

Merry Christmas. Photo of the Week #154

This is what Christmas looks like in my family. Of course this is last year’s tree since we wait until Christmas Eve to light the candles. But it will be just as beautiful and just as cosy. Merry Christmas to … Continue reading

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Frying crullers. Photo of the Week #152

Christmas fun at my sister’s. We are making crullers – very traditional Danish Christmas pastries – but not something we usually do in my family. They were funny doing, and oh, they are good! Now last episode of Homeland. Weeeee. … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas – straight from the manger

Only in America… My favorite is the star over Bethlehem while the smoking king is a very close second. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas – today I am enjoying it a tiny bit more since it is … Continue reading

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Have you seen this man? Photo of the Week #144

Someone is busy…  I caught a glimpse of him in the New York Public Library a couple of weeks ago. Just one day to go now. /anna

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Heart of Darkness

Today was the shortest of the year. I have really felt it, the darkness. The last two years Denmark has been covered in snow at this time and, apart from all the trouble, snow really brightens your day – literally. … Continue reading

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Christmas Wreath. Photo of the Week #143

Last week when visiting friends in Boston I took a short trip to Salem. Just next to the house of the seven gables (which some of you may know from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel) I passed this wonderful little Christmas tableau. So … Continue reading

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Christmas Tree 2010. Photo of the Week #113

Merry Christmas everyone, says Puss and I! /anna  

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Blizzard!

Still in the blizzard here. 10 cm this night and it just goes on and on. Had to dig out my car this morning. It took me 15 minutes to liberate it. And then good old At the Lighthouse led … Continue reading

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Snow and Toboganning

It snows and snows and snows in Denmark and for the second year in a row we’ll have a white Christmas. Loving it! Even when I am shoveling snow for the umpteenth time early in the morning. I tell myself … Continue reading

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Gingerbread House. Photo of the Week #112

Time for the gingerbread architects to get working. This year – Pippi Longstocking’s house Villa Villekulla. Tonight we baked the parts. Next – assembling it with caramelized sugar. And then the icing. I imagine something like green and pink. This … Continue reading

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