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What is Christmas all about? I'm not religious, so is it then just a stress-infested tribute to consumerism that we might just as well do without? Far from it, I think.

One day last week I was walking through the city centre in the evening. All the Christmas decorations were up by then, all the many lights - in the trees lining the streets, on the ( Read more... )

Music has always been an important part of advent and Christmas for me. One of our Christmas Eve traditions, which is fairly common in Norway I think, is to hold hands and make a circle to go around the Christmas tree singing, and we always listen to the boy choir Sølvguttene at  five pm on Christmas Eve when the church bells are ringing and ( Read more... )

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Since my apartment is going to be filled with boxes and bags of clothing throughout December as I prepare to move house, I figure I won't put up an advent wreath this year - there is just no room. But I would like to mark the four Sundays of advent in some way, and have decided to do so here.

So for the first advent Sunday - here is one of the ( Read more... )

Jeg bruker relativt sjelden sminke. Mest av alt er dette et spørsmål om prioriteringer - jeg har andre ting jeg velger å bruke penger på (og andre ting å gjøre med tiden min om morgenen).

Likevel - nå i jula har det stått så mange festligheter på programmet at jeg lot meg overtale til å få en 'sminkeveiledning' . De har to varianter: Gratis ( Read more... )

Jeg fikk et digitalt speilreflekskamera til jul!! :) Et Canon EOS D30. Så nå skal jeg endelig få lært meg skikkelig om lys - forholdene mellom ISO, blenderåpning og lukkertid, alt sånt som jeg tidligere enten har latt gå automatisk, eller stilt inn på feelinga.

*glede seg*

:)