Christmas Preperation!

 

So now I am back in London and are preparing for the Christmas to come. Today we went to Cooper & Wolf to have lunch and a coffee. It is such a nice place.  

After we took a walk and did some shopping, and then it was time to write Christmas letters to my loved ones.This year I used some of my ice crystal pictures for the cover. I don't think they'll make it in time for Christmas eve, but I guess it is the thought that counts.

One A Christmas Day!

As a child I used to get a small present everyday until Christmas. Usually it was my aunt who had made them. This year I received another calender from her. For each day there is a cross word puzzle wrapped around a picture or something else from my childhood. I find it is a really great idea. It is funny to have a new one to look at every day, and something to do during the Christmas days where everything else stands still. 

Snow!

This year the snow doesn't really bother me. I think it is because I know I will most lightly only experience it for the week I am here in Denmark. Sure it can be bothersome but when you have no where to be it just looks really beautiful.
One of the things I find most fascination about snow is that every single snowflake is made out is multiple little ice crystals.
The other day when it kept snowing I used some time to capture them up close when they landed on the window. They are so small that it is sometimes hard to catch them with your eye. They are so different from each other, but it is hard to notice because before you know they have already vanished. Therefore it can be nice to have a camera so that moment I can look at it again as long as I want and see every little detail. I see flowers, stars and trees inside them.
What do you see?

Home Making!

One of my favourite things about Christmas is when my mum and I use a day doing home made "konfekt". I think it is so much fun, although I have to say that I am glad it's only one time a year.
This year we did marzipan/nougat, chocolate/bailey, rum/raisin, lemon marzipan and orange marzipan. Now we have lot's of sweets for the holidays.

Blue Sky White Light!

When I arrived to Copenhagen airport I was a bit disappointed by the amount of snow covering the ground. From peoples pictures I had imagined there to be more, but as we drove north, the whiter it got. My parents live right next to the forest, so with white covered trees the view is so nice. Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day however today I have been hiding inside away from the masses of snow falling from the sky and carried by the wind. Instead I have just been looking out on to the balcony and thought to myself it is good that it was Sunday.
Hopefully tomorrow it will have slowed down and I will take the risk and go out.

Sunny Set!

A couple of photos from a sunny London today. It was first time in a While I left school when there was still a bit light outside. I had my last French class this evening and tomorrow and Friday there will be assessment presentations and then there will be a nice long holiday. I can't wait to go and see my friends and family next week and spend rest of december and my first Christmas without my family in London but together with Vincent.

Some Of My Most Precious Belongings!

I realized coming back to London after the summer that I had way to many things for what I need. After living almost 3 month with only what could fit inside my suitcase I decided that it was time sort my things, and bring some of the stuff, which I never use back with me when I visit Denmark. I keep telling myself to pack minimal but I somehow end up with things that I never use. 

One thing I always pack regardless if I am going for a weekend or moving is my jewelry. Often I don't use all of them, but they are very important to me because many contains a memory of someone of something that happened in my life. 

It is not that often that I get to share these small anecdotes so I thought I would share it with you and hope that you find it a bit interesting.  

These are just a small bit of the ones I have, but they are the ones I treasure the most.

A ring from each of my grandmothers. My grandmother always wore 4 rings and when she died we were 4 granddaughters who each got to choose a ring. I chose the one with the big stone. The other was my grandmothers wedding ring and my father and aunt had a stone added to it before giving it to my when I graduated high school. I always wear the two of them together on the same finger

A lot of my necklaces are mended because I am sometimes not to careful. They often get caught under the saddle when I lock my bike. This one too, right by hook at the end of the horseshoe. I had it fixed at a nice little shop in Berlin, where it smelled like he could be stoned. I felt a bit weird leaving it with him, but the next day he had fixed it and didn't even want any payment. 

This is my splash of color, the stars I bought on my very first trip to Berlin. This is in many ways a trip that changed my life.

Here is another mended necklace, hence the perl which I mended it with. The middle one is also from my grandmother and the bottom one my parents gave to my when I graduated high school. My mum bought it believing that I didn't like it so she could maybe have it instead, but it quickly became one of my favorite and I think she still regreats a bit not having bought one for herself as well.

Does it look familiar?

This is one of my favorite flea market findings. I found it in a pile of unusable stuff and got it very cheap. Whether it is real or not I don't know, but it stays intact no matter what I put it through. The chain however is a different story. 

Once I got an e-mail telling me that I won a competition I couldn't remember entering. If I had got it today I would have thought it was spam but this one was actually real. I won this plus matching earrings and another necklace. I recently had this one in my drawer for over a year because the chain was broken. Finally someone managed to fix it. 

Bracelets also from my grandmother. 

These ones doesn't have a particular story besided that my father after living alone with me for 20 years know my taste very well. He gave these to me for Christmas some years ago. They are the ones I wear most often as they are simple and beautiful and they go with everything else. 

Another great flea market purchase. These ones were in fact not very nice when I found them. A huge clip on black dot was on the top, but I quickly changed it so they would be dangling earrings instead. With a price of 5DKK and the new rings, this is also the cheapest piece of jewelry I own.

This daisy is from my great grandmother, so that is why it is a bit worn, but I like it all the same

Every time I visited Illum in Copenhagen I went by the "Arena CPH" department and looked into the montre to see this ring.  This went on for a couple of years before I finally added it to my wishlist for Christmas. To me it is very classic and beautiful but still bold and modern. 

My father gave these to me back when I finished my first degree as a pattern cutter. I thinks it is a really great idea to offer jewelry in memory of a special date. For me I really hold on to these things and appreciate them because it is an item that will continue lasting. 

(That is unless you break the chain)