In Finland Santa is busy today on Christmas Eve. Also my husband is busy, as he acts as Santa and delivers the Christmas presents to grandchildren. I have a few Santa photos in my archive and thought to share them today - before Santa goes to a looooooong vacation!
First I’ll present my own Santas that I have had for many years:
one small out of ceramic & a larger one in fabric.
In both of these Santas I love the brownish colors as I am not so fond of red.
Garden centers have offered a good selection of Santas, to every taste.
One garden center offered big Santas in knitted sweaters, not too bad. The prices 80-90 €.
Yesterday we drove to wish Merry Christmas to my elder son Harri & his family.
Harri has this awful Christmas sweater tradition! On the photo with his younger brother Jarmo.
Harri's cute lion-colored cat Rufus wasn’t so excited about Christmas!
But he slept on my lap and was feeling so calm & happy.
Dear blog friends, I have tried to wish you each separately Merry Christmas, but if someone has been omitted, here once again: Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta!
Through my travels I found myself describes how a talented art student grew into one of the most influential artists in our history. An exhibition of works by Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) was shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in the autumn of 2019. The exhibition was the first comprehensive overview of Schjerfbeck’s work in the UK. The exhibition that Finns get to see at the Ateneum will be more than twice the size of the one staged in London. The Guardian called her 'Finland’s Munch’ and said that 'Her self-portraits put her in the company of Goya, Rembrandt, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud’.
Schjerfbeck is my favourite female Finnish painter. She was so, so talented and already at the age of eleven permitted to study at Finnish Art Society’s drawing school in Helsinki together with adult art students. At the age of 18 she traveled to Paris for the first time and in later years again to Paris, Brittany, St. Ives & Fiesole. Her paintings in the early years of her carer were naturalistic, but then she developed a unique style: very modern and with subdued color palette. Her series of self portraits ar brilliant through the years.
Green Stilleben, 1930
I have to say that i was in heaven. Schjerbeck’s art pleads me deeply and I shall pay a return visit later in January. My photos are of course only a pale picture how fabulous the paintings were live. But I wanted to show you one of my favourites.
Dancing Shoes, 1882
Convalescent, 1888
Madonna de la Charité, 1943
We Wish You a Merry♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ Christmas♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪
We Wish You a Merry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪Christmas ♥ ♥ ♥
We Wish You A Merry ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪Christmas ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸
♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ And a Happy New Year!!!
The history of the English Wassail actually dates back much farther than most written English carols, and can be traced to the time of the Norman conquests of 1066 A.D. In the Middle Ages, wassailing was a means for the feudal peasants who lived on the land of their lord to be invited to the lord's manor and to dine and drink together and enjoy the bounty of his table. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
