First Advent

Today is the first Advent, and I have picked up my Advent-candleholders. Just as I always do this time of the year.

And all the other lights I have, just to make the darkness a little bit less dark...

Another window with lights of different types. One electric and one candlelight.

Candle now inside the house

Just some days ago I wrote about my late mother Gunvors art - this time a little building that was made for a candle.

Here it is again, the house is made of ceramic and glass. Now with a candle inside.

And if you have not seen it before I show it again, in day light.

Remembering the dead

Yesterday it was the day to remember the dead, All Saints' day, here in Sweden. Everybody that has a dead family member, or friend, lights a candle at their graves.

I of course I went to the church cemetary and the family crypt where my parents are buried, my mother Gunvor the artist, and my father Bertil. And then the grave of my uncle Åke, the famous historian.

Here you can see the lights outside the family crypt, build 1770.

The church I am talking about is Östuna kyrka, close to Uppsala, it was built in the late 1400.

Just a piece of magic

Honestly I am not shure this is really magic, but It feels like magic when I sit down in my livingroom and ligt up a candle and some incence, it's smells so good.

My home is filled with old things, gift's from my family during the years, other stuff bought at markets.