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Christmas Eve In Pictures

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Warning: Long post. Hah.

Pretty Christmas ornaments..

Porridge for lunch, one of my fave Xmas traditions.

After lunch we went to my grandfather’s grave and sang Xmas songs. I was pretty annoyed though. A police car was patrolling the grave yard, and it turned out gypsies (sorry if this is an insulting word to anyone, I don’t know the correct term) were walking around bothering the people who visited the loved ones they’d lost, playing instruments and demanding money. How stupid! Luckily we weren’t bothered by them.. Then we went to church, and I was obsessed with this cute little girl..

..then we went home, and cuddled with Bella in front of the fire place.. Cosy!

Pressies!! <3

I was wearing a blouse from Primark, and a skirt from Asos.

My gorgeous grandmothers <3



Bella in her new Christmas scarf <3


Ok, so now I’m gonna do something I’ve never done before. I have no problem sharing personal stuff, except from my family and my home. Not my new home, but the one I’ve been living in my whole life. It’s just so special, personal and filled with history. But I thought I could show you some pictures of my favorite part of the house. It’s a second dining room, and we usually only use it for Christmas. My grandfather had a fascination for old houses, so he went up to the mountains and found one he loved. He bought it, picked it apart, brought it to Bergen and built it back up, exactly like it was built where it used to be. We have more houses like this in the garden, but this one is built into our original home. So cool! So this is what it looks like from the hallway, a huge door takes us into this super cute dining room..

There’s a huge fire place..

This room is from 1569! Can you believe it? So old, filled with history. I wonder what they’ve been doing here during the hundreds of years it was on the mountains..

These books are as old as the room, or “peisestuen” as it’s called in Norwegian..


So many charming details on the walls!

That’s it for now, but I can show you more picture if you want to see :) I’ll finish this super long post with the Christmas dinner, “pinnekjøtt”. Soooo goood!!

I had the best day with my family!! I missed my brother and sister though, who for the first time didn’t celebrate at home. My sister was at her fiance’s house and my brother worked at the hospital.. Hopefully they’ll be home next Xmas, with the new baby!! Wii. I got sooo many pretty gifts, I’ll show you everything later :) Hope your day was as perfect as mine <3

Comments

  6. Så utrolig stilig med det rommet! Bestefaren din må ha vært en kreativ fyr. Jeg vil gjerne se mer hvis du vil vise, elsker interiørinnleggene dine! Ha en fin jul videre og takk for at du ville dele disse bildene med oss :-)

  23. Så utrolig koselig! Fantastisk å høre at du koste deg masse, Cathrine! Det fortjener du! Masse koselige bilder også, og jeg syntes du var helt nydelig i antrekket ditt, love it!

    Så ville jeg bare si ifra om at jeg har fått neglelakken i posten som jeg vant av deg igår, tusen hjertelig! Den var kjempe fin, og jeg elsket fargen. Tok den på meg med en gang jeg fikk den!

  25. Hey Cath! Looks like you had the perfect Christmas celebration! Merry Christmas to you!
    I am partly gypsy and would recommend you referring to us as romani/romanis or romfolk (norwegian). I’m not at all offended, but I know that some people will be offended and I would recommend you using the politically correct term, romani.
    Hope you and your family and other loved ones have a good holiday and get a great start at the new year :)

  29. Hei! Ble helt bergtatt av den søte hunden jeg, og lurte veldig på hvilken rase den er? Er nemlig prikk lik min blandingshund, bare at vi har klipt han etterhvert som håret har vokst. Vært utrolig morsomt om de faktisk var av samme sort :-) Håper på svar, ble veldig nysgjerrig nå ^^

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