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Tomten are evasive creatures and you will rarely meet one but I was lucky and ran into this Autumn Tomte on a walk in the woods. He blended in quite well with his environment but my camera found him nonetheless. It was a windy day and the leaves were falling around us while I took a few photos. :)
Posted for the theme "Autumn Joy" of the Smile on Saturday group.
The arrival of the Tomten doesn't impress Cleo one bit. In fact I was suprised that she allowed me to take a photo of her with one of them. It's possible that the treats in my hand played a certain part in her decision to cooperate ...
The good news is that Rena is leaving the Christmas tree alone for the most part, lurking under it but not destroying anything. We put up only wooden, plastic or cloth ornaments, no glass.
BUT! She loves the Tomtes and will pull them off this etagere and leave them tumbled around on the floor which is no problem really. We're proud of her this first Christmas when she's only 7 months old.
Mitt bidrag till veckans fotosöndag/ My contribution to this week Photosunday / Fotosöndag on the theme Tomten/Santa Claus
Another view from Brända tomten in Gamla Stan, Stockholm. People are relaxing in a warm summer day.
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Rena loved this event and immediately leaped on the one with the green wavy stripes. I said "no" and she surprising left him and the rest alone. She was 7 months old yesterday and is getting some manners.
My new Tomten arrived too late for Christmas but I wanted to take at least one capture of him and so he made it on my Happy New Year photo. :)
The kitties and I thank you for your friendship and for all the inspiring photos and stories you share with us throughout the year. We are looking forward to a new Flickr year with you. May 2019 be a year of joy for you and your families.
Flowers courtesy of neighborhood green thumbs, bored Benni with the Easter Tomten courtesy of Benni's mom.
This is the theme for Smile on Saturday and made me realize I didn't have any mugs with words on them. So off with my camera to the store where I found lots of wordy mugs. I wonder how many of us ended up in stores?
I think this is a Tomten instead of a Gnome. I have two books about Tomtens and three Tomtens around the house and really love them more than gnomes.
Jevnaker Church is an octagonal church built in 1834 in Jevnaker Municipality, Oppland county.
Origins of Jevnaker church is a stone church, possibly built by Olav Kyrre, probably in the late 1000s. In the early 1800s the church was too small, and they tried to build on it. This led to relatively large damage to the church and the old stone church was after much discussion demolished in 1832. The present church was erected on the same site where the old church stood. These are Hade's largest church, with seating for about 700 people.
The church was probably erected by Vang church in Hedmark as a role model or the same drawings, both the outer shape and the roof structure has similarities. Jevnaker is however a wooden while Vang is brick church. In Jevnaker church interior is well preserved, with the pulpit altar from the church oppførelsestid. Rasmussen (1993) specifies Abraham Pihl as an architect, but Jevnaker church was built over 10 years after Pihl was dead. Jevnaker kirke er en åttekantet kirke fra 1834 i Jevnaker kommune, Oppland fylke.
Opprinnelsen til Jevnaker kirke er en steinkirke, muligens bygget av Olav Kyrre, sannsynligvis på slutten av 1000-tallet. Tidlig på 1800- tallet ble kirken for liten, og man forsøkte å bygge på den. Dette førte til relativt store skader på kirken, og den gamle steinkirken ble etter mye diskusjon revet i 1832. Den nåværende kirken ble reist på den samme tomten hvor den gamle kirken sto. Dette er Hadelands største kirke, med sitteplass for om lag 700 mennesker.
Kirken ble trolig oppført med Vang kirke på Hedmark som forbilde eller etter samme tegninger, både den ytre formen og takkonstruksjonen har likhetstrekk. Jevnaker er imidlertid en trekirke mens Vang er murkirke. I Jevnaker kirke er interiøret godt bevart, med prekestolalter fra kirkens oppførelsestid. Rasmussen (1993) oppgir Abraham Pihl som arkitekt, men Jevnaker kirke ble bygget over 10 år etter at Pihl var død
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With a hat set so deep over his face, covering eyes and ears, and a thick beard hiding the rest of the head, our friend the Tomte hopefully can trust his big round nose to lead him through the house.
What's a Tomte, you ask? It's a mythical creature from Nordic folklore. "Tomte" is the name you'll encounter in Sweden, whereas you might hear about him as "Nisse" in Denmark or Norway or even "Tomtenisse" in Finland.
It is very popular to decorate houses with Tomte figures in the winter in Scandinavia. They are often represented as having a long pointy hat falling all over their faces and a long white or gray beard, thus leaving only their nose visible. They have long, dangling legs, or those latter are omitted completely, as they are covered with their beard.
The famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) has written two books about Tomten.
(The picture has been cropped to a height of about 7.5cm for the purpose of the Macro Mondays challenge.)
This is Fredrik the Tomten.
I found him cowering behind a sparkly reindeer with a broken leg and a pile of blue tinsel garland on the Clearance Shelf at a local craft store.
He look so lost and forlorn I just had to rescue him!
I asked him how he'd come to be in such a predicament......being on the Clearance shelf and all, and he told me that he had been on a different shelf with all of his friends. They were all pretty excited about the prospect of possibly going home to live with some family over the holiday. One by one his friends got picked up and carried off to their new homes.
When it was only down to Fredrik and a few others it finally happened! Somebody picked him up. His heart was so happy it jumped right out of his chest and landed on his shirt!
But then, instead of going home with some nice person who would love him, he was just tossed up on that shelf behind that reindeer, where nobody was likely to even notice him.
He said that he heard someone say, right before he landed up there, that he was considered "damaged goods" because his moustashe was a little messed up.
Can you imagine?
I am so glad I came along to rescue him and give him the Christmas I know he deserves.
So welcome home Fredrik!
I hope this is the first of many Merry Christmas's you'll spend with me and my family.
One of the places in Stockholm, where I like to return for its cosy atmosphere, especially in summer time, is Brända Tomten (The Burnt Lot), a small triangular square in Gamla Stan (Old Town). A building, which located in the corner between the streets Kindstugatan and Själagårdsgatan destroyed by fire in 1728, was apparently not rebuilt for a few decades, which gave first the lot and then the open space their names.
The famous Swedish author August Strindberg wrote a chamber play named "Brända tomten", possibly inspired by the site.
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I en solig glänta emellan vita björkstammar och mörka tallar - en liten stuga för den lille grå tomten
In between white birchtrees and dark pines - a small cottage for a gnome and his family
and now I'm talking of TOMTEN/the Santa in the foreground... my favourite one
but I'm not sure if the love is reciprocated :-)
My TOMTE is the one who looks after you and takes care of everything if you treat him well. On the farms he looks after/sees to the domestic animals like horses, cows, dogs and cats during the night and hides during the day. In the light of his stable lantern he takes care of everything but you have to feed him with rice pudding and milk spiced with cinnamon or else he will do the opposite and make trouble for you.
men denne "Emil" har en annan "bo" som han vistas i, när han inte skottar snö... :-)
My dear little carpenter-shed here I am again but this "Emil" has another "shed" where he uses to be, when he is not shovelling snow. :-)
In snow- and winter-mood today!
Was supposed to have a cleaning up and washing day and here I am, silly me!!!
20170310_135628_P1230041.JPG. - A building was destroyed by fire here in 1728; since then this square has been called "The Burnt Lot".
A Tomte familly portrait...
With a hat set so deep over his face, covering eyes and ears, and a thick beard hiding the rest of the head, our friend the Tomte hopefully can trust his big round nose to lead him through the house.
What's a Tomte, you ask? It's a mythical creature from Nordic folklore. "Tomte" is the name you'll encounter in Sweden, whereas you might hear about him as "Nisse" in Denmark or Norway or even "Tomtenisse" in Finland.
It is very popular to decorate houses with Tomte figures in the winter in Scandinavia. They are often represented as having a long pointy hat falling all over their faces and a long white or gray beard, thus leaving only their nose visible. They have long, dangling legs, or those latter are omitted completely, as they are covered with their beard.
The famous Swedish author Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) has written two books about Tomten.
Brända Tomten (Swedish: The Burnt Lot) is a small, triangular public square in Gamla stan, the Old Town in central Stockholm, Sweden.
A few benches under a chestnut tree, the ivy hanging from the surrounding façades makes the space a lush, relaxed spot. During summers, a network of storytellers gather around the benches to tell their stories both to enthusiasts and passers-by.
A building located on in the corner between the streets Kindstugatan and Själagårdsgatan destroyed by fire in 1728, was apparently not rebuilt for a few decades, which gave first the lot and then the open space their names. The turning radius of horse-drawn vehicles made open spaces necessary, and the city architect Johan Eberhard Carlberg (1683–1773) in 1734 mentions having proposed a turning space on the location two years earlier, on a plan naming the space Eckmarcks afbrände tomt ("Ekmarck's burnt-out lot"). Though the space is not named on maps dated 1733 and 1770, the population register of 1760 names it Brända tomten.
Behind the yellow façade directly facing the square, are several merged properties hiding medieval remainders and records of tenants and proprietors back to the 16th century. Over the portal of 3, Själagårdsgatan is a cartouche carrying the inscription IAC BSD, the initials of an unknown couple who occupied the building in 1643. While the façade is from the 19th century, the basement is from the medieval era and the decorated ceiling is from the 17th century.
The famous Swedish author August Strindberg wrote a chamber play named 'Brända tomten', possibly inspired by the site, which was shot as a TV play in 1974.
Wikipedia
Floydd was excited to see Fredrik the Tomten show up for the holidays and immediately settled down next to him to catch up on everything that's been going on this past year.
Dark outside. Sitting at the computer editing photos while listening to music, using my Urbanista earphones when I heard some loud banging. First thought that it was kids doing kids stuff at the school, but it turned out to be Tomten, that is Santa to you. He doesn't seem to trust my doorbell for some reason. Anyway, he delivered two packages with salmon and some Ceylon tea!
Midvinternattens köld är hård,
stjärnorna gnistra och glimma.
Alla sova i enslig gård
djupt under midnattstimma.
MÃ¥nen vandrar sin tysta ban,
snön lyser vit på fur och gran,
snön lyser vit på taken.
Endast tomten är vaken.
A dramatic take from the early photos used in the 2001 version of this tale - The Grim Happy Christmas. Sadly the actor in the background, El Sr. Muerto, had passed when the decision came to reshoot his scenes.
by Elizabeth Zimmermann
Pattern source: The Opinionated Knitter / Elizabeth Zimmermann
Yarn: Jo Sharp Silkroad DK Tweed, 7 x 50 g, colourway 411 granary, and Debbie Bliss Merino DK, 1,3 x 50 g, colourway 225202
Needles: 4 mm
I started out with 152 stitches, and the size is perfect for Onni. Yay! I made the sleeves too long hoping he would be able to wear this jacket a little longer.
This took a long time to knit, mainly because of the yarn. It's definitely not a favourite of mine. I sticks to my needles and makes knitting very uncomfortable. I'm happy with the finished jacket though, I think it looks very cute on my boy. And Onni has announced the jacket to be "not very itchy", which is high praise indeed.
They come every Christmas season and we look forward to it. Some of us more than others as you can see from the reactions above.
BB the dog is calmly greeting, Simon the cat is in awe as he is of most things. Ringo Lemur and Karen Orang aren't sure about them not having Tomtens visit their homelands.
Roger Mouse was frightened, Hazel and Swoop were fine and Liam the lamb knew that Tomtens love all farm animals and visit them on cold, snowy nights.