Swedish christmas tree

I set up my big Christmas tree for the first time in the new house. All of the ornaments were handmade by friends, relatives or me. I have had the Swedish flag garland since 1971 when I first went to Sweden to visit my maternal grandmother (MorMor). The lights look like candles - it took me several years to find enough strings of 10 candles to fill my tree.

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CHRISTMAS TREE 1917 In my previous post I featured several Carl Larsson products - a collectible cookie tin and a cake tray. A lot of Larsson's paintings are used for Christmas merchandise. I think he must have really loved Christmas, considering he produced so many Christmas paintings. He must also have loved his children a lot, since he often used them as models for the pretty, robust children in the paintings. His interior paintings reveal a colorful, warm, bright and cozy world in…

We had dinner at my childhood friend's house and I marveled at her Christmas tree, covered with beautiful ornaments and a garland of Swedish flags (her father was born in Sweden).

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Swansons Nursery has Scandinavian roots and so do two of our veteran employees: Inger and Rolf. Both of whom have been with us over decades and have helped shaped Swansons to be the warm and welcoming place it is today. As the holidays approach, we would like to share the stories of their Christmas traditions. God Jul!

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