Hello again and happy Monday! I'm hoping to get more crafting time this month, but I miiight not.... December is busy!
Good thing I have a stash of holiday- themed Christmas pages I haven't shared before.
Last year while thinking of ways to incorporate family history into our holiday, I remembered or realized or something that my husband has family from Denmark and Sweden, annnd thanks to reading the American Girl books as as kid, (Kirsten, in this case) I know a Swedish holiday-time tradition! I'm assuming his family observed St Lucia Day, tho we don't have any kind of proof. It wasn't something any of his living relatives heard anyone talk about, just something from their culture.
I thought of it only a day or two before, so I had to figure out how to make it all work pretty quick. Lucia buns are saffron buns, but the least expensive saffron I could find was around $80 and it was something like 14oz and I needed 1/4 tsp?? Sooo I opted for something closer to the project my friend and I did in 4th grade. Our parents had to make enough Lucia buns for the class, using a Bisquick recipe, ha. I don't know how to make any kind of bread that would be a bun, so I got frozen Rhodes rolls, and tried to shape them into the S shape. I used cinnamon as a spice, because the recipes all say they should be sweet. I don't think we own any kind of white robe, and we don't even have a wreath. So I lined some candles along the table, and I made the whole family get up early! They "got" to learn a little bit about St Lucia, and see the names and faces of their ancestors who likely *actually celebrated. It wasn't a perfect event, but they thought it was pretty cool!
Stamps: God's Peace, Letterpress Alphabet
Ooh, pretty! And a fun story to go with! I remember learning about Christmas traditions around the world when I was in elementary school and I think my kiddo has a homework assignment to research the subject this month (which we need to get moving on). I think we learned about St. Lucia and I remember learning that they put lit candles in Christmas trees in Germany I think...and even as a 3rd grader I thought that was such a fire hazard! Ha!
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