The first Lucia weekend without the Swedish “glögg”,”lussekatt” and window Christmas decoration. I’ve been talking about this before, Lucia as at tradition is not existing here. So that´s why I went to IKEA last weekend to find Swedish Lucia celebration stuff to bring to work. Of course, I found the “glögg” next to the Swedish meatballs, but without alcohol I think it´s a waste of calories (vodka mix is one solution). I thought about bringing “Julmust” because of a comment I got the other day at work (and since Coke and RedBull is alreday decorating desks at work) that the “Julmust” we have in Sweden was great (!), but unfortenately difficult to find i Poland. Wow, I haven t thought about that. Well, instead of showing people pictures on yelllow “lussebullar” I will  make an effort in baking the stuff instead and bring on Monday. Remember I said “make an effort in”.. this is not equal with a nice result. By the way, I alerady showed pictures of Lucia procession with “stjärngossar” (sorry, don´t know this word in english). But the guys wearing white “night gown” with funny hats… ok I could assure people, no- this is supposed to be beautiful and not behaviours of a sect….

Last time I was talking about the Night of the AdEaters, the 6 hour show of advertising movies from all over the world. The show kept going until early morning. Redbull didn´t quite help me stay awake…. Commercials from all over the world, there were so many I haven´t seen before and many favourites of course (ads for cars and behaviours around driving or combination car + animals somehow are funny, I cant´help thinking that…)

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Lately I´ve been working with a big portal for the Polish market and this is an experience in many ways. First of all I discoverd I´m somehow stuck in the “community” way of thinking and sharing . This is not a priority for this target group on the portal and the huge mass of information, how to structure this in a good way is not easy. I´ve been working with one of the information architectures recently and we talked a lot about this.

Empty water bottles, they are a quiet installation in the corner of my kitchen. A part of the interior decorating. There might be a possibility I´ve  been a little lazy as well…

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Last weekend “snow for the first time this year”appeared and everybody´s Facebook status turned into a weather forecast :-) I already heard the Swedish words “julmust” and “lussekatt” (=Saint-Lucia-Saffron-bread- two-pieces-of-Raisins-on top-shaped-like-the number 8 … are you still with me?)

Many December signs during last weekend struck me ….
… a lot of shivering constantly repeating the comment “Oh Ggggod it´s rreally ccccold now”
… pralines
… hot chocolate
… the Chocolate Santa and his Chocolate Reindeers
… psychadelic Christmas Trees
… fur hats on the tram
I also experienced a unique old fashioned slideshow, turning photos from late nineteenth-century into 3D, so interesting! The place is called FOTOPLASTIKON. After this short but nice moment me and Diana went to WEDEL’S the praline house for chocolate/tea anything warm and yes, this is the place for chocolate lovers absolutely, nice place and the chocolate Santa made you feel hungry somehow…..Photos

So, Christmas is here and I’ll just take my blinders off.…. on Sunday I will light up my first Advent candle. On Saturday, I will “celebrate” ST. ANDREW´S NIGHT, the Polish tradition, which means a night of fortune telling… or depending on who you´re asking, this means also PARTYNIGHT. I heard it´s the last chance to party before Christmas…. piece and quiet will rule until Christmas Eve, but again, I guess not everyone is taking this seriously. Me on the other hand has to be very serious about the Swedish tradition and bring a candlestick to work and explain about the 4 candles, no one had heard about this before.

On Friday I will attend the NIGHT OF THE ADEATERS with some of my colleagues. It´s gonna be so much fun to see this show, an ocean of ad movies from 40 countries! It´s quite an impressive collection with more than 800,000 commercials. Jean Marie Boursicot is the creator of the concept and this big night.