Hygge time
The kids in Tivoli Garden, Copenhagen, 2004
Basically, we're Danish wannabees.
This time of year makes me feel particularly hygglig. I was on the way home from school today and had a sudden rush of it. Oh, yeah...it's autumn all right. I don't need to wait for the autumnal equinox to tell me it's time to cozy up and get comfortable--I had to come right home and get hygglig. For me, that meant making taco soup, baking chocolate chip cookies*, lighting some candles, and putting on some good cozy music. The Danes are seriously on to something.
The Danes have a word--
hygge (HOO-ga + also the adjective hygglig HOOG-lee)--to capture that whole concept of a warm, cozy time with friends and family and the feelings you get being together. It seems to guide their decorating, their priorities, and, really, their approach to life.
I love it...I like to think there's a bit of natural hygge in my blood. I think it's what I mean by Basic Joy: the calm, cozy, relaxed, simple, homey comfort of finding the goodness in moments. (And now I'm humming the
c
elebrate the moments of your life coffee jingle.)
What makes you feel hygglig? How do you create it?
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Link love:
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Hygge House blog by Danish expat wonder girl Alex Beauchamp
~ *the
BEST chocolate cookie recipe. Just try it. They're divine...the best tasting cc cookie (and dough) with a great chewy texture inside and nice thin shell of shiny crispiness. I didn't believe it either but decided to try it--via Annie's eats, no relation :).
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Camilla at home is an inspiring scandinavian home decor blog. I love to see the images she chooses. Very hygge. She gives little English translations for her posts and she's got lots of links to
other great scandinavian blogs.