Christmas and Mid Summer are the two biggest holidays in Sweden. The Swedish people go all out for everything God Jul (Merry Christmas) and all of he Swedish traditions that go with it. As someone who works with things Swedish all year long, eurotreasure sweden rejoices when the holiday of Swedish Jul comes every year because it is a time to finally 'avkoppla' - detach and relax (as the Swedish people say) and enjoy some time of from the relentless business of Swedish and European antiques. We plan, of course, as all Swedish people do, to eat huge amounts of Swedish Christmas Jul food, drink lots of highly refined spirits, sing beautiful carols, hymns, popular songs, blues and country and just relax by a roaring fires eating apples and candy.
The painting you see (above) is by the darling of the Swedish art world, Jenny Nystrom. Her paintings consistently bring higher and higher prices in the art market. It is a no wonder, for her art work is incredibly well painted with the most typically Swedish representations of daily life in the land of Sweden. Antique books, of which there are many, are very collectible if they have illustrations by Jenny Nystrom.
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