My First Days of December | Settling Into My Home

The winter has once again arrived here at my quiet corner of the world, and we are now entering the darkest time of the year, which to me is also the cozyest and most magical. A time that is actually so full of light, just in different forms. And here at home, I'm still trying to get things in order, one at a time, cleaning up in the mess and fixing small things here and there. And every week I feel a little bit more settled into my new home. So these days I'm just preparing for winter and for Christmas, mixing time at home with intense workload of December. And I thought I would take you with me through my first days of this beautiful month. And I'm starting with this day when we're a place to broke and window in our workshop in Zleftu, and had a very special working environment. It's kind of 15 outside. It's really cold today. It's shifting in the 70 degrees. Yes, nor did you, Lary. And later that same day, we had the honor of welcoming the county governor, the county governor, who was the first to be the mayor of the county. And I was so honored that you wanted to visit us. And in the afternoon, me and the team had a new Christmas gathering at the cozy cottage. After this incredible year, when we all worked so hard, it feels so important to just relax and have a little fun together. And seeing all of them together like this, feels both so surreal and so hard-warming at the same time. I am so grateful that I get to have this wonderful people in my life. This day is so beautiful. It's fog all over the ice. Anyway, hello, everyone. Welcome back to a new video. It's the beginning of the year. It's the beginning of the year. It's the beginning of the year. It's the beginning of the year. It's the beginning of December. And I have actually been sick for a couple of days. And it totally knocked me out. It hasn't been long, very short, but intense. And today, it's like the first day that I feel like I'm back on my feet again. But I still feel so weak. Just moving around feels heavy, but then coming out to this to the sunshine and to the fresh air. It feels so amazing. It's not that cold either. It has been quite okay. Temperature for that past days, which I'm really grateful for. I haven't had any cold in my house. Also, I got to take the car and drive to my art studio and look from a cat, because she has been gone now since yesterday. She didn't come in last night. And that happens now and then. She's a wild one. But I mean, it's winter and usually she comes in every night. I figured she might have been walking all the way to my art studio, where I lived, yeah, for a year. The friend moved back here. Sometimes she has done that. I guess it's a bit confusing for her too. I really hope she is there. Otherwise, I have no idea where she is. Yeah, yeah, this is just so beautiful. I'm here, Lily. No, she's not here. I'm here, Lily. I'm here. And the sun is so low on the horizon now. It's in the middle of the day. It's a one o'clock. It's just, I don't even think you can see it really on the camera. It's just about her right. I still feel a bit weak. I don't have much energy, but I really wanted to take my last energy to go down to the ice really quick. You see how it looks like. This looks really beautiful from above. Oh my gosh. It's just so beautiful. I wouldn't be even found words. This is insane. It's like in the middle of the ice. I wonder if she can hear the sound of the ice. The sounds are so beautiful. I really hope you can hear them. They are very deep. I mean, this is one of the most beautiful scenarios I've ever seen here down by the lake in the winter. It's something with the fog and the sun going down there. And this strange ice formations would snow. I'm speechless. I'm so speechless. I never get used to living here because every single day is different. It's never the same, even though I lived through 15 years at this place. It's never the same. Every day is unique. Every season is a little different from the other one. And it's these shifts in the light and of the sun. Rises higher or lower for each day. It's so alive. Living out here really makes you understand that everything is alive and you're part of it. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. I gotta show you something. Look who's finally back. My yellow is back. And she just got back home actually. She's been out. Yeah, she's been lost for almost two days now and I honestly started to get worried because it's getting really cold outside. And we have a lot of foxes around now. So it was so relieved when she was standing on the porch. I have no idea where she's been, but she smells like old underground house. So my guess is that maybe she's a bus scared by a fox or something and she hide underneath the house or underneath the barn or somewhere she's just been hiding. But she's back. Look, she's so tired. Mmm. Oh sweet girl. I should give you kisses. Oh my gosh. There's so sweet. I was so glad you're back. I was afraid you left me alone here. Now you can sleep here for a bit and I will join you later. It is such a huge halo around the midnight. Look, it looks incredible. Look at that. What? Can you see it? Wow, it looks like a huge portal or something. I love when this happens. And I have heard that when you see a big halo like that, it's going to come snow the next day. I don't know. It's a windbrewdow. It's such a magical time. It feels like everyday something magical can happen when it's winter. At least when it's like the beginning of winter. I'm just going to go and get the medley basket with jewelry that might be work or Adrian had left. It's here for me. Since I haven't been in the workshop for a few days, it's usually that it's going to be heavy up in the tree. Oh my god, it's such a vibe but now I don't think this camera picks it up very well. The ice is rumbling so loud and the moon and the healer whoops. So, so magical and mystical in a way. So it's almost midnight now. And I'm just going to hang up the jewelry in the tree. And then go to bed because I'm going to go to so after tomorrow morning. So I'm going to bring the jewelry. There's a lot of great quests this time out the air. With people who want the jewelry in the tree. If you've been on this channel for a while, you know that. So this time of the air, I'm hanging out with the jewelry in the tree. Almost every day. Every night. I have my job. It's just such an honor that I get to hang your jewelry orders in the tree in the mud or tree in my garden. So I'm going to do that now and then I go to bed. So I am energized for tomorrow because I still feel like I lack a lot of energy after being sick for a while. So I guess I will need some rest and my cat too. We're going to sleep like babies tonight. See you tomorrow. Good morning everyone. I am now packed up in the car and I'm a little bit late. But I am now heading to our store and our workshop in Slefteo. And for those of you who don't know, a Slefteo is a town about one hour from here. So it is 60 kilometers to drive through the forest. And it's a beautiful drive. Sometimes it feels endless and long, but sometimes it just feels wonderful to drive it because it's so beautiful. So I'll see you in Slefteo. Let's go! Just connect to one thing that you are truly grateful for in your life. Taking a few deep breaths. We're going to have this in the video for you. Really if you want to do makeup nice. I'm going to have this in the video for you. Alright. Hey, Nubisa. Can we just take a moment to admire our Christmas tree here in the workshop? Isn't it beautiful? Hello. Hello, Edron Smith. How are you doing today? It's sophisticated for you, Linger. Nice. I wish more Christmasy kids to come and come and come. Oh my god. I brought them to you. You really try. It's a drug tips, aren't they? You, Edron. You're going to make this sick again. Feel it, booze. I think this job fits you better than the fire. No, no. You're the fire, you're the fire. Yeah, that's the fire job. This is just a second job. I got this job because I wanted to be a fire record. That was a long journey to the fire. It's taken three, four years now to finally end up on the fire position. It's a lift. Hey. I wouldn't say you're really that good yet. Will I be downgraded? Yes, this is our shop manager, eating lunch. How are you doing today? I'm very good today. People are so happy in the store. Really? Christmas spirit is just... I can... Oh, you wrote a song? I actually wrote a song genuinely, huh? Can you sing it for us? I could sing it to it. Grace, most time. You're on a zon mode wide. Fairly it's working over time. You know, there's no... What? There's the... But all we know, we got to suck at this one. So, one prayer. So, one to a wall. We won't know until they show. We want some fever. But Phillip said no. Back to work. We almost now go. This is what I love. So satisfying. You're at the cleaning point in your heart. So... Yeah. Wow. Cheers. Cheers. This is what I love. So satisfying. You're at the cleaning point in your heart. So... Yeah. Wow. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. This is sheer so you can't get in there. I can't hear me anymore. If you stab me then, I'll pull out my back as she's become... You can't stab me in the back. I know. I'm terrible. Yeah. Phillip is single by the way you can sound... Just a skinny. Linking by. This makes me stronger right here to it. Yes. inertia. I'm scared. Positive frontal rotation. As you do on your work with ט. What are you doing? Thank you. cure you if you get掉. I'm out of work. Remember, Mar軍 sauce. Sit down to take a lot each week and ten other people. Hello my loves, it is now evening 630 in the evening and the store has closed. So I'm just walking around in here. I love to do that because there is definitely a special vibe in here. I always feel like I kind of get into this meditative state when I'm in here. It's so peaceful and it's just, yeah, it's, I can't really put words into it. But I know a lot of you who have been in this store have felt that you know what I'm talking about. So many people have come up to us sharing that they feel so peaceful and calm and some of you or a lot of you have visited our store have got tears in their eyes and felt like, yeah, I think it's like a hard opening space. I really feel like that and that is truly my biggest dream and vision with this place that it would be a space that opened the hearts of people when they come in. And I've told that many times that for me it is not only a store. It's a bonus that you can buy things in here but most of it all I wanted it to be an experience both for myself to be able to see the creations physically to have a wheel a place like this, like in a way, it's like a real physical world instead of just having everything you did digitally. The feedback that we get from people coming here, it is so wonderful. It makes us so happy when we see that people really feel that way. And it appears the gallery with some of the new paintings that I made that you saw in the previous video. I haven't shown them as like, clearly on the videos yet but I will someday this is no downloading that means Northern Wind. All of these are inspired by the winter of course and in this gallery you can hear the sounds of the ice in the background, the sounds from the lake where I live. Together with some ice footage that I share on this screen here. That's my home. Yeah, I also feel a bit emotional being here because I still haven't truly understand that this place exists that it has happened since it was a vision for so many years and the journey to have this, it's been so long and so up and down and then this summer with the opening, meeting all these wonderful people. All of you came here. It's like so much process actually that I haven't done yet. I feel like the end of this year and maybe the beginning of next year is going to be a time to truly integrate everything that has happened and I feel you're so much gratitude that I can stand here today and that it all worked out and trust me, making this door has been definitely the biggest project I've ever started and finished as well and I think it's sometimes easy from the outside to only see the success that everything went so well and you know it's easy to only share the highlights but I also want to share that doing this, creating this, it has been so scary for me at times. I have been so full of fear many times because we have risked everything to do this and when I say everything I mean everything financially and it's just like it has taken so much that sometimes I felt like I just need to surrender because now we have started this we need to you know finish it but sometimes I think so fearful but then I have tried to send them myself and just trust the process and then I've been swept away by the joy and excitement of creation of making this space a reality but I think it's important to also mention that this has not been easy I feel also such a relief that this project is done and that I can now just kind of enjoy it. I've been dealing with a lot of fear but I also know and please take note of this that when you do something and maybe you risk it all you just throw yourself out there but you do it not for the result but because you feel this passion to do it or to create it I know that there is something noble in that and that that will be rewarded in some way. I have had that experience so many times in my life from the smallest moments when in my the beginning of my career when I spent all my money buying candles to do my LSE video and I was so so poor at that time I had nothing but every time I had an idea of vision I gave my everything and I did it not because I had their result in mind that I would gain something from it why I did it was because I felt the joy of doing it because I felt like I just had to this this feeling inside you when you just have to do something and I know that when you do something from that energy it's all going to be all right and I trust that you know building a store like this in a super small town like a lefty of no matter how much I love a lefty I love love love a lefty of but of course building a store like this and thinking that this would make a profit all year round that's that that's not going to happen you know but that's not why we built it we made it because we wanted to have this space and if people come and buy our stuff here people come and watch our art and creations that's so wonderful but just knowing that this space exists give me so much joy and I recently also thought that no matter what happens if if we can't have this in a year or two years or three years it doesn't matter I would not feel like a failure if we can't have this store anymore in the future I would still feel so proud that we did it and that it became exactly like we dreamed of and that I found here today I am so grateful and I'm so so grateful to everyone that I work with everyone in my team none of this would have worked with them and now they are running it the shop manager that the people working here like it's wonderful everything worked out most of all I am so grateful it's all of you out there all of you people who watch this my videos who comments who follow my journey the support our business, the buy your Christmas gifts from us you make this possible without you none of this would have existed because of you wanting to take part of what I share you you make this and everything I will be able to create in the future possible so it is a co-creation between so many people and that's so beautiful and that could truly be felt on the opening day when I got to see so many of you so many of you coming far away to visit this place and now during Christmas we have this door open almost every day from I think midst of the summer sometimes you can see that opening hours on our website I know most of you live very, very far away from here but for those of you who live close you are so welcome in here to just have a coffee here in the lounge by the fire to watch the pain things or to try on some jewelry or just to experience that must be here for those of you who live far away you know we have our website and me and my mom has a usual mates and new designs for this year that we have put our hearts and so into and that we are really proud of and you can see all of that on our web shop as well so again thank you so much for your support in my work and in our work and in our business for watching my videos you have no idea how much it means especially on a year like this it means everything for us to be able to continue on this journey and now when it's Christmas vibes in here I feel like I never ever want thecember to end because it really is so cozy with all the Christmas decorations in here and usually we have this fire burning but now it's not burning but it's also so cozy to sit here in the lounge and just relax you can write in the guest book there is so many people wherever I'm written in this guest book um it's like from the first day in opening almost full now the whole book it's up to here this is so beautiful alright now I'm going to drive home to my little house in the woods and I love to have both of these my life it is such a blessing I'll see you back home you good morning everyone it's a new day and I am so tired today so I have been taking a really slow morning now I'm just feeding the birds and the deer so I have started feeding the deer and now they have eaten up everything in the bucket so I'm going to fill up some more oh my god thank you for fixing dinner I'm sitting here in my frozen garden and I guess it's a little bit early but I can't wait until the spring when I can start to plant and grow some vegetables I really long for that but there's many months left until I can't start doing anything with that I feel so good right now but I felt so shitty this morning so now I just feel like this relax relaxation in my body because I finally feel better I have been struggling so much with feeling weak it's like I'm constantly tired and very weak in my body just moving around feels so heavy and I guess that's very normal after you've been sick it's nothing we're at about it it's just that it's hard you know and now as I sit here I finally start to feel like my body wakes up a little bit so it's already getting dark as usual but I have light enough that house with candles and it is so incredibly cozy in here now my heart is almost melting it feels so like cozy and warm and also a little bit of Christmas vibe which I'm very grateful for because I often feel like I don't really have that much Christmas feeling in my home because I never really have time for it or I don't prioritize it and here is the living room that I now have thanks last time I showed you this room my head my photo suit you're hanging up here and it was stuff and books all over the floor and now it's a little bit cleaned up I'm gonna tilt the camera so I have my working desk over here so this is where I'm gonna edit this video later here look at this area here it's so freaking cozy and in this room it's still a huge mess but I'm gonna start with this some time next year for now I'm gonna enjoy this piece and I also put some a book yeah how to say bookshelves here and I built like a little things I can put the books all over the way there I think that will look really cozy so everything is a little bit squeezed in here of course now because I have my desk and everything but right now I feel like I don't need more space I think this is so nice to be able to sit here and work and be close to the fires it's so good now during the winter to have my working space in the middle of the house and the heart of the house this is how I imagine January when this intense last month of this year is done I'm gonna put my ass in that couch and I'm not gonna move out of it at least that's how I feel like now I just want to be in this room with tea and coffee and cookies and just sleep and rest and watch movies I feel like this room has such a warm vibe I could never imagine it becoming this cozy what do you think about it do you like it oh look that can't oh did you just think it was talking about doing you like this couch too yeah finally we're having some clean spaces in our lives this poor little thing we're getting there we are oh my god yeah so I'm very happy I have at least three rooms in this house now that are clean and unpacked and it's the kitchen it is the living room here and it's my bedroom and yeah also the bathroom so that feels good and the rest of the rooms I have no her with that sometime next year in the beginning of next year I will fix my art studio upstairs and that's going to be so nice but right now I have no energy we're doing that all right I I'm gonna get started on this video and make myself a cup of tea and I hope all of you who watches this video that you are taking care of yourself and that you know that you are very important and that I'm very glad that you are here and watch this video I won't be back soon again I'm sending you so much love bye bye