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Jeg elsker årstidens traditioner…
Knapt har vi overstået fastelavn, før jeg begynder at kigge fremad mod påske. Palmesøndag falder først 13. april, så egentlig er der længe til, men i dag faldt jeg over noget fint lysegult silkepapir og min mormors takkede saks, og så måtte jeg lige hygge mig lidt…
Gækkebreve er traditionelt set sendt blandt voksne, og den danske skik havde sin storhedstid i den anden halvdel af 1800-tallet. Hyggeligt at tænke på, at traditionen er så gammel…
Post- og Tele Museet, der ligger i Købmagergade, har udgivet det skønne grøn-gule Go-card med et gækkebrev fra 1916 – og her på deres hjemmeside kan du læse en masse om den danske gækkebrevstradition.
Jeg er ikke sikker på, at dette gule gækkebrev holder helt til påske… For efter jeg har set, hvordan blandt andet Pia Doodlediem arbejder med artjournals, så kunne jeg sagtens finde på at bruge papirklippet i en collage, et smash eller min artjournal…
Hvad med dig, sender du stadig gækkebreve…?
Kærlig hilsen Susanne
Blog post in English – and a photo from my Instagram:
A sweet Danish Easter tradition
I love seasonal traditions …
Barely have we finished the Danish carnival feast “Fastelavn” before I start looking forward to Easter. There is still 6 weeks until Easter, but today I found this nice bright yellow silk paper and my grandma’s old scissor, and then I had to just enjoy myself with a little papercut…
We have this very special tradition in Denmark where we send letters to each other before Easter, cut out in various shapes – and without telling who the letter is from. In stead we use dots for each letter in our name. Then the receiver have to guess from whom the letter is…
The unique Danish tradition had its heyday in the second half of the 1800’s – where adults sent letters to each other, but now the letters are mostly sent from children to especially grandparents – still I like the tradition very much – and I really love the thought about that the tradition is so old…
I ‘m not sure that this yellow papercut stick around until Easter… For after I have seen how, among others, Pia Doodlediem is working with her artjournals, I might use the papercut in a collage, a smash or my artjournal…
What about you, have you ever sent or recieved a Danish Easter letter?
Lots of love and happiness, Susanne