I was just Absolutely Delighted to listen to this one. I happened to be baking the syltgrottor recipe from Anna’s cookbook Fika while I was listening! I am traveling to a trail relay race this weekend and wanted to have lovely treats to share with my hosts/team for our post-race Fika (we all have Scandinavian cultural upbringings to some extent). Then, you all started talking about writing gnomes! Since my daughter was about 5 years old, she has brought the idea of gnomes into our family culture - they paint the traffic lights green, they open/close our garage, they bring the snow for skiing, they get into mischief when something is discovered missing/broken, on and on. She loves to write stories like me, and we fully plan to write a gnome story as an offering to honor all the invisible work they do 💗 Thanks for sharing this convo, loved listening!
Sarah this is such a treat to read this morning! I am thrilled that you had a Fika treat baking AND creative gnomes? Bliss. Please let us know how the story offering to the gnomes goes. If you share the story online, we'd love to see a link. Hope the race goes well!
There is an ease to this conversation that was so fun to listen to. I love the gnomes and Caroline's question about whether the gnomes were all the same or different depending on the project!
I loved also that the conversation was in the middle of the process of the book. This idea of cold is intriguing as well.
Thank you so much for having me Caroline. Gnomes forever!!!
Yesssss! We need stickers. Maybe t-shirts, too?
I was just Absolutely Delighted to listen to this one. I happened to be baking the syltgrottor recipe from Anna’s cookbook Fika while I was listening! I am traveling to a trail relay race this weekend and wanted to have lovely treats to share with my hosts/team for our post-race Fika (we all have Scandinavian cultural upbringings to some extent). Then, you all started talking about writing gnomes! Since my daughter was about 5 years old, she has brought the idea of gnomes into our family culture - they paint the traffic lights green, they open/close our garage, they bring the snow for skiing, they get into mischief when something is discovered missing/broken, on and on. She loves to write stories like me, and we fully plan to write a gnome story as an offering to honor all the invisible work they do 💗 Thanks for sharing this convo, loved listening!
I love this Sarah!! Please report back when you write the gnome story :)
Sarah this is such a treat to read this morning! I am thrilled that you had a Fika treat baking AND creative gnomes? Bliss. Please let us know how the story offering to the gnomes goes. If you share the story online, we'd love to see a link. Hope the race goes well!
There is an ease to this conversation that was so fun to listen to. I love the gnomes and Caroline's question about whether the gnomes were all the same or different depending on the project!
I loved also that the conversation was in the middle of the process of the book. This idea of cold is intriguing as well.