Sun! Beautiful, beautiful sun. I love you Hey everyone I'm so happy to finally do a video again like this when I talk to you directly.
It's been a really long time and I've missed this so much. and Nanook have missed you all so much as well. Me and Nanook just went down here to the lake to watch the sunset.
it's so beautiful. There hasn't been many days in the winter that's been like this. it's been a really really cloudy winter.
so to see this it's like. . .
I don't know. . .
coming out on the other side of a long dark journey. It's like coming to heaven. so it's first of February now and the sun is coming back to us now.
the light is coming back after two-three months of very much darkness. The light has returned. And for every day that goes by it's gonna be lighter and lighter.
it feels very hopeful. Just sitting here in the sun now I can feel how something comes back to me. some kind of spark Some kind of life force that is resting a lot during the darkest time.
I'm happy to be back. so it's a new year now and I'm so glad that you are here that you wanna hang out with me for another year. and I so much look forward to find back to joy again in creating.
and having more time for that. Okey it's getting a bit cold so we are going back home now. Nanook is ready to go home.
It's just so beautiful. I could never get tired of this. when winter looks like this.
. . It's just magical.
oh gosh. . .
I'm carrying so many hea vy stuff as always. Okey see you at home. Yes we are going home now.
Nanook is very tired now. I'm sitting here working a little bit on the kitchen table. So what's for dinner today?
Pizza Always when we eat in videos we always eat pizza. Yeah It's leftovers from yesterday that we are heating up. Hello there Have you missed the vlog life?
The big eye. . .
I guess it's time to take down the Christmas lights now, but I don't know. I think it's beautiful. Oh this is a good exercise.
I've been sledding through the whole village and back again. I'm soon back home. as long as I lived here I loved to do this in the winter to just take the sled and maybe listen to some music I have some headphones on and yeah I don't know.
. . it's like meditation in a way.
I especially love to take the sled when it's moonlight outside it's only a couple of days left until it's full moon So it's really bright now Moonlight on a winter landscape. . .
that's magical It's minus 20 Celsius degrees outside so it's really cold. but I just feel really warm because I've been moving constantly it's just a. .
. did you hear that? It's these sounds you know, I've been talking about it before when when it's really cold outside the trees are snapping like something breaks it's like the ice when the ice starts to sing it breaks and cracks and makes these sounds.
yeah the trees does the same when it's really cold. And that's so loud. Sometimes it's really loud.
so I think I'm gonna go back home now it's getting pretty late so I guess it's time to sleep. Good night everyone. I see you tomorrow.
we have been a bit lazy lately So we haven't really taken up the all the snow from the stairs here I slipped here last night because it's almost like a downhill so I need to cut away the snow because it's really hard it's so hard packed Are you gonna lay here in the sun chewing on the bone? yummy yummy I could watch Nanook all day long chewing on a bone He is just so cute Hey Do you want to go in? oh you want to go in oh it's cold outside I know okey this is much better.
now you can at least see that it's the stairs underneath the snow I dont know if you can see it but We have some renovations we need to do on the roof here in the spring because the heavy snow fell and crushed some pieces It's still a lot on the roof we should take it down actually. Hey! Hey Nanook it's another beautiful bright day today Hello my love I think I'm doing like.
. . the sun is so strong Yeah now it's the time of the winter when it you start to need glasses when you're outside because it's really bright the sun is not super high as you can see there it is but the snow makes it so bright Oops careful there it's okay to have him free on this road because it doesn't come to many cars as you can see.
time for a little interview with you. No I guess people are curious I'm not prepared. that's good Say a word or a few words that you want 2023 to be some words that describe the year that you hope for.
yeah I know one word Its. . .
Creative Creativity Free. . .
Freedom yeah cause you're my prisoner. Are you going to try to escape like Nanook does? Yeah running away I'm gonna find the keys to run away Hey mom she was like "what are you wearing on?
" Wearing on. . .
Did you hear that translation? Mom asked "What are you carrying on? And I was like.
. . What are you wearing on?
What are you carrying. . .
yeah Johan is just taking up the poop I know we live kinda out of the nowhere so it's not like super important to take it up but I still like to do it when we walk along the main road in the village shall I? or do you want it? Okey You take it You can go Please take it Nanook.
. . he has already escaped now he went straight to my parents house because he always know he gets some candy when he's there So we gotta go pick him up Nanook where did you go?
oh you get some candy. Wait, it's magic in the air. It's magic in the air.
The bling bling I don't know if you can see, you guys, on the video here. That it's like. .
. shiny things flowing in the air that happens when it's really cold in the air and it's like ice crystals oh I love when that comes. Nanook What's your word for the year?
Pancakes? Great word. Here was the old grocery store when my mom grew up here and it's also the house that we rented for like a winter a couple of years ago.
We had a. . .
That's where we packed photo prints for the web shop and. . .
I also had it as a painting studio but it was only for a short time. but it's a really nice house. and right now it's just owned by the village so every year we have sometimes parties or get-togethers Yeah Or meetings.
It's like a community building for the village. Hey Nanook Ohh. .
. he is eating deer food. .
. So now we are on our way to my grand uncle Tage if you've been around for a while you know who he is. he's the coolest person on earth.
he just got a delivery from Ikea. a bed and some other stuff. and we're gonna help carry it inside and help putting it up together It goes better backwards.
. . Then I steer it towards you The devil in my soul *Old swedish swear words* It's fantastic Yes it's damn good now it's time for some coffee Hey Truls Are you having a good time?
This is good stuff Yes "Finnish sticks" are the best. Finnish sticks Bye! Bye!
Hey. . .
Hallo. . .
It's really cold outside now. Yes! We are taking the evening walk with Nanook in the moonlight Watching the skies That's one of the things we love to do most in the winter to look at the nightsky.
Yeah just walking like this. . .
Yeah we always walk like this Now we're here again, by the grocery store. Walking with Nanook such a beautiful evening. the moon is shining really bright.
Did it go well? Johan have been gathering some more wood because it's gonna be a cold night. Good morning!
Hey Nanook Happy dog It's cold in here. how cold is it outside? -27 c - 27?
Mm okay that's why. but you've made a fire. .
. if there's a car or a truck going on the other side of lake you hear it's so loud because it's so quiet here. Nanook is having a good time.
It's really cold today It's not the perfect day to go to town because we should be home keeping the fire alive in the stove instead. so it's gonna be pretty cold when we get back home later but it's fine we can do it. So we are going to Sollefteå today.
The closest city, it's like one hour away and we go there once every week to get some groceries Sometimes you have other things you need to do there Today we are actually going to meet up with Adrian you know our friend and co-worker because he's going in there to do some service on the quad. we actually bought a quad for the business last year so that we could drive with the packages with the jewelry packages down to the main road where the packages gets picked up by FedEx. It's too long to walk with the packages so now it's service on that quad so it's a really good timing because.
. . We're going in to Sollefteå as well so we're gonna meet up and eat some lunch together.
Come Nanook Hey Are your ready? Yes Going to town! Johan is upset with me because I spilled coffee in the car.
Yeah a lot of coffee. Making a mess. .
. So now it will smell like old coffee in here for two weeks maybe. It could have been worse.
Yeah I guess. . .
I still got some coffee left Ah some more to spill. Cheers! Are you saying to me or?
No to them. Not to you. because you are still.
. . You are still grumpy You can be grumpy.
Hiya! Good morning! It's bloody cold!
Yeah it's really cold How are you doing today? I'm good! You got a new camera?
Yeah it's a GoPro! Adrian is doing customer service from the car. It's gotta be done.
This is dedication. Look at this cozy coffee shop. it's called Café Petter, in Sollefteå.
You two are all dressed up poshly, and I'm like. . .
You look like a timber/wood cutter man. We just went in here now and we're gonna have a cup of coffee and some "fika" I think Johan is tired of me because I'm filming all days now. *Just talking about random fun projects* I'm doing some recycling.
Paper. . .
Are you excited? Yeah this will be interesting. now I'm going to do something that I've been wanting to do for years Here's my sound recorder I have Johan to help me Yes!
Because we are going to go into the creepy forest It's the forest just behind our garden kind of it's a forest that I've been talking about a long time ago in an earlier video is it going good back there? Yeah but this forest is making so many weird sounds it has for ever since we moved here Huh? I can't hear that much Okey I see Well, come come That's why we call it the creepy forest and it's not only that we hear noises sometimes we stand here and we hear almost like voices or like it's people there or Like someone is walking Yeah like the branches breaking yeah because you have your smithy here, in the red house that's where Johan has his jewelry workshop and sometimes when you go outside to pee or something Yeah it's really quiet but you can hear some things going on up in the forest maybe you think it's animals maybe but it's like sometimes it's just all the time It's quite close but, yeah, some activity It sounds like human steps or.
. . yeah it's hard to explain.
And it's also the feeling that we have in this forest. one of the things I was most happy about to move here to this place was that we had this huge beautiful forest behind our home and I thought I would spend so much time in that forest but the first time we took a walk in this forest. .
. Yeah it was just up here Yeah just up here in the forest we both got a very strange feeling. .
. Yeah something is off. Something is a bit off.
. . and I don't know what it is I think we both are very sensitive my mother as well she was helping me record a "Lucia video" in in the forest here a couple of years ago And we both felt like a bit.
. . *Asking Johan for translation* Afraid of the dark Yeah it's not a good translation.
. . No that's not a good translation.
I just felt a bit like. . .
someone was watching us When I walk here sometimes in the forest to to take some photos or something I don't feel comfortable. And I have no idea why. So can you just explain what happened with the ladder that time?
I used a ladder that is. . .
you open it up like it's stairs. Stair ladder. .
. or? You can bend it yeah you can unfold it And when I folded it, it made a metal sound And then.
. . I continued doing other stuff and then when I was walking back to the house I heard exactly, I mean it was exactly that sound like maybe five or ten minutes after Up here in the forest exactly like that metal.
. . yeah Like a replay.
Yeah it was almost like someone who had recorded it and played it again and that is just creepy, you know I talked a little bit about this creepy forest some years ago and since then one of my most requested videos have been a video where I record sounds from this forest and I I've only tried like once or twice but the thing is that I've always felt uncomfortable go here with a sound recorder by myself because usually I want to put the sound recorder before the evening when it's dark and then it's like oh I don't feel comfortable going there But now Johan has promised me I will protect you he will follow me so now for the next two weeks I will put out my sound recorder in the creepy forest every night and I hope we will get something weird Because it's definitely things going on in there and I would love to capture it. But we will see so this is the first night. okay let's go!
Lead the way All right It's a lot of heavy snow now it really starts to feel like a Blair Witch Project we might never come back home again. We should have brought snow shoes. Actually this part is not the creepiest part what's the most creepy part?
Up there? Yeah it's up there somewhere. Maybe we can start with the less creepy part.
I put it here on the blanket. Woops. Oh no.
. . Lost the little muff.
. . Fluff muff These sound recorders are actually pretty amazing because I've had this one out in the nights recording the ice.
you think they're gonna die because of the cold but they they can do so much more than you think Say something. Hello, hello Yeah Okey! Press record.
Night number one. It's so deep snow here. look at the moon up there.
so beautiful. . .
It's probably going to be - 30 degrees tonight. Yeah So we gotta be prepared. (Listening to "Deja Blu Podcast") Good evening everybody I'm upstairs now in my little temporary art studio During this winter I have my art studio at home I usually don't have that I'm in the middle of moving my art studio to a new place and I will tell you all about that later.
But yeah. . .
right now during the winter and for some more months I'm gonna be here it's a little corner upstairs and I don't have that much space but I actually think it works fine. It's Friday evening now and I'm actually really tired it's been a long day and a long week but I just felt inspired to go up and paint and squeeze out the last energy I have of this day. I just wanted to say thank you to all of you, everyone on this channel Especially now because of the beautiful response that I got on the last video I want to thank every one of you for being on this channel and for your beautiful comments and to all of you people out there who helped me create this video I want you to know that I'm so so grateful to all of you.
I could never have done the video without you and I'm just so happy that so many of you wanted to do this project By the way if you don't know what I'm talking about right now you can look at my previous video You can find it on my YouTube channel or I will just link it in the description below . Thank you to all of you who contributed to this project and to all of you who sent in videos I wish I could have all of your videos in this video there are still thousands of videos that I have that really deserved to be in the video and there's still hundreds of videos that I haven't even seen yet it would take me weeks to look through all the videos. It's really important to me that you know that if your video didn't make it to the to the final project It doesn't mean that I didn't like it I loved every single video that you guys sent me and yeah I'm so grateful to all of you I'm so so so grateful I can't really explain in words.
editing this video has been so emotional especially the last week when I worked with the video and I was putting it all together It almost felt like I was on a healing Retreat or something. because every day I got to listen to you guys I got to feel the love that you all sent through the camera lens and it really affected me All the things that you said and shared you I got to hear it so many times and it really made a difference in my own energy or how to say I felt like I was in a constant state of heart coherence as I edited the video yeah it was one of the most beautiful things I've felt I think. I cried a lot.
. . as I edited a video I looked mostly like this.
I actually didn't know how other people would react to the video Because I didn't know if it was just me who felt so emotional hearing all your messages. but then when I published the video and I got to see all of your beautiful comments and how many people out there actually felt the same way I realized that yeah I'm not alone. there's so many people out there that got affected in the same way and felt really touched.
I guess I just feel so honored So honored that you guys, you beautiful people actually watches my videos I feel a bit like starstrucked in a way. . .
just seeing all these beautiful people on a video and to know that they follow me. Wow. .
. I feel like I'm in love with all of you! I'm still in that state of like.
. . so much love Even though I created the video and put it together I still see it more like your video.
I just got the chance to to share your voices and I'm so grateful that you trusted me to do that that you trusted me to send in videos I know it was a big thing for a lot of you. it was stepping out of your comfort zone. so again I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you for being you and for spreading so much love and light no matter if you were part of this project or not.
Just that you are being here and watching my videos and yeah being part of this community. Since I still have so many beautiful videos out there from you guys, from my subscribers. .
. I think I said earlier that I am going to continue sharing the videos now and then I figured it would be perfect to share a couple of videos in the ending of my vlogs To kinda end the video. so I'm going to do that in this video now!
Alright I'm gonna continue doing some winter night painting and. . .
Yeah. . .
let's end this video with some beautiful videos from you guys. thank you for watching this video! I love you!
Hello everyone my name is Katerina and I'm from Ukraine You know I love the phrase One candle can light up thousands of candles but for that it has to shine itself. I just want to wish everyone that despite all the hard situations we are going through in our lives we still have to believe in bright and happy future. Never lose the light inside your soul.
It will lead you through the darkest times. Hi I'm Andy I'm from the Midlands in England what would I say to four million people it's a difficult one really I would say particularly with life we're here to learn and we're here to grow. Nobody has this worked out so don't think because you're struggling you can't get through something.
You can! You can do it that's the whole point of being here that's the whole point of the lesson is to grow enjoy every minute Enjoy every minute like there's no tomorrow I know they sound cliche but it is true and remember the song What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hi my name is Hannah and my name is Jack and this is our daughter We love hearing about small acts of kindness and we were wondering what is one kind thing you have done today?
For us we joined the wildlife trust which is something that we'll donate to every month and that money goes towards protecting wildlife which is something we're really interested in. sending best wishes lots of love from an unusually dry United Kingdom. Bye bye!
Hi Jonna, this is Selma from Namibia and if I had an opportunity to address 4 million people I'll tell each and every soul to never give up on hope. There is hope and I just want to tell each and everybody that we all feeling it but we need to believe in hope because there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Hello everyone my name is Wendela, I am from Czech Republic.
And I'm here with my friends and we have a little message for you. We all are biologically designed to be this beautiful unique creatures but the world is constantly shaming us for being unique and different and it doesn't make any sense to me so I think we should not be scared to love ourselves I'm still learning how to love myself but sometimes it's hard. But don't care what the world thinks the world is out of its mind.
Thank you. My name is Benjamin, I am retired United States Army I was a soldier in an Arabic translator for 24 years I didn't have a lot of time to stop and smell the roses and find my peace while I was active duty Obviously I was a busy man. But I found it now So my advice to Jonna, Johan.
. . to all those followers out there Find your peace And when you do find it, hang on to it with both hands and don't let it go because these kinds of things do not sit still for very long.
Bless you all, take care.
