Do you hygge? | Alexandria, MN senior photographer

01.31.17

It’s me again! I know, you are as shocked as I am that I am blogging twice in one month. Slow seasons are great for this. That and drinking copious amount of hot cocoa and reading cozy little books like the one I am reading now. I am pretty ~~interested~~ obsessed with all things Scandinavian over the past few years. Culture, design, clothing, even the politics. I have been told I am Swedish, Norwegian, Hungarian, and probably a couple other nationalities that I don’t know about. So, I heard of this thing called hygge (pronounced hoo-ga), it kept popping up in some of the social medias I follow, and then I stumbled upon this cute little book; The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living I am always intrigued by other cultures all over the country and world, people in just living their normal life is fascinating to me. And if they are in fact the happiest people on the planet, I want some of that! So hygge is a sort of hard to explain, so I have read, but it equates to coziness. But it is so much more than that. It is connection with those you like/love, the food, the clothing, the atmosphere and the light (huge factor, so I read). All things that I love as well! I keep half joking/half serious to my husband we need to move to Denmark. However, in parts of the country they get rain 252 days of the year…this may be a deal breaker. I need sunny skies. And my tribe, and I don’t think they want to move.

Onto Miss Marisa’s senior session this past fall. She completely lucked out with like 75 degree temps in November! Marisa being very shy and quiet, rocked her session. I hope I didn’t scare her with my loud voice and loud ~~cackle~~ laugh. Must not have been too bad, as this is how her images turned out. 🙂