These days everything is about christmas in Germany/Sweden. Problems like extra elections in Sweden, the economic crises in the world, ISIS are put a side for a period, while concentrating on bying christmas gifts and decorating the christmas tree. Did you know that previously the tradition was to decorate a tree with nuts and apples. Unfortunately, 1847 in Lacha a poor man working as glassblower, couldn´t afford to hang apples and nuts and decided to make the cheaper glass balls in colors to hang in the tree. These glass balls became popular in 1889 when the founder of Woolworth started importing to USA. And so the colorful christmas balls of glass took over the world….            

Ovih dana se u Njemačkoj/Švedskoj sve vrti oko božića. Nisu problem ni ponovni izbori u Švedskoj, niti ekonomska kriza po svijetu, niti IS, nego je ovdje bitno poklone kupiti i kako okititi jelku. I tako sam vidjela na televiziji otkud ustvari dolaze one staklene loptice koja sva djeca (a i odrasli vole). Priča je da je nekad bila tradicija da se drvo kiti jabukama i orasima/lješnjacima. Međutim, 1847. jedan staklar iz Lauscha,  a bio je jako siromašan te nije imao novca za skupe jabuke i orahe, odluči napraviti jeftine staklene loptice u raznim bojama. Ali ove kuglice su postale popularen 1880 tek kad je osnivač Woolwortha počeo importirati kuglice u Ameriku. I tako su kuglice preplavile svijet…