From a recent New Yorker story:
“hygge,” a Danish term defined as “a quality of cosiness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being.” Pronounced “hoo-guh,” the word is said to have no direct translation in English, though “cozy” comes close. It derives from a sixteenth-century Norwegian term, hugga, meaning “to comfort” or “to console,” which is related to the English word “hug.”
For the full story:
If this isn’t hygge I don’t know what is:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Tempi and Sammy
Montana Moments 
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
(Perfect photo)
😀
xo
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I love the picture and post! 🙂
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NIce post and photograph. I wish that I could get some hygge this winter which is unusually colder than normal for us.
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dogs follow hygge so naturally! it’s a magnificent obsession! (my apologies to that writer… Lloyd C something.)
I LOVE your picture tempi and sammy. it’s perfect. i’m so glad you’re both cozy TOGETHER! XOXO♥
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this reminds me of Tammy’s minimalism and as I scrolled down the article, I think “lagom” linked to it… I think that is very much how I’m molding my new life right now – doing what I think I prefer…even though a family member doesn’t like where one of her “gifts” is residing. Actually what she doesn’t know is that I’m “constructing a wall along that bit – when I get down/dirty with looking for more storage units to fit along there…I don’t want terribly much in my tiny little workroom – otherwise no room to work!
and other comment, I want to make is that Sammy and Tempi don’t even realise they are practising Hygge 🙂 they just do it naturally when faced with the cold and a wonderful hot fire 🙂
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