I borrowed from the public library in Savonlinna the book Tontun vuosi (= the year of a gnome) 6th of September 2018 and read it or most of it. The next day I read the rest of it and wrote a comment about it to my Finnish blog, which is now 7 years ago. And later that month I translated that comment to English, and got stuck to writing about that subject.
These texts include, among other texts,
Skills of Christmas gnomes (9 books),
Wisdom of life for Christmas elves (3 booklets),
A sorcerer (3 booklets),
Christmas angels (around oneself in the living environment) (1booklet, 3 editions)
Paradise theory (kind of academical in style, thick book)
Feelings, rationality and moral for computers (academical + short stories about feeling robots)
And other texts, including weather skills and miracle healing advice attempts, also about space travel,
See www.amazon.com/author/khtervola
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6th of September 2025 Of the shoes of the dolls/statues in the cover of the book Finnish elves.
The fully wooden shoes get easily wet and cannot be used in above zero C. Those also get easily dirty if the ground isn't snowy, and as dirty those do not stay warm under the feet.
The leather boots are thin and would need thick socks to keep warm. Their tendency to get into folds at the ankles typicslly makes them unusable, just a historical example. I guess that this has been solved by leather in tve lowes part plus long woolen parts witj narrow leather sewn from ankle to knee. Then one can have the bottom of the boot come somewhat more forward so that if it is below 0C, one can fasten old-fashioned skis to it. With thick socks inside it ought to be nice and warm, work well in skiing leisurely.
Ordinary shoes of nowadays work well locally whdre bought.
The warmth of a coat depends on how windproof it is. And on how much warm air ia ibside it, and so surprisingly a net lije shirt with a loose quite stiff windproof coat can br very warm.
Woolen and largely wooden clothes need to be taken of immediately if you sweat or otherwise are too warm, was it above 30C? Because wool shrinks in warm or hot, just spoils the clothes, making them unusable, was it half the size, or maybe it depends on the type of wool, but dangerous anyway.
7th of September 2025
Of the red Christmas gnome or elf hat, I do not quite know how is it's use restricted. It is clearly for calming down to Christmas preparatipns and Christmas celebration. The form of the hatis largely what is easy to sew. So the hat is latgely for indoors use when one wants a very Christmas themed time for oneself.
For outdoors use one needs a thicker fabric, typically wooden and without a so long sharp tail. Instead one has kind of blunt tip with a ball of woolen threads. One needs two paper rings and red threadgoes around them like a spiral many times. Then one thread goes around betseen thw two spirals and one makes a knot in it and with scissors cuts all other threadsat the outer edge of the paper circles, and so one can tidy the threads to a ball and fasten it to an ordinary wlolen winter hat.
Or ona can have over cartong thread back and forth, slip with needle one thread trouch in them, and this is for fasyening the bunch. And maybe a cm from that tied from putside the threafs to a bunch, and cut the bunch of threads at the other end of them, and get sosmall bell like bunch for decoration, for example four such at the upper corners of a winter hst.
The fabric's edge is two straight lines from the center of a circle plus the edge of the circle between them. You can measure the width by thread or by palm width or from an ok hat of yours, but leave a little more space to be comfortable with it. Cotton fabric, red, Christmas style. One can have s furry edge in it, for example furry white edge. Just sew the two straight lines together. And possibly fold the round edge and sew it neatly to get a right size for the hat. At the tip in sewing thread it is customary to have a small jingle bell, but all hats do not have such since the sound may be dangerous.
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8th of September 2025 Of what many of my blogs offer, see https://learntalents.blogspot.com/2023/01/christmas-gnome-internet-institute.html
