Slowly preparing the move

4 Apr 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

Now it’s exactly one more month to go before we move and we have already begun filling some moving boxes. The kids packed their games and puzzles last weekend while Alva and me did some sorting in all our hobby stuff. We have quite a lot of it, actually a whole cupboard filled. But […]

Jolly first advent!

27 Nov 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Hello Sunday and first advent! I love to light the first candle, it puts me in a such a Christmas mood. Here in France they don’t do this and each year I make our own “Adventsljusstake” candle holder to keep up the Swedish tradition and make the same childhood memories for our kids as I have of […]

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I'm Åsa, a Swedish girl born in -79, who ended up in the south of France. This is the place where a share my ideas on sewing for the whole family, carpentry, decoration, photography, DIYing, gardening, french thrifting and so on. I like to paint and scrapbook too. I'm the mama in our blended family to my son Viggo (7), my bonus son Gaétan (8) and our daughter Alva (2). I met the man of my dreams and we decided to start over together and share this ordinarily extraordinary thing that is called life. Hope you'll enjoy the read!