Gift Wrapping

This Christmas almost all our gifts will be bought second hand. Toys and books are so easy to find online, some of the board games we bought are never even opened. But this little gem is on top of all. It’s a photographed Moomin story built in miniatures and then put into a book. I […]

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All about books

There is one thing that Alva is into right now and that is reading books. Books, books, books. Without reading a single word of course but looking at, turning pages and inspecting each and every image into it’s last detail. My wonderfully lovely kid! Today she brought some water and cashew nuts and just lay […]

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Bunny Roo, I love you

  I love books and especially when they are little extra beautiful. Like this cutie by Melissa Marr och Teagan White, Bunny Roo I love you. An incredible cute illustrated book for Alva about what a mom does when her baby comes into the world. I try to buy books second hand but when it comes to english […]

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Duo dresses – sewing patterns

  After five years of being a boys mama I can go a bit crazy sometimes with the real “girl stuff” and the mum – daughter dresses is one of them! But instead of buying some I’d like to try and sew them myself and I thought I would share the patterns I found with […]

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Staying out (in) of the heat and sketching rompers

  Yesterday was one of those hot and sticky days when the most appealing thing is to stay in and do nothing. So that’s what we did Alva and me, absolutely nothing. Mathieu was at work and the brothers in school so we put on the AC, poured up some lemonade and put on a […]

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