Swedish easter twigs

Hi there and happy Easter to you all! We’ve been decorating the house, making Easter twigs chickens and eggs. It’s a Swedish tradition I absolutely love and I grew up with those twigs filled with colorful feathers and hand painted eggs. You cut some budding twigs, put them in water and decorate with Easter fun! […]

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Sunday summary

Right now the boys are out for a bike ride so I have some time for myself and to blog. We have sunshine and fresh spring weather here and with the summertime change I think they will stay out until 7. I just have to show you what I grabbed yesterday. We went to Ikea […]

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Craft with kids: tree

You remember I said Viggo stayed home from school almost the whole week last week? Well, with a sick kid the days get very long if you haven’t prepared some good ol’ workshop in mama style! Fortunately I had so we decided to try one that I bought from Apli and make a Christmas tree. Now, this was a good […]

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Jolly first advent!

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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Kids craft: painting boxes

The 2 days of rain & thunderstorms and closed school last week had us stay inside for 48 hours without spending one single minute outside. That can be a bit tricky (read hair pulling crazy) when you have two boys of 4 1/2 and almost 6… But, I had fortunately bought some craft stuff the week before […]

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