The 8th of April Ikea is releasing their new collection “Industriell” in corporation with the Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek. It’s all about ‘making objects feel more human and more personal while still having an industrial production process’. I think it sounds really interesting even though I’m all about shop handmade, local and second hand. But sometimes I […]
Hey you all! It’s Christmas tomorrow! Where did December go? It went by so fast and still we have really enjoyed every day and done thing in a slow paste… oh well, too bad for the blogging but at least we lived it 100% :) I still took pictures though, plenty for the family album […]
Yesterday it was St Lucia in Sweden and it’s a tradition that I want my kids to grow up with as well. So Alva and I got up early to watch the celebrations on Swedish tv (thank you internet) and tried to sing along with the children. She was mesmerized I can tell you! And so […]
This is a book I got for Alva for the first of advent, it’s a classic Swedish children’s Christmas song made in to a book and there’s a whole series of them. It reminds me so much of my childhood and when I saw it in a toy store in Stockholm I just had to […]
Monday mornings are slow going the weeks we don’t have the kids. Mathieu is off to work at 7:45 and he goes up so quietly and gives us a kiss and we go back for sleep an hour. Somehow Alva is always hungry around 7 and then want to sleep some more. So I go […]