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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A homemade advent calendar

If you have followed me for a while you know that each year I make the kids a homemade advent calendar. It can be tiny wrapped gifts on a tree branch or like this year, a house in fabric and felt! I did not come up with the idea myself, I actually saw it online […]

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Last day of november

This afternoon we went out to buy some Christmas flowers Alva and I, hyacinths are a must for me, and a last minute solution for the advent calendar for the boys. We decided to do a homemade one as usual. We buy a Lego, count all the pieces and divide them into 24 piles that […]

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Decorating the tree

We decided to make the tree on a Wednesday this year, when the boys didn’t have school, to have the whole day to decorate. Mathieu couldn’t be there since he worked but I put up the tripod and took plenty of pictures to send him so he could be in on the fun! The kids […]

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December days

We are preparing Christmas in a slow paste in our home with Swedish traditional occupations, putting cloves into oranges or making felt gnomes and paper stars. I wish to create the same, or even better, childhood memories that I was given and it’s mostly about smell and taste. Like the wonderful smell of jacinthes or […]

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