Back to school-dress!

2 Sep 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

In Sweden we have for tradition to dress up both for the end of the school year and the beginning of it. Even if Alva isn’t starting until next year and we live in France I still wanted to make her a special outfit for today when her older brothers are going back to school. […]

Duo dresses – sewing patterns

11 Jul 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

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 […]

Staying out (in) of the heat and sketching rompers

6 Jul 2018.Reading time 3 minutes.

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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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!