Les Poissonchats

I often think how delicious the small things tasted before this our world got so saturated with everything ready at all times. Small things baked in a kitchen at home. The smell of warm milk and yeast and dough rising in a corner of the wood fired stove. How delicious the brioches straight from the Read more

It’s the sight through a window on a wintry garden on a wintry afternoon, just about when night falls, for night falls early in winter. It’s a longing, like the song of memories heard from a distant room, faintly, raising and falling. So very nostalgic.  I love to place candles in the windows at the Read more

In the old days, you would make wreaths, because they are beautiful, and because they are a symbol of the infinite and everlasting goodness of the divine. Where I come from, people would make wreaths throughout the year and hang them on doors and entrances, to guard from evil spirits.  The advent wreath is a Read more

It’s difficult, in a world of overwhelm and too much stuff, to make meaningful gifts. And I’m not the type who likes to make promises through gifts, like a voucher for something that may or may not happen in the distant future. Therefore I insist, that everybody gets a little something, and that it’s nicely Read more

There’s something beautifully nostalgic in believing.  Believing, nowadays, has gotten a bit of a doubtful reputation, associated with being unscientific, naive and narrow minded. Which in turn is probably the reason why people are so very much obsessed with it. Believe in magic, believe in mindfulness, believe in this and that and after all believe Read more

They exist in all possible forms and colours and some are loud and some are edible and some are just super lavish and in the recent years it has become very trendy to diy them in even more lavish fashion, when the most beautiful ones are these glittery old fashioned cardboard and paper things.  The Read more