Les Poissonchats

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

There is a lot to be said about baking cookies where I come from. And I really mean a lot. There’s venerable ladies and fearless gents who spend days and days and days and some also nights and nights and nights by the oven baking up the most impossible cookies, ever delicious Christmas cookies, and… Read more

For years now I have been making much decorum about The Christmas Shopping. Especially nowadays, when so much is delivered to your doorstep, and I count among those who are really glad that so much is available through the web, but Christmas Shopping, this is a tradition and must be done by venturing out to… Read more

Snowflake gazing.  Ironically, the time historically meant for retrospection and contemplation, when all the work of the year was done, and the nights long and the days short, and ever so cold, and when you were meant to sit around the fire all day and tell stories and feed off of the fat summer months,… Read more

Nostalgia /nɒˈstaldʒ(i)ə/ A wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition.  Do you remember the scent of burnt cinnamon and apple caramel? Woodsmoke and the cold metallic smell of an icy winter’s night. The texture of the air when you enter the candlelit parlour. Walking on crumpled… Read more