The mood has been grey around here lately, but this morning we were blessed with an unusually sunny and beautifully clear morning. It was ...

Exactly a week ago I did something with my back, nothing much, I hardly remember the specific thing, but the result was days of almost craw...

My friend spent New Years in Japan and came back with a bag full of the loveliest origami papers for me. To me that is almost better than...

Yup, this is me - wrinkles and bad dye job and all. The thing is, that my son woke me up with a hair brush this morning, and insisted - as ...

I run this blog where I write about small matters of everyday aesthetics and share my mundane thoughts on these. I almost never write about...

Today, January 6th, is traditionally the last day for Christmas trees, elves and tinsel. We haven't quite gotten rid of all of it, but ...

It's the last day of the year, and I am making very rich chocolate-pecan pie and vacuum cleaning everywhere, in honor of our guests, ar...

Remember the advent gift wrap? It has been a great hit with my son - and I hope some of you out there have used it as well. We have...

The last four days have been non stop activities and driving around for visits and shopping, but now all we need to do is trim the tree and...

We usually have a kind of party where we invite quite a lot of people over for Christmas paper crafting and general munching and beer / ho...