By Emma It is drizzling. I am glaring out my window, streaked with faint raindrops, and I am feeling dissatisfied. I am, as many of you already know, a gardener by day and therefore rain doesn’t tend to bother me much, and besides which, it is good for the plants. [...]

By Dee I’ve never been much of a cook, and what’s worse, I’m even less of a planner. Naturally, this did not bode well for me when I found myself at home with a baby, a kitchen full of my husband’s indiscernible chef knickknacks, and not a lot of money [...]

By Dee A couple of weeks ago, Emma wrote a great piece about shopping the previous season’s sale racks at the local boutiques. Here at mamma k we love to support local merchants and encourage investing in quality pieces over ‘fast fashion’ (for more about this, check out a great [...]

By Emma Dee’s husband, D’Arcy Ladret, is a pastry chef, which is ironic because Dee doesn’t have much of a sweet tooth. Despite this contrarian attitude of hers, however, D’Arcy still managed to woo her. During this courtship, D’Arcy was operating his own special-order bakery, called Sugarboy, in a miniscule [...]

  By Dee Let’s face it, even happy lives get dull when nothing different ever happens. That’s why when I’m feeling restless or irritated, I know it must be time for a mini-break. Whenever I use the term “mini-break” I think about poor Bridget Jones. Lumpy and mortified at the [...]

By Emma Like many women out there, we at Mamma Kärlek dream of being able to step out of our doors with salon-perfect hair styles. Speaking for myself, I tend to focus a lot of my attention on other women’s hair styling and I’m not ashamed to say that gorgeous [...]

By Emma I have been cooking, in a real sense, since I was about fourteen years old. I say ‘real sense’ because like so many I dabbled as a child, but I don’t think that really counts somehow. I was first taught to cook by my mother, but a few [...]