AD | I love Mother’s Day and before any bores pipe up with “you should love your Mum every day!” (honestly, take any holiday, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and you’ll hear the same sentence 4 hundred times over. We KNOW. Shut up) I do love my Mum every day but I also love […]
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#AD Ah, V Day. Are we really here again? Valentine’s Day comes around faster and faster every year it seems and just when the Valentine’s Day Gift Guide posts from the previous year have started to dwindle out, they’re back with gusto! One of my blogging goals for this year was to be more topical […]
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I thoroughly enjoyed writing up my gift guide that went live last week and having the pleasure to feature some really fab brands. The interest from brands to be featured in a gift guide was fairly high, so instead of cramming everyone into one post and risk the post being too long and people getting […]
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Christmas is a weird season. The smell of spiced, mulled wine embraces you in a thick, cosy comfort. The sparkling decorations treat you to a simple wonder. The snuggly woolly jumpers and the warming winter comfort foods come out. Everything seems designed to make you nice and calm and warm…
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I truly cannot believe that I’m sitting here, at the end of September, working on Christmas content. The fact that it’s the end of September (at the time of writing) is bad enough because where has this year gone but we all know how insanely quick Christmas comes around each year. And I don’t know […]
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My favourite thing about Christmas is buying gifts for people (which is funny because I just had a huge meltdown on Twitter about how I hate people spending money on me!) and I strive and strive and strive every year to find people the perfect present, something personal and something that will mean something to […]
Read MoreFather’s Day is literally round the corner so if you haven’t already, now is probably the time to grab some gifts for the Dad, Granddad or Father figure in your life! We’ve never really put a huge emphasis on Father’s Day in our family but I always make sure I get my Dad a few […]
Read MoreGuys, guys, GUYS… It’s August and I have my first Christmas post up. Me… the person that hates Christmas – has a Christmas post up. In August. I’m actually really surprised at myself because I’ve been thinking about Christmas more than is normal for me lately – maybe because I am just so sick of […]
Read MoreIt’s that time of year again and although I may not be the biggest Christmas enthusiast in the world, there’s one thing I do love and that’s buying gifts for loved ones. Parting with your well earned money can be difficult but I just love searching for the perfect gift for someone – something a bit […]
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AD | It’s never too early to start thinking about special occasions, in my opinion (I saw someone mention a Christmas in July related event on Twitter the other day, true story) and I love planning ahead and being organised as much as possible so when these things do roll around, you’re not left scrambling […]
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Back in October of last year, the wonderful Jasmine from Thoughts With Jasmine, created a brand new tag post for us bloggers to get our teeth stuck into. I’ve done more or less every tag under the sun over the years of having this blog but they’re not really something I do anymore but… I […]
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Here’s to strong Women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. #AD Inspirational Women are all around us. In the news, in the films we watch, the books we read and in our own homes. And today, I want to talk about them. This isn’t the typical sort of post […]
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#GIFTED I guess before I start, I’d better say… Happy New Year! I really enjoyed those 7 weeks of 2018 and truly cannot believe that we’re here, once more, saying hello to a brand new year. It’s funny, you’d think nobody understood how time worked with how shocked and appalled we all are at how […]
Read MoreI’ve done plenty of ‘blog post ideas’ posts before; Winter & Christmas, Autumn and Spring & Summer and these posts always tend to go down really well. We all struggle with blogging motivation and inspiration and sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we cannot come up with an idea for a blog post for […]
Read MoreI know a lot of people think these “what I got my Mum/Dad/boyfriend/girlfriend” type posts are braggy because we’re just showing off all the wonderful, lovely gifts we can afford to buy but I can straight up tell you that this is not the case. With me and probably not for a lot of other […]
Read MoreWe all want to be the very best like no one ever was (please tell me in the comments if you know where this line is from) and it’s super difficult to do that in blogging when there’s tens of thousands of other bloggers around you all trying to be the best too. But in […]
Read MoreSince starting my blog, I’ve been drawn in more and more by the consumer market. With products of all different types flying at you from every corner of the Internet, it’s incredibly hard to ignore. But secretly… I love it. And I’m proud to be a part of it. Over the last year, I’ve had […]
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AD | Most people strive to be as welcoming as possible in their life. You don’t judge a book by its cover and when you’re meeting new people or making friends, you look past any of your differing views to appreciate them for who they. Everyone is unique in the end (which is what makes […]
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