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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #40
Spend some time working on your posture and consciously thinking about the way you sit and stand. This is a must for me before I turn into a creaky old lady. If you spent your weekend watching the Glastonbury Festival footage wishing you were there (hands up), start saving your pennies now for 2014 – tickets released in October this year! Pick up a gift for your little un’s favourite teacher before the Summer holidays. More on this later in…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #38
Do a little stargazing to put things into perspective. I use the Google Sky Map to name all the wee glimmers of light in the evening sky. Have a DVD on standby for those blue days, when nothing else will do. Give me Alan Partridge any day for escapism and laughter. Transfer bought biscuits to a biscuit tin for days/weeks/months when baking is off the menu. It’s Bike Week! The perfect time to get on your bike and ride…
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Inspiration: Blog Love
I’ve been reading some wonderful new (to me) blogs lately, the type where you lose an afternoon pouring through their archives – ah Sunday afternoon bliss. I’m a sucker for great photography, personal style and home inspiration, in which the following blogs all deliver. My Creative // Hilda Grahnat // Charlestown Vintage // Skunkboy Blog // PeaSoup Cardboard Cities // Nishaantishu //Secondhand Sundays // Seit What are you reading? ♥
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Lately: The Simple Things
The simple things I have been enjoying lately: picking my first daisy of the year, putting biscuits into my biscuit tin, bumble bees, feeling sunshine on my skin and lunch with friends. Cheese on toast, walking to work, our new digital radio, cappucinos and biscotti in bed, running through fields and opening nice post. Reading exciting emails, floral dresses, walking into a room scented with lilies, smelling books, and mugs of hot sweet tea. ♥ P.S If you fancy you…
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Ten True Things
Inspired by The Owl and the Accordion’s recent and brilliant blog post, Ten True Things, I’m sharing a little of my life today, including all the things that perhaps don’t look peachy on paper but nevertheless make me who I am. 1. I am annoyingly awkward. I stumble over sentences, ridiculously clumsy and inarticulate. Endearing? Nup, it’s annoying. I make up strange words, then wonder why strangers look at me oddly when they don’t have a clue what I’m on…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #25
Buy a flower press and begin feeling excited about the Spring flowers you’ll soon be picking. Pop to your local book shop and buy a travel guide for the next country you want to explore. Wear only colourful and bright clothes this week to cheer up the grey days. Look out for a post on this later in the week Plan a night out with friends and pretend you’re 18 again. Take your time to get ready, dance your socks…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #23
Avoid social networking for one day. Just one day. Make homemade popcorn and plan a movie night for yourself, your beau or friends. Buy a jewellery polish cloth and shine up your wares like any good magpie would. Refrain from gossip. It’s a waste of your time and energy. Plus it’s mean. Spend a little at your local butcher, baker, candle stick maker. Brew up and see my previous 5 Positive Things posts here ♥
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Tote of the Week: Salt Water Cure Tote Bag by Tina Crespo
“The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen Happy February, my friends. We made it through the wilderness, we made it through. So what do we have to look forward to (flicks through diary)? Pancake Day on the 12th, lighter evenings, Valentine’s Day, my Mum’s birthday (you will send a card, right?) and…we go to Australia for 3 weeks! Oh my. I’m still in disbelief that we’ll be flying across the world –…
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A Cuppa and a Chat: January 2013
Happy New Year to you all! I hope you’ve spent your holidays eating, drinking and being merry? Good, good. This is a short post before the blog gets back to business on Monday 7th January but I couldn’t resist popping by to say cooee! I adore Christmas (had you noticed?) but I have to say, as soon as January knocks on the front door, I’m welcoming it in with tea and biscuits and a bear hug. January is a hopeful…
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Festive 5: This Girl Is…
On the blog this week I’ve lined up some fantastic bloggers and friends to take part in my Festive 5 series. They’ll be asked five questions all about the season – mainly because I’m nosey like that and Christmas makes me happy! Today Lisa-Marie of This Girl Is… has popped over for a chat. 1. Where will you be spending Christmas this year? I’ll be spending Christmas day with my husband in our flat. We’ll having stockings and presents and…
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Festive 5: Siobhan Claude Van-Damme
On the blog this week I’ve lined up some fantastic bloggers and friends to take part in my Festive 5 series. They’ll be asked five questions all about the season – mainly because I’m nosey like that and Christmas makes me happy! Siobhan, over at Siobhan Claude Van-Damme has popped by today. Say hello! 1.Where will you spend Christmas this year? Up until I met M, my husband, Christmas was very much set in stone. I’d go to my parent’s…
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Festive 5: Kat got the Cream
On the blog this week I’ve lined up some fantastic bloggers and friends to take part in my Festive 5 series. They’ll be asked five questions all about the season – mainly because I’m nosey like that and Christmas makes me happy! Today we have the delightful Kathryn from Kat got the Cream. Say hello! 1. Where will you spend Christmas this year? I’ll be spending it at home with my lovely mister and our brood of three. Charlie and…