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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #70
Bake with someone. Making things is awesome; making with other people is great! Go ten pin bowling with friends. Buy someone a takeaway coffee without asking them. Look through your Summer photos and start thinking of days filled with sunshine. Eat your tea at the kitchen table as often as you can. Or if you don’t have one, like us, make an effort to turn the TV off and play music instead. Brew up and see my previous 5 Positive Things posts here.…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #69
If you live near a beach (lucky, lucky you), go collect seashells with friends. Pick yourself up a bright, jolly and sturdy umbrella to make these wet and grey days that little bit happier. Sort through your spice rack and get rid of anything out of date. Ask information about your family history from the eldest member (preferably female) and begin researching your family tree. Research some seasonal recipes. Go crazy with beetroot, kale and leeks! Brew up and see my…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #68
Read through these cheaper alternatives to fancy-pants posh ingredients from A Girl Called Jack. Love her ideas! Buy Baby’s Breath (Gypsophila) to pop around the house. Perfect for an inexpensive Winter pick-me-up. Organise your home with these brilliant ideas from Design Sponge. Buy a travel guide for your next holiday adventure. Check out your library too! Receive soap for Christmas, but you prefer hand wash? Pop them in your drawers or wardrobe to make them smell nice. Tumble dryer sheets are…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #66
Pop a note in the pocket of your favourite person and let them know how awesome they are. Or text someone you love to brighten up their early morning. Find Jenga. Play Jenga. Sort out your bookshelves. Any books you think someone you know would like? Leave a little note in the front cover and pop through their letterbox, post in the mail or leave on a train (unexpected gifts are the best). Sit with a hot drink outside (when…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #64
Spend an hour or two looking through old photographs one night this week. Check your rubbish/recycling collection times for the Christmas period and recycle anything you can in advance. Tip – give old magazines to friends/family for them to read over the festive break. Look after each other this week; make people extra cups of tea, smile, and be nice. Have a sort out of your fridge and get rid of anything past its best. Treat yourself to a fancy…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #63
Find out where your nearest carol service is, or go caroling yourself. It’s uplifting! Buy plain wrapping paper this year (brown kraft paper from the post office is cheap) and decorate with things you have at home; ribbons, fabric scraps, buttons…get creative! You’ll save a few pennies AND tidy up your knick-knacks too. Give the people you love extra hugs and attention this month. It can be a very stressful month for busy-bees. Try fruit tea for a daily detox. I…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #62
Make someone smile today and remind them of a funny story/moment you’ve shared together. Polish your leather shoes and boots and make them weather proof. Winter is here! Go Christmas foraging for holly, berries, twigs and pine cones to decorate your home. Print off photographs of your family and friends from this year, then frame them as gifts. Or give second hand Christmas gifts this year – read this Oxfam blog post for more charity shop ideas. Brew up…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #61
Oh Squirrel Message Tags Find a photo booth, grab your favourite person then get your picture taken to mark 2013. There’s something pretty nostalgic about getting your photograph taken in a booth. Find your perfect 2014 diary then add to your Christmas list. Update your music playlist to something chipper and mood lifting for the cold winter mornings. Rehome, gift or recycle one carrier bag of ‘bits and bobs’ you no longer need or want in your home. Do this every…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #60
Check/update your family and friends addresses ready for writing christmas cards. Hold hands more often with your partner, even when just sat on the sofa. Plan a trip to a local Christmas market. Dig out your slow cooker and start researching tasty slow cooked meals (if you haven’t already). Treat yourself to box of chocolates. Not a bar. A whole box. Brew up and see my previous 5 Positive Things posts here. Happy Monday! ♥
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #59
Wear your poppy with big beaming pride today. Start saving any parcel packaging you receive over the next month and recycle it for posting gifts for Christmas. Change your screen saver on your mobile to something that makes you happy. Stock up on Winter medicines for your first aid box. Mmm, cough medicine. Help me! We will be looking after, and possibly rehoming, a puppy Beagle very soon. I need puppy advice and links to helpful websites; mission puppy begins now!…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #58
Go for an evening walk with your favourite person. Take sparklers and a flask. Visit National Theatre Live and find the nearest live performance at a cinema near you. We watched a recording of Frankenstein starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller, and we loved it. Coriolanus next! Wash any scarves and hats in your home; they’re going to be your new best friends over the coming months. Sprinkle a little essential oil on your radiators. Begin your week by…
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5 Positive Things To Do This Week #57
When you leave your home, pick up a piece of fruit on your way out of the door. Don’t put it in your bag to snack on later. Eat it while you walk to the bus stop/car/train station. Plan a pumpkin carving night for one day this week. Add music, hot mulled wine and gingerbread biscuits. Check out Pinterest for recipe and carving inspiration. Don’t rush your lunch. Eat something hot, that you can eat at the right pace. Hurrah…