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Style: Festival Season
Meet fresh faced (and much younger) 27-year-old Lisa at Glastonbury Festival, three years before this blogging malarkey began. Alongside New York and Hebden Bridge, where I’m fortunate to live, Glastonbury Festival is the one place on this planet that makes me feel care-free, happy and myself. So, as you can imagine, I was gutted not to get tickets for this year’s festival. Gutted. I know there are other events to go to, but Glastonbury is the only festival I’m happy…
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Feeling Crafty: 10 Summer DIY’s
I apologise if I’m about to add a whole heap of awesome DIY’s to your Pinterest boards, but there are some clever folk out there that deserve some summer love. Refreshing Face Mist via Design Love Fest// DIY Clay Bead Necklace via The Crafted Life I dont know about you, but I mainly make things by hand for gifts or for our home; not really for myself. So I thought I’d start with a couple of projects that you can make…
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Style: Wedding Outfits
I suffer from major guilt pangs. Namely when I eat two slices of cake, use my OH’s razor or when purchasing a new outfit for a wedding. I’m not comfortable spending pennies on a new dress I will only wear once or twice when I could be spending it on holidays and good food (or perhaps my own razor!). I’ll happily wear something I already own but for some reason everything in my wardrobe suddenly becomes thoroughly unsuitable when choosing the…
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At Home: 6 Beautiful Throws
There are many benefits that come with owning a leather sofa; being able to wipe it clean easily (I’m a tea spiller), seeing and feeling it age (I’m a fan of folds and creases), having a piece of furniture with longevity, and it being cool in the Summer and warm in the Winter. Having said that, over the past few very hot weeks we have had a throw or two on hand to stop ourselves sticking to it. If you’re thinking,…
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Outfit: A Casual Summer Evening
My pale (now freckled) skin can’t take much of the sunshine during the day so I’m much happier at night pottering around in the evening sun in casual attire. Our evenings have been made up of trips to the pub for a pint and a half, chasing blue bottle flies around the house (I need the windows open!), watering plants whilst listening to music and prancing around in my new red chinos and delicious black brogues from Bonprix. Yup, I may have pretended…
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Elderflower Popsicles and a Giveaway!
Over the Bank Holiday weekend we had the chance to enjoy the sunshine and all its benefits – namely eating outside and chomping on popsicles (I much prefer the American description to our British ‘ice lollies’). I came across a Blackcurrant and Cox Apple Lolly recipe after receiving a couple of Belvoir Cordials to try out. Instead, as I’m a bit obsessed with the stuff, I thought I’d make some Elderflower Popsicles. They are exactly as I imagined – refreshing, easy to make and relatively cheap…
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Style: Spring/Summer Basics
Since returning home from Australia, I’ve been wearing colourful clobber to cheer my mood and remind me of days filled with sunshine. Ah, sweet sunshine. I’d love to overhaul my wardrobe completely (who wouldn’t?) and fill it with cobalt blues, poppy reds and mustard yellows, alas our savings aren’t as healthy as they once were after 3 fun-filled weeks down under. So I thought I’d do the next best thing and compile a wish list of key Spring pieces that…
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Tote of the Week: Large Yellow Shopper via Zara
Big yellow bag alert! Add a little sunshine to your day with the Zara shopper for £19.99. Begging to be bought for Spring and paired with cropped trousers and a striped tee, it’s a real beauty indeed. It’s also available in taupe or black, if you don’t fancy a tote that resembles the sun! ♥
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Summer Style: Down Under
I’ve been exploring an array of Australian fashion/lifestyle blogs over the past few months. Firstly, to remind myself that our holiday in the sunshine is near (hums Here Comes The Sun daily) and also to give a helping hand as to what to wear whilst I’m out there. Relaxed tees, rolled up shorts, big totes and comfy pumps seem to be the general consensus, which is perfectly fine by me. Happy sigh. Along my blog travels, I’ve stumbled across a…
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Style: Top 10 Dresses With Pockets
Occasionally I live vicariously through this blog, which isn’t a bad thing. Simply blogging about a pretty polka dot skater dress and a pair of Oxford brogues can keep me sailing through the broke/unglamorous month of January happily – hence this post. All of my free time is currently made up of dog walking and staying indoors so I’ve been living my January days in leggings, baggy jumpers and walking boots – unkempt, shall we say? Therefore I believe it’s perfectly…
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The Humble Knit
As we are being cheated out of our Great British Summer this year, I think it quite appropriate for us to regain some Winter benefits. I’m talking about cosy knitwear, comfort food served in bowls, fragrant mulled wine, crackling open fires & dare I even mention Christmas – we are over halfway, y’know? All the things that we love about Winter that make us forget about the horrible weather is exactly what I need right now. Of course, I would…
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Tote of the week: Pure cotton striped shopper
Audrey Hepburn once said “I believe in pink” and I quite agree. I didn’t always believe in pink. So many pink gifts, courtesy of my Nan, were returned to be replaced by something black, plain and trouser-shaped. She got me all wrong as a youth but I got there in the end and am now very happy to don pinkness in all its glory – ah she’d be proud! Today’s tote would add a certain type of elegance and a…