It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. I thought maternity leave was meant to be restful, but it certainly hasn’t been so far! Clearly, I don’t know how to stop as it’s just been go, go, go since the day I stopped working. We even had a harebrained idea to put our house on the
Brighton
Review: The Body Fuel Cafe Hove
Although I love my sweet treats – from towering hot chocolate with cream to endless bags of mini-eggs, when it comes down to it I’m quite conscious of nutrition and eat healthily most of the time. I also think being pregnant gives you another perspective on food – with every mouthful of food I’m feeding
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Baby
Pregnancy: Weeks 34-38 – The Countdown is officially on!
Eek, as I write this I’ll be 38+3 – where has the time gone?! I can’t our due date is in just 11 days time – if we make it that far, that is! These last few weeks have been a rollercoaster (as most of pregnancy is) so here is our latest update, and potentially
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life
Valentines Day Gift Guide 2017
We don’t really ‘do‘ Valentines Day in our house – we never really have as it’s just not our thing. However, as the days count down before Baby Peaches arrival, it’s got me in the mood to celebrate our last Valentines Day together as a couple, before we become a little family. We aren’t exchanging
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Brighton
A Hidden Gem: Team Domenica Brighton
Aaah, maternity leave, you lovely thing! I am absolutely loving all this extra freedom and have been making the most of it by catching up with as many friends as possible, making it my mission to scour Brighton for the very best hidden gem cafes for those all important coffee mornings to come! I expect I’ll
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Seven major expected fashion trends in 2017
Striking trends emerged at the recent Spring Summer 2017 fashion shows. Read on to find out how to be fashion forward in 2017. Perhaps most significant of all was the influence of men’s tailoring in both the men and women’s catwalk shows. Pale and interesting Pale and interesting is the name of the game in
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Beauty
7 Time-Saving Beauty Products
Everyone keeps telling me ‘when you have a baby, you won’t have time for makeup‘ some Mums even say they don’t have enough time in the day for a shower! Eek! I know this sounds terribly vain, but if I’m totally honest – whether I’m rushed off my feet or not, I just wouldn’t feel
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Brighton
Review: SkyFall Restaurant Hove
As we are ticking down the days until Baby Peaches arrival, cramming in those last date nights together are so important. So, after my last day at work and to celebrate the start of my maternity leave, we headed over to Hove to SkyFall restaurant for maybe our last date night together as just us. SkyFall
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Baby
My Maternity Leave Bucket List
WAHOO! I’m officially now on Maternity Leave! So far – it feels so bizarre, I’ve never had so much time off in the whole of my adult life, so a year off just feels crazy! It’s only my first day but I already feel like this is quite a surreal time, where I don’t have
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Baby
Our Baby Shower
I’m sure you will have seen my excited Instagrams, Tweets and maybe even heard my squeals from where you are, but last weekend we had our Baby Shower and I was VERY EXCITED! So excited, I ended up getting completely ready with hair and makeup done, 2 hours too early and just twiddled my thumbs
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Motherhood
My Birth Plan
My Birth Plan – a complicated, personal subject. Possibly even a pointless subject – Can you really predict the birth you are going to have? Everyone keeps telling me that birth plans go out of the window and not to bother – but my logic is, if you don’t have an idea of what you
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Baby
That Pregnancy Glow
One thing that has really boosted my spirits through this pregnancy is all the lovely compliments that have received along the way from the people around me. Everyone keeps saying I’m glowing, radiant and full of life and it gives me such a boost as trust me, I don’t feel like it all the time!