Over the last few months, I’ve been making a conscious effort to be more eco friendly. We have a super hectic lifestyle with the two girls so I’ve been phasing in changes gradually over time to do my bit for the environment without putting too much pressure on us too. I’ll be the first to
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Rediscovering classic Disney movies with Violet
Collaborative Post – Paid Partnership | Photography Nicola Jackson There is one thing I dreamed about before I had a baby – snuggling together on cold, rainy days and watching all the classic Disney movies together. When the girls were born, I soon found that with a newborn or small toddler this wasn’t a reality
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AD | Hosting the Perfect Dinner Party with Habitat
Post written in collaboration with Habitat | Photography Credit: Nicola Jackson As parents, finding time to socialise isn’t always easy. Gone are the carefree days where we could have nights out and date nights whenever we fancy. With two small children there is so much more to consider. Getting lost in a world of nursery
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Our First Home – the stuff I wish we knew! | AD
I’ve been a homeowner nearly 5 years now with two house sales under my belt, so it’s fair to say I’m quite experienced in the trials and tribulations of owning your own home, although I’ll be totally honest and tell you it was a STEEP learning curve at the start. We moved into our
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Our beautiful family – A Nixplay Seed Review
There is nothing I love more than scrolling back through all my photos. It’s fair to say I take a LOT (we are talking thousands) so sometimes I really can get lost down the rabbit hole of looking back through photos on my phone once the babies have gone to bed – yes, I am
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Adding personal touches to our home with MyPicture + a giveaway!
Our home renovations have been slow progress. It’s amazing to think we moved into this house over a year ago and there is still so much we want to do, however I do feel like in the last few months it’s really been taking shape. DIY and renovations around babies and toddlers can be tricky,
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A Valentines Day Treat with Mr Kipling (+ win a hamper of cakes!) #MrKiplingLoveSeason
*Post written in paid partnership with Mr Kipling When you are a Mum, cake is currency. There is not one soft play meet, play date or coffee and catch up where cake isn’t mentioned, and you know what? I am totally okay with that – cake makes any day so much brighter! It’s also fair
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Exploring Essential Oils
In the later stages of my pregnancy and in labour, one thing that got me by was the use of essential oils. Being pregnant meant I couldn’t use anything too harmful, so it seemed the ideal time to try out different essential oils for things like keeping calm, coping with the pain of labour and
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Life is Peachy: Self care, Waffles and my biggest parenting challenge yet!
I know, it’s been a LONG TIME since I wrote a ‘what we’ve been up to’ style post but I miss them! It’s so easy to get wrapped up in reviews, baby updates and now my blog is my full time job, my sponsored work too. After all, I started this blog to be my
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Simple Halloween and Bonfire Night Recipes to make with kids
Post written in paid partnership with ASDA Brighton Hollingbury Boo! ? I’m so excited that it’s nearly Halloween! I just love this time of year with Halloween, Bonfire Night, my birthday (the 14th Nov… just in case you wondered) and then Christmas! With the cold, crisp weather, the dark nights – there are so many
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Pearl’s Nursery Wishlist
It’s all systems go in our house to get Pearl’s bedroom ready! She won’t be in her own room until she’s 6 months old, but seeing as she’s nearly two months already, I’m sure it’ll be here before we know it! Especially as decorating her room as been quite slow progress with looking after two
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Planning the new baby’s nursery
With only SEVEN weeks to go until Baby Peaches #2’s arrival, it’s been all systems go when it comes to planning our new babies nursery! This has been twice as tricky as with the house move as the poor little bubs room has been full of boxes since we moved in April (everyone has a