I’ve been a big fan of spiralized food for about a year now. Last year, in the midst of a summer health kick, we went out and bought a manual spiralizer and went through a phase of spiralizing pretty much every vegetable in the fridge. However, we soon found this set up was pretty time
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Home Decor – How to Mix Prints
I’m a big fan of prints in the home, so I’ve recently been experimenting with floral bed linen and cushions to give our bedroom a total refresh – however I’ve found it quite tricky. It’s easy for bright prints and florals to look over the top, so it’s all about finding a balance. Mixing different
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#BeautifulBloom Flower Arranging Workshop with Marks & Spencer
Since redesigning our living room, I’ve discovered just how much of a difference a beautiful bouquet of flowers can make to a room. Flowers add so much life, colour and style to any space, but I rarely do anymore than take my flowers out of the wrapper and place them in a vase with water.
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Oh I do love to live beside the seaside!
The beach is my ultimate happy place – cool, calming and tranquil. After a long day, all I need is a short stroll along the beach and my mood has lifted. As I now live right by the sea, I am lucky enough to say I am in my happy place as soon as I
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My Stuffed Tomato Recipe with Le Creuset
Do you know what makes me realise I must be a proper adult nowadays? It’s the level of excitement I felt when I was contacted by Steamer Trading to try out one of the brand new products by Le Creuset. I mean, Le Creuset! An absolute cult kitchenware product from a prestigious brand we all
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Cleaning
How to keep your house clean when you own a dog
So, I’ve been talking a lot about our house at the moment haven’t I? Did you see our Living Room Tour? Our house truly is our pride and joy at the moment but I bet you’ve been wondering how we keep it clean with a naughty black labrador running around? Especially seeing as he moults
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Finally – Our Living Room Tour!
It’s been a long time coming, but finally I’m able to show you around our living room! We have been working really hard on it for a while now and looking back to old posts, I can’t believe how much it’s changed since we moved in, you almost wouldn’t recognise it. I absolutely love having
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DIY: Planning the Living Room
If you’ve been following my blog for a while now, you’ll know that we have been renovating our little house by the sea for some time now. This sounds like a fun idea, but trust me, living in a building site is not fun at all. When you work full time things also take 100
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DIY PROJECTS: New Bathroom Update
So, you might remember from a few months ago, our whole house was turned upside down as we had a new bathroom fitted. This was a big BIG job that involved pulling down a wall, totally moving our back door and we also went without running water for a couple of weeks, which a horrific
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Cleaning
5 Spring Cleaning Tips the Konmari Way!
If you haven’t seen the hype around the book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo this Spring, where have you been? You must have been living under a rock, as it is just huge at the moment! With Spring around the corner, now is the time to turn over a new leaf and get tidying.
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Adding a personal touch to the living room
Alongside the new bathroom, we have also been renovating our living room and to make the most of the space we have. Yes, the whole house has been a building site and chaos, but it’s so worth it. We decided to get a local carpenter in to design these beautiful bespoke shelves as the space we
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5 Helpful Tips For at Home DIY
As you could probably tell from my recent posts I’m currently having some major home renovations done. A household DIY project can be a very messy and involved job and before you know it, you find you are living in a construction site. I know I was. But it doesn’t have to be a big deal, if