4 Travel Photography Tips for Amateurs

Partnered post. When you are setting off on an adventure and exploring different places, you want to capture the best moments, the moments that you can look back on for years and relive the experience. Beautiful photos are not just souvenirs, but snapshots of incredible memories that you can share with others and inspire them to make your recent adventure…

10 Tips for Keeping Busy During Isolation

Keeping busy & having a day full of activities can help make isolation easier. Check out these top 10 tips from An Post Insurance to help you & your family stay busy, while staying safe!

Freelancing: Why you need to use an invoice template

As a freelancer, you probably spend a lot of your time sending invoices, waiting for payments and chasing clients. It can be a frustrating way to work and it’s a sad fact that many companies don’t pay freelancers on time, causing lots of difficulties. A client that pays on time is a rare and welcome relief. Sending invoices can also…

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Review: Cosy Cold Weather Clothes from Protest

It’s definitely chilly now, this is my favourite time of year here on the South Coast; warm enough to head to the beach or onto the downs for a stroll without the risk of frostbite! I’ve been keeping warm on the school runs in a super warm fleece from Protest, and I tell you it is the cosiest jacket I’ve ever worn.…

Do You Need an Architect To Design a Great Home?

Most of us learn that we should always rely on professionals when we want to accomplish something with our home or anything expensive. It could be fixing up your car, building a home extension or even managing your pension. When there’s a lot of money on the line, it’s best to rely on someone that deals with it as part…

Interiors: Thrifty ways to update your Decor

Revamping your home’s interior might seem like hard work. Hour after hour spent with a paint roller in your hand might not be your idea of heaven, but updating the look of the living room, bedroom and bathroom isn’t as taxing as you think! Another myth about decorating is that it can be expensive. Forking out hundreds of pounds on…

Trainers: Comfort and Style

Time was, trainers were for the sports field, hikers, children a few people who followed retro style fashions and that was about it. Any style-savvy individual would not have been caught dead wearing trainers to a social event and certainly not a dressed up one. All that has changed now and our feet are thanking us for it! Perhaps one…

New home shopping list

With a house move on the horizon for us I’m definitely have a lot of thoughts whizzing round my head at any given time.  There are so many things that we’ll need to get sorted once we move to make our new house work for us.  Some of the main  purchases I want to plan  are… Furniture With a bigger…

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Giveaway: Win a Swizzels Sweets Hamper in time for Halloween!

This is a  paid  post in collaboration with Swizzels. Halloween may not  be the same this year in terms of staying socially distant, which will mean no Halloween parties and  probably only going trick or treating to houses   of friends and possibly at set times you don’t overlap with others! We’re thinking about inviting a few children from both classes/pods…

Interiors: Designing a dreamy child’s bedroom

When it’s time to decorate your child’s bedroom, it doesn’t have to be a choice between creating a fun room and a practical room.  Neither does it have to be creative and cool, or affordable.  It can be both. You can design the ideal bedroom and make it easy to change as they grow.  Just follow these straightforward steps. Sweet…

Present Pets – Toy Review

My  children love to watch ‘unboxing’ videos,   so a toy  that unboxes itself was definitely something I thought they’d really love. Present Pets unbox themselves  from inside the box, with noises and movement and little paw print shaped holes gradually appearing in the box until it opens up to reveal the mystery  pet!   There are Furry Pups and Fancy Pups…

Scrapbook Loves September 20

September sped past didn’t it? I think having a routine of school runs, homework and  some time to myself was actually a good thing as the days dragged a lot less.  However I’ll be pretty happy to see the back of 2020 so it won’t really bother me if the rest of the year trundles on past at the same…