Since summer ended I have been managing (just about) with a capsule wardrobe. I found it so much easier to think about and plan autumnal outfits and feel like 6 months is a decent amount of time to try and make it work – and it does I think! I moved everything that I wanted into my wardrobe and hung it up – including T shirts that would normally live folded in a drawer. My current capsule wardrobe consists of:
Italy has so much to offer as a holiday destination from the long Mediterranean coast line to the historic cities. I think I could happily plan a holiday a year there for the next five years! But for now here are the areas that are top of my list. The first is Venice purely because it is so unique. The…
I’m pretty pleased that last weeks few days of warm sunshine were a bit of a blip and that we’re back to the normal late winter weather of showers and overcast skies because it feels right for this time of year! As a family we get out and about whatever the weather, pretty much because if we waited for warm…
I think trying to be more eco-friendly is on so many people’s minds at the moment and rightly so. Brands and businesses are sharing how they’re being more sustainable, with many trying to change their packaging as well as their products. There are so many ways that we can all start to make little changes around the home and in…
Image source No matter how big or small our home is, we always want to make the most of every inch of it and create a paradise which we can enjoy for ourselves when we come back from a day at the office. The bathroom is a part of the house which will always be one of luxury and…
Our family photos were taken at the weekend, and although the two may look the same they are slightly different! The originals are a lot wonkier because we had to use a pile of logs to balance the camera on but I like them and they remind me of a lovely family day out. This month I have been…
February is finally over! Even though it’s the shortest month it always seems to drag a bit for me! I though we’d done a whole lot of nothing but actually we’ve been pretty busy really! Here’s my monthly round up of what I’ve done/read/seen etc! Read I read seven books in February. Three of them had a definite ‘theme’…
Okay, Half term being no fun at all might be a little dramatic but I do feel like I’ve let the kids down a fair bit this half term as I was ill for a few days and in bed and then since then have just got so tired really easily and needed a few nana-naps. I think all the…
So this post is more than a little late but I got really unwell on the day it was meant to go up (the 15th of each month) and of course I wasn’t organised enough to have it scheduled in advance! Athena was actually about to grab a handful of Arlo’s hair in the photo above, which was pretty…
If you ask anyone to name the most important piece of jewellery you can bet your bottom dollar that everybody will say ‘the wedding ring’. There is no piece of jewellery that is more symbolic and more special than this. It carries so much love and so much promise. It represents the relationship between you and your partner and the…
Just a little post to explain the silence over here really. I’ve lost the last four days to flu and it’s been miserable. Especially as it coincided with the start of the kids half term, and our lovely lazy day and then weekend of fun was halted by me not being able to get out of bed, though they had…
We live on the South Coast and in fact I have done pretty much all my life but there are still so many towns I’ve not really explored with the kids, or at all in some cases! This year I want to take a few more day trips with them by train, we live right next to a station and…