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DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 2nd December 2024

DIY Christmas Crafts: Baked Orange Garland

The scent of these baked oranges are up there with freshly cut grass, baked bread and chai latte, for me. A Christmas craft that’s ridiculously easy to do and one I do year after year...

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 19th November 2024

Birthday Pottery Class: I made a Clay Ceiling Pendant

As I get older, the things I want to do to celebrate my birthday are getting more like a refined children’s birthday party and I not only love this for myself but for those who...

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 17th October 2023

An Easy Peasy Way to Create Your Own Colour Palettes in Canva

It's something that's spanned my life, this love of colour. I'd collect paint charts as a kid, create mood boards from the Argos Catalogue and sort my large collection of Crayola Crayons into colour order in the fancy schmancy crayon holder I had. Since then, I've pulled together colour palettes for book covers, products, mood boards for DIY and 'just for fun' and I want to show you how you can do so too.

The 4 Books That Shaped My Professional Life

If you're an avid reader like me, there'll have been so many books that they begin to merge and mesh. It's a magical thing when you read a book, and it not only stands out and sticks with you, but it changes your entire trajectory. That's what these four books did for me - they shaped my professional life in ways I couldn't have imagined.

Writing ➤ 14th November 2023

These 5 Books Will Help You Become A Better Fiction Writer

There's a lot of learning by osmosis that comes with being a fiction writer who reads a ton of fiction books. An innate understanding of the flow and rhythm and twists and turns within the stories of new and old.

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 5th October 2023

Recording Your Own Affirmation Track Is A Really Good Idea

A buck-ton of science backs up why and how affirmations work. The trouble I’ve always found is that they feel a bit disingenuous when I listen to them. When I read already-written ones aloud, they’re...

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 9th October 2024

10 CHRISTMASSY colour palettes for you

Creating colour palettes brings me so much unbridled joy. Here are 10 Christmassy colour palettes for you to feast your eyes on and use in your festive projects.

DIY Projects + Crafts ➤ 6th December 2024

My ‘With A Little Something-Something’ Christmas Cranberry Sauce

This cranberry sauce recipe of mine has stood the test of time. Born out of a Christmas where we made hampers as gifts and had some vodka and Cointreau lying about. As I was making...

Everything Else ➤ 25th September 2023

A Really Useful Guide To Getting Your Style Mojo Back At Any Age

As I was approaching my forties, it occurred to me that I wasn't really inspired by what greeted me as I opened my wardrobe doors. Nothing felt as though it 'fit' who I was at that stage in my life. I'd lost my style mojo. The good news? I got it back and I'm going to share how I did it.

Writing ➤ 13th April 2023

Never Run Out of Ideas: 5 Simple Strategies for Consistent Blog Content

Keeping a blog's editorial calendar padded out with content that's relevant, fresh, interesting, helpful, and engaging is a continual work in progress. Here are 5 really simple tried and tested ways to come up with enough ideas to fill an editorial calendar with content we can be proud of.

Everything Else ➤ 13th December 2023

How To Choose Your ‘Word Of The Year’

Last week I shared what my word of 2023 was and how staying committed to it changed a great deal in my life. It was the first time I'd ever made a beginning-of-the-year intention and stuck with it. I could fill reams of paper with the New Year's Resolutions I wrote over the years (since I was a teeneager!) and promptly forgot or put down.

Everything Else ➤ 5th January 2024

How We Handle Eczema Flare-Ups In Our House

Writing about Eczema might seem like a complete u-turn in the content I ordinarily write but my blogging roots are in a) health and beauty (hello, Beach Bum Beauty Blog circa 2009), and, b) writing about what I've gone through (hello, The Blurt Foundation 2011 - 2022) first-hand or through parenting. So, Eczema, then. Eczema is a skin condition which can cause inflammation in the skin, making it sore, itchy, and dry.

Writing ➤ 7th October 2024

What It’s Like To Write Under A Pen Name

My sixth book (I can't believe it!) is making its way into the wilds next year, and you won't know it's been written by me. You see, I wrote this book under a pen name because it was a writing commission and a slight departure from my other titles.

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