What Wardrobe Updates Are You Due?!

Disclosure: This is a collaborative post. Your wardrobe is something you should consider to be your pride and joy. Now, you’re either going to be someone who can say that that is so true, or you’re someone who has never really been bothered by what they’re wearing, or what they look like. But when it comes to your wardrobe, we truly believe that it’s a time for you to be able to express yourself. You can feel good about leaving the house, it hugely helps with body confidence, and you can’t help but feel a little bit sassy when you…

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Alternative Easter Gifts for Under £15

It’s a tale of two Easters in our house, whilst my youngest son loves chocolate and is more than happy with as many eggs as he can get my 7 year old still hates the stuff. This means at Easter time I need to get a little creative in what to get him from the Easter Bunny. For us Easter is not a time to spend lots of money on presents, our focus is always on spending quality time with our friends and family but we do like to have an Egg Hunt in the garden on Easter Sunday and…

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The Most Romantic Time Of The Year

Christmas is a really special time of year for our family, it’s where we all began. On a very cold, icy Christmas Eve back in 1995 a shy, slightly awkward 17 year old boy sent his best mate over to tell a 16 year old girl he liked her….and the rest is history. That’s not to say it’s all been plain sailing, And I had to wait, and wait, and wait before my husband eventually put a ring on it.  Every Christmas I would hope there would be an extra special present under the tree.  It seemed fitting, we met…

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My Wardrobe Basics from the January Sales

I’m a bit of a sucker for a sale, I begrudge paying full price for anything so this time of year has me quite excited.  As the thought of hitting overcrowded shops with two little boys brings me out in a cold sweat I find myself doing most of my sales shopping online (mostly in bed with a cup of tea in hand). I’ve learnt from past mistakes, so many past mistakes, not to go for high fashion items in the sales.  They are usually out of fashion before I’ve taken the labels off them and even if they’re not…

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Five Under £5 – April

I’ve loved reading these posts by Julia at Rainbeaubelle and other bloggers for the past couple of months so I made a little promise to myself that I would try to join in.  I have to admit I completely forgot about it until I saw a couple of posts pop up and when I thought about it I did have a few things that I could include in a post so here goes. I’m not too sure if this first one is cheating as technically it isn’t under £5, but a fiver exactly!  O spotted them in Marks and Spencers…

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