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Life has been all over the place recently with getting back into the swing of work after holiday, trying to get my head around planning a wedding and both working really hard, we needed a day date. Saturday evenings are either chilling together watching telly or seeing friends for both of us so finding time to really have a proper date is super important with us.
You guys will know I’m trying super hard to shop less, be sustainable with my style, make eco-friendly changes around the home and generally try and be kinder to the environment and I think I’m doing my bit.
I still have so many things that I want to change and adapt too and the next thing on my list is eco-friendly cleaning products. The guys over at Pattersons have sponsored this post and provided a really cool list of three eco friendly cleaning hacks below. I mean, it’s not spring but there’s not a seasonal limit on changing up your eco friendly habits, right?
One of the hardest things about work is often being organised. It’s a skill that almost everyone claims that they have on their resume when they’re applying for jobs, but once you’re sitting behind that desk and trying to figure out everything that you have to do that day, those organisational skills that you cultivated in high school by colour coding your notes and adding post-its to the most important pages of your text books feel like a million miles away. If that sounds familiar, here are some tips on the best ways you can get it together at work.
Another money diary for you all and this on spans payday and Bank Holiday weekend! Let’s get straight into it. If you want more Money Diary fun and to read my others, click here.
Wednesday.
It’s the day before payday and our tyre decides to have a slow puncture so £7.50 for my share of the fix. At least it’s not a whole new tyre so it’s definitely not the end of the world.
If you read my blog or follow me on Instagram you’ll know that I like fashion, I’m a little bit beauty obsessed and food is up there in the top five loves of my life. But – interiors and styling up my home is my one true love!
Ever since we bought our first ‘proper’ home just over a year ago it’s been full steam ahead to make this little Victoria terrace our dream place to live. After almost 5 years of renting and looking after other people’s magnolia or white-washed walls it was time for us to release our personality into our home life. Although I think our rooms are pretty funky – they have their own themes as you walk through the house, I think I’ve created a basis of timeless style that can grow and develop with us as a couple and in the future, a family.
A year after moving into our house, our kitchen is ready to be seen by the internet! When we moved in we were dealing with a really dated kitchen, matching floor and cupboards in the same wood, a grotty sink I won’t even show you because it was so stained and broken tiles with painted wallpaper. Add on about a million wall plugs which didn’t need to be there and an 80s back door and we had the start of our project.
Well it’s been a couple of weeks! Needed a break from blogging, I’ve still been busy on Instagram but I’ve been plotting some cute new content for the coming months and I’ve taken a bit of a summer hiatus to get my mojo back. We recently had an amazing couple of days in North Yorkshire and I wanted to share some of the fun stuff we got up to as well as the amazing place that we stayed.
If you know me, you’ll know that I love an activity. You’ll more likely find me doing crazy golf, a bottomless brunch with bingo or more recently, escape rooms instead of on a big night out. I first did an escape room about three years ago and had no idea what to expect but since then I’ve done about 5 or 6 at a range of locations and I am such a fan. They’re so fun to do with friends and family and you really learn how to work together and you’ll definitely have a laugh – I guarantee it! I love the mix of themes and stories that you can get at different escape rooms. There are two at Pieminister, the Demon Barber and Germageddon!
As exciting as it can be to move house, it’s also a very stressful process. Searching for a new house is often the easy part, we all love a little Rightmove stalk, don’t we? It’s all the other aspects of the moving process that prove tricky. There are so many things to prepare before you can move out of one house and get settled in another even if you don’t own the house you’re moving from as we found last time we moved. The entire experience can prove emotionally and financially draining, but there are definitely ways to reduce the strain of the process. Let’s talk about how you could start protecting your sanity, money, and time when moving home.
Whether you’re planning a long-haul flight, a quick mini break or even just a weekend away similar to our trip to York recently, you’ll be packing a bag full of essentials. As I’ve recently been away on a long weekend over the late May Bank Holiday and I’m counting down the weeks to our summer holiday to Croatia I’ve been hoarding hotel minis and getting myself hand-luggage ready for ages.
