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5 Reasons to Buy Antique Jewellery*
This piece is an #AD in collaboration with Carus Jewellery. I don’t know about you but I’ve always been a sucker for anything vintage and antique, especially if I know there is a story behind it. It just feels more special than something bought new in a store these days. Probably to do with the fact that it feels like we’re living in such a consumer world, that walking into a store and swiping your credit card is the done thing! But with something vintage or antique, you know when it was originally sold and purchased it wasn’t as easy, and more so, you know that there would be fewer…
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Tackle The Smell of Smoke in Your House, With These Simple Ideas*
Do you reach for the room spray when you’ve got visitors coming? Are you conscious of the smell coming from your clothes and your fabrics? Or are you trying to quit smoking and you want to start afresh (literally)? There’s nothing more off-putting than the smell of stale cigarette smoke. And frustratingly, cigarette smoke embeds itself in your soft furnishings, your walls, your air filters and even into your carpets and floors, making the smell difficult to mask. However, the best solution for getting rid of cigarette smoke is to remove the smell, rather than just mask it. Need a little more advice? Here we’ll look at how you can…
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How to Make Your Home More Dog Friendly*
People who have dogs will easily be able to agree that we love our dogs unconditionally. We would do anything for them to make sure that they stay fit, healthy, and happy. If you’ve never had a dog before, then you might not realise how much a dog can mean to a person, but they basically become part of a person’s family – they are that important. But when it comes to getting a new dog, and more importantly, bringing one home, it’s a good idea to make sure that your home is dog friendly. You might have spent hours, weeks, months looking at what dog to get. You might…
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The Busy Girl’s Skincare Routine*
With skincare, it’s all change whenever a new season rolls in and shortly we’ll be saying goodbye to Summer and hello to Autumn. My skin reacts differently to the cooler weather so naturally it’s best to change the products to something that suits better. In the summer I tend to suffer from oily skin. I’m sure it has a lot to do with it being warmer and of course sweating. I’m not one of these people who has skin that magically clears up in the sun, I still get those horrible annoying pimples whatever the weather, but in the cooler months I also have to battle dry patches on my…
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3 Ways to Make Life With Chronic Illness a Little Easier*
2020 has been a whole mess for a lot of people, but for those with chronic illness, it’s been even worse. On August the 1st, England finally ended it’s shielding for the vulnerable, but that doesn’t just mean they can pop to the shops and carry on. Life was hard for them before COVID, and will continue to be hard long after we get it under control. I struggle with PCOS, and as far as chronic illness goes, it’s not that bad and it makes me feel luckily that I don’t really need to alter my day to day life much. For others that’s really not the case. Being lockdown…
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5 Ways Our Lives Are Different Post-Lockdown*
It’s July 2020, life has changed a lot in the last seven months. In fact, many of us don’t recognise our lives from seven months ago. Although a lot of people are harping on about “going back to normal” but if you genuinely believe things can truly go back to normal any time soon, you must have spent mandatory lockdown hiding under a rock! And I honestly mean that in the kindest way possible. For the vast majority of us though, this COVID-19 pandemic has been a chance for us to look at our lives. Some of us have changed the way we work, play and even parent. And while…