Following on from my pumpkin picking blog post I thought I’d show you what I did with my pumpkins! I wanted to decorate them but not in the usual spooky Halloween way. I wanted them to be pretty and sparkly! I had an idea in my mind that I wanted them to be inspired by Peggy Porschen’s pretty pastel style, so that was what I aimed to achieve, and this is the outcome! Read on to find out how to paint…
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Last weekend we decided to make the most of the gorgeous autumnal day and took a little day trip to St Albans, which is about a 45 minute drive from Milton Keynes. St Albans is a small English Cathedral city in Hertfordshire with a nice high street full of upmarket shops and restaurants plus some beautiful parklands. It’s the kind of place you can go for a nice day out as there’s plenty of good restaurants to enjoy, things to see,…
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Sometimes when you’re feeling a little bit down, or the dread of winter leaves you feeling blue, you need a little pick me up. There are loads of little things that cheer me up instantly; a new lipstick, a cuddle with my cat, a catch up with a girlfriend, and I think it’s important to make the most of these little things. If you need a few quick fixes to cheer yourself up, here are a few ideas that I hope…
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During our recent trip to London we decided to try Flat Iron; a popular steak restaurant known for selling their signature steaks for only £11. Gav and I love ordering steak whenever we go out for dinner so we were excited to visit Flat Iron and see what all the fuss was about! Their website is a bit mysterious as there’s no menu, and they don’t take table reservations. I hear that they’re usually pretty busy and you might have to…
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Last Saturday we went into London as we had a nice little weekend planned and a night booked at The East London Hotel in Bethnal Green. The second time me and Gavin ever met was in May 2016 at Slam Dunk Festival whilst The Story So Far (a pop punk band from California) were performing, and so their songs kind of became ‘our songs’. Listening to them reminds me of that time when he kept talking to me in this noisy…
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September was a pretty busy month for me as I had two mini holidays! At the beginning of the month I went on a girls trip to Prague (read all about what we got up to here) and then a couple of weeks ago I went on a mini break to Malta for 5 nights! I still need to do a blog post on that but I’ll include a couple of pics in this round up post too! So here’s what…
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