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We Need To Talk About Smears

We Need To Talk About Smears

Aphrodite Necklace: Daisy Jewellery designed exclusively with Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust. I’ve ummed and aahed about whether to write this post. Opening up about personal experiences can be tricky at the best of times but adding intimate health into that mix can make you even more nervous and apprehensive to put it down in writing. Saying that, if my experience has taught me anything its that connecting with people through shared circumstances is extremely comforting and cathartic and the more we shy away from having these personal conversations, the more alienating it can feel when something does come along to knock us…

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Our Bathroom Renovation

Our Bathroom Renovation

I’d been desperate to redo our bathroom since we bought our house over 5 years ago, but like everything it’s taken us this long to pull our finger out and get round to planning and doing it. Renovations are such a learning curve, you will undoubtedly get those ‘wish we’d done this instead of that’ moments and the fear of making the wrong decision had put us off the work for a long time. We also planned to combine the bathroom renovation with other work (we are doing a kitchen extension and downstairs bathroom/toilet as well) which added to the…

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A Quick Guide to Porto

A Quick Guide to Porto

I had little expectations when it came to visiting Porto, I’d heard lots of great things about the city but having visited Lisbon three times I wasn’t sure if it would be able to rival my love for it’s capital. But, I was pleasantly surprised by the rich culture, beautiful architecture and laid back nature of the city, our days were packed with eating, walking, shopping and more eating and I feel like we barely scratched the surface of what the city has to offer and could have easily and quite happily filled a week there. With that being said,…

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Autumn ’19 Edit

Autumn ’19 Edit

Autumn has finally arrived and I for one, am here for it. The last couple of weeks I’ve definitely felt more of a chill in the air which has made me excited to fully get into my autumn wardrobe. With the temperature still hovering around the mid teens it’s the perfect time of year for layering knitwear with thick over-shirts/blazers, lightweight cosy teddy jackets and my personal favourite; chunky knitwear with bare legs and stomping boots. With this in mind i’ve rounded up some of my favourite autumn pieces for you to pursue and links to some early autumn outfits…

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Something Borrowed | Rental Fashion Review

Something Borrowed | Rental Fashion Review

Last year I wrote a post on fast fashion in response to Stacey Dooley’s eyeopening documentary and the UN climate change report which put fashion production as one of the top two polluters and the volume of fashion consumption and production as one of the key contributors to global warming. Within my post I articulating some of my own thoughts and ways in which I wanted to cut down on my fast fashion consumption and seek alternative ways to enjoy fashion without over consuming. In an attempt to practice what I preach and positively change my shopping habits, i’ve recently…

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All Women

All Women

This post has been brewing for a while and after watching Kathy Burkes ‘All Women’ last night I felt compelled to get my words down. The first episode tackles the construct of beauty and how social media and current social pressures warp our sense of beauty standards and the way women should look. The program explores so much of what I’ve been feeling for a while around social media and what quite frankly feels like, the death of individuality. I’ve been creating content seriously for a couple of years now and I’ve started to feel really disillusioned and disappointed with…

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