#TheEverydaySpruce – a collaborative project between lapinblu & growing spaces – | SIMPLIFY | CLARIFY | BEAUTIFY | Last week I caught up with an old friend, and it got me thinking about how dreadful I’ve become about keeping in…
While I was walking..
Charting the weeks through our walks journeys to school ..or cycling, as it happens. What a glorious week it’s been. The sun’s come out and it feels like Spring has properly arrived. This week the twins’ school was taking part…
Fun and bright kids’ clothes at Boots
I don’t get a lot of say when it comes to what the kids wear each day. I may be allowed some input into Fonz’s outfit, but Ez has wanted to choose her own clothes for herself from a very…
#TheEverydaySpruce DIY linen and room spritz
#TheEverydaySpruce – a collaborative project between lapinblu & growing spaces –Image: Sarah-Lou Kimmer at lapinblu Sarah-Lou has combined three of my favourite scents – lemon, bergamot and eucalyptus – in her DIY linen and room spritz for this week’s #TheEverydaySpruce…
The wanderlust has got me..
My wanderlust is knawing away at me at the minute – that familiar restless feeling. This time last year the twins and I were in NZ for a trip that was awesome and ultimately totally empowering for me. I gained…
#TheEverydaySpruce Read your way to a happier home
#TheEverydaySpruce – a collaborative project between lapinblu & growing spaces – | SIMPLIFY | CLARIFY | BEAUTIFY | Never one to resist a bandwagon, I ordered my copy of the best-selling The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying by Marie Kondo once…
Weekending.. houseplant love
When I picked up my grape hyacinths last weekend from Homebase, I also treated myself to a few new houseplants and pots from the garden section – (from left) Peperomia Schumi Red, Peperomia Angulata and Peperomia Rotundifolia . Pottering around the…
Snowdrop hunting
A trip to Welford Park in Newbury with friends gave us our snowdrop fix this week. The woods are covered withe the most stunning carpet of snowdrops, and they’re at their best for only about two weeks of the year…
Interiors innovation from Rooms Made For You
I’ve seen the Shard from a distance, gazed up at it from the surrounding streets, and stood right underneath it, but I’d never actually been in until a couple of weeks ago when I headed into London for a morning…
#TheEverydaySpruce Hygge away winter blues
#TheEverydaySpruce | SIMPLIFY | CLARIFY | BEAUTIFY | Sarah-Lou has fallen hard for the Danish concept of Hygge. “Originating from a Norwegian word meaning ‘well-being’, the definition of Hygge issomewhat open to interpretation – at it’s simplest, it means a…
Welcoming Spring
I’m definitely starting to feel like I can see Spring finally approaching, and as I notice the bulbs start to push up through the earth in the garden, I’ve also noticed how neglected our garden is. We’re itching to get…
Weekending : West Wittering
Last Sunday was one of those days that come along every so often to remind you how awesome life really is. A trip to the seaside to meet up with Kat and Kelly had been in the diary for a…