This has been a quiet week for me on Instagram. My favourite of the social media platforms, I can usually gauge my creative mood by how many pictures I’ve posted that day or week – a quiet week means I’m…
While I was walking..
I now walk over 20 miles a week on the school run alone (21.6 this week to be precise). On those walks without the kids I have time to think, free from the pressures of work and chores. On the…
Make your own sloe gin
I made sloe gin for the first time last year, and I can honestly say, hand on heart, that it was the best thing I have ever drunk. I was heartbroken when the bottle I’d made ran out and berated…
Circus themed party ideas
The twins turned five this month, and for the first time we hired a village hall to hold a proper party for them. Keen to save our pennies, we decided against outsourcing the entertainment, cavalierly deciding to go DIY all…
Styling the seasons: September
When Katy (Apartment Apothecary) and Charlotte (Lotts and Lots) asked me to take part in their new blog series ‘Styling The Seasons‘ way back in the summer, I couldn’t wait to get started. With the challenge to reflect the change of and…
A new chapter for Growing Spaces
The summer break is over, and as the twins head off to start school I’m ready to put my creative hat back on and get back to blogging. But there’s been something I’ve been mulling over for a while, and…
#1day12pics September 2014
This is my second stab at Michelle and Emma‘s #1day12pics collaboration – a picture each hour, all day. We didn’t have anything special planned for this weekend, but I thought that trying to look at a normal Sunday at home…
Summer break
Since our Europe trip I’ve found it hard to get back into a blogging rhythm. The break marked the beginning of the summer for me and my mind is elsewhere if I’m honest – lack of child-free time to create…
The blues of the Auvergne
I’m finding it a challenge to adjust to being home after our Europe road trip. I miss the freedom of being on the road, and being out in the open air camping. We’re slowly finding our groove, and working out…
Over on Young & Younger today…
You may, or may not, know that I have another blog, Young & Younger, which pre-dates this one, having been started back in 2009 after the birth of my twins. It’s my place where I chat about parenting and family…
The colours of the Cinque Terre
When I saw a photograph of the clutches of tightly packed houses in their pretty pastel shades clinging onto the steep cliffs above the Mediterranean Sea, I knew that a trip to the Cinque Terre (or ‘Five Towns’) in Liguria,…
Lunch stop in Gandria
Before we left the UK I saw a photograph of a gorgeous-looking village in Ticino, Switzerland called Gandria on Pinterest (where else?). When we looked at our driving route from Locarno to Lake Como and realised that we would drive…