I Messed Up.
Last week I was browsing Twitter in my usual lazy way and seeing if anything caught my eye when lo and behold, something did.
Read More I Messed Up.Last week I was browsing Twitter in my usual lazy way and seeing if anything caught my eye when lo and behold, something did.
Read More I Messed Up.Next up in the joyous dressing spotlight series is Emma Randall. I hope you enjoy our interview, and the fabulous pictures she has allowed me to share below. I love this outfit, the mix of Velma and Coraline vibes is right up my alley! How did you learn about Joyous Dressing? I learned about Joyous […]
Read More Joyous dressing spotlight – Emma’s outfitA blog in pictures, this was what we did to my hair a couple days before my wedding to get it to its colourful best 💜 Ta da! What do you think? Too much, not enough? Let me know.
Read More Hair transformationCharlie came to live with us five years ago today! He was around nine months old, a friend of my uncle had gotten him for his family but long story short they couldn’t keep him. That first week was terrifying, he cried, I cried, wondered if I’d taken on too much. But as hard as […]
Read More Five years today.So back in April I decided to try a natural deodorant, and wrote about it here. If you didn’t read it, I was basically covering off that I had wanted to try a natural deodorant for some time but was nervous about this as I am naturally a sweaty (yep you heard me) and anxious […]
Read More Salt of the EarthI spent most of my day looking at online abuse and racism and reporting as much as possible. I feel angry, sad and disappointed in my fellow human beings that this shit is tolerated, let alone gotten away with over something they want to call the beautiful game?! There is a screenshot of a point […]
Read More Being human right now is exhausting.Just for fun I decided to count how many pins I had to take out of my hair before bed after my wedding hair trial the other day. Then I thought it’d be interesting to see how it looked every ten pins so I took pictures. Here’s before I started, holding up pretty well! Then […]
Read More The undoing.Ok so my previous post was pretty doom and gloom, but that’s how I’ve been feeling and that’s ok. This morning I was dreading my appointment to try some hairstyles for the wedding but silly old me, I’ve never left my hairdressers anything but happy. We had a good natter, looked at some pictures for […]
Read More Bridal hair trial today.When you’re young you have such firm ideas of how life should go. What age makes you a grown up, what it is that grown ups do.. houses, kids, marriages, jobs. I was so convinced that by my mid 20’s I would be a mother. All my life I’ve been great with kids, the go […]
Read More Am I lost?Next up in the joyous dressing spotlight series is Ruby Red Vintage! This account was one I saw every now and then in my.. intro? to joyous dressing. At the time I was feeling a little overwhelmed with things so I’d stopped following people for a bit. It didn’t take long for me to think […]
Read More Joyous dressing spotlight – Ruby Red VintageI’m not sure if I’ve really mentioned this other than in my PTSD specific posts, but I have been signed off work since the end of January/beginning of Feb. I’m a little hazy on the specific date but it was around that time. I’d been struggling mentally for a while, and though I was already […]
Read More Return to work‘An urge. A desire. Passion. These feelings fueled us to want to try more plant based products. Everyday more new products were available and we wanted to try them all but that seemed impossible. As caring and compassionate people we wanted to share our quest with you. The Plant Planet Box was born, a plant […]
Read More What’s in the box?! – The Plant Planet Box ReviewI started following Jess (jessontheplussize aka Jess Millichamp) on insta towards the end of 2020. I’d only had my new profile for the blog a couple months and I was trying to only follow accounts that would make me happy. Boy was I right about Jess! You know when you have one of those friends […]
Read More Congratulations to Jessontheplussize!Wilde Mode are an independent Vegan brand based in Dundee, Scotland. The company was founded in August 2018 and launched in January 2019. Deborah Breen (Debz), the founder of Wilde Mode began the journey after a struggle with her mental health. The company prides themselves on having a 100% carbon neutral footprint. The packaging company […]
Read More What’s in the box?! – Wilde Mode ReviewI have suffered with depression, anxiety and ptsd for a long time. I try to be honest about my mental health but even when I wasn’t as forthcoming, I really enjoyed doing what I could to help other people with their struggles, whether it was just being a shoulder to cry on, buying their favourite […]
Read More Doing an Instagram giveaway – mental health inspired.