Waste(less)

This year has been hard on everyone, on so many different levels, and though there are things we can't control going forwards, besides holding ourselves accountable to keep us and others safe, there are some things I plan on changing this next year. This won't be another regular New Year's resolution post, I won't talk about how I want to lose weight or...

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With even colder weather creeping around the corner, my warmer coats are making their way out of storage, so I thought a new installment on my Mindful Fashion series would be a good idea. Coats can be really classic pieces that you buy once and last you for years and years, but for that to happen we need to know how to take...

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Besides making my Nigella pavlova every year, my biggest Christmas tradition is baking gingerbread cookies. Around 6 years ago, Sorted Food made this video and immediately made me crave gingerbread cookies, I proceeded to bake their recipe and I've baked them every year ever since. ...

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I've never been very good at remembering to moisturize, in winter it's too cold to be standing in my bathroom naked, and in summer it's too warm for me to enjoy feeling any sort of sticky body cream on my skin. And for many years, I got away with it, I could shave my legs and have soft skin, I could wash my...

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Over the past few years, I wrote a few blog posts about my favourite Christmas drinks and I loved it, for chilled out days I made my Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate, for cold evenings my favourite Mulled Cider and even Hot Chocolate 5 Ways. This year I knew I wanted to do something different, my own Christmas cocktail. If there's something I associate with Christmas time...

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I've noticed that the older I get, the smaller my wishlists are, and they tend to focus more on one thing rather than several. For instance, this year my list for my boyfriend consisted of cosy things, for my brothers it was books and tea, and for my mum it was plants and planters, what more does a girl need? I thought I'd share...

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If you know me, you know one of my favourite things to do is to bake, I honestly could bake every day as soon as the weather starts to get gloomy, and I don't really know why I chose a literary path instead of training to be a baker, but I digress. I remember baking these cookies when I was still in high...

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There's no real intro to this post, the matter of fact is: we all know how wasteful Christmas can be, so how can we change that? Can it ever be a waste-free season? Probably not. Can we still lower our waste and its' impact? Absolutely. ...

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