From the monthly archives: March 2012

Today…

By On March 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The view from my bedroom at 7am this morning. Beautiful. A new day is about to start, full of possibilities.
There is always good in the world, there is always crap. You decide what you focus on and what you look for. I think if you look for [...]

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Blogging Saved My Life!

By On March 27, 2012 · 3 Comments

You know when life becomes all about work and the fun just disappears? This was me a few years ago, before I switched things around and prioritised enjoyment.

The past seven years have seen me building up my business. I started working from home in 2005 after a year of [...]

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Becoming A Professional Housewife

By On March 24, 2012 · 1 Comment


The last few months have seen me taking full control of this house. I don’t just mean I have cleaned it from top to bottom, but I have re-organised, re-cycled, de-cluttered, mended, re-painted, re-located things, brought in new systems of organisation, planted flowers and vegetable seeds and [...]

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Sponsored: My Day Without Paper- An HP Challenge

By On March 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Ooh! How would you cope if you couldn’t use paper at all all day? It doesn’t sound too difficult does it? Have a look at my vlog to see how I got on with the challenge!

How would you get on with this? Leave me a comment below!

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Win A Prize in my Virtual Easter Egg Hunt!

By On March 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Here is my daughter, isn’t she beautiful? She is wearing her ‘Sunday Best!’ The team at George at ASDA offered me the chance to dress my daughter in a fab new outfit to show off her ‘Sunday Best’ and I have a treat for you too- as we [...]

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Growing Our Own Veg

By On March 10, 2012 · 2 Comments

We’ve talked about growing our own veg for a while and my husband’s Nanna has even given us a few books on what to grow and when, to get us started. (“Thanks Nanna!”)

A month ago I wanted to get the children excited about vegetables, and so I asked each [...]

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Updating An Old Laptray!

By On March 9, 2012 · 4 Comments

I had two laptrays that were looking tatty and after a recent trip to Dunelm Mill, I also had some offcut oilcloth so I decided to spruce up my tired old laptrays!

Here they are ‘before’:

…And here’s how I did it!
First step- prepare the surface by [...]

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A Girly Lunch and a Fishcake Demo!

By On March 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I had the girls round last week to treat them to lunch. As we’d been to Slimming World together in the morning, I was keen to prepare a low syn lunch so we could all stick to our plans, but this was also a low cost lunch too!

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Nominate me!!

By On March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hey! The BiBs 2012 have just been launched – this stands for ‘Brilliance in Blogging!’

I am going for the category of ‘Inspire’ as I like to keep my blog positive, upbeat and enthusiastic, and I hope that you feel all those things when you read the posts I write!

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Is Your Book Still A Dream, Waiting to Happen?

By On March 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Today is the start of the third month of 2012 and some of us will be still going strong with our New Year’s resolutions whilst some of us are back on the carbs, ciggies, chocolate (delete as appropriate!) But it’s not too late to make positive changes and any day [...]

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