I love my beauty routines and over the past few years I’ve made a real effort to go natural with as many products as possible. When Baldwins asked me to work with them on 7 DIY natural skin care recipes I was delighted! Together, we’ve created 7 handy images for you...
Self Care
How to cope when you can’t get any sleep (for new mamas and others)
I’ve always been evangelical about the importance of sleep, so what was I suppose to do when sleep became a non option? Yes I am talking about the little sleep thief that arrived and turned me into a walking zombie! Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where you...
How to reach your goals
Hands up who has set themselves goals or resolutions this January? I certainly have! For so many years I would make grand plans each New Years Eve that never succeeded, or even worse, I wouldn’t bother making any type of resolution at all, fearing I’d automatically...
5 daily self care rituals for a healthy happy year
This year it’s all about the self care for me. As I said in my 2015 goals post, I’ve realised now important it is to look after myself so that I can then take care of others and in particular, be the best mother I can be. Little things you do daily can have a huge...
How to recover from stress
We all know how bad stress is for us, but let’s get real here, sometimes stress is impossible to avoid no matter how much meditation you do! Obviously for me, this has really hit home while we’ve been dealing with Finley’s health problems. The day he went into surgery...
10 workouts under 10 minutes for the time challenged
As I’ve been mentioning in my Eat, Move, Wear, Love, Link weekly round up posts, I’ve had a distinct lack of ‘move’ recently. Of course having a baby is a pretty decent excuse for not hitting the gym, but now that Finley is almost 3 months old and we have had...
Body and mind after giving birth
In non maternity clothes for our visit shopping trip out after birth! I can’t quite believe it’s been over a month since I gave birth to Finley! It feels like forever ago and just yesterday at the same time. As I’ve said in other posts, having a baby has changed me in...
How to stop putting your life on hold
There’s a couple of phrases I’ve been using far too often recently: ‘once the baby comes I’ll…’ ‘when I’ve lost the baby weight I’ll...' ‘in the New Year I’ll...' Now it is a little different when it’s pregnancy related. I think it’s fairly normal to put...
How to develop your own effective fitness plan
When I first started exercising there was a lot of guess work. I joined a gym and they gave me a plan to try, but it was pretty boring and I got fed up of it quickly. Once I started reading about fitness I just felt overwhelmed! There seemed to be so many things to...