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PROVENCE - DATE NIGHT IN GORDES

Being on holiday really makes me appreciate the importance of date night. These days we are constantly busy and pencilling something in the diary takes months in advance to organise. Between work, family, friends, social media and simply...

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PROVENCE - NEVER STOP SEARCHING

There has been a bit of an underlying theme of keeping my feelings away from my blog posts and not opening up about myself. There's something about opening up on the internet which absolutely terrifies me. Not so much people taking a dislike...

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PROVENCE - LAVENDER FIELDS AT DUSK

The lavender fields in Provence were one of the main reasons for our visit in July. There’s a list of destinations I want to visit that I have saved on my laptop and most of them need planning around the seasons. Once I started researching...

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PROVENCE - SAIGON & SATURIN-LES-APT

This summer Ollie and I had planned to focus all of our attention on finding a flat in London and to save money for our first home renovations, rather than taking any holidays. But as the summer started to approach we soon felt that need...

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BUDLEIGH'S GOLDEN GLOW

As you’ll know from my previous post, Ollie and I have been spending more weekends in the South West than usual lately. I feel like being back in the South grounds me, partly due to the slower pace of life and most definitely being closer to...

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BARRINGTON COURT

Back in October last year Ollie and I started our house hunt, it seems like forever ago that we got our mortgage and started planning out first home together. A whole mix of excitement and apprehension, I was on Rightmove everyday (and I still am)...

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FIELDS OF GOLD

A while back now Ollie and I spent a spontaneous weekend away to Dorset. We were shooting a campaign for Fat Face and had planned the trip around visiting Durdle Door. We had the best day exploring the coast and totally lucked out on the weather...

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MY FAVOURITE DERMALOGICA PRODUCTS

I have not always loved my skin. For years I struggled with it and spent hundreds of pounds trying to combat its issues and cover them up. I want to go into more detail in another post about how I finally solved this, but one brand which helped...

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SUMMER FRILLS & PLEATS

When the first signs of summer came along I had to break out my favourite white skirt from last year (worn here in my first ever blog post). With a relaxed and subtle sheen this floaty pleated skirt is flattering and looks great no matter what...

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THE ROYAL CRESCENT

If you've followed my blog from the beginning you'll know that mine and Ollie’s family are based back in the South West and we often go back to visit of a weekend. If we were still based back there ourselves there’s no doubt about it, we would...

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THE HO-- USE OF ELEMIS

A few weekends ago, right in the mist of moving house, I popped along to The House of Elemis to de-stress and rejuvenate before the upcoming move. The timing couldn't have been more perfect and the whole experience was made unbelievably easy...

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DURDLE DOOR

Life has been non stop recently and I couldn't wait until the bank holiday to escape the madness for a little while (we have to move from our place in just over a week and we have yet to find something to move into!). So of course...

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PRIMROSE HILL

I have come to realise there are many neighbourhoods in London where I would happily reside. As many people are under the impression ‘west is best’, I'm slowly coming to see that there are so many other wonderful places within the city to live...

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NAVY BOW DETAIL

For my first London fashion week I had the pleasure of representing Isabelle Fox. I selected a number of her new season pieces to wear throughout the four days and with a handful of events to attend I was brimming to see what really happened...

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PALAIS ROYAL

It's been a while since we were in Paris and this post is very overdue, so much so that the season has started to change! But the thought that the pictures would get forgotten and not be used made me think that you guys wouldn't mind...

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BLACK MIDI DRESS

A few weeks ago I popped along to the Aspinal of London Autumn/Winter 17 presentation at Claridge's Hotel. Aspinal certainly know how to put on an event, with the ballroom dressed up to depict a decadent vintage theatre, red carpet rolled right out...

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SACRÉ-CŒUR

Yep, you've guessed it, yet another sunrise! I just can’t seem to get enough of those early morning pink skies! Promise I will stop at least for the next few post so you don't get utterly bored, as I'm totally flattered that more and more of you...

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TOUR EIFFEL

If you've been following my InstaStories recently you'll know that Ollie surprised me with a trip to Paris for our Anniversary. To say this was a huge surprise is an understatement, as Ollie isn't one for organising or remembering dates...

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