Category: Personal
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Blog Bloopers: Fifty Billionth Edition
Bloopers post time! Yay. My favourite part of this whole blogging caper is that I have this space where I get to dress up, pretend to be cool. Then now and then I drop the curtain and you get to see that the good photos are just the ones that make the cut. Plus photo…
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End of the world buddy required. Apply within.
Brace yourself folks for a random post about thoughts I sometimes have. It’s bound to be an interesting ride, as usual, into the depths of my thinking about things… Here is the thing. I love being alone. But the prospect of waking up one morning and being alone in the world is something I have…
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Simple Summer Dressing
In the summer, I like light, and I loose. Slouchy is the order of the day. Or evening as the case was with this outfit. Nothing too restrictive, nothing that feels like it’s smothering you. The lighter, the looser, the slouchier, the better. I think I might have mentioned that in my post about summer…
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Work Style: Checks and Balance
Work outfits, work style, during the summer is harder than my everyday summer style, and special occasion combined. There’s usually some form of dress code, there’s always an expectation and it’s hot. Sometimes hotter than others, depending on whether you are in or out of the air con. So there’s all that. Plus, you’d rather…
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Some things I want to say to you
While the blog has been a little quiet of late, life, and all that jazz, I’ve been thinking about you. About you and how life is treating you. Did you rally your best efforts for the first month? Or did you start a diet, a new job or did you quit an old one? What…
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Not enough coffee in the world…
Have you ever had a day when you realised that there is not enough coffee in the world for you to manage it. Your temper is short, and so is time. Deadlines are poking you softly in the side and you know they’ll prod harder and harder as the day wears on. One of those…
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‘Tis the season for body shame
First comes Christmas, then comes New Year’s Eve and then comes the season of body shame known as January/February. Festively plump from the seasons prior, and for me the six months prior to that, this year I was almost dragged into it. Almost. It’s a tricky little thing that body shame; it always finds a…
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Our lives in boxes
I was dragged kicking and screaming, sometimes literally, into packing up the house while I was on holidays over the past two weeks. I huffed and puffed. I sooked. I wanted to be at the beach, not in the recesses of my house pulling things out of cupboards, sorting, and packing. The phrase I don’t…
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Casual Chambray + Tropical Sequins
Hey team, welcome back! How was your Christmas? I’m hoping fabulous. I’ve been at the beach for just under a week and have managed to get sunburnt using old sunscreen. Then I sweated it out in the humidity of a summer storm riddled few days. All while eating my body weight in Christmas food washed…
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