Launching Your Freelance Business: 3 Common Excuses And How To Overcome Them

Over three years ago, I took the elevator down from the corporate world, trading business suits and office hours for flannel shirts and flexibility as I walked up the stairs of self-employment, equipped with a heart full of hope, a mind full of ideas and the technology that I needed to bring them to life. …

Millennials Issue A Stark Wake-Up Call To The Media (And It’s Before 12 Noon)

Entitled. Lazy. Narcissistic. These are just a few of the words bandied about by the media regarding members of Generation Y – which is, ironically, the letter that phonetically sounds like the question we repeatedly have to ask ourselves. Why do millennials get such a bad rap? Grouping a whole heap of diverse individuals together …

Halloween Homeware | T.K. Maxx, Homesense & More (Part 2)

Happy Halloween! To mark this hallowest of eens, I am sharing the second part of my Halloween Homeware haul, showcasing a spooktacular selection of accessories and ornaments in order to decorate your foyer for trick-or-treaters. Once again, you will find that the majority of these items are from T.K. Maxx and HomeSense stores (aka the mothership) because they …

Halloween Homeware | T.K. Maxx, Homesense & More (Part 1)

Halloween is right around the corner, and that means it's time to blow the cobwebs off your seasonal decorations and transform your humble abode into the ultimate haunted house, filled with prankish pumpkins, spine-chilling skeletons and grim grinning ghosts. Over the past couple of years, I have unashamedly purchased enough Halloween-esque homeware to be able to …

31 Things To Do This Halloween Season

The leaves have started to fall from the trees and the air has a new crispness, Hocus Pocus GIF's have been posted across social media platforms with reckless abandon, and it's Pumpkin Spice Latte everything, because it's that time of year again. Now if you haven't dusted off the cobwebs and welcomed in the season yet, …

June 2016 | Happiness Highlights

June was a month filled with highs and lows, but writing my Happiness Highlights allowed me to focus on the positive and appreciate each passing day, whatever the case may be. #1: Indulging in my favourite treat, a Chinese takeaway (char siu fried rice). #2: Family coming together to support one another following a bereavement. #3: Despite some doubts, not …

Lifestyle | 10 Times We’ve All Been Ariel From The Little Mermaid

Aside from the fact that she was born a mermaid and lived most of her young life under the sea with an assortment of aquatic animals for friends, Ariel from The Little Mermaid might just be the most relatable Disney princess – ever. And whilst some of us go all-out in the mermaid stakes, take …

May 2016 | Happiness Highlights

You might have been wondering whether I'd jumped into a DeLorean time machine recently, since that would provide a reasonable explanation for 1) My absence, and, 2) Writing about May in July. Unfortunately though, the actual reason is far less exciting, so in an effort to now catch up on blogging, here are my happiness highlights from the month …

April 2016 | Happiness Highlights

#1: Finishing work, listening to music while packing for a weekend at Stephen's. #2: Taking a trip to the cinema to watch Zootropolis (2016) and exiting with THE biggest smile on my face. #3: Making plans and edging ever closer to booking our next family holiday. #4: An unexpected, but welcome, email out of the blue. #5: Stretching out on the sofa and …

March 2016 | Happiness Highlights

Since we are fast approaching the end of another month, I thought that I would find some time to share my happiness highlights from March. You know what they say, better late than never! #1: To welcome in the start of a new month I created a week long 'to-do' list with multiple tasks to complete each …