Two weeks in a row! It would've been so nice to get outside to take this outfit shot, it would've been even nicer to have been outside, needing sunglasses. But no, it's blowing a gale and I'm staying firming inside. I love Rachel Bilson's style (got a bit of a girl crush going on) so I had to join in this week -...

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6am - An early start - it was still flippin' dark outside - to bake some chocolate brownies for a clothes swap I'd organised. I'd completely forgotten all about it until about 10am Friday night. Talk about a panic! 7am - I had one batch of brownies on the cooling tray an another in the oven. 8am - Whilst I was rushing around...

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Once the venues where booked my next big task (after finding the dress!) was to get the wedding invitations sorted. I knew I'd be designing them myself, I saw no sense in asking someone else to design them for us, especially as I had a pretty good idea about how I wanted them to look. And as my friend once told me, 'why...

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It's been ages since I took part in an Inspiration Monday. Once I stopped I fell out of the habit but when I saw this week's inspiration picture, I knew it would be easy to recreate with items already in my wardrobe. The inspiration this week is Kate Hudson in a casual outfit, although my take is slightly less glam in flat boots,...

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(Let's just gloss over the fact that I should've posted this at the beginning of February 'k? Cool.) I often look back over blog posts and see what I was doing a year ago, two years ago... February always seems to be a month when I try to be frugal. Frugal March doesn't have quite the same ring to it does it? Being...

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Finding a wedding dress in my home town of Ipswich has been such a lovely experience. There are more shops than I realised and more choice than I anticipated. I only visited three of the shops as it was in the third that I found my dress. The first boutique I visited was Just A Day Bridal. My Mum was busy so I...

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I really wanted to get my patchwork quilt finished before March (because I started it on March 1st 2014 and wanted to finish within a year). But I'm not going to. This was made all to obvious to me when I placed it over the top of a king size quilt and saw how much more I need to do. I'm about half...

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Andy and I didn't give a lot of thought to why we wanted our wedding to be a certain way, we just both seemed to agree on what we did (and didn't) want and carried on from there. Reading Janet's post on why her and her fella are getting fake married made me stop and think about wedding traditions and their origins. So...

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Well duh! This nugget of wisdom has changed the way I think about running. You'd think I would've worked this out for myself before now, but nope - it took this pin for the penny to drop. One thing I knew I wanted was a long sleeve top with thumb holes. I can't stand having cold hands at the best of times and...

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