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10 Self-care when you work from home tips….

358001 Comment2021-07-21+12%3A00%3A02Cassandra July 21, 2021 By Cassandra
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Self-care when you work from home is essential! You don't have your usual colleagues around you to keep you sane and to bounce ideas off and your routine can feel like it's all over the place. Today, I've got some tips to share with you to help make your working from home life that little bit more manageable...I've written about what self-care means to me in the past but today I wanted to share more about that and how important it is that you really focus on self-care when you work from home.Working from home in one form or another is pretty much most people's dream job and over … [Read more...]

Six reasons to shop at a Farmers Market….

30718Leave a Comment2021-07-18+11%3A00%3A31Cassandra July 18, 2021 By Cassandra
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My favourite Sunday morning Farmers Market is back so it feels like a good time to share a few reasons why I think you should try and shop at a Farmers Market at least once to try it!Our local Farmer's Market has been cancelled for the last year or so with everything that's been going on but this week, I saw an announcement on Facebook that they were starting up again from this weekend so seeing as I was up earlyI completely get that a Farmers Market is not somewhere that you're going to get 'cheap' products and there won't be anything that can compete with the 'value' or 'own … [Read more...]

Sunday Summary {11th July 2021}….

38118Leave a CommentSunday+Summary+%7B11th+July+2021%7D....2021-07-11+08%3A54%3A08Cassandra July 11, 2021 By Cassandra
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I realised a while ago that I really missed the personal side of blogging, the posts where I literally just used to sit down and tell you what we've been up to so (and I have no idea if this is going to work) I thought we'd try something new. 😂.I thought I'd sit down on a Sunday morning and have a bit of a catch up - what's happened that week, anything exciting coming up and maybe even a quick round-up of blog posts from my other blogs. I have no idea if I have an interesting enough life to make every week worth reading but let's see, shall we?If you saw my last … [Read more...]

Sunday Summary {4th July 2021}….

38059Leave a CommentSunday+Summary+%7B4th+July+2021%7D....2021-07-04+10%3A54%3A00Cassandra July 4, 2021 By Cassandra
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How to dry rose petals….

June 21, 2021 By Cassandra
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When I did a Google search for how to dry rose petals, I got all sorts of complicated instructions that felt like a bit too much faff for what I wanted. I tried a couple of methods with no success as you'll see below but in the end I mastered it - by using the microwave of all things! ;-)Anyone who regularly reads my weekly five frugal things posts will know that I love a good bunch of reduced flowers from the supermarket to brighten up my kitchen snd regularly manage to find some bargains at the end of the day in our local supermarkets. All flowers are lovely but I must … [Read more...]

How just 15 minutes on a Sunday can make the rest of your week so much easier {Free Printable Weekly Planner}….

June 13, 2021 By Cassandra
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I genuinely believe that just a few minutes of focus on a Sunday can set you up for the week ahead and today, I'm going to tell you how.(I published this post originally about five years ago but over the last couple of months, I've noticed lots of people heading over from somewhere and having a read of this post so I thought I'd just update it to include a couple of the free planner printables that I've shared since this post was originally published)I'm not a naturally organised person so I genuinely need as much help as I can get in that department.Over the last few months, … [Read more...]