Each time that I share images of my lounge, and our family film nights on Instagram stories I get asked questions about our projector set up.

I have been promising for too long to create a blog post with all the information you could possibly need about our set up, and how we make this work with everyday life. Kids cartoons- do I need to say more? And why I prefer to use a projector instead of the more traditional television set up.

I finally have a couple of announcements today! hurray! I can finally announce whats happening with our house move, after teasing it for WAY longer than planned 🤣.

Very brief background: We currently rent, and instead of moving to another rental, we have decided to do something a bit different in a bid to save for a house deposit.

Introducing our beautiful new (sort of) home! 🤣

Vision boards act as a physical representation of what we want in life. They can be physical or digital.

They are the focus of the first week of The January Box, along with some other activities designed to help us to feel hopeful about 2021. The cart is now open until Sunday if you’d like to join us. Link here.

The act of making those dreams tangible is powerful in itself; often we are not actually that clear on what we want and spending time thinking about it, and getting specific about some of the details, can be surprisingly life-changing! As a result of this thinking, you’ll probably

After hating it for many years, January has become my favourite month of the year. I have to swiftly state before you click off in bewilderment or disgust, that I used to long for summer and actively hate the cold season, approaching it with a deep sense of dread in the pit of my stomach. I am sensitive to the cold, with bad circulation. As a teenager, I lived in a very cold draughty house…

The Nesting is my totally free jam-packed quarterly newsletter/supplement/online magazine. The winter edition has just been published! It’s ONLY available to my newsletter subscribers, so if you’d like it, sign up below. It includes:

• Inspiration to help you nest in your home

• Styling and decluttering ideas

• Tips to get the best out of each season

• Journalling prompts

• Playlists

• Self-care ideas

I have gone through my archives and pulled together some of my favourite Christmas tables to provide inspiration for your own table. None of the ideas are mega expensive or require buying much and can be pulled together fairly easily. I have added styling notes to each pic highlighting some of the ideas to steal.

The January Box is the brand new product that I am soft-launching on a presale basis, today! This is my antidote to the January Blues. Part online programme, part online retreat, I have combined the goal-setting parts of my super popular (but now retired) Life book e-course, with the decluttering and styling parts of my Fresh Nest e-course (closed now until Spring). It covers:

The Nesting is my free quarterly supplement/ mega newsletter/digital magazine packed full of season al inspiration for your home. It’s purpose it to help you to nest, rest and love your home. It contains home styling advice, tips to get the best of each season, playlists and self care prompts.

I have created a special festive version of The Nesting, in addition to the Winter Nesting which will be sent out after Christmas.

Last Christmas, we fore-went the traditional Christmas tree in favour of a Christmas Branch. If you’ve followed me for any length of time, you will know my love for a good branch in an interior. So a branch Christmas tree felt like a verrrryyy natural step!

I have taken successive steps over the last few years to simplify Christmas and this year is obviously no different. No presents at all for the adults means I have more time and energy for the fun stuff like making and faffing and yes, laying pretty tables (something that happens to bring me great joy, which is so important this year more than ever). You don't need to cook really fancy food this Christmas to make it magical (Hello Christmas breakfast!), nor do you need formal silver wear, gazillions of courses and the 'right' wine glasses either. 

I'm popping in with a super quick fabric wrapping tutorial for you today. I've used fabric wrapping for a few Christmasses now, but only recently figured out this super simple knotting technique which even makes tape redundant! A zero waste win! There is a horrible (horrible) amount of waste generated each Christmas, so I like that this is a small step toward eliminating part of it. Here I have used a second hand cotton flat sheet (barely used) from ebay, and some linen from a table cloth I had ruined with bleach (ugh) so the costs are minimal.

I first discovered this soup back in 2016 or so and the Seasonal Festivities were very different to what we are faced with this year (I am not crying, promise!)

Thankfully, great recipes stand the test of time and so I am resharing this again this year as more than ever, we need some deliciousness and warmth in our lives. This is by far the most delicious soup I've tasted in a very long time, a bespoke recipe developed exclusively for the workshop by the Rye London studio owners, Holly and Renee. It is rich and warming and tastes incredibly creamy without any dairy (I omitted the creme fraiche obviously!)