Tag: diary of an honest woman
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Tumeric Tea Tonic
Well hello there, Its been a while. Summer and other work stuff just got in the way. However I’ve freed up my diary for the next couple of months to bring you at least one post a week. As it’s started to turn cold outside I’ve begun to look after myself inside. Now I love…
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Spring Summer 2018 Fashion – Catwalk Collections at Charity Shop Prices
At long last the sun is here, and it finally feels like Spring. Excellent news! I think I speak for the whole Nation when I say we were all beyond happy to feel the sun on our faces. Then you look in your wardrobe to pull together a Spring outfit but all you see is…
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Wish List
I had planned to write a lovely seasonal gift guide and include some of the samples that I have been gifted this year. However since my recent trip to Milan (which was to promote British Luxury Design, which is truly amazing.) I have been somewhat obsessed by Italian design. Now my our bank balance doesn’t…
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Victorian Christmas Table
We travel up to the North East for Christmas to the house I grew up in, in Durham. We all share the cooking on the big day but the table decoration is always my domain. This year my theme is around a Victorian Christmas Table. I bought an old linen tablecloth and napkins from my…
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Winter Garland
I love the smell of December, the whole house is alive with greenery. Christmas Tree purchased on Sunday and yesterday I put together a Winter Garland in the hall. It didnt take a long time and it was so inexpensive to create. Lat week I was given four enourmous pine branches, your florist or nursery…
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Time To Party
The clocks have gone back which means the days become shorter and the nights grow longer. How to spend the long nights? Wrapped up reading a book by an open fire or embracing the party season with a full diary of events. The answer can only be, PARTY! The high street is full of sequined,…
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Sephora Favourites
International brand Sephora has a great take on the best beauty products on the market from skincare to make up. Mr B knows he can be on a work trip anywhere in the world and all he has to do is find a Sephora store for a winning gift So good is this ubiquitous hub…
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Sunday Supplement #40 – The Other Room
Last weekend I had some of my best friends come to visit, delighted to have visitors I set about sorting the spare room and ‘the other room’. The spare room was not difficult, my parents stay with us a lot, quick sweep, change of linen, done. To properly accommodate my friend her husband and two children…
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Honest Christmas Guide for Her
Here it is the definitive gift guide for her. Gentlemen take note you can’t really go wrong with any of these beautiful buys. For Her 1. 3 L’Imperatrice, Dolce & Gabbana, Amazon 2. Amazon Fire Tablet, 7” Magenta 3. Heaven by Deborah Mitchell, Bee Kit. 4. Monogrammed Necklace, Thomas Sabo 5. Sanctuary Spa, Votive Candles…
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Honest Christmas Gift Guide for Him
Whoa! It’s December. We have bought and dressed the tree. Lit the fire and candles and we are beginning to feel more than a little festive over at the Boston Abode. I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at gifts, actually press days started in July. So I can’t deny I started looking early. That…
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How I tackled Contouring
I know what your thinking, contouring has been around like forever now. Slow on the uptake I loathed it at first, I’m going to give you my older perhaps wiser way that I tackled it. So yes contouring has been around for some time and yes it passed me by at first. Doing this and…
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Sunday Supplement #37
I love Sundays. I’ve spent the day in the most beautiful way, gardening. The garden is looking very autumnal with our show stopping Virginia Creeper turning the brightest shades of red, crimson, orange and yellow. The creeper crept all along our fence during the summer offering its green leafy coverage in abundance. But it’s this time…
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Galvanic Spa
I read so much about how increasingly you don’t need to go under the knife to achieve youthful skin. Award winning brand Nu Skin has developed a system called Galvanic Spa, which uses a galvanic current to push moisturizing products into the skin, for the optimum plumped look. More recently they developed Age Loc. A range…
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Sunday Supplement #36
A couple of weeks ago over dinner with friends, I was introduced to the Danish idea of ‘Hygge’. Now I knew the Danes have an amazing sense of style but I knew nothing of this Scandi coated lifestyle nonsense. Over dinner, I learned it’s the way the Danes get through the cold dark winter by restoring…