So my birthday has rolled around again and here I am, lusting after all the gifts I would love to recieve. Since becoming a mum I don’t really treat myself. I never get pampered somewhere special or buy nice perfumes and cosmetics. In fact I rarely even buy any clothes now. It is all about… Read More Celebrations // Birthday wishing
Without boring you with the long version, in a nutshell it took me till I was almost 31 to work out what I wanted to do for a career. A year on and I am just getting to the place where I am okay with it taking that long. I don’t know about you, but… Read More Professional life // Why not having a career nailed yet is okay
Happy three years to girlabouthome.com! The end of September saw three years since I created this little corner of the internet. I’m definately not a proper blogger and I wouldn’t describe myself at one. However, I still enjoy putting posts together and uploading them. I don’t put any pressure on myself, I’ve had a really… Read More An update // Three years a blogger
Following on from this post, here is part two of planning our elopement. So after we got the registary office and hotel booked things definitely slowed down a fair bit. However, I did buy my dress not long after this. I had been looking at the Asos bridal section for a while but everything was… Read More Celebrations // Planning our elopement pt 2
As I’ve not had a chance to share a life update in a while, I thought I would catch you up on our summer so far, since our elopement, and what we have coming up. Oh, and there are lots of photos… After getting hitched we headed up to Polzeath to spend a few days… Read More An update // Summer 2018
So, all the technical bits, how did we plan our elopement? First off we talked location and set our hearts on Cornwall. We have holidayed there more than anywhere else and have some really lovely memories. We also wanted to go away, but not be too far. I think if we weren’t parents and had… Read More Celebrations // Planning our elopement pt 1
If you follow me on insta, you will have seen one big life update that being, that we recently eloped! I have a few posts in mind that I want to share about our elopement, but first I wanted to talk about why. Dunc and I used to talk about eloping before we were engaged,… Read More Celebrations // Why we eloped
So here we are. One quarter of our way through the year. Spring has finally arrived. Wedding season is upon us. We can hang washing out on the line. The evenings are lighter. Coats aren’t always needed and warmer days are becoming a real possibility. I have a few things lined up this month. Firstly,… Read More An update // 30 days of April
A quick post from me today. I am sat here on the sofa feeling really content and wanted to think back on the good things from my week. Being spoilt rotten on mothers day with cards, bath bombs, kisses, cuddles and food. What more could you want? Passing the third exam of my course, scoring… Read More In my head // Seventeen things that have made me happy this week
And just like that it was March. Seeing as January went on forever, Febuary sure did skip by. You may also have noticed that during February I only posted my Feb version of this, my monthly update. I guess I just had nothing in particular to write about and I was also fairly busy. It… Read More An Update // 31 days of March
