The WFF Love Your Body Project - Fitness Watches fitness | health | lifestyle | watches | wfflybp | whenflowersfall

So, now that our motivation for this healthy lifestyle has made a total comeback, I'm on the hunt for a fitness watch. The problem is, is that there are so many to choose from.

Obviously each watch comes with different features, some connecting to an app to track your data. I just don't know which to choose.

I'd like something that will track my calories burnt, throughout the day, but also during a workout; anything else would be a bonus. My sleep hasn't been great recently, so I'm thinking one that can track my sleep pattern would be great too.

I'm leaning towards the Fitbit Charge HR. Purely as you don't have to wear a chest strap to track your heart rate. My other choice is the Polar A3000, but unlike the fitbit, you have to wear the chest strap whilst exercising. I can see this becoming something I wold forget, or get bored of putting on.

The only other big difference I can see, is the price. I think I'd be willing to pay a little more, for better functionality.

Gone are the days of me lusting over a fancy Marc Jacobs watch. This is the new obsession.

So, which one would you pick? Is there another that I'm missing that may be a better fit?

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The WFF Love Your Body Project - August Goals health | healthy lifestyle | lifestyle | theWFFloveyourbodyproject | weight loss | whenflowersfall

Goals. Things I don't set very often, but have suddenly felt the urge to recently.

July has been a funny old month. Yet again, weight loss hasn't happened. I've been dotting between two pounds all month; but I have felt somewhat good about my body. I've had moments of frequent exercise, and I've found my love for being active again. It just makes me feel great. Food wise, I haven't been so good. I've pigged out on many occasions, and I feel that's the reason for a halt in weight loss. I see my lowest weight (currently 205lbs) and then think it's ok to over indulge for three days after. Then of course, it shoots back up.

I did on the other hand, see the photo above this month. I'm pretty sure I don't look like that anymore, I just need to tell my brain that. I never want to look like that again.

So, the goals...

- No weigh in's this month!

If I don't know how well I'm doing, I can't give myself an excuse to pig out. I'm hoping this will mean I can get over the 200lb hurdle.

- Exercise 5 times a week.

I would love to be an everyday kinda girl, but I just don't think it's realistic. Each week has hard days, and sometimes you just have to get into bed yourself once the baby is asleep.

- Buy a new dress that makes you feel amazing!

I'm actually having a night out with the girls at the beginning of September, so I need to find a cracking outfit. But what does a twenty five year old, mum of one wear on a night out these days. I can't get past the sea of crop tops and body con dresses that I keep seeing.

- Only one lazy PJ day a week.

I've fallen back into the habit of not getting dressed if I don't have to. It doesn't make you feel good, and it doesn't do much for your confidence. Time to nip it in the bud.

I also introduced WFFLYBP over on my channel today. If you would like to see me ramble on for a little while about why I'm doing this, click the link below. 

So what are your goals for August. Leave a comment below. 

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It's been a fair while since I last did one of these posts. So, I figured I would get back to it and share a bit of life with you guys. 

Unfortunately, this week has been pretty boring. 

I've just started to really get into the designing part of the new WFF website. It's all pictures and prettiness at the minute, and I'm now waiting for Liam to have a spare moment or six to get some coding done. Fingers crossed it'll be finished by the end of summer. 

Scout got sick at the beginning of the week, and what we thought was a fever from him teething, turned out to be the roseola virus. His little belly got all blotchy and he wasn't a very happy bub. Thankfully he got past it pretty quickly though, and shouldn't get it again. Another couple of Scouty updates; he looooooves broccoli, and is now wanting to drink from cups without lids. Cue puddles of water dotted around my house. 

Liam and I celebrated our sixth year together,  he gave me a beautiful ring from my favourites over at Bloody Mary Metal. 

I started cycling again, and am really enjoying it. As a matter of fact, I should probably be doing that now instead of writing this post. 

Aaaand finally, we started decorating our living room. We picked out a gorgeous warm grey shade of paint that could almost be classed as a heather purple, and we love it. What we don't love is the giant crack in the plaster we discovered last night under the wallpaper. It all had to come off the wall, and we are making a trip to B&Q shortly to get some stuff to patch it up. Yaaaay.

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The WFF Love Your Body Project - A Plan Of Action | Lifestyle confidence | fitness | health | lifestyle | self confidence | theWFFloveyourbodyproject | weightloss

Ok, ok. So I have been really letting myself slip on this recently; and we are in the seventh month of this year already!!

I admit, I haven't really been trying to lose weight, but I also haven't felt overly insecure about my body recently either. That is a huge step in the right direction on this journey to body confidence.

For the past few updates, I've really gone on about losing weight; but I've realised this month that it's so much more than that. Confidence doesn't come from dropping a few pounds alone.

So, in a bid to start feeling more like myself recently, I've dyed my hair pink and gotten in touch with a tattoo artist. These are things I've been wanting to do again for a very long time, but just kept putting off. I'm currently waiting for some designs to drop into my inbox, and then hopefully I'll be getting all booked in for a couple of new pieces to make a start on my sleeve.

Wardrobe is another thing I am slowly working on. I almost always talk about how I'm still wearing the same clothes I wore throughout my pregnancy, and that is slowly but surely changing. I've bought a fair few new pieces recently, and I'm on the verge of having a huge wardrobe clear out. I just want to make sure that I'm not doing to leave myself with not a lot to wear by doing it.

So with that being said, weight loss is still a big factor in this project. As much as I haven't felt overly self conscious recently, I also haven't lost any weight. I'm still hovering around the same 206lbs point that I was at in January.
In a bid to kick start the weight loss again, I have downloaded the Value diary app. It's 'not in connection with any weight loss plan', but it's basically the Weight Watchers ProPoints system. I'm using this along side MyFitnessPal and hoping to see some progress soon.

Exercise wise, I've lost my mojo. Until yesterday, when I felt a huge burst of inspiration. I've set myself a goal of cycling 10km five times a week, and doing some arm weights where ever I feel like I can squeeze some in. I'm definitely not the biggest lover of exercise, but I do know that I always feel incredibly good after I've completed a workout.

I think I'll leave the update at that for now. Hopefully next month I can tell you that I've lost some pounds and booked in for some new skin art.
If you do want to follow me on this journey more closely, you can follow my health and fitness instagram account - @wffloveyourbodyproject.
It's mostly a food diary, but I really want to start incorporating more of what this project is all about into it.

Self confidence is what counts.

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Money, being a Mama & lack of control.

In the last four years, I've learnt that I'm a serious control freak.
Life has thrown a lot my way during this time, and a lot of it has been totally out of my control, meaning I've felt full of anxiety, stress or anger towards those certain situations.

Let's start when we moved out of Liam's parent's home four years ago. Liam had just finished his masters degree, and had been offered a job in Leeds. At the time, I was working part time (say full time if you count all the overtime I did,) and enjoyed my job. I had a choice. Either stay in Crewe and keep my job without Liam, or quit and move to Leeds with him. Of course at the time, I thought it best to quit and move; an exciting new adventure. Except, I couldn't get a new job. My anxiety over the new place and not knowing anyone took over, and if you've been a reader since the beginning, you know that I was diagnosed with depression. It's been this way ever since. Me jobless, Liam the one who earns the money.
We struggled during the first couple of years. We struggled a lot, with many things. My mental health being one of them.

The two years ago, I fell pregnant. Liam was finally earning enough to support us and it felt good. I'd gotten used to not having any money of my own, and I was happy enough pottering around, looking after our home, all whilst Liam was at work. I had my own space, my own time and a hobby that I loved. Everything just fit and for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel out of control.

But when Scout came along, all of those feelings changed. I no longer had control over when I could do the housework, or when I could write for WhenFlowersFall. At this point, I realised that my want for control over things was probably a bit more than normal. I'd cry every day, something I still do regularly, and felt trapped. Something I'm sure many first time mums feel at some point.

Fast forward to now, and a lot has changed again.
We've moved back to our home town, Liam now earns a great wage and works from home, and Scout is a year old. But, I don't feel much different. I thought I would. Liam is totally weighed down with the tonnes of work he has to do, I don't have time to keep the house clean whilst looking after Scout and I still feel a huge lack of control. I feel constantly overwhelmed. I thought when Liam started working from home, that it would mean two people in the house, so two people to do the housework.  I mean, it is two people now making the majority of the mess. Wrong. I also thought that I may get some time to myself. Wrong again. That is unless we've had a falling out about it, and then it happens for about a week.
The only problem is, in my 'free' time I try to battle the mountains of laundry, hoover, clean the bathroom and kitchen. I feel like I do everything, apart from the things I love to do; like blog, or film videos.  (As I'm writing this I'm ignoring the washing machine beeping at me to tell me it's done.)

Another control thing I didn't think would matter to me, is money. Liam does everything house wise, bills, rent etc. I never know what's been paid, or how much is left. But the big issue is, I HATE not earning my own money. I don't have my own savings, all of my bills are paid by Liam's income and I get an allowance of £150 a month on a good month. I feel useless and trapped by it. If I was to work, all of my wages would go towards childcare for Scout. Either that, or I would have to work weekends, meaning zero family time.

At this point, I'm not quite sure what to do. I like to think of the what ifs, so I can be prepared for anything; but currently the what ifs terrify me.
What if...Liam and I were to decide to split? I would be left with nothing. No car, no money, no where to live.
What if...something terrible was to happen to Liam? Same thing.

I've thought about saving my allowance each month, but after doing a couple of things for myself each month, nails, maybe a new pair of jeans; I just don't have that much left to save.

Lack of control is terrifying, but I currently have no idea where to go with it.
I didn't quite expect this post to be as long and rambly (read moany) as it has ended up being. Sorry about that.
I guess I would just like to ask you guys for suggestions? Or even just know if it's just me. Am I totally wrong feeling this way? Is it normal?
I'd be fibbing if I say it hadn't caused a fair few arguments recently, and I'm trying to find some way to combat the issue. I'd love to just have some security again.

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Cloud Print Blind || WFF Does DIY clouds | diy | do it yourself | lifestyle | roller blind

Oh, hey! It's time for a new feature. 

With the new house, we're finding more and more things we need to DIY. Now, our new home is a rented property, so there's only a certain amount of things we can actually do. So rather than ripping down walls, and replacing floors, we've decided to just give some pieces in our home a little personality. 

I always knew that I wanted a cloud print blind for Scout's new room. The only problem is, the one I had seen from Farg Form was not only in the wrong colour, but also pricey and quite hard to find. So, I thought I'd make it myself. 

- The roller blind we picked up was one of the Colour Match range ones in Argos. Unfortunately, I cannot remember for the life of me which colour blue we went for. I'd really recommend asking to see the colour you're after before buying, as the catalogue colours and colours online differ dramatically. Prices for these are super cheap, I think ours cost £12.99; but please keep in mind that the quality is reflected in the price. 

- The paint I picked up to use was the Dylon fabric paint. I've used it before and have had nothing but great experience with it. Usually, you would paint, dry, iron and wash. But, with the blind, obviously you can't stick it in the washing machine. 

- From here on out, this is super simple. Just use a super small paint brush and paint on your clouds, or design of choice. You could even use some card and make stencils to make all of the clouds absolutely perfect. 

- Annnndd, tadaaaaa! 

I really love the way this looks. It took roughly two hours to dry, and I left it at that. If you do want to make sure it is totally set, you could maybe go over it with a hairdryer on a low heat. I wouldn't recommend the ironing stage as directed, doing this may encounter some melting if you are using a plastic backed blind like this one. 

I haven't washed this at all, but the fabric is still soft and malleable. It's been up in Scout's room for a couple of weeks now and there hasn't been any cracking in the paint, and it looks just as good as it did when I first finished it.

If there are any other little DIYs you'd like us to test out, leave a comment below.
I'm on a mission to make this house a home, and I'm pretty impressed with my first little project.
How'd you like it?

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Scout's 1st Birthday Baby jones | birthday | lifestyle | one | parent | scout | whenflowersfall

Excuse me, what? I have a one year old? How the fudge did that happen??

But, yes. It's been almost a month since Scout turned one. The day fell on a Sunday, and a week and a half after our big move. Unfortunately, this meant we had no time to organise a party of any kind, so it just ended up being a family day.

He started his first day by having the LONGEST lie in he's ever had. I think it was about nine before he stirred and we walked in to our happy little chunk. He had his morning milk, we spent an hour ripping into presents, and then headed to Frankie & Benny's for a birthday breakfast.
We spent the day doing a bit of shopping, and after his nap we headed to his Grammy's house. Liam's mum had put out a bit of a buffet tea, he cautiously made his way through his smash cake and we ate farrrr too much.

At a year old, Scout...
- weighs 22lbs (measured at 1 year check at 11 months)
- is 79cms tall (measured at 1 year check at 11 months)
- wears size 12-18 month
- has six teeth.
- babbles all the time. His favourite words are ducky (duk-eeeeee), mama, dada, cat and nom nom nom.
- crawls like a champ, but has been a lazy bones when it comes to walking. He can do it, just. He just doesn't seem interested in it yet.
- is always on his feet. He loves to stand and play.
- can climb onto the sofa without any effort. I can no longer leave him playing for two minutes to pick up the brew I made ten minutes ago. He will always be bouncing on the sofa, the moment I turn my back. I birthed a monkey.
- has three big boy meals a day. He has milk when he first wakes and before naptime/bed. He is also now on cows milk, so now more buying formula for us!!
- only has one nap a day now. He's just on the go all the time.
- drinks from a cup, unless it's for his milk. We're just starting our journey to get rid of the bottles completely. We just need to find a cup Scout likes for it.

- loves Peppa pig, Duggee, any book, pasta, building blocks and Luna, our cat. He's obsessed with her. 

- takes after his dad. They are both so incredibly clumsy. I think I'm going to have my hands full when he grows up. I'm expecting more than the usual amounts of cuts, grazes and broken bones. He's already split his lip three times. He's a nutter.

I'm sure there's a lot more I could include I'm this post, but I won't bore you too much.
This past year has been a total learning curve for me. I've learnt that I'm still not very good at coping under pressure. I've learnt that even when I'm angry, it only takes a smile from Scout to break me out of a bad mood. But most of all, I've learnt that through all of the bad days, sleepless nights, hours of feeling like a failure as a mum, I wouldn't change him for the world. I couldn't imagine my life without my little ray of sunshine.  I look forward to one day, giving him a baby brother or sister; but for now, I'm really enjoying watching him grow every day.

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Well, Hi! lifestyle | move | relocation | whenflowersfall

It has been a mighty long time since I last posted, here on WFF; and a lot has gone on in that time.
I wanted to quickly post and say hello, I'm still alive!

In the past couple of months, we've packed up our house in Chatham, Kent. The house which was our home for two years. The house which was Scout's first home, and lived the majority of his first year of his life; and moved back home to Crewe, Cheshire.
It was a bit hectic and moving day did not come along without a few bumps in the road. The day before, Liam's Dad crashed our moving van just minutes after picking it up, which resulted in us getting a much smaller van and us panicking as to whether our belongings would fit into it. We were doing a 208 mile move up the country, and did not want to have to do two trips.

I'm glad to say that we did make it in one go, with our car full, plus baby and animals. (India decided to gift us with a lovely poop just five minutes after getting on the motorway. Yep, that was fun.)
The house is amazing and we are so in love with it, it's silly. We have so much space now, and to say that we are spending much less on rent for this place, is ridiculous; but true. Yay for being up North!

Within the first week of being here, we had unpacking to do, a wedding to attend and Scout's first birthday! I'll do a full post on that soon enough. It's been a little insane and three weeks in, we are still unpacking, buying new furniture and trying to make this place feel like our home.

I'm just now finding time to get back into the swing of things, and my gosh I have missed it so much!!
There will be a blog revamp coming soon, and I'm very excited about that. I'm also hoping to bring much more content to not only the blog, but also my Youtube channel too.
This year has been crazy busy, with many things going on; but now it's all beginning to settle and I can start prioritising again.

Thank you if you have stuck with me through this massive hiatus. To think that I haven't
 blogged properly since Scout was born is insane. I cannot wait to bring WFF back to life.

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Birthdays From The Past birthdays from the past | lifestyle

With my 25th birthday looming, I decided to have a flick back through my photo file marked 'birthdays'.
It turns out that I haven't taken any photos for the past few years, but I thought it would be fun to share some from the years I do have photo's of.
It's crazy how much I have changed in the past six years. Not just in the way that I look, but the way that I act and how I have grown emotionally. I look back at some of these photos and think wow, I was really happy then. These birthdays all before my depression diagnosis; but really, I'm happy now, I just don't realise it sometimes. 
I feel like the lack of photos from the past few years is down to my general low mood. Last year I was very pregnant and spent most of the day crying through raging hormones, and the years before, I haven't the foggiest what I was doing.

So here they are...a few glimpses into my past birthdays. Cue bad hair, drunk photos, and awful outfits.

 Oh, gosh. This was the year that I drank an entire bottle of Malibu before midday. I drank it straight from the bottle, in the car on the way to visit my family in Wales. My boyfriend of the time was driving and I was in control of the CDs. Yup, CD's. Oh boy. As you can see from the photos, I did continue to drink, after a few hours on water only. I don't think I can remember too much else from that day. It was a good day. There's also a rare photo of my younger brother and I, top left. With my mum, bottom left, and an old friend who I was attached to the hip with, bottom right.

 This was my first birthday whilst dating Liam. His mum went all out and made a HUUUUGGEE cupcake cake. Current obsession of the time. And a buffet. I don't think I did too much on the actually day of my birthday that year, but a group of us did go bowling in the same week and got incredibly drunk, again. The night ended with my eating a Dominos and then asking for a Chinese. 

My 21st is the last birthday I have photos from. It was the year before we moved up to Leeds and into our own place. It was also the year before my mental health issues got really bad.
On the day, I woke up to balloons all over the house, and a cake with my face on it. Stunning. If I remember rightly, I spent the day shopping with a friend and then spent the evening with Liam.
Of course, it wouldn't have been a 21st without some silly dressed up night out. I feel like I planned it for ages.
One of my best friends, who's birthday is four days after mine, celebrated it with me. We spent the day shopping, getting our nails done, and then went out later that night.
After Liam's birthday(26th March), we spent the weekend in a friends caravan in Wales with my family. The campsite was one that I grew up going to, also the one that I ended up working at when we moved to Wales. I always loved it, and still do. These photos make me realise how much I miss living by the sea. In the Summer, there are dolphins that live in the bay. It's just beautiful

So what's for this year?
Originally, I had planned on taking Scout to Whipsnade zoo. It was my local zoo growing up and whilst we are still down south, I thought it would be great to take him there. But, the weather has been diabolical this week and I don't think walking around in the cold and wet with him would be a fab idea. Plus, walking around in the rain on my birthday doesn't seem very appealing.
So that's being rescheduled for closer to Summer and we'll probably go just before we move back to Crewe. Instead, we're going to have a wander around Bluewater. We've not been in the whole two years that we've lived here and shopping is probably my most favourite thing to do. Also, Yo!sushi for lunch is definitely on the cards. Yum!

What are your favourite birthday memories?
I'd love to hear about them in the comments below.

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Another week has flown by, and it's now March! How insane is that?!

What's even scarier, is that I turn 25 this month. That means next year I will be closer to 30 than I am 20, and I am soooo not ready for that. 

We've had a pretty slow going week, but there have been a few exciting moments that I wanted to share with you today.

1. I've made more of an effort to make myself feel more human this month. I've taken time to actually get dressed more often that not, and put some make-up on. Even if it's only a little mascara, it seems to help the low moods a lot. 

2. Scout started testing his first product to review this week. Haha! Well, I'll review it for him, but so far so good. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled on my youtube channel for the full video review coming soon. 

3. I'm well and truly stuck in the planning mindset now. I love sitting down and filling out a couple of pages of to do's. It really helps to keep my mind a little clearer. 

4. I posted a little reminder for myself mid week. I need a boost every now and then, and I find Pinterest (follow me here) is one of the best places to find some motivation. 

5. Pay day week means that we ran out of a few of our favourite foods. Scout tried his daddy's cheerios this week, but wasn't too sure about them.

6. Another make-up face.

7. Liam surprised me with the planner I've been lusting over for a couple of weeks. So now I have two. Yes, I'm becoming one of those people who plans every part of her life. 

8. He also came home from the office with Yo!sushi for dinner. I'm not going to lie. I could have eaten this all to myself. It was so good! 

9. I've started using Snapchat much more this week. If you would like to follow our story, my user name is whenflowersfall. I seem to post anything that isn't instagram worthy. Derp faces, anyone?

10. I thought I had found my dream bag last week. That is, until I saw this one. It's so beautiful. PLus, you can have it monogrammed. How fancy!

11. Scout has started teething again, so sleep has become pretty non existent. He's also suffering with bad nappy rash because of it. 

12. And the most exciting thing of all. We welcomed little India into our lives. She's absolutely tiny and a total ball of  love. It's been 6 months since we lost Mischief, and I always felt like there was a big hole in our home. We've been a 2 cat household for a few years and the time just felt right. I can't wait to watch her grow into the complete beauty I know she'll be. 

How has your week been?

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This Week's Highlights catch up | instagram | lifestyle | this week in photos | this weeks highlights

Yup, another series is being resurrected. I know a lot of people do these kinds of posts now, but I figured it would be a great one to look back on in a few months time. Also, if you don't have/follow me on Instagram, then it's a good way to catch up with my life stuffs.

1. We've really gotten back into using our cloth nappies. We fell into a bit of a disposable habit and it was not only becoming an expensive one, but we were also putting out far more rubbish each week. Now all I need to do, is get used to the stuffing again. Does anyone else hate the stuffing part?

2. Scout has been a bit all over with his naps this week. It's not all been his fault. We've had to be out of the house a couple of times, and he just sleeps where he can. On Tuesday he crashed in the car after we had our new tyre fitted, so of course I sat in the car, outside the house with him for an hour. How could I move that sweet little snoozer?

3. Attack of the pasta bake happened again. Scout loves it, and the majority of the time it ends up all over his face. Hey, at least he didn't rub it in his eyes this time.

4. I've been feeling some major wanderlust this week. We haven't had a holiday for over 4 years and I'm in dire need of some actual sunshine. Because of this, I have vowed to save half of my money each month until we can afford to go away. It probably won't be abroad for the first holibob, but somewhere other than stinky Chatham would be a lovely change of scenery.

5. Again with Scout and his naps. This is how he fell asleep twice this week. He wants to stand 24/7, even when he's meant to be going to sleep. Turns out he just couldn't fight it hard enough this time.

6. I've really gotten into this planning malarky. I've made a little start on Scout's scrapbook, (more of that to come soon,) and I'm constantly looking for new things I can add into this little obsession of mine.

7. This week I've also really struggled with a lot. I've felt really overwhelmed with looking after Scout, and juggling all of the housework/blogging/youtube etc. My routine wasn't followed brilliantly so I'm thinking that's why.

8. We did, on the other hand, have two full nights sleep with Scout. As I'm writing this, I have every thing crossed for a third. Only time will tell if we've finally cracked it where sleep is concerned.

9. Bargain of the week? A bright orange knitted cardi from Primark. Only £3 down from £16!

10. I've had the realisation that Scout has grown so much. In this picture he had just stolen Liam's hat and wasn't happy unless it was on his head.

11. Today, Liam took the reigns and I've had a complete me day. It was so needed and I haven't actually had a day like this since before Scout was born. We've now decided to make it a regular thing as I feel totally relaxed and refreshed, for the first time in nearly nine months!!

12. So as well as taking the dog for a walk, I had an hour long bath, painted my nails and filmed this weeks YouTube videos without feeling rushed. It's been bliss.
Now, it's time for two very heavy work weeks for Liam. Let's see how relaxed I feel when they're done.

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If you don't follow me on Instagram, you have probably been saved from my new obsession. Planning. As is planners, diaries; the lot.
That is, until now.
I have no idea where this obsession has sprung from, all I know is, I don't know how I lived with out it. I recently purchased my new planner from personal-planner.co.uk. It's a great service, as you can pretty much customise every inch of your planner. Size, colour, front cover. Even down to what columns you have on the inside. You don't even have to order a diary/planner. You could simply have a notebook if you so wish.
I then started eyeing up how others set theirs up on instagram, and this is what got me hooked. Everything looked so pretty! Below are a few of the ladies I have followed recently. I am in awe of their planners and hope that one day mine will look as good.

Top - @oneorangesnowflake & @misbelindaxox

Bottom - @filoally & @lindsayplans

(If you go and follow any of them, tell them I sent you. )

My friend, Fiona added me to the UK Planner Addicts FB page and the need for more pretty things continued to grow. Everyone talks about stickers, and inserts and washi tape. It was a whole new world for me but I love scrolling through the posts.
This pretty much leads to now. I have my planner, a whole new stationary section on my desk and well organised days. Something I haven't had since Scout was born.
So the next question is, would you guys be interested in seeing some planning/planner/stationary type posts. I already have a haul going up on my Youtube channel on Sunday, so if you are interested, make sure you tune in for that. I'm trying to find my creative mojo again this year, and I think this may just be the beginning of just that.
It's weird how it can make you feel so relaxed, just by writing things down on paper instead of trying to keep it all in your brain.

Do any of you lovely lot like to plan out your days?
Or even better, have any times for this newbie?

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Tufted Arrow Cushion || Tile Print Duvet Set
Cactus || Knitted Pouffe Charcoal || Knitted Pouffe Orange
Ikat Tribal Duvet Set || Ikat Cushion
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I am the worst person for online window shopping. A recent discovery has been how Asda are so on point with their home items at the moment. I feel like I could literally redo my entire house with Asda pieces alone.
Above are just a very few of the things that I'm currently lusting over. As I write this though, the majority of them are out of stock. Sigh. It seems everyone else loves them as much as I do.

Are are of you guys just as bad as me?
Where is your favourite place to online window shop?

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