Categories: Life

A foreign rendezvous, a blizzard and a few dirty martinis

February 18 2018
Sponsored by Diamondport This is a bit of a personal, loved-up post. Along with Valentines Day, this week also marked five years since JS and I got engaged. I'm feeling a little sentimental and I'm going to tell you about how I came to be Mrs Smith. I was 20 when I met JS, he was 21. We were so young: studying, living at home and yet to dip more than a toe into 'adulting'.  JS wasn't ever romantic in th… go ahead, keep on reading...

Running on empty.

December 7 2017
I feel as if I've run out of steam. The 11 months of 2017 soared by at warped pace, with assignments and research and events and travel and fash-un and laughs and friends and family and fundraising and work and progress. 11 busy months. 11 amazing months. 11 months where I stayed true to my inner over-committer. 11 months where I kept it together... just. And it seems as if my body has had enough, done… go ahead, keep on reading...

1 dress, 31 days: my Frocktober fundraising challenge

October 1 2017
Friends, I'm excited to share that this month I'll be fundraising for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation (OCRF) as part of Frocktober! What's Frocktober? Frockers* are encouraged to raise money for the OCRF by frocking up: it could be at a Frocktober fundraising event, it could be every Friday for a month or the challenge many fundraisers take on is wearing a different dress every day for the month of O… go ahead, keep on reading...

A beginners guide to making crack

August 13 2017
I want to be clear up front - I'm good at plenty of things. I'm great at painting my own nails. I have a 6.7 GPA. I'm getting very good at identifying which fashion house couture came from. I taught our dog to sneeze on command! I can do things. But I'm not a great cook. In fact, it may not even be appropriate to use the term 'cook' to describe the fumbling I do in the kitchen. I stuffed up boiling ric… go ahead, keep on reading...