As I approach one month away from my home, I wanted to share a few of my favourite things about it with you all to add to your list of things to do in London .
Why I’m moving home and dreaming about windows
This week I gave notice at my flat and at the end of the month I will be moving home, back in with my parents.
Brooklyn, New York – Photo by Chris Barbalis
Considering I am closer to 30 than 25, and currently living with my boyfriend (P), this was not an easy decision to make. Even as I sent the email P asked me: “Are we crazy?”
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Wall art ideas to add character to your home
Last week I got the last piece of furniture for my not-so-new flat: a coffee table. However as I looked around my flat I was still struggling for wall art ideas.
It takes a long time to put a place together from scratch when you buy or rent somewhere unfurnished and now, almost eight months after moving in, the walls in every single room remain bare.
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View PostTwitter retweet accounts and advice on how to get noticed
Without good Twitter retweet accounts, tweeting can sometimes feel like talking to a brick wall, with nobody liking or retweeting you. This can be so frustrating, especially when you’re trying to promote your blog – which you probably work really hard on.
Photo by John Schnobrich
I had almost given up before I discovered Twitter retweet accounts and so below I have listed my faves to try and reach more people.
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Personal goals: Will changes to your day change your life?
Big changes are hard to tackle, so I wondered wheather fixing your routine and making small changes to your day can, in turn change your life.
I couldn’t tell you how many times a day I think to myself ‘I’d love to be able to do this or that’, like give up my beloved cups of coffee, but I never really stop and think about the changes I would like to make. Until now.
Here is my pledge, my early New Year Resolutions, my personal goals – call it what you like! Below is how I have begun to change my day.
Blogging with a full time job – how to do it well
When I left uni and began working full-time, I wish I had known these blogging top tips to help balance my time. I’ve been blogging with a full time job for almost three years and yet until the beginning of this year I did not give it, or my social media, the time it deserves.
In those years I have trained to be a journalist, interned for six months and then spent the last two years in full-time employment as a feature writer, as well as freelancing in journalism and copywriting.
I hope you can understand how, with such a busy workload, blogging with a full time job means I have struggled to get my blog and social media following off the ground.
(NOTE that I said understand why I have struggled, not why I have failed.)
10 food photography tips from the experts
#food, #foodie, #foodstagram, #nomnomnom… half a billion pictures of food photography have been uploaded to Instagram with these popular hashtags, demonstrating that food is still hugely popular on social media – as if we didn’t know that already. So to keep you at the top of this modern game, you might need some food photography hacks.
Food photography is even shaping tourism with one in seven people choosing where to go on holiday according to food they have seen on Instagram You can see the top ten most Instagrammed food destinations around the world here.
To help you improve your insta-skills, the famed foodie sisters Hemsley + Hemsley have shared their top food photography hacks with me…
#MeToo, but now what?
Call me jaded, if you will, but as soon as #MeToo began to spread across my social media I simply rolled my eyes.
It felt like another worthless social media exercise; a feminist bandwagon we all jump on and then slowly but surely abandon. Remember #yesallwomen?
It did, however, trigger some deep thought in me…