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Zola’s first birthday

Our first year with our little Zola Saint Laurent has been so perfect and joyful, that we wanted to celebrate her in style, surrounded by treats, and the people + doggies she loves. We had a lil birthday tea situation for her at home, and of course I had to go a bit extra on […]

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Stay Home

Our family bathroom renovation

One of the biggest rooms in need of renovation when we moved in to our new home was the family bathroom. Whilst everything technically worked, we struggled with it aesthetically as well as functionally. Here’s what we were working with: The all-white look and those tiles were giving hospital vibes. We wanted to strip it […]

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London Life

Taking a Pottery class

As a designer who makes digital artifacts all day long, I’m always drawn hugely to making things with my hands, and so for me, doing pottery feels hugely aspirational and exciting. Whilst making something out of clay has been on my life list for the longest time, somehow I had never gotten round to it, […]

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London Life

Review – Palm Court at the Langham

I used to work around the corner from The Langham hotel and would walk past it twice a day, trying to peek in to see the splendour inside (and of course celeb-watch!) I had heard great things about the afternoon tea there, and so, as a mid-year pick-me-up, we decided to pop in to sample […]

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Fly Away

Trip back to Manchester

I graduated from Manchester University back in the 00’s! Just saying that makes me feel a bit weak. How am I this old, urgh. Anyway. I hadn’t been back properly since, and Lu also hadn’t been back to Manchester for a while after also having lived there at roughly the same time as me (although […]

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Stay Home

Creating a walk-in wardrobe

One of the first jobs when we moved into our new home, was to figure out what to do with this bedroom: The best thing that this bedroom had going for it was its size – it would spaciously accommodate a double or queen sized bed as well as other furniture. Like the other rooms, […]

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Stay Home

Our kitchen renovation

One of the first priorities when we moved into our new home was to completely redo the kitchen, both from an aesthetic point of view, but also from a layout and storage perspective. We wanted to design something that would completely work for us and our needs. Here is what the kitchen used to look […]

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Celebrate Stay Home

Moving into our house

As detailed in this blog post, selling our flat had been quite a struggle! But, the light at the end of the tunnel was being able to finally move into our new home! After spending all of my adult life living in flats, the idea of owning a house was the true dream, and we […]

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Celebrate

Selling our flat

Finally! I never thought that I would be able to type these words, but finally we have sold our flat! We bought our flat back in 2016, and it was the dream purchase then. Here’s a pic of us on our completion day when we had picked up the keys – we were so happy […]

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Life List

2020 State of the Union

What happened in 2020: Survived a global pandemic Became a family of three with the arrival of our beautiful Zola Saint Laurent Life list items completed: ✅ Launch Little Goat Supplies ✅ Make my first £100 with Little Goat Supplies ✅ Get a dog ✅ Celebrate Lockdown Birthday #1 ✅ Celebrate Blue Monday ✅ See […]