Snakes and Ladders

Inspiration comes in bursts, it doesn't always last for long, but just long enough for me to re-energise and re-focus. It's the kind of inspiration that makes you start a new project or maybe even just go for a walk or do some gardening. The feeling stays for as long as required, then it disappears... for how long? I never …

Tale As Old As Time

Beauty and the Beast is most certainly my most cherished childhood movie. I was a little girl when it came out and I have this feeling associated to it that I can only describe as nostalgia. It's movies, books and memories like this that we don't really know the significance of until we grow older. …

Ch Ch Ch Changes

I woke up today with Changes by David Bowie playing in my head and it inspired me to write this post, so there you have it, inspiration can come from absolutely anywhere. I have really struggled these last few weeks. I feel as though I have been dragging around boulder, which I can only assume …

Self Love Pt 1

If there is one thing that I triumphed in 2016, it was self love. I finally reached the point where I stopped body shaming myself, stopped calculating my self worth based on the number on the scales and finally settled into my beautiful skin. For as long as I can remember, and I am talking …

Create your own beautiful Instagram photos

Saturday mornings are my favourite, and even more so now that it is when I get up, make my cup of coffee, drag the coffee table out into the courtyard and work on my stock photography skills. I want to make this a regular part of my blogging and I will leave tips for those …

Workin’ Nine to Five

Ever sat there and thought "there has got to be more to life than working"? We've all been there, had those days/weeks/months where we dread going to work, dreading the fluorescent lights and partition walls, the commute to the city, daydreaming of elsewhere. Wishing away our weeks all for those two days of relief we …

Ten Tips to Save Money

I have decided to share with you some realistic ways to save money, forget budgets, no one EVER sticks to budgets. I have struggled so much in the past when it comes to saving money but recently I have set in place some simple, effective ways to stop spending so much money. So read on if …

Create your dream office (on a budget)

So like any goal setter in the early stages of 2017 would do, I'm going to create a vision board for my ideal office space. Every vision board needs some inspiration, Pinterest is absolutely great for this, which is where I found my idea for my space. This space is clean, simple and chic, which is …

New year, blah blah blah

As I sit here in a post holiday slump, returning to the real world after a wonderful a break, I'm pondering what it is I want for the new year; set resolutions, don't set resolutions that's so bloody cliché! New Years Eve is always a sentimental time of year for me, as it is for most, but for me …

Hello, Emily Speaking

In an attempt to reignite the creativity flame, I have turned to a new blog as I stumble through this ever evolving, creative process. I hope to one day collaborate all of my wonderful ideas into a one-stop-shop. Twenty-sixteen was the year of rest for me, mentally speaking anyway. I was not committing myself to any …