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3 Things That Might Need an Update in Your Home

When it comes to upgrading your home, there is no right timing. You can just go for it whenever you feel like it or if any of your things in the house are worn out and need your attention to make your place perfect just like the way you want.

3 Things That Might Need an Update in Your Home

Top Tips for Home Solar Panels

As more American homeowners convert to solar energy, you are probably considering it for your property.

Using a completely renewable energy source and the ability to reduce your electricity bills to almost nothing once your home solar panels are paid for feels like an easy decision.

It may indeed be, but there are some considerations to make before you go ahead and transform your home’s power supply.

Top tips for home solar panels

6 tips on how to choose the prefect dress for prom or wedding

The “prom dress” has the same cut and silhouette as the bridal gown. The only difference in the prom frock is its fabric; it must be light, flowing, and form-fitting. While brides wear white for purity, innocence, and virginity, teens don wear white because it doesn’t show up well on camera.

6 tips on how to choose the prefect dress for prom or wedding

5 Beautiful Chinoiserie Wallpaper Murals to Make Your Room Stunning

Chinoiserie wallpaper is a beautiful example of an art form. The luxurious handmade wallpaper patterns are based on unique hand-painted art from China and provide a touch of refinement and timeless beauty to any environment. Peel-and-stick wallpaper in the style of classic Chinoiserie Wallpaper Murals is the best method to create a statement in your house. A wide variety of designs and colours are available in tempered wallpaper to suit your own style. For a more natural aesthetic, have a look at the tree branches, lovely garden landscapes, and realistic depictions of a verdant paradise.

5 Beautiful Chinoiserie Wallpaper Murals to Make Your Room Stunning

Making Your Home More User Friendly

If your home is feeling a little clunky and you are struggling to do anything in it then why not change it up? This will ensure it is more user friendly, meaning everyone is happier all around. There are a few different things you can do, we are going to discuss four of them in more detail below. Some of these additions may even add some value to your home, which is always a bonus.

Making Your Home More User Friendly

Relaxing and gentle steps to unwind and fall asleep

One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four…. Sound familiar? Falling asleep at night can be a struggle if you haven’t allowed yourself time to switch off from your day. Your sleeping environment and what you do in the run-up to bedtime can have a big influence on the quality of your snoozing. When you sleep like a log, you feel like a superstar. And you’ll be pleased to know there are simple things that can help you gently drift off. Like having fabulous bedding and sticking to an easy-peasy bedtime routine.

Relaxing and gentle steps to unwind and fall asleep

How To Throw The Best Birthday Party For Your Little One

It can always seem a bit of a stressful event to organise, as the older your child gets the more there is to plan. Especially if they would like to have a party with their friends invited too. You want them to have an enjoyable day but at the same time, it dawns on you that there will be lots to plan. So here are some ideas on what to organise for your little one’s birthday and how to make it as great a day as possible.

How To Throw The Best Birthday Party For Your Little One

Discovering the magical city of Alicante

Alicante, a city of 330,000 inhabitants, with its endless beaches and countless tourists who visit it every year for the sea, its mild climate, its beautiful old town and the delicious local cuisine, is a destination that can hardly be compared to an ordinary place you can visit. How can one describe the experience of visiting this city? This article will try to describe the most critical points and sights of the city that are worth discovering, for all the right reasons:

Discovering the magical city of Alicante

5 Ways to Pamper & Protect Your Pets

Whether you prefer parrots, delight in dogs, can’t get enough of cats or go dizzy over donkeys, if you’re an animal lover, chances are your pets feel like members of your extended family.

In fact, there might even be times you prefer your furry friends to their human counterparts. Maybe it’s better to keep that fact to yourself though1

But animal aficionados and pet parents everywhere are faced with a number of burning issues – like what are the best treats for your pet? And how do you keep their health in tip top condition?

5 Ways to Pamper & Protect Your Pets

6 Ways to Turn Your Garden into a Winter Wonderland

The weather is getting colder, but we can’t always count on having snow – no matter how much you want to build a snowman!

Even without the flurries, however, there’s no reason you can’t have your own beautiful winter wonderland to escape to.

6 Ways to Turn Your Garden into a Winter Wonderland

5 Home Style Tweaks Inspired By TV & Movies

What are your plans for this winter?

Are you planning to hibernate on your couch as terrestrial TV’s traditionally strongest season takes off and streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime continue to drop ground-breaking, binge-worthy box sets?

Or maybe you’re venturing out to the cinema to see the latest silver screen releases as well as settling in at home with a big box of popcorn to rewatch some classic movies?

5 Home Style Tweaks Inspired By TV & Movies

Launching and Growing Your Own YouTube Channel: My Practical Guide 

More and more people are starting a YouTube channel. Whether it’s to supplement a growing business, or the channel is the business, or you simply need a creative outlet, YouTube is the place to broadcast your content. It is TV tailored to the individual audience member, created for everyone and anyone, and allows for content of a range of quality to be shared and admired.

Nowadays, a kid saying that they want to be an influencer when they grow up isn’t as ridiculous an idea as being an astronaut. It’s much fairer requirements to get the job make it appealing for one and is more akin to simply being an online small business manager.

Launching and Growing Your Own YouTube Channel My Practical Guide 

How to Get Into a New Money-Making Hobby

With the countdown to Christmas well underway, and with countless gifts to buy, we’re all looking for new ways in which to make extra money.

To make matters even more difficult, many families are struggling due to a decrease in working hours and unemployment as a result of the lockdown. A recent survey revealed that nearly 70% of parents admitted that their families are struggling financially in the aftermath of the pandemic.

How to Get Into a New Money-Making Hobby

5 Ways to Boost Your Confidence

Building your confidence from scratch isn’t easy. But when you improve your self-esteem, you’ll realise that those goals you set out for yourself are just in reach.

Sounds easy, right? Some changes are quick, easy fixes; however, others require a long-term commitment. But if you’re prepared to put in the effort, you’ll start to see massive changes in your life.

5 Ways to Boost Your Confidence

8 Ways To Get Your Child Into A Mindset That Is Keen To Learn And Improve!

In life, we all get a kick out of improving ourselves and becoming better versions of ourselves. Our brains have a way of rewarding us when we understand more and/or get things done. There’s something really satisfying about being accomplished, completing goals, and feeling useful. For kids, this kind of thing may not seem so imperative, but it actually is. If a child understands what it’s like to learn new things and feels the psychological benefits of improvement early on, then they’ll want to do that more as they grow. Kids who slack off a little more and aren’t bothered about things like schooling are in the habit of feeling that way.

8 Ways To Get Your Child Into A Mindset That Is Keen To Learn And Improve!

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I'm Eileen, a proud mum of two teenagers (aged 18 and 16), my daughter is living with visual impairment. Since launching this blog in May 2012, we’ve continued to grow and evolve, sharing our family’s journey and passions.

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