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The Art of Visual Balance in Every Room *

16th July 2025      Lisa      2 Comments

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AD | Achieving a sense of harmony in your home isn’t just about choosing the right furniture or colour palette – it’s about mastering visual balance. When done well, visual balance can transform a room from chaotic or underwhelming to calm, inviting, and effortlessly put-together. One of the unsung heroes in this process? Your home’s flooring,…

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A Modern Guide to Gold Rings: Style, History, and Everyday Elegance *

9th July 2025      Lisa      10 Comments

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AD | You know when you’re getting dressed and something feels off? Your outfit looks fine, but there’s an indefinable something missing. Then you slip on the right ring, and everything clicks into place. Gold rings have captivated us humans for millennia, weaving together ancient traditions with contemporary self-expression. From Egyptian pharaohs to modern style mavens,…

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Why Using a Disposable Number is Essential When Paying with PayPal *

8th July 2025      Lisa      Leave a Comment

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AD | Do you worry about keeping your phone number private when making payments online? Or that your personal information could be exposed through PayPal transactions? Want to find a way of protecting your identity while using PayPal? If the answer to these questions is, “Yes,”, you’re not alone. And with more of us using…

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A Cruise, But Make It Cosy: Could a Floating Hotel Be the Slow Travel I Need? *

7th July 2025      Lisa      Leave a Comment

AD | If you’d told me a few years ago I’d be daydreaming about going on a cruise, I probably would’ve laughed into my herbal tea. Me? On a floating hotel, with strangers, possibly wearing sequins and navigating buffets the size of a small village? Unlikely. But lately, I’ve found myself coming back to the idea….

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What Is a Photo Canvas? A Beginner’s Guide to Your Personal Wall Art *

4th July 2025      Lisa      6 Comments

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AD | There’s something very special about giving your favourite moments a place on your wall. Whether it’s a family photo, a sunset, or your child’s first drawing, turning a digital image into a physical piece of art makes it timeless. But what exactly is a photo canvas, and why has it become one of the…

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5 Best Essential Oils for Beginners – a Guide to Aromatherapy

1st July 2025      Lisa      Leave a Comment

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Did you know our sense of smell is one of our most powerful senses? Its direct connection to our brain influences our mood, memory, taste, and overall health and wellbeing. That’s why aromatherapy – an ancient practice using natural plant extracts – has become so popular. And using some of the best essential oils for…

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I'm Lisa, a Freelance Content Writer and Copywriter from Bath, working with marketing teams to fill any content capability gaps and help craft stories and comms for businesses. I'm also a mum of one, cat concierge, gardener, wine and tea lover, and Plantagenet enthusiast!

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Hooray for some rain and a break from the intense Hooray for some rain and a break from the intense heat at last! Even our hardy, drought-tolerant Verbena Bonariensis are relieved, I think. 💜 

Verbena Bonariensis are brilliant in a border - reliable, repeat flowering if lightly pruned, and prolific self-sowers. 

A true cottage garden stalwart, and loved by all manner of pollinators, including this Cabbage White (I think, please tell me if I’m wrong) butterfly too. 🦋
Picking a huge handful of scented sweet peas in th Picking a huge handful of scented sweet peas in the mornings is one of my favourite things about Summer. 🌸

Fabulous cottage garden staples, I sow them every year at the end of January, plant them out in early May, and am picking my first bunch by the beginning of June.

And the more you pick them, the more they bloom, from early June until the end of July, or even longer. So you’ll be cutting a fresh bunch every 3 or 4 days.

Aren’t they gorgeous? 💖
How beautiful is our neon pink Lychnis Coronaria, How beautiful is our neon pink Lychnis Coronaria, aka Pink Campion? The colour of this lovely cottage garden perennial really has to be seen to be believed. Yes, even in IRL she really is that vibrant. An absolute stunner, don’t you think? 💗
Whimsically white. A selection of our beautiful (m Whimsically white. A selection of our beautiful (mainly) white annuals and perennials currently flowering their hearts out. Starry Nigella (Love in a Mist), fragrant Philadelphus (Mock Orange), hardy little Erigeron (aka rather unkindly as Fleabane), Passiflora (Passion Vine), gorgeous Gaura Lindheimeri (Whirling Butterflies), Acanthus Mollis (Bear’s Breeches!), and a Hydrangea. White and green really shine against some of the brighter colours in our July garden. Calming, elegant, and beautiful. Which one do you like best? 💚
Dancing ladybirds having fun on our Knautia Macedo Dancing ladybirds having fun on our Knautia Macedonicas! 🐞

OK, I suspect they’re not really dancing but I didn’t want the algorithms to ban this post. 😂 And apologies for the camera shake, there’s never a tripod around when you need one… 🙄
Purple perfection. Some of my favourite purple blo Purple perfection. Some of my favourite purple blooms currently giving me joy in our June garden: self-seeded Toadflax, Verbena Bonariensis, Geranium Nodosum, Prunella Vulgaris (aka Self Heal), and Lavender. Gorgeous cottage garden perennials and wildflowers, I really can’t pick a favourite - can you? 💜
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