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Books on Perfectionism – My Top 11 Books

In this post, I’m looking at books on perfectionism. I’m giving you the low down on my top 11 books about perfectionism. Hopefully you can use them to help you try to ditch this destructive habit. Perfectionism can be a real drag. It can cause you to procrastinate. Worse, you may not even try to achieve your dreams as you are afraid of it not going perfectly. So you just don’t bother. You miss a lot of the journey because you are terrified of making the wrong step. Plus a recent study shows that perfectionism is increasing. In the study …

Best Watercolour Paints for Beginners

Watercolour is such a fun, expressive medium but it’s tough to know where to get started, especially in regards to which are the best watercolour paints for beginners. Watercolour paint can be confusing! Choosing a watercolour paint set is difficult when starting out as there as so many options and price points. How do you know where to start? In this guide, I am going to go over all the best watercolour brands. I will explain the difference between student grade watercolour and professional-grade watercolour and in what circumstances you might want to choose each option. I’ll also cover the …

DIY Watercolour Palette

Wanting to make a DIY Watercolour palette, but not sure how? You are in the right place. If you are anything like me, then you like to have your watercolour paints with you whenever you might suddenly need to paint a sketch on the go. I find a lot of the ready-made palettes are either too big or just have a lot of additional fluff that I don’t want or need. Especially as the intention is to use it as a travel watercolour palette. So I made my own mini watercolour palette out of this cute little tin I received some …

Best Knitting Needles for Beginners

A friend contacted me over the weekend asking for help picking the best knitting needles for beginners. My friend explained that drinking Gin wasn’t a hobby. She wanted to give knitting a try and knew it was my forte. This guide to knitting needles for beginners covers all the things you need to consider before you get going. As well as things you don’t need to worry about. That way you can stop feeling overwhelmed by the options, and get down to it. Obviously it is about more than just the needles but they are key. The needles you chose …

5 Steps to Clearing Money Blocks

I know that clearing money blocks is generally about the law of attraction. However, I feel like magic happens when you combine mindset change with positive action. I think my story demonstrates this rather well so let me tell you whilst I go through the steps. I was someone who went through life barely thinking about money, except to panic. It wasn’t until I read Paulette Perhach’s “Story of a Fuck Off Fund” on 22nd January 2016 that I had the realisation that I was in a really dreadful place with money and really began to look at my money …

116 Things to Track in your Planner

Not sure what things to track in your planner? Or are you searching for more ideas than the usual Habit trackers or sleep trackers? Yes!? Fabulous, then that means you are in the right place. I know what it’s like to be super keen to really utilise your new planner but have no idea where to start. Therefore, I’ve compiled a veritable feast of planner ideas and bullet journal inspiration to get your creative juices flowing. I have left out the obvious things like appointments and events. I think it’s highly likely that you are already pretty good at tracking …

Christmas Gratitude!

This year has bought with it so many good things for me. I just want to take a moment to give thanks with a little Christmas gratitude list! In mid 2018, I had been on a bit of a bumpy road and was feeling rather pessimistic about the things I had always dreamed of coming true. At the end of the year, unexpectedly, my now beardy boyfriend popped up in my life. First as a friend, but pretty quickly becoming more. It’s been one hell of a year together and I have definitely found my lobster! So that is the …

Self-Care Checklist

If you are anything like me and appreciate a list to guide you when completing tasks, you’ll love this Self-Care Checklist. Why you need a self-care plan? What’s that old saying? “Fail to plan, plan to fail”. This is especially true when it comes to self-care activities. It is pitifully easy to let areas of your routine slip when life vamps up. Who needs sleep, when you have this big project at work due? Daylight? What is that!? This one is particularly jarring to me right now since they put privacy screens on the windows at work so now I …

How to Get Motivated to Clean When Overwhelmed by Mess

Do you want to know how to get motivated to clean when you’re overwhelmed by mess? You are not alone. Everyone needs a bit of housework motivation sometimes. Housework is overwhelming at the best of times. Life moves pretty fast. Whilst you are busy looking around and enjoying it, you end up with a cluttered house. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by a messy house. When you do finally spend some time at home, all you can think is “My house is a disgusting mess!”. It feels like a huge job but you’ve no idea how to start cleaning a messy …

Benefits of Self-Care

I’m going to talk to you about the benefits of self-care. Everyone is talking about it lately and undoubtedly saying that you should be doing it. Yet, if you are anything like me you are probably massively over complicating things. When people spoke to me about self-care, my brain immediately added a level of complexity to the proceedings. Surely it couldn’t just be a word that covers how to take care of yourself? There had to be more to it, right? Wrong. So what is self-care? Simply, it is when you take time for yourself. Not even that really. If …