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Blonde Ambition
Writer | Traveller | Dreamer. A lesson in contrasts; I am a hopeless romantic and a commitment-phobe; a homebody and a wanderlust sufferer. I have an obsession with striped t-shirts, distressed denim and cocktail dresses and survive mostly on grilled cheese sandwiches.
10 easy steps to eBay success
I once read that the secret to a successful closet clean out was to start by writing a list of your favourite pieces (mine would go something like: striped t-shirt, striped t-shirt, striped dress, blue jeans, pink jeans, lighter pink jeans, striped t-shirt). The theory being that if you stop and think about what your […]
MoreThe bucket list. 2015.
While I don’t intend on ‘kicking the bucket’ anytime soon, I love the idea of bucket lists— finding new things to try, places to visit and adventures to have. It doesn’t need to be filled with grand plans of faraway places, in fact I think it’s good to always include things that are close to […]
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My top 10 posts of 2014
To steal some lyrics from Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, “It’s a new day. It’s a new year. It’s a new life. And I’m feeling good.” Now that we are almost two weeks into the new year, I am working on putting together this year’s bucket list. While I’m pretty sure I can’t take 10 overseas holidays this year, […]
MoreMy 10 minute Ikea desk makeover
Build it and they will come. Such was my hope when I got down to the business of setting up my home office last month. Now that I’ve branched into freelance writing, editing and social media consultancy work, I needed somewhere to sit down and make the magic happen because as comfortable as the couch is, it’s […]
MoreVote for love
On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me … nothing, because I was still single. But my single status isn’t due to lack of interest—in fact, thanks to eHarmony, I went on more first dates in the last three months of 2014 than I had IN TOTAL in the past three […]
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The long road from a broken heart
When Jeremy Scott was four years old, his parents told him he was going on holidays. They lied. Unable to face telling their young son that he needed open heart surgery—a procedure that was still considered a ‘lottery’ in 1977—Jeremy’s parents chose instead to tell a little white lie. The eldest son of Steve and […]
MoreA guide to breaking up (nicely)
Last week I received a couple of messages that came across as kind of cranky from a date who thought I was giving him the brush off when I said I was too busy that week for a second date. While I actually wasn’t giving him the brush off to begin with, I then decided […]
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