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13 Tips for a Big Event
I love big events. I love the drama, the dressing-up, the excitement. If there aren’t any sufficiently big events happening, I will invent some, so that I can wear my gowns. Or order new ones. But chatting to people at the Estonian Independence Day reception..
6 Mini Skincare Reviews: Cult Beauty x Caroline Hirons
While I haven’t bought any skincare this year, I’m not entirely without new goodies, as I pre-ordered The Cult Beaty Box by Caroline Hirons in December and it arrived a week ago. The fans of Caroline Hirons (there are quite a few here) would know that this i..
Soaps For All Occasions
So, enough about tiaras, let’s talk about soaps. They do have something in common, though: both are old-fashioned concepts. Who buys a bar of soap these days, when one can have the much more practical liquid version? I do, and have made a study of hard soaps..
10 Things I Found In My Kitchen Cupboard
One of my 2016 resolutions was to use if not all, then many of the mysterious spices, condiments and liquids found in my kitchen cupboard(s). To get going, I carried out a comprehensive inventory of the edible stuff. The things below are of course not the on..
8 Cheap Things I Like
It seems very unlikely I will ever stop buying luxury products, unless forced to do so by financial circumstances (so pretty likely then, in fact?). There are things I enjoy and use enough to make spending what others consider unreasonable amounts of money s..
8 Things I Will Do in 2016
I’m not calling them New Year’s resolutions, as this seems to be a bad omen. But I’m a big believer in telling the whole world that I’m going to do something, so that the potential embarrassment of not doing it would keep me on the right track. Great motivat..
Love In a Cold Climate and Other Light Reads
I owe one of my lovely commenters a list for light reading and here’s my attempt to pay that debt. I considered calling the post Comfort Reads, but I find these to be very personal and not always recommendable – although quite a few titles below also work as..
Best Non-Beauty Buys of 2015
My original 2015 Best Buys list was completely taken over by beauty items, so here’s another one, without any beauty products. Although there are shoes.
1. Penguin Books mugs. Brussels Waterstones sells these exceptional drinking vessels and I keep going..
Best Beauty Buys of 2015
This list is a response to a reader request and I’ll do vol 2 next week, about non-beauty stuff. I love Best Of lists, but they are a pain to put together. To make any progress at all, I had to lay down some ground rules: only things that I bought for the fi..
8 Gifts I Wouldn’t Mind Receiving
To say that I like giving gifts is like saying Darth Vader isn’t averse to the idea world domination. I make long lists, analyse people’s preferences, cross-check with previous lists to avoid repetition and spend hours researching online. It seems only prude..