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Guest Post: BBQ Party Style with Indi-Elle
Hi guys! I did promise you a guest post by a friend of mine, Aussie-Irish ‘Laura’ from Indi-Elle. Laura’s been a friend and ex-colleague of mine for almost a decade (scary!), I’ve always remembered her style and now she’s a certified STYLIST!!! This girl knows her stuff! She is a pocket sized, gorgeous style queen and always manages to find the best buys from Primark to Michael Kors, I don’t know how she manages to do it … love, love, love her! I’m handing you over to Laura now, to help you prepare for all those fabulous garden parties and BBQ’s that we’ll all go to, over the next couple…
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Weight Loss Update
I’m still on my plan, no carbs or sugar, Monday to Friday…. to date, I’ve lost 21lbs. I had my cheat days last week for the BloggerConference at the Marker hotel, where we enjoyed a gorgeous lunch and a ‘coffee and brownies’ networking break… And then we had a BBQ the next day, where I popped the cork on that bottle of Cliquot that was giving me lustful looks in the fridge all week, I definitely taught that bottle a lesson! There is however….another one left. Monday Morning I weighed myself and I had gained 4lb!! My heart almost stopped with the flight! 4lb in 2 days! But, by Monday…
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A Minute With……Moss Cottage
Hands up if you’re lusted over table settings on Pinterest? Hands up if you’ve seen eclectic decor on Instagram and wished you could get your hands on it? Can I tell you a secret? You can! In Dublin! Right opposite the church in Dundrum village, a quaint little row of red brick cottages, and in there, you’ll find Jen and her treasure trove of fabulous stock, from chalk paint to party accessories, golden tassel garlands to Kate Spade notebooks and pens, hen party and accessories, there is SO much! Well… I’ve done a little interview with Jen, to see what inspires her to create such an exciting shopping experience.. Jen,…
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My success with the Dukan Diet|HOW to do ‘The Dukan’ successfully.
Well, the good news, it that I’ve lost over a stone and a half (21lbs), on my quest to trim up. I feel a million dollars now and people are really starting to notice, the buzz is absolutely great and slightly addictive. Celebrity fans include Jennifer Lopez, The Duchess of Cambridge (aka Kate Middleton), Giselle Bundchen. A few of my readers have asked me to go into “HOW?” a bit more, some of you have bought the Dukan diet book and can’t get your head around it, so I said I would elaborate on it and give an example of my diet week. It’s really not hard once you get…
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Weight Loss: The mental switch to make it happen and the perpetual struggle, on a personal level.
A few months ago I posted a self motivational post on the blog Facebook page, I’d decided to start losing weight again. I have posted in the past and about my diet of choice, The Dukan Diet, a ketogenic diet based around French cooking. I am a self confessed carb’ lover and Italian food makes me want to weep at the thought, I love it! Bread, pasta, PIZZA even… How do Italian women stay so thin?!!! I was bullied in school for my weight too,I went to school in Galway and little did my classmates know, I had almost died one year from an issue caused by my thyroid and…
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