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Today marks the start of Cervical Cancer Awareness week, so as prevention is highly important I thought I would share with you what I know about this disease. Every year over 2800 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, of which roughly 1000 of those women will lose their lives. In over 99% of cases the cause of cervical cancer is…

So this week I have mostly been: 1.) Listening to Hugh Laurie’s album Let Them Talk. In fact, I’ve been listening to this pretty much since it came out, I love it. Full of blues pianos and horns, accompanied by Hugh’s voice makes for an all round great listening experience. I’m a big fan of Hugh Laurie in House, it…

Over the last few weeks I have been sourcing broken jewellery to upcycle them in to newer pieces of jewellery. What is upcycling I hear you say? I’ll tell you…… Upcycling or reworking as it’s sometimes called is a process of taking something old and used and creating something entirely new from it. The benefits of upcycling can be very…

Well you might of already spotted by now that my ‘dressing table’ isn’t actually a dressing table, but a chest of drawers. Ideally I’d like a proper dressing table but what with all the stuff I have it’s impossible, it’d never fit in a dressing table. I thought I’d give you a look what’s on my dressing table, don’t ask…