Today I'm sharing the best essential oils for sleep, some different ways to incorporate them into your bedtime routine, and why I'm a fan of using them.I struggle to switch off when I go to bed at night so I have a few things that I do before I go to bed to help me relax which in turn usually helps me to get off to sleep a bit quicker.First up, I do use a homemade sleep spray to spray on my pillows as I'm getting ready for bed. I spritz the pillows as I'm putting my pyjamas on so it's settled ready for when I get into bed. I use a couple of different essential oils for this and do … [Read more...]

These homemade refried beans are not only super easy to make but they taste absolutely amazing too and they work out super cheap to make too! In fact, I'd go as far as saying that this refried beans recipe will change your life! ** (**OK, maybe it won't change your life but I bet you love it as much as I do**)(It's IMPOSSIBLE to make refried beans look anything but a mushy mess) I only discovered refried beans a couple of years ago when I was trying to recreate a meal that I'd had in New York and now I genuinely use them all the time.  I used to buy the tinned version but they can … [Read more...]

This Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is exactly what you need to give your lips a bit of a treat!At this time of year, my lips always seem to get super dry and often a little bit chapped but this Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is perfect to soothe them and to stop them drying out!  It's also easy to make and used things that I bet you have in your kitchen cupboards so you won't even have to go out and buy anything! What you need to make your own homemade spicy gingerbread lip scrub100g brown sugar 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil (in its liquid form) ¼ … [Read more...]

Now, more than ever, it's super important that we all take time to relax with our families so I thought I'd share with you 100 ways to spend time with your family to give you some ideas.At the moment, I'm really conscious that lots of you have younger children and some of you will be really struggling for ideas on how to spend time together as a family. I've just spent an hour or so going through my old blog posts to write this bumper list of ideas for you so I really hope it helps you.It's all different for me these days as my two are older now so we have different ways of … [Read more...]

Today's school dinner cake (which you might have called Sprinkle Cake at your school) is guaranteed to take you back to your school days - especially if you pour over some lumpy custard when you serve it up. 😂I used to love School Dinners when I was at school and I'm 99% certain that we just used to call this pink cake but I can't find anyone else who called it that so I'm going with the two more common names that I found for it when I was searching for it - school dinner cake and sprinkle cake.I started to think about all my favourite school dinner puddings this weekend … [Read more...]