Lifestyle | The Ultimate Shop Small Christmas Gift Guide

Christmas is right around the corner which I am actually really excited for this year, as I'm planning on doing it a little different this year. I've decided to shop small this Christmas and all the gifts I buy will be from small independent businesses. I put up a few stories on my Instagram a few weeks back asking about small businesses & asking if they wanted to be featured in this gift guide and my goodness was I surprised at how many of them wanted to be part of it! This made me SO pleased, as that's brought us to this Ultimate Shop Small Christmas Gift Guide so you guys can find all the small independent businesses I've found & the ones that have wanted to be involved so you can find all of the lovely small shops in one blog post. From eco-friendly products, to paintings, to clothes and even childrens gifts! It's been a really hard year for everyone, so to give back to those who need it, shop small this Christmas. I hope you find a fair few wonderful shop small Christmas gifts for your loved ones throughout this post - Happy Christmas Shopping!

Fashion | The Ultimate Black Friday Sales Guide

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Black Friday seemed to had started super early this year, but I'm not that mad about it, as some of the sales have been pretty good, depending on what your looking for. Whether your looking for christmas presents, new clothes, shoes, accessories or just a bargain in general, this guide should hopefully let you know which online stores are doing what discounts so far. So let's see what bargains we can dig up.

Food | Skinny Pancakes By Cute Nutrition Review

*Cute Nutrition kindly sent me these products to review. All opinions are my own and honest. Please refer to my disclaimer for more information.*

How do you like your pancakes in the morning? I like mine with loads of fruit. And I also like them to be donut flavoured! I bet your thinking, what? Donut flavoured pancakes? YES! Cute Nutrition have recently launched donut flavoured pancakes and they have now made it to my favourite thing to have for breakfast covered in fruit. Alongside their original skinny pancakes, this pancake mix has been SO easy to make. Read on to see how I've been getting on with them.

Lifestyle | Keeping Warm More Sustainably This Winter With Silent Night Electric Blankets

*I was kindly sent this electric blanket to review. All opinions are my own and honest. Please refer to my disclaimer for more information.*

Winter is certainly on it's way with these colder nights and frosty mornings, and the one thing that I've been happy about is having an electric blanket that keeps me cosy and warm during these cold times. I'm writing this as I have my electric blanket setting on 3 so I get warm rather quickly as it's set to be a frosty night! The gritters have been out so the electric blanket is on. I'll explain more about why you need an electric blanket, not only does it warm you up like a toasted marshmallow, it costs so much less to have your electric blanket on, than it does your heating would you believe! I'm going to walk you through the benefits of having one in your bed and why.

Food | World Sandwich Day With FoodHub

*In collaboration with FoodHub. All opinions are my own and honest. Please refer to my disclaimer for more information.*

World Sandwich Day, who would of thought there was a day dedicated to it! Now I love my food, especially when it comes to a takeaway. A few days ago it was also World Vegan Day, absolutely adore that idea to celebrate all things Vegan. So FoodHub kindly let me order food from one of the local takeaways in my area off their app, now if you've not heard of Foodhub before, let me tell you all about it.

Press Event | Getting Ready For Christmas With Showcase Cinema

*I was invited as press to the Showcase Cinema. All views & opinions are my own, open and honest. Please refer to my disclaimer for more information.*

Now that Halloween is over and we are well and truly on our way to Christmas - the countdown begins! We need some good out of this year as 2020 as been pants for us all right? The best thing this year has been watching lots of films and series, but now Christmas is on the horizon and Showcase Cinema's are open - of course keeping within the government guidelines of social distancing and mask wearing they have been a god send being open and giving us a chance to get out the house and enjoy time away from home for a while. Keep reading to see what they currently are showing & what other things happened during my visit to the Showcase.

Travel | A Guide To A UK Road Trip On A Budget

My first road trip around the UK and it was so much fun! If you follow me on Instagram and/or Youtube you would of seen my UK Road Trip content, if not then you can watch my vlog here & check out my Instagram here. Today's post is a complete guide to getting yourself a trip away in the UK on a budget, whether you want to go to one place or 3 like we did, I'll explain to you how we not only stuck to a budget, but also saved money doing so.

Lifestyle | Cute Nutrition Review

Have you missed being energetic, fit and healthy during this pandemic? I know I sure have! Going through those long months without the gym was tough. I gave up exercising completely apart from the odd days of doing yoga at home. Now that the majority of gyms are back open, I couldn't be happier to get back at it. But this time I want to gain more protein into my vegetarian/vegan diet. Of course, this is where I want to add in a whey protein shake to have after my work out to gain, repair and tone my muscles. This is where Cute Nutrition comes in. They kindly sent out a box of pr samples for me to try. Now I'm already familiar with the Cute Nutrition shakes as I used to have them and did a review a few years ago. The shakes that I've got this time are the tone and recover ones, a chocolate flavour - which may I add tastes like a chocolate milkshake but without the milk. I also have the Vegan strawberry flavour shake. Both shakes are low in calories and, for me, are best to have after a workout. Depending on what you want to gain from protein shakes, Cute Nutrition do quite a few different flavours and varieties on their website here.

Food | Healthy Recipes For Autumn

Autumn is officially here! I cannot tell you how excited I am that it's autumn, basically the best season for getting back into baking and making new things in the kitchen. The team at Erbology kindly sent out a package full of healthy products for me to try and make some goodies with. So this blog post will include a few products from their website which I will include in a few recipes. Scroll down to see what goodies we can make with Chia Powder, Almonds, Organic Bergamot Shots and Aronia Berry Energy Balls.

Food | How To Make Vegan Shortbread

The vegan recipes are back. If you follow me on Instagram, you would of seen that throughout lockdown I experimented with baking a lot more, especially within vegan recipes. Vegan shortbread turned out to be one of my favourites and also one of the easiest to make. So let's run you through how to make this mouth watering, delicious shortbread for you to have with your beverage of choice.