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A year into using The Essential Planner and on the cusp of a New Year, I thought it might be fun to share how I’ve used my planner this year. At the heart of The Essential Planner is a a weekly double paged spread with a blank list on one side and a blank page on the other. This was...

When I created The Essential Planner last October, it was really a grand experiment. Could I make the planner I had always wanted but never found? Could a planner that gave you a place to note down your really essential tasks but didn’t ask you to do anything extra really w...

I met Jules of Maple and Macaron last May at the Hunters and Heel Instameet. Although I’d followed Jules on Instagram for a while, we’d never met in real life so it was a real treat to meet her and get to see her wonderfully warm smile in person. Jules lives with her husband and two...

Today I’m so happy to be sharing an interview I did with my gorgeous friend Hannah. Hannah’s instagram account is hands down one of my favourites to follow. Hannah shares her family life through the squares of Instagram and her beautiful blog. Her photography is stunning; muted, lig...

In the lead up to Christmas of 2015 I had a realisation; I was rushing everywhere. Sophia was six months old, we were at the tail end of a renovation project, and I was about a year into my business. I had consciously chosen a life of excess and so I rushed, I even rushed when I was...

As summer draws to a close I usually find myself feeling conflicted, one part of me in disbelief that the long warm days of summer have passed so quickly, another part of me exicted for the cosiest season of all, just about to begin. I often find that the transistion between seasons...