6 Tips For Buying a Second Home

If you haven’t already heard the news, Joe and I bought our second ‘forever’ home. If you’re also considering buying buying another property, here’s six tips that will help. Estate agent fees When you plan to sell your house, you’ll have estate agent fees to pay. As we bought our old house with the company we listed our property with,…

10 Blogging Tips To Get More Readers

I’ve been blogging for over six years now and I wish I had learnt these tips when I just started. I hope you find this post some what helpful, whether you’ve been blogging a month or a couple of years… There’s always new things to learn and ways to gain more readers. 1. Google Analytics I can’t stress how important…

Planning to Buy a House? Here’s Some Tips and …

Joe and I celebrated our two year houseiversary at the end of July. I honestly cannot believe we’ve lived in our home for two whole years, it has flown by. We’ve still got to jazz up the kitchen and garden but other than that our home is so cosy and our own. Anyway, today I thought I would share some…

25 Things To Do On A Rainy Day

The weather has been up and down recently, one minute it’s snowing, next it’s raining, even a bit of sunshine appearing here and there! So, I thought I’d list twenty five things to do on a rainy day. 1) Make a hot chocolate with whipped cream 2) Have a pamper session: face mask, exfoliate, paint nails – the whole sha-bang…

8 Things To Do When Saving Money

I shamefully admit I have been a bit spendy the past few months – my wardrobe needed updating, it was my birthday, Christmas is coming up… but, I know I needed to cut back. I thought about the whole minimalism thing again and I remembered how much happier I was when I cut down and didn’t buy anything for six…

12 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging

Let’s virtually travel back in time and reminisce the golden olden days for a moment. Three years ago Zoey Olivia was born. I’ve had countless blogs before this one, I was an avid Tumblrer, I had previous Blogspot accounts and a Live Journal account which I can’t for the life of me remember what my name was on there (oh…