Happy birthday to this cutie!  Hetty the dachshund is six today, so of course that meant we had a fun photoshoot...

I thought I would share some living room progress pictures.  I know this isn't a typical "home blogger" material, I don't have the swish after picture where everything looks perfect, well styled and clean. Instead, these are some fun and kind of messy progress pictures of the livi…

Polka dots in the woods... This midi green polka dot tea dress is such a great staple for me.  I've had it for a couple of years now and I wear it all the time - either just by itself, like in these photos, or layering it up with cardigans or other knits. You really can't beat a good polka …

Tilly in the woods at sunset - pre-snow, but still pretty!  Love a little golden hour photo shoot!

Knock knock... Photo credit 

State of change, changing seasons

The questions about the best collar or harness for taking your dog hiking comes up a lot.  Now that we are Munro bagging we also needed to think about the kit for the dogs. Hetty the dachshund is already covered in her Ezydog Chest Plate Harness (affiliate link). However, we usually just have Tilly…

In 2020 when there was a brief reprise in the lockdown restrictions which let us do outdoors activity we started bagging munros.  After Ben Lomond next on the list was Ben Vorlich at Loch Earn, which most people tend to do as a double whammy with Stuc a'Chorin. So we started off on a nice day, …

So, before I got married I didn't realise that a flowers budget was even a thing!  Then when I did realise that it was a thing, as much as I love flowers I wasn't willing to have a significant budget in my Scottish Glencoe elopement.However, I did definitely want a bouquet - so I looked for…

As you know, we have been going through the process of updating and improving our lovely Glasgow flat.  One of the items we didn't plan on doing was the backsplash in our kitchen - because when we moved in it was perfectly fine!  So we just painted the wall above the small splashback in the sam…

So one of the perks of moving back up to Scotland was that we can do more outdoorsy things again, including hiking!  So we decided to also start bagging munros.In case you don't know munros are the 282 mountains in Scotland which are over 3000ft in height.One of the easier ones to start with is…