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Notes From A Finnish Christmas

12.31.2015 by Bex //

A very Finnish Christmas

Hello all. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas. We have really embraced a typical cold and wet UK Christmas, with all the trimmings.  I’m fascinated with Christmas traditions, so I was thrilled when fellow expat Aleasha, of style and travel blog Little Traveller Things, agreed to share some of hers. She grew up in New Zealand but is currently living with her young family in Helsinki. A private home visit from Santa on Christmas Eve was just one of the highlights of their first Finnish Christmas…

A very Finnish Christmas [Read more…]

Categories // Seasons, Travel & Adventures

A very English spring

05.05.2015 by Bex //

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If you’ve been following me over on Instagram, you’ll know that we are currently on our holidays back with my family in the English countryside.

Growing up in Warwickshire, which is slap bang in the middle of England, it never occurred to me that we were ‘in the country’. My hometown has plenty of shops, pubs and a very famous school, but you don’t have to go very far at all to find fields, sheep, barns and, much to Ted’s delight, tractors. Our record so far is three tractors spotted in one short walk to the village near my parent’s house. [Read more…]

Categories // Photography, Seasons, Travel & Adventures

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I'm Bex. I'm a professional writer and editor, a toddler wrangler, an obsessive photo taker, chronic tea drinker, and hopeless flower addict. Every week in 2016 I am sharing a challenge. idea, or reflection to inspire and motivate you to create. This is one mama's journey to a calm, collected and creative life. I hope you'll join me x

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