The perfect summer holiday dress

My entire outfit is from Very.co.uk – Very has so many delightful sundresses that are just perfect for summer holidays or a daytrip to a picturesque market town like this. It was hard to pick just one but in the end, this darling retro print dress had my heart.

3 Things You Should Never Do In Bluebell Woods

If your social media feeds are heavy on the cottagecore aesthetic, you won’t get through the month of May without seeing at least a dozen photos and videos featuring these otherwordly patches of blue scattered across the forest floor. However, shooting or filming in bluebell woods requires a lot of care and attention, and here’s why.



The perfect plus size cottagecore dress

I consider a puff sleeved white cotton dress to be a staple of a cottagecore wardrobe, and the frequency with which I wear this dress is proof enough! While I tend not to be too formulaic with wardrobe staples, I find that a floaty white cotton dress with puff sleeves forms a solid backbone on which multiple cottagecore outfits can be constructed.

Why is cottagecore so blindingly white?

When I started this blog more than a decade ago, cottagecore didn’t have a name. But it was this aesthetic that kindled my love for fashion and led me to try and create a bit more representation for people who look like me. That was 2010. Now in 2022, cottagecore is fairly mainstream and has been so for a while now – yet the bodies that it centres remain as thin and white as ever.

New home tour featuring Redbubble

Today I’m finally sharing a tour of our new place! We moved here end of September last year and there’s still so much to be done, but I wanted share what we’ve achieved so far and how we’ve used art and home decor from Redbubble to do up our townhouse.