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AO.com Tv advert – Behind the scenes
Most people will have seen the ao.com tv adverts by now featuring real ao.com customers telling a story about needing something new from a cooker to a vacuum cleaner. The most recent was a family whose cooker had broken at Christmas, so they ordered a new one from ao.com that arrived next day. You always watch these adverts and think, they must be done by actors or something, but nope, I now know that they genuinely do use their customers. Which I think is fantastic. I know this because as a customer of ao.com I received a generic email asking if I would like to put my family forward for their…
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Officially a Toddler – Prince Reid’s Ball
It was my baby boys 2nd birthday last month on Halloween. I couldn’t believe he was turning 2 already and I just wasn’t ready for my baby to be, well, not a baby anymore. I made sure to send out invites super early, with his birthday being on Halloween I wanted to get in there before people booked that weekend up with Halloween parties. I made the party at lunch time for a few hours so people could still do the normal Halloween stuff later in the afternoon and evening. People assumed I would do a Halloween theme but I promised myself I would not do that on his birthday…
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Beauty Photo Shoot and Actor Headshots
Ages ago I was contacted by a photographer named Graham Kenneth Short about potentially doing a photoshoot. Due to various things going on we could just never seem to find a date to actually get it done but finally last month we managed to find a spare few hours. I had just been sent some lipsticks from Urban Decay to review and as the colours were so lovely and bold, we decided to base the shoot around them and make it a beauty shoot. This meant all photos were pretty much just of my head and shoulders. As well as doing the beauty shots Graham asked if I needed some headshots doing…
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The Gro Company Gro-Clock Review
I was sent the Gro-Clock to try out from The Gro Company who specialise in baby products from Nursery to travel items. I had heard of the Gro-Clocks before but had never tried one, mainly because my son is actually a very good sleeper. Since he was just a few months old he has slept through the night and currently sleeps from 7.30pm until anywhere from 8am until 10am the following morning. It may seem a little pointless reviewing a product like this when my son sleeps very well however I did want to try it for a few reasons. The first being as a night light, the second as…
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LOVE NICHE Fashion and Style Event
A lot of you may not know that I am based in Durham and I love supporting local businesses. With Newcastle being just a stone throw away and with me living there for 3 years up until recently, I do still consider Newcastle as my home. I really love being a blogger in the North East as there is so much going on here and the blogging events I get invited to are really exciting. I was recently invited to a fabulous event at a really nice new bar called Bonbar in Newcastle for the LOVE NICHE fashion and style event. The event showcased the latest A/W collection from LOVE NICHE…
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Intu Metrocentre – Gateshead
The North East is full of many great places to visit with lots to see and do, one of the most popular being the huge shopping mall in Gateshead, the intu Metrocentre. It is the largest shopping mall in Europe at 2,093,000sq ft and if you walked past every shop front you would have walked 3.5 miles (who would have thought that shopping could be such a good work out!). So save the money you would spend on a gym membership a month and go shopping instead! The Intu Metrocentre has everything from an IMAX Odeon Cinema to a variety of popular reataurants such as Nandos, Zizzi, Pizza Express and of course…
