When what feels important can change...   Some of you may or may not know that at the heart of launching Lounge and Cloth was to fill a void. After 22 years of helping other brands succeed I wanted a brand of my own, at least I thought that was the void... I now know that a huge part of the empty feeling was the longing for another child. I...

Kindly 'saying no'...  I’ve always been a YES person, in spite of headlining every New Year’s resolution list with “learning to say NO guilt-free”!  I’m relishing in the special bubble of a new born baby at the moment. The combination of sheer exhaustion, permanently in pj-mode and the constant needs of a little person forces me to have to say NO.   And wow, it feels good. It’s not that I...

We are already half way through 2018. If someone had told me this time last year I would be abstaining from my daily, and very much enjoyed, glass of bubbles, my oh-too-many black coffees, and a ridiculous diet of nothingness.....I would not have believed I had the inner strength to change. We all have inner conversations with ourselves that most never hear. Although we know, there is always someone in...

Spring and early Summer are all about newness; new flowers budding, new animals being born, new hours of extra light in our days. So much positivity and growth surmises itself perfectly in a month which is about ‘mental health awareness’. We are well into a new year now, but are we still remembering to look after ourselves? There is so much flourishing in nature at this time, so much being...

Let's Celebrate How Much We Do For Others  To me, Mother's Day is about taking a pause and reminding myself just how much my Mother has done, and continues to do, for me everyday. It's not that I don't appreciate her all of the time; in today's busy-bee lifestyle I do like to be reminded and, I know she loves to hear it. I am not quite there with my...