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  • The Sunday Share Out

     

    The Sunday Share Out

    Hello and welcome to the latest edition of The Sunday Share Out! Grab your hot beverage of choice and check out which posts, videos and bloggers I’ve been loving from around the Interwebs lately.

    A R O U N D  T H E  I N T E R N E T

    • Here’s something I’ve never considered about cruelty free beauty. Suzi breaks down the complicated licensing structure of Marc Jacobs beauty and why the brand may actually be cruelty free.
    • I adore Katy’s blatant honesty in her post about failure and quitting. I totally share her sentiment that sometimes taking the ‘safer route’ can actually lead to bigger and better things in the long term – gosh that’s a lesson I’ve learnt the totally hard way.
    • As if all the beautiful social media posts from Carrie from WishWishWish’s wedding weren’t enough to persuade me, Jane’s little photo diary of her day trip to Sintra is just one of reasons why I probably need to stick Portugal and Lisbon on my travel bucket list.
    • As always Susie pulls it out the bag with a fabulous post on the Manus x Machina exhibition at The Met. Also aren’t her images of the pieces on display just divine?!
    • I’m always marvelling at how eloquent Noor is, but this post on forgiveness is just wonderful, so well put and something everyone should think about once in a while.
    • My lovely friend Lauren posted a simply adorable interview with her daughter, Athena, and it’s honestly my favourite thing that I’ve read all week. Not to mention it’s making me feel totally old because I remember first meeting her when she was a teeny tiny, very well behaved baby. And now she’s THREE and walking and talking like a proper human (where has the time gone).

    A R O U N D  T H E  B L O G S P H E R E

    & M I S C.

    • My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
    • E-mo-tion: Carly Rae Jepsen
    • Dope (2015)
    • Nocturnal: Yuna
    • Ctrl Alt Delete Podcast
    • Walking With The San: Charlie Simpson
    • #WhiteWashedOut

    Ria

  • May | In Retrospect

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    Song of the month: Coming Home by Busted

    May feels like a limbo month. It lands just after the excitement of April and my birthday and Bank Holidays, and just before the promise of June, July and August, Summer activities and warmer weather. I struggled with blogging this month. A spout of blogger’s block is never helpful when you actually want to blog. This coupled with a bout of cold and awful cough has meant I’ve taken some time for some much needed rest and relaxation. May has been quiet to say the least, bar the socialising I’ve been doing during the all too small spurt of Summer weather we had a few weeks back. The sunshine always brings out the best in people and I’ve definitely tried making the most of it whilst I can.

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  • stop : start

    blogger’s block: the condition of being unable to think of what to blog about or how to proceed with blogging.

    There’s a moment all bloggers dread when you open up the page of a notebook or fire up your laptop. You try and pick up a pen or poise your fingertips over a keyboard and nothing comes out. The blank space whir of writer’s block in one’s head can feel like your world is falling out of sync.

    You’re supposed to be good at creating, at imagining, at writing, but when unforeseen circumstances or life just gets in the way and that creation stops, so do you. I’ve been a busy bee. Have been since I moved and have subconsciously decided to break out of my introverted shell, grow up a bit, get out of the house. It’s been good for my well-being and good for my mental health, but I’m starting to realise why people are so impressed when I say I’ve been blogging for 5 years. How have I managed to keep it up? To stay organised? To keep writing?

    The truth is I don’t know how. I just do and keep doing. But every do often I run on empty. I stop. And I try and start again. I stop again.

    Blogging breaks are good, but let them drag on too long and I get myself into the situation I did last year. I stopped. Completely. And it took every ounce of motivation and energy to start again. It takes so much discipline to start again.

    And there’s still this overhanging habit of being too cautious with this blog. I set out when I rebranded with the best of intentions. No more hesitation of hitting publish on blog posts and yet here I am doing just that. The usual fears creep in. ‘Will anyone read this?’ I don’t want to fall into the hole of just making clickable/readable/digestible/professional content. I’m not a blogger by trade and long ago decided I don’t want to be. I can’t do this full time but what I can do is write. It’s what I’ve always done and it’s what this blog is supposed to be for really. Not for brand deals or PRs. Not for the follows or RTs or comments. Not for ‘hey look at me validation. It’s my space to write and in reality always has been just that. Sometimes I just need a kick up the butt reminder of that.

    I stopped.

    I’m starting again.

    R Xx