Love from, Florence Grace

George Michael was a celebrity very close to my heart. I may not have been his number one fan, but I have been raised on his music. My mum was indeed what you would describe as his number one fan, and has been since she was a young girl. She raised my sisters and I on his music, both with Wham and as a solo artist. Me and her went to see him in concert together. He was a big enough influence in my life that one of my first teddies (that I am still proud to own!) earned himself the name "George Michaels". So yes. I was more than a little upset when I heard about him passing away, on Christmas Day of all days, as was my mum, and both of us had a little cry watching some of his music videos and trying to get over the fact that such a huge part of our musical lives was now gone forever. My mum was near inconsolable, bless her heart, and it feels like a very big loss. But my grief has quickly been tarnished- tarnished with anger. Fury, in fact. Because since his death, a...

As its Christmas, you'd think that most people would be feeling in good spirits, happier and in good moods. It's supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year, right? So can someone please tell me why year in, year out, I see so many people being so bitchy online about what other people are doing/buying/receiving/eating/posting online? I'm an over sharer. Most of you will know that by now. I adore social media, I'll post photos of my food, my presents, my family, my tree and I will give zero fucks what anyone thinks. Guess what? I think my new Thomas Sabo jewellery is really pretty and I wanna show it off to everyone so they can also appreciate how pretty it is! Similarly, I love  seeing what everyone else has got! Show me your new socks, your designer bag, your gimmicky presents, I'm nosy and I'm interested in my friends lives and I want to see everything! I think if you spend your Christmas Eve/Christmas Day/Boxing Day sat online slagging off ...

As if Christmas Day is as good as over! I don't know about you but I feel like it flew  by! Bit like the rest of 2016 really hey! I've had an absolutely brilliant Christmas! I have honestly been so lucky and was spoilt so  much by both my mum and by my dad and his girlfriend, as well as my sisters and friends. I'm not going to list everything that I got, but I definitely got pretty much everything I wanted/needed and couldn't be much happier! I'm an incredibly lucky lady and I feel very blessed.  I've eaten a whole tonne of food today; a lot more than I've eaten basically in the last month altogether! A full on Christmas dinner, endless pringles, Quality Street's, pigs in blankets and everything else. I am stuffed .  This year I was able to really spoil my family too, which was a brilliant feeling- after all they do for me all of the time its nice to be able to give them something in return.  I'm spending the rest of my day wat...

Today, a new 'challenge' appeared on social media: I knew straight away I had to join in! As most of you must  know by now, I'm a strong advocate of self love and over the last year my self love, as well as my self confidence, has improved and increased quite dramatically! Before 2016, I would have described my self confidence and self esteem to have been extremely low. I hated how I looked, I had no confidence in myself or my abilities- I'm happy to say that the story is quite different now! So let me share with you what I like to call my 2016 Glow Up (a glow up is better late than never, right?) End of 2015/Start of 2016: End of 2016: I'm not gonna lie, I really feel myself now. In the last year, I've lost a lot  of weight. Like, look at the first image in this post and the last. I feel like I'm almost half the size I was! I'm not, but I feel that way! I've also learnt how to do my make up bett...

It's Christmas Eve Eve and I could not be more excited! It's my last day of work until after Boxing Day today which makes me very  happy as I was definitely expecting to be working Christmas Eve and  Boxing Day! I also have no freelance work until 2017 now, so I'm going to have a lot of time to relax and fully enjoy Christmas!  I might be 21 years old but I still joined in with putting my letter up the chimney for Santa's robin to come and collect last night. My Dad always prints Christmas patterned paper for us to write our lists on each year, which is one of the small traditions I love about Christmas- I don't ever want to be too old to do that! I didn't think I wanted anything for Christmas this year after being so spoilt for my birthday last month, but my list turned out to be almost three pages long...! Most of it's just trainers to be honest though, I can never have enough pairs! I've got an eight hour shift at work today so I'm ...

It's three days until Christmas and I've gone from not really feeling it at all to feeling full on festive! Today was my mums birthday; we ordered a take away, whacked on Polar Express and cracked open the tin (or tub, as it is now) of Quality Streets and I knew  that Christmas was finally here for me!  I'm so happy that I'm finally feeling a little more excited about Christmas. I realised that actually, I was being pretty selfish moaning about my Christmas. I'm actually incredibly fortunate because I have two families that I'll be celebrating Christmas with, as well as with my friends; Alec, Ricarda, BJ, Bobbie, Alex, Poppy, Abby and Lauren. I have a house full of decorations and full of all the Christmas food, I've got Christmas Eve-Boxing Day off of work and have time to fully relax and enjoy the holiday. I'm incredibly lucky and I'm glad I've realised it now and so can stop moaning about my lack of festiveness!  I feel a little...

I've been feeling pretty crappy for most of December, and a few days ago I blogged about how I wasn't even feeling very Christmassy at the moment. Today, I was finally  hit with the festive feeling! I've just had a really good day to be honest! I had to get up horrendously early (7AM lol) to meet my best girls, Abby and Pops, so that we could go for breakfast. I wore my Christmas jumper and took Abby's baby girl a Christmas present and we had a lovely chat and catch up for the majority of the morning!  In the afternoon, I went to Milton Keynes shopping centre to fulfil my annual tradition of riding on the carousel. I don't care how old I am, I will never not get excited about going on the Christmas carousel; I honestly love it so much!  This evening, I've sat down and completed work in front of Christmas films with some snacks and my sister, which has been lovely! We haven't had a movie night together in a while, so it's been nice!  I...