What counts as self-care?

As we wave goodbye to colder weather, I always find it harder to think about self care. I'm sure we've all seen *that* viral tweet about self care not always being about $20 face masks and LUSH bath bombs, but the idea of self-care and taking time out to be selfish in a positive way has only really gained a lot of strength in the last couple of years. And it's still very mainstream, aka treating yoself to a bath bomb being self-care. Everything is all pretty much based around the hygge ideal: cosying up in soft blankets with an organic face mask, hot cocoa, fairy lights and a film. But that doesn't really work in summer, and I'm so glad to see a whole lot of people questioning this now.

2018 Book Bucket List

At the start of the year I did a big roundup of my top ten books of 2017, and when I checked through my Goodreads to see what I'd read, I realised that I'd read a lot of shit books. I'd been saving all the good books for a rainy day and reading things I thought I ought to, or that I figured had been sat around on my shelf for too long. I don't want that to happen this year, so I'm making a big list of all the books I want to read in the rest of 2018 (although I'm sure there will be others!), and I'm pretty proud to say that I've kickstarted this by reading two already since I took these photos.

Where have I been?

There's been absolute radio silence over here for almost a month now and ... it's been kind of great. So great that I toyed with the idea of quitting blogging completely, but I really found myself missing it at times.