Thank you so much @Magpiegem I feel thoroughly spoiled! I love that the books are second hand, I have been trying not to buy new too! The bookmark is EVERYTHING, I love it sooo much! Thank you for putting so much thought into it all, it genuinely made my day 🧡🎃🧡🎃🧡

@wanderinglynn #HHS21 #HauntedHollowSwap

@wanderinglynn it‘s here!!! #HHS21 swap box has arrived 🥳

I‘m glad I don‘t have too long to sit and stare at it before opening day! 🎃🧡🎃

#HauntedHollowSwap

Sorry to keep you waiting @wanderinglynn my swap box has officially been posted. 💌

#HHS21 #HauntedHollowSwap

#HauntedHollowSwap #HHS

Treat 🍭
Vampires 🧛🏻‍♀️
Jack o‘ lantern 🎃
Scary movie 🎥
Caramel apple 🍎
Dracula 🧛‍♂️
Costume party 🧟‍♀️
Chocolate & Vegetarian Gummies 🍫🍬 - the only one I can‘t choose between!
Zombie 🧟‍♂️
Hot chocolate 🍫
Black cats 🐈‍⬛

1. Yes! Most years I get together with my Sister-in-law and carve some pumpkins 🎃
2. I looooove socks. I have a tonne of Harry Potter themed socks (big surprise!) and picking my socks makes my day! Size 5-6 UK 🧦
3. Purple, mustard yellow, pink 💜💛💗
4. Halloween earrings 👻
5. Bookmarks 🔖
6. Any costume is the best costume, but I love a classic vampire 🧛🏻‍♀️
7. Chunky bobble hat for the colder months. 🧶

#HHS #HauntedHollowSwap

#HauntedHollowSwap #Spookyaestthetic #HHS

A few pictures to show off my kind of Halloween!

Sparkly pumpkin and bat earrings from JazzyMenagerie on Etsy, check out her Instagram if you love cute and sparkly earrings (same name) 🎃

Pumpkin and ghost earrings from boadella.creations on Instagram 👻

Pumpkin carving with my little nephew, halloween themed crochet makes, fun and spooky films and dressing up for a lockdown Halloween! 🎃🧛🏻‍♀️🍫🍭

Hi all, it‘s been a while since I posted but I was hoping for a little advice. I am starting IVF in May and I am looking for a book to read that‘s got some info about what to expect and maybe some tips on how to increase chances but also how to survive! I am struggling with reviews on Amazon as the reviews can differ so much. If anyone has any first hand recommendations it would be much appreciated 💜

Cat picture to thank you for reading 🧡

#BFC21

I didn‘t meet my Jan goals perfectly but I drank more water and less Coca Cola, I remembered why I love yoga and finished 2 out of 3 half finished books and got through 4 Audiobooks so I am pretty happy!

This month I am building on my existing goals:

1. Create a better yoga space and start a 30 day yoga challenge.
2. Drink 2 reusable bottles of water a day
3. Only have fizzy drinks at the weekend
4. Read what I enjoy when I feel can

#sundayfunday

1. Tagged, about 3/4 of the way through and loving it!
2. I listen to more audiobooks now since I was home more in 2020 and as reading a physical book became harder for me.
3. I just added Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I need to read more Neil Gaiman this year.

So glad that the BFC is back!

My goals for the first month are:

1. Drink one re-usable bottle of water a day
2. Only one can of Fizzy drink a day
3. Start practicing yoga in small 10 minute sessions
4. Finish 3 books that I am half way through and review
5. finish my current audiobook and review

Keeping things simple to ease myself into this 💜

#BFC21

Thank you so so much @Annie1215 🧡🧡🧡

The card is GORGEOUS, I‘m never taking the slippers off and I can‘t wait to try the pumpkin spice latte while doing some spooky colouring!

The books are literally perfect. I haven‘t been able to pick a book and read in what feels like forever and I IMMEDIATELY wanted to sit and read all four at once! Thank you 🧡

#HauntedHollowSwap

Thank you for the tag @Pageturner1 💜

I‘m a day late but here goes!

1. I‘m not expecting many trick or treaters but I have prepped some small paper bags filled with treats and a bookmark just in case.

2. No Halloween screensavers sadly! My cat is too cute so he is on all of them!

#Two4Tuesday

Thank you for the tag @MoonWitch94 and @Annie1215 🧡🧡

❤️ Pumpkin Patch
🧡 Soup
💛 Cinnamon Dulce
❤️ Bonfires
🧡 Apple Pie

Want to have a go? @CaroPi @Hestapleton @StayCurious @IndoorDame 💛

#ThoughtfulThursday

@Annie1215 - It‘s here!!!

#HauntedHollowSwap

Thank you so much @jenniferw88 🧡🍁🧡🍁🧡

The book looks right up my street and I can‘t believe you found Hufflepuff themed tea!! It smells DIVINE and I can‘t wait to try it!

#LitsyLoveFallSwap

Thank you for the tag @Hestapleton 🧡

🍁Yes, the leaves change in the U.K. The road to my parents house has a row of orange that all go a glorious orange.

🍎 Around mid October you start to find toffee apples in the super market. I have one every year as a treat.

🎃 I‘m struggling to know what to read next but this month calls for something spooky!

Tagging anyone who hasn‘t played 💛

#ThoughtfulThursday

Second time lucky! Your #HauntedHollowSwap is officially on its way @CaroPi 🎃👻🧟‍♂️

It is in two parts due to weight restrictions and both require a signature.

@wanderinglynn

My #HuantedHollowSwap parcel is on its way to the post office!! 🎃👻🧛🏻‍♀️🧟‍♂️

Thank you so so much @Pageturner1 💛 I was feeling low after receiving some sad news about my Grandad and then this showed up! I had a lump in my throat opening it up, it was so sweet of you and brought some sunshine to my day. Thank you!

#LitsyLove

It‘s here! #LitsyLoveFallSwap

Just off to the post office to send my #LitsyLoveFallSwap parcel. It‘s on its way @jenniferw88 !! 🍂🍁🍃

Tonight calls for a bubble bath and a new book 🍑 🧛‍♂️ 🛁

Thank you for the tag @jenniferw88 💜

1. I have one friend who I might lend them to but otherwise keep.

2. Maybe Mexican Gothic, but I am really struggling to work out what I want to read next at the moment!

#Two4TuesdayGiveaway

#HauntedHollowSwap

1. Carve a jack-o-lantern 🎃
2. Halloween tee (UK size 14-16)
3. Vampire! 🧛‍♂️
4. Bath bombs! 🛀 (any scent)
5. Giant pumpkin for sure! 🎃
6. I think I would have to go for an amazing costume, even if it‘s uncomfortable
7. Eeek, that‘s a hard choice, first thought was monster mash so will go with that!

Just raced to the post office in the rain and in the last half of my lunch break to get these #LitsyLove cards sent out 💜

I felt a little bit of internal anger when the man behind the counter stuck 3 stamps haphazardly on each (the perfectionist in me was not happy!!) but they are on their way!

Now just enough time for a cup of tea and a sandwich! ☕️🥪

#HauntedHollowSwap

1. Dracula 🧛‍♂️
2. Never tried it!
3. Classic vampire 🧛‍♂️
4. Treats!! 🍫🍬
5. Yes, definitely superstitious
6. Black cat/Bat 🦇
7. Jack Skellington 🎃
8. Hayride
9. Apple pie 🥧
10. Cemetery 👻

Popped out to our local garden centre today and saw this adorable model of a fairy house built into a book. Bonus points for the autumn colours! 🍃🍁🍂
I ended up getting the alarm clock one behind for my Mother in law for Christmas. 🧚🏻

Another Nell West and Michael Flint haunted house story. I wasn‘t quite as gripped as I was with Property of a Lady, I think maybe because the connection between Nell and Micheal didn‘t feel as strong, there were a lot more secrets between them this time. But I still enjoyed it. Just when you think you know what‘s going on there is a subtle twist you didn‘t see coming. It was a little less spooky than the first one too but still eerie enough. 👻

Just signed up to @wanderinglynn ‘s #HauntedHollowSwap 🎃👻🧛🏻‍♀️🧟‍♀️

I can‘t wait to get my match and start putting it together!

So sad the #summerfun challenge is over! It was my first try at something like this and I didn‘t do great compared to most people but considering how slow my reading has been recently I did well for me and that‘s what counts!

Here are my bingo cards @StayCurious 💜

#Summerfun
#Summerfunjr

Just finished the fourth book in the series and it was another great mystery. The Detective Society is back at Deepdean school but things are different and not in a good way. The head girl and her prefects are awful and everyone is miserable until a murder stirs things up and secrets start coming out and shifting the balance of power. Highly enjoyable as always!

Fulfils one last prompt for #summerfunbingo

🌸 Book with a yellow cover

I honestly wish I could delete the memory of this book and listen to it for the first time all over again. The narrator was amazing and gave life to the story and the characters. The story itself was just magical and the depth and development of the characters was amazing. A lot of love for this book and I will definitely re-visit it one day.

It also ticked off a lot of #SummerFunBingo prompts, see comments 👇

Another enjoyable and fast paced story! Daisy and Hazel are on holiday and have been forbidden to do any detecting, but when faced with two mysteries - a spy and a murder - they obviously have to get involved! A clever mystery and a fun and easy read 🧡

Today has been a bit rubbish and also super hot so I decided to spend the evening reading my Kitchen Garden magazine outside with a bowl of salted caramel ice cream. This ticks off a few prompts for #summerfunbingo too!

#Summerfun

🌼 Read outside
🌼 Read a magazine

#SummerFunJR

🌸 Read outside
🌸 Read while eating something cold

I stumbled upon this book quite by accident but I am very glad I did. It was sufficiently spooky enough to ensure I only read it by day but oddly the most engaging book I have read in a long while. I squeezed in a chapter this morning and I didn‘t want to have to stop reading to start work! The main characters are very likeable and the underlying mystery kept me guessing right until the end.

#summerfunjr

🌸First book in a series

The first batch of #LitsyLove letters to go out in forever! Three special ones to start with (including one that fulfils the August prompt of writing to someone you‘ve never written to), then I‘m going to tackle my mountain of lovely letters and get on top of my replies!

Catching up on this weeks #SummerFunBucketList ☀️

Top left is my TBR stack #ReadingLater 📚

Top right is my currently reading/waiting to be finished stack including the tagged book on audio and Property of a Lady by Sarah Rayne on my library app #ReadingNow 📖

Bottom right is my #ReadingRainbow 🌈

Another great instalment of The Wells & Wong Detective Society, this time the murder occurs at Daisy‘s large ancestral home. A great mystery and lots of fun as always. An easy and enjoyable read!

#Summerfunjr

🌸 Female heroine
🌸 About best friends

My final #summerfun post today I promise! This is my post for #niftygifty

It‘s a quidditch set gifted to me by a very close friend that we lost nearly a year ago. He was so fascinated by how much I loved Harry Potter and he would randomly test me on facts he found or call me a Slytherin to try and wind me up. He also couldn‘t resist buying HP themed gifts and randomly bought me this one day because he knew I would love it. We miss him a lot 💔

I am sure it will come as a big surprise that #mycollection is HP related 🙄, but here it is! I love HP or Hufflepuffle themed badges! I have sooo many favourites on Etsy waiting to be bought 😬. Just need a new backpack to pin them on now I have proper locking backs for them! 💛🦡⚡️

#summerfun

For this weeks #summerfun #bookshelfie challenge I didn‘t have a lot of options, still waiting for my husband to build more shelving in our new house! But I organised the one bookshelf I have got. Admittedly it‘s not in alphabetical order or anything but I grouped by series/author. It did make me realise how many of my books from series my bestie still has, lots missing!

I stitched this little fella yesterday, he is my new baby mandrake bookmark and I love him! I maybe should have used some darker thread but I was still really happy with how he came out!

#summerfun #getcrafty

I don‘t know if this counts for this weeks #summerfun challenge but I did some #audiobaking this week (listening to the OOTP for the millionth time because that‘s just who I am 🤷‍♀️). The day before our neighbour popped round with some eggs from their free range, happy, super fluffy bantams, it was great knowing they came from just next door! Also, I love baking banana bread while I‘m working from home because it smells so good!! 😝 #getcooking

Thank you for the tag @katy4peas 💜

1. My husband

2. I will never try watching the new IT film, I got like half way through, terrifying!

3. Probably Panic at the Disco! because I know every word!

4. My first job was in the cafe of our local garden centre

#wonderouswednesdays

@Eggs

Another reread finished! As with the first, I love how much more detail there is in the book than the films, I was initially surprised how different the book is to the film but I enjoy them separately.
Bonus points for how many prompts it filled for #summerfun bingo!
🌼An old favourite
🌼Read in the bath
🌼Book to movie (then watch movie)
#summerfunjr
🌸Book to movie
🌸Reread a favourite
🌸Set in another country

This is my #gardenselfie for #Summerfun 💚
Two veggie patches, a strawberry patch, a rhubarb patch, herbs and tomatoes. I am super lucky and have a side garden and a large back garden, but this bit is my happy place 🥬🍅🍓🥕🌱

I made some cloud slime for the #SummerFun challenge this week! Equal parts cornflour and raspberry hair conditioner with a little pink glitter, it smells amazing!! It was fun to make but I‘m gonna give it to my niece and nephew for messy play so it doesn‘t go to waste 💕
#summerfun #slimetoshine

The last of my catch up reviews!

This was a re-read but it never gets old for me. I love how much extra detail there is compared to the film (although I love the film equally) and there is something about the pace of the story that I find engaging, it is kind of slow but dramatic at the same time?!? I can‘t put it into words but it holds my concentration each time and it has ended my reading slump so it‘s a thumbs up from me! 💚

A pic of one of my favourite insects enjoying the nectar from a bramble flower in my garden 🌸🐝💚

#Buggingout #Summerfun

Catching up on reviews!

By now it is safe to say I am a fan of Warlock Holmes! I had a bit of a break in the middle before finishing this one but I think that was more about my lack of concentration recently and how bad I am at finishing things.