Dear August...

Dear August,

Thank you for a wonderful month, you are already missed. I have to go back to work on Monday and I'm not ready to have to wake up at 7.15am every day after you spoilt me with lie ins and late nights chatting with friends.

You started off brilliantly with a holiday away in Scotland. A week away from home with my family in a different environment was lovely. A week away from my laptop is always welcome, sometimes I feel like I spend too much time staring at the screen instead of doing something a lot more useful with my time.

What followed on was two consecutive weekends away, one in London and one in Bristol. London brought it's usual delights...a catch up with friends and fellow vloggers and bloggers, great food, aching feet. I helped to organise a meet up which I always enjoy to do and it's great to be able to take pictures of your food and not be questioned because they're all doing it too.

The following weekend, I went to Bristol to see my brother and visit the south west. Whilst down there, we took the trip to Bath, a place which I always enjoy visiting because it's just like stepping into a Jane Austen novel...shame my Mr Darcy was busy that day.

You ended all too quickly August, finishing faster than you started and I'm sad that you have gone but I'll always have the memories thanks to taking part in Vlogust. Although it was stressful at times and it only brought me to tears once or twice in the whole time I did it, I'm proud that I completed the challenge and can't wait to daily vlog again in October.

Thank you August for everything, see you next year.

Love,

Clare

xxx

Blogging Friends

Hey there,

For the first time in a long time, I got out of the house (that wasn't for work), got on a train and met up with my lovely friend, Zoe.

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I met Zoe nearly three years ago. If my memory serves me correctly, we chatted on twitter before meeting at a blogging meet up and since then we have been good friends. She was one of my first blogging friends and she is probably one of my best friends. It's crazy to me to think that without writing about make up and life, I wouldn't have ever met her.

What is great about making friends with fellow bloggers is that they understand your blogging stresses and dislikes because they suffer from them too. Like I said before, we met up yesterday for a catch up in Birmingham and it was nice to have a moan about blogging and about hyped up products that we absolutely hate.

It's also good to catch up with fellow bloggers in real life because with social media being so quick to change, you could miss out on a good blog post/ video or some blogging drama so it's good to share notes over a coffee (we had mochas...so good).

There is one thing that could be seen as being a downside to having blogging friends...they are all enablers. Whilst shopping yesterday, myself and Zoe spend a good amount of time looking at beauty bits and bobs. We spent a good fifteen minutes at the Jo Malone Counter spraying different scents onto the little cards and making each other smell them... I now need have of the collection.

Do you have a good blogging friend? Could you imagine life without them?

Lots of Love,

C

xxx

Welcome to Square Peg Round Hole

Hi there,

Yes I know, another blog from me. BUT there is a reason behind all of the extra bloggyness. Over the past 2 and a half years (well actually longer but I can't do fractions), I have written a predominately beauty blog and because of this every time I put up something lifey or fashiony, it felt a bit weird and a little out of place.

To you all, it probably doesn't matter but I wanted to try something out. So meet you new friend, Square Peg Round Hole.



Square Peg Round Hole will be a place of rambles, possible outfit/fashiony things, moans and general life things that I feel wouldn't work on The Love of All Things Beauty.

The other thing I have decided with this blog is that there won't be a specific schedule or plan to this blog, I could blog often or I could go for a while without posting. This is going to be my chilled out space that is just somewhere I can come and let off some blogging steam (did that sound like a fart to anyone else... I'm NOT going to blog fart haha).

I hope you all enjoy your stay here at Square Peg Round Hole. All links and plinks are on your right and thank you for stopping by.

Lots of Love,
xxx