Featuring this month's 5 beauty and lifestyle favourites! Please excuse the random, disorganised, wasp-infested start and the filming conditions in this month's favourites video: firstly a wasp came in to the bedroom (probably trying to escape the building dust in the...
In this video I try on some shorts and they are very… short. Don't hold me to this but I think I've come up with a solution for those of you who don't use Instagram but want to see the content I post on there. I'm experimenting with uploading the videos to YouTube as...
The quarterly, seasonal peep into my makeup bag with all of its wondrous contents. And what a makeup bag it is! How had I not heard of the Flat Lay Co? Or seen this type of makeup bag before? It's utterly genius! If you, like me, don't have a permanent, dedicated...
Three beauty heroes, an excellent cookbook and one of the best presents I've ever been given: how much better could a monthly favourites video be? Here's a quick rundown of the first four items on the list but you'll have to watch the video to see the fifth. It's so...
Everyone seems to be enjoying my more eclectic mixes of favourites, rather than exclusively beauty, and so this month I give you everything from interiors to - er - linseed. You need to watch the video, really, to get the proper lowdown on the linseed, but I've waxed...
My skincare routine for what shall forevermore be known as The Winter of Discontent. Obviously, in true Crilly style, I am posting this just as we pip over into springtime, but as I've said before, this is more of a journal post recording my skincare routine rather...
Two posts in quick succession this week - ambassadors I am really spoiling you! Total misquote there, but if you were born earlier than - I don't know, about 1985? - then it's pretty much mandatory to reference the classic Ferrero Rocher ad if you ever use "spoiling...
I think that this may be my most pared-back What's In My Makeup Bag video ever: really just the very bare minimum, with the few products I did use tested to the absolute nth degree. I filmed it quite a few weeks ago now and I still hadn't really unpacked (catch up on...
Five favourites from the month of January, in the year 2021, which will surely go down in history as the longest month on record. It's like when they say on the weather forecast, "the temperature will be at around eight degrees but will feel like two" because of the...
I'm sorry, but the part of me that likes things to be in order has to post this video despite it being a whole season old. (Admittedly it's only a very tiny - tiny - part of me that likes things in order, because mostly I live in chaos, like one of those long-bearded...
This photo is completely unrelated to the video content but it's been a while since Mr Bear has pulled one of his classic "unamused" faces here on the blog and so I hope all is forgiven. Also I have taken to filming my Youtube videos on my iPhone, for ease and because...
I found this post in my drafts folder in February 2021 but have decided to publish it retrospectively with its intended October 2020 date because I'm trying to keep the blog in order! I haven't changed any copy so the cottage reno information probably doesn't...