I've made a little video for my Instagram page @casacrilly, where I put all of my house and interiors stuff, and it's all about the double renovation we're currently in the midst of - we're doing up a little seaside holiday cottage in Dorset and also the house we've...
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...
When these life updates (and indeed my children) were still in their early infancy, I regularly used to jinx myself by writing prematurely about them passing certain milestones. Not the starting walking, starting talking sorts of milestones, but the ones that make...
I have been overwhelmed by the response to my post about grief; emails, texts, comments and messages have been popping up in their hundreds - almost thousands - with the most heart-warming words and comforting sentiments. Perhaps the most significant thing I've taken...
We're trying to choose a carpet for the living room and it's turning into the world's biggest faff, partly because I have never known another human being as indecisive as Mr AMR, who can deliberate over some minute detail for well over a month, but also because it...
This post should be on my other website, strictly speaking; it's much more concerned with family and personal life than it is with beauty or fashion or (new passion!) interiors. But these worlds necessarily cross over and I thought that a bit of a chat about work and...
I've become rather fond of a good slogan or logo on a t-shirt. It jazzes things up a bit, elevates the t-shirt from being a plain, utilitarian sort of thing to more of a considered outfit choice. Except that it isn't, of course, because it takes just the same amount...
Master of the (hair colouring) Universe, Josh Wood, has just launched a brilliant hair colour range for home use. Actually, it's more than this - the products span from root touch-up pens to colour-clarifying shampoos, from permanent dyes to special tints that can be...
These sports markers give me such horrendous PE flashbacks; the gym teacher (Miss Lawton) barking instructions at us as we stood shivering in the cold, watching her jog along in her shell suit, throwing the coloured markers down on the grass as she went. "GIRLS! This...
I was rummaging about in my office today, trying to prep for a video on a new foundation that I wanted to review, when I came across a smallish box of products, very neatly put together and stashed safely in the corner of a larger box. Obviously my curiosity was...
I'll keep the intro short here, because it's a chatty video below and I don't want to end up just typing out a sort of inaccurate, truncated transcript. So without further ado: things I've struggled with this month and things that have lifted my spirits. The Parenting...
I must stop writing these updates at the last minute - although, why change what is now such an established habit? I think that the majority of the monthly updates I've written (and I've done one a month, without fail, since July 2015) have been hurriedly typed at a...
I wasn't actually intending to keep these amazing beauty boxes under wraps for quite so long - there were supposed to be lots of cheeky little hints, advance-warning teasers, annoying "I have a secret announcement coming up but I can't tell you what it is!" videos....
Right. I know it's snowing in the UK and we're all frozen into our homes, tapping fruitlessly at the insides of our iced-over windows in the hope that someone happens to be passing with a blow-torch and chisel so that we can be released from our chilly confines (just...
Here it is, as promised, my new "most-used" category; a monthly round-up of the five beauty products that I've used again and again. Helpful, I hope, for anyone wanting to know what I turn to day in, day out, rather than flash-in-the-pan lipstick love affairs and...