Yay to short weeks! Last week was Easter, next week is the early May bank holiday. I love me a short working week, but at the same time if you work in creative it just means that you are going to condense 5 working days into 4 and pray that nothing falls over. So far, knock on the wood, things have been a little wobbly … Continue reading Happy Monday (29th April 2019)
…and it’s called expensive hobbies. Ok, I’m not talking private jets, designer wardrobe and casual drugs. I’m talking the everyday, normal things which I have just realised can really catch a person out. So here is my little sin list and how I am tackling it. Expensive plants – I used to have a little urban jungle (it looked like this) which after a while … Continue reading I have a problem…
It should be said first and foremost that I grew up in Poland. Poland is a Catholic country. It has over 10,000 parishes. If you really wanted to do some maths, you’d find out that there is one church for every 30 sq km of terrain, including the forests. Forests cover nearly 30% of the country. So religion is a thing where I grew up. … Continue reading Best Easter traditions from Poland
Appetite comes with eating – it’s a common Polish idiom which sums up the lifestyle creep well. If you are not sure what lifestyle creep actually means, it’s something that happens when your luxuries turn into necessities. It tends to accompany an increase in income and goes hand in hand with what people call ‘standard of living’. Standard of living is more of an aspirational … Continue reading How to stop lifestyle creep after getting out of debt
Happy Monday! I love April, it’s such a capricious month. The weather gets moody and edgy, people get moody and edgy and the world gets creative. Don’t know about you, but I need a little bit of a mood swing and attitude shift to produce my best work and so far, I’ve been snowed under professional and personal projects. Here are some of the things … Continue reading Happy Monday (8th April 2019)
There are good mornings and bad mornings. I like mine to be good mainly because as my boyfriend puts it, I am an early raiser but I am not a morning person. And when not-a-morning-person like me gets out of bed at 6.25am daily, sh*t better run like a clockwork. Things don’t just fall into place on their own at that time of the day, … Continue reading A good morning starts the evening before – 7 things I do at night for a better start to the day
