Autumn Dresses: Just Add Knitwear
I’ve been experimenting with ways of getting more use out of the sorts of autumn dresses I’d usually “save for best”. Dresses that I’m happ...
13-09-2021 21:47
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Trying On Dresses from Reformation
Reformation is a brand that I’d only ever seen on Instagram – barely anyone I knew offline had heard of it and I hadn’t picked up a fashion mag...
10-09-2021 21:48
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Hotel Review: The Gunton Arms
Well here’s an absolute treat of a little place to stay: The Gunton Arms in Norfolk. It provides what is, arguably, the perfect low-key country esc...
03-09-2021 21:44
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5 Beauty and Fashion Favourites: August 2021 | AD
My five favourite beauty, fashion and lifestyle products this month include some boots for stomping in, a dress for vamping in and a face cream that ...
02-09-2021 21:46
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Trying On The Best Strapless Bras
Trying On The Best Strapless Bras with Ruth Crilly
Next in my ?Trying On? series I am reviewing the best strapless bras – both for comfort and for a...
17-08-2021 21:47
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Video: Huge Hush Clothing Haul
Try-Ons: Hush Clothing
On my continuing mission to find the perfect denim shorts I ended up doing a huge Hush shop. All the items are linked below th...
11-08-2021 21:48
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Video: Trying On Me+Em Clothing
I’m playing catch-up with this video-embedding quest – this Me+Em clothing try-on was actually first posted last month. I’ll get there in the e...
06-08-2021 21:47
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5 Favourites: July 2021
Please excuse the filming conditions in this month’s favourites video: firstly a wasp came in to the bedroom (probably trying to escape the buildin...
04-08-2021 21:49
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Life Update: Sister
My four year-old has recently stopped calling his six year-old sister by her actual name and instead has taken to calling her just “sister”. Itâ€...
03-08-2021 21:49
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Video: Trying On Short Shorts
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 t...
21-07-2021 21:48
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Life Update: Oh Sh*t, The Kid Can Read
The just-six-year-old can now read, really quite well, which means I have had to hide all of the novelty mugs with swear words on them and also stop ...
05-07-2021 21:47
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5 Favourites: April 2021
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"
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06-05-2021 21:53
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Life Update: The Ultimate Staycation
I had one of the best holidays of my life last week. I know what you’re thinking: how has she possibly been on holiday" But it wasn’t really a ho...
30-04-2021 21:54
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5 Favourites: March 2021
Everyone seems to be enjoying my more eclectic mixes of favourites, rather than exclusively beauty, and so this month I give you everything from inte...
01-04-2021 21:47
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Double Renovation: Why The Sudden Rush"
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 renova...
07-03-2021 21:43
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5 Favourites: February 2021
Two posts in quick succession this week – ambassadors I am really spoiling you! Total misquote there, but if you were born earlier than – I donâ€...
04-03-2021 21:45
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Life Update: Top Trumps, The Misery Edition
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...
03-03-2021 21:45
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Casa Crilly and the Double Renovation
I said I’d come back to you with more about my side-hustle, sneakily mentioned last summer and not referred to since. It has been a bit crazy on th...
10-02-2021 21:52
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Life Update: Barrier Methods
The three year-old is now suddenly four, which means that he can, by no stretch of the imagination, be considered a baby. Me miserum! No more babies....
04-02-2021 21:50
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5 Favourites: January 2021
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 th...
01-02-2021 21:50
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Life Update: This Isn’t The Olden Days
And so here we are, thrown back into the deep pit of lockdown confusion. Each of us with a different and unique inconvenience or disaster: some have ...
19-01-2021 22:02
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My Ultimate Easy Christmas Gift: 2020 Edition
Looking for the ultimate easy, not-too-expensive, seemingly-thoughtful Christmas present" I have the answer! I had the answer last year too, so this ...
10-12-2020 21:49
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Life Update: Main Actor in Sex Footage
Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this email I’ve just had – I’ve obviously managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle. Not for t...
03-12-2020 21:53
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Life Update: Iron (Wo)Man
Who knew so many of you waited for the third of the month with such a sense of delight and anticipation" I have say that I’m deeply flattered by th...
13-11-2020 21:48
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Video: October Favourites 2020
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...
04-11-2020 21:49
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5 Favourites: September 2020
In what might be considered the rebrand of the century, the monthly 5 Beauty Favourites feature has now become…
*drumroll*
…5 Favourites. It took...
08-10-2020 21:52
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Life Update: It’s An Omen
A giant white moth just flew at my window as I started to type this life update, and I’m not sure what sort of omen that represents. I almost had a...
04-10-2020 21:50
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No Mole No Fee
There’s a mole catcher who’s well known around these parts of Somerset and he has the most amazing advert printed on the back of his van. I’d n...
21-09-2020 21:49
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Now That’s What I Call Summer! 2020
We’re having another heatwave here in the UK – in September! Honestly, this year must be breaking some kind of hours-of-sunshine record. It feels...
15-09-2020 21:52
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Life Update: Hanging On
Crikey. If there’s anyone else out there who’s been trying and failing to do the whole work-life-balance thing over the summer holidays, can they...
04-09-2020 21:46
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Life Update: The Big Tick
I had to pull a whole live tick out of my child’s face last week and I’ll be having nightmares for months. In fact if you have a phobia of insect...
04-08-2020 21:48
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King Triton: Hot But Not A Fox
Last week I found myself unexpectedly perving over King Triton’s torso whilst watching The Little Mermaid II with my kids. Which was something of a...
22-07-2020 21:49
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Don’t Bloody Bother, I’ll Pick Them Up Myself.
I was going to order some little vintage side tables last week but the delivery time, from the Netherlands, was estimated at 4-5 weeks. Considering t...
15-07-2020 21:47
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Life Update: The Squashing Fetish
I am writing this whilst leaning back – reasonably heavily – on my cat cushion. Not a feather-stuffed, velvet-covered cat cushion, mind: it’s a...
03-07-2020 21:46
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Bandit Crab
After twelve weeks of complete isolation I decided to go to the post office to do some urgent returns. (I actually had to send back some clothes I ha...
25-06-2020 21:45
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Sunday Tittle Tattle: We’re Done Here
I think I need a lawyer. Not because I’ve done anything illegal recently (unless plotting to kill the man who keeps strimming his bushes at night c...
25-06-2020 21:45
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Danger Bike
My children (three and a bit years old and almost five) have been learning to ride their bikes and it is at once a massively rewarding experience and...
25-06-2020 21:45
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Cutting My Hair With Paper Scissors
I’m offline for a couple of weeks after this post – I’m working on something magnificent and it requires my full concentration. I’m sure that...
25-06-2020 21:45
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Life Update: Sad Slug Gon
It’s a brief update this month, because it all feels a bit disjointed to talk about mundane, everyday events when such momentous things are happeni...
25-06-2020 21:45
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This is Not #CottageCore
Here I am, wafting about underneath a canopy of wisteria. It all looks very serene and idyllic, but don’t let appearances fool you! Just out of sho...
25-06-2020 21:45
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5 Beauty Favourites: March 2020
It seems a weird time to be filming a beauty favourites video, but what I thought would be even weirder would be for me to have made a big song and a...
02-04-2020 21:54
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Ways to Beat Lockdown Anxiety and Stress
I don’t think I’ve ever properly suffered with anxiety – stress is more my thing, though I’m sure the two are somehow linked – but the curr...
31-03-2020 21:54
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Sunday Tittle Tattle: I’m Back In The Room
I’m back in the room! It’s not really as though I can go anywhere else, to be fair. Sorry for the slightly prolonged absence; I’ve been trying ...
29-03-2020 21:52
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Coronavirus and Coping with Anxiety
Hello, dearest readers. I’ve been at a loss to know what to say to you this week; my usual humour seems to have deserted me and I’m strugglin...
19-03-2020 21:51
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Makeup Collection Review: Chanel Spring 2020
Let’s take a look at Chanel’s Spring 2020 collection. It all looks so beautiful, especially photographed against the huge booklet they sent along...
11-03-2020 21:50
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5 Beauty Favourites: February 2020
I just can’t seem to keep away from favourites videos. I stop doing them and then I start again, always returning to make just one more. I stop bec...
08-03-2020 21:50
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Testing Retinol With My Mum – Age 39 v Age 69! |
Well this is a very joyous revisit; I’ve reviewed Murad’s brilliant Retinol Youth Renewal range before, but they’ve reformulated and relaunched...
06-03-2020 21:51
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Life Update: The Lullaby Master
It’s life update time again, and rather than bore you with all of the tantrums and CIA-level negotiation we’ve been having to do around here, wit...
03-03-2020 21:50
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Hush Homewear Try-On: Spring 2020
You know the drill with these, by now: it’s a real-time (ish) try-on of my latest clothing order, this time from perennial favourite, Hush Homewear...
01-03-2020 21:49
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Haircare Review: Davines OI Oil
I always feel like a right berk recommending this to people when I can’t pronounce the name properly – I mean, how on earth do you say OI Oil wit...
27-02-2020 21:50
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Best Budget Beauty Under Ł20 – with Nadine Baggott
It’s Best Budget Beauty time again and who better to join me in my bargain-hunting exploits than the self-confessed dupe-obsessive Nadine Baggott" ...
24-02-2020 21:56
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Makeup Collection: Act IV by Danielle Lauder | AD
Well here’s a makeup collection that feels decidedly spring-like; it’s making me feel quite optimistic and invigorated about things, despite the...
22-02-2020 21:52
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3 Useful Things To Know If You Have Very Slow Internet…
Hurrah! I finally have internet speeds that are faster than the ones that we had back in 1999! And all it took was Mr AMR hanging precariously out of...
21-02-2020 21:52
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Haircare Review: Olaplex Bond Maintenance 4 & 5
I raved about this wondrous shampoo and conditioner duo just after Christmas but – as usual – it has taken some time to edit my written review. M...
19-02-2020 21:52
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What’s In My Makeup Bag" The Time Capsule
After writing off my “daily essentials” makeup bag, thinking I had lost it at a hotel, I was excited to find that it was, in fact, stowed away ri...
17-02-2020 21:52
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Giveaway: The Space NK x Caroline Hirons Beauty Box
Yes, yes, how dreadfully selfless of me to give away my hallowed – hallowed I tell thee! – Space NK x Caroline Hirons beauty box. This luxury bea...
14-02-2020 21:50
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Is This Love Affair Over"
I am sandwiched between two lone male diners. Not in the biblical sense, obviously, they wouldn’t be dining if they were sandwiching me (if that is...
12-02-2020 21:50
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My Current Skincare Routine: Winter 2020
I’ve made some quite significant changes to my skincare routine since Christmas and so I thought it might be time for an update. This wasn’t the ...
09-02-2020 21:55
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If Jo Malone Did Harvest Festival
Not since Molton Brown’s Geranium Nefertum have I spritzed a scent and really really liked it. I think that my nose has gone on strike, to a certai...
07-02-2020 21:50
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Soft AF: Trying on the Basics
I did an Abercrombie & Fitch order last week because the knees had gone through on my favourite skinny jeans. To be quite honest with you, I’m no l...
05-02-2020 21:56
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Life Update: Say It’s Not True!
Well, life is hurtling along and Baby One (four and a half years old) asks for “quiet time” so that she can “write her thoughts in her diary”...
04-02-2020 21:52
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Sunday Tittle Tattle: Nippleback
I finally caved in, after over ten years of owning an iPhone, and bought myself a protective case. Why the prolonged hesitation" I’ll tell you why....
02-02-2020 21:55
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Hotel Review: The Newt In Somerset
It normally takes me about two years to get around to writing up my hotel reviews (it’s well over a year, I think, since I visited the Bedruthan in...
29-01-2020 21:55
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Best of 2019: My Skincare and Haircare Favourites
Here are my 2019 favourites for skincare and haircare, including the latest shampoo discovery that actually changes the entire feel of my hair and th...
26-01-2020 21:52
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Press Trip de Chanel: A Masterclass in Branding
Here begins my epic task of catching up on all of the stuff I didn’t manage to post before the end of 2019, and I’m going to start with a bit of ...
23-01-2020 21:55
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Sunday Tittle Tattle: Early Bird
Why is it that when I have an early wakeup call, I simply cannot get to sleep" And by the way, I’m talking early-early here, when the owls are stil...
19-01-2020 21:51
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Life Update: What Have I Done"
I’ve had a slightly longer break from work than anticipated; but don’t worry, there’s nothing sinister afoot. I’m not ill, the dog didn’t d...
14-01-2020 21:52
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