SPRING HOMEMAKING 🌸 Flower Arranging, Rhubarb Recipes + H&M Floral Collection Try On

A wholesome Spring in the Cotswolds vlog; making homemade Rhubarb Jam & Scones, an H&M floral try on haul and flower arranging + trying the new DJI Osmo vlog camer!
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Chapters:
00:00 – Get Ready With Me & Self Care
06:10 – Talk With Wild Nutrition
07:23 – Needle & Thread x Soru Launch
08:12 – Health Chat & Skincare
22:45 – Spring In The Garden
23:55 – Greenhouse Updates
25:27 – Photoshoot With Kat
31:25 – Making Rhubarb Jam
34:00 – Making Scones
36:00 – New Dress
37:55 – In The Herb Garden
39:39 – Afternoon Treats
41:35 – Flower Arranging
45:26 – H&M Haul
1:01:28 – Evening Skincare

[Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning my darlings welcome to a new Vlog I’m going to be very Swift with the introduction to today’s Vlog because I’m am shortly heading into London for a day of fun meetings and events which of course I’m going to bring you all along to Quick Pilates and post Pilates pamper this morning and I am sat here surrounded by crystals last night was a full moon and for the first time ever I put my crystals outside to charge them this is still something that I’m learning a lot about and it’s something that I’m very open-minded about but don’t claim to know a whole bunch about but with things like this I always think if they have been being done for centuries then there absolutely must be something in it and when you think about how the moon can literally control the oceans it’s obviously got amazing powers and it’s said that by putting your crystals outside literally on the ground or on a window sill but touching the ground is better on a full moon it can recharge your crystals so that can help with the energy that you get from them and help with any manifesting that you’re using the crystals to help you with so I’ve had all of my facial massage crystals outside including these two which I like to use for just a really relaxing little sculpt I don’t use these quite so much because I’m not quite so sure on the routines to use them with but they’re always really cold so it just feels amazing using them obviously the rose quartz gache tools I have been using this every day for 10 days now and I’m just loving it it’s now fully part of my skincare routine maybe later on in the video I’ll show you my little routine now that I’ve been doing it for over a week or so I’ve got this one which is really good just for moving the fluids around great for under the eyes great for drainage lifting and it’s just a really Nifty little side this one is great for when you don’t have too long or when you’re maybe just watching TV or kind of doing it a little bit half-heartedly just a quick little bit of a massage quick little bit of drainage um the smaller side is great for depuffing under the eyes and as they’re all Rose quarts like even the handle of this one is rose quartz they’ve now all been cleansed thanks to the full moon rose quartz is really fantastic as a love Crystal supports emotions helps with relationships helps with compassion and to be honest it’s really pretty and then I’ve also got a crystal called howlite which is in my water bottle which I keep on my desk I actually filled this with water last night and drank that as my prec coffee water this morning how light is meant to be great for mental Clarity helping you to think clearly etc etc and other benefits so there we go if any of you are into crystals then please point me in the direction of any resources that you find useful as I said this is all very new to me but I’m very open-minded to it and it’s one of those things where if you get joy from it and you are open-minded to the benefits you can get then there’s absolutely no harm no harm at all and with things like this I’m actually getting skin benefits from even better am I a little bit Bonkers maybe but it’s not hurting anyone so there we go today I’ve got um a morning with wild nutrition I have just been taking where’s my sachche my capsules this morning got a couple left and it’s a panel talk so that’s going to be really interesting then I’m going to be heading over to actually can’t remember the venue need to double check and doing a quick outfit change somewhere into a beautiful sparkling needle and thread dress because it is the needle and thread and soru Jewelry launch today which is going to be great fun and then a few other meetings in town so I need to get cracking I need to get on the train I’ll see you in [Music] London so the um office of national statistics says that our birth rate in the UK is the lowest that it’s ever been but there’s been a increase in the amount of women having babies um having pregnancies later on in life so I was talking to Marley earlier about you know the fact that uh anybody who has a baby over 35 is known as a geriatric yeah which I think illustrates the disconnection between the systems and the structures that we have around us um with what is actually happening in real time to mothers these days is out there increases parental anxiety and I think that’s really really interesting and why you know we do so important because it’s kind of the antithesis to that um that that you can p out a perfect script and I think what’s happened is the explosion and all this parenting advice has happened at the exact same time that we’ve lost that Village and we’ve lost that support so we kind of got more knowledge than ever before about what we should should be doing but less support than ever before to help us do it [Music] well I’ve had a very quick outfit change in the L at Allbright following that really interesting morning with wild nutrition and an incredible panel of very inspiring ladies I’ve now come to the broadwick in SoHo for lunch with needle and thread today is the official celebration launching their collaboration with soru jewelry which I’m already a huge huge fan of new outfit of the day from needle and thread beautiful pastel colors just in a quick change from trainers into my heels and it’s time for [Music] lunch hello again my darlings it’s a few hours later if I look exceptionally tired it’s because I am I swear going into London just really wipes it out of me at the moment um I don’t know why I just get to like 400 p.m. and I cannot wait to get home luckily it was a very easy journey home fantastic events today I feel like I learned so much and just I get that buzz when I’m surrounded by incredibly interesting and inspiring people ladies and today was a whole load of that um the panel talk for wild nutrition this morning it was it was focused on what they were calling the mother load so even though I’m not a mom yet um hopefully one day then um these things will be even more relevant then but even they were talking about things which I could definitely relate to about just the abundance of information online and especially in motherhood but I can definitely relate to it for other topics um and I think it’s well documented on this channel that I hear things and I really absorb so many messages and try to implement them into my life and it is overwhelming and I can only imagine what that’s like as a new mom trying to learn so much information and I guess so many topics were discussed but um one of the things that I really took home was to trust your intuition and often especially as a female your your intu intuition is nearly always going to lead you the right way and yeah there were lots of other topics that they discussed but um yeah I could be here for hours and hours if I spoke through all of it but really really wonderful they were talking about the prim Master as as well so the the trimester before you conceive before you get pregnant and how important it is to look after yourself look after your body and um yeah it it’s just really really fascinating and then the lunch with needle and thread I’ve never seen such a glamorous room full of amazing women amazingly dressed ladies in the gorgeous needle and thread new collection and the soru jewelry collaboration so needle and thread and Sor jewelry have created a beautiful collection together and and you will have spotted it in my Vlog from a week or so ago where we shot at Cornwell manx I was wearing the collection for that shoot day and again it was just wonderful I saw so many familiar faces there some ladies I’ve not seen in years pre pandemic so it was really fantastic and yeah home now I was listening to another podcast another thing to get a little bit carried away with but they were talking about um I think they’re called endo crine endocrine disruptors basically these chemicals I’m just going to tie my hair up I’m going to take my vup off in a second um these chemicals that we become exposed to not just in the city but like in day-to-day life and some of the things that we can do to stop ourselves getting such big exposure from these chemicals and they have a negative impact on so many aspects of our health and our fertility but one of the things one of the easy things that they were saying it was a do Mark Heyman um podcast the pH the Pharm Doctor’s Pharmacy and they were saying that one of the easiest things you can do is take off your shoes when you come into the house and um obviously take off the clothes that you’ve been wearing after a day in the city that’s actually the main reason why I got changed just now because I was obviously wearing a dress I’ve been wearing all day yeah this podcast was saying how pollutants and things from the air can get on our clothes it’s it’s a lot it’s a lot of information but it made me want to put my coat in my fashion fridge and get changed into a fresh outfit here at the house anyway I’m going to take my makeup off I like to um cleanse as soon as I get home I guess that’s got benefits as well removing the pollutants and the um makeup and essentially dirt that we’ve had on our face all day so let’s get started starting off as always with a cleansing disc my face Halo which will remove the bulk of my makeup because then my cleanser can actually clean my skin um as opposed to just taking off my makeup I have done this for goodness knows how long um at least the entire time we’ve lived out here in the cot worlds I think it actually probably saves me a lot of product as well product it was the word that I just mumbled up um because you’re cleaning your face so you beforehand and obviously this doesn’t require any product whatsoever uh so it means I don’t need to use quite as much of my skincare favorites I might have a link to somewhere you can get these down below with a discount so I shall leave that linked down below but next we’re going to move on to a cleanser and as with all of the chemicals that we are coming into contact with I also want to make sure that I’m not then Plastering a load of ingredients on my face which my skin is not going to love so I do look at what ingredients are in the products that I’m using and a brand that I absolutely adore and they have incredible natural ingredients in their formula is oule this is one of their newest launches it is called L make off it looks like this and this is an incredibly gentle soothing baling baling baly makeup remover so I like to use after I’ve done my face Halo onto skin which the makeup has been removed from but my skin needs clean so Ole as I’m sure you’ll remember because I talk about them a lot it’s a brand that I just everything that they do I I agree with to such to such extent they have a vertical Farm just outside Paris and they grow many of their ingredients within this vertical farm and that has got so many benefits it means that they can actually have complete control over the growing environment so they can be sure that there are no external environmental um pollutants getting onto the ingredients which then go onto our skin they can ensure that the ingredients are grown in a really wonderful way without extra chemicals or anything sprayed onto them it also means that they don’t need to spend loads of time and money and resources transporting ingredients from all around the world um and they’re actually incredibly environmentally friendly when it comes to their water use they’re able to reuse so much of the water within their vertical Farm it’s an incredibly sustainable way of farming and I’m saying this watching a tractor literally spray something I don’t know what it is I think a lot of the farmers around here obviously do farm organically but not all of them because quite honestly it’s just so hard to make any money from farming organically the whole system is a little bit crazy and I could go on and on but I shall myself um but yeah in the versical farm Ole have full control over what goes on the ingredients which means that they know exactly the potency and what it can do for our skin so Ole really recognize the power of natural ingredients but they also pay attention to the signs because they want them to be as functional for our skin and our health as possible this is just the most soothing gorgeous barmy cleanser you can see that almost my skin wants to drink it in that’s how gorgeous it is but I am going to get some water and with some water on my fingers I’m just massaging it in even further you can use this to get rid of eye and lip makeup as well looking a little bit scary okay no doubt looking a little bit B draggled after all of that but this can you see all the makeup F here this is why it’s important that you do a double cleanse because from the looks of my face Halo it looked as though everything had come off my skin but it absolutely hadn’t so double cleansing super duper important and my skin after using this it doesn’t feel tight at all it feels incredibly comfortable the ingredients within this you’ve got some prebiotics in here which are fantastic for balancing out the skin great for helping to neutralize the Skin’s microbiome which is very very important I’m literally looking out at a field of wheat that the farmers have been planting I’ll show you in a second this has got wheat ceramides in it which are fantastic for creating a protective barrier on the skin so helping to add Luminosity to your complexion it also helps in the short and long term for dryness and dehydration so if as the seasons change you feel like your skin starts to feel a little bit tighter then it could be that your cleanser maybe some of the ingredients are a little bit too harsh but wheat camid es overall it just so pampering for your skin and great for hydration levels and then you’ve also got a plum kernel oil in here this is what’s actually dissolving your makeup and also just adding a real luxuriousness to the feel of this and replenishing those fatty acids in your skin Ole always think so carefully about the ingredients how they make the product feel how they make it work and how it will benefit your skin in the long term this is a new launch but it’s available now from space and K I’m going to leave it linked down below it feels so gorgeous using it that I almost want to do another layer of cleansing but what I am going to do is do a little bit of a face mist that’s possibly the most refreshing part of my evening skincare routine and I will repeat this when I actually come up before bed and what I sometimes do Ole have also I don’t know if they’ve had these for a while but I only just got them these little reusable cotton pads I use reusable cotton PS every single morning with a micel water just to do a quick cleanse I don’t double cleanse in the morning but sometimes especially if it’s been a long evening since coming home and doing this makeup removal and going to bed sometimes I will do a quick myela water and then do even more pampering skin care so reusable cont pads are great for that I keep a little bag at the side of the sink here and when I’ve used them they go into the bag and and um they just go in the washing machine in a little pouch so they’re always nice and clean and I keep them in this old anthropology Candle jar by the side of the sink but yes if I do do that then I’ll probably end up misting my face again with this Charlie and I both are obsessed with this we have got them all around the house balancing floral Mist with the Brand’s pure botany extract which basically helps your skin to neutralize any environmental aggressors that might be impacting your skin fill your skin with hydration and speaking of hydration I’m going to finish for now with my Ola plump this is that super hydrating serum again with a pure botany extract literally like giving your skin the most hydrating drink in the entire world and it just feels absolutely gorgeous it’s also another really lovely um product that’s got a little bit of slip to it so you do want to do that bit of facial massage then it’s perfect for that what say on the back infused with a hyaluronic acid Trio and Chestnut extract replenishes the skin with hydration and improves skin resilience and you can use it am. and p.m. I use it a.m. afternoon and just before bed and normally I would save this step before until before bed but it’s so lightweight as an eye serum that you can do it um in the early evening as well give your skin chance to just enjoy all the gorgeous ingredients you might have spotted me using the this morning because it’s a more of a serum than a cream it sinks in really wonderfully so sometimes I find that eye creams can be a bit heavy especially under makeup whereas because that one is a serum it’s super lightweight you still get all of the amazing anti-aging benefits but um without the heaviness of a cream so I absolutely love it so there we go my skin is clean and hydrated ahead of an entire evening at home I have been a fan of doing the not pre-bedtime cleanse but the post getting home after a day of work cleanse for many years I just like to be makeup free and cleansed and have my skin enjoying good clean ingredients um while I’m relaxing at home instead of sitting there with day old makeup and pollution and Gunk on my skin I guess if you live somewhere really warm um then you might need to reapply SPF if you’re going to sit at home in the evenings but this not only gets rid of City pollutions also really fantastic at taking off your day’s SPF obviously your makeup obviously your um Skin’s natural oils as well fantastic at cleansing away all of that without stripping your skin so I’m going to leave this linked down below and I hope that you guys will check it out especially if you do find that you are looking for something that is more natural more kind to your skin with consideration into where the ingredients have come from which is just becoming more and more and more important to me the more I here the more I learn um it just becomes even more important to me now anyway let me show you this wheat feeli you can picture not quite the wheat ceramides but um actually let’s go downstairs and I’ll give you a closeup and maybe we’ll be able to see the farmer in action cuz he’s whizzing around in his tractor oops nearly dropped that my goodness that was a ninja catch um yeah and we can see him in action I’m just going to do the world’s quickest gacha massage while the serums have left my skin [Music] juicy that was only 2 minutes it won’t have done anything for my lifting but it felt good so this is a closeup of the field that we see from our bathroom window that I was just overlooking it’s in its very very early stages but this will we think be turning into a big Ju juicy wheat crop before too long gorgeous this is the fourth year that we’ll have witnessed this field and they normally do a 4-year crop rotation so we shall see we have seen the full cycle what do you think dexi come on [Music] [Laughter] [Music] my evening check-in at the greenhouse and my col Rie has started to germinate which is great news definitely need to prick out some of my Cosmos this um KET is doing really well need to plant out these and these very very soon let’s see do we have any signs of life from myettes yet no nothing and the soil is damp enough o that’s quite dry need to give those a bit of a bit of a water but yeah hopefully it won’t be long I’m very eager to get lots of cett in the ground this year [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning my my darlings it’s now Friday morning we’ve got cat here and it’s a gorgeous day so today is a Content shooting day I think the last time I spoke to you I’d just done my evening skincare routine and I was so tired after a day in London that I actually ended up falling asleep under my LED light I fell asleep under my dermalux and I think Charlie must have removed it I was probably snoring but yeah just really took it out of me so today the first thing that we are shooting are some rhubarb recipes because we have got so much rhubarb in our garden at the moment and this is not forced rhubarb this is the main crop rhubarb it’s a little bit more bitter but fantastic in cakes in jams in syrups that’s what I’m going to be hoping to make and shoot today so we’ve just been out picking this cat’s outside getting some gorgeous photos while the sun is shining she was here yesterday as well but it was such a miserable day unfortunately um hopefully we still got some kind of Moody shots but it’s so much better when the sun is shining so anyway without further Ado I’m going to wash the rhubarb ditch the leaves and the first thing I’m going to make is a rhubarb jam yummy okay my darlings this is actually my first time vlogging face to face on the DJI so really intrigued when I get this in the laptop to see if the quality is any better this is the sound without a microphone I feel like a child at Christmas with a new toy um so the next few Clips is probably just going to be me experimenting but I’m going to flip you around which I think I can do with one button um and we’re going to head out and get some more rhubarb I completely underestimated how much rhubarb you need in rub rhubarb jam 1 kilogram in the recipe that I’m making so let’s head outside I wonder if I can do like face tracking and get the camera to follow me but I think if I press this there we go you’re the other way around now okay hope that was smooth I would love your feedback as to how you find this in comparison to my old camera can you even tell any difference it’s quite good at like gimbal smoothing you know I think it’s quite a a glidey camera maybe when I’m walking it’s a little bit smoother what do you guys think about the picture quality and sound quality do I need the microphone who knows okay there’s Katarina can we spot her I think I can zoom in on this let’s see oh no there’s the sky okay I’m going to grab a few more little bits of rhubarb hello is that my Jazzy new camera little thingy this is my first time using it does it like does it detach from that handle yes so it’s teeny weeny and it can follow your face so I could stalk you with it I actually need more rhubarb a little screen here and then I think okay SD card slow I don’t know if it’s filming oh yeah it is filming hello okay detecting faces yeah there’s a face there’s another face Yay face truck enabled okay Sophie oh no it’s stuck on me now oh that’s okay let’s wiggle together let’s let’s run over here is it going to follow yeah look it’s following it’s a little bit high oh maybe we reach the extremity let’s bring it down hi now now walk around that why you so obsessed with me why is so obsessed oh it doesn’t go very far oh it’s still actually it was still following you go around that way see how far it’ll go it’s still following you oh my gosh oh my God it’s like the Exorcist with the head going around hello that’s kind of creepy I wanted to follow me how do we switch whose face stop it and then pick me yay okay are we tracking are we tracking yeah you kind of want the screen to move too but I guess it’ll follow us over here jent right you following yeah [Music] okay did that face tracking work how’s the lighting outside the screen is really small on this so I can’t really tell um what the quality is going to be like to me it doesn’t look quite as flattering as the Canon g7x like the lighting is quite harsh um the lighting is Harsh today feels a bit fishy yeah really intrigued to see how this is going to pan out let me flip you around again and show you how the garden looking today gorgeous gorgeous sunlight streaming through the greenhouse we’ve got gimbal rotation we’ve got some enemies coming through aliums already starting to come out looking gorgeous habous border oops sometimes I forget where the camera’s pointed it’s another funny thing about this so I’m kind of guiding it with a joystick he [Music] so here we have got my rhubarb jam in the making you would not actually believe how much sugar is in this recipe it’s certainly not a healthy recipe but it’s going to be absolutely delicious we’ve got 1 kg of rhubarb 1 kg of sugar and I’m just stirring it while the sugar melts I’m hoping that the rhubarb’s going to break down a little bit more I’m wondering if I should have chopped it a little bit tinier if I’ve got to blend it up then so be it but it smells amazing really kind of caramelly as the sugar melts my goodness what a treat this is going to be gorgeous over some scones [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay I’m back on my old camera just while I get used to things please let me know what different you see down below if any um so we’ve made the jam it’s cooling down and I just tried a little bit it is delicious absolutely scrumptious so I didn’t realize but um you can actually sterilize jars at home obviously put them through a really hot wash in the dishwasher and then put them in your oven at 100° so they are sterilized this is how my jam is currently looking it’s going to cool down and then we’ll pop it in the jars and I was thinking a nice way to enjoy would be with some homemade scon so only takes about half an hour to make them including the cooking time using the th mix makes my life so much easier I can just make everything instead of going out to have to buy it um I’ve never made scon at home before so it says easy on the app fingers crossed let’s give it a go [Music] [Music] [Music] well my darlings it seems we’ve been working on this all morning but it’s always a lot slower when you’re shooting reels and blog photos at the same time but we have successfully made a batch of homemade rhubarb jam I can confirm it is delicious don’t worry this isn’t all we’ve got to show for it I’ve got a few more jars tucked away and while the jam was cooling down I literally whipped up these scon I’ve got to say in the thumb mix it’s really really quick and easy some of them could have risen a tiny bit more but I don’t think they’re bad for my first attempt now we didn’t have any clotted cream in the house tragically but I just tried one with butter and jam and my goodness they are delicious we’ve got Stefan and caser and Cad and Charlie here today I think Martin’s coming over to my The Lawns as well so we are all going to enjoy a feast of um scones and jam in the garden lovely okay so back to shooting some other content now I’m gonna go and get changed but I thought I would show you what I’ve been wearing at first thing this morning so this is a lovely dress from a brand called Iris it’s got little pockets it comes with a belt that’s the same fabric as the dress but I’ve added in a little um wicker belt this lovely shirt style collar and beautiful floral pattern it’s just a really really nice easy easy kind of dress to throw on when the temperatures warm up a little bit which actually they have done now thank goodness we thought there might even have been a frost last night I did close up my mini Greenhouse with the daers in um but it’s nice and warm now the sun is shining however because I’ve been wearing this since first thing this morning I’ve actually got full uniclo heat tech thermals long legs long sleeves white top on underneath um but yeah really nice easy to wear day dress I think what we’re going to film now I’d like to film some reals on on how you can use herbs because for example my lemon Bal tea that I’ve been having um mint as a refreshing addition to ice cubes things like that there’s so many lovely things you can do with a herb bed and herbs just grow back so easily and they’re just they’ve got so many wonderful properties so I think we’re going to do that and I might pop on my little Zara cotwell dress for the next shots but yeah cute little dress that I’ve been wearing so far today I’ll leave it linked down below popped on the Zara dress I really do love it it’s one of those pieces that you don’t often see such unique um prints on the High Street and it really does just look like a cotw world landscape so yeah the real that I’m going to go out and shoot with cat now is going to be maybe something simple just like five herbs you can use to make a herbal tea or five different herbal teas and then in the voice over I will explain the different um benefits for example the lemon balm that I’ve been enjoying every evening over the last week or so really good at helping you sleep helping to calm you down helps with digestion obviously minty great with digestion so sometimes I put some mint in with my lemon balm if we’ve had a big meal as well so let’s head down to the hub bed and get some snippings okay I’m using the osmo again the DJI Vlog camera let’s see how it works this whole Vlog is going to be testing it so heading down to the her bed going to go into the greenhous first and get a basket and some scissors okay ah this is exactly what I needed my little Tru okay let’s go and pick some hubs can’t believe I live in your thoughts I think think about you all the time morning evening and midnight such a wonderful [Music] deight for go give up everything that I own yeah I’d give it all up now just to be with you somehow Unexpected Love was found you’re the rose in a garden and it shows [Music] if well it’s a few hours later now Charlie’s just dropping cat at the station and I have immediately got changed into comfy clothing which is what I always do straight after any kind of shooting now I’ve just made myself Casher Martin and Stefan toasted scones with butter and rhubarb jam they were very easy to make but I feel like this is going to be and everyone has given them five star reviews cat even ate like three of them while she was here so I think they’re pretty good um but now I just want to make loads more scon I want to do a Savory one with cheddar and herbs in it that would be so amazing but this one with the rubub jam absolute Triumph m and if you’re patient the jam is actually fairly easy to do so I definitely recommend trying it now it is far too late in the day to be having a coffee but I just really need one after shooting for about 6 hours no 7 hours we started at 9:00 a.m. so I’m going to treat myself to a coffee finish the little crumbs of my scone scone or scone let me know what you think down below thing about these is you’ve got to eat them quickly because once the scone scum so slow hold you in my arms won’t let go the pass Us by THM light stri as very rustic but it’s the thought that counts I’m going to deliver some scones and homemade rubarb jam am I ever we’re going to stop going on about this by the way probably not over to laa I think she’ll enjoy this little afternoon pickme up okay I’m just about to head out into the garden hence the Gile but I’m very annoyed with myself because I bought these flowers from dford two days ago and I meant to shoot a flower arranging video with cat and I just completely forgot so I put them in the sink through there I just completely forgot about them so I’m hoping that they’re still going to be alive because as you can imag imagine Dela flowers are not cheap they have been in water but let’s just see cuz I got some gorgeous stems please be okay little an enemies uh ronculus oh I think they’ll be all right look at these beautiful ronculus yeah that’ll be fine we just need to oh gosh I’ve they been out of water right we’ll get you drinking in just one moment My Little Friends Campanula is surprising given how delicate it looks how much it really Springs back to life I remember the Campanula that I rescued from our wedding flower arches and displays that had been out of water for maybe 4 days I put it in water in the house trimmed the stems and it all came back to life and lasted weeks pretty much like 10 days after our wedding which you really wouldn’t think it would cuz there such delicate little bell shaped blooms so gorgeous and then we’ve got some digitalist oh no that’s Campana that’s looking really sad I’ll be amazed if that comes back to life but we’ll give it a go and then some lovely big digitalis look at this have no idea what I’m going to do with these let’s think let’s start by getting everything in some fresh water and it shows if I’m onest you’re the Le AR and I’ve come out here to say well I was actually only putting them in this far just to rehydrate them but with this wild shape of the delphiniums I rather love how this looks I think the colors are really beautiful together the creams greens light pinks and lilacs but we definitely need some more foliage so I’m going to have a little look in the garden see what I can must up and then pop this in an antique vase and we’ve got lovely display I have I’ve got to admit I’ve banished the very sad looking Campanula and I’m just going to put it in the greenhouse hopefully with the daylight fresh water and cooler temperatures it might spring back to life but I’m so sorry Mr Campanula I don’t want your gloominess bringing down my display but I’m not giving up Hope on you I’m just going to nourish you back to full health before you can join your friends in the display I’ve officially gone mad haven’t I yes yes J you have this is Josie from the future coming just to give you a Campanula update it was in the water freshly trimmed for 24 hours and now it is looking fabulous they really are so resilient what I’m going to do is just remove some of the leaves which are a little bit crispy um and yeah it’s pretty much sprung back oh I need two hands to do that I don’t want to decapitate any of the Little Flower heads but yes I just wanted to show you how well it has come back to life the flowers have completely reinvigorated and and now I’m going to remove the leaves and add it into our display absolutely glorious Charlie picked up this lovely arigon probably from dford so we’ve got origon digitalis ranunculus and Campanula basically all of our wedding flowers it’s amazing that we’re already coming up to a year my goodness in just over A month’s time wow that’s crazy and all of our wedding flowers are coming back in bloom okay Darlings off in the pink room and and I have had another H&M delivery I know there’s been a lot of High Street fashion I got something on my face no it’s something on the screen um yeah there’s been a lot of did you hear that a lot of High Street fashion here on the channels lately it’s really I’m going to blame my spring outfit Challenge on Instagram which will be over by the time you’re watching this I think is this video going up maybe today today for you is the last day of my spring outfit on Instagram if you’ve not seen any of my spring outfit videos on Instagram and you do follow me then can you try something for me can you try unfollowing me and then reowing me and just liking a few of my recent posts because I was sat next to the lovely Maya Williams yet two days ago um was it yesterday no two days ago at the needand thread lunch and we followed each other for years and I kept thinking oh my gosh I have not I know that I’ve not seen any of her posts in so long and I checked her page and yes I was still following her there hadn’t been a glitch so I I said to her I was like you’re going to get a notification I’m following you just to point out I was already following you but I’m going to unfollow you and refollow you and I liked like five of her latest posts and now I actually see her content so try that if there are any influencers that you follow I mean there’s probably something you’ve forgotten about which is tragic but um yeah just try that for me and let me know once you’ve done it and let me know like a couple of days later if it works because I’ve been putting a lot of effort into this outfit Challenge and I know that Instagram is not wanting to show it to everybody which is a real pain in the butt anyway I’ve got a little H&M order and H&M this time of year is really good so let me show you what I’ve got I will steam these over the next couple of days and film some try on Clips which I’ll pop over the top here cuz I can’t be allother to try them on right now so first of all these cute little shorts I thought these like imagine the day when it actually becomes warm here in the UK I know it’s just not even imaginable when you’re wearing thermal jumper and Gile inside it’s nearly May what is happening this is the coldest winter of all time and longest oh my goodness when are we going to get spring are we going to have a spring or do you think it’s just going to go straight into summer who knows either way at some point the temperatures will warm up um and it’ll be nice to wear things like this when you just come home from work and you want to just like stick something on you could wear them as little bed shorts if that’s your Vibe and I know I’ll end up wearing them as gardening shorts I think you can get a matching shirt I didn’t think I’d wear it as a matching set but now that I look at this and the really nice kind of fleetness of the material I think the shirt could be really nice and a great Ralph Lauren dup as well then we have got an oversized pleed blouse can you see woo blown out lovely ruffle detail around the collar lovely pleat detail around the neckline this I think with jeans over jeans is going to be very chowy Vibes very glasty with jean shorts that would be fun wouldn’t it jean shorts I’ve got something in my eye I think it’s some Dickens fluff we had to give him a bath earlier because he rolled in some poop um now he’s just really fluffy and his fluff just really like sticks to your eyes SL mascara so I’m sorry if I’m giving you a bit of a pirate look this is quite piratey actually with the elastication around the sleeves and the ruffle detail and the broer I think it’s going to be gorgeous cannot wait to try that then we have got this is one on the website it just looked amazing um and I don’t know if it’s as amazing in real life but we’ll soon find out this beautiful pinky pasty watercolor dress um with a nice elastication detail around the waist and yeah just really really nice fabric I think it’s going to be a lovely length holy moly that just gave me a heart attack one of my own videos just starting randomly playing on my phone weird things keep happening today um but yeah really beautiful fabric nice pleating the vertical pleating I know it’s like another level but kind of reminds me of my wedding dress and also just want to throw it out there I’ve seen a few polka dot wedding dresses emerging and I’d never seen polka dot wedding dresses as a thing before my wedding dress just saying just saying transer obviously polka dot wedding dresses existed but didn’t really see them you know okay this is rather lovely um this is literally just it’s not going to be silk is it because it’s it was like 599 no it’s 100% polyester but it’s just a little silk scarf and it’s got a lovely watercolor pattern on it um which is just the most lovely Floral Design really nice so you could wear this around your neck my mom often wears a neck scarf and she looks fabulous when she okay yeah even you know if you’re going for a walk and you knew you going to end up in a pub and you wanted to smarten up your outfit E I suddenly feel lovely what difference that makes Just An Elegant Finishing Touch I love it I love these colors so flattering so I’ve not touched up my makeup all day um yeah really nice you could just have one of these in your pocket and just whip it on when you want to feel fabulous or just do what my mom doesn’t wear it literally all the time fabulous and not expensive in what is that noise oh my God weird stuff is happening today really weird um yes inexpensive pretty and many ways of using wearing styling a silk scarf in Spring you could wrap it around your wrist you could wrap it around your waist you could wrap it around your ponytail that would be gorgeous right these need an iron we have got a pair of kind of liny shorts um in a neutral Sandy beigy color elasticated waistband but smart at the front not full elastic like last year’s version which I did also buy last year and I would always wear them for gardening and just that time when you know it’s warm and you just want to wear something cozy in the house I like the fact that these are a little bit smarter with belt loops so they could definitely be starred up to be a bit smarter with a nice um linen shirt this Top O It’s a halter neck kind of wish it wasn’t um I wish it was just regular straps but it’s very similar material to a top that I have got from Reese that I wear a lot yeah I really wish it wasn’t Holden neck I wish it was just spaghetti straps um but it’s like a ribed detail like a bandage style do you know what I mean like ripped excuse my nails I’m going to be doing them tomorrow um yeah quite a nice layering piece under an open shirt maybe with the shorts could be really nice are you still with me this is quite a big haul isn’t it ooh this is adorable adorable little summer dress with poppies on it so pretty bows on the sleeves I use hair straighteners to iron them out because they look so much better when they’re not crinkled quite a short length cute little pockets by the looks of it maybe not no I might have made that up maybe there’s no pockets maybe that’s a side zip yes it’s a Hidden Side zip if H&M can do Hidden Side Zips why can’t more expensive Brands because it is so annoying when you have to undo buttons who can be bothered with buttons I can’t yeah that is really cute and again my wedding dress the neckline keep thinking about my wedding lately all those flowers that I just did down stairs they were all our wedding flowers Campanula arigon digitalis ronculus did I just say that probably I’m repeating myself but yeah this neckline minus the sleeves is the shape that the top of my wedding dress was and I love it pretty this is quite a nice like Heatwave day dress seems unimaginable with the current temperatures but when that time comes when it’s a heat wave and you’re outside and you just want to be able to like flop your straps down to get an even sunkiss nus on your chest this is going to be perfect aha this is the gorgeous one that sold out very quickly so I had to get two sizes above my regular size um so let me know what you think in the tri clipse can I get away with it it has got really beautiful rouching on the top there which my camera is blowing out a touch you’ve got this strap detail on the back and then A really lovely Floral Pattern down below beautiful linen material this is the one that I really really wanted and I am on the waiting list for my size but I might just do a little bit of a DIY SOS on this one I already can tell I think that the sleeves are going to have to be shortened um but I think I might be able to do a little bit of a sewing situation on it let me know if you think it’s worth it ah a lovely little smoked dress with a flower pattern on it this is why I love H&M at this time of year cuz their delicate floral patterns are so gorgeous this is another one that’s going to be really easy to wear in summer beautiful pattern I love this watercolor pattern that H&M are doing at the moment with the florals literally looks like someone’s painted the dress smoked around the boobies um who was I with the other day that was talking about breastfeeding oh Jake’s wife Millie um and I kept thinking gosh you probably if you’re breastfeeding have to think about your entire wardrobe completely differently cuz you you know it’s like all day every day not all day but like regular intervals every day so if you got a dress like this you can just elasticate out the bomas so that would be great very convenient if you are a summer breastfeeding mama or just have really small boobs like me and want something to suction to them did not realize what a huge order I placed my gosh oh my gosh does somebody say Ms they really really look like Ms sandals but a fraction of the priz cute right they are little espad drils with the kind of Rapier down at the bottom these are going to be really comfy great for slipping on and off and great for getting an expensive look four or less these literally look like Ms scandalous but gorgeous did you know the lore I believe is that eight things have to be different in order for it not to be a copy what’s the word a counterfeit obviously they are not the same as the MS ones but they give the Vibes you know linen blend trousers again great for summer probably great for traveling great if you’re going to hot countries if you’re going to Dubai or Abu Dhabi or um Oman or somewhere where you have to be quite covered but you know you’re going to be hot then pair of long trousers is perfect Al great for just summer in general if you’re going to be on public transport and you don’t want like bare skin on train seats is anyone else funny about that or just me I think these are going to be gorgeous again with a nice shirt oh my go it’s just never ending this is turning out to be the biggest H&M haul ever got very carried away o cute floral shirt adorable look at this this is so so nice Okay I’m going to be gardening in this all summer look look at this fabric it feels like linen it won’t be linen it’s kind of like scratchy oversized that oh it’s got ronculus oh my gosh and Campanula it’s got ronculus and Campanula on it and that’s not digitus is it has this shirt just literally copied my flower display so lovely oh my gosh I I’m going to live in this imagine this just loose open you’ve got a pair of white linen shorts on maybe a bikini top it’s hot it’s summer you’re gardening you don’t want to get a sunburn so you just pop your shirt on or you’re coming in for lunch you just pop your blouse on and it’s loose and it’s oversized and it’s got flowers on it love it another little pair of sandals these have got little bows in fabric at the front will I need both pairs who knows um both size three but these look much bigger I like the fact that they’ve got this kind of material at the front there um on the sole very nice little summer kind of slip-on espad dril style shoes yeah really cute very very nice this reminded me of a Hobs dress but obviously a fraction of the price this would be a great work wear dress for many occupations I imagine I always think of my friends who are teachers and you want something that’s nice and fashionable but very practical and demure at the same time with a fabulous belt a nice waist belt it’s got shirt style detail up at the top nice length nice silhouette nice heaviness to it gorgeous and then finally and I don’t think this is actually the matching one to the shorts weirdly um but blue and white striped shirt but I think this is potentially a pajama shirt cuz it’s much lighter weight fabric it feels almost like sear suery but it’s not um yeah it’s not the same fabric as the shorts they must just have a few different varieties of blue and white stripe things but if you want to get that kind of Ralph Lauren sporty look then this tucked into white shorts the H&M white Bermuda shorts or others I think that’s going to look nice that’s how I probably will have start it in the clips that you’re seeing on the screen here but again really nice lightweight summer blouse beautiful for throwing in your beach bag boat Day beach day gorgeous wow of guacamole that’s the combination between wower trouser and holy guacamole um I was not expecting that to be such a big haul been filming for 19 minutes it feels like 19 hours yeah I’ll leave everything linked down below is the lighting changing or am I is my eyesight going crazy um I don’t know but yeah I’ll leave all of those bits linked down below now I’m going to get out into the garden and um what am I going to do I need to do a little bit more seed sewing I actually need to bring my squash seedlings they’re not even seedlings they haven’t even germinated yet inside the house because Monty said they need continual 20° to germinate it is not 20° in my Greenhouse continually so going to bring them inside do a little bit of seed sewing do a bit of greenhouse tidying and that’s me for [Music] today right Darlings I have just steamed all of those H&M bits it probably took about an hour hour and um caught up on a few of my favorite YouTubers while I was doing that and now I’ve just done a lovely cleanse I should have done the cleanse before the steaming cuz then the steaming would have acted like a steaming facial never mind I’ve decided I’m going to do a mega fake tan tonight can’t wait cannot wait I’m sick of not being glowy and tanned so that’s the plan Charlie’s just shared the wonderful news that he’s going to cook a carbonara can’t wait I think we’re going to use the cheese sauce that we got from that amazing Italian delivery can’t wait so I’m going to end the Vlog here Darlings I really hope you enjoyed it if you got to the end leave the word missed as in my lovely face mist that I’ve just used that my skin Oh Heaven Heavenly absolutely glorious um so don’t forget to check out all the links in the description box I’ll leave the Ole skincare the gorgeous new LOF cleansing Bal will be linked down below and um everything else I’ve mentioned in today’s Vlog everything that I’ve worn so that’s it from me Darlings thank you for watching I hope you had a lovely day and I’ll see you in the next one byebye [Music] [Music]