Everything is Washable and Other Life Lessons: 2022’s New How-To Guide that will Help You Navigate Modern Life with Advice on Beauty, Money, Family and So Much More

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Cover Reveal: Pretty Iconic by Sali Hughes". 4th Estate. 25 August 2016 . Retrieved 7 October 2020. Start at water level – submerging leaves in the vase water will pollute it, and your flowers will be drinking dirty water, which will shorten their life and smell bad. This smart guide will help you navigate modern life, enabling you to save money and time. Sali Hughes offers striking good sense on: home; food and drink, fashion; health and beauty; life and finances; friends, relationships and family. Several years ago, my boyfriend and I attended the Hay literary festival, and in an uncharacteristic fit of nostalgia I suggested we drive to the village in which I grew up, around 45 minutes away. We toured the landmarks – my grandparents’ house, where I was born, the primary school I’d attended – and, of course, my childhood home, the small end-of-terrace I shared with my two big brothers and my father, following my mother’s departure to a tiny flat a mile or so away.

Every home should have a copy' MARIAN KEYESHow to buy jeans that fitThirty-seven things to have in your kitchen cupboardTiny acts for mental health How to support a friend going through IVFWhy bad boys are an absolute waste of your timeHow to cope with working mum guiltThis smart guide will help you navigate modern life, enabling you to save money and time. Sali Hughes offers striking good sense on: home food and drink, fashion health and beauty life and finances friends, relationships and family.From useful, everyday tips such as how to cut your own fringe and how to buy great second-hand clothing, to the less talked about, agonising questions like how to split finances with your partner and how to grieve, Guardian beauty editor Sali Hughes has advice on the big and the small, and everything in between. Vanderhoof, Erin (5 November 2019). "Can We Tell What the Queen Is Thinking Through Her Outfits?". Vanity Fair . Retrieved 7 October 2020. Hughes, Sali (13 September 2014). "Sali Hughes: the essential guide to staying ahead of the beauty game". The Guardian . Retrieved 7 October 2020.

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A small set of screwdrivers Various sizes in both flat and Phillips. Never use the wrong size as it will slip and very often ruin the slot in the screw head. An electric screwdriver is a great investment too. While I swoon over velvety roses and luxuriant peonies, I also believe there are few things lovelier than a jug of 99p daffodils. Cheap petrol-station, supermarket or greengrocer daffs, tulips, daisies, gerbera, goldenrods, sweet williams and carnations (yes, carnations), when grouped in single varieties rather than arrangements, can be utterly gorgeous and immediately uplifting. Butter, Susannah (23 October 2014). "Beauty and the blog: make-up guru Sali Hughes on why you can be feminine and feminist". Evening Standard . Retrieved 6 October 2020. I tell this story because, as sad as it made me in some ways, that day also showed me how a house’s entire soul can be transplanted with proper cleaning, organisational care and a few cherished, meaningful possessions. Home, for me, has never simply been somewhere to eat, sleep and watch TV. Don’t get me wrong – I can think of few things I’d rather do, but to enjoy them to their fullest, I must first pay attention to the details. What the generous, warm and happy owners of my childhood home demonstrated that day was that the most beautiful homes are not made with money, they are made with love, and no amount of cash can disguise an unhappy one.

LOUISE WENERis an English writer, singer, songwriter and guitarist of the band Sleeper.She has written four novels, an autobiograpy and co-wrote Queens of Noise, a BBC Radio 4 series.

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The ends of your flowers will be filled with air. You need to remove them to let the flowers have a big drink. If you have rose cutters, use those, but I don’t, so I use a bread knife (household scissors pinch the hard stems and crush them). Slice or cut through them on a slant to increase the surface area of the drinking hole. It is extremely important to me, a slovenly homebody, that every soft seat in my house is a bed waiting to happen. If a sofa can’t be lain on comfortably, then it’s no good to me. An armchair that forces its occupier to sit upright like a Bond villain, rather than curled up like a cat, is a waste of space. So, to that end, I have Welsh wool blankets on every seat, and a hamper full of inexpensive but soft, machine-washable throws so that any of us can slope in and unthinkingly pull out something snuggly for watching telly or catching 40 winks with the dog. If it's on my face, it's because Sali recommended it.' Caitlin Moran. Pretty Honest is out today". 4th Estate. 25 September 2014 . Retrieved 7 October 2020. This book opens with Home tips, but you can get these elsewhere from experts online, or perhaps you have copies of Laura de Barra's books already. I do walk a lot, and that's important for my head and my body, but I'm not an exerciser and I’m not very engaged with wellness! Really my sense of wellbeing comes from my emotional relationships. It increases massively when I spend time with the people I love.