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Life In My 30's
  • Close-up of an orange trick-or-treat bucket overflowing with individual clear bags of candy, each inside a small red monster-themed pouch with googly eyes.
    2025 | Halloween

    Trick or Treat Bags For Halloween 2025

    Hours 28 October 202531 October 2025

    Last year, I ran out of treat bags quite early, that I knew for Halloween 2025, Iโ€™d have to increase the numbers. But is it…

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  • A vertically-oriented image showing an open hardcover book, The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (The Second Book of The Vampire Chronicles, published by Alfred A. Knopf). A pale hand, stained with blood and wearing a white ruffled cuff, is turning the page. The page itself is spattered with large drops of blood.
    2025 | Books

    13 Books To Read This Halloween

    Hours 27 October 202531 October 2025

    With Halloween just days away, I wanted to share a few books that I think are perfect for this time of year. Whether youโ€™re after…

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  • A cozy, dimly lit, close-up scene featuring a bowl of popcorn with a small plastic spider placed on top. In the foreground are three cupcakes decorated to look like small white ghosts. Several candles and a textured blanket are visible in the background, suggesting a Halloween or spooky movie night atmosphere.
    2025 | Halloween

    Frights, Flicks & Streaming Picks

    Hours 20 October 202531 October 2025

    For this year’s Frights, Flicks & Streaming Picks, the recommendations for Halloween are getting smaller. It seems as though all the Halloween movies are disappearing…

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  • A vintage-style illustration for "A Millennial's Guide to... Halloween Costumes: Witch Edition." The background is dark indigo blue with orange decorative circles. The main image features two ghostly figures made of white sheets with black eyeholes, watching a retro orange television set on a small table. The TV screen reads "The PARANORMAL." A small orange bat flies to the right of the ghosts. The website address, "www.hannahmariebrankley.com," is at the bottom.
    2025 | Halloween

    A Millennials Guide To Halloween Costumes // Witch Edition

    Hours 18 October 202518 October 2025

    For the second Millennialโ€™s Guide this year, I wanted to take inspiration from a recent event I attended and create this witches inspired guide. A…

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  • A cosy Halloween porch display featuring two glowing ghost decorations made from white sheets with black eyes. They stand among carved jack-oโ€™-lanterns with flickering candles inside, surrounded by pumpkins, black lanterns, and autumn plants. The warm lighting and shadows create a festive yet slightly spooky evening atmosphere.
    2025 | Halloween

    Why Halloween Feels Different As An Adult

    Hours 16 October 202516 October 2025

    Halloween has a certain magic to it. Growing up, I know many people will have associated Halloween with monsters and horror movies. But for me,…

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  • This is a vertical image, styled to look like a strip of vintage film negatives, featuring three different makeup looks inspired by dolls. The left side of the image features the title "Dolls // Creator Edition" in white, stylized font, placed over a dark, textured background. The three makeup looks are presented in stacked, rectangular frames: Top Look (Frame 1): A close-up of a person with blonde hair wearing very vibrant, "girly" makeup, likely inspired by a fashion doll or pop-culture figure. The look features bright pink eyeshadow blended up to the brow, dark winged eyeliner, and shiny, hot-pink lip gloss. The person is holding a pink mobile phone up to their ear and is looking off to the side with a bright expression. Middle Look (Frame 2): A person with straight, platinum blonde hair wearing a highly detailed cracked porcelain doll or zombie doll makeup. The skin is painted a pale white, and dark, intricate lines are drawn across the face and neck to simulate shattered ceramic or decay. The eyes are entirely blackened with heavy, dark shadow to create a hollow, unsettling effect. Bottom Look (Frame 3): A close-up of a person wearing a stitched-up ragdoll or voodoo doll makeup look. The face is painted with a coarse, burlap-like texture. The eyes are covered with large, white, button-like contacts or paint, each featuring a large black 'X' over the pupil. A wide, stitched-up smile is painted across the mouth, mimicking the seams of a fabric doll, complete with small black stitches. The person has short, black, spiked hair and what appears to be piercings around the mouth.
    2025 | Halloween

    Dolls // Creator Edition

    Hours 14 October 202514 October 2025

    I have been seeing lots of Dolls on my TikTok for your page. It certainly inspired this week’s Creator Edition, as dolls have been a…

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Today marks my 12th year recognising World IBD Day Today marks my 12th year recognising World IBD Day whilst living with IBDโ€ฆ but this year, I found myself asking a question I never thought I would.

Do I actually still have IBD?

After 3 surgeries, having everything from the ileum down removed and now living with a stoma, my Ulcerative Colitis is no longer active. Thereโ€™s nowhere left for the disease to flare in the way it once didโ€ฆ so where does that leave me?

Am I someone who had IBD? Or am I still someone living with it?

In todayโ€™s blog post, I wanted to explore that question because IBD is so much more than just a bowel disease. Even without active disease, I still live with the effects it left behind.

A stoma gave me my quality of life back after years of immense pain and failed treatments, but it isnโ€™t a cure. Itโ€™s a management route with its own ups and downs.

Iโ€™d love to know if anyone else with a stoma has ever questioned where they fit within the IBD community now ๐Ÿ’œ

Link: https://hannahmariebrankley.com/world-ibd-day-2026-do-i-still-have-ibd/

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Lovely meal out last night with loved ones to cele Lovely meal out last night with loved ones to celebrate my brother and Iโ€™s birthday at @casabiancausk ๐Ÿฅฐ

Highly recommend the spaghetti carbonara! ๐Ÿ˜‹

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From winter to spring ๐ŸŒธ #2026 #LifeRecently From winter to spring ๐ŸŒธ

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I feel like this book is on many people's favourit I feel like this book is on many people's favourite lists... Do I add it to my TBR?

Day 284 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a black cat on the cover ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›

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Even when the supermarket only has a small selecti Even when the supermarket only has a small selection of books, I find em ๐Ÿ˜‚

Day 283 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a skull on the cover

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Look what came! ๐Ÿ˜ Scroll to see which book I got Look what came! ๐Ÿ˜

Scroll to see which book I got for my first Aardvark book club box! I am so excited to read this, and I'm so happy we now have Aardvark in the UK.

Day 282 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a creepy doll on the cover

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Apologies, this post is late; there are so many go Apologies, this post is late; there are so many good books this month and whittling them down was difficult.

I also had to account for the 25- yes, you read that correct, 25 kindle book I bought in this month's 99p deals ๐Ÿ˜…

Here are the October releases that are on my radar:
๐Ÿ“š The Haunted Librarian by Auralee Wallace
๐Ÿ“š The Dues & Don'ts of Magic by Delemhach
๐Ÿ“š The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Huneycutt
๐Ÿ“š She's a Doll by Barbara Truelove
๐Ÿ“š A Christmas Bookstore Murder by Sue Minix
๐Ÿ“š Merry Spooky Love by Josie Silver
๐Ÿ“š Look What the Cat Dragged In by Jason Rekulak
๐Ÿ“š What a Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion
๐Ÿ“š Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe
๐Ÿ“š Barb Jacobs Just Won't Die! by Tanya Pell
๐Ÿ“š When the Night Comes Knocking by Katherine Daniel
๐Ÿ“š Snowed Inn by Valerie Bowman

What did you add to your October wishlist?

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