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Hannah Marie Brankley
Life In My 30's
  • A tall rectangular collage titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Artists & Crafters” featuring four numbered sections of gift ideas. Section 1 includes a variety of art supplies such as colouring pencil sets, acrylic paints, oil pastels, sketching sets, canvas boards, paintbrushes, markers, a mini wooden easel, a mannequin figure, palettes, and painting tools. Section 2 displays crafting kits, including calligraphy sets, resin casting kits, jewellery-making kits, felting, decoupage, textured pottery, cross-stitch kits, coaster painting kits, and miniature model-building kits. Section 3 shows electronic crafting machines such as Cricut and Silhouette cutting machines, heat presses, labelling machines, and digital crafting tools arranged in rows. Section 4 features storage items like rotating organisers, stackable trays, paint saver pots, divided containers, craft caddies, foldable portfolios, and clear plastic storage boxes.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Artists & Crafters

    Hours 18 November 202517 November 2025

    Arts and crafts hampers are honestly one of my favourite gift ideas. If you know someone who is naturally crafty, always picking up a new…

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  • A tall rectangular collage titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Book Hoarders” featuring four numbered sections of gift ideas. Section 1 shows a variety of popular fiction books and book box sets arranged in rows, including contemporary, fantasy, and mystery titles. Section 2 displays stationery items such as pens, highlighters, sticky notes, page tabs, washi tapes, and colourful markers. Section 3 presents different e-readers, including Kindle, BOOX, Veidoo, and Kobo models. Section 4 features assorted reading-themed gifts: a wooden page holder, a reading-tracker sign, a T-shirt with a bookish quote worn by a person, a butterfly-shaped book stand, floral notebook, magnetic bookmarks, festive book sleeves, a floral book-shaped vase with dried flowers, and a mug with a cute ghost design.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Book Hoarders

    Hours 17 November 202516 November 2025

    A book hamper? Yes please. Honestly, I’d be the best person to receive something like this, so I’m hoping I’ve done it justice for all…

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  • A digital collage titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Hair Care,” divided into four numbered sections on a white background. Section 1 (top left): Features a variety of hairbrushes and combs, including paddle brushes, detangling brushes, wide-tooth combs, and vented brushes from brands like Tangle Teezer, Wet Brush, and Cantu. Section 2 (top right): Displays an assortment of hair styling electricals such as hairdryers, curling wands, straighteners, and hot air brushes, including models from Dyson, Revlon, and BaByliss. Section 3 (bottom left): Highlights haircare products including heat protectants, masks, serums, oils, sprays, and treatments from brands like Living Proof, Olaplex, Briogeo, and L’Oréal. Section 4 (bottom right): Shows a collection of hair accessories like scrunchies, claw clips, headbands, bobby pins, bows, and satin hair ties in a range of neutral and pastel colours.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… All Things Hair Care

    Hours 13 November 202512 November 2025

    Hair care can be so lovely for hamper gifting. Whether you’re buying for someone who loves a quiet pamper night or someone who’s always testing…

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  • A collage-style graphic titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Makeup.” The layout is divided into four numbered sections, each marked with a green circle: 1 – Complexion, 2 – Eyes, 3 – Lips, and 4 – Tools and Accessories. Section 1 (Complexion): A selection of primers, bronzers, blushers, contour sticks, setting sprays and multi-use face palettes. Products vary from tubes and compacts to pump bottles and sticks. Shades range from soft neutrals to deeper bronzes. Brands shown include Milk Makeup, Charlotte Tilbury, NARS, NYX, Fenty, Saie, Hourglass and Makeup Forever. Section 2 (Eyes): Eye primers, mascaras, eyeliners, brow pencils, brow gels, cream shadows and a few eyeshadow palettes. Items appear in black, brown, gold and pastel packaging. Mascara wands, liquid liner pens and brow products are arranged alongside palettes featuring warm neutrals and bronze tones. Brands include Anastasia Beverly Hills, Glossier, Charlotte Tilbury and W7. Section 3 (Lips): A wide range of lip products including balms, glosses, stains, lip oils, bullet lipsticks, crayons, liquid lipsticks and balm-tint hybrids. Shades include reds, pinks, browns and nude tones. Packaging styles include slim tubes, doe-foot applicators and small pots. Brands include NARS, Byoma, Glossier, Benefit, The Ordinary, Elf and Fenty Beauty. Section 4 (Tools and Accessories): Makeup bags, brush sets, cosmetic organisers, sponges and cleaning products. A variety of makeup brushes in silver, black and gold tones sit alongside sponge multipacks, kabuki brushes, eyelash curlers and brush cleansers. There are pouches, travel organisers and structured makeup cases in black, cream and olive green.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… The Makeup Lover

    Hours 11 November 202510 November 2025

    Makeup is such a fun and creative gifting area, and it suits so many ages and personalities. You could even adapt it for younger recipients…

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  • A festive collage-style graphic titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Skincare.” The layout is divided into four numbered sections represented by green circles: 1 – Cleansers, 2 – Bodycare, 3 – Targeted Treatments, and 4 – Tools & Accessories. Section 1 (Cleansers): A mix of popular cleansing balms, oils, gels, and creams from various brands. Products include tubs, pump bottles, and squeeze tubes in colours like blue, white, pink, yellow, and purple. Examples shown: The Body Shop Camomile Cleansing Butter, The Inkey List Oat Cleansing Balm, Tatcha The Rice Wash, CeraVe Hydrating Foaming Oil Cleanser, and BYOMA Creamy Jelly Cleanser. Section 2 (Bodycare): Body scrubs, shower gels, body washes, and moisturisers in bright, seasonal packaging. Items include a sol de janeiro body scrub, warm vanilla sugar shower products, Salt & Stone body wash, and Laura Mercier body cream. Bottles and jars appear in tones of peach, gold, lavender, green, and white. Section 3 (Targeted Treatments): A collection of serums, masks, exfoliants, and hydrating ampoules. Products include vitamin C serums, hyaluronic acid, clay masks, exfoliating toners, overnight treatments, and sheet mask packs. Packaging ranges from glass droppers to pump bottles and small boxes in neutral and pastel shades. Section 4 (Tools & Accessories): A range of skincare tools such as reusable cleansing pads, exfoliating mitts, body brushes, gua sha stones, ice globes, skincare spoons, and washcloths. Items appear in materials like jade, silicone, cotton, wood, and plastic, with colours such as turquoise, beige, white, and pink.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… The Skincare Lover

    Hours 10 November 20259 November 2025

    Skincare is one of those categories that feels incredibly personal, yet it also makes a beautifully thoughtful gift. It’s one of my favourite hamper ideas,…

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  • A vertical collage style graphic titled “A Christmas Hamper Guide For Chocolates and Sweets.” The top section has elegant black text with a green decorative line either side of the words “Chocolates and Sweets.” Below this, four numbered images show different hamper ideas. Image 1 shows several cellophane wrapped chocolate and sweet bundles arranged upright in gift baskets, filled with mixed brands like chocolate bars, sweets and scratch cards, all displayed with colourful packaging. Image 2 shows a bright pink chocolate bouquet, with chocolate bars and sweets attached to sticks and arranged like flowers, wrapped in pink tissue paper with a large white bow at the base. Image 3 shows a gift box filled with small plastic jars, each packed with different types of colourful sweets such as gummies, jelly beans and marshmallows. The jars are neatly lined up in rows. Image 4 shows a layered surprise style gift box with multiple fold out sections. Each panel has sweets or chocolates attached and the centre contains a small wrapped gift. Festive decorations like pinecones and a candy cane sit around the box.
    2025 | Christmas | Gift Guides

    A Christmas Hamper Guide For… Chocolate & Sweets

    Hours 7 November 20256 November 2025

    Chocolate and sweets are a must during the festive season, especially with all the limited edition flavours, jumbo treats and oversized selection boxes that appear…

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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 I’s birthday at @casabiancausk 🥰 Highly recommend the spaghetti carbonara! 😋 #BirthdayCelebrations #TimeWithFamily #ItalianDining
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Happy New Year 🎊 With 2025 coming to an end, I c Happy New Year 🎊 With 2025 coming to an end, I couldn’t resist joining this trend again. It’s made me realise how important it is to document the good moments. Even the quiet ones 📸 2025 was a year of growth, connection, and learning what a steadier life can look like. When I look back through my photos and memories, I can see just how much has changed. Gently, but meaningfully. This year I… 💼 Started a new job that I love. 📚 Grew within the book community, joined some fantastic readathons, and made so many lovely book friends. 🎟️ Went to my very first book event. ✨ Met the wonderful Lucy Jane Wood. ☀️ Spent more sunny days reading in the hammock. 💻 Had my most productive year yet with my blog and content creation. 🍽️ Enjoyed more time with friends and many more meals out. 🚗 Travelled better and further than I have in years. ❤️‍🩹 Took part in more bowel and stoma-related events online and met some truly amazing people. 🧬 Uncovered new ancestors and family records. 🎃 Said hello to even more trick or treaters this year. 🔥 Went through my first full year with no flare-ups. 🏋🏻‍♀️ Joined the gym (it didn’t last as long as planned, but I’m hopeful for the year ahead). 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Reconnected with family I hadn’t seen in a long time. But, as with life, there were lows too. We said goodbye to our beloved girl, Gwen, after 15 years 🤍 Losing her has been the biggest change to daily life since my stoma surgery. And not one I’ve adjusted to quickly. She is missed every single day. 2025 wasn’t perfect, but I’m ending the year proud, grateful, and hopeful. Here’s to 2026 🥂 #Goodbye2025 #Hello2026 #BloggingCommunity #BookCommunity #DisabilityCommunity
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I have officially run out of space… so I’ve become I have officially run out of space… so I’ve become a Kindle girlie 😂💁‍♀️ Day 138 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with a 5-word title #BookstagramUK #Books #ReadingChallenge #365DaysOfPrompts #Kindle
I mentioned how I was running out of space… today I mentioned how I was running out of space… today I genuinely pondered whether I could triple stack on my already double-stacked shelves 👀😂 Day 137 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book with the sea on the cover #ReadingChallenge #365DaysOfPrompts #BookLovers #TBR #Books
It feels like everyone and their nan is reading th It feels like everyone and their nan is reading this book, so I picked up a copy 👀 Day 136 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book from a country (not your own) competing in the Eurovision Final. Whether you are a Eurovision fan or not, the interviews they have can open their likes and dislikes and I have seen some acts talk about their favourite books. Which is a great way to find books from other countries! #Books #ReadingChallenge #365DaysOfPrompts #Eurovision #BookLovers
It’s a double post day, apologies I didn’t get the It’s a double post day, apologies I didn’t get the prompt up yesterday, I was in a lot of pain 😔 I did receive more book mail though, which definitely cheered me up! 📦 Day 135 of 365 Days of Prompts: Read a book featuring a road trip 🚗 #BookMail #Books #365DaysOfPrompts #RoadTripReads #BookLovers #TBR
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