Hannah Elizabeth

After a life focussed on dissertation writing recently, I finally got to spend time in the garden and with friends after submitting my final Master's assessment!  Click here to watch the vlog or see below.  I had a few days of finishing up my Master's dissertation and it's been a little busy, so I defintely needed some downtime. As I was nearing the end, I wanted a little rest and relaxation to reset before doing some final changes and proof reads. I had a busy morning concentrating, before making a lovely Sunday roast, have a Lush bath bomb bath and changing the bed to clean sheets. I felt very lovely afterwards. I later submitted my dissertation 24 hours later and didn't quite get the relief I had expected. I had planned to read it through one more time, but the next day, I had planned everything in advance for a relaxing day. Instead, my cleaners let me down and never arrived. Never even contacted me to inform or apologies. I was shocked.  I ended up spending the mor

The first of my 2024 cousin's wedding and one of my childhood best friends got married within a week of each other. I also did lots of dissertation writing and had a playdate.  Click here to watch the vlog or see below. I have 7 weddings this year, and the third wedding of the year was one of my cousins. Technically my 2nd cousin, but we grew up quite close and don't need the extra separation. It was a chilly day but the rain at least stayed away. It was more of a relaxed, boho themed wedding and very retro, with lots of record decorating the venue and linked to the table seating plan, menu and table numbers. It was lovely and there were lots of tears. I wish I took more pictures before I cried and ruined my makeup.  They had not one, not two but three different live bands. The first was my favourite and a family friend who we know relatively well, with a county acoustic theme. The second was more old school and the bride and groom had their first dance. The last one was not my

I've taken the last couple of weeks off to concentrate on finishing my Master's dissertation and in all honesty, myself, but I am now back. My deadline for completion is tomorrow so I will be back to writing and sharing very soon. I actually haven't written a blog post for quite a while, as I bulk wrote a lot, then scheduled them all in advance. I will be back in a couple of weeks after the last few big events have passed.  I can't wait to share everything that has been going on in life and future family and travel plans. I also have some exciting new series ideas and I'm ready to refocus on my Hannah's Lips UK business, as well as hopefully get back into Hypnobirthing, in the coming months, now I have a bit more flexibility again. For now, I'm just excited to be done for university for a while and in my head, have some downtime back. However, I looked at my schedule for August and I have a grand total of 2 days without plans. 2 days!? I am absolutely dreadi

After a difficult an emotional end of June, my July annual leave started off as more of the same but I kept busy at the Great Yorkshire Show! Click here to watch the vlog or see below.  I've been very open and honest about my mental health over the last couple of years and the last few months have been better overall, but June just hit me full on again as it came to a lot of milestones and memories and honestly, I just miss my best friend. It's even harder when they want absolutely nothing to do with you, not even a note to say hey.  On top of that, I also had my ever looming dissertation due and that was really beginning to take it's toll on me as I had almost 3 weeks where I didn't leave the house other than to go to my "day job" work and even then, I would be thinking about my dissertation. I was really happy with how it was going just before my annual leave, when I got a whole lot of negative feedback which just took it out of me again, and I'll share

I've shared a few posts over the years of swimming costumes , so I'm back with another . I've never felt more self-conscious and there's days I can't even bring myself to get dressed because I know I won't feel comfortable in anything, so why bother getting out of pyjamas. My ex-boyfriend never called me sexy and he referred to my weight on a number of occasions. I know I am overweight, so I really don't need someone I love to make remarks on the topic as well, when he should be the one building me. I've since had people compliment me repeatedly and give me more confidence in a few sentences, than I have had in years. I'm trying really hard to embrace my body for what it is, without being too hard on myself because right now unfortunately, my priority in life is currently my mental health.  Despite all that, I am going to America in just a few short months, so I wanted to buy some new costumes to take with me, as well as a new costume for the gym. Th

This year has defintely been a year of hen parties and weddings and whilst I usually have one a year, this year has been full on and crazy busy.  Since vlogging and blogging, I have had:  Mum's casino hen party and  wedding in 2018 Archery bestie's got married in 2022 My cousin  got married during Covid-19 lockdown and then had her  hen party in Oxford  the year after Godbrother's  tepee wedding last year  University colleague earlier this year and my first winter wedding  This year, I have another 5 weddings to go and have had a couple of their hen parties already. My two closest in age cousins (Ellie and Ellie) have their weddings in July and August. They had their  hen parties  in Leeds for one day and York for a long weekend respectively. Two of my high school friends are getting married, Maria in July and Alice in December, then my cousin's brother in law who supposedly becomes my brother in law (Sikh families) is getting married in September too!  I thought I w

I've been well and truly dreading the day I have to re-mortgage my house, especially with the interest rates. I know they've been coming down, but they're still so much higher than they were and what they should be. I got my original mortgage at an interest rate of 2.15% and even that was originally meant to be 1.96% as it cheekily increased by the time the paperwork went through.  It also brings up so many sad memories and so many tainted ones. I originally went for a two-year fixed rate mortgage because I genuinely thought that by the end of the 2 years, I would be getting a mortgage with my now-husband. Turns out, we never even moved in together and it breaks my heart to know how happy I was the last time I was doing this process.  I was a little confused about the whole process and really hoped I could just re-mortgage with my current provider which would be so much easier as it would just be a "rate adjustment", but given that I've spend £10,000 on the h