What if choosing your brand colours was less about finding the “right” colours and more about noticing the colours you're already drawn to? In this post, I'm sharing one of my favourite, fun brand colour exercises, along with some simple ways to build a palette that feels cohesive without taking all the fun out of it.

For a long time, I believed creativity meant starting from scratch. But over the years, through architecture, recipes, vanlife and my own design work, I’ve realised something that surprised me: having fewer possibilities can make us more creative. Sometimes, the right structure gives our creativity somewhere to go.

For many of my design clients launching a new business or in the early stages of testing out a new product or idea, a full website is simply too much for their current needs or daunting to create when they have limited content starting out.

A One Page Website condenses and highlights all the critical information to connect potential clients with your brand, service or product without the ‘excess’ that a full website can sometimes feel like.

I decided I wanted to give something back through my love of food photography and recipe development, to help elevate the presence of my fellow foodies who have small businesses that are aligned with my own nutritional philosophies.

First up, we have Eli's Granola.

I decided on two simple and delicious breakfasts, ones that you can recreate in minutes using any crunchy granola you have to hand.

Yesterday, I did something that was one of my biggest personal challenges yet.

I walked 80,000 steps, which was a total of approximately 70 kilometres, in aid of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust (this was part of a wider challenge I’d been involved with, but this challenge I took on solo)

I went out armed with a massive tub of overnight oats, (packed with plenty of Toppers of course) and I made a big batch of chocolate bliss balls to keep my energy up. I’ll share my favourite bliss ball recipe on the blog soon.

I started walking at 7:15am in a village near Newmarket and then I proceeded to walk back towards my end point in Bedfordshire, closer to home. It took just over 13 hours on non-stop walking and was dark by the end. It also rained pretty heavily, so I was cold wet and totally exhausted by the time I completed it.

A few days ago I really fancied a flapjack but the classic recipes typically have a lot of oil and sugar, and the recipes without oil are more like healthy soft granola bars (still great but just not what I craved!)

So I decided to put the aquafaba I had sitting in the fridge to the test!

It was such a success… crispy when fresh out the oven during the first day then gorgeously chewy for the following few days (not that they lasted very long!)

I'm a sucker for chocolate and I have a massive sweet tooth, hence the name of this blog, and whilst I've made plenty of chocolaty treats over the years... I hands down legitimately think this is the best of the lot!