Reading Time: 2 minutesIn August, my little sister Wendy got married. Two days after her wedding, her and her husband moved down to Cornwall in England as he is in the navy. My other sister Heather and I wanted to go visit her, but after a lot of searching online it would cost us £300 each for plane […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s that time of year again, Black Friday & Cyber Monday. I’m putting together some of my favourite sales I’ve spotted that are fantastic for entrepreneurs and small businesses. This list will be updated over the next week as new deals get released. Some of these may become unavailable over the next few days, so […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I’ll come back time and time again because with Gillian you’ll not only getting an incredible designer but a visionary and your biggest cheerleader.” – Korilyn Martin   The Farmhouse Life is a home and lifestyle blog, ran by the fabulous Korilyn Martin. Kori and her family purchased a 1700’s colonial farmhouse and moved out of […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Gillian just totally “gets” me & my sense of humour. I appreciate that she really took the time to get to know me through my photos and my writing” – Jennifer Marshall Nucking Futs Jen, the name alone should give you a bit of an insight into Jennifer Marshall’s personality. A sarcastic (and quite frankly […]

Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s that time of year again, time to get packing in preparation for heading off to Arizona for Showit United! So you’ve heard me talking about United for the past 2 years, what is it? Showit United is a conference for photographers based in Phoenix Arizona. It has leading industry speakers, fantastic workshops, and is […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMayberry Meets Manhattan is a new lifestyle blog run by Carrie Porter. She lives in the town of Bentonville, Arkansas with her husband Clay and pupper Riley. Bentonville is also the home to the Walmart Corporation headquarters, making it for a very interesting town indeed. They mix big town living, with small town charm – […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesDay One   We arrived in Amsterdam, dropped everything off at the hotel, and tried to figure out the tram system to get ourselves into the city centre. Hat’s off to Helen who did most of the figuring out the entire trip (because my GPS on my phone is a little off and also because […]

Reading Time: 5 minutesUnless you are running a hobby blog on a free site, turning a blog into a business is going to cost money. There’s so much advice out there telling you to spend money left and right and on just about everything, but what do you actually spend money on? Before I take a deep dive […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Summer I teamed up with another Scottish web design company called Two Fentons. Together we created a website for “Beauty Therapy Trainer”, a Scotland based educator for all things beauty and therapy. This is a little different to the companies I normally work with, as you can probably tell from the colour palette alone. […]