What’s Your Morning Routine?

6:15 am  I wake up and if I’m feeling refreshed I reach for the phone and check out the news overnight. I know, bad. Right? I scroll through Instagram, read my emails and peruse Facebook. I often make a call to Australia as the time works well. What I do is laze around in bed for 30 minutes or so and plan my day. If I have had a light bulb moment overnight, I might grab my computer and start writing the day’s feature. By this time I will have hot water and lemon and moved onto my first jasmine tea of the morning.

6:45 am  Still in bed and ready for another Jasmine tea. Depending on my energy levels I will either jump out of bed and go for a walk (definitely if the little pup is staying over) or if they are low I will answer my emails in bed. I’m a cosy type and can easily work in bed for far too long. The morning routines over the weekend are much lazier than this. Just saying, I could stay in bed and watch my iPad or read a book for hours, especially in the winter.

7:30 am  Breakfast usually consists of fruit and maybe avocado on sourdough toast if I am in the mood. I add a touch of sea salt, a heap of limejuice and a sprinkle of chilli flakes. Seriously good. Depending on my state of mind, I might munch in the kitchen or even take it back to bed. I know, truth time.

8:00 am Time to get moving. I have two hours before the girls come in and work starts for real so I like this time to prepare my thoughts and ruminate over what we should be doing during the day.  A couple of days a week I wander down the street for a speedy hairdo. That means a quick shower and out the door. It never means I don’t follow my skincare routine. Cleanse, tone, serum and moisturise religiously. The day cannot begin without that.

8:15 am Get dressed. I have usually worked out what to wear by now and then apply my makeup. (If it’s the day for hair I am already dressed and ready for makeup when I get back home.) My routine is very quick and simple when it comes to the face. A tinted coverage, a dab of cheek colour, mascara, eyebrows and lipstick; all finished with a brush of translucent powder.

8:30 am A quick tidy up and organisation of the office in preparation for Amy and Marleen’s arrival. I will probably have another mug of jasmine tea and make a call to France to check on the progress of La Maison du Village. It might mean working out why the fountain in the garden isn’t working or it could be deciding what to do about lampshades. Either way, I love those calls best.

9:00 am I start writing the day’s feature and try and have my thoughts focused for this hour.

10:00 am The girls arrive and we talk about the visuals and they make all the fancy graphics tricks happen. We discuss what’s on for the remainder of the week, what we would like to show on the site and any collaborations coming up.