This week on Tips, Hacks, Ideas we are chatting all about the best way to start the day with morning routines. On average, it takes more than 2 months before a new behaviour becomes automatic — 66 days to be exact (James Clear - Atomic Habits), I believe this completely.

The cot was the final piece of furniture we wanted to make for Goldie’s Nursery - we were sure that she would arrive before it was finished… just as I saw the final pieces come together the contractions started. The next day I laboured at home while Al sealed the cot and we we had it set up in her nursery just in time for her arrival.

This week we asked on Tips, Hacks, Ideas for your best cleaning hacks around the house - there is sooo much gold in this post .... it's definitely not the most exciting topic but it's something we've all gotta do!.

We thought this week on Tips, Hacks, Ideas we’d put out the prompt and ask our followers who have had kids what their top tips are for new parents. We loved hearing all of your wisdom and so happy to share with you here. And like everything in life - always take advice with a grain of salt.

We're always evaluating the processes in our household and business when it comes to sustainability. We're first to admit we're a work-in-progress. This week we wanted to ask for your best baby-step tips for small changes you can make in your day-to-day life to tread lighter on our lovely earth.

Rather than getting down about all of the things out of our control we’ve decided to use the remainder of our lockdown to focus on things we can control and soak up the time we have together just the four of us.

Instagram is a hub of business owners so this week we thought we'd reach out to all of the amazing creators / makers for the things they wished they knew when they first started. Here are the best tips for someone wanting to start their own business (From the people who have done it before)

Remember the DIY Boot & Coat Rack we made last year? Well I decided it was time to re-style it and make some space for hats! I added a couple of extra hooks to accomodate our hat collection. This DIY project is still one of my favourite projects to date!

This recipe came from a friend’s dad, we’ve been cooking it for years and it’s a staple in our kitchen throughout winter. I love cooking this whenever we’re sick or on a cold, rainy day. This was also a meal I prepped before Goldie’s birth and enjoyed postpartum.

With a baby, a business and a new build on the way we’ve been thinking a lot about how we can get back more of our most precious commodity - TIME.

I’m so excited to share this project with you and hope it inspires you to re-love something of your own, click through to watch the full video.

Thank you to everyone who submitted their tips - you’ve spread joy within this household and we hope by sharing them here they spread into yours!

Each week we're picking a topic and asking you, our community for your best tips, hacks and ideas. Earlier this week we asked for your best storage solutions for the home and boy did you deliver!

Al was first introduced to WD-40 by his dad when he was a kid, who showed him how to use it on the bearings of his skateboard wheels. Click through to read out top tip for using WD-40 in the workshop.

I spotted The Bootmakers Cottage in Birregurra on Instagram, only half an hour from our house it looked like the perfect place for our first family holiday! We spent our time rugged up by the fire, eating food and soaking in the tub - what a perfect location for my first bath with Goldie!

We received this recipe a couple of years ago from our friend Jess, it's a meal that we love and have on heavy rotation. You can pack it out with seasonal vegetables and the leftovers can be eaten with eggs for breakfast!

Al and I always knew we wanted to build our own nursery furniture, there’s something so special about creating family heirlooms that we can pass on through our children. Our Nursery has been a long time in the making with plenty of planning, designing, prepping and making but gosh all of the hard work was worth it once we saw out little Goldie girl in her cot!

Our birth definitely didn’t go the way I expected it would but I do feel the way I wanted to. I wanted a birth where I felt supported, in control of my decisions and empowered as a woman. Goldie’s birth was the most transformative moment of my life, I have never felt so in-tune with my own body and connected to Al.

We invited Geelong based photographer Michelle McKay into our home when Goldie was 10 days old. Michelle followed us around the house, casually capturing moments of our new morning routine. Michelle was a dream to work with and it’s safe to say that we will treasure these beautiful memories for a lifetime.

I ticked over to the third trimester on my 30th birthday - a sign of the times. By the third trimester I felt well and truly pregnant, it’s true what they say… you grow and then you grow some more. You don’t think you could possibly get any bigger, and then you do!