Local businesses I love, use and want to share
Barn Mews Wellness Clinic
Barn Mews, Dunton Road, Basildon SS15 4DB
My go to is Toni and Sam is really worth the wait for reflexology.
Animated Physio
The Barn, Noak Bridge SS15 4ER
Great for everything but also specialises in post natal with Mummy MOTs
Or the Wizard herself Norma Jean who is worth the journey to Hornchurch
Book here Osteopathy, Therapeutic Massage - NJWOSTEO - , England
Drop me a line!
Facebook and Instagram @sarahgreennutrition
Gina - she comes to your house is super lovely and the tan looks like you've just come home from a week at the beach :)
Instagram @gina_tans
Nails - Gel or Builder in A Bottle
We have a legend in our midst in class who keeps my hooves and claws looking tip top.
The absolute amazing Blooming Em Nails
www.facebook.com/bloomingemnails
Waxing
Walking distance from the centre, truly private and just great. helens been a great find this year.
Home - B-beautified Treatment Room in Laindon Basildon Essex
Lashes and Facials
My natural but beautiful lashes are from Sarah - otherwise known as my mums best friends daughter!
She also does a great microblading facial and the very relaxing luxury facial
You can find her here
Lashes and Beauty by Sarah | Facebook
Hair
A few of you found me via Jo or have heard me waxing lyrical about this goddess with scissors and a dye pot.
She learnt and honed her skills with Charles Worthington and Lee Stafford and now has her own salon in Langdon Hills, its an absolute sanctuary and I've never met someone in there I've not thought - aren't they nice (plus great hair!)
Its of course Jo Cruickshank and you can find her here www.facebook.com/joannarapleylewishairdressing
Semi Permenant Make Up
I use Leanne Russell for my brows and lip blush - she is also amazing with a LVL
only a skip across the A127 in SteepleView
Contact her here
Aesthetics
Frankee is a Crossfit buddy of mine and does all the people I never thought had any work done, she's a nurse by day so you are in the safest of hands
In need of a counsellor
Totally Yoga clients but absolutely where I would book myself in or a send a friend there, they also run workshops online
The Cake Lab
Based in Laindon
They made Arias beautiful Fairy House cake, Frozen, Rapunzel including 3D Plait and Moana including sugar wave - and mum said its the best cake she had in a long time!
Facebook @thecakelab0
Sugar Lump Lane
Based in Hadleigh
Marnie is The Queen of flavours and buttercream!
Facebook @Sugarlumplane
Sugar Lump Lane
Based iin Hadleigh
Marnie is The Queen of flavours and buttercream, also does a mean afternoon tea or mezze style buffet!
Facebook @Sugarlumplane
Soulful Kitchen
Based in Ramsden Heath
Angela makes a tasty and meat packed sausage roll, awesome Brie Cakes and the best graze tables with lots of it homemade.
Facebook @SoulKtch
These are my go to places with Aria
Parks
Langdon Hills Rec, New Avenue, SS16 6BT
Lake Meadows, Billericay (free parking after 11am)
King George's Playing Fields. Ingrave Road, Brentwood,CM13 2 FD - now has a splash park, that you need to book a session.
Maldon Promenade, Maldon, CM9 5JQ (another spash park here and a little zoo)
Langdon Hills Nature Reserve, Lower Dunton Road, Basildon SS16 6EB - we regularly pop there to see Peter Rabbit and friends and a drink in the coffee shop
Mucking Nature Reserve, Mucking Wharf Road, Mucking, Stanford-Le-Hope SS17 0RN - a nice walk round the reserve and a great play park
Soft Play
Stay and Play
Durham Road, Laindon - great for babies to school age. They have a sensory room for the little babies and the food is really good.
Swimming Lessons
Preschool
Aquabelle Swim School, Ramsden Bellhouse
especially Kelly
https://www.aquabelleswimschool.uk/