What is the Lylia Rose blog?

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My name is Victoria. I’m passionate about finding ways to make money online, healthy living, travel and blogging!

I currently manage three websites and blogs. I make a full-time living online as a blogger and providing online marketing services.

Making money at home and being self-employed is something I am really dedicated to and proud of achieving.

I love to find side hustles to boost my income, especially ways to make money online or using smartphone apps. I'm always trying new things and sharing them on this blog, so you can make more money too!

My aim is to make and save as much money as possible to have better financial security now, in the future and to see as much of the world as I can in my lifetime. I'm very keen to travel more!

Lylia Rose is a UK money blog which features a variety of lifestyle and family topics, many with a money angle from saving money, family finances, home improvements and more! See below for sorts the topics you’ll discover.

Making and saving money

Since the end of 2018 I decided to mainly focus on money related articles on Lylia Rose. Evolving from an Etsy store in 2012, to an e-commerce site, to a business blog, to a lifestyle blog... phew... Lylia Rose has now settled on being a UK money blog featuring making money online, blogging, working from home, self-employment, staying healthy as a busy work-at-home-mum, side hustles, saving money and family finance tips. It's still technically a lifestyle blog, but most articles have a money twist enabling you to make money or save money!

Read the story of Lylia Rose to learn more about the journey of Lylia Rose and how it came to be a UK money and lifestyle blog!

Money

I love making extra cash from home around my parenting duties. It's even turned into a full time job for me. In my main money section I share all the ways I've tried to make money online and from home, as well as lots of other money related topics such as saving money on your everyday shopping and turning your hobby into a job. Find various money menus in my main menu at the top if you're looking for something specific or click these:

Blogging

In my blogging section I share lots of tips and advice from a seasoned blogger. Learn how to make money from your blog from someone who has been blogging since the start of 2013 and turned it into a full-time business.

Here are some of my favourite handpicked blogging articles to get you started:

Running a self-employed home-based business

I love to write about being a work-at-home-mum as I am one, along with the benefits, but also challenges it creates. I've been self-employed since 2012 and have tried a variety of methods to make money from home. Marketing is an essential part of running any business, including a blog. I love to share my knowledge and anything new I learn that fascinates me. This section regularly features business related articles, how to run a home-based business, tips on being self-employed and more.

Not only have I been self-employed for several years, but my husband has also been a self-employed handyman in the past and had a business making handmade furniture. Now he's joined me in the world of blogging and online marketing! Between us we have ran a few different businesses and have a lot of experience working from home.

Here are some handpicked articles to get you started:

The type of reclaimed furniture my husband used to make in collaboration with a local metalworker!

Online income reports

I share online income reports not to brag, but to show how you can make and save money from home too, if this interests you.

It’s also to give something back. Without online income reports, I’d never have learned how to make money online myself! It's how I first realised I could make a living with my blog when I saw other bloggers were making money in their own revealing income reports. I discovered many of the methods I use today with thanks to other people sharing their online income reports.

My very revealing annual income reports are a great way of digging into exactly how I make money online and from home every single year.

Click an income report below to see which online activities and side hustles were lucrative for me each year:

In 2021 I decided to write my final income report as they were becoming too repetitive. However, my online and blog activities continued to perform strongly. In 2022 and 2023, I generated turnovers of £56,000 and £62,000, with pre-tax profits of £50,000 and £56,000.

Although my earlier income reports still offer valuable insights into my income sources, my primary focus since 2022 has shifted towards advertising as an online publisher with less focus on other online side hustles.

Check out many of my tried and tested methods to make money online in my blog post 60 ways to make money online

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Healthy lifestyle

I used to write a lot about this topic on this blog, but I set up a dedicated healthy living blog at Healthy Vix. I still write about healthy living on this blog too, but mainly with a money angle. Leading a healthy lifestyle doesn't have to be expensive: getting a good night's sleep is free and being more eco-friendly is a great money saving technique!

Natural beauty

I'm passionate about only using natural products on my skin, not only for my own health and safety, but for the benefit of the environment. After all, where do you suppose all our cosmetics and toiletries end up once they are washed off our skin? There are lots of beauty brands that are doing their part for the environment nowadays, supporting great causes and have recycling schemes! Here are a couple of my favourites:

Healthy living, food & fitness

I'm very passionate about healthy living. To me healthy living is the whole package. It's eating the most nutritious foods, being active every day, reducing stress and living in a healthy eco-friendly environment. I follow a vegan, plant-based whole foods diet, as do my children and husband. I don't drink alcohol and I avoid added sugar as much as possible. It's a topic I can talk about for hours and I top up my knowledge by watching lectures, documentaries and reading articles pretty much every single day. It's probably the topic I am most obsessed about and bore my husband to death about, hence why I set up a blog at Healthy Vix to dedicate another space on the internet to this passion!

Eco friendly living

Part of healthy living to me, is being eco-friendly. There's no point in eating organic food if you're then smearing toxic chemicals all over your skin or breathing them in. Eco friendliness stretches far beyond simply recycling and reusing. It's everything we choose to use. It's the choices we make every day. I've started thinking more about the consequences of my life on the environment over the past few years. It's a topic I am becoming increasingly passionate about and we are trying to be more aware of our choices and lead a more sustainable lifestyle. Making simple switches to be more eco-friendly by choosing reusable cloths instead of wipes, for example, is money saving in the long term too.

Here are some of my favourite articles on the topic:

Home and family

I have two children, Bella and Reuben, so I can draw from my experiences of family lifestyle and our family home when writing about many money topics.

Home & garden

We moved into our first purchased home together in May 2014. Since then it's been a labour of love to totally transform every room. We went for an old house which totally needed some love and major updating! I love all things home and garden as it's right on point with us doing up our own first home, especially affordable home improvements, how to increase the value of your home as well as mortgage advice and how to save money around the home.

I've also moved house more than 10 times so I love writing articles about house moves.

You can also discover a whole blog dedicated to home and garden topics, as well as my husband's amazing handmade furniture at his website Wood Create and for sale in my handmade furniture pop-up shop on this website!

Here are some examples of my blog posts on home topics:

Family finances

I am a mum to two, Bella born in 2012 and Reuben born in 2015. I'm also married to Ben. Since having children, buying a house and getting married, we've had to navigate through a whole host of family finance decisions from mortgages, to writing wills and even combining our incomes and switching to a joint account. I write lots of articles about family finances that are relevant to our experiences.

Here are some examples:

Travel

In this section I used to share reviews of our holidays and days out, but now these sorts of posts will mostly be found on my dedicated travel blog at Travel Vixta. On my money blog Lylia Rose I share lots of tips and advice on how to save money on travel, car insurance and more. Take a look at these to get started:

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