This is going to be a weird one and probably rule me out of the years style stacks. But in these last few weeks I have found that the dreaded onesies have their uses. They prevent my poor back and adjoining joints getting a cold draught and then going into a spasm.
Based on this fact I now have two of them one that is fleecy and warm and the other with a hood but only cotton. What I am really in need of is one that combines both the fleecy material and a hood. Preferably with a pocket. There was an ideal one on ASOS but by last Wednesday when I got paid it had totally sold out.
So if anyone knows where you can one in a sizes 22 ( I like to be able to wear clothes underneath) and matches these criteria, please please let me know. As long as it isn't that dreaded fair isle design I will love it. To be honest I don't care if I look like a ladybird or even a cute animal. It is out of necessity I ask and would only be worn at home.
Many thanks
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Time for the chop
No I haven't turned into french revolutionary or a mass murder, nor am I axing my blog. Instead it was time for the spring chop for my hair. Which I have to admit is normally quiet simple loss the ends and maybe end up bit darker than before,. But it has been a long time since I tried something different. To be honest I have been left disappointed after the first few days with my new cut as it I high maintenance to maintain the salon look and give up.
For some reason every hairdresser I have to been to has always tried to give me style that requires endless hour of straightening irons. If any one bothers to look at me, and my hair that's a lot of daily work as my hair just has to see water and it curls. So this time I tried some where new, well new to me, it has been there for years. With some ideas yesterday I took the brave step and trusted an unknown stylist to work some magic.
I knew I wanted the grey gone, and some two tone look, on a shoulder length cut, but so it looked liked me. and after much work with the colour and an appointment that lasted 3 and 3/4 hours I left £90 poorer and with a hair cut that not only can I live with but seems to be the cut for me. This time when they said book an trim in 6 weeks I am actually looking forward to it.
Whats more the hairdresser refused to take a tip, until I really insisted. She said her reward was to see a person more confident and happy with their cut. That is such an old fashioned value and yet one that is hardly ever heard of now a days. What is more is she respected my hair is curly and there as no sign of the GHDs. There was no force selling of products, instead I had to ask what she would recomend.
This is an all time first that I will actually be looking forward to booking my next hair appointment and not leaving it to the point where I have no choice and have to go.
For some reason every hairdresser I have to been to has always tried to give me style that requires endless hour of straightening irons. If any one bothers to look at me, and my hair that's a lot of daily work as my hair just has to see water and it curls. So this time I tried some where new, well new to me, it has been there for years. With some ideas yesterday I took the brave step and trusted an unknown stylist to work some magic.
I knew I wanted the grey gone, and some two tone look, on a shoulder length cut, but so it looked liked me. and after much work with the colour and an appointment that lasted 3 and 3/4 hours I left £90 poorer and with a hair cut that not only can I live with but seems to be the cut for me. This time when they said book an trim in 6 weeks I am actually looking forward to it.
Whats more the hairdresser refused to take a tip, until I really insisted. She said her reward was to see a person more confident and happy with their cut. That is such an old fashioned value and yet one that is hardly ever heard of now a days. What is more is she respected my hair is curly and there as no sign of the GHDs. There was no force selling of products, instead I had to ask what she would recomend.
This is an all time first that I will actually be looking forward to booking my next hair appointment and not leaving it to the point where I have no choice and have to go.
Thursday, 4 April 2013
Post easter thoughts
So whilst most people are left with the empty cartons and post Easter slump brought on from way too much chocolate, I for once can breath a sigh of relief. Not because I didn't celebrate, because we did, there is still lunches including hot cross buns in this house. But for once I don't hae worry the clothes that i owned before Easter won't fit me, because they do, and the reason why is I have yet to gorge myself on the feat of chocolate I was given.
No I am not on some self crusade as much as I am proving a point to myself. That I still have will power. Both hubby and mum have had birthdays over the last week one being on Easter Sunday, so there has been more than enough food around without the need to binge out on additional chocolate. Now whilst everyone else here has half empty bags of eggs I still have all mine to actually enjoy and savour, and most of all ration.
For the gift of Easter was meant to be lasting not binge and regret a week later. Maybe I am trying to go back to the true meaning of Easter and for that matter Xmas as we still have candy left from that. We are living too much in the now and caught up in the material value over what we can get and how much it cost. I have started to put a set limit on gifts to Godchildren, yes I wonder if I am being me, but I put a set limit per child and that's it and it is the same for each one. For the older ones they often get in in cash to put to something they want to have. But that is my rule and I am now sticking to it. The last year of having next to nothing and coming out the other side of it has made me realise money doesn't always make you happy but friendship, love and gifts carefully thought out do.
There will still be a guilt when I eat my eggs that I have the chance to eat this much, but at least I know I will remember that.
No I am not on some self crusade as much as I am proving a point to myself. That I still have will power. Both hubby and mum have had birthdays over the last week one being on Easter Sunday, so there has been more than enough food around without the need to binge out on additional chocolate. Now whilst everyone else here has half empty bags of eggs I still have all mine to actually enjoy and savour, and most of all ration.
For the gift of Easter was meant to be lasting not binge and regret a week later. Maybe I am trying to go back to the true meaning of Easter and for that matter Xmas as we still have candy left from that. We are living too much in the now and caught up in the material value over what we can get and how much it cost. I have started to put a set limit on gifts to Godchildren, yes I wonder if I am being me, but I put a set limit per child and that's it and it is the same for each one. For the older ones they often get in in cash to put to something they want to have. But that is my rule and I am now sticking to it. The last year of having next to nothing and coming out the other side of it has made me realise money doesn't always make you happy but friendship, love and gifts carefully thought out do.
There will still be a guilt when I eat my eggs that I have the chance to eat this much, but at least I know I will remember that.
Have I missed something?
I don't know if I am the only one, but I thought we were meant to be in spring. According to my recently revamped wardrobe and newly up dated make up it is meant to ! Yet I look outside and I am sure I am in the middle of winter! My skin resembles a lightly frostbitten look, my hands and lips are chapped. What has happened ? Did the UK get towed to the north pole when no one was looking, or has the world slipped on its axis?
I am fed up of reading that the UK is colder than Lapland or the base of Everest. It is purely depressing. Especially when this news is accompanied with the news of farmers losing their livestock under the snow drifts. Granted we in the London area haven't got much to complain about except the freezing temperatures ( made ten times worse if like us your boiler is no longer working). But on top of all the cuts our wonderful government is inflicting us with, it is making the first quarter of 2013 tiresome and exhausting.
To top it off today is my mum's 71st birthday and never in her living memory has she had snow for her birthday. Yet guess what yep we have snow! In April no less. Now I like my winters cold and my summers hot, with spring and autumn being their necessary weather temperatures. But this is a joke I have photo of the area in the last two weeks when I went on a trip to Sussex and as you will see it looks more like Christmas card than the week for Easter.
So whilst my summer skirt has just arrived by courier I am busy painting my nail with snowflakes AGAIN.
I am fed up of reading that the UK is colder than Lapland or the base of Everest. It is purely depressing. Especially when this news is accompanied with the news of farmers losing their livestock under the snow drifts. Granted we in the London area haven't got much to complain about except the freezing temperatures ( made ten times worse if like us your boiler is no longer working). But on top of all the cuts our wonderful government is inflicting us with, it is making the first quarter of 2013 tiresome and exhausting.
To top it off today is my mum's 71st birthday and never in her living memory has she had snow for her birthday. Yet guess what yep we have snow! In April no less. Now I like my winters cold and my summers hot, with spring and autumn being their necessary weather temperatures. But this is a joke I have photo of the area in the last two weeks when I went on a trip to Sussex and as you will see it looks more like Christmas card than the week for Easter.
So whilst my summer skirt has just arrived by courier I am busy painting my nail with snowflakes AGAIN.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Thank you
I have never been lucky with on line competitions, however in the last two weeks I have won a pair of shoes from Kandee and some L'Occitane goodies via a Glossy Box / L'Occitane twitter competition.
The Kandee shoes were a Lime colour of their Skinny Bitch range, which is great as I know I can wear them. Although I was a little worried about the colour and as most of my friends will tell you I am usually conservative in my colour choices, I found this pair match some white outfits I have so it has worked out wonderfully.
The skin products from L'Occitane were a full size skin cream and hand cream. So again a worth while prize. Although this one I have to fight off mum as she wants the hand cream. I may well give in and be a nice daughter and just let her have it.
Anyway I am not bragging, I just wanted to say thank you to the companies concerned, and also I want to say to all those who enter these competitions on Twitter and Facebook, keep going you never know your luck.
The Kandee shoes were a Lime colour of their Skinny Bitch range, which is great as I know I can wear them. Although I was a little worried about the colour and as most of my friends will tell you I am usually conservative in my colour choices, I found this pair match some white outfits I have so it has worked out wonderfully.
The skin products from L'Occitane were a full size skin cream and hand cream. So again a worth while prize. Although this one I have to fight off mum as she wants the hand cream. I may well give in and be a nice daughter and just let her have it.
Anyway I am not bragging, I just wanted to say thank you to the companies concerned, and also I want to say to all those who enter these competitions on Twitter and Facebook, keep going you never know your luck.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Pity the delievery men
Thanks to the sales, the luck of the Irish and EBay, my front path is getting well trodden. This pleases me, but unfortunately Orinoco has a thing against deliveries and the people who make them. Everything from the post man to the Kleeneaze man they all get the same reception, a loud one. What I want to know is how the heck he knows to sit by the door and wait but he has mastered that.
The poor man from DPD has been so busy with Kandee deliveries that he knows just to laugh at the dog and totally defeats the noise. How ever the new yodel man nearly hopped over the fence with shock. Anyway we should have had a few days off from the noise till Friday when the next lot is due, by which time my headache may have subsided.
In the mean time I am now resting my back as the case of Coke that arrived today has totally stuffed it. The thing is the delivery men make it look very light to carry these parcels, and up to five years ago I used to be able to swing these cases about, but now a days anything more than a kilo and I am in trouble, so a case of 24 cans are well out of my limit. However as no one tells you what is in the box till you sign for it and take it , I had no clue and now my back is seeking revenge.
As I started writing this page it was Tuesday, and I have just got to complete this blog to a) find the poor postman carrying 90% of the outstanding parcels down my path and b) having won something else to add to the total of the parcels expected. So I have increased my postman's loathing for me, and the dog induced headache. But I look at this way, by being a total girl I am keeping many postal services in order.
The poor man from DPD has been so busy with Kandee deliveries that he knows just to laugh at the dog and totally defeats the noise. How ever the new yodel man nearly hopped over the fence with shock. Anyway we should have had a few days off from the noise till Friday when the next lot is due, by which time my headache may have subsided.
In the mean time I am now resting my back as the case of Coke that arrived today has totally stuffed it. The thing is the delivery men make it look very light to carry these parcels, and up to five years ago I used to be able to swing these cases about, but now a days anything more than a kilo and I am in trouble, so a case of 24 cans are well out of my limit. However as no one tells you what is in the box till you sign for it and take it , I had no clue and now my back is seeking revenge.
As I started writing this page it was Tuesday, and I have just got to complete this blog to a) find the poor postman carrying 90% of the outstanding parcels down my path and b) having won something else to add to the total of the parcels expected. So I have increased my postman's loathing for me, and the dog induced headache. But I look at this way, by being a total girl I am keeping many postal services in order.
Monday, 18 March 2013
Kandee Sweetness
Now normally I blog about new ranges and what in the ideal world I would buy from Kandee. Well for once there 80% sale hit my pay day and now my one pair of shoes has multiplied to three pairs, two handbags and a clutch bag. That is not counting the pair I was fortunate to win yesterday.
My first purchase was a set of pink skinny bitch heels, and a matching clutch and normal handbag. They were gorgeous and all cost me less than £90 including postage. I feel in love so much that I had to get a bag to go with my black skinny bitch heels I received for my 40th last year so I got brave and went for a tangerine orange one as they had sold out of the black bags. My final purchase was the Galaxy heels all red and sparkly. They make me feel like Dorothy out of the Wizard of Oz, but standing a little taller. What surprised me was that set came with an extra pair of heels for when they get worn down.
It is little features like that, and the individual shoe bags and dust bags for the handbags, that makes me fall in love with the brand more and more. What I will receive for my prize I don't know, but I do know I will be hoovering till the driver arrives with the package. Just the anticipation is enough to make it an event in itself.Every pair is hand crafted leather and the shoes feel in balance unlike cheaper heels. There have been teasers for the S/S13 range and the mention of a separate Haute Couture range. So I for one will be waiting with anticipation for that. In the meantime I suggest if you have a few spare penny's this sweetness of a sale won't break your lent diet, but will make you feel like a princess.
I personally can't wait for the new season with the promise of wedged trainers and polka dots it is all very exciting, I just pray for a couple of pairs of flats, for as much as I adore my heels I want to wear Kandee's at places you wouldn't expect them and that requires flats.
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