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Hooray!! LONDON FASHION WEEK kicked off and ended this week. It’s always exciting to see all the designs, colours, fabrics, textures and draw inspiration from them. However, I am of the school of...
View ArticleMy SAVVY winter
Having spent part of my formative years in a warmer climate, readjusting to winter took a long time indeed. I was constantly cold, even though I wrapped myself up like the Michelin man, and...
View ArticleLast stragglers Christmas gifts guide!
If like me, it’s only just beginning to feel like Christmas, and you haven’t brought any or only a few gifts, fear not, help is at hand. This is my first Christmas post ever, and as I finally...
View ArticleA Practical Christmas tree
Yes, I did put the tree up last Thursday, but what with managing my Christmas Pop up shop, running errands, and having a life, I am only just posting now. (Those of you who kindly read the last post...
View ArticleFrugal January…
It bothers me, when I take my old clothes to the dry cleaners for mending or slight alterations and get charged exorbitant prices! It sometimes defeats and frustrates the whole point of slow Fashion....
View ArticleStyling a fellow Blogger
Being a freelance stylist means I’ve had privy to many a wardrobe in Britain and abroad. I sieve through clients wardrobes, decluttering and giving them my humble advice. I say ‘giving’, because they...
View ArticleOils. Lotions & Potions…
If I got stuck on an island, the one thing I would crave for after food and water, would be a moisturiser! I simply cannot do without! The absence of it makes my skin feel one size smaller, and my...
View ArticleThe full monty
One of the items that seems to have dominated my small wardrobe recently, is this full black mesh skirt. I find myself constantly gravitating towards it, and it gets a look in, at least once a week. It...
View ArticlePACKING FOR MY FIRST Glastonbury
Last year I wrote a post called Bestival, and mused on what I would take with me, if I could just push myself far out enough of my comfort zone to camp in a tent. This year, I actually get to live...
View ArticleDutch style cycling
I never quite understood Boris Johnson (former mayor of London’s) vision for cycling in London and his plan to create of cycle paths, until I visited the Netherlands. Granted, I had been to Amsterdam,...
View ArticleThe Ultimate tote bag to date….
WHEN the government brought us bang up to speed with the rest of Europe by introducing a five-pence charge on carrier bags, I certainly found an additional use for my every increasing pile of tote bags...
View ArticleLast Minute christmas gifting guide
If like me, you are just beginning to wrap your head around Christmas and haven’t really brought your pressies yet, all I can say is, thank Goodness for the internet! it’s been a long winded year, and...
View ArticleHow I Rock bridesmaid dresses post weddings!
I remember being a flower girl at many a wedding, whilst still a child. The dresses were always picked I now presume, by the bride, and were usually white, creamy, or floral. Being a child, I just...
View ArticleThe Metamorphosis of a good old book to …..
I started reading a book over the weekend, the first in over a year! I’d been thinking about reading a good book for a long while now, but since driving came on the scene, reading for pleasure became...
View ArticleCool ‘n’ The BAG
Many of you , who kindly read my post , would know that I favour a tote bag over a handbag, and have over a hundred of them. They are cheap enough, come in a plethora of prints as well as sizes, and...
View ArticleTLC for my wardrobe
As a city dweller, I find myself constantly trying to keep up with the maintenance of my few possessions in an attempt to keep cost down. Visits to the mechanic, repairs here and there in my flat,...
View ArticleNot a perfume connoisseur, but If I may..
Realising a bottle of perfume that I was gifted for a birthday, Christmas or through press is always a dilemma, when the end might be nigh. I start to wonder if I should buy another bottle of the same,...
View ArticleI really just went along for the Swedish buns, BUT THEN….
BUT THEN….I discovered the brand ‘A days March’ This is the honest truth – a few months ago, I was invited along to an event called ‘a Fika’ which essentially is Scandinavian word for ‘hanging out’ but...
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What can I say, it is finally beginning to feel like Christmas, and unlike most that are quite organised, when it comes to buying of the pressies (and I should take a leaf out of their books really) I...
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