A Mustard Fix

All through the Summer I was searching for the perfect mustard cotton dress, t-shirt, crochet bikini, you name it, in mustard I wanted it…..But, alas, it was not meant to be, anything that did pass my mustard wanting tracks back in the Summer of 17, didn’t flatter me in the slightest, the wrong cut, the […]

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On any day…..

An array of different garments went flashing through my head in justification to buying this pink, fluffy, cable knit beauty from & Other Stories….The softest and prettiest knit on the street, mixed with mohair and wool, why wouldn’t it be, and well it had the potential  to make this Winter complete. It can go with […]

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Not a fortune for Glory

….And just like that November is here, the start of Winter and the start of fireworks.  We retreat, (from the cold and the fireworks)  we hide and we rest up, we halt to indulge on any level,  for the next four weeks, all in preparation for the ‘glitzy’ month of the year.  It is a […]

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Hocus Pocus….

I do rather appreciate the windy witchy days we have been having of late, on a strange level I quite like the nervous energy it brings, although a little unsettling and slightly eerie it is also rather exciting.  It certainly  does blow away the cobwebs and initiates a change, yes the Jill Murphy’s The Worst Witch […]

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‘The’ Pink Corduroy Trousers….

If it isn’t snaps of people’s feet crushing burnt orange leaves, arrays of pumpkins of every colour (like who knew a few years ago they grew not just in orange?) it is the famous Instagram worthy pink  corduroy trousers, circulating over our feeds momentarily, and the latter is where I join in the Instagram fun.  […]

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There is Always Hope – When Caitie Met Soda.

I believe that jewellery is one of the most personal things one can own, I’m not just talking about expensive diamonds and platinum this and three carrots that, I’m talking the real stuff, the pieces that really matter…. Pieces are personal because of when you perhaps received it, a special Christmas or Birthday, an anniversary […]

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A Simple Act of Kindness, Lara Quin

It seems like forever since I’ve written a post, mid September to now has seemed to have flown by and in a bit of a blur. Crazy, albeit wonderfully exciting work schedules mixed with a bout of the flu can make you crave the wonder of normality, and so finally nearly hitting mid October and […]

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Home Comforts

So,  for the final time,  just some reflection on the Summer season,  if I may? And what a rather lovely time it was.  Loaded with seeing friends, hot, hot English Summer days, strawberry picking, ice lollies, frequential dips in the local Lido, picnics in London parks, a weekend in Lisbon, days in The Algarve, a […]

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Grab and Go!

One minute you are lying on a beach in the South of France, sun beaming down under an array of palm trees and then all of a sudden your back in the UK, sun not so warm and instead of the path of palm tree shadows, it’s Horse Chestnuts and a path of conkers  All […]

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You Beauty!

As the Autumn shows her presence and we say goodbye bye to warmth and Summer days,  long nights, no coats required, just good old Summer fun, I also have to mourn those  good old liberating make-up free days that somehow you can just get away with in Summer…..But as soon as the nights draw darker, […]

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