The Midas Touch....

I may have mentioned that I went shopping yesterday....My lovely Mum proved to be a great help in choosing items and colours that I wouldn't normally wear. I ended up by 3 things - all of which are are goldy/camel colour - a colour I have never bought in my entire life! I also got a matching ring and some gold nail polish.
Here are the results!

This is my new jumper (bought for £10 in the Warehouse sale.) It's a really luxurious soft fabric and looks lovely with my new skirt:

The picture doesn't really do this justice....I'll have to post a picture of the full outfit when I get round to wearing it... It was £40 from Oasis. Pricey for me but it's quite classic and therefore I can call it an investment piece!
I also bought this dress:

Which was £24.50 in the Red Herring sale. I bought all three things in Debenhams which is somewhere I don't normally shop as our Southampton branch is a bit of a walk from the main high street. This dress was a bit long and had annoying loops to hold the belt on so I did what most people who are nearly 30 do.....I got my mum to take it up for me!! Here she is, hard at work...

She was struggling a bit as the hem goes inwards at the bottom so she doesn't look very happy! Gotta love your mum....
I also went in to River Island to look in the sale but didn't find much except for this snake ring (£4) and Models Own gold digger nail polish for a bargainous £2! Loving it.

Today we went for a drive in the Welsh mountains to beautiful little town called Betws y Coed. The sun came out and we had a lovely day. Here I am sitting by a very over photographed river....

Wearing Muubaa leather jacket, River Island jeans, Faith boots and a scarf borrowed from my mum!
Going to the mountain zoo tomorrow so my photos will be of a slightly different genre!
Toodles!

Fail!

I'm now in North Wales visiting my mum and was planning to give you a daily outfit post.....but unfortunatly I misplaced my camera on Sunday and had to take the back up camera with me which as yet doesn't have a memory card in it! Fail! Also, the weather up here is terrible and I don't my clothes are going to be warm enough!
I'm going shopping in a minute so if I can bear to part with my hard earned cash, I'll share the results with you!!
Sorry.....Bad blogger!

Inspirational...

I have found a new style icon. Her name is Linley and her blog is called Dwelling and Telling. www.dwellingandtelling.blogspot.com
She lives in Alabama (where I went for my Christmas holidays to visit family) and her style is easily achievable.
Here are my favourite looks of hers...

Isn't she gorgeous? I think that last look is quite achievable with what I have in my wardrobe. I also think she manages to cover the whole "looking age appropriate" dilemma! She's fashionable without being too obviously on trend. I could spend hours looking through her blog pictures.....and that's what I'm going to do....

Writers' block...

I haven't been doing much recently....except continuing to do up my house for sale! I did find time to try out a new nail painting technique - using scotch tape to do stripes. Here are the results:

Tape off sections to paint a different colour.

Ok, so they aren't amazing but not bad for my first attempt! I think next time I will stick to one colour for the stripes and make them wider.
It thought you might be interested to see my epic garden so you can understand how much time it has taken to clean it up!!

This is my boyfriend clearing the brambles in the bit of the garden after the decking...

 

And this is it AFTER we have cleared it! It's more noticeable in real life...

This is the decked area which is lovely for bbq's. We spent Monday scrubbing the wood clean so it's not this colour anymore!
And lastly is my beautiful shed which we painted blue to give it a beach house style!


 The roof could do with a bit of work but as we're moving I don't see the point!
In other news, Urban Outfitters has an offer for 20% with the code spring11 - I found this through Look magazine. They have some lovely lomography cameras and gorgeous, vintage style home wares.....If only I didn't have to save my money :(  
All monetary donations will be gladly accepted..... !

Sell sell sell !

Sorry for my absentness! I have been in the process of selling my house :(   It is now officially on the market so I have been spending a lot of time cleaning and tidy and chopping down my 180ft garden!
Also, because I have been doing all this stuff I haven't had time (or the money) to shop or look pretty! Well, today I am making a special effort. Lucky you.
Reading through all my facebook wall posts, I found one from LOOK magazine advertising Barry M's new colours of Crackle Top Coat.....You may have seen my previous post on Models Own's new crackle glaze nail polishes so obviously someone is copying someone! The article says that these Barry M ones will be out in June..

 

I already have the black one which is a little bit severe but I really like the look of the pink and the blue for summer. Can't wait to paint my nails in pastel shades again! Just waiting for my tan to start appearing!
Hmm....what else is on my radar? I have just found out that Topshop are having a flash sale! Why do shops do this to me when I have no money? Maybe because I am so often broke or saving for something!

I quite like this Emma Cook t-shirt....now £25 down form £65..

And actually that's about all I found! The 2 other things I liked were only available in a size 16. Not my size. I have to say, I'm not actually a huge fan of Topshop. I find most of it pretty unwearable.
If you are more into your designer fashion, then theoutnet is having a sale! www.theoutnet.com
Unfortunately it looks like a lot of the best stuff has sold out already as it's only a 4 day sale. Worth a look anyway!
I'll be back with more soon. Promise!

Weeks of work...

As promised, I found my buried camera so here are quite a few recent outfits I have been wearing. I'm slightly concerned by how cross eyed I look in some of them! I am not cross eyed!

 

This is my favourite picture! The weather was so good that day that I was able to make my outfit a bit more summery!

My second favourite outfit. This is what I wore to go to a vintage fair last week.
They get progressively worse from here on in!

See, both a little bit dodgy!

These are as above but without the leather jacket :)

That lace dress again...this time with a 70's vibe and brown leather boots.

I might have already posted this picture? That's my new leather biker jacket in action!
I probably should have broken up some of my future posts with these pictures but hey, I'm not perfect! I'm working for the next 4 days so there will be no good outfits coming up! Anwayz....as usual I have to go as it's getting late and I have to prepare for work tomorrow!

Just a quickie!

Only a quick one tonight as I've left it all a bit late.....
I just wanted to share some cute things I found on the Topshop website:

Beautiful and only £55. What a shame that I have too many bags and I'm poor....

These are £62 which seems a random amount? Pretty......

Mini straighteners - £12. Useful for holidays?

And time for a quick look at some gross things I found on their website which would alert the fashion police..

This minging jumper is in the "designer" section...Right...

This hideous dress is also in the designer section....if you've seen Never Been Kissed, this looks like the terrible prom dress Drew Barrymore is wearing as a teenager!!!

This jacket is £160!!! Yuck.
Anywayz, Topshop is probably a favourite with most people so I'd better stop slating them!
Toodles x