November 29, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty

Afternoon Tea, Lovely Ladies and More Shoes

Did I mention I was having a shoe moment? I think I did. Monday started so well with no prospect of shoe buying in sight. The lovely Forties Floozy, the woman behind the awesome vintage glasses shop Madams Vintage was back in the UK for a flying visit after a sojourn in Germany for university.

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Fashion & Beauty Food & Drink

Pink Hair and British Tapas

For weeks now I’ve had a tube of Raspberry hair dye eyeing me from the bathroom shelf. I bought some Schwarzkopf Raspberry Rebel on an impulse. Then chickened out after dire warnings on Facebook that it would never wash out as promised. Then yesterday morning I woke up thought “Hey, why not!” So by 5pm

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Dear Diary

66 Happy Days……

I’m 2 thirds of the way through my 100 Happy Days adventure. It’s been interesting, some days it’s been easy to find something that makes me happy, others it’s been more of a struggle to cut through a fog of stress and and remember there are lovely things in the world. I find myself looking

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Fashion & Beauty

A Sneaky Peep (Toe)

I have a bit of a thing for a peep toe shoe. I mean a proper peep toe, not an open toe. If you can see more than the tips of 3 of my toes then it’s no good. There’s something elegant, but super sexy about them. I love 1940s inspired chunkier shoes with a

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Fashion & Beauty

Messing Around with Make Up

This morning I went shopping for lipstick. Since Christmas I feel I have fallen into a style black hole. I have been attempting to drag myself out of it over the last few weeks with a few new things. I started off with revamping my wardrobe a little. I’ve said yes to some things for

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Retro Chick Competitions

Floral Frocks, Afternoon Teas (and a sneaky giveaway)

I hope you’ve all been enjoying the spring sunshine? I don’t know if the sun is still shining today, as I wrote this yesterday and scheduled it, so this is like some kind of time travel, like I’m speaking to my future self, spooky. I was in Kent visiting my family, and as Activity Superstore

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Fashion & Beauty

I'm Your Biggest Fan

Well, haven’t we had some lovely weather? I’ve been pretty much living in my fan print Fleur over the last couple of weeks as it’s perfect for the spring weather, and finally here is the outfit post I promised with it.   ♥ Fan Print Fleur – Heyday! ♥ Sparkly Bones Hair Band – Janine

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Fashion & Beauty

The Designers Show at #nwchfw

Last night was the Designers Show at Norwich Fashion Week. This ones a biggie, and it was sponsored by Mercedes Benz, which meant last nights goodie bag contained not only delicious marshmallows and some protein noodles, but also some silver Mercedes branded nail polish, so I can paint my nails like a car! Bonus! The

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Fashion & Beauty

Wowzers Festival and Vintage Fashion at #NwchFW

Whew, that was a long old week into a long weekend! And I still have a few more days of work before my boss (that’d be me) has generously given me a day off to recharge my batteries. Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you with all of my long week/weekend, because much of

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