Sale Shopping Wish List

You either love sale shopping or you don’t. I don’t like the busyness – partly because, busy shops and a buggy don’t mix well – but I do love a bargain. I feel making a wish list or simply knowing what you are going for, helps enormously with decreasing the stress of sale shopping.

My wish list includes; a fur coat, wedged ankle boots, a warehouse 1920s style dress and beauty product bargains!

 

Boots – Zara £79.99

Coat – Topshop £250

Dress – Warehouse £130

Do you have a wish list?

Lizzie xxx

Saying Goodbye to 2012 and Welcoming 2013

2012 has been an eventful year, most definitely one of the hardest yet, but also one of the most fulfilling.

The highlights of 2012 include; 2 wonderful weddings (watching my little girl be bridesmaid/ flower girl for both – very proud moments!), completion of my MA (this being the hard part), holidays, birthdays, my daughters nativity and learning to love reading and writing.

The final highlight on the list will hopefully continue into 2013. You can never be sure what will happen in the future, things always seem to come along that are totally unexpected, but I will certainly endeavour to continue to educate myself. I am looking into a Sage course (trying to remember some of my accountancy degree!) amongst other things, to keep my mind occupied and enhance career opportunities.

Another hope for 2013 is concerned with the position I find myself in relational to homeownership, or lack of it! ‘Generation Rent’ as it has been termed, is something that also always plays on my mind. A lot of people I speak to are in a similar situation, where we pay rent money straight into a landlord’s pocket, making it dead money to us. Being able to put that money into a house I will one-day own outright is a much more pleasing prospect.     

New Year’s resolutions are either something you do or don’t do. I always make them, sometimes keep them, sometimes don’t! This year I am setting a realistic goal, I intend to go swimming once a week and I am leaving it at that!

We cannot predict though can we, so whatever will be, will be. What do you hope your 2013 will bring?

Lizzie xxx

The 1920s – Flappers, Charleston, Great Gatsby and a whole lot more!

With Baz Luhrmann’s newest film, The Great Gatsby gracing our screen this summer (2013) I am thrilled to think that all things 1920s could make a HUGE come-back.

What is it about this era that is so appealing? I am especially a sucker for the dance styles of this period, for example the Charleston. This cheeky and slap-stick dance has me reaching for my dancing shoes. I just wish the clubs and bars of Leeds were full of this kind of dancing, but this is sadly not the case, so I will have to settle for my Saturday night fix of strictly... for now.   

 

The fashion of the day is also something that I find fascinating, and I am hoping this film will have an impact on the high-street. Some pieces can already be found in Topshop, so I’m hoping this is a sign of things to come.

Not only was the clothing so unique, but the jewellery was too. I have instructed my partner - of 4 years – that if he considers proposing one day, it better be with an antique, 1920s art deco ring!  

 

The strings of pearls, flapper head dresses, tassels and feathers set me off into a fashion frenzy.

Please let there be a big 1920s revival, do you think there will be?

Lizzie

The Guilt Trip

The Guilt Trip

My two year old has just had a full week at nursery without tears. This needs writing about!

Usually however she has got the guilt trip off to a T, as soon as we walk through the door the water works turn on and I’m left feeling like an awful mother! I know full well I am not alone in this with the knowing looks and smiles from other mums, but this doesn’t make it any easier.

Once she cried so much she was sick on me (well this happened a few times), that important lecture had to take a back burner while I went home and got changed! It is also very hard to be stylish in these situations so that also had to get pushed aside.

 This week however has been amazing, and I don’t know what has prompted the change in behaviour, but I’m not complaining that’s for sure. I am worried though, that after a nice weekend with the family it could mean she reverts back to her old ways.

Anyone have these problems and want to enlighten me on a way to solving them?

Lizzie.  

You Look So Different!

I have a personalquest for myself, ever since having my little girl and then loosing the babyweight people are telling me- ‘you look so different to how you use to’. Now I knowthis is not a good different, you can tell in the tone! Apparently my faceshape has changed! This I have taken to meaning I have wrinkles, or ‘laughterlines’ as my mum likes to call them.

My personal quest thereforeis to try all the anti-wrinkle, anti-aging, creams, serums and whatever else I canfind to try and stop the dreaded wrinkles!

I am starting offwith a free 14- day trial of  GarnierUltraLift. Heres the link if you want to try it with me.  http://www.garnier.co.uk/_en/_gb/home.aspx?cm_mmc=sem-_-google-_-google-_-garnier&gclid=CI33ta-N37ACFUdItAodNglPuw

I think I will then goonto the Manuka Doctor skincare range that seems to be getting a lot of pressat the moment.

Anyone have thisproblem? Do you know of anything I should be trying?

Lizzie