January refresh

January is all about the refresh.  I’m taking it step by step and clearing one drawer at a time, making bags for charity, bags for re-selling, neatly folding the ‘keepers’ and remembering old friends… Oh hi leopard print skirt and Sophie Websters (just back from a spa date with the cobbler).  With party season over and a satin leopard maxi…
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A hat story for people with totey heads

For such a long time hats were not my friend.  I suffer for ‘pea head syndrome’ – read that as when I go skiing and rent a helmet it has flames painted on the side and is labelled for a 7 year old boy.  Awesome. Many hats were bought but one sideways glance in the mirror and that hat would…
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New year, new saving schemes…

The first look of 2015 and it seems my love of checks is not waning…  of course there is the Scottish element to be considered in my fondness for them but there’s also something every appealing to me that is a print without being a print exactly.  Stripes almost certainly fall into the same category with both adding a new…
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Animal party

Been taking the animals out to party and the culottes, which I honestly thought might be a one trick pony, have become quite the partygoers, seeing me through 3 holiday events so far with various chunky knit, tee and cami combinations.  And now they’re half price, not that I can complain as clearly I’ve had my money’s worth, but if…
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Rose tinted glasses

Looking through rose tinted glasses today… can’t ask much more than that for a Friday. As for the look – the belt comes into play yet again giving a different way to wrap and fix the colour block cape of the season.  That’s it in a Christmas nutshell. So my tree’s been up since last Sunday… but he’s still naked. …
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