Thursday.

After burning this top, bringing it to work, steaming it and putting it on, I have realised that it has shrunk! I am not at all happy with this look, I feel that this top now hits at just the wrong length, and is in no way flattering!

Today's outfit is:

White, green & black tunic - Asda (george)
Black leggings - Primark
Black jewelled ballet flats - Nine West

Nice People.

I have just had a gift handed in to me from a customer. She works in the bakery along the street and has just brought me 2 warm white chocolate chip cookies!!
Customers like her make this often thankless job so, so worthwhile. Her kindness has made me smile and feel all nice inside!

It was not a totally random act of kindness, she called me yesterday to ask if I had an item left in stock (she had the item and had found out that it was faulty). I did and I kept it and something similar aside for her. So the cookies were a thank you for me going out of my way (her words) to help her.

The crumbs are starting to get into the keys, so I am off to enjoy the remainder of the cookies!

Oh no.....

Ironing disaster!! I was ironing a top this morning (on the kitchen work top - bad I know) running late as usual. I had made sure that the temperature setting was in the right place and as always I turned the top in side out. I have a thing about washing and ironing and always try to turn things in side out!

Thank goodness I took the 30 seconds to do this, as the iron stuck the lining of the top and burned a hole! So, now the iron has the lining all stuck to the plate and my top has a hole in it!
I brought the top into work and just used the steamer on it - which as always worked a dream, but the frazzled edges of the hole are scratching my skin!!

This week so far!!

Oops, I have been a terrible blogger so far this week! So, I thought I would give you a little recap of what I have been up to.

Sunday
My friend was having her baby christened at 11am, so I got up early showered and decided what I was going to wear. I ended up running very late and was quite stressed out. My bf was unable to come along with me (he was helping out being a Marshall at the Senior Golf Open) so my sister came along in his place.
The Church service was lovely (very hot- It was a glorious day on Sunday) and afterwards we went to a local Cricket club for the cutting of the cake etc.

Afterwards, my sister and I decided to make a day of being all dress up, so we headed home to change to into comfy shoes and then walked to a local bar where we ate lunch outside in the sun.
My bf called us when he was finished and said that there were 2 tickets at the gate if we fancied heading to the golf course to join him and some friends. We did - it was excellent. The remainder of the evening was spent in the biggest beer garden drinking wine!
It was a very long day, but an excellent one!
My outfit was:
Orange Strapless dress - French Connection
Tan wedges - Dune
Tan shrug (for church) - Primark
Gold grecian sandals (changed after church) - New Look

Sorry for the bad picutre and the mess in the background, I was running very late!

Monday
I was very, very tired and not feeling to great. Thankfully it was my half day so I was only working until lunch time. My outfit was terrible, I put no thought into it. I did not take a picture and I have erased the outfit from memory.

My afternoon was spent in the garden enjoying the sun. In the evening my bf and I did a little gardening. We then ordered some take away pizza and watched a movie on the sofa!

Tuesday
I forgot to take a picture of my outfit! I had a busy morning merchandising the shop, stopped for lunch and from then on I was non stop with customers! It was a great day.
My outfit was:
Black and white stripe dress - S'nob
Zebra print flip flops - Dune

Wednesday
So far I have been busy cleaning the shop, not the best job in the world, but I feel very pleased with myself now!
The weather is not so good here today so today's outfit is:
Skinny jeans - Vila
Brown top - Skunkfunk
Leopard print ballet flats - Primark

Getting Back To Normal!

Finally starting to wind the sale up. So, I have spent the last two days merchandising all of the new styles that have began to filter through for the autumn. As well as this I have been giving the shop a really good clean.

While doing this I have noticed a few little areas of the shop that are needing a little attention (in the way of paint needing touched up etc). I was hoping to get to the first anniversary without having to do any repairs, but I do not want the shop to start to look tired or shabby!

Saturday.

So much in love that I have it on again this week!!!!!

Tribal print dress - Vila
Black patent shoes - Christian Louboutin
Black and silver necklaces - H&M

Friday.

I forgot my camera this morning, so this is a picture of the last time that I wore this outfit. Today, I do not have the cardigan on, but I have my brown wooden beads on!

I am now beyond fed up with the sale! My beautiful shop looks messy and not good, I am also really fed up with explaining that I do not have any other sizes! So, I am finishing the sale at 5pm on Saturday, but for today and Saturday all sale stock is buy one get one free!!!
This has gone well as people are coming in for a look at the sale and some have been leaving with full price autumn stock!!

Today's outfit consists of:

Cream linen shorts - Vila
Brown bib detail t-shirt - Vila
Brown flip flop - Moda in pelle
Brown wooden bead jewellery - Plume

Thursday.

Yesterday's skirt ended up being to heavy for the weather and I was very hot and sticky by the time I got home! So, last night I laid out one of my favorite summer dresses to wear today.
The good weather has continued into today, but I am not sure that it is going to last very long as it is very hot and humid - feels like rain could just start pouring at any moment.

I went my walk as planned. My sister came along with me and we managed to get there in 20 minutes (not too bad I think) and the same on the way home. Although we did stop off for an ice-lolly on the way home!!

Today's outfit consists of:

Black cotton sleeveless dress - Topshop
Gold belt - Forever 21
Gold and silver Grecian flip-flops - Primark


Close up of the detail at the top of the dress (full length picture is a bit fuzzy).

Hot, Hot, Hot!!

It is a beautiful day today, I walked to work this morning in a sleeveless dress!!!! No cardigan, no jacket, just the dress!
However, I am currently watching what I am eating and making an effort to eat as healthily as possible, so I made a huge batch of soup and froze it in lunch sized amounts! Clever old me left one out to defrost overnight.

So, on what could be the hottest day of this year so far I have just eaten a bowl of hot soup for lunch! To make matters worse (oh yes there is more) it was sweet potato and chili soup.
I am now sitting as still as I can, gently fanning myself with this weeks edition of Grazia magazine!

Wednesday.

Last night was very hot and humid and it is not much better today! I liked the look I achieved last week with the grey version of this skirt, so I thought I would give the black a try today! The vest top is another from my mini trip to H&M last week!

I have decided to step up my walk this evening, I am going to visit my friend she stays about a mile and a half away from me, so walking there and back should give me a decent work out! When I am alone I walk quickly, so the heart rate should be raised!!

Today's outfit consists of:

Black skirt - Vila
Yellow vest top - H&M
Black beads - H&M
Silver star necklace - Plume

Tuesday.

My personal mission this week is to get my laundry and ironing sorted out! I am generally quite good at getting the laundry washed and dried, but the ironing I am not so good with. I make sure that my bf has 5 laundered and ironed shirts for work, but I tend to stop there.
And because of this I have mornings like this morning where everything that I want to wear is waiting to be ironed! Wish me luck with this, I am already trying to think of other things to do instead of ironing!!

Tuesday's outfit consists of:

Black skinny jeans - Primark
Cream top with black button details - Blendshe
Cream and Black ballet flats - New Look
Black and cream bangle - Primark

Monday.

What started out as a quiet day turned out to be some what manic! I always have a busy morning when I have been out of the shop for an afternoon or day. I have to take the first couple of hours clearing up after my helpers (they are free help so I do not mind this minor detail). I also usually have to make various phone calls to see where things have been put, moved to etc. The stapler being in my sisters bag was a good one!!

Anyway, I did not get a chance to get back on Blogger yesterday, I hope that today I organise my time in a better manner! Yesterday's look was nice and casual and I was sporting some new stock - you have to love the perks!

Monday's outfit was:

Boy fit jeans - ASOS
Grey long sleeved t-shirt - Forever 21
Two tone grey striped cardigan - Vila
Silver sandals - Birkenstock

Saturday.

Sorry for not posting on Saturday! I was only working in the morning and did not get a chance to post.

Saturday's outfit consisted of:

Cotton floral print dress - Vila
Tan wedges - Dune

After I got off work at 1pm I headed home for a quick change (into a pair of jeans, a white vest top and a beige hoodie). We then threw our overnight bags into the car and headed through to Edinburgh. We were spending the weekend with my bf family. One of his sisters has recently moved so was having a house warming BBQ, and her and her husband invited us all to stay over.

On Sunday we were up very early thanks to

1. A terrible air bed
2. A 2 year old in the next room!

So, we had a lovely breakfast together (bacon rolls and lots of tea and orange juice) in the garden. Then the girls headed to the city centre for an hour. We went to the most adorable shop called "Paper Tiger" where I managed to spend £25 on all kinds of cards and wrapping paper and ribbon!! I love to receive things in the mail that are not bills, so I am always sending things on to other people!

After the shopping trip we made our separate ways home. My bf and I stopped in at his parents as they had just returned from summer holiday. We were heading to a friends house for a take away curry, but before leaving I got the bags unpacked and the laundry sorted out!

Friday.

The legs are back!!! This dress came into stock on Wednesday and when I opened the box I made an out loud "Oohh" noise!!! I love this dress, I feel great today. I now totally wish I was going a beach holiday as I think this would be perfect teamed with gold sandals (flat) and a tan for a nice evening out! I am sure I could pull this very same look off here too, but I do like to get lost in my beach holiday dreams!!!!

No plans for this evening, this is a good thing! I am going to get the laundry up to date and the cleaning up done as we have a busy weekend planned! So, I think it will be a nice relaxed pasta dinner and maybe a glass of chilled white wine when I have my chores done!

Today's outfit consists of:

Tribal(?) print dress - Vila
Necklaces - H&M
Wooden & plastic bangles - Ebay
Zebra print shoes - Dune
Zebra print flip flops - Dune (not pictured)

Thusrday (not Wednesday) evening.

So, last night after I finished work I had my legs waxed, headed home had a 20 minute walk along the beach to chill out and enjoy the sun that had come out! I had a quick shower and change (stayed in the skinny jeans and changed to a grey chiffon top with lime green detailing) touched up my make up just in time for our friends arriving!

We ended up heading out for a pub dinner as we all wanted different things from take away, it was great very relaxed and every one was happy with their food!
Next we headed along to the opening of the bar - by the time we arrived it was well and truly open. Met up with lots of other friends and some customers! It turned out to be a great night of catching up. It was not too late we headed home just after 11pm.

Thought I would post a picture of myself (on the left) and my friend posing for the camera!!!

Oh no!!!

I have just noticed that I posted yesterday thinking that it was Wednesday!!!! I have 2 wednesday posts this week!!!

I have just checked everything that I did yesterday and I have written Wednesday on everything!!!! Oh dear!!!

Wednesday.

The legs are back under wraps today - the one and only reason is the weather. It rained all night last night and was still bucketing down at 8.30am this morning so jeans won! My feet did still get wet, but my legs were dry!

Today's outfit is:

Skinny jeans - Vila
Cami - Primark
Cream cheese cloth top - Zara
Brown gladiator sandals - Vila
Brown glass necklace - Molten



Myself, my mum and one of my sisters went to the cinema to see Mamma Mia! We got off to a bad start but got there eventually and it was so worth it!
It was Orange Wednesday yesterday which was one of the reasons that we were going (two for the price of one cinema tickets). So we headed to the largest cinema in our area (about 10 miles away) only to find out that it was totally sold out! We got back into the car and drove back the 10 miles to another cinema. We went in and got tickets for the show at 8.40pm - Yippee! But, it was only 7.30pm, so rather than waste petrol we headed to a bar across the road from the cinema and shared a bottle of wine!
The entire night was fantastic, a great giggle and loads of people watching!

Tonight at 5pm I am getting my legs waxed, I then have to dash home and have a quick tidy up, quick change and get ready. We have friends coming over for dinner (take away) we have not seen them since their wedding in June!! Then we are heading to the opening of a bar that is a few doors along from my shop, where we are meeting some other friends.

Why do we women do this??

This morning I have been reading Glamour magazine. There was an article that jumped out at me so I went ahead and read it.
The article was "Is Victoria REALLY happy in LA?"
Now, the reason I chose to read this is, I love Victoria Beckham (you can all slate me if you wish) I love her style and how she is always very polished! I aspire to be as polished as she is!

Anyway, back to the point - what makes a reporter or editor the authority on whether Victoria Beckham is happy or not! Can I just point out that the article was not an interview with Victoria! So that makes it all assumptions does it not?

There was nothing particularly scathing in the piece and it was more of a positive than negative spin. But, what made me post about this was the article on the next page. "Women: Give women a break!"
I just found it a little weird that these two features were in the same edition of a monthly magazine!

On a final note, I do agree that we women are far too hard on our fellow sisters! The modern woman seems to have lost sight of the sisterhood - at the end of the day we are all fighting a similar battle!!

Sorry about the picture being so small! Even in jeans she looks polished!!

Wednesday.

Still on the "not so casual" kick, I took at look through what is left on my sale rails and found 2 skirts in my size that I never took when they came into stock. I was wanting something that I could jazz up with my new tops from H&M. This skirt I feel fits the bill, it is simple but great and the colour is great for brights.

Today's outfit consists of:

Grey a-line button front skirt - Vila
Teal vest top - H&M
Multi colour shell necklace - Topshop
Pewter wedge shoes - Payless shoes
(Black half sleeve cardigan - not pictured worn on the walk to work)



After the comment I received yesterday I went straight home prepared a healthy dinner (that was always the plan) changed into work out pants and a t-shirt and went off for a very quick walk along the beach. I walked for 20 minutes, as I was alone I was walking very fast (almost running) and covered about half a mile. I know that this is not the greatest achievement, but it is a start. I have my clothes laid out to change into when I get home to carry on this evening.

After dinner I am heading to see Mamma Mia with my mum and sister. I am looking forward to it very much. As for the outfit for the cinema I think I will change the skirt for a pair of wide leg black trousers, and some sandals or ballet flats!

Tuesday.

I usually wear this dress with black tights and a heavier shoe (the only reason for this - it came into stock at the tail end of winter, so I teamed it with items that made it suitable for that time of year) but I decided that I was far too casual last week.

However, I may never wear this dress ever again!!!! A very, very rude lady has just asked me if I am pregnant??? I am not!! I am only wearing a UK size 12. OK at the moment I have one or two items in my wardrobe that are a little neat - but come on!!!

I would never ever ask someone that I did not know from Adam (and did not know for a fact that they definitely were pregnant and had not just gained a few pounds) if they were pregnant!!
Is it just me, or is that just a down right rude thing to do??

So, today's outfit is:

Printed cotton dress - Vila
Black patent t-bar wedges - Barratt
Silver necklace & bracelet - Tiffany



Yesterday afternoon was lovely, the bf and I got home at just after 1pm, we had a lovely lunch of BBQ leftovers. After a quick change (for my bf) we headed into town for a wander. I wanted to get some colourful basics to brighten up my wardrobe at this in between time! These were purchased from good old H&M.

We then headed to Waterstones where we had a look around - I have grown to love book stores, I could spend hours browsing. We headed up to the back of the store with our purchases and enjoyed a coffee and a muffin in Costa Coffee.

Finally we went to Tesco to stock up on healthy food for the week. The funny thing about the pregnancy comment is, I had already decided to do something about losing a few pounds! We ended the day with a walk along the beach. We are very lucky to live two streets away from the beach.