Ellery Fall 2011 via Fashion Gone Rogue I've never exactly been what you would call "edgy", sartorially speaking. My style has always veered towards the classic, the elegant, the understated - or that, at least, is what I've been aiming for. I tend towards tried-and-tested, timeless silhouettes. I play it safe with colour. I have a chronic fear of over-accessorising. You get the...
Image by Laura Burlton Oh, I'm such a tease! Well, it's maybe not quite as good as shoes (good guess though Mum), but I am still very excited to announce that I have a wedding graduate post up on A Practical Wedding today. Yay! Although wedding planning is definitely fun (dresses! shoes! pretty pictures!), it isn't always easy. You don't often hear people talking about how your wedding is not going...
Greeting card, $4.50, HereMyDear I'm soooooo excited, and I *almost* can't hide it. But I'm going to have to try. Come back at lunchtime to see what all the fuss is about... (Don't worry Mum, I'm not pregnant.) ...
If you have ever bothered to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and read this blog's small print (no, I haven't either), you will know that I have an Amazon Associates account. I set it up after I linked to a few bits and pieces on Amazon that I thought were cool and then discovered that you can actually get Amazon to give...
Attention please! I have a Very Important Blog Announcement. I have succumbed to popular demand (ok nobody demanded it but I'm sure you were all secretly longing for it) and.... *drumroll*... created a blogroll! Ta-da! Wait, what do you mean you were expecting something better? A big list of amazing blogs full of clever women and pretty things and all the other wonderful stuff that...
I wasn't going to post anything today. The Hubster is getting mightily sick of me tapping away at the laptop every evening (I can't help it ok? Blogging is FUN!) and I promised him a day off. So this isn't really a proper post. It doesn't count. At all. I just thought you might be interested to know that, after my weekend of lusting after a certain...
Finally, time for Part 3 of my marriage advice trilogy. Part 1's words of wisdom, you may recall, came from a bunch of children. Their advice was questionable at best (heavily focused on triplets and bunnies). Part 2 explored the world of the 1930s housewife (think girdles and rampant sexism - also highly questionable). For Part 3, having exhausted everything my bookshelves have to offer, I have decided...
One of the trickiest things about blogging, I find, is hunting down pretty and appropriate pictures to go with posts. Much as I would like to, I can't just keep filling every single post with various pictures of my wedding. Yes, Lillian and Leonard are super talented, and yes, I fully intend to wring every. last. drop. out of those photos, but eventually I...
Vintage advert via Adore Vintage via Pinterest On Saturday, I went to Glasgow for a fabulous lunch with my fabulous friend Yvonne. Since we met during our first week (first day?) of university nearly ten years ago, she and I have lived together, travelled together, and read Penny Vincenzi novels together. She was the first of my friends to get married and her wedding is still one of...
Kool-aid dyed yarn via Knitting Iris (how, er, cool) OF WOOL. Jeez. Not last Christmas but the Christmas before, my mum bought me a gorgeous Cath Kidston knitting set, complete with kitschy patterned knitting bag and vintage-esque wooden needles. I love it. She also bought me a handy little book called Stitch 'n' Bitch(oh, how very edgy knitting is these days!). I promptly planned to knit myself an entire...
I'm ba-ack! Did you miss me? And to think I was worried there wouldn't be any snow. There was so much snow that if we hadn't borrowed my parents' four-wheel drive to get up there, we would probably still be stuck somewhere off the B9152, the top of my little Ford Fiesta barely peeking out over the drifting sheets of snow, its wee wheels spinning...
When I was wee, every winter my dad would pack us all into the car and haul us up the road to the Highlands, to participate in that most rare and dangerous pastime: Scottish skiing. Rare, because the unpredicable snowfall and brutal winds often render the rickety old lifts completely superfluous for days or weeks at a time. Dangerous, because you never know...
I LOVE Dolly Parton. She is up there with Bette Midler as one of my all-time favourite sassy songstresses - not because of her music, particularly (although have you listened to Jolene recently? Soooo good!), but because she is just all-round fabulous. It's easy to look at Ms Parton, with her hair, her nails, her enormous... assets, and assume she's just some fluffy...
This post was originally published on Any Other Woman as part of "In Her Own Words: In Celebration of International Women's Day 2011", a series created to share and celebrate the experiences of women from many walks of life. All day on 8 March 2011, Any Other Woman and One Cat Per Person featured posts written by a collective of intelligent, passionate and...
