Handbags on Rokit today
Rokit is one of my fave online shopping haunts. You can find bargains, inspiration, upcycling, recycling and old favourites. Their service is good. Postage can be expensive so buy a few things at a...
View ArticleLookbooks
One tip I can give anyone interested in fashion or beauty is to start a ‘lookbook’. You can have a digital one or a paper one – or both (as I do). I save pictures of things I like onto a usb stick and...
View ArticleI love boots!
Unlike most women, I don’t have a thing for shoes. Handbags yes but shoes no. I only have about 8 pairs of shoes and sandals. For summer I wear African beaded flip flops (with or without a slight wedge...
View ArticleBoots again – Frye or Grinders?
I received a few emails after my Boot Post yesterday, with the question – Frye or Grinders? When it comes to the Harness boots they are much of a muchness but as a general rule, Grinders are more Dr...
View ArticlePhotos of Frye 12R Harness Boots
Someone asked me for photographs of my 12R Harness boots so I quickly took some earlier this morning. Please excuse the paper all over the floor and the cat lounging at my feet. My cats go through...
View ArticleAnother Yeti Boot Post
I have written a few times about my Yeti boots. I am planning to have a Yeti handbag made to my own design. Just wanted to share a few pics of my Yetis in the snow this year! I have never treated them...
View ArticleNew H and M Boots
Available in black and beige from the Premium collection. Beige is more springlike but here in Sweden the shoes you wear the most are the autumn and winter ones so black it is for me! Also, beige...
View ArticleMonkstraps and Rockstuds
I am a boot rather than a shoe person – I wear boots, ballerinas and flip flops (or as they are called in South Africa, ‘slip slops’) – never anything in between. But I love the names of two popular...
View ArticleClever dressing if you are busty
Yep, there is no getting away from the fact that I have big boobs. Although many people have told me they are a blessing, I have always found them to be a curse. It is only now that I am older that I...
View ArticleFrye Boots – tips and tricks
I have posted about Frye Harness Boots a few times. See other posts here. I have received a few comments and emails asking about them so here are some answers to the most common questions. Some of the...
View ArticleSpanx
Yeah, this post is about undercrackers! Even if you are not overweight or particularly wobbly, Spanx could really rock your world. I am actually underweight but you can no longer bounce coins off my...
View ArticleRokit Recycled Leather Scrunchies
I am reposting this because I have had quite a few people stop me and ask me where I got my leather scrunchies from – scrunchies must be having a fashion moment! The ones I get most comments on are...
View ArticleThe History of Dr Martens
AN English High Court judge once said: “The story of Dr Martens is so improbable that no novelist would have dared to invent it.” Quite possibly, there has been no other boot in history that has...
View ArticleTips for Shopping the Sales
Believe me, when it comes to sales I have done it all…. bought shoes that are too small because ‘they will stretch’ bought cheap tat from H&M because ‘it’s on sale’ bought clothes that I can ‘sell...
View ArticleH&M and all its family
A ring for sale at Monki. It depicts the Stockholm skyline and costs only £1 I love H&M – their clothes are cheap, mostly well-made and do not imitate others. They have their own designers who...
View ArticleTKMaxx
I have always loved TKMaxx (TJMaxx in the US). Yes they look like a jumble sale and you have to be prepared to spend a lot of time there to find the bargains. Like a charity shop you have to go often...
View ArticleV and A exhibition – Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s
I love fashion so whenever I am in London I go to the V and A and spend hours and hours looking at the clothes worn in each era. My favourite was probably the Edwardian Era (from 1901 to 1910). This...
View ArticleUnited Nude Shoes
I am not a shoe person. I love handbags but for me shoes must be plain and comfortable, preferably in black or brown. I find something I like and wear them until they wear out. My favourite footwear...
View ArticleMy Favourite Jeans – Joie So Real
I bought these Joie So Real jeans more than ten years ago at a MrsH sale in Stockholm. They had cost a packet to begin with but by the time I found them they had been reduced at least four times – to...
View ArticleNaturalizer Shoes
Very comfy shoes which are often on sale at TKMaxx – price about £18. I have a pink pair and a yellow pair which I adore! They have springy soles and insoles so you feel like you are walking on little...
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