Through My Lense

My eldest son Chris has just opened his own Tumblr account to showcase his photos as an online portfolio, the link is here and across in my side bar if you fancy viewing his work so far!!

Wishing you a lovely weekend and although its stopped snowing, its still very cold indeed, hope you keep safe, warm and snug!!

Summer Dreaming.........

With the snow here in the UK bringing the country to a virtual halt (after only 3 days too), I thought I'd show my favourite pieces of swimwear currently available at Net-A-Porter

Jets Peacock print, £220

Yosemite Eagle Print, £190

Matthew Williamson, £170

Missoni Jura, £430

The Los Angeles, £190

Keep warm and snug to all of you facing snowy weather and for those of you in sunnier climes, lucky you indeed, lol!!

Faux Fur Mark 2!!

As the big freeze sets in, I thought I'd wish you all a snug and warm weekend and I'm so pleased I kept hold of my camel faux fur, as it's only just 1 degree outside, brr!!

I kept warm when I went out today by wearing it with my faux fur leopard print beanie from H&M and my brown suede boots with faux fur trim:

Having it belted kept the cold at bay and now I'm indoors I'm just going to chill out today listening to music, watching TV and inevitably catching up on X Factor and I'm a Celebrity later on!!

We're in for a cold week, take care to you all and enjoy the snow, lol!!

'Making Do' in faux fur and Blog Christmas Break comes early!!

I do love how bloggers can constantly inspire and learn from each other. The lovely Kate over at Make Do Style is doing a Make Do Life Laundry week and her first post, touches on the adage of 'Making Do' with what you have, appreciating it and not necessarily coveting the next 'must have' item to fill that emotional void.

I had this Minquilla faux fur in my pile for the charity shop a couple of weeks ago, but have since decided-why? Well, I had initially thought of replacing it with another fur, maybe a different texture, style and colour, but why?

I've decided to keep it, its back in the wardrobe and I will reassess my wardrobe to see other outfits I can wear with it. With it being so close to Christmas, my available money does truly need to be channelled in other directions, such as keeping up with the bills and saving for Christmas, especially with two sons who have different items appearing on their Christmas list every day, lol!!

With this in mind, I'm starting my Christmas break very early where blogging is concerned-I most probably won't be posting much now this side of Christmas, but I will try my very best to visit you as much as I can!!

Blog Inspiration, Wendy Brandes style

It was a wonderful surprise to wake up this morning to the post that the gorgeous Wendy B had done about me, following on from her fabulous post yesterday about her stunning vintage feather dress, which first had its debut with Wendy back in 1994 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala and then again this Tuesday at the Weeksville Heritage Center!

She continued to say that quite rightly, designer and vintage pieces should be cherished and not subjected to constant wardrobe culls, which I've adopted as my mantra too, please check out her wise words immediately!!

I met Wendy in July 2008 and it was such an exceptionally wonderful day, check out the full story here of our fabulous finds and how the day went. Here are some pictures of our fabulous day:

Wendy in her stunning Ossie Clark blouse

Wendy looking gorgeous in Alexander McQueen

Of course, meeting Wendy only led to one thing-the purchase of my beautiful Diana ring, seen below and which can be purchased from Wendys fine jewelry line

Wendy was my first reader of my blog and its such a privilege to know her and learn from her wise words on style-and everything else come to that!!

Check out Wendys blog if you haven't already, she sure knows what she's talking about!!