http://www.foreveramber.co.uk A UK fashion blogger and shoe obsessive Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:36:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/11/make-money-blogging.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/11/make-money-blogging.html#comments Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:13:32 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=7202 One of the side-effects of blogging for a living is that, after a while, people start to assume that you know what you’re talking about, and they send you emails and tweets asking for advice on how they can blog for a living, too. I get quite a lot of these requests, and honestly, I [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/11/make-money-blogging.html/feed 8 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/03/friend-friday-beauty-products.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/03/friend-friday-beauty-products.html#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:30:05 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4784   (So, I haven’t been Frocking lately, as some of you have noticed. I’ve been mostly Skirting instead. Honestly, I’m just totally sick to death of my winter wardrobe by this point of the year, and the skirts didn’t get an airing during Dressember, so I’m putting them into rotation now, before I lose the [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/03/friend-friday-beauty-products.html/feed 10 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/1-since-you-started-blogging-has-your-image-of-yourself-changed.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/1-since-you-started-blogging-has-your-image-of-yourself-changed.html#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:46:13 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4705 The Frocking: (Dress, ASOS (obviously); shoes, Christian Louboutin. Worn on a Valentine’s dinner date with Terry. The shoes were the first to be rescued in my Shoe Challenge, hence the numbers at the bottom of the image…) The Friend Friday-ing: 1. Since you started blogging has your image of yourself changed? Since I started blogging [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/1-since-you-started-blogging-has-your-image-of-yourself-changed.html/feed 15 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-blogger-mechanics.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-blogger-mechanics.html#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:11:03 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4641 (*This title totally made me think of lots of little men in overalls running around inside my blog and going, “Well, we can fix it, love… but it’s going to cost you..”.) 1. What technology do you use in blogging? (computer, camera, video camera, tripod, etc…) Um, let me think… I have a Sony Vaio [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-blogger-mechanics.html/feed 5 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-frocking-friday-2-the-boy-scouts-motto.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-frocking-friday-2-the-boy-scouts-motto.html#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:15:34 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4502   (Dress, ASOS; shoes; vintage Gina, from a thrift store) For today’s Frocking Friday, I had planned to wear a completely different dress. It wasn’t even from ASOS, or anything. I know! But then I put that dress on, and I looked at myself in the mirror and I thought, “Verily this is the ugliest, [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/friend-friday-frocking-friday-2-the-boy-scouts-motto.html/feed 23 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/friend-friday-quittin-time.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/friend-friday-quittin-time.html#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 12:09:00 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4129 My Dressember Day 3 post is coming soon, and so is a massive rant, just to warn you. In the meantime, here’s this week’s   Friend Friday, which is on the subject of blogging, and knowing when to quit… 1. How many hours a week do you spend blogging? Has that number  changed since you started blogging? Probably anything [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/friend-friday-quittin-time.html/feed 8 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/09/fighting-a-losing-battle.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/09/fighting-a-losing-battle.html#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:18:48 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=3521 A quick snapshot of my Formspring account: This last person, by the way, followed the Formspring question up with no less than three comments on the blog itself, all in the space of ten minutes, and all asking about “sheeping” to Lebanon. I answered the first two questions via email, letting the person know that I [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/09/fighting-a-losing-battle.html/feed 13 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ask-amber-the-trouble-with-shopping.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ask-amber-the-trouble-with-shopping.html#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:15:42 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2898 Readers, a question has flooded in! Well, a problem, really. For me to solve. This is awesome. Maybe after this I’ll at last fulfill my dream of having my own problem page in a magazine or something? It could be called “Agony Amber”. Magazine editors: call me! Now, before I put my Agony Amber hat [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ask-amber-the-trouble-with-shopping.html/feed 14 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion-part-2.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion-part-2.html#comments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:48:02 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2735 (The masochistic among you will find Part 1 of this story here.) When we left our heroine, she was floundering in the stormy sea of “grunge”, wearing Doc Marten boots and a selection of baggy, unflattering clothes, and totally failing to see the irony of “rebelling” against the uniform of one group by adopting the [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion-part-2.html/feed 18 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion.html#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:13:35 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2722 From Formspring: How did your personal style evolve throughout your life? Contrary to popular belief, I was not born wearing Louboutins and shouting “Bring me a green dress! With a bow! And some stripes! Also: dots! Bring me dots!” Quite the opposite in fact: Yes, readers, I was once a little boy. My secret is out. [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/03/my-life-in-fashion.html/feed 12