http://www.foreveramber.co.uk Personal style & lifestyle blog from UK fashion blogger Amber McNaught Wed, 16 May 2012 15:50:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/on-the-south-most-tip-of-north-america.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/on-the-south-most-tip-of-north-america.html#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 14:01:29 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8436 [Clearwater Beach, Gulf of Mexico, Florida] This is where I’ll be this time next month. This is also why I’ve been a bit quiet recently: as regular readers know, the approach of a holiday sees me pretty much chained to my desk, frantically queuing up blog posts for The Fashion Police and Shoeperwoman so I [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/on-the-south-most-tip-of-north-america.html/feed 11 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-story-of-clothes.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-story-of-clothes.html#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 09:09:26 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8406 (Zara pants, La Redoute sweater, Marc by Marc Jacobs handbag and Gucci sunglasses (c/o Shopbop) A couple of years ago, I discovered a vintage Jean Varon dress in a thrift store in Edinburgh. Now, I’m no fashion historian, but this dress looked to me like it was from the early-to-mid 70s: it was in pristine [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-story-of-clothes.html/feed 30 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/fields-of-gold.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/fields-of-gold.html#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 14:34:52 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8374 I have to admit, all these years I’ve been writing about Nigel, the International Man of Mystery Next Door, there’s been a little part of me which secretly hoped the mystery would never be solved, and that we would just go on like this forever, with me endlessly speculating about the bodies under the patio, [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/fields-of-gold.html/feed 13 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-nancy-drew-that-never-was.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-nancy-drew-that-never-was.html#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 09:10:16 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8357 (H&M trousers, Rocket Dog shoes, Dorothy Perkins sweater, Gucci sunglasses c/o Shopbop) When I was a kid, all of my friends wanted to be things like dentists and train drivers and stuff. (Note: none of my friends wanted to be dentists or train drivers. I just said that in case one of them reads this, [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/05/the-nancy-drew-that-never-was.html/feed 8 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/the-needle-returns-to-the-start-of-the-song-and-we-all-sing-along-like-before.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/the-needle-returns-to-the-start-of-the-song-and-we-all-sing-along-like-before.html#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:15:49 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8349 (ASOS skirt, Christian Louboutin shoes, ancient sweater, clutch bag “borrowed” from my mum) Now, I know this didn’t start out as an outfit blog, but my life seems to have entered into one of  those unfortunate phases where nothing much is happening, move along folks, nothing to see here. Wait a minute: that’s not really [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/the-needle-returns-to-the-start-of-the-song-and-we-all-sing-along-like-before.html/feed 13 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/i-quit-the-gym.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/i-quit-the-gym.html#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:53:20 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8334 (Primark trench, J Crew trousers, Next shoes.) I quit the gym. Yes, Others, YOU WIN, with your space-invading ways, your whistling and your general other-ness . You can have the gym, see if I care. Although, before you go feeling all smug about having chased me away, let me just tell you that it was [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/i-quit-the-gym.html/feed 11 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/seven-things.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/seven-things.html#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:35:25 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=7803 ( Miss Selfridge via eBay dress; Vivienne Westwood for Melissa shoes; mystery  cardigan, eBay sunglasses) Jenni tagged me to do one of those “Seven Random Things About Me” posts a couple of weeks ago, and I started it, then quickly realised that because I’ve done these a few times now, there’s almost nothing about me [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/seven-things.html/feed 24 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/nigel-cometh.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/nigel-cometh.html#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:50:33 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8316 Our car was officially written off yesterday. I knew it would be, of course, but I’m still completely devastated. It doesn’t help that right before we got the email (yes, they told us by email. Presumably so that we wouldn’t sob down the phone to them?) confirming this, they’d told us by phone that there [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/nigel-cometh.html/feed 9 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/whats-black-and-white-and-red-all-over.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/whats-black-and-white-and-red-all-over.html#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:03:11 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8272 (Dress, River Island; shoes, Office c/o Idealo; clutch, stolen from my mum) Thanks for all of your comments on my last post, everyone: I’m still feeling pretty craptastic about it all, to be honest, so here are some photos from the weekend, when, in a bid to try to take our minds off things, Terry [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/whats-black-and-white-and-red-all-over.html/feed 19 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/it-could-have-been-worse.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/it-could-have-been-worse.html#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:47:24 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=8237 Last Thursday morning, Terry and I had some errands to run. We set out early, and it was a bit of a stressful morning, for one reason or another, so by the time we got back into the car and headed for home, I was just looking forward to putting the kettle on, pouring myself [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2012/04/it-could-have-been-worse.html/feed 40