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What Would Audrey Do?

Outfit PostsSep 16 201324 Comments

Well, I'm still in the middle of my wardrobe crisis, as you can probably tell by the ever-present black trousers, which are basically all I ever wear right now. Not the same pair, obviously. No, I have about... let's not even THINK about how many pairs of black trousers I have, hmmm? I don't know about you, though, but any time I find myself stuck for something to wear, I ask myself, "What would Audrey [Hepburn] do?" (WWAD? ™) And I think we all know that Audrey would wear Read more [...]

After the boys of summer have gone

Outfit PostsSep 13 20139 Comments

I know everyone's been enthusiastically throwing themselves into autumn for weeks now, but I've been determinedly clinging onto summer for as long as is humanly possible. As I said in one of my other rambles, between the house move and... well, the house move, basically... I kinda feel like I missed it this year: when I unpacked all of my clothes at the new place and saw all of those sad summer dresses hanging there, all forlorn, I realised that I'd hardly worn any of them, despite it Read more [...]

The September Issue

Outfit PostsSep 10 201311 Comments

September always seems to prompt a clothing crisis for me. It's not that I have nothing to wear. I mean, I think it's pretty obvious by now that I have TONS of things to wear. I know the friends who were responsible for carting the contents of my wardrobe from the old house to the new one would definitely testify to THAT. ("But why is everything stripey?" was the question that came up most often...) It's not even that I don't LIKE the things I have to wear, either, because I genuinely Read more [...]

My Kingdom for a Horse

My So-Called LifeSep 06 201310 Comments

As I mentioned in one of my last posts, when we moved house, we also moved from a large town to a small village. I say "small": we have a post office, a village store and... that's it. Oh yeah, and a chip shop. I mean, it's small, but it's still Scotland, you know? (Yes, you may all line up now to point out that, actually, that sounds like quite a big village, Amber. Why, some villages don't even HAVE a post office! Or people, even. In fact, I bet YOUR small village Read more [...]

Closet Organisation Part 2 | Shoe Shelves

My So-Called LifeSep 04 201349 Comments

Four weeks. That's how long I was without my shoe collection. Seriously, can you EVEN? We took down my previous shoe shelves around a week before we moved out, you see. We had to do it: it was one of the conditions of the sale of the house, but what I had naively imagined would be a simple case of "remove shelves: DONE! Now go and drink wine!" was a little more involved than that, because, of course, once the shelves came down, the wall behind them had to be re-skimmed. And once the Read more [...]

It Ain’t Easy Being Mint Green

Outfit PostsSep 02 20137 Comments

OK, I think we can all probably agree that the title of this post is a big fat lie, and that, actually, it's TOTALLY easy being mint green. Well, it is for me, anyway. Maybe a little bit TOO easy, if I'm honest. I mean, you don't even want to KNOW what colour of shoes I originally tried to wear with this outfit, but if you were to guess, and if that guess were to be, "mint green," well, I would have to plead the 5th on that one, and that's all I have to say on the matter. In this case, Read more [...]

Review | Maybelline Illegal Length Fiber Extensions Waterproof Mascara

Beauty Product ReviewsAug 28 201313 Comments

When it comes to mascara, I've always been strictly a high-end girl. This isn't due to any snobbery on my part, I hasten to add: I've tried a lot of mascaras over the years, from just about every price point imaginable, but the ones I keep coming back to tend to be the pricier ones, unfortunately for me. In fact, I'll be honest: the ones I keep coming back to tend to be the Lancome ones, let's make no bones about it. I've been loyal to Lancome since I was in university (My current go-to Read more [...]

The (Black and) White Stripes

Outfit PostsAug 26 201312 Comments

This weekend was the first time I'd worn "real" clothes (By which I mean "anything other than the scruffy old jeans and t-shirts I deemed suitable for hauling boxes around, stripping wallpaper and scrubbing floors in...") in, ooh, about a month, maybe? (Er, it was also the first time we'd taken outfit photos since Miami, hence my strangely clenched fist and half-closed eyes in the first one: whoops!) We went out to dinner on Sunday, and even Terry commented on how good it felt to be wearing Read more [...]

Closet Organisation: Belts and Scarves

Our HouseAug 23 201323 Comments

So, you might have noticed that I don't tend to wear a whole lot of accessories. I'll be completely honest: it's partly that I'm lazy I like to keep things simple. I've always been a fan of very simple, unfussy silhouettes, and I've never been big on OMGLAYERING, or the idea that you should always "add a colourful accesory!" to give you outfit a "pop" of colour. I leave that kind of thing to the people who are actually good at it. It's mostly, however, because my accessory collection is normally Read more [...]

Fred’s House

Our House, Outfit Posts, TravelAug 21 201316 Comments

The man we bought our house from was called Fred. I mean, he wasn't ACTUALLY called Fred, obviously. I'm going to call him that, though, to respect his privacy, and because Fred is a fine name, don't you think? Anyway, because the process of offering on this house was such a long and complicated one, we got to know Fred reasonably well, and every time we spoke about his house, we referred to it as "Fred's House". Because, well, that's what it was. "If we buy Fred's house..." we Read more [...]