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/2011/07/blogging-for-bucks-why-theres-no-shame-in-blogging-for-money.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/07/blogging-for-bucks-why-theres-no-shame-in-blogging-for-money.html#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:56:25 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=6150 (This photo has absolutely nothing to do with the post.) Over the past few months, I’ve been noticing an increasing level of controversy in the blogosphere (oh, how I hate that word) surrounding the issue of blogging for money. Bangs and a Bun and A Thrifty Mrs have both addressed the topic this week, and I’ve [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/07/blogging-for-bucks-why-theres-no-shame-in-blogging-for-money.html/feed 81 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/all-the-other-slim-shadys-are-just-imitating.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/all-the-other-slim-shadys-are-just-imitating.html#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 10:33:30 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=5432 I wrote a massive, 2000 word rant about this yesterday morning, just to get it all out of my head, but what it basically boils down to is this: The hosts of the site which had stolen 500 of my posts removed it on Friday night. Not without a fight, and not before they’d recommended [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/all-the-other-slim-shadys-are-just-imitating.html/feed 10 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/caughty-doing-a-mcnaughty-discount-shoes-steal-my-entire-website.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/caughty-doing-a-mcnaughty-discount-shoes-steal-my-entire-website.html#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 14:08:51 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=5387 When I wrote my post rounding up all of the people who’ve been caught imitating me, or otherwise rippping me off online, I honestly thought that would be the last post I’d write on the subject. Surely there’s a limit to how often one person can be relentlessly copied, I thought, and surely – SURELY – that limit has [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/05/caughty-doing-a-mcnaughty-discount-shoes-steal-my-entire-website.html/feed 32 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/04/first-my-face-then-my-feet-now-my-name-how-another-company-is-trying-to-trademark-my-blog-name.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/04/first-my-face-then-my-feet-now-my-name-how-another-company-is-trying-to-trademark-my-blog-name.html#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:30:01 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4842 Those of you who follow me on Twitter are probably already aware of my current battle with a UK-based company who have set up two websites using the name “Shoeperwoman”, which is the name of my shoe blog, and which I’ve been using on the site itself and around the web, for the past two [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/04/first-my-face-then-my-feet-now-my-name-how-another-company-is-trying-to-trademark-my-blog-name.html/feed 14 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/royal-mail-100-failure-rate-in-2011.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/royal-mail-100-failure-rate-in-2011.html#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:06:19 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4721 Remember last year, when Royal Fail held about 15 of my parcels hostage and refused to allow me to collect them? And took six weeks to deliver some of them? And LOST one of them? I thought it couldn’t get much worse than that. I thought that once the snow melted (Which it did, well [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/02/royal-mail-100-failure-rate-in-2011.html/feed 30 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/great-job-royal-fail.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/great-job-royal-fail.html#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:05:57 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4566 Posted on November 16th, just turned up this morning, without so much as an “Oh, hey, sorry we’ve been holding your mail hostage for the past two months!” (And yes, it was posted in Canada, but as soon as it gets to the UK, it goes into the hands of the Royal Fail, who have [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2011/01/great-job-royal-fail.html/feed 20 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/dressember-day-3-my-hero.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/dressember-day-3-my-hero.html#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 16:52:48 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=4147 (Dress: Pinup Couture; Shoes: Faith. I’m not going anywhere so I figured I may as well dress for dinner...) You see this dress, readers? This dress is a hero. I ordered it one Monday afternoon, from a company based in LA. It arrived first thing the following Wednesday morning – in fact, it got us [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/12/dressember-day-3-my-hero.html/feed 19 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/05/up-yours-ebay.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/05/up-yours-ebay.html#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 08:44:33 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2935 OK, that’s it, I’m DONE with eBay. DONE. Finished. Over. I know I’ve said this before, but seriously, this time I mean it. More than I did last time, obviously. It’s not even because of the foot fetishists, either. Well, not just because of the foot fetishists. Last week, you see, I sold five items on [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/05/up-yours-ebay.html/feed 26 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ginger-schoolgirl-gets-death-threats-and-kate-moss-in-lines-on-her-face-shocker.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ginger-schoolgirl-gets-death-threats-and-kate-moss-in-lines-on-her-face-shocker.html#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:36:08 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2892 I try my best not to read the Daily Mail – or the Daily Fail, as I like to think of it. Inevitably, any time I follow a link there by mistake, I end up on the site for an hour, clicking from one hideous story to the next and ranting and raving to anyone [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/ginger-schoolgirl-gets-death-threats-and-kate-moss-in-lines-on-her-face-shocker.html/feed 33 http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/the-mystery-in-the-mail.html http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/the-mystery-in-the-mail.html#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:35:23 +0000 Amber http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/?p=2836 So, yesterday morning I was sitting at my desk, working away when there was a knock on the door. It was the postman, and the postman was delivering one of those cards that say, “Oh, hey, we have a mystery package for you, but the person who sent it didn’t bother to pay the correct [...]]]> http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2010/04/the-mystery-in-the-mail.html/feed 27