There's nothing like painted toes sinking into the sand to tell you that Summer is here. But whether you're headed to the ultimate beach destination or enjoying a staycation this year, I've found this years best shades and even better, I'm giving them away! Enter below to win! Click HERE to enter! The three …
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Over the last few months, I've picked up a few items from French brand Caudalie, and since I'm really happy with them, I wanted to share this brand and my product trials with you. (Though I love this brand, this is not a sponsored post, just a beauty haul and trial of products) I love …
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Irene Nylander lives in Finland with her evil mother in law and her distant husband. Alone on her 50th birthday, she hits an all time low when she spots her best friend and her husband canoodling in a restaurant. When she wishes that she was dead, she accidently inspires a practical joking angel to intervene …
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Just off Leicester Square in London, and down a bit, there's a fancy door with three busts over the door. They are the figures of the biographers and historians who founded the museum housed inside, a museum whose patron is the Duchess of Cambridge, and which houses only one kind of painting, in a multitude …
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In Zoe Heller's introduction to this novel, she makes the point that people either love or hate a Mitford novel. I wonder if that's really true? The Mitford sisters grew up in a rag tag bundle, on a manor in England, the children of Upper Class parents, in the early part of last century. Nancy, …
Ah, Collectif, where have you been all my life? On a recent jaunt through East London, I wandered into a vintage style store and fell in love. And not only that, they were having a sale. Cue this dress, a modern reproduction of a vintage pattern with little 50's pin up paper dolls printed all …
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I've been tagged twice recently in a blog challenge to tell you all ten things about me. SO, just for fun, I put it in a video. It's plenty awkward, but if you're interested in knowing more about me, you probably want to know what I look and sound like, right? Click below to watch. …
Opening on her childhood, this book tells the story of Anne, the niece of the King of England in the 1600's, up til she takes the throne herself in the line of succession. She's a woman aware of her place, who loves her older, bossy sister Mary and who has been raised a protestant, in …
The Victoria and Albert Museum is one of my favourite places to visit. They have an amazing array of different artefacts stretching back hundreds of years. But I particularly love their focus on fashion and textiles through time. This Summer, they have a really beautiful exhibition of Balenciaga's work, showcasing his skill and his influence. …
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London is often called a green city, because although it's very densely populated and built up, it's also got some truly lovely large parks and gardens. One of the smaller gardens is in Chelsea, and contains the second oldest botanical garden in the UK. Chelsea Physick Garden was established in 1673, and remains to this …
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