Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been whizzing around the country for a couple of days, working other days and we’ve also had the decorators in so sadly blogging has had to take a back seat. Oh but most exciting of all – how could I forget – today we booked tickets to go and see 1D in concert in October. Already we’re hugely excited! However despite all that’s been going on, it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been thinking about you all and wondering who needs what in the run up to Christmas.
For my trip away I took this shrunken (although to be honest I’m not sure what about it is shrunken, exactly) metallic sweater GAP (£44.95) but which I bought for £30. Last week a friend dropped by and she was wearing a lovely chunky navy jumper and a big scarf and given that the forecast was chilly I decided that it was a great combo for me. Obviously I don’t own another chunky jumper, or indeed a navy sparkly one – but you know how it goes.
And I know that I’m extremely late to the blanket scarf party but I was waiting for the right one, which I found in Accessorize. I can’t find it online – it must be me, sorry – but the bright colours were right up my street and it is so warm. There are stacks of them about from New Look to River Island, H&M and Topshop and if it’s not somewhere that you’ve gone yet they are a great way of adding some colour and/or giving a new lease of life to a slightly tired coat.
This evening the eldest and I braved the Bullring. Oh crikey me. We had a great time together though and this caught my eye in Topshop (£85). Now, I have a particular friend who loves fur coats – in fact she loves coats of any description – and she loves spots. So I’m just waiting to see if she can resist it.
I’m not sure which shot is a better reflection of its actual colour – but both are pretty lovely. Worryingly I seem to be tempting myself now. So, moving swiftly on…..
This is as Christmassy as I have got yet. These lovely letters arrived today from the wooden letters company which was a great find online. They make a wide variety of different sized letters in varying fonts and finishes. It would be so easy to get carried away on there.
And I thought that I would share with you the new wallpaper on our bedroom wall. To my surprise the whole family loved it. When I said to Mr SG a few weeks ago that I thought we needed to do a bit of updating in the house, he just said “I tell you what, why don’t you do what you like and let’s see if I notice.” I think he noticed.
I think that he’s noticed the fish on the walls too. In fact I suspect that they may have been swimming around in front of his eyes last night – but it would be wholly unfair of me to say exactly why that may have been…..
WHERE is that fish wallpaper from? It's fabulous!
Love the staircase and the fish wallpaper.