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Festive Fair Isle Feet

Christmas is a time for novelty tights. Oh yes it is, sorry! I’m a big fan of seamed stockings for most of the year, with the occasional visit to the opaque tight drawer when the world freezes over, but when Christmas rolls around I just can’t resist novelty patterns. A few years ago it was

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Advent Giveaway

Day Five – Playful Promises Romance Waspie

Todays prize is a beautiful plum waspie from Playful Promises. The waspie is steel boned with a lace up back and front busk and has beautiful black lace trim at the waist. This would look great worn as outerwear over a black dress to pull in your waist, or you can wear it as underwear

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Advent Giveaway

Day Four – 3 month Membership of Live In, Love In, Laugh In

Todays giveaway is a little more esoteric, but it’s a beautiful thing! Live In, Love In, Laugh In is a company that specialises in virtual parties and holidays aimed at people with chronic illnesses or disabilities, or those that just can’t travel, or get out of the house as often as they’d like. Membership of

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Inspiration & Lifestyle

Unusual Books for the Christmas List

Books make great gifts. They’re not too expensive and whatever the interests of the recipient there’s bound to be a book or two to appeal to them out there! Today I thought I’d share a few of the mose unsual books I’ve been sent for review this year. They’re books that at first glance might

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Fitness & Health

Revoflex X-Treme Abs Giveaway

Woo, exciting, I have a giveaway for you to help you work off the Christmas over indulgence! The prize is a Revoflex X-Treme Abs and Body Toning Machine worth £34.99. Now, I haven’t tried this myself as they only offered me one and I’m giving it to you, but it looks pretty good to me!

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Advent Giveaway

Day Three – Vintage Trudy Cards

Todays prize in the Advent Giveaway is a rather lovely one! It’s a set of 4 greetings cards from Vintage Trudy. The illustrations on the cards are by the Nanna of Twinkle, who runs the company. Her name was Trudy and she was born in Amsterdam. During WWII her Father joined the resistance movement and

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Retro Chick Competitions

The Advent Calendar Giveaway

HAPPY CHRISTMAS! December is finally here, and that means I get to run a Christmas Giveaway. This year I have decided I obviously don’t have enough work to do and have decided to run the giveaway as an advent calendar. I have 24 prizes to giveaway, some big, some smaller, but all bloomin’ amazing. All

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Advent Giveaway

Day One – Stop Staring Dress

The Prize for Day One of the Advent Calendar Giveaway is a Timeless dress from Stop Staring in a lovely festive red. The size is a Large, which is about a 12-14. It has gorgeous pleating on the bust and that lovely draping detail at the neck and hip. There’s two simple ways to enter

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Dear Diary

Dear Diary – November

November Stats… Start Weight: 11st 4lb Weight Now: 11 st 6lb Monthly Gain: 2lb Total loss: 12lb Waist: 29.5″ Miles Run: 38.27 Average Distance per run: 4.2 Oh dear….. So much for getting under 11 stone, I have, in fact, gained 2lb this month. I was possibly being a little optimistic. November is my Wedding

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