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12 Days of Christmas: Day 11

Eeeeee! Only 1 day left and someone is going to win one hell of a prize! Todays I’m pulling another gift out of the Christmas Stocking and you can get 2 more entries into the draw. Farfetch.com is a designer and luxury shopping website that pulls together stock from boutiques all over the world, and

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Thrifty Vintage Winter Skin Care

Today I thought I’d tell you about my Skin Care routine. One of the things I love about learning about the past, and vintage glamour, is finding all those forgotten wonder products that our grandmothers and great grandmothers used for generations, and somehow we forgot. The thing I love about living right now is that

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 9

It’s Day 9, so I’m revealing the 9th gift to go in the Christmas Stocking. We’ve got a couple more “main” prizes left to be revealed, and today is one of them. Tramp Vintage in Brighton have donated this festive gold handbag for you. It has a gold chain shoulder strap, so it’s hands free,

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Christmas Balls and Photoshoots

It’s been a busy and rather festive weekend! It started on Friday night with Antidote Vintage and their first birthday party. The Antidote shop is an old pharmacy and it still has all the original drawers and fittings, so it’s a gorgeous location for a festive party. On Saturday night it was a Vintage Christmas

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 7

End of the first week! Todays prize is a biggie from Aspire Style. A lovely soft faux fur stole to wear over your party frock. Aspire Style have also been kind enough to offer an exclusive 10% discount code for their website which is valid right up till Christmas. They have some amazing gift type

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 6

It’s Day 6, we’re half way through revealing all the stocking gifts! Todays gift is a beautiful pair of earrings from Petal Jewelery Fairy Tale Collection. They are tiny brass spinning wheels, inspired by the tale of Sleeping Beauty. I absolutely love the Fairy Tale inspiration, and Sleeping Beauty is a Panto classic, so perfect

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It's Not What You Wear. It's How You Wear It….

That’s been my mantra for years! So when I got an email from George  a few weeks ago saying they were running a campaign about “affordability and the possibility of achieving a look without having to go out of your way on budget” I actually decided to take part. I did once get asked by

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 4

Happy Day 4! So far we have Day 1: Deep Blue Sea Film goodies Day 2: diamante and pearl brooch from Aspire Style (plus, for 10% off enter RETRO at checkout) Day 3: Handmade heart christmas tree decorations For extra entries to the draw you can still visit each of these days post and enter.

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Fashion & Beauty

The Art of Thrifty Christmas Gifts

Oooh, we’re all feeling the squuuueeeze. It’s true because they talk about it on the TV all the time.  No one has any money, and lots of people don’t have any jobs. But still the TV is full of adverts attempting to guilt us into buying expensive gifts. Like that horrendous Littlewoods advert where apparently

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