How do you store your jewellery?

Hi everyone,

Not so much of an outfit post but more of a jewellery one.

I am a real jewellery hoarder and collector. I love plastic, vintage, antique, paste, everything! I love to display my jewellery instead of hiding it away and I've been thinking of ways to display these earrings.

They were a gift on my 40th from my mother and they are so blingy! I wore them in Las Vegas and they always come out for special occasions. They're too nice to hide away so I've been thinking of how to display them. I popped them on a little pot from a Greek holiday years ago - what do you think?

 

 



Thanks for reading

Cathy
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Belgium travels - and smurfs

Hello everyone!

Well, first of all apologies! I have been a bit slack on the blogging front - and this mainly because I've had a lot of work and also been travelling here there and everywhere.

For a lot of October I seem to have been on holiday. It sounds wonderfully decadent but in reality a lot of things just all happened at the same time - and it would have been rude to say no!

Some of the more observant among you will notice I'm a bit of smurf collector (ok, ok - a huge smurf collector). Once a year I make the pilgrimage to Belgium for an annual smurf collectors fair and this was just one of my trips. This really is one of my favourite times of the year. It's a chance to be with amazing friends from all over the world who all have the same interests and loves.

So here are a few (ok, a lot) of pictures from the week.

This is the hotel I stayed in at Evergem, nr Gent. It's called the Eremyten Hof and has beautiful grounds.

My room was the top left window!

This really represents for me what much of the Belgian countryside is like

One or two for sale...

This may have happened!

The day after the fair, we all went to Gent for the day. An amazing place - a day wasn't long enough.

We even braved the tram system - working on the principle of buying a randem ticket and pressing all the buttons. It seemed to work...

One of the many beautiful bridges - note the great blogger pose - not.

Lunch was needed - this place did the trick

A hot chocolate in Belgium - a whole different taste to the ones here in the UK. I could have drunk a dozen of these :-)

So..small car + big smurf = embarassing car journey home!

But the little guy seems right at home!!!

Hope you enjoyed my little snapshot on my Belgium trip - I'll do a couple more updates very soon.

Thanks for reading

Cathy

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Halloween and smurfs

Hi everyone,

Well, I don't really know where October went! All my plans for lots of blog posts just evaporated into thin air. Ah well, hopefully I'll catch-up with myself one day :-)

In the meantime, it's not Halloween without a bit of a themed outfit, so here was mine for today. And anything I can combine with smurfs just makes it a real winner.

The t-shirt is from Asda. It was £7 and I'm sure if there's any left after Halloween it may be reduced even further. They only went up to a size 18 but I was determined and squeezed myself in!!

Hope you're all having a good Halloween evening / weekend xx

Thanks for reading

Cathy
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You can't have too much My Little Pony and Poundland...can you?

Hello everyone,

I have a glorious backlog of blog posts coming up over the next month as for the last few weeks I've been off and away on holiday (or holibobs as I like to call it!). So bear with me and normal service will be resumed soon (if I can remember what normal is supposed to be).

I had a mini spree this weekend with my budget head on. First up was a trip to Poundland. OMG - I love this place. I don't think it's actually possible to go into my local branch without spending at least a fiver - and this time was no different.

I've probably mentioned before that make-up and all things related are a bit of a mystery to me. I tend to never wear anything on my face and even if I'm glamming up for a night out, it's mostly eyes only for me. I have ventured down the BB cream route recently and so far so good ( I have my eye on a BB cream from the Body Shop). So buying makeup at discount stores and knowing they're a good brand makes the whole make-up/experimenting process a bit less scary and a lot kinder on the old purse strings if I mess up.

So keeping with the eyes theme, this is what I got

 

 

I love the vibrant red in the Union flag palette. It looks more orangy in the picture than it actually is. The purple scandeleyes eye cream is deep purple and easy enough even for me to blend. I also added in a foundation brush to try to learn how to use one. See? I really need a set of make-up lessons I'm thinking :-)

 

Then on the way home, I popped into Tescos and just happened to walk through the F&F clothing section (even if it was on a different floor...oops). But I resisted temptation and only came back with these adorable My Little Pony socks - they're almost too sweet to wear!! I plan to wear these with some t-bar shoes this autumn.

 

 

 

 All this for £11. Not too bad I think.

 

Hope you enjoyed seeing my little haul and thanks for reading.

 

Cathy

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