New (to me): Black & Pink Dress

After the Ebay purchase disaster, I really thought that lady luck was against me this week when it came to dresses; luckily I turned out to be wrong.

I decided to go for a wander around some of the local charity shops in Kenilworth this afternoon, and came across this gorgeous little gem

Initially I was reluctant to try it on, as I've been unable to find a strapless bra I feel comfortable in, however this dress turned out to fit so well that I don't actually need one!  As it was less than ten pounds I felt it would be a sin not to take it home, so I did, and teamed it with some black patent kitten heels (M&S) for the picture.

Now I'd love to find out where this dress is from, but all I have is the label at the back which holds no clue for me, so if anyone knows what make this dress is, I'd really love to know.

In the meantime, I hope it won't be too long until I find an occasion to wear this dress!

ST x

Sugar or Sweetner

I've come across another article via @TheJeremyVine on Twitter;

In this article in the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/diet-soda-health_b_2698494.html on Food and Diet Industry "Secrets", it states;

"One animal study found that sugar is more addictive than cocaine. When rats were given the choice between mainline cocaine right into their veins or sweetened water (in fact, they used an artificial sweetener), they found that sugar was eight times more addictive than cocaine. Even the rats already addicted to cocaine switched over to diet drinks!"

What confuses me, is that it makes the claim "Sugar is more addictive than cocaine" and then goes on to state clearly that the experiment was not conducted with Sugar, but in fact, Artificial Sweetener - something clearly branded by all its manufacturers as an alternative to Sugar!  Earlier in the same article it was advising people to drink sugary drinks as opposed to sweetened Diet drinks, so clearly there is an established difference there.

Just saying, a little bit of consistency would be nice.

I think this article contains too much information on too many different areas of this topic.  I felt, by the time I got half way through, that it lacked lost consistency and instead was just focused on bombarding you with a mass of information.

ST

You Win Some...

Well, one out of two isn't bad I suppose!

The Karen Millen dress bought off Ebay, it would appear, was just not meant to be.  First of all, the postage was late, and I got a card stating the seller had not put the correct postage on *sigh*.  After paying the fee, and a little bit more wrangling than I thought was necessary, I finally got the seller to agree to refund the extra cost I'd incurred.  Job done.

So I pootled off home (as you do) with my new bargainous Ebay purchase, eager to try on this shiny KM dress that looked pretty nice in the ad... to find that I had, in fact, bought a tent:

Of course, I had the red-eyed blinkers on at this point, and didn't realise that my baps were in the wrong position, so after a mini rant on twitter "mumble mumble mumble Karen Millen, mumble mumble, crap, mumble mumble Tent" I went out - cos I was busy, ya know!?

On my return later, I decided to try the dress on again and see what could be done, and in the process of rearranging bappage to fit in with the miniscule boob-area (KM obviously didn't cater for someone with a slightly more ample bosom when designing this dress) I then managed to break the strap.

So unfortunately, a dress that would have been relatively well presented with a sash round the waist and a bit of bap-rearranging, has now been rellogated to the "what do I do with this" pile.

Any ideas!?

ST

(P.S. No, I wasn't planning on wearing this with the stripy socks, though they do look pretty swish!)

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Fashion vs Finance

I'll admit that I've never really been one for designer brands for one of two reasons.  I find that a lot of them tend to treat their target market like walking advertisements (I'm talking Bench, Abercrombie, Superdry etc...) and the other is the price. However...

I went to Bicester Village with a friend of mine at the weekend, and we wandered into the Karen Millen store, where I saw this little beauty;

and of course, I made the fatal mistake of actually trying it on - despite the £145 price tag... I fell in love!  I have never wanted a dress (especially a dress) so badly in my life and it looked exquisite on, but this brings me to my second dislike of designer brands.  The dress was in a sale; unfortunately the £145 tag was the sale price.

So this lush little outfit remained un-purchased, as for its price and style I don't think I'd have got the wear out of it that it really deserved.  However, this has opened my eyes a bit to the benefits of designer - the fit and feel of the outfit was unlike anything I've (personally) tried before, and it felt really well made...

So...

Next post will be (hopefully a positive one) about the new (to me) Karen Millen dress that I bought for less than £10 on E-bay!

ST

(Image from KM website of course!)

Food Fail - Bread vs Toaster

After a brief shop today, I returned home and went to use the toaster;

Pic 1; too long to go into the toaster width ways.
Pic 2; too tall to toast a whole slice in one go!

Massive #foodfail

Bread 2 : Toaster 0

ST
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Self Love and Shorts

We went out for a meal yesterday for a friend's birthday, and I finally managed to pluck up the courage to wear my new High Waisted Shorts (Next, second-hand courtesy of flea-bay).  My aim with these is to go a bit Monroe-esque, and the next stage will be some suitably retro/vintage (still not sure on the terminology!) tops.

Now, even though the weather was warm and the sun was shining, I still felt unsure as to whether I should even wear this outfit considering the amount of flesh on show - so I stuck the pic on Twitter and FB as you do (hehehe, nothing like a bit of self-validation is there!) and luckily all the responses were positive.  

However!  This particular response from a friend stunned me completely;

"I know everyone is saying congratulations on looking so thin and you look amazing now... But. When did you not look amazing?"

And you know what!?  He's SO right!  Why am I any less or any more amazing than when I was big, eh?!  The fact is, I'm not any more amazing now than I was a few years ago - I am now, and was then, all sorts of awesomeness.

My advice - tell yourself YOU ARE AWESOME as many times a day as you can.  Be positive, and be 100% convincing when you say it... it won't be long before you start to believe it!

ST

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