It’s easy with men… shirt, trousers & tie and hey bingo, you’re ready for another working day! With women, it’s much more difficult. You can’t really wear the same thing in the same week, you get bored of your wardrobe choices & try to change things up daily with accessories.
In previous blog posts, I’ve stated how much I hate clothes shopping, I get really grumpy when I can’t find what I’m looking for. I generally have an idea in my head & I get it. If I don’t, I give up because I hate spending hours going from shop to shop!
With work clothes, you HAVE to look a certain way, you have to have the correct image & you can’t just throw any old thing on! Don’t get me wrong, there have been times when I just can’t be bothered. I stick my hair up in a ponytail, put no makeup on, wear a tank top & a cardigan along with a pair of my endless amount of black trousers. But, I can’t dress like that ALL the time. Especially with the company I work for (other than Dress Down Fridays, of course!)
Every month when I get my salary, I go work clothes shopping. I pick up a few more tops, cardigans, trousers then look at dresses & attempt to talk myself into buying one for the office, visions of me in a little black dress, a black cardigan & killer heels. But, I’m still trying to talk myself into buying one.
I go to bed at night trying to figure out what on earth I’m going to wear the next day. Tomorrows choice? A purple blouse, black trousers, a black cardigan incase I’m chilly & heels. I’d probably end up changing my mind numerous times until I resort to my original choice. Sucks to be a women sometimes!
Do any of you women have the same work wear frustrations that I do? Do you keep buying new work wear?
Last night I got an email from Starbucks talking about the launch of My Starbucks Rewards and the benefits. Now, every time you pay using your Starbucks Card, you’ll get a star. Every time you collect 15 stars – you will be given a free Tall drink! Not bad.
The app’s loyalty scheme will encourage people to qualify as a ‘gold level member’ to get free drinks. Customers paying with a registered Starbucks Card will get a free drink every 15 visits. After 50 visits they move from Green to Gold Level and get extra benefits such as free espresso shots, soy, syrups and whipped cream. If you already were a Starbucks card holder, you are automatically upgraded to Gold.
Your Starbucks Card works exactly the same, you will still receive vouchers for free drinks during promotional periods and the best new feature? If you have an iPhone, you can now pay for your drinks via the Starbucks App in the UK which is available on iTunes from today. Since the launch of mobile payments in America last January, there have been over 26 million mobile transactions and approx $110 million has been loaded onto Starbucks Cards directly through the mobile app. No more worrying about trying to find your card in your bag or forgetting it at all. It’s about time!
I downloaded the new version of the Starbucks App & played around with it, up until the point where you are barcode scanned. Sadly I am nowhere near a Starbucks at the moment so I can properly try it out, which I am not happy about. Serious caffeine withdrawals!
Looks good & I can’t wait to try it! Triple Venti Caramel Skimmed Caramel Drizzle Caffè Latte anyone?
On December 3rd 2011, my sister in law gave birth to my little nephew Oliver who was born at 12.44am at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow, weighing just 5 lbs 10.5 oz. Two days shy of being four weeks old, he was rushed to Yorkhill Children’s Hospital in Glasgow as he had a high temperature. After a number of hours and the obligatory urine and blood tests, Oliver then had lumbar puncture to take fluid from around his spine to check for meningitis. At first my brother & sister in law thought it may have just been a urine infection but were later told that he had contracted Viral Meningitis, not the most serious strain of the disease but serious enough that it hit the entire family for six when we heard the word meningitis. Oliver is now on the mend and was released from hospital on January 1st 2012.
So to try to repay the love and the attention that the Yorkhill staff have shown Oliver & other children like him, in such a short space of time, my brother decided to start fundraising to try raise at least £1000 for the Yorkhill Children’s Foundation.
Yorkhill Children’s Foundation provides enhanced medical equipment and resources which benefit sick children and babies who are treated at Yorkhill Hospital and within NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde. These can include innovative medical equipment, improvements in child and family facilities and paediatric research and training
Yorkhill Hospital has touched millions of lives since it first opened its doors in 1882. It exists to help sick children get better, yet it does so much more. As the largest children’s hospital in Scotland, Yorkhill has a worldwide reputation for excellence, treating over 150,000 children from across Scotland every year. Yorkhill Hospital is the sole Scottish provider of a number of highly specialised services including cardiac surgery, kidney and bone marrow transplants, paediatric intensive care and endoprosthetic bone replacement. It is also one of the only four UK children’s hospitals with an ECMO machine offering life support for children.
Without public support none of this would be possible.
I’m helping my brother with his fundraising for Yorkhill Children’s Foundation & it would mean a lot if you could donate as little or as much as you can afford to help young children within Scotland who need help. A few pounds would make all the difference to children’s lives & help the charity significantly.
If you would like to donate, please go to the JustGiving page that has been set up where 100% of all money donated goes straight to the Yorkhill Children’s Foundation or use the donation widget below.
No matter how much you donate, it all makes a difference.
& so is overdosing on amazing food! When else can you get away with stuffing your face like a squirrel full of chocolate for breakfast? or eat until you physically cannot move?
Don’t get me started on all the alcohol. I don’t think I have ever drank as much in my life as I did on New Years Eve. Champagne, Red Wine, Vodka/7up, French Martini’s.. the lot. I drank, I mixed, I got drunk. I regretted it. Cue the 3am toilet run, vomiting my guts up, wrestling with party poppers that were tangled around me & passing out fast asleep hugging a towel.
Was it worth the monster hangover the next day? Hell yes. But please don’t let me smell or look at alcohol for at least the next 2 months. I don’t think my liver could cope!
I hate Christmas shopping. I never know what to buy for friends & family because generally, we don’t need anything or if we did, we’d buy it ourselves. If you are anything like me, you finally decide to buy one main present after spending hours online & window shopping but then want to buy little things as stocking fillers or try to figure out what to get someone as a Secret Santa at School/Uni/Work. That is when Prezzybox came to the rescue with their collection of Christmas Gifts. I browsed their website and was instantly drawn to the Soldier Egg Cup & Toast Cutter and Tude beams gifts. The big kid in me was ecstatic!
Soldier Egg Cup & Toast Cutter (RRP £6.95)
Who never got the ultimate all time favourite of boiled eggs and soldiers as a kid? When I was young, that was one of my favourite breakfasts I could ever have. I loved dipping the bread into the runny yolk & then fishing out the egg with my little teaspoon. Fastforward to me now being 29, I still love it. I can’t get my mom to make me little soldiers anymore (she’d tell me to get lost & do it myself!) so this is when the Soldier Egg Cup & Toast Cutter made all my childhood memories come alive again, this time even better!
I boiled my eggs for 3 minutes (after the water started boiling) to make them just the way I like them, while they were boiling away, made my toast. Once my eggs were ready, I popped one into the Soldier Egg Cup, put it’s little hat on to keep warm & then cut my toast into little soldier shapes using the cutter. AMAZING. I swear boiled eggs & soldiers tastes so much better when the toast is actually in the shape of soldiers LOL
Tude Beams (RRP £9.95)
Designed with different characters in mind, I was sent LOAF. Makes sense really, I’m a couch potato when I get the chance. Tude Beams are a new way to enjoy mood lighting. When you press the button or even when music is playing, the characters change colours from blue, white, red, green, purple and flashing white strobe lights. You can even set it to just flash the colours instead of the strobe lighting for those with health issues. I love the brightness of the colours the character shows, my favourite being the purple & blue. When music is playing & the lights change sequence, it does feel like they are dancing along. The characters make great gifts for a child as a night light or as an adult to try relax them in a darkened room. I love mine. I will eventually give it to my baby nephew for his bedroom when he is old enough to actually live in his little bedroom because I think kids would get more enjoyment out of it.
I love Prezzybox because they showcase a range of gifts that you generally would never have thought about (or even heard about!), bring out the kid in you all over again & are reasonably priced. If you are looking for something different, even if not for the Christmas season, then take a look at their website.
One of my favourite bloggers Elizabeth over at Bridal Musings is giving her readers the opportunity to win an exclusive prize in association with The Charing Cross Hotel.
The Charing Cross Hotel is a truly luxurious hotel right in the heart of London. I had the pleasure of visiting the hotel for a blogger’s event recently and I think it would make a fabulous city wedding venue with it’s period features, boutique touches, sweeping staircases, beautiful ballroom and top class catering team.
It’s also the perfect place for an indulgent spot of girly afternoon tea.
Classic Afternoon Tea For Two includes:
~ Selection of sandwiches
~ Assortment of afternoon tea pastries and cakes
~ Freshly baked scones with fruit preserves and clotted Devonshire cream
~ Freshly brewed leaf tea or herbal infusions
To enter, all you need to do is head over to her blog, leave a comment explaining who you’d like to share afternoon tea with and why and then ‘like’ the Bridal Musings Facebook page.
Elizabeth will choose the winner at random and will be announced on the Bridal Musings Facebook page on Sunday 18th December 2011.
So if you are in or around London & would like to be in with a chance of winning a great prize which could be given as a Christmas present, what are you waiting for? DO IT!
My sister in law Lisa gave birth to my little nephew Oliver yesterday morning at 12:44am weighing 5lbs 10.5oz (2.55kg). He is such a little cutie. Adorable to the max! It is the first baby for my brother Andrew & Lisa after they got married last year. He was born via emergency c-section after the baby was in distress but everything is all okay now. Oliver is really tiny though, which you can see from the photos below & of him grabbing my mom’s finger! When I held him, it was like I was carrying a bottle of juice he was that light! Normal sized newborn baby clothes are too big for him so my mom & I had to go out yesterday afternoon to get “tiny” baby clothes that would fit him. Even nappies/diapers are a nightmare to find, he’s a Size 0/1 but hopefully he will start to grow into all the clothes that were bought for him.
At the start of November, I told my dad about Movember and how they raise money for various cancer charities in the UK & also the world by getting guys to grow a moustache. His response? How do I sign up! That is how awesome he is
A few days later, I got started on his Movember page. He started off by shaving clean & they the growing began! Within a few days, he has already got a few donations but I would really really like him to get more. That is where you guys come in, if you could donate anything, even something small to help him raise money for charity we’d really appreciate it. On his Movember page you’ll see photos of his moustache as it grows along with funny quotes by him. I’d love you guys forever if you could spare any $$ & in return you’d feel good helping to fight cancer!
Sometimes companies get adverts wrong and then sometimes companies get adverts so spot on they touch your heart, make you think about them & tell everyone about them. Once again, John Lewis have done just that. The advert entitled “For gifts you can’t wait to give” follows one little boy who is impatiently counting down to Christmas. He is seen tapping his fingers, staring out of the window, even trying to cast a spell on a clock to make time go faster, but to no success.
Ananyah is the alter ego of Michelle, a girl in her late 20's who grew up in Singapore and Kuwait but is technically Scottish even if the accent isn't there! She now divides her time between Glasgow & Paris and could quite happily eat herself to death with macarons à la pistache, cupcakes & starbucks <3
Working in the IT Industry, she loves everything & anything to do with cooking in her spare time, has a handbag addiction, loves to take the most random photos & drools over shiny gadgets *swoon*
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