Summer is upon us, the sun is shining (thank goodness) and nothing says summer more than a bit of straw. While you may not need your regular handbag – I haven’t used one for months now – a straw number is useful for bunging everything in for those inevitable park trips and will make you feel like you’re on holiday. …
The last straw: the bag of the season
It’s time to grab the bull by the horns, make hay while the sun shines and all that jazz because we are about to experience a heatwave. Hold onto your hats chaps – it’s difficult to remember what the warmth actually felt like. So to celebrate the fact the sun has got his hat on, I have a totally indulgent and fairly niche post all …
How to lift yourself out of the January Blues
There is not much to recommend January at all – nothing to look forward to for months on end, it’s cold/rainy/wet/dark and generally a bit miserable. If only the start of the year were June, then it wouldn’t feel quite so bloody depressing. So other than booking a holiday for months and months away, the only other option is some retail therapy …
High Shine
I remember having a gold metallic bag from Oasis a long, long time ago and getting a lot of stick from a certain friend, who shall remain nameless (Sue Fletcher-Watson) about it’s tackiness. Well, all I can say is that you were wrong because metallics are here to stay and if you are someone who doesn’t like flitting from trend to trend …
Bags of Style
My son was born just under a year after I got married and I spent my first wedding anniversary in an unpleasantly hot hospital with a little froggy-alien who refused to feed, several midwives who thought it was ok to grab/massage and squeeze my breasts at any time of day, plus my brother-in-law and father-in-law. Not exactly the romantic time I would have planned, but …
The Cross Body Bag: it’s all you need
You know when you buy something for a specific occasion and then you end up wearing it lots and lots? That is almost the best sort of shopping – the unexpected reward from a potentially unnecessary purchase. Definitely not an approach I would advocate every time you splash your cash, but when it does work it’s great. And here is mine: …
To have and to hold: things to clutch on tightly to this Christmas
It is hard to feel Christmassy when it is sixteen degrees outside. This crazy old weather is really putting the kybosh on winter and so last week’s post about all things snuggly seems like total lunacy. So on to safer ground, ground that doesn’t matter whether it is pouring with rain, blowing a gale or super sunny: things to hold …
Christmas gifting (that is the gift of receiving)
On the tenth day of Christmas my true love sent to me, ten lords a leaping…. No thanks. And I sincerely hope that someone (Santa or the somewhat slimmer, less-hirsuit man in my life) is reading this and will take a few hints. I also hope that this might give you some inspiration for your own Christmas list, because while your kids …
Bags of style
I am beginning to feel the love for bags once more. For the past few years I have been consigned to the nappy bag brigade and now I am finally out the other end. For a while there it was pretty grim – I needed one of those gigantic compartment ridden behemoth’s in which to stash nappies, wipes, hand gel, enough snacks …