Anyway, I just remembered to tell you that I visited a well known crafts store, (a superstore you might call it) and added some items to my basket.  I went to the payment process, at which point the transaction failed to go through. I emailed the company straight away, asking if there was anything wrong- intending to return to the online store the following day, to complete my payment.

Instead of this, they failed to reply to me until 5 days later, by which point I was thinking they weren’t interested, and they didn’t even apologise.  That was the worst part- no apology at all.  I felt this was incredibly rude and I have not gone back.

In 4 months, I’ve managed to get myself down to 10 stone but it’s been an awful struggle.  I’ve gone for runs about twice a week and I try to go for walks and do some aerobics every day, but it’s hard to fit that into my working life.

I have an operation soon which means I’ll have to only consume liquid foods for two weeks, so that should actually help me along.  My goal is to be 9 stone by the 1st November.

Kit Heath Jewellery

My favourite jewellery shop, Saswa, is now taking 10% off their Kit Heath jewellery range!  Kit Heath jewellery is very pretty and dainty – just how I like my jewellery to be…
As I’ve already mentioned, they also do free delivery, so I’m quids in!

Kit Heath Jewellery

Leaf Coat Hook

I’ve got an image of a dream house   It’s a detached three bedroom house set in the country- and it has the most beautiful interior with quirky additions here and there.  Maybe it’s just me, but this Leaf Shaped coat hook is really fantastic.  I know I’m weird and very dreamy (let’s face it- all I do is imagine what I’d like to have in a perfect life) but little additions to the home which mimick nature are just brilliant.
The website is called the Complete Home Company.  I don’t think they’re complete as such, but they do some really cool stuff I know I’d like to have in my perfect little country house
Link –> Complete Home Company

Sophia Tolli Wedding Dress

Right, I know I’m not getting married (yet), but sometimes on my web travels, I can’t help looking at wedding dresses, and I think I’ve found the perfect one from Sophia Tolli.

It’s got the most beautiful shape to it, and has pale blue embroidery.   Plain white dresses always seem to be a bit boring, and the inclusion of some pale blue adds so much more to the dress.  It’s absolutely lovely.

Of course it comes with a hefty price tag.  What is it with me and expensive taste!?

I believe I’d be paying around £1000 for it.  But I wouldn’t mind renting one out- what would you do with a dress after your wedding?  I’ve never seen the point in keeping them.  Rent out the most beautiful dress you can find and have done with it, that’s what I say!

Sophia Toll wedding dress

Strawberry Bath

On my birthday a few months ago, my partner got me a strawberry bath & body gift set from the Body Shop. It has some gorgeous shower gel, body butter and soap.  It’s also got one of the those body scrubs which never dry out properly.  But it’s red and goes with the set, so I’m not complaining

Unfortunately the set didn’t include the bubble bath, so I bought some yesterday.  It’s an incredible £7.80, which is why I put off buying it for so long (hoping there’d be a sale).
I kid you not, it’s the best bath stuff I’ve ever used.  I’ve always loved the body shop, but the prices do alienate me somewhat.  But it’s easy to see why the prices are quite high!  If anyone’s not sure what to get me, you can’t go wrong with the Body Shop, I love anything from there

See the Strawberry Bath Foam here

Personalised Christmas Baubles

Hey, it was only a few months ago I was talking about Christmas stress.  I think I should rename this the ‘Christmas Blog’.  But I’m already thinking of things to buy my beloved, plus family and friends.

I love this idea that With Love Gifts are doing – Christmas baubles you can personalise.  I’m always wary of giving too many gifts at that time of year which aren’t particularly Christmassy.

It’s so much nicer to give a gift that’s personal.  The Christmas bauble will re-emerge every year, reminding you of that Christmas you received it, making the whole decoration of the tree extra special.

I love it   –> Personalised Christmas baubles

I’m getting really fed up.  The more I see stupid shoes all over the place, ones you can see will obviously rub the back of your heel to the bone, the angrier I get.

It’s so much worse in summer.  A few months ago I bought some Crocs.  Yes, real Crocs.  I’d had enough, and there are some decent styles out there like Crocs Olivia which are quite feminine and dainty.  I thought I’d cracked it, honestly.  They weren’t rubbing my feet at all, and I loved how light they were.  What could possibly go wrong?  Well, if you’ve ever worn Crocs, I don’t think you can deny that they make your feet sweat, A LOT.  No amount of holes will cure that, and I think it’s a con to make you believe the little holes will solve all your problems.   So after 5 mins of walking, it turns into ‘squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak’.  Then all of a sudden the backslings decided not to fit around the back of my feet anymore, so I couldn’t walk properly.

Terrible.  Rip off shoes I call them.  Promising, but utterly faulted.

So I’m back to square one.  If anyone knows of a nice looking pair of shoes that I can walk LOTS in, please let me know.

Diesel Watches - white

You didn’t think I’d come back did you?  I wasn’t going to because I was so busy, but looking back through the blog I decided it was best for me to come back and carry on talking about my shopping dilemmas, needs and wants.

I should have done before summer because I was having a nightmare trying to find things for my holiday- I had loads to talk about.  Including finding a nice purple summer dress. Do you realise how difficult they are to find?? Impossible! I nearly gave up…

Anyway,  my favourite jewellery site, Saswa, has started selling Diesel Watches.  Hooray! This is great because Saswa do free delivery.   I’m fed up of adding something to shopping baskets on other websites and finding £5 has been added on just before the final payment page.  The only place delivery should become an issue is on ebay.

Here is their page all about Diesel watches.  There is something about them that is so visually appealing, and I’ve bought the gorgeous white DZ5130 Diesel watch model.

I will post again soon, don’t worry.  This time I’m sure

I’ll get back into posting after Christmas has finished, and the stress is no longer present.

I have bought so many gifts this year, I think I may have gone overboard.   But I won’t say anything specific incase my loved ones end up reading here before Christmas Day..

Speak soon..