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blog about fashion and style from a plus sized mom of 1.
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Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2025
We are just under three weeks away from Valentine’s Day, the first gifting occasion of the New Year, so this post is dedicated to gifting ideas, a guide to some of the lovely things you could treat the lady in your life to. As ever, I will add to this as time moves forward, and there will be a follow-up with some ideas for men coming up later this week. Cream Love Heart Embroidered Jumper From Simply Be We’ve all heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but how about wearing your heart on your jumper. This is the gorgeous idea made real by Simply Be this Valentine’s Day…
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Lindex Styles Winter
The bias cut silky skirt. It’s a bit of a style classic, isn’t it. It first came into fashion in the 1930’s in the form of slinky, almost second skin evening dresses that just looked incredible on the likes of Jean Harlow and Constance Bennett. Fast forward to the 1990’s and the bias cut silk shift dress was back, often teamed with spaghetti straps and Kate Moss. Bias cut skirts also found an audience, teamed with simple vests and converse, or platform trainers if you were a Spice Girl fan. And now, bias cut silky skirts are back. Working for both evening wear, and daywear, Lindex has some amazing designs…
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Choosing The Perfect Venue For Your Party Or Event
Whether it be for a personal event, like a special birthday party or a wedding/wedding reception, or whether you organise corporate events and gatherings, finding the right venue is a matter of the upmost importance. It is not just the matter of finding somewhere that you like the look of, you need to consider location, size of venue and catering in order to make your event go smoothly. Here are some of the things that might make venue finding go much easier. Seek Some Help When looking for a party venues, you may sometimes feel like you can’t see the wood for the trees, there is just so much choice.…
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Stylish Television: Death On The Nile (2004)
Death on the Nile is one of the most iconic of all Agatha Christie novels, the deadly love triangle featuring a beautiful heiress, a handsome but penniless husband, and his jilted lover as all the ingredients that make the very best of murder mysteries. It has been filmed twice for the silver screen, both of the films being star studded affairs that feature great performances, beautiful settings and exquisite costumes. I have blogged about both of these other versions in a series of reviews (you can find the posts here, and here.) Today I turn my attention to the small screen version which featured David Suchet as Poirot, and actually…
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Golden Globes 2025 – Gorgeous Dresses.
The 2025 Golden Globe Awards red carpet was one of the most glitziest and glamorous in recent years. It saw the return of the goddesses, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman and Demi Moore. The emergence of the new superstars, Zendaya and Ariana Grande. The dresses totally fitted the occasion, it was a fabulously, stylish night. The Golden Globes are always seen as a good indicator of Oscars success, so, in this case, it was a good night for Demi Moore and the film Emilia Perez, but not such a good night for the much nominated Wicked, with none of its lead stars winning in their categories. Best Actress went to…
