Clothing Picks

I feel like the shops are all a bit hit and miss at the minute, but here are a few of my favourite items that I have seen lately..

This blue flutter sleeve dress is available at New Look for just £22.99 which I think is well worth it. I have a few dresses in this colour which I really should dig out for the summer.

 I love this brown handbag which is from boohoo.com. It looks a lot more expensive than the £20.00 price tag.

 I also love these shoes from boohoo.com which are £35.00.

I spotted this floral design dress in Oasis for £75.00.

I have some trousers similar to these ones and I wore them a few times at the beginning of this month. They are really comfy and a stranger told me that they were really nice. These ones are from boohoo.com and they are only £12.00!

This is another cute summery dress which is available from Topshop for £42.00.

5 Fab Footwear Picks!

When I was buying the last pair of shoes I bought I promised myself I'd wear them the next time I was going out, but I've been out twice since then and chose different shoes on those occasions. I probably have more pairs of shoes I haven't worn than pairs that I have, but it hasn't stopped me lusting after more shoes!

I love these Topshop sandals. They are very bright and I like the way they lace up.

I spotted these Irregular Choice shoes the other day. They are called Scottie Dog. I have them in black, but I think they look great with the spots.

Here is a picture of the style I already own:

I can't express how much I ADORE these Christian Louboutin Fifi shoes:

I absolutely love them! Stunning doesn't quite cover it!

I also adore these boots from ASOS. It was love at first sight when I saw them.

Finally I spotted these New Look boots today and I really like them. I have a voucher for New Look so I might have to treat myself. Hopefully they'll be really comfy!

 

Oh My Love!

I've seen lots of lovely clothes that I'd like in the sales and on the Topshop website a few dresses caught my eye that were by Oh My Love so I decided to go onto Oh My Love's website and not only did I find that the dresses were a bit cheaper on their website I found lots of other lovely clothes.

I ended up ordering two dresses and a skirt and I didn't end up buying the Oh My Love dress that was also on Topshop's website.

This is the dress I liked:

It is £39.00 from Topshop, but it is in the sale for £25.00 at ohmylovelondon.com. I didn't buy it because I liked the others that I found better.

I ended up purchasing another dress I saw, which I liked even better, but it is still velvet.
I love this one with the detailed collar and short sleeves. It was £22.00 in the sale. 

I don't usually buy anything velvet, but I also found a lovely velvet skirt that I liked so bought that for just £11.00 reduced from £22.00. I absolutely love it. It's my bargain of the year so far, but it has since gone down to only £8.00!

I ordered one more item, which wasn't as I expected it to be. I genuinely thought it was going to be a shiny satin type material because of the shine shown on the photos, but it is actually another velvet dress! Haha! I still really like it all the same. I paid £22.00 for this one, but looking on the website it has since gone down to just £8.00, which is rather annoying!

More Sales Purchases 2015

Happy New Year! I have broken one of my New Year's resolutions already! I was going to try to make planned purchases instead of impulse buying, but I've been off work today, having a lazy day, browsing the internet and I have ended up making a few purchases.


Since Boxing Day I have found myself shopping online in the sales and have ended up spending a fortune on things that I didn't necessarily need, but would have cost a fortune more!

I wanted to buy some new boots because at the end of November I bought these amazing boots from New Look for just £14.00 reduced from £27.99 and I haven't stopped wearing them since.

They look even better in real life and they go with everything and they are unbelievably comfortable. I was going to buy them again so that when they wear out I have a spare pair, but they sold out quite quickly and there are loads of New Look boots I've had my eye on so I decided to buy a few more pairs of boots a few days ago:

I ordered this pair for just £15.00 reduced from £34.99.

I'm hoping these flat boots will be really comfortable. I love the look of them. They cost £15.00 reduced from £29.99. 

I bought these 'dark red' boots with the contrast sole for £18.00 reduced from £59.99.

These tan boots also have a lighter coloured sole and I thought they'd look really nice with a good pair of jeans and again I'm hoping they'll be comfortable. These cost £18.00 reduced from £59.99.

Finally I bought these black boots for £20.00 reduced from £44.99.

They haven't arrived yet, but I'm hoping they'll all be ok. I never know whether or not to go a size up for boots. I'm usually a size 4 in heels  and a size 5 in flats and I thought I'd bought my lovely brown New Look boots in a size 4, but when I looked they are actually a size 5 and I've ordered all of the heeled boots in a size 4 this time so hopefully they will still fit ok and I won't have to take them back to attempt to change them as I'll be lucky if the shops will have any left in size 5.

Yesterday I found another fabulous offer from Boots. I bought Yves Saint Laurent's Dare To Be gift set, which has a 30ml bottle of Opium eau de toilette, a lipstick and a nail polish, both in very wearable colours. The gift set was an amazing £25.00 reduced from £50.00. The lipstick on its own costs £25.00 so it's as if you're getting the fragrance and nail polish for free!
I was really chuffed with that purchase, but they have now sold out and I'm worried that they will send an email saying it was out of stock. I always think that is going to happen, but to be fair sometimes it does. Look at my first blog post from December when my Elizabeth Arden lipstick gift set was unavailable at Debenhams. I was really disappointed, but managed to get the same set at House Of Fraser.

This morning I remembered that when I'd tried to buy the Elizabeth Arden gift set from Debenhams I found that I had £15.00 of beauty points to spend there, but they were refunded when they couldn't fulfil the order so I had a look at their website to see if there was anything nice I could spend them on.

I decided on Marc Jacobs Dot gift set containing the eau de parfum, a 75ml shower gel and a 75ml body lotion.

The website suggests that this is a 125ml fragrance, but I'm pretty sure the largest bottle of Dot is only 100ml so yet another screw up by Debenhams.
It was only £35.35 reduced from £53.00, but I got it for £20.35 as I had £15 of beauty points.

This afternoon I found myself on Topshop's website where I ordered this pretty, pink, lace collar top, which was £8.00 reduced from £16.00.

I also bought 2 plain black vest tops both the same. I like Topshop's vest tops. They were £6 each or 2 for £10 so I bought 2.

I then put in another order with New Look.
I bought a pair of light blue canvas shoes, which will be great for spring and summer. I think these shoes will be quite easy to wear as well; they will go with a lot of outfits. These were only £4.00 and they were only £7.99 before they were reduced.

I also bought these burgundy patent heels. I feel bad for buying these as I have so many pairs of heels and I have loads of pairs I have never worn, but they were only £7.00 down from £14.99.
They are a sensible height so I should get plenty of wear out of them.

I also bought some jeans. I have been thinking of getting a new pair of jeans for a while. I really don't think I've bought a normal pair of every day jeans since 2010!
I have bought a few coloured pairs of jeans and one or two pairs of skinny jeans, but I have hardly worn them.
I used to be in skirts and dresses all of the time, but the last year I have found myself wearing more and more smart trousers and occasionally old pairs of jeans.
I was planning to buy an expensive pair, but thought I'd start out with these ones from New Look. I had heard about New Look doing a great range of jeans at a good price and these were just £12.99 and that is there full price so I'll have to see how I find them.

So that concludes my sales spending for now. Hopefully the rest of the year won't be quite so expensive!

Pretty Dresses!

I have seen loads of really nice dresses recently.

I really like this black one from Topshop. I love the cut. It looks lovely on the website, but when I saw it in store I didn't like it as much. It is still nice, but it isn't what I was expecting.
Where it looks like there is a seem at the waist it isn't actually a seem. The material on the top overlaps the waist so it doesn't hang very nicely. There are also cut out sides, which are mostly covered by the overlapping material.

The photo of the model wearing the dress shows that the dress isn't as flattering round the waist as it could be.

I also quite like this black dress from Topshop. It has a flattering shape and I like the twist detail on the front.

I don't usually get too excited over little black dresses, but I love this one from New Look too.

My husband has just bought me this green dress from New Look as part of my Christmas present. I love it. It also comes in navy, which is also gorgeous, but I love the dark green. The cap sleeves are really cute and I love the cherry blossom print.

New Look have so many nice dresses and I love their boots that they have in for the autumn/winter too. The last of my picks from New Look is this patterned sleeveless skater dress.
It comes in red or green and I'm not sure which one I prefer. It looks like a really comfortable dress, yet it is quite smart at the same time.

A website I hardly ever check out these days is boohoo.com. They used to email me, but I seem to have dropped off their mailing list. I got some gorgeous summer dresses on their site last year so I like to have the occasional look on their website to see what they have.

I think velvet can be very hit or miss, but I like this navy velvet dress.

It looks gorgeous on the model.

I also quite liked this printed dress from boohoo.com.

I am trying my best not to find more goodies for the ever-growing wish list, but I'm bound to see loads more gorgeous dresses before Christmas.