Cute Dress!


I have to say I really love dresses, either worn casually or for nights out.  I'm not really much of a jeans person, although I do wear them occasionally.  I'm always on the lookout for nice dresses, especially versatile ones that can be dressed up or down and worn in all seasons.

I bought this dress in my local Matalan; I think I went in for underwear for the kids or something but ended up browsing the womens section and just had to buy this.  I've got a couple of other Matalan dresses in my wardrobe and I really like them; they're very affordable but also decent quality too.  Shockingly for the end of May I needed leggings with the dress today, and a cardi, and I'm still wearing my trusty UGGs even though technically we should all be wearing sandals now at this time of year. Oh the joys of British weather, hey!


Right, so here goes:

Dress from Matalan, Cardi from Primark (£3 or something like that! Bargain!), Leggings are from Next, and boots are Uggs.  Oh and please do excuse the hoover lead in the background.  Proof that I do (sometimes) do a bit of housework!

Pre-Holiday Haul


I'm back after a hectic, but fun, weekend, and am now getting sorted for the holiday, hooray!  Well when I say getting sorted, I mean getting the clothes washed and ironed.  Darling hubby still needs to get up in the loft and get the cases down!  I haven't bought a huge amount of clothing for the holiday and thought I'd mainly use things I've already got, but couldn't resist having a bit of a pre-holiday clothing haul.


If, like me, you live out in the sticks, H&M online ordering is fantastic.  It means that I don't have to traipse 40 miles to our nearest store with a whingey teenager, bored 7 year old and tantruming 2 year old!  So, from H&M, I got the skirt shown below, which I think is very versatile and will look great worn with a plain vest top, heels and jewellery, and I absolutely love the colour too!  I did buy a plain black vest top to wear with it too but I won't post a pic as I'm sure you've all seen plenty of plain black vest tops!

Next from H&M I got this fantastic white vest-dress, which I think will look great with a tan (or loads of freckles, in my case!!).  And again, I'll dress it up with silver accessories and some heels.  And a total bargain for just £7.99!  So here we go:

I have also been to good old Primark and got this lovely vest-top for £1.70!  At that price it would have been rude not to buy it wouldn't it?  I think this will look great with white linen trousers or white shorts:

And then, again from Primark and for a bargainous £3 I got these bangles, which I'm going to wear with the white dress and probably loads of other outfits.  I buy loads of bangles but they all seem to disappear.  I think my 2 year old may have something to do with it....

Hello!

A lovely nice shiny new blog for me to write in! I'm so excited!

A little bit about me to start with:  I'm Rachel, I'm 35 and live with my husband and our 3 children aged 13, 7 and 2, in Norfolk.  I'm a stay at home mum but am not quite ready to ditch the Topshop clothes and flicked eyeliner quite yet, quite the opposite really.  I love clothes, and am on a budget, so often visit shops like Primark, New Look and Topshop, and I absolutely love good old Ebay and also the occasional charity shop find too.  I'm planning to post my outfits on a daily basis on here, as well as photos of clothing hauls and lots of general chit chat about, erm, clothes.  Oh and shoes and bags too!

We're off on holiday fairly soon so, having decided I don't actually like many items in my 'holiday wardrobe', I've been on a few mad sprees recently to buy bits and pieces to take with me, so I'll be popping back on later with photos of my hauls!  And an outfit of the day photo taken once my photographer (AKA my darling teenager) gets home from school!