Exhausted.com

Am exhausted, my mother hasn't been well and ended up in hospital   She finally got discharged and improved a little and now shes gone backwards again.  I had to call the Docs out again today, her sodium is going down and she has a chest infection and high BP so its antibiotics and fluid restriction to go with her humongous amount of medications she already takes.  Keeping toes, fingers and everything else I can cross crossed that she makes a recovery pretty quickly cos its been a  bit of a nightmarish month.

Gorgeous Colours

Absolutely gorgeous colours my favourites.  Picturess taken from The Vivienne files.

The Meaning of Life

I have re learnt recently what I have always known but really haven't put it into practice.  We should always wear what we want to wear each day, don't save anything for best just wear what you enjoy. Throw out all rubbish, donate what is good or ebay it and buy what you want within your budget.  Do we really need to be so materialistic. Pare down the wardrobe be able to see what you have to wear and enjoy what you wear. We should do what we want to do, within reason of course as long as people etc don't get hurt.  We should always tell the people we love we love them or at least show them them respect and understanding rather than just bumbling along like always.  We should wear the beautiful perfumes we have there just in case or just for best.  If we want to go out in full makeup and we like it just do it, don't follow fashion or what other people say. If you don't like makeup don't feel you have to wear it to be in with the crowd.  Be yourself and enjoy everything.  Don't skimp on food, surely its better to eat a little of what you love rather than a load of crap, or make food cheaply with love.  Eat as well as you can on budgets.  I for one would rather eat better food at home and not go out for meals ... not that I have any extra money to do that lol. Don't be fooled into thinking we all have millions of good friends, most of us don't we just have a few good 'uns,  so we have to put ourselves and the ones we love first.  If anyone has time then volunteer, help someone else or find a cause you enjoy and donate a little bit of time, it will all help.  I can go on an on and on but its all true life is too short.  We don't know whats round the corner, one minute we can be healthy and one minute unhealthy, we just don't know whats in store for us so embrace what we have even if we don't feel like it and fight for what we think is right in life and damn well enjoy what we have the best we can.

Pooped

So tired, Mums not well, am getting used to ambulances and doctors coming to her house now.  Cant think straight any more could do with a long sleep.   All in all pretty much pooped !

Dresses, sizing and good old Ebay

I want to wear a dress.  I never "do" dresses but its finally got to me I want to wear one on a daily basis in this weather.  Ive searched and searched for what I would like to wear but can I find one which I like .... in a word .... NO.  I don't understand why shops seem to think that everyone wants to wear something just covering their bum.  I see lovely dresses but way way too short, but then the longer dresses look so frumpy. Just because we aren't young doesn't mean we want to look awful.  You would think designers would  have got the message by now.  All I want is one that is soft lands just below my knees and has 3/4 sleeves.and low low neck so that my boobs hang out .. now how simple is that!  Oh and inexpensive hehehehehehehe.  One day eh one day, or maybe I will have to make my own. 

On re-reading this post I'm actually annoyed that shops don't cater properly for women.  For a start they cant get the sizing right and they automatically think if you are over a certain age you want a certain style.  I actually really really love a dress in New Look but its so short,  it would look great over jeans I am sure but that's not what I want.  I looked at good old British Marks and Spencer online and omg the knee look dresses are absolutely awful.  Where has it all gone wrong they are fuddy duddy and their buyers seem to be out of touch, I noticed from peoples reviews even the older ladies thought the styles not good enough quality or design.  Unfortunately I really don't have much spare cash and that's something else these stores seem to think about.  Sadly in this day and age not everyone has the most wonderful job, if they have one at all, and they certainly don't have money to spend on high end stuff or want to waste on tat from some of the lower end stuff.  I try to customise wherever possible anyway but I really like to try on before I buy and where live we haven't really any good shops at all.  Ive tried on Ebay but the sizing is almost always wrong and I end up making dresses into tops, and I don't always make a good job if it lol.  I just wish there was an answer.  I think basically I should sell all of my clothes that look awful on me and spend the money on just one perfect item ... that is if anyone wants to buy what Ive got so Ebay here we come.

Moody Moo and Cranky

Do you ever get days when you are cranky.  Well the weather is great and I am cranky. WTF.

Lovelypics and ideas

 A lovely idea I would like to adopt .... my own mini bar even though I dont drink it just looks so cute and would definitely look pretty

 Another idea I am going to adopt ... I will have to search for a lovely old silver or silver style tray to put all my candles on.  Love it.

 Both these kitchen so cozy and gorgeous

 Oh my what a room

 Beautiful stairs so wish they were in my house

 Wish this was the entrance to my house ... if I had all these pots for sure they would get stolen.  Ive had that happen to me before and I dont intend to lose them again.

I really love all these pics I dont know where they came from individually so if they belong to anyone please get in touch with me and I will either add your name to them or remove them.  I just think they are all so lovely.