Several weeks ago I had an optician appointment for a check up. As a contact lens wearer, I make sure that my eyes are checked every year, whether I have any issues or not. My current lenses are ones that can be worn for a continuous 30 days before they need to be removed…

Recently I was chatting with a friend in the vintage community and we got onto the subject of jewellery, specifically what to wear with our vintage style clothing. Now, there really are two trains of thought (in my opinion) you have original jewellery which is either very sparkly and decorative (diamante, gemstones and marcasite)…

This is going to be a pretty short blog to share a few photographs of a dress that I actually bought last year and never wore! I saw this pretty, summery, colourful dress and immediately knew it was something that I wanted to wear. Canary yellow, orange, green, pink and blue were the main…

Last year I became the proud owner of my first Neo-Walk walking stick. Now those of you who are long time readers will know I caused myself an injury over 4 years ago which has left me in chronic pain and with little/no chance of improvement. Repeated tears to my Cruciate ligament and meniscus…

When I was a lot younger I taught myself to cross-stitch.  I was only around 18 years old and it was a spur of the moment thing after walking into a newsagent and seeing a ‘simple cross-stitch’ magazine. I bought the magazine and never looked back. The first project was a little floral ‘picture’…