Looking forward to joining Kath Melandri on BBC Radio London “The Ladies Lounge” hour 10.30-11.30pm
Going to be discussing all sorts of topics from dating online and first dates to looking and feeling your best, thrifty style tips and more…. would love you to tune in! #Xfactor and #Imaceleb will have finished-so no reason not to!
Check out my new Pinterest pinboard from my visit to New Look Spring Summer press day. http://pinterest.com/styleyourlifeuk/
Snapped a selection of my favourite fashion and accessory Summer 2013 trends
Dropped past @Matalan @yellow_door press day showcasing Summer 2013 looks and trends. Took pix on my new Samsung Galaxy S3 phone. Found I'd come on leaps and bounds from yesterday when I couldn't even discover how to answer my incoming calls. Today I managed to upload pix to @Pinterest #styleyourlifeUK and onto Twitter. Soooo impressed with myself as I am not the best person at technology
When you want to improve the proportions of a room without changing it structurally, you can use colour,furniture and even flooring to create the illusion of a better shape- just as you can do with clothes and clever dressing to create a better body shape.
Pergo’s innovative EndlessPlank™ creates the illusion of a never ending wooden floor, although its actually a brilliant laminate. With a seamless connection, the planks effortlessly click together and can help your room proportions according to which way you lay them. The planks are available in honey, taupe, barrista and sand. which can widen, shorten, lighten or darken the atmosphere of your room.
Loving this festive vintage stripe sofa from Sofadesign.co.uk as a place for Santa to put his feet up when he drops down your chimney into your sitting room on his busy Christmas eve schedule. There is enough room for the elves to sit too whilst they share a glass or two of brandy and mince pies.For stockists call 0208 518 5443
Spent the evening in Santa’s grotto in Duke of Yorks sq Chelsea. After a visit with Santa, I went to his gift room.
What girl doesn’t like to find Brilliant diamonds in her Christmas stocking? Well #styleyourlife loves to always find you style for less and here there were diamonds for less – well for hundreds of ?’s rather than ?1000’s. So who is going to look that closely to find out that the diamonds you’re wearing aren’t mined but artificially created?
Whilst checking out the diamonds I had a fantastic hand treatment from QMSmedicosmetics. Hands that looked much better to show off those diamonds. Roll on Christmas!
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Windows 8 launch dinner party
Cocktails on arrival that you could select from the Windows 8 cocktail menu app
Delicious Dinner by Chef Joe Gray, here's the menu and pix of my dinner choices, tuna, lamb and the pear
Experimented with the oh-so-intelligent Microsoft Windows 8 system and the sexy new Surface tablet. Loved the touch screen, its kickstand, the coloured keyboard and all the other features.
As someone who is so inept with technology but somehow still manages to blog, tweet and upload pictures, this Windows 8 Surface tablet is a must have for my Christmas shopping list as it will make my virtual communication sooooooo much simpler. Helping me to share photos, links, information and multitask with just a swipe of the screen (hopefully in my case). If I can manage to do all this, then anyone can. I now know about Cloud for storing info on the internet, Share Charm and more.
I did suddenly feel quite old and shocked at my ineptitude with technology but, as I say to my clients, it's never too late to start…….
The new Surface with Windows RT starts from £399
www.microsoft.com/surface
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Wonderful walls from Brume
Loving this instant sticker wall art by Brume (www.Brume.co.uk)
Prices £12-£75
Easy to apply to instantly jazz up a plain white wall, creating a mural as big or small as you like,
Or a feature such as a working vintage wall clock with battery operated hands,
Or super-sized cutlery in the kitchen – just like Heston's new TV series
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Windows 8 launch dinner party
I am really looking forward to dins tonight……being cooked for, at a small dinner party by one of Jamie Oliver’s original “first 15” chefs from his restaurant Fifteen. The dinner is to celebrate the launch of the new Windows 8 tablets and PC’s.
So more to follow tomorrow on how easily I (someone who is so useless with technology- took me an hour last night to get the DVD working) got to grips with the new Windows 8 system and of course some foodie pix.
In response to long dark Winter evenings setting in, Homebase set up a fun challenge yesterday evening to illuminate and create various lifestyle room sets using their fantastic affordable new ranges of lighting, furniture and accessories.
@Homebase_uk
My “Style your life” #styleyourlife business now transforms and stages interiors from empty to lived in, or tired and cluttered to stylish and minimal.
If it’s a property for sale, a show flat or simply a private home that needs some TLC, I will consider my client’s individual needs and what we need to achieve by the styling and staging.
Improve a live/work space.
Better first impressions to sell.
Create an aspirational living space in an slow-selling home to help a prospective purchaser want to buy into a lifestyle, not simply the bricks and mortar.
Here are 2 snaps taken last night from the modern dining room and shabby chic sitting room I created instantly. It was rather like 60 minute make-over and I loved having the instant electrician and handy man there. I did jokingly offer for him to come to live with me! We could all do with someone living with us to help us with our light bulbs, shelves etc. (In addition to husbands or partners)
The 3rd pic is in my own front hall with one of the new ranges of Homebase retro-style lights and an up-cycled 1950’s chest of drawers found in a Brighton flea market.