Bah to Gywneth Paltrow

For being so beautiful!

Deer antlers

Love these for the OBH! From New Woodsman on Etsy.com

Outfit inspo

Loving the blouse. It's Marc Jacobs miro blouse Pic www.9to5chic.com

Oh Don Draper

Yet another reason why I love America....please can I go live there and watch brand new Mad Men.

Polka dot tastic

Polka dot jeans? Yes please Anthropologie!

www.anthropologie.com

Today

Someone hacked in to my yahoo mail, sending spam messages to my address book and it would not stop, so had to delete yahoo account immediately. Someone hacked in to husbands website last week, rendering his site viral. Which means no business. Crippling. Thanks hackers. Polish hackers. I've wasted hours, lost all my emails from my mum, which were precious and husband business is off line. I hope they get karmic justice! Grrrrr! Hello G Mail! I hope we will be happy together.....

Happy Mothers Day

My gift from my baby! They did them at nursery. Ahhh

Never misses

An opportunity. I find biscuits, dummies, apricots, tissues, my sunglasses in here constantly...:)

Today

I'm
Spring
Cleaning! I've even defrosted the SMEG which actually for how much it cost it is a bit depressing it doesn't do it itself....and make me my morning coffee too :)

Disclosure

Well I said I would post purchases. I'm a bit behind so here is 2 at once! YSL touché éclat as I'm a tired ol' mama! It's a miracle worker. Leather filofax which I've had my eye on for ages. Reduced from £89 to £18 in TK Maxx sale... One more disclosure, no 2 more and I'm caught up. Still no kindle. But my bad for deciding I need Comptoir work stuff, not H&M like everyone else.!!!

Maybe so

That life would be better if my bedroom looked like this... Our latest idea is to build a loft bed!

Lanterns

Captured by my Father-in-law on one of his recent trips to Vietnam. Just gorgeous. Such colour contrast and inspiration.

Zara knit

Next disclosure! Zara knit which is great for work and with my jeans. Zara got some awesome stuff in at the moment and I'm a sucker for sparkle. Sequin skirt next on list. I feel my kindle growing further out of grasp!!
PS ON EBAY NOW (12/01/2013 under Karen_lo)

Nooooo too cute!

New favourite blog alert! She is smart and funny and has a baby! Love! And Rich had an idea for a moustache dummy when Meadow was a newborn. Dammit! www.thedaybookblog.com

Today

I would like to be in California, in a luxury Yurt! See Joannagoddard.blogspot.com I am fed up of the scooter that wakes me up at 5.30am screeching up my lane. Why? Closely followed by the terrier who barks at it around 5.31am I am fed up of husband and his awful mood. He is hurumphing around and has been for days now. He is anxious as his business is unusually quiet. He gets frustrated at other people's success too much. How can he be so talented and smart and not earning mucho? It's not unfair that less talented people have more success. Concentrate on what you can do better! Let go of the frustration dude!

I still really really want a kindle. Word! The new Twilight film is out today! Wooohoooo! Spring seems around the corner! Unfortunately so is my appraisal. Off to update my business plan that I never read except before my appraisal :) Happy Monday!

Meadows birthday video!

http://vimeo.com/38086643

Sent from my iPhone

Pink and Navy outfit inspo!

Perfect from head to toe. Pic via www.thesartorialist.com

ACE motel

In Palm Springs, 2 years ago this month, I was running around (literally) with my baby bump. We loved it. We pretty much talk about it every day even now! Return visit definitely necessary. Come on people! Book Rich for your weddings! Www.richardfordphotography.co.uk

My Husband

Is handsome non? Last post, I'm
Off To Pack for 2 day London speaker meeting. Yawn. Squeezing in cocktails Friday night tho :) I'll be boozy on the train...

Meadow Mog

Swinging in her sprucy little Zara scarf! A bargain in the sale for 99p!

Midnight in Paris

We both loved this little film. Go rent it!

My clever husband

Captured this at the weekend. How lucky they are. He was shooting in to the sun, which basically means you see nothing! It takes a LOT of skill to expose this correctly. I am clapping!!! I LOVE this
www.richardfordphotography.co.uk

Today

Is Wednesday! I've been away with work this week already, and away again tomorrow. One of my afternoons was spent listening to a life coach. He was pretty good and the best bit was he made me realise that I need to get goal setting again. A task I find so monotonous and I might do it, but never refer to it! He explained that is Pareto's rule (80% of people do the same 20% make the change) if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got Well I want to be the 20%! He recommends an expensive journal to log it all. Now That Motivates Me :) Anyway, off for zzzzzzz but will post some glimmers of brilliance soon.....

Cozy

Floor cushions. Yes please.

Day 8

Orla Keily tote. £74.50 ( half price) for work.

Funniest video on New Yorkers ever!

http://kottke.org/12/01/shit-new-yorkers-say

Outfit inspiration: black and tan

Fabric invites

Awesome! Mine were nice but ah, do I wish Meadow had these as her 1st birthday invites.

www.100layercake.com

The Dollar

I have zero cash this month. The OBH needs skirting boards (!) and Meadow needs a new bedroom door (don't ask- but when I say 'buy cheap-buy twice' you get my drift), my chair needs recovered and I also need new jeans and a haircut. Fact.
Anyway.
I need to budget and stop spending £10 a day on ridiculous luxuries (Starbucks) and I actually 8/10 think their coffee sucks anyway....
So.
I am photographing everything I buy and logging it on a spreadsheet (and hoping as I HATE excel that in itself will stop me)
Wish me luck.

Sunday

Current obsession in our house. Dark chocolate rice cakes. We fight over them. Meadow usually wins. The cowhide rug does well too.