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The Librain
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Former professional school librarian, now retired through chronic illness. Trying to keep cheerful by reading, drinking lots of tea, blogging my new life, and my love of bling!
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Anne,My family and I will be praying for you. 2026 will be a much better year for you, and for…
Thank you so much Lauren. We are looking forward to our other son coming and then we will have a…
Thinking of you Anne during this Holiday Season. I hope you are feeling okay and I hope you are able…
Anne, I also hope that there is relief in sight for you. The winter is long and dark and you…
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Tag Archives: accessories
Outfit of the day 20/11/20
Regular readers of this blog will be aware that I have been struggling with ill-health for many years. My situation has not improved this year as I am spending even more time in bed and have only been able to … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Health, Lifestyle, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, grey, John Lewis, Lands' End, navy, red, Seasalt, silver, Warren James
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Outfit of the day 08/03/19
I am sitting in bed trying hard not to cry. Yes, we have just waved off Younger Son after a few lovely days with him. I will miss him so much when he is away, although I am also very … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Family, Lifestyle, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, blue, Cotton Traders, Etsy, grey, Halcyon Days, Hermès, Lands' End, navy, Sonrisa Boutique, Sweet Dreams, white
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Outfit of the day 22/02/19
As I was actually leaving the house to go for my counselling session, I tried a small experiment today. I usually wear my clothes for only a couple of hours, so I feel that it is OK to put them … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Lifestyle, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, blue, grey, Hermès, Hotter, John Lewis, Lands' End, navy, pearls, pink, Savana Dance, silver, white
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Outfit of the day 29/10/18
I hope that you all had a good weekend. Things were reasonably OK in our household, although I still wasn’t well enough to go out. I think I am getting a bit stir-crazy! Anyway, I had intended to keep this … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Jewellery, Lifestyle, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Shopping, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, ankle boots, bangles, blue, boots, Duo Boots, earrings, Hermès, jumpers, Lands' End, Liberty, Marks and Spencer, mauve, navy, purple, shawls, trousers
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Outfit of the day 07/09/18 and revealing a grail scarf
I had the most amazing luck at the end of last week. When I was visiting the Rennies website, I saw one of my grail scarves offered at a very good price, so I had no choice but to snap … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Outfit of the day, Scarves, Shopping, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, Aline Honoré, animal print, Hermès, La Femme aux Semelles de Vent, leopard print, Rennies, reveal
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Update and sale purchases #02 11/01/18
Yes, I bought more items in the sales! As you are no doubt aware, I have a lot of clothes from Lands’ End and have a pretty long wish list, which I check regularly to see if anything has been … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Lifestyle, Shopping, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, blue, Boxing Day, cobalt, dresses, Ianthe, Lands' End, leggings, Liberty, navy, sales, shawls, Sonrisa Boutique
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Update and sale purchases 09/01/18
Things are still very tough, so I will distract myself from my troubles by showing you some of my recent purchases from the January sales. I have had some lovely things from Pure Collection (link in the sidebar) in the … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Shopping, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, bangles, blue, bracelets, dresses, earrings, Pure Collection, sales, shrugs, turquoise, white
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Wardrobe planning #26: Assessing clothes at the end of the season
I find it hard to believe that the weather can change from Summer to Autumn overnight, but that is what seems to have happened, at least here in the Midlands. Lovely Husband was up early and told me how cold … Continue reading
Wardrobe planning #22: Wardrobe colour wheel update
If you look back to my early posts in the Wardrobe Planning topic (posts #02, and #03), I showed two colour wheels. These demonstrated the colours that I intended to have for my clothes and accessories. I have been moving my … Continue reading
Update 30/05/17
This should really have been an Outfit of the Day post, but just as I was going to get dressed to go out, I had a coughing fit and had to come up to bed. So instead I will talk … Continue reading
Posted in Clothes, Shopping, Wardrobe
Tagged accessories, bangles, Blue Nile, bracelets, cardigans, Dans un Jardin Anglais, earrings, Escales Mediterraneenes, Ferragamo, Halcyon Days, Hera, Hermès, Lands' End, Liberty, lilac, pendants, purple, vests
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