So, I can only apologise for a break in services – it’s been almost a month since my last post! – forgive me? I was trucking on, full steam ahead, in the run-up to Christmas, all cards written, presents bought and food planned. I was about to start knocking out…
CF Christmas – The Tree
Here it is – I don’t know what came over me. We were all stood there looking at trees and I just said – ‘give me the big one’. We had to shave a bit off the bottom to get the angel on top, but I guess that’s what Christmas…
CF Christmas: Wonderwood by Comme des Garcons
Following on from my previous review of Jour Pour Femme by Hugo Boss as a great gifting fragrance this Christmas, here’s one for the boys. I’ve repurchased this for the OH this year as we were talking about scents last week and he mentioned this as ‘one of his favourite…
CF Christmas: Jour pour Femme by Hugo Boss
I have had to delay my post on this fragrance, as for the last two weeks I haven’t been able to smell a thing! GREAT on the nappy changing front, not so good when you want to review a new perfume! As a teen I was OBSESSED with Hugo Boss…
CF Christmas: Delia Smith Christmas recipes
It is with rather a sleigh-load of trepidation that I am taking over the reins of Christmas Day hostess this year. Gulp. As the first year without Daddy, we figured being in the family home was probably not going to help, so have decided to do everything differently this year…
CF Christmas: Christmas Day outfit?
I. can’t. stop. thinking. about. this. jumper. It’s £385 big ones. Plus it has tin foil stuck to it. But it’s Christmas, you know? I want it reeealllllllly bad (yes, I did just stamp my foot). I keep spotting it in the December issues and all the Sunday supplements which…
CF Christmas: Luxury candles
As per my rant in the first of my ‘Christmas gift’ themed posts, I am of the school of thought that presents, whether Birthday or Christmas, should be highly indulgent and absolutely something that the recipient wouldn’t buy for themselves, but is either a pimped version of an everyday item…
CF Christmas: The Elemis Beauty Treasures Collection
I’m not going to edit a complete Christmas gift guide this year, but I thought I’d do quick posts on lovely, covetable things as/when I came across them. I know that’s a bit haphazard but that’s the way I do my Christmas shopping, throughout November and December I simply keep…
Object of Desire: Patra silk pyjamas
I have made my mind up. I want to be buried in my Patra silk pyjamas. Actually scrap that, I’m not sure I can wait that long… I LOVE THEM. This is not a new revelation. My mother-in-law bought me a pair last Christmas – here I am resplendent in…
CF Loves: Scarlet & Argent by Hainsworth, blankets and throws
Hainsworth’s British heritage credentials blow me away. Yet until I was contacted by the PR about their relatively new retail brand, Scarlet & Argent, I’d ashamedly never heard of the 225 year old Yorkshire wool mill. One of the UK’s oldest companies, it has been run as a family concern…
A GENIUS Secret Santa gift idea
Ha ha ha. Imagine, you draw your office arch nemesis (everyone has one) in the Christmas party secret santa. Don’t panic, buy this for the perfect passive aggressive present that will convey your distain perfectly. The W Anchor Mug, £5.95, www.prezzybox.com
CF Christmas: my first ever homemade Christmas cake
Gulp. I’ve gone and done it, I’ve written my first Christmas post. This year we are taking over the mantle of hosting the Christmas Day celebrations. As a family, we would rather not spend our first year without Daddy in our family home. Understandably. So, we figured by doing everything…