sucked in by the smell of roses

Right, I did a naughty thing and used my sister-in-law's face wash. She doesn't appear to like me that much, and she always has a lot of expensive skin care stuff which I always complain about. It's rediculous, I'm sorry, how much is the protect-me-from-the-bad-city-air-tiny-pot-of-goo from clinique? And clinique looks so bland (I have an eye shadow from them but I couldn't find a grey-blue I liked anywhere else)(oh, and a liquid eye liner 'cause their's has a stiff brush), I dont get it at all.

But this time there was a basket full of neal's yard remedies.

And I do mean a couple of bottles, three large jars plus some dr hauschka and some other stuff I've not heard of. Crikey, like a box of treasure.

Now this stuff makes me interested. I've been becomming a bit of a earth mother of late, initiated by the need to get a salt scrub that is functional and not wanting to pay £8 for the pleasure of trying my luck. I've been making fantastic scrubs and have tried (and faltered a bit) to make a body lotion, I'm well into essential oils.

So I thought I'd give the face wash a go. It's a bit rude to stick your fingers in other people's pots of face cream, and the wash has a pump.


It was so nice, it felt great, smelled so beautiful, my skin didn't dry out. Urrgh, I would really like this.

Its £18.90.

For a face wash.

I'm stuck. I'm not convinced yet that you get what you pay for with all of this business. In a moment of total madness, with my first ranger pay, I went and bought the estee lauder "idealist" and "advanced night repair' (I wanted to feel like a grown up woman) and neither of them do anthing. In fact the "pore minimizing skin refinisher" brought me out in more spots than I have had in ages. The other one does smell nice but it doesn't appear to do any more than that. Rubbish. But this face wash......is it just the smell? It seems to have a big list of complicated ingredients that kinda mostly looks like nice things and a couple of those mystical chemical names.

Urrgh.

I usually use this from lush, "Angels on Bare Skin" which is really nice and a bit of a ritual as you have to mix it up in your hand. It has lavender on it! It seems very wholesome, I think I know all the ingredients. But I do seem to find that I need to change between cleansers or they're don't stay so effective. This may be in my mind, I like to get new things.


So should I buy it? I really want to fill up my online shopping basket with pretty blue bottles and get an exciting parcel. Its very hard not too. We'll see.

the long awaited velvet dress

Right, finally, here are some velvet dresses that I would like to have. These are all high end designer ones but maybe if I get the chance I might venture into town to see if there are any around on the high street. I did see short, tight, bodycon, 80's style ones on the Topshop and H&M websites but I cant decide if they are for me yet. I think probably not.



vince
roksanda ilincic
fendi


diane von furstenberg
carin wester
burberry prorsum


azzaro
alexander mcqueen
alberta ferretti

carolina herrera

aquilano e rimondi

BCBG Max Azria

BCBG Max Azria

cynthia Steffe

And here a some non dresses that are nice and velvety. Who'd have thought of gold and velvet all in one skirt? Wow.

anglomania
derek lam


And next time I wear the blue dress I have I'll try and remember to take a photo.

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Dersu Uzala

We watched the film and it is great. The little man (I have been referring to the film as "the film with the little man") is a model of humanity. He calls everything men and talks to the things around, he pays attention and knows what is going on. He is very kind.

Aside from that he has good clothes and stuff. I like the layers and materials and backpack.


This is a picture for Ralph.


An this is a poster for the film which I think is great.

ok, its been too long

Right, I was planning for my next post to be a feature on velvet dresses as I hear that they will be tres on trend this Autumn and Winter and seeing as I bought a lovely blue one from the Toast sale last year I was thinking maybe I'd make the most of being fashionable this season.
I like the idea of velvet dresses.
That there might be some clothes in the shops that I'd actually like to wear.
So I spent however long trying to actually find some. I have ended up trawling through the catwalk reports of all the designers listed on the Vogue website. It's taking a while and I haven't found that many dresses I like.

So, in the meantime I thought I'd put something else up.


These are from the book on Albert Kahn.

homestead

We are looking for a new place which is exciting, however I know it wont be a cabin. All I can think of is building a log cabin and putting quilts everywhere. I watched Frontier House and we could do like the Brooks. Here they are, they have a nice dog too ...


Its the cabin and the garden, lovely.

Yes I know this was a TV show but I believe we could do it. We are very practical people. At least in the place we move to this time, wherever that might be, we will be doing up the inside and making a garden. At the moment I have pots but am planning to make wooden beds so that everything has more room.

toast

Toast has a sale, you can go here and buy good clothes and things for your house. Its really great, there are lots of things that are bear frontier.


Toast