I hope you all enjoy the final evening of 2012. I'm looking forward to 2013 - see you there!

Love

I've been keeping track of the clothes I bought during 2012 as I was interested to see how much I spent on clothes, shoes and accessories throughout the year. The total will be revealed in early 2013...

I've said this before, but I'll say it again, I love Inspiration Monday for making me mix items and wear outfits that I wouldn't normally think of putting together.

I'm a little rather late on posting this first inspiration. I find it so much harder to take outfit shots when it's dark in the mornings and when I return home from work. Shots taken inside just don't seem to work so well. So, when I do manage to take some shots, albeit not very good ones, I like to use them.


This bag is a recent charity shop purchase. It's leather and soft as butter, originally from White Stuff and cost me the grand sum of £4. It does have a few marks on the bottom so I decided to contact a leather cleaning company that I've seen in the back of magazines, they offer a handbag repair and restore service. They quoted me £200. Yikes! Needless to say that I declined, the marks won't stop me using the bag, and hey, I could always try and remove the marks myself. Any tips?



Last week's inspiration was a cinch for me, I knew as soon as I saw it that I could replicate it pretty well (I'm so glad I didn't throw away this top, despite it's twisted seams).

I am wearing an outfit inspired by this week's celeb, Leona Lewis, today but I'm not going to get a chance to take any shots today... shame. I'm wearing my latest pre loved eBay purchase, I'm chuffed to bits with it. Photos to come soon hopefully!


And to finish, an apology to Megan and Nora for not putting a link into my headless Inspiration Monday post. Bad blogger. Bad. Sorry x

Love

Dear Fringe, Welcome back. I tried to live without you but it turned out that I just couldn't. I feel like me again.

Dear Work, I'm worried. Really worried, why won't you just tell us ALL what's going on? Rumour, speculation and heresay are no substitute for facts - cold and hard as they may be. We're all adults here, we can handle it.

Dear Self, Worry not about the things you can not control.

Dear Self, Now that you have cracked your iPhone screen twice, this time to the point where it no longer works, will you please invest in a rubber case?

Dear Blog Friends, Sorry for my absence. I'm just dealing with the necessary at present and trying to grab some calm in between.

Dear Friday, I am not at work today, it's just you and I. Let's wrap Christmas gifts and put pretty bows on everything!

Love

I can hardly believe that this will be my third Christmas since starting World of Joy, the second spent in our new home and the first Christmas that I will be prepared for well in advance (only a few small things left to do). Hurrah!

I've mentioned before that my boyfriend is all about Christmas and since knowing him my love for the festive season has grown too. For the first time we had a real tree last year. I received an excited text, that read 'I have our Christmas tree in the back of my truck'. I asked him to send me a picture of it and this is what I received.


Yep, funny guy.

We're off to pick out our tree today, it's really starting to feel like Christmas!

Hope you're having a fabulous Monday.
Love

Dear Lavenham Great House Restaurant, Thank you for the excellent service, the delicious food and for the best G&T I've had in a long, long time.

Dear Secret Santa, Chocolates. Perfect, you know me so well!

Dear Three Day Weekend, I am going to enjoy every single second of you.

Dear Blog Friends, Forgive me for such a short post. I'm exhausted.

Hope you all have a great weekend!
Love