OOTD: Friday 26th June 2015

Yay! Have caught up with myself!

Here is what I'm wearing right now! With all the heat today, even this dress was too much. I ended up knotting the skirt up during lunch duty because the playground was so bloomin' warm!

Love the pattern on this dress! £2 at the car boot - why, thank you! 

Below are the sandals that I seem to be spending my life in at the moment! They are so comfy and cool in all the heat. They are from JustFab and I love them. I wear them so much that some of the gems have started to fall out but I'm not to bothered - they still look brilliant. 

M xx

OOTD: Wednesday 24th June 2015

I didn't manage to take any photos of what I was wearing on Tuesday. The day was mental and I was running super late! These photos are a little dark. I love the top - it's one of my favourite car boot buys so far!

The top is originally from the TU range at Sainsbury's. I love the flowers on it and the material is nice and light for the summer weather too. These grey jeans are huge now too! Will need to be buying some new trousers in the sales after the summer! 

M xx

OOTD: Sunday 21st June 2015

Happy Fathers Day everyone! 

I got loads of compliments today about how I'm looking which was really lovely to hear! These photos are a little dark but you get the gist of the outfit.

The top is from a car boot sale. £1 - yes please! The jeans are from New Look, they are a size 18 and absolutely huge! I can get my arm down the side of my leg whilst wearing them. When I bought them, they were a squeeze. This week has been full of so many non scale victories, I'm actually starting to believe that my body is changing. Everyone else is starting to notice too! I love the compliments that I'm getting. I just want to keep going now and showing myself just how brilliant I can look! (more than I already do)

M xx

OOTD: Wednesday 17th June 2015

Today I embraced the summer - even though the morning was actually cold! This dress is orignally from Sainsbury's in their TU collection but I got at a car boot sale. Still in perfect condition and less than half the price, I can guarantee! It's a big win all round!

My waist is kind of emerging here. I like the cut of the dress a lot. I have to wear a little crop top underneath to raise the 'dip' of the neck line. It's a little low cut for school but a small vest top does the trick just fine to make it appropriate. I'm wearing a spaghetti strap, navy blue vest top underneath the dress here. It was from New Look about 3 years ago and I still wear it under things all the time and when it's really hot - by itself. 

The sandals are from JustFab, I love them. I've literally worn them every day this week so far - I am getting tan lines on my feet from wearing them so much! They have a lovely jeweled panel up the middle which is really pretty and they pretty much cover my tattoo which is also a bonus for the classroom. 

If/when I remember I will take a close up picture of the sandals and post it. I love them

M xx

OOTD: Saturday 13th June 2015. Another Night Out!

So, I went out again! Second night in a row, talk about dancing the night away! I am totally shattered today. Spending the day in bed, just chilling out... was a great weekend but will need an early night tonight.

The top is from the car boot! Oh yes, £1 clubbing top, never worn. I thank you! It's lovely. The little black skirt is New Look, only been able to get back into in the last 2 months or so so I like wearing it out! Reminds of how far I've come already. Standard black tights and the same shoes that I wore out on Friday. To see them (and my outfit from my first night out this weekend, click here)

Probably won't be a post for OOTD today - I'm just in pj's in bed. :P

M xx

OOTD: Friday 12th June 2015 - Outfit Of The Night

After the pub of Friday, I was in such a good mood! It was a brilliant evening with a whole lot of laughs and jokes going on. Perfect way to end the week and I just didn't feel like I was ready to end that party feeling. Sometimes I just get the need to go and dance, so that is exactly what I did.

I drove back to Guildford, got ready and drove back to Kingston for a T-Total night out with one of the girls from work and just danced for hours. Excellent night from start to finish!

This is one of my car boot finds and I was really excited to wear it out. It's such a lovely colour and the lace is so pretty. I wore it with black tights but couldn't be bothered to put them back on this morning to take these pictures.

Hello thigh definition! :D Finally seeing some progress in weight loss and toning. Don't actually think I look too bad in this dress which is a very nice thing to feel. 

Rounded the outfit out with these boots. They are from New Look, about 5 years old and I still love them. They are so comfy which is perfect for a long night on the dance floor. 

M xx

Spoils Of A Good Sale!

Oh My Gosh! Do I love a car boot sale! 100% addicted to them. Hook Road Arena Car Boot is the place to be on a Sunday morning for a bargain and the good weather this weekend brought out a whole lot of store owners and their wonderful products!

And I, being a willing customer, took full advantage!

I got this stunning set of classic books for only £2 (for all of them)!!

This is a stunning dress, already fits but will look better when I slim into a little more. 

This top is originally from the TU collection. It was in lovely condition and for the very reasonable price of £1, how could I refuse? 

Need to slim into this. It's quite tight, but I love it. The pattern is lovely and I can wear it all year round. 

LOVE LOVE LOVE this! It's a size 12 but because of the material and the cut I can already get into it. It'll look better when I actually am a size 12 not a 14/16, but it was a such a beautiful pattern that I couldn't leave it hanging on the rack. 

RochaJohnRocha for £2? Yes please! Perfect for school.

CANNOT WAIT until this fits! It's a size 14 but it's so fitted that it won't fit until I've dropped some more weight. It's stunning, I really want to wear it to a social dance at some point - hopefully I'll be thin enough to get into it soon. 

Maxi dress for the beach! Love the summer! I got another maxi dress too which has a stunning, dark aztec pattern on it but I was wearing it when I took all these photos and forgot to take a selfie. Will post it in my OOTD series soon. 

My favourite buy of the day was my bean bag chair which is actually the comfiest thing I have ever sat on! It has become my new blog chair!

This dress it stunning! It's a floor length purple lace dress with lace sleeves and an open back. Obly problem is, it's a 14 petite so me and my sister are going to be have to do some alterations to it when I'm thin enough to actually look good in it. The skirt needs lengthening and we are going to take some of the sunder skirt out so that it's a little less formal. It'll be perfect for summer parties! 

As well as all this I got a beautiful ring, 4 stunning canvases to hang in my new house (when I finally buy it) and some hanging lanterns for my bedroom. All for the grand total of £29, what can I say?! A massive success at the car boot! 

#100happydays Project Days 57 to 63

Another week has come and gone! It's been a long and very busy one but a week that I have thoroughly enjoyed.

Day 57) Dad took me out on a training run for my upcoming 10km run and a triathlon the following weekend. I got a PB! Beating my previous fastest time by over 30 seconds. I was so pleased, having a training partner rocks!

Day 58) Ballroom time! I'm hoping to move up to Thursday class soon as Tuesdays are starting to become frustrating as I'm not dancing as much as I'd like to. Will be speaking to my teacher to see how long it'll be until she'll let me move up. Hopefully it's soon! 

Day 59) Mum introduced me to Shepperton Lake this week. It's a stunning lake where you can go and lake swim. Such good practice to triathlon and a fantastic experience in general. 

Day 60) HEAT WAVE! It was hot today that, after a very long lunch duty in the playground, I treated myself to a Mint Magnum. Yum! 

Day 61) I crashed my parents date night on Friday and wandered to the pub with them. Mum then bought me dinner so it was a double win for me, catch up with the 'rents and a free dinner. 

Day 62) Back to lake on Saturday morning for another swim! Was so beautiful in the early morning sun. 

Day 63) Car boot win! Found a bean bag chair! It is the comfiest thing I have ever sat in.... absolutely love it. The rest of my spoils weren't bad either! I do love a car boot now! 

So, there you have it, yes another week of happy times finished. 

Here's to another week!

I hope everyone reading this is finding time to appreciate the little things in life. Even if they don't seem to mean much, the tiny moments of happiness we can find in day to day life make a whole of difference in the long run.

What is your happy moment of today?

M xx

90s Flashback

My colleague, Sarah, as anyone who has read my post on Car Boot Sales will know, is a bit of an addict when it comes to a bargain. Her most recent random purchase was a pair of roller blades. The old inline skates of the 90s. I was transported back to my childhood of S Club 7, The Spicegirls, crimped hair and demin skirts. It was fantastic. There is little better than re-indulging in 90s pop culture!

When Sarah told me that she had started skating, I was mighty impressed. We were ice skating when she told me that she'd been practicing which made a lot of sense as apparently (according to herself) she was finding it much easier this time around.

I remembered that I had a pair of old skates in the garage, untouched for at least 5 years. Sarah was so enthusiastic about the whole idea that I thought I'd join her for a session or two - thinking that it would help with my ice skating and that I could try and learn some fancy footwork tricks that I have wanted to learn since I first started ice skating.

After a little hunt, and a near miss with my sisters very similar but 3 sizes too small skates, I found mine. Covered in dust and half buried under a pile of wetsuits, there they were. Thank goodness Mum is a hoarder of all our old stuff!

Appearing from the garage with my skates at 6:10am meant that I received some rather strange looks from my father. 'Megan, what are you doing?'
'I'm buying an elephant... what does it look like, Dad?'
'Oh right, okay. Well. have fun.' Was pretty much how the conversation went.

I was quite looking forward to end of the day when Sarah and I could strap on our skates and roll off down the road. It was going well for about the first 5 mins until I realised that my skates weren't working quite so well as I remembered. I can skate just fine, but it was taking a hell of a lot of effort to get going and to keep going. The minute I stopped pushing forward the skates would stop... it was all push and no glide. I was losing Sarah in the distance as she powered off on her lovely, new, still in good condition skates. I was getting more and more frustrated by the fact that I couldn't actually skate in my old, tatty inlines.

I stopped in the park for a while as Sarah did a few small laps of the path. She looked like she was having a great time and that only made it more annoying as I wanted to join in. 'Damn skates!' I kept thinking. If I was bad at skating, I would have been less annoyed but when your skates are letting you down and you can actually skate fairly it, it is SO irritating to have to sit and watch someone else skate around.

The evening ended in me walking home in my socks, thoroughly annoyed that I couldn't enjoy my evening. Feeling really ticked off, I went home with the mind to give my skates a good service - this has not happened yet. I'm going to keep my eyes open at the car boot tomorrow for a new pair. If there aren't any there, I shall take mine apart and give them a good clean!

Here's to a more successful session soon - after I can work out why my skates are being so damned frustrating. (First world issues)

Officially A Car-Boot Convert

So, on Sunday I embarked on my first ever Car Boot Sale and it is safe to say that it was a total triumph!!

It was a very early start - 6:30am on a Sunday is an hour that I never see... if was almost physically painful to pull myself out of my beautifully warm bed - but I arrived, ready with flask of hot chocolate in hand, at my colleague and friend, Sarah's house at 7:30am for a shopping bonanza.

We wandered over to a lovely array of fields. You've got to love a good field on a Sunday, haven't you?
No?
Just me?
...... Okay, moving on!

After a mild panic that the circus had moved in and the car boot had moved out, Sarah and I embarked upon the mission that was 'Do NOT let Sarah buy any more dresses!!' A great feat for anyone who knows Sarah and her love of all things lacy, floral and knee length! Straight away, I was overwhelmed buy the sheer amount of stuff  that was there. Literal mountains of clothes, stacks of books and DVDs (which I treid to avoid as I known near on 300 DVD's already). Baby toys....everywhere! Electrical stuff, shoes, bread and cakes (the cakes were GOOD). It was a little hard to know where to begin.

Sarah had it covered though, apparently there is an art to reading each stall. You have to do the well known Miranda Hart 'sweep browse' to work out what sort of stuff they were selling and to get a feel for what age range of stuff will be there. There were a lot of stall that were aimed for the older generation but it was really interesting to see what sort of stuff people bring to sell at car boot sales.

We started to browse with intent of buying as we got into the swing of things - I wanted some new dresses for school (and was trying to avoid the DVDs which failed in the end) and Sarah wanted a lawn mower, any antique knives and forks and anything to do with hens. Clothing rails are a really interesting phenomenon when at the car boot - in the space of just one rail you can come across anything from men's swimming trunks to children party dresses, to a full set of tartan M&S pyjamas to prom dresses. It was quite a laugh having a rummage through all the random stuff and finding the actualy nice stuff that you would actually want to wear.

As I got into my groove, my self restraint went out of the window - when you're searching every clothes rail to see if anything grabs your fancy it is quite easy to forget your budget. However, I feel like I did rather well until I reached the last stall of the our roam around the field. I came across the Kingdom of DVDs (as named by me) It was just a table with rows and rows of movies and tv shows. It was like kryptonite to me - and then the stall owner told me that ALL DVDs were only 50p and that was it. I was gone! DVD hoarding at is finest - that is what happened.

So, at the end of our Car Boot Bonanza I had spent the small sum of £22.50. And for this price I managed to buy 5 dresses, a top and 8 DVDs. I was very happy with this total as I would normally spend £22 on only one dress.... so I managed to gain 13 items on top of one dress for only an extra 50p..... you can't argue with that now, can you?

Now, Sarah also had a very successful car boot and managed to buy not only a metal hen shaped hanging basket but also a lawn mower and the bonus of a rake! Walking home, I did feel a little like Baby from Dirty Dancing as I had a strange 'I carried a lawn mower' moment as I trudged it back over 3 fields. My suspicions in Sarah's befriending of me were confirmed - she uses me for my height and for my car (Sarah, if you are reading this, I love you and I'm joking haha).

Naturally, when we got home Sarah mowed her lawn, as once you've bought a lawn mower you can't not use it immediately and I tried on all my new clothes because, as Sarah stated, I'm such a girl! I am 100% converted to a car boot sale and Sarah will now have to put up with my company for many more early Sunday mornings! WAHOO!

Check in soon
M xx