Metallic Blue Maxi Dress - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Hi there,

Welcome to my blog. 

I hope I find you well and enjoying February. 

The weather has improved over the past week or so and it’s been lovely to actually venture outside to take photos. If you follow me on Instagram you’ll see I’ve taken full advantage of the Winter sun and taken some lovely shots in the road outside my house. It’s always a tad embarrassing doing this isn’t it. I either get lots of questions, funny looks or get ignored! lol!

On Monday’s post I mentioned I’d been to a surprise birthday party and promised to share the dress I wore. Today I’m keeping that promise and showing off a stunning maxi I’d been kindly sent by Izabel London.

Items marked with * have been gifted to me, however these are 100% my own honest comments. 

Black & White Shirt Dress for Shopping.

Hi my friends, how are you all?

I’ve had a great weekend starting on Friday when I went to my usual ballroom class. We finished off learning the Rumba and I have to say it’s another wonderful dance that’s quite hard to get right as the technique is rather tricky. It’s been a three wheeler, although I missed the second installment when I was at a party for my friends 60th last week! 

On Saturday after a few hours in the garden - tackling the dreaded hedge again, we were out for my BIL’s surprise 60th party. His daughter put on an amazing evening with some delicious picky food and plenty of drinks. You’d have thought I’d have learned my lesson from the previous weeks party but yet again I had a few too many and felt really tired on Sunday morning, so much so I didn’t get up until 11 and even then it was a slow day ending with dinner at my daughters! Her husband cooked a tasty roast lamb dinner with trimmings. I’ve started a keto diet again (I lost two stone before Covid hit, but it’s slowly piled on again!) so I enjoyed the meat and veg with one small roast potato! I’m only a week in but so far it’s going well! I’ll be sharing the maxi dress I wore on Thursday, you can tell me if you think it might need shortening!

I thought I’d show an outfit I wore shopping last week, I knew I’d be trying stuff on so wanted an easy-to-change-in-and-out-of outfit. Do you like what I picked?

Chanel Style Cardigan - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hello and welcome to Mummabstylish. 

How’s your week going?

Out shopping later and I’m excited to see what the stores are offering now. Is there going to be any Spring styles I wonder. I’ve not bought much over the past few weeks but the couple of bits I have found have been great additions. My leopard coat has been a wonderful choice, did you see it here? These boots have been incredibly versatile, because they have a low heel which makes them comfortable to wear, so my skirts and dresses have been making an early comeback since I bought them in the sale for £12!!

Now for some of you tomorrow might be a special day. If you don’t know it’s Valentine’s Day. A day of declaring your love for someone and giving gifts and cards to prove that!  I must say it’s not a day David and I celebrate, I rather think it’s a money making hype that the industry takes full advantage of! We treat every day as a special day and don’t need one particular day to prove how much we love each other. It’s the little things that mean more in my mind, the cup of tea in bed, the cooked dinners, getting up for work each day when I spend the day at home, the list goes on. So don’t feel bad if you don’t enjoy the day, likewise if you do participate I hope you have a wonderful day with your loved one. ❤️

Here’s my casual outfit I wore yesterday and I hope you enjoy the twist!

Items marked with * have been gifted to me, however these are 100% my own honest comments. 

Weekend Wear.

Hello and welcome to the blog.

Hoping you've had a super weekend, what did you get up to?

Mine has been a very busy one, with me going out on both Friday and Saturday night.

Friday instead of dancing I went to a friends 60th birthday party.  I was unusual to venture out on a Friday evening but it was very much enjoyed.  It was held in a restaurant in my local city.  Canterbury is just a 15 minute car journey and we were lucky enough to be dropped off by my daughter.  Drinks flowed and little sushi offerings were served by the waitresses and they were all so very tempting I had to try all of them! The singer offered brilliant music to dance the night away and as you all know I love to dance I took full advantage and didn't sit down!  Having had such a fantastic night the following morning was errr … a bit challenging, especially as I'd agreed to take my grandson to his football match at 10 in the morning!  I really didn't feel like going out and would have loved to roll over and pull the duvet over me!  I'd never let the kids down so pulled myself together and headed out to the local school playing field where the match was being played.  I can honestly say I felt so much better after being out in the fresh air, albeit very chilly - but it really did wake me up!  The rest of the day was spent on the sofa with a furry throw over me.  I had to get myself re-charged for the night out with my daughter and son-in-law!

So Saturday night we went out to have a few drinks and eat at the local tapas.  Four of us spent a wonderful few hours enjoying delicious dishes including garlic prawns, tortilla, chorizo in spicy honey to name but a few.  We'd also enjoyed a G & T in a local micro pub and a glass of English sparkling wine in a new little wine bar before having the tapas and after that we popped into our local for a couple of drinks to finish the night off!  They had a band playing and it was a fantastic atmosphere as the pub was full to the brim of dancers, singers and drinkers all enjoying the night.  It wasn't a late night as we were home by midnight but after the previous evenings partying I did feel a bit jaded yesterday.  We still managed to prepare and cook a roast chicken which went down very well.  All in all the weekend has been one to remember!

I'm sad to say I didn't get any photographs of my outfits, but might try and take some to share with you a bit later on! Watch out for a late edit. 

Pearls with a cream outfit - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Good morning my friends. 

How’s it going for you? Is February treating you kindly?

I’ve been making good use of my extra time and space since my daughter moved out. I’ve taken photos in the dressing room and a few outside when the weather was nice, today’s shot shows the clear sunny weather we had yesterday when I styled this new jumper * from Bonmarche. 

Items marked with * have been gifted to me, however these are 100% my own honest comments. 

January Review.

Morning all. 

How are you. 

How did January fair for you? Didn’t it go slowly! I think that’s because of the cold weather which, at times, was extremely cold! January is always a long month being the middle of Winter when most of your money has been spent over Christmas so there’s not much shopping etc. with that being said I did purchase a couple of items, including these trousers and long boots. (Both featured below).

I’m excited to see what’s going to be in favour this month which will depend on the weather I think, but Spring is on its way and there’s sure to be some pretty colours and outfits to dream about & work out how to incorporate them into my already quite extensive wardrobe!

So let’s take a look at some of those new bits I was telling you about in the …

January Review. 

My first post featured what I wore for NYE and doesn’t that seem a long time ago!  This sparkly top might not be restricted to the festive period and I might have to incorporate it into everyday wear like I did with this sparkly jumper last week!

Styling my Leopard Print Coat - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Good Morning my friends. 

How are you?

I'm getting back into the swing of things now.  The house is sort of back to normal, but there is a gaping hole where Emily, Dan, Max and Violet once were, but I've seen them nearly everyday and we're off to their house for dinner tonight, so things aren't that bad! David and I went to our other daughter's for dinner in the week and I still have two at home, so it's still a very busy and very much a fun-anything-can-happen household. 

I've been taking photos again in my dressing room and have moved things around so I've got a bit more space which is good - you'll have to let me know what you think of my latest photos, because these were taken in there on Tuesday.   

Now it's all about my new coat today.  I spotted a friend on Instagram styling a similar version and loved the whole look so set about re-creating it.  It's not a total copy but basically very similar - with my twist on it.  Here's a link to my friends look, let me know if you think I've succeeded please. X

Style not Age share their Winter Woolies.

Morning my friends. 

How are you on this last Monday of the month?

I’m a bit sad. Emily and family moved back home to their new house over the weekend and I have to say I’m feeling the empty nest syndrome again! They’ve been here for 18 months which is a long time and I’ve got used to them being here including little Max and our new darling Violet. I’ve given myself a talking to as I know these feelings will pass, after all I’ve done it with her once already and I’ll still spend quality time with them in the future. It’s such a beautiful little house now, everything is new and it’s been lovely to watch it all come together after so much hard work. I’m hoping to get back into photo taking, blogging and sharing on all my social media platforms much like I did before they arrived. I’m sure many of you know how I feel and I’m very fortunate to have her and her older sister down the road only 5 mins away and my son is just 1/2 hour away too. X

So let’s get into this post. As you know I get together with three other ladies (did you see that Gail has taken a step back so is no longer joining us)? I wish her well and all good vibes for whatever she does, I’m sure you’ll still see her when she puts a blog post out. 

Our challenge is set by one of us to style clothes around a particular prompt and this month it was Anna’s turn and she came up with a snuggly title of ….

Winter Woolies. 

Items marked with * have been gifted to me, however these are 100% my own honest comments.

Do you need Orthotics? - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Good morning my friends.

How has your week and month been?

With the days being short, dark and damp I've not felt like doing much at all.  I've not been into any shops so don't know what new pieces have arrived, although my local city Canterbury is big we don't seem to be one of the first places to receive new styles, they seem to come along a while after I see things posted on Instagram.  I've been shopping my wardrobe quite a lot but long to see what's 'new in'.

On Saturday I went to a friend's surprise birthday dinner.  His wife had arranged a super meal with 18 of us being served a delicious dinner and she had a table and chairs laid out for all of us!  You remember I'm doing 'dry January' so I took a bottle of Nozeco and marvelled the next morning when I had no headache.  I'm wondering if this will change my views on drinking and I might just have a tipple at the weekend in February, but I'll see how that goes.  

I'm not looking forward to the weekend as Emily, her husband and two kids move out.  It's been a super 18 months with them all and I'm going to miss little Max immensely, not to mention my new grand-daughter Violet, it's going to be very weird. My house is going to be very quiet, albeit very tidy, but I know what I prefer to have!  Their home, which was a bungalow, has now been extended up making three bedrooms, a bathroom and en suit upstairs, with a big space for a kitchen, dining room and sitting room along with an office, cloakroom and play room/snug.  They've got lots of storage and extra space and will be enjoying it all in brand new surroundings!  The best part is that it's only 5 minutes down the road, so I'm really excited.  x

This is a sponsored post, all comments are my own honest views.

December Review.

Good Morning.

Hope you’ve had a super weekend. 

I’ve been a bit all over the place with posts recently, and you eagle eyed people might have noticed I didn’t do a December Review! I hold my hands up to basically forgetting about it! I was so caught up with posting, I hadn’t realised the first Monday of January should have been the review, so without any further excuses here’s last month’s review. 

Welcome to December Review. 

My first post for the festive month was so apt and featured me making a door wreath with my daughters. We had an amazing couple of hours squeezed in between dropping kids to school and pre-school with all of us creating some quite magnificent masterpieces - well I think they were, what do you think?