The Big Shop Block

Hi, my name is Rebecca and I'm an online shopaholic. I'm not proud of this but I've burnt through an alarming amount of money in the last year. Considering I was on maternity leave and am now unemployed it's been a shocking use of my resources - all I have to show for it is an unhealthy obsession with vintage/retro everything and an embarrassingly bulging wardrobe (well actually 3 wardrobes...

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Vintage Fashion not Vintage Ideals

Why hello again you. I have been missing from the blog for an inordinate amount of time which is trés embarrassant given my last post was all "I'm gonna shake this shit up." Oops. That was flipping September 2016. Cue large red face and sheepish grin...I'm not going to make a bunch of excuses except to say KIDS and LIFE. I have felt compelled to write this post because I need to come out...

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Hello... again. I've missed you.

Oh dear. I have been most neglectful of my blog of late. My 'vintage journey' has evolved since the last time I posted here and I feel my blog needs to evolve with it. My writing a post everyday was great but I think a tad optimistic especially given I'm a Mum to two very demanding little boys! I also think my posts were very rambly and unstructured and where I was focussing on writing something,...

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Colour me Happy & a charity shop hoak

My outfit yesterday was an exercise in brightening myself up on the outside in the hope it would do the same for my mood. And do you know what? It actually worked. I have a lovely bright red cardigan from Lindy Bop called 'Hartley' which has cute little heart shaped buttons and a heart pattern all over it. I teamed it with some cropped tight black trousers and a black vest underneath to avoid...

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Tea dress and a crisis of confidence

I've been feeling a bit low the last few days and it's been a struggle to get up the motivation to dress up etc. I've also been finding it hard to leave the house. Not sure why I get bouts of this but it does happen now and again. It's really frustrating. I did have a phone call with HR at the beginning of the week which I was very nervous about and which I think might have triggered this. Although...

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