My Weekend

I had such a great weekend! It started off with a nice dinner and after work drinks on friday then a fun day trip with my partner and my mum and dad yesterday, and today, I spent the day playing with the dog and enjoying the sunshine in the garden.

Here are some of the interesting things I saw and bought on my day trip to Edinburgh and North Berwick yesterday:-

This vintage leather bucket bag has to be my best bargain for 2012 so far as I got it for only £1......YES £1!!!!!! in a charity shop in Portobello, Edinburgh, I love a good bargain.

In the lovely seaside town of North Berwick is one of my fave little boutiques called "Madame Butterfly". A visit to Madame Butterfly for me, is like a treasure hunt. The boutique is packed full of beautiful interiors and accessories for your home and also dotted around, you will find some gorgeous clothing accessories, vintage pieces and jewels.

I often pick up either some vintage pieces or something for my house when I visit as I love to get something special and something that I wouldn't find back in Glasgow.

My last visit was a few months back and I remember falling in love with a cape that the stylish owner was wearing, although to my dissapointment the cape was something she had picked up on her travels so wasn't available to buy :-( 

Yesterday, on my visit to the boutique I was delighted to see the owner had picked up a couple of the beautiful capes on her travels to sell in the store!! After trying both capes on, I opted for the cape with the lovely browns, greens and gold tones as opposed to the lighter blue and cream shade cape which didn't seem to compliment my dark hair, dark eyes colourings as much. The cape was bought in Oman and is made from a silk-cashmere mix with a faux-fur collar trim and faux-fur trim baubles and it is just stunning on. It's the perfect accessory that will keep me warm in the colder days and keep my skin cool in the summer sun. Apart from seeing the owner wearing her cape, I haven't yet seen anyone wearing this so it makes me love it all the more.

.............So much for not buying anything and saving for London next month!!

As well as my fashion, I love cars, especially vintage cars so when I saw this car, I had to get a few pictures! The vintage car is a Jowett, and the only reason I know this is that the owners had displayed this interesting notice about the car!

All in all, with good company, the first day of sunshine and warmer weather for 2012, nice places to visit, and a finding few lovely accessories to add to my collection, I had a great weekend!

Fun at the Classic Car Show

 

I was in Birmingham at the weekend for the Classic Car Show at the NEC. I spent hours looking around all the beautiful cars. From the brand new to the vintage classics, the show had it all!

If you are into your cars, then I would highly recommend going along to the show if it's on next year. I'd also recommend staying in the Premier Inn hotel at the NEC, as it was really handy for getting to the halls, ideal for getting the train into the centre of Birminham (for the shopping) and the food was great too :-)

As well as checking out the cars, I spent a few hours in the centre of Birmingham in the Bullring shopping centre which was great. We didn't arrive until early afternoon so the shopping centre was so so busy!  I tried on some gorgeous boots in Topshop although they didn't have my size in store :-(   My fab wee mum ended up ordering me them online for part of my christmas (thanks mum!!). My big parcel arrived from Topshop tonight and to my surprise my mum bought me two pairs of boots, spoiled as usual by my mum!

  

Birmingham.... here we come!

This weekend i'm off to Birmingham! I'm heading to the world famous Bullring shopping centre for a spot of retail therapy and on sunday heading to the Classic Car Show at the N.E.C.

Shopping and checking out beautiful classic cars............... I can't wait!!

Last year my dad, brother and granda all went to the car show and they all loved it. 
My brother met Edd China (guy from the t.v show wheeler dealer), my granda took a picture of my brother and Edd, well he thought he was taking the picture! When my brother checked out the picture, Edd's head was missing from it! I think he is super tall :-)
Oh well, if we see him again this year I'll make sure to get his head in the picture this time!!

Mar Hall Spa day

Today was a great sunday! I was treated to a Spa Day by my future sister-in law at the stunning Mar Hall.
Mar Hall is a luxury five-star golf & spa resort located within a tranquil 240 acre woodland estate. 


This was my first ever Spa day experience and what can I say, I could get used to it!! Our day started off relaxing by the pool, popping in and out of the sauna and steam rooms (great for your skin) then a yummy lunch then it was treatment time. We each had a facial and hot stone massage and I can honestly say I have never felt more relaxed than I did today. 


It's not something I would (or could afford to do) regularly but it's perfect for a girly treat once and again. 


Hopefully I'll get a good nights sleep tonight with being so relaxed today!

A different kind of shopping

Today me and my mum went for a different kind of retail therapy ......we went shopping for baby gifts for my friends baby girl.

What can I say, we had great fun as there was so much gorgeous things to choose from!!

I finally picked a pink and white striped sleepsuit with matching hat, a white and lilac spotty sleepsuit set with hat, socks and bib, a Calvin Klein sleepsuit with matching socks and hat, a trendy white and purple zigzag design sleepsuit and 2 pairs of Paul Frank shoes to set all the outfits off!

My mum also picked up some lovely baby things too so that should be a good start for them.

Well, that's me now wrapped everything up in lovely baby girl wrapping paper ready for when baby makes her apperance into the big wide world in the next few days, so so exciting!

Happy Halloween......

I've had a great Halloween today!

I went for dinner in a spooky haunted pub called the Drovers Inn which is by Loch Lomond. The food was amazing and the atmosphere was fun and spooky! Check out my pics.......