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Vintage Bunny

I’ve been scouring the internet for sweet bunny stuff (my daughter was obsessed with rabbits when she was little so it’s stuck with me – I always associate anything rabbity with her) and it’s been quite the adventure. Let me tell you, there are some pretty awful rabbit representations out there! Mostly, jewellers try to do something a bit clever and the result ends up looking like freshly hung game around your neck, not a wholesome, cute.. and crucially.. LIVE bunny! Anyway, I love this first one best of all.. it’s a tiny gold representation of the Sylvac bunnies that were made in the 1930’s and are very collectable now. The price is from £100 (gold, rose gold and silver options) and you can get an initial engraved on the bottom. They’re HERE.

Bunny Necklace

This is the Alex Monroe version – a much more sophisticated bunny, all alert and ready to go. There’s so much detail in Alex Monroe jewellery – I have a beautiful bird necklace that I love. This bunny is £120 in silver or gold plate HERE.

Etsy Bunny

Finally, a little Etsy find – and I love this for being quirky and different. It’s gold plate and $27 (international shipping) but listed as only one left….. hurry! It’s HERE.

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Flamboyante

Actually, there are two shades of lipstick in the Chanel Plumes Precieuses de Chanel collection – Flamboyante above, and another shade, Volage, which is more of a peachy nude colour and nowhere near as show-stopping as Flamboyante.

Flamboyante

You can see from the swatch that it’s a real smack of red – I can’t detect any blue tones in this shade at all. The Rouge Velvet Allure is more of a matte texture than I like, but it’s a very smooth application that feels quite nourishing on the lip. However, if you’re after Flamboyante, I’d definitely ask for a swatch in store – I’ve a feeling it might do that yellow-tooth thing.

Or Blanc

The final item I have to show you is Stylo Yeux in Or Blanc (limited edition) – a white-gold eye liner.

Or Blanc

By taking the warmth and heat out of the gold and blending it with white, it’s a gorgeous match for Flamboyante. I’m thinking if you like that stark eye look, Or Blanc is perfect for achieving it.

Flamboyante will cost £26 (lim ed) and Or Blanc will cost £19.

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Oh, the Space NK Goody Bag: always sent to tempt us. This time, a slightly lower-than-usual spend threshold and perhaps a slightly lower value, though I am yet to tot up the contents. Hold on while I grab my calculatrice… I can tell you for a start that the minimum spend is £100, and inside the goody bag there’s a FULL SIZE Cleansing Oil from NUDE, worth £28. (Read about it on the site here.) Then there’s a deluxe sample of Sunday Riley’s Good Genes – equivalent value £28 (30ml costs £85 and it’s a 10ml tube) – as well as a gorgeous little box of Aromatherapy Associate Bath Oils (approx £17.50), some Eyeko eye patches (aarrrr, me hearties!), a miniature Becca primer and a little Algenist Eye Balm worth about £22.

If the sample of the Revive Even Skin Tone Cream seems a little tight, at 5ml, bear in mind that the full-size pot (50ml) is more expensive than a house. Kind of. At £175, it makes the sample pot, which holds barely enough to cover a gnat’s arse, worth a whopping £17.50. There are also some exfoliating pads from Radical Skincare – I can’t find these on Space NK so perhaps they are new, but you get fifteen of them so a good old stock to have a try with. And there’s a snazzy little makeup bag thrown in, too, bringing my total guesstimate goody bag value up to around £140.

Anyway, the value of the bag is definitely more than the required spend, so if you were in the market for a skincare/bodycare/makeup/candle stock-up then today is the day! My current Space NK favourites are  – just in case you are searching for inspiration – By Terry’s Ombre Blackstar eyeshadow pencil, any By Terry foundation (they are all lush), Living Proof Shampoo and Conditioner, the mammoth-sized Emma Hardie Cleansing Balm and Aurelia’s Miracle Cleanser. Phew.

No code needed for this, it will automatically be added to your basket when you exceed £100 in value. Once the bags run out, you’ll know, because it won’t add one to your order! This offer is for today only, and is exclusive to online shoppers. As always, open worldwide but excluding the US.

Space NK

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Strike Two: my second illness of the season. First I had Mastitis, then yesterday I picked up a funny little tummy bug. It seems to have gone now, but it was terribly intense while it lasted! (I reckon it was the sausages I ate on Friday night, personally, but Mr AMR says it can’t be because he had the same. What he doesn’t realise is that he literally has a stomach lining made of steel and nothing , absolutely nothing, can upset it.)

Strike Three: the third Cormoran Strike book from Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil. I had the hardback on pre-order, so keen was I to read it, but then realised that I needed the Kindle version, because if I turn on the light to read during the middle-of-the-night feed then the baby wakes up properly and all hell breaks loose! I really enjoyed the first two Galbraith novels (we all now know it’s JK Rowling, but there are no wizards and spells here – more grisly deaths and swearing ex-army detectives) and can’t wait to get cracking with this one. I’ve just finished The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (so-so, a bit moral for my current mood!) so will download the Kindle version this evening. Mr AMR can read the hardback at the same time. The race is on… You can buy Career of Evil here – the hardback is currently £9.

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Most excellent purchase of the winter so far: my leopard fingerless gloves from Mango at ASOS. They are more like an extra piece of clothing that an accessory; more a sleeve or an arm-warmer than a mere glove! I have never owned a pair of fingerless gloves before; all of the styles I tried on previously made me look like a bank robber and I couldn’t quite see the point of wearing gloves that didn’t keep my fingers warm. Kind of like wearing toe-less socks – or crotchless knickers, for that matter, though I suspect I’m missing the point with those, somewhere along the line. Anyway, a few wears in (of the gloves, not the knickers!) and I’m a total convert: the leopard pattern stops these from looking too utilitarian and I actually like that my fingers poke through. The bare-flesh/wool ratio is just perfect. (Though ask me again when the proper cold weather sets in. I might well be back in full-coverage handwear.)

The images above are taken from my Autumn Lookbook Video – if you missed that on Youtube then you can watch it by clicking here. The fingerless gloves are from ASOS, as mentioned, the gorgeous double-wrap snood is from Pure Collection and the snakeskin sweatshirt is M&S. I’ve gone in for a bit of a blue-and-grey theme here, but the leopard print goes with just about anything. The gloves are a purse-pleasing £9 here.

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