The First Orchids on Your Budget

This is the first of the blogs taken from Orchids on Your Budget - some of it is taken direct from the book, and some my modern additions. The next couple of blogs will include Dress Sense, Entertaining and Home as well as Things that you should always do any way!!!

Here is the introduction.

 It isn't the size of your income or lack of it because whatever your income is you it is never enough for the life you would like to live!!

All of us have to budget whether it means giving up the Jimmy Choos (letting the maid go - we are talking 1937) or not having butter on your bread.

Enough money for what? A house like the Jones's, shoes to rival Imelda Marcos or a trip to the Far East?

We would all like to have them but you don't HAVE them - you will feel no better with a bigger house, more clothes or whatever you think you have to have.

What most of us don't concede is that with a little planning and a dash of ingenuity you might have what you want.  Conditions have never been so favourable for those of us who are not millionaires but still want orchids, a wardrobe full of clothes or fabulous parties or attractive apartments and houses.

Don't economize "grubbily", nobody cares or needs to know what your income is - do it with style and subtly so that no-one even notices.

Even dull people can live smartly if they have plenty of money and more often it makes them duller.  A slight financial pressure sharpens the wits.  It takes an interesting person to have an attractive menage on a shoestring and run it with gaiety and charm.

The trick is to have the right attitude.  Most people rundown instead of cutting down not interesting people.  They grasp the obvious facts and conquer it with as much zest as possible.  Given the right point of view you can have enough fun and make the best of life.

Firstly, do not go around complaining about your lot in life.  Whatever your lot in life, it's just a challenge to your resourcefulness with which you work

New Year Resolution Broken

I know that I said that I was going to do my blog more regularly and have not kept to that - in my defense it has not been a great start to 2011 for us.

To begin my mother has been quiet poorly and then last weekend we had to put our beloved Gemma to sleep - our naughty cat as mentioned on this blog.  She has been part of the family for 17 years and the house is not the same without her and I have not been able to think straight and so upset.

Though rest assured I will get back to blogging on a more regular basis and now I have a new toy - my net-book so I can write wherever I am.

More on Orchids on a Budget coming very soon and much much more.

New Year's Resolution

I resolve to be more frequent with my blog this year and go back to the original idea that I had of living as glamorous life as possible.

I bought a lovely book a little while ago and have re-read again over Christmas, it was originally written in 1937 during The Depression and I thought that in this doom and gloom when everyone is having a bit of a credit crunch it would be fabulous to take some of the ideas and adapt them to now although many of them still ring true in the modern times.

So over the next few weeks I will be attempting to give ways to bring a little glamour into to your life without making a huge dent in the bank balance?!!!

New magazine shoot

New images from the lastest copy of The Iceni Guide magazine.  With photos from the lovely Julia Holland again and models from Modelicious, hair by The Egg and make-up by Claire.

These shoots take a lot of organising to get everyone together at the same time as we don't have the big budgets of the glossies, we now have another magazine to shoot for Fine City - we did our first one for them a couple of weeks ago and I will post as soon as the mag has been released.

We - as in Julia, Nikki and myself has set up a new company The Fashion Collective to organise fashion shoots and fashion shows to indepedant stores and fashion companies so if you need us to create an amazing shoot to showcase your clothes then let me know.

More to come on the fashion shoot front soon.  In the meantime you can see some more of my editorial work on my website - http://www.fabulousmissk.co.uk/  - it is still work in progress but if I can ever find the extra two days in the week that I need to get everything done I will make the changes to it and post more on my blog!!!!!

What I have been up to!

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I have been soooo busy and have not found the time to sit down and write my blog so I thought that I would give you a little in sight into what I have been up to.

I am now fashion editor for a wonderful magazine The Iceni Guide edited by the lovley Christina Bellamy working with the very talented Julia Holland from all about image photography and Nicola Louise from Modelicious Model Agency.

I will also be working on another magazine A Fine City.

How much fun can a girl have creating fabulous fashion pages every month??!! I am a very lucky girl to get to play with beautiful clothes everyday and work with very talented people.

A fun forties Sunday afternoon

You all know by now that both my husband and I love our 40's music and events.  Well last Sunday we went back in time to Blythburgh village hall for an old fashioned tea dance. The fabulous Gill and Nigel who run dance classes in Lowestoft (a seaside town on the East coast for those of you who don't know), decorated the hall and made the wonderful cakes and provided us with countless cups of tea - then it was onto the dancing to work off those calories.

Most people dressed up and you know there is no excuse for me to do that! It was great fun and a fabulous way to spend a not so sunny Sunday afternoon.

More Modern Style Icons

Love her or hate her (some people out there do?)  But which ever side of the fence you sit on you can't deny that she has a great look very Studio 54 - 70's Halston chic.  And how can we not love the lady that brings us fabulous shoes season after season.

Now with a hand in bringing us her iconic style to the fore again with the relauch of Halston and Halston Heritage.

This is a shoe closet to die for!!!!!!