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

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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?

A Floral dress for Winter - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hello and welcome to the blog. 

Thursday came around really quickly for me!

I was literally sitting scrolling through my phone, IG and TikTok last night and suddenly realised I’d not sorted this blog post out!

After my two gym classes yesterday I’m feeling tired and very achy. The first class on a Wednesday morning is Body Attack (anyone do this class?) and it was a new workout and was filed with star jumps, and bouncing on the wrong part of my feet making my calves really sore and so I have ached all the time since doing the class yesterday morning. I reckon it’ll take a couple of weeks to get used to the new routines & then I hope it’ll get a tad easier! 🤞

I’ve been trying to up my Instagram game over the past week and a bit, posting every week day and it’s been great to look at that social platform in a different way. Instead of comparing myself to other accounts, I’m just sharing my daily outfits most of which I shop my wardrobe for.  

I’d wanted to wear my latest boots, so picked this dress to style them with. The boots came from my local George store and were in the sale for £15. Now I know I didn’t really need them, but had been wanting a lower heeled knee high boot for a while, I wanted to wear my dresses but didn’t want ankle boots of my older leather pair. These have a ruched effect and are made from imi-suede and are nice and cosy with side zip on the ankle. They sit just below the knee and will look super with all my dresses and skirts so you’ll be seeing these again very soon I’m sure. 

I’ve also decided every time I get something new I will get rid of something either to the charity shop or be sold on Vinted - seems a good idea don’t you think? Out with the old and in with the new!

Styling my Fleece Lined Leggings from Lovall.

Hello it’s great to have you here. 

Well hasn’t it been cold!

I’ve been freezing all the time, well unless I’m wrapped up in my bed! It’s all been about layers for me and these dreamily warm leggings from Lovall Leggings have been a godsend, I excited to share them below.  How are you coping with the weather. Isn’t it crazy how lots of places are struggling with awfully cold weather and others are in a terrible predicament of the wild fires! My heart goes out to the poor people in America who are facing this catastrophe. 

My weekend went well and wasn’t too busy. On Saturday I took my grandson to the cinema. We watched Sonic the Hedgehog 3, he loved it and although it wasn’t my sort of film I had a brilliant time with him.  I’ve been doing presents for the grandkids a little bit of a different way in recent years, so rather than getting them a big expensive present I like to take them out and do something special on their own. I took Amelia to see Frozen with her mum and my other daughters, I took Freddie to the cinema and also swimming in a local private pool and last year I took Peyton to the cinema too. 

After the cinema, where we loaded up with sweets and a slush drink we went to McDonalds for burgers. I throughly enjoy my one to one’s (well a bit more of us with Amelia) and plan to do this sort of thing a lot more with the rest of the kids. ❤️

Sunday was a lazy day, avoiding the cold by staying in with the heating on. We had a nice roast chicken with a tray bake of various roasted vegetables which made a lovely alternative to a traditional roast dinner, do you like to go “off piste” for Sunday dinners sometimes?

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

Winter Whites with Tan Boots - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Good morning everyone. 

Thanks for joining me today. 

It’s the first linkup of 2025, I hope you’ll add all your wonderful outfits so we can all enjoy them. 

I’ve been back to the gym this week and gosh how tired I feel after three classes and a swim! I reckon it’ll take me a couple of weeks to get back to my normal fitness. 

It’s also good to get back into blogging and taking photos. The weather has been fairly reasonable recently so I took full advantage of having a bit of free time and with nicer temps I managed to get these super photos sharing my tan boots which I was kindly gifted a few weeks ago. 

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

 

Grey Trousers with Pale Blue and Burgundy Bag.

Morning everyone and welcome to Mummabstylish. 

Apologies for another delayed post, I promise things will get back to normal in due course. 

So pleased you’ve found my blog and thanks to you all for joining me today. 

To any new followers I thought as it’s a new year I’d take the opportunity to tell you a little bit about myself and why I started this blog. 

When my youngest left school and went to work I suddenly felt out of place, having not worked (well paid work) since having my eldest daughter I feared I wouldn’t find something that suited me, fitted into my lifestyle and that I could do! I wanted something that would fit around my busy life helping my hubby and looking after my children (not that they needed me much) & subsequent grandchildren. I also reached an age where I felt my fashion and style should change. I looked to other outlets namely blogs to find out what I ‘should’ be wearing and do you know what I found & realised? Well I found that I could decide what I should wear and not be dictated to by anyone else. My one rule is that I wear clothes that I feel flatter my figure and don’t wear anything that I feel looks wrong. I dip into fashions here and there but generally I’m a classic girl and prefer to wear things like wide leg trousers, midi skirt lengths and elegant styles. With that being said I do grab a trendy item if I think it looks okay on me. 

So before I knew it and with a bit of help along the way ( ok a lot) my blog was born and has thrived. I look to it as almost a diary and like to look back on posts to find out what I was doing, wearing and thinking … to be honest it’s rather therapeutic too, although I tend not to go into too much detail of more personal matters, you just never know what could happen the future do you!

I’m intrigued to find out what 2025 will bring and am excited to move forward with the blog and my other social platforms. I hope you’ll stick around and continue to follow and support me and will be publishing the brand new Chicandstylish Linkup on Thursday so I hope you’ll pop by for it. 👏

I’ve been so fortunate over the past few months having received some amazing gifts, therefore needing more clothes has been almost negligible. However needing and wanting are two completely different things aren’t they! 

I had to return a couple of bits last week, so like you do came home with these lovely trousers from Matalan. 

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

Happy Sparkly New Year - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Hello and welcome to the blog which is my first one of 2025!

How did your Holiday festivities go? Did you have a wonderful time seeing in the new year?

The last few days were typical “twixmas”, with me not quite knowing what day it was!! David has been off work which has been lovely & I’ve not been to the gym or any classes so everything has been upside down, I love having David at home but can’t wait to get back to my gym classes and I’ve got my first booked next Monday. I’m also undertaking Dry January. I did it last year and surprised myself at how easy it was. I’m hoping this year with be the same, so I’ll be getting the Nozeco in for starters!

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

 

Style not Age are Golden Girls.

Morning everyone. 

How did your Christmas go?

Mine went really well, I’m so pleased it wasn’t the usual stressful buildup with me worrying at every opportunity, did have enough of everything, were the presents right, had I spent an equal amount on the kids etc, the stress involved makes my blood pressure almost burst! If I’m honest the reason I was so laid back was the extremely sad & unexpected loss of a friends daughter, I won’t go into any detail but the young 21 year old lost her life due to a rare illness that hadn’t been discovered until about 6 weeks before her passing! It’s all been a big shock to me and my family let alone how it’s affected her family & close friends. It’s made me look at life in a whole different way. There’s so many bigger things to worry about so therefore Christmas and all it brings is low on the list. Suffice to say everyone had a lovely time and were happy with their gifts. 

Our Christmas dinner was delicious too, there was 6 of us on the 25th followed by 20 on Boxing Day. The table setting worked out okay too, we moved the smaller table into the dining room which the kids sat round - making use of the ‘make do’ chairs … anyone else use a hop up stand with a cushion and table cloth on it?? 🤭 

I’d made my traditional chicken liver pate, red cabbage and David produced an amazing gravy from the stock made from the giblets, a dying trend I think as most people use a stock cube and hot water! How do you make your gravy?

I got some amazing present and was very spoilt, although my list was smaller this year, for obvious reasons and most were items I needed more than just what I wanted! One thing in particular was a dressing table stool. It’s a very welcomed addition which has a padded seat that’s got a storage compartment and it’s very sturdy. 

So back to today’s post. It doesn’t seem that long ago it was the beginning of 2024 and I was excited to see what that would bring. Well I’ve had another granddaughter to spoil and love along with helping build our new house along with helping my daughter in her new extension, it’s been a very busy year! I wonder what 2025 holds?

As it’s the last Monday of the month and year, it’s the last Style not Age challenge too. Our prompt was set by Emma, and her choice was met with enthusiasm as there was so many possibilities.  Let’s see how well we completed ….

Golden Girls. 

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Bonmarche Knitwear - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Good morning my friends. 

How are you doing?

This will be the last post before Christmas as things are proving busier than I anticipated. I’ve got most things sorted and no major plans to do anything but I want to chill and get everything ready without any dramas!  Are you all sorted for the big day?

Today I’m meeting the ballet ladies for a Christmas lunch. It’s nice to see people in a different setting when there’s more time to chat about other things rather than ballet talk. We’re going to a chain restaurant that’s just down the road from me and I’m excited to see what’s on the menu ( I love Christmas dinner, but think that’ll be too much as I normally have a meal with David in the evening so we shall see). In the morning I’m planning to wrap my presents and then I can work out the remainder of gifts I need which I need to get, to be honest, isn’t that much!  

I also managed to do a little reel today, it’s for my IG account but I’m sharing the pieces with you today, can you guess what I’ll be wearing Christmas Day?

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

Festive clothes from Roman.

Hi there.

How’s are you?

Another busy week for me resulting in no blog post or linkup on Thursday, apologies for that. I think we must all have that problem at this time of the year, something has to give doesn’t it! Will try to get back to normal soon. 🤞

Have you been out on any Christmas ‘do’s’ yet? I’ve been out once with David when we had a meal with friends in a local restaurant. We went with four friends and you can find out all about my night further on!

I’m also out on Saturday to see a show in London and the following day out to a venue on the coast that’s got a tribute singer that I’m excited to see and we’ll have some drinks and a meal there too. Quite excited to dress up and get into the festive spirit. 

Today’s post features some elegant and fancy festive clothes that I’ll be putting to good use this next month or so and in the years to come as I always opt for classic styles rather than fashionable trends. Can you guess what I’ll be wearing next weekend? Answers at the bottom of this post!