A Day at the Boost Lab Event - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Morning my friends. 

How’s your month been?

We’re heading into the festive season at a pace. It’s Halloween at the weekend and I’ll then be thinking about Christmas (I’ve already bought a couple of gifts!) I’m really getting excited to put my devs up too. Just ‘when’ is too early my friends??

I’ve had a busy few weeks with me attending two event in London for Bonmarche and Boost Lab. it’s always exciting to head to the capital, meeting like minded ladies and enjoying the latest products and garments which give me ideas for the future. Have you been to events like these?

As I mentioned above I recently went to an event in London for an Australian brand called Boost Lab. I’m happy to share their products with you today along with a sneak peak into the event which was held in the West End!

This was a Pr Invite, my comments are 100% my own. 

Embracing Autumn with Style Not Age.

Hi there,

How’s it going?

Autumn is well and truly arrived us hasn’t it, it’s definitely got me thinking of different outfits. Layering has become the norm and thoughts of cami tops and shorts have long gone from my mind! Replacing them with boots, thin jumpers, jackets and rain coats have been what I’ve been wearing lately. 

I’ve had a super weekend. Saturday was spent looking after my granddaughter. She hadn’t wanted to watch her brother play football, especially as it has been stormy over here, so instead she came to me and we watched a film. I picked one I used to watch with her mum, The Rescuers. It’s an old one and clearly showed its age because there wasn’t much in the way of graphics. That didn’t matter because she loved it. 

That afternoon I helped David in our new build. He’d been adding insulation to the walls, so I joined in. We’re  focusing on downstairs now as upstairs only has a few jobs to finish and then it can be plastered! I must get that bathroom and kitchen sorted as I feel I’ll be needing it soon!

Saturday evening was very special. David and I were due to go out for dinner with friends, unfortunately a couple of them were unwell so had to cancel, but we still went. Dinner for two in Wheelers. We had the tasting menu which was divine. I’ll add some photos on another post soon. 

Sunday was family day. We had a roast lamb lunch with my eldest daughter and her family. My mum came too so it was a busy time. The meal was yummy, everything cooked perfectly & I even made dessert, a chocolate sponge pudding with chocolate custard. My favourite school dinner! What’s yours?

So now I’ve made you feel a bit peckish, I’m changing the subject and introducing October’s theme for the Style not Age group. Read on to hear about our Autumn favourites. 

Styling a Foil Dress - Thursday - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Morning all. 

Hope you’re well. 

I’m off to London today. I’ve been invited to the Bonmarche Press Day in Covent Garden. It’ll be lovely to see what’s new in from then and I’ve seen a few bits already and I have to say I’m impressed! I’ve been a couple of times before but it’s still excited to go. I get to see the new collection, catch up with the staff from Bonmarche and also meet other influencers. I’m meeting the lovely Michelle - Fifty & Fab. We’re having a lunch before heading to the event so I’m very excited to see her again. We always say we’re going to meet up for lunch and a catch up but so far haven’t done it! I’ll try to add some stories on Instagram. 

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

Black Trousers with Polka Dots & Red.

Morning all. 

Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend and enjoyed good weather. 

It’s been changeable weather here in the UK with sunny spells interrupted by rain showers and wind! Saturday was spent in the new build. We’ve put it on hold since before the wedding and am now getting back into the swing of it. I need to get looking at kitchens again, as it won’t be long before we’ll be needing one! 

Saturday night was spent watching telly with my favourite Strictly come Dancing on early evening and a catch up with football in the latter part. I got engrossed in watching Tiktoks on my phone though. I love watching tutorials. Makeup and beauty routines for over sixties. I like to learn routines, exercises and makeup applications, hoping they can help me. Does anyone else feel a bit miffed when watching them though? Ladies, well beautiful ladies sharing creams, lotions & potions and I honestly feel some of them might have had Botox or fillers or may even have had surgical treatments but don’t divulge it! I realise they don’t have to but I’d like to know if the products etc actually work! I’ve recently bought a new cleanser from Tropic. It’s a buttery silky oil which removes makeup, SPF and pollutants without disturbing the skins natural lipid layer. The Renewing Cleanser gives excellent results and my skin feels so much softer and supple and I’m hooked on this ceramide cleanser and can throughly recommend it. 

Today’s look is something I wore last week. I like the simplicity of this classic outfit. 

Styling a Brown Jumper - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hello and welcome to Mummabstylish. 

How are you all doing?

Did you know I had four of my grandkids last weekend? My daughter and her husband were away for a long weekend so David and I had the kids for three nights. They were so good, even little Kimberley who’s only 4 was very good for us, she missed her mummy and daddy, but handled the whole situation really well, maybe that’s because she’s the youngest child, they are quite resilient aren’t they? (Youngest child right here)!

It was hectic, as you can imagine, and I honestly don’t know how I managed to bring up five children! I realise I was so much younger and dare I say more able, but I’m rather impressed to having done it! Raising five kids wasn’t an easy task!!

So I didn’t get any new photographs over the weekend, I hardly had time to look at my phone at times, therefore I’m looking back to some previous looks to share with you today. 

I bought a brown jumper in M&S a couple of weeks ago and thought I’d show you a few ways I’m going to incorporate it into my outfits. 

My Weekend!

Morning. 

How you doing?

Well that’s been a busy weekend, fun and hectic too. 

We’d had my daughter’s four kids to stay as they went away and aren’t back until tomorrow. It’s been really lovely to spend so much time with them. I admit to it being crazy mad busy but it’s been good too. Fortunately they spend a lot of time at ours, although they haven’t stayed overnight for ages. They feel relaxed here and treat it like home, which I love. 

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

What to wear with White Jeans - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Morning all. 

How are you?

Hopefully better than me!

Last Saturday evening I went out with my husbands and son and had a delicious Japanese dinner. First time for me and it was amazing. We had a couple of drinks before heading to the taxi rank. I unfortunately twisted my foot when the heel of my shoe went down a hole in the cobblestones. I didn’t fall over but the next day I couldn’t walk properly and was hobbling about. I’ve rested it with ice packs on at various stages along with an ibuprofen cream and am seeing how it goes. So as you can imagine I’ve not been to my usual gym classes and have been staying indoors most of the time. I’ve managed to get a few bits done and even managed to try out some new Laura Geller products namely the mascara and eyeliner. Do head over to see my reel all about it. 🤍

Today’s post talks about my white jeans. They’re a new addition and I can’t wait to get wearing them! Need to wait until my foot heals as wearing anything high or tight on my foot is out of the question. 

September Review.

Good morning my friends. 

How are you?

I can’t believe it’s a new month. I was literally looking through my new posts and soon realised it was indeed a new month and the first Monday means it’s a post to look back on the past month to see what I’ve been wearing. 

I’ve had a super weekend and even managed to get the grass cut! It’s not too long but I had thought it wouldn’t need cutting again this year due to the drought in the UK. However with a little bit of rain and a lot of sun the grass sprouted as did the weeds! So I got both front and back grass done on Saturday so it’s nice and tidy now. 

The weekend wasn’t too busy, grass cutting was the highlight! I had a little look at some fashion outfit ideas, I’ve got a new pair of white jeans that I can’t wait to style. You’ll be the first to see I promise!

Now let’s get back to the post, it’s all about my recent posts and what I’ve been doing and what I wore to do it in!

What would you wear to a Wine Tasting event? I picked a pretty polka dot dress to attend Chartham Vineyard for David’s birthday gift. The vineyard is local to us and we spent a wonderful few hours hearing about the grapes, how they came about and also got to taste the end result. Guess how many bottles we came home with?

Military Style - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hello and welcome to the blog. 

How’s your week going?

Our weather here in the UK has been fabulous. It’s been hot and sunny and I’ve learnt that my favourite all round temperature would be 21degrees! That’s just such a comfortable temperature to go about all our daily business without needing and extra layer or umbrella! I’ve often thought are there any areas that offer this ambience consistently? Do let me know if there is such an area!!

With ‘unusually‘ hot weather recently I’ve been concentrating on outfits that fit this in-between period. For sure colder weather will arrive soon enough it’s just a case of when it’ll be. 

So this season is filled with lightweight trousers, tee shirts, light jumpers or jackets and sandals or open flats. My outfit today emulates the weather nicely as it can shift between hotter temperatures and cooler days. Do let me know if it’ll be something you’d wear!

Style not Age share our Summer to Autumn Outfits.

Morning all.

How's it going?

All fine with me.  My daughter is back from her honeymoon and until their house sale goes through they are living with me!  I'm not quite an empty-nester yet!

I have decided to opt out of my ballet classes for this term.  Helping with the Airbnb and doing the laundry for it along with trying to get blogging and Instagram photos and posts ready has proved to be a challenge.  Join that on to suffering from a low Vitamin B12 deficiency, which has made my feet painful, I've given myself the time off to ... well just to feel I'm in control of my life.  Have you ever had to decline from doing something you love for the sake of your well being?  I plan to go back next term and hopefully my feet will have settled down - I'm on medication for it, so will have to see how that goes.

I've also been having a clear out.  I'm such a hoarder with my clothes and some things in my wardrobe are yonks old!  I don't wear them and are either keeping them "because I'll get into them again, might put weight on, love the outfit, or it's sentimental to me" so i went through two drawers and one big cupboard filling two bags as i went - one for rubbish the other to donate to charity.  I do feel much better for it and am pleased with more space.  I promise myself I wont start filling them up again with clothes I buy on a whim - are you guilty of that?

So back to today's post.  It's the last Monday of the month which can only mean it's time for me and my three blogging friends to step into challenge mode for the Style not Age series.  Today it's Anna's turn and her choice of From Summer to Autumn has worked well for all of us.

Autumnal Wear - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Good morning everyone. 

Hope the week is going okay for you. 

Today’s post is a day early, various reason but I thought you might like the change!

I had to take a skirt back to Primark yesterday and came home with a couple of new ‘autumn’ bits. Chocolate brown is still topping the colour charts with a warm caramel and moss green added too. Marks and Spencer had some super knits and I can home with the one I’m showing you today. Read on for full details for this £18 jumper, plus the £18 skirt from Tu Clothing. 

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

Laura Geller in London.

Hi there. 

How you been?

Mid way in the month and hasn’t the weather noticeably changed! I’ve been wearing my jeans over the weekend, albeit with sandals and tee shirts but nonetheless the definitely Autumnal clothing. I’ve even put the duvet back on the bed. It’s nice to feel cosy and warm although I did have to pull my legs out occasionally in the night when I got too hot!

I had the pleasure of attending an event in London last Wednesday. The wonderful Laura Geller was celebrating a new opening in Boots, TicTok shop and a cute pop up in Covent garden over the weekend and she’d invited a few ladies to share the news. Her makeup is making big waves in the industry and I’ve been loving learning all about the baked foundations, blushers and eyeshadows. 
I made my way up to central London via train and tube and was chuffed to have gotten there without any hitches. As I’ve gotten older doing basic things like visiting London on my own has become a challenge, but I try to push myself out my comfort zone every so often to prove to myself I can do it! Who else feels like that?

This was a Pr Invite. 

Black & White Polka Dot Top - Chic & Stylish Linkup.

Good morning my friends. 

As I write today’s post I’m on the train to London to attend an event! I’m hoping to meet up with a few fellow Instagrams, which is one of the best things about social media. Meeting lovely like minded people. 

It was a fun event at The Coral Room for Laura Geller. They’ve been promoting their new shop on TikTok along with being featured in Boots stores too. I met up with a couple of blogging and instagraming friends and got to meet some new friends in real life. I admit to being a bit star struck and definitely had imposter syndrome going on!

Anyway back to today. As you can tell I didn’t get a chance to finish the blog post in time, so today has been a catch up day!  I’m sharing this outfit I wore to my daughter’s for Sunday lunch. I wanted something comfortable but stylish and also had to be cool. The polka dot top ticked all my boxes as did the trousers and flat shoes, I’d love you to let me know what you think. 

What to wear for a 60th Birthday Party.

Hello everyone. 

How was your weekend?

Absolutely fabulous one for me! I went to a friend’s 60th party on Saturday night, which was a surprise one. Just a lovely bunch of people with some excellent food and plenty of drinks flowing. It wasn’t a late night but such good fun. I wanted to wear a recent purchase from Vinted but felt it might have been a bit too ott and ended up wearing my favourite white trousers with an old floaty cotton top. I had been looking for a mink crochet top I wore years ago on The Orient Express, but upon looking I realised I must have given it away! It’s nowhere to be found in my wardrobe - shame as it was such a classic crochet top that would have been super cute with these trousers. 

Anyway this is what I ended up wearing. It’s been on the blog before but being such a classic look that’s been re-invented this year worked really well. 

Wine tasting in Kent - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hi there. 

Hope you’re all well. 

Another week that’s flown by! How on earth did that happen? 

I can’t believe the wedding has been and gone - it’s over a week ago already! I’m getting the house back in order and have been sorting lots out. Sophie is away for a couple of weeks more - so I’ll be more able to get everything in the right place when she gets back. 

I know I need to address the wedding photos, but until Sophie gets back I don’t actually know what photos have been taken - I’ll be.a nice surprise when she does.  We’ve also got a camcorder, that’ll be interesting to see what’s been taken on it. Maybe one for Instagram!!

Last weekend I’d booked for David and I to go wine tasting at Chartham Vineyard situated just outside Canterbury. It was a birthday gift for him and what a lovely afternoon we had!

August Review.

Morning all. 

How can we be in September already. I’m still waiting for the wedding!! lol

Sophie is on her honeymoon in Thailand. The house is very quiet and for the first time in 38 years David and I are empty nesters! It’s going to take a lot of getting used to and I don’t feel I’m ready for this stage of my life at all! Any pointers and help would be greatly appreciated. 

I’m getting the house back to normal, very gradually as there’s plenty of stuff still to pack away, sell on or just get rid of. I’m wait for Sophie to get back before I tackle that. 

Back to the gym classes today which I’ve missed. Also my dancing classes have suffered so it’ll be good to get back to those. I’ve got a few items that I need to show off on here and IG, so do look out for some new season pieces along with a comfy pair of trainers. It’s actually exciting to start thinking of the new season isn’t it. 

Anyway today’s post is a look back to what I was wearing and doing last month. I plan to share the wedding soon, I just need a bit of time to plan it. Something I think I’ll have plenty of now! 🤣

My first outfit of the month was one I couldn’t wear on my two weekends away because it’s a knitted dress. Do hop over to read all about my zigzag dress and see what I wore it with. 

Style not Age are wearing Shirt Dresses.

Hi there. 

Huge apologies for being very late with this post. 

It’s been the wedding weekend and I’ve not had a moment to myself. 

So albeit a bit late, here’s the post featuring Shirt Dresses - which was Emma’s choice. 

For obvious reasons I’ve not taken any photos, therefore I’ve resorted to using a really old photo! This is one I wore for a friend’s wedding, the pale blue is really pretty for a summer event too.  

Lintico Co-Ord - Chic & Stylish Linkup

Hi guys!

How’s it going?

Ir's getting very exciting here as it’s the wedding in two more sleeps!

Things are taking shape here and gradually everything is coming together. We had the church rehearsal yesterday along with the catering tent being erected and the bar has been put in place. The main marquee was put up last week so we've gradually put the tables and chairs in already. We’re hosting around 100 people for a sit down wedding breakfast with a complete bar which we’ve arranged. I just hope we’ve got everything covered!

One thing, I haven't got covered, is the weather!  We've had so many wonderfully hot days over the past month or so, but it looks like we might be having rain - weather we really don't want.  Please get doing the sun dance for me, if only for Saturday afternoon! 

Next week I've got a couple of new outfits to share with you.  As we're heading into Autumn, there's some jackets and jumpers in the equation along with some fabulous trainers.  Hope you're stick with me.

As promised, today I'll show you the Lintico Co-Ord which features a similar top to this black and white box top I wore last week. 

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

Wedding Prep - Chic & Stylish

Good morning my friends. 

Hope your week has gone well. 

I’m getting so excited as the marquee is going up today and the impending wedding is getting very real. 

I’ve got everything covered for my outfit and need to do a trial run - does anyone else do that?

We specifically booked this particular Saturday (well Sophie and Felix did) because it’s a bank holiday weekend in the UK so the next day will be a smaller party too. We’ll need Monday to get over it! lol. 

Linen from Lintico.

Hiya everyone,

How are you?

A busy weekend what with Airbnb cleans, ironing - for Airbnb and then working in the garden, I’m exhausted. 

We’re less than two weeks away from the wedding and it’s getting very exciting. The house is full of box’s, bags, clothing bags and flowers, it’s becoming very real now. 

I want to have everything done by next weekend so I can really enjoy the run up. The marquee should be up this week, so we’ll be able to get more of an idea as to where everything will go! We won’t be putting everything in place until the end of next week. Stay tuned to see how it looks after the 29th. 👏👏

With warm weather still very much in play, albeit a tad cooler and we did have a little rain overnight a couple of nights ago, but we’re still in a drought therefore watering the plants has been a task! Filling up the watering can everyday has been tiring but at least we’ve had water. Many of the surrounding areas have been without water at times! How’s your supply doing?

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