Ha!!!!!! How to make CBC turn the other way and not berate you for buying yet another dress (Though I am of course berating myself in retrospect. Honestly, I need to keep mself out of temptation's way...). Take him into the charity shop to search for the book you need for the Blogging good read you are taking part in (Ended up buying it on 1-day delivery from Amazon since local library failed to come up trumps with my inter-library reservation grr. Was on schedule to finish it Friday night until stupidly left it locked in school after taking it up to the staffroom at lunchtime to read during lunch. Why can't I ever leave that room without leaving something!) and then whilst, by good fortune, his best friend calls on the phone, your eye is caught by the cutesy purple and blue tartan mini-dress on the end of a rack- you then point it out delightedly and in his distraction, he gives you the thumbs up! Somehow, in the confusion, amidst his obvious admiration of the dress, you take it up to the counter, swiftly pass across the £3 required and dash out the shop before he knows what hit him! (To be fair, it wouldn't work with say, a vintage tartan jacket in size 12- he'd mouth 'Grandma' at me, which is what happened when I tried to unsuccessfully to repeat the manouvere)
The dress seemed to say 60's to me, so I teamed with with a navy turtle neck, purple tights and er-un60's shoes!
Hair: oh how I wish I were brave enough to emulate the beehive look that I see many other bloggers attempting! I'm too scared of getting my hair-brush stuck and having a sort of Friends, hair has to be cut out incident, when attempting the backcomb. So instead I did the sides up and added a headband!
Jewellery:
A special shout-out to the lovely Luan at Green Tea and Cupcakes, in whose Giveaway, I won this stunning bangle a long while ago. Isn't it utterly dreamy, so vivid and pretty! It is the smoothest, loveliest stone to sit and absent-mindedly run your hand over, as is the banlge part. Most bangles really annoy me (and I confess, they have ended up in the cull pile, sorry! It's usually only fitted bracelets for me. Unless, I find that elusive bakelite one I long for) but this one is just lovely! Teamed with Primarni's finest rose earrings!
Today has been a good day. Reception was lovely in the morning! I taught them a new song called Cobbler cobbler mend my shoe in which the children have to have a dialogue singing. They did really well at it, especially D, little autistic boy who I captured on video singing it really perfectly with another little girl!
Surprisingly, Year 6 were really good this afternoon. I mean, not good as in they were totally well-behaved and focused BUT they really did well in composing and performing their own multilayer 'street cries' songs. Must have been something in my calmly telling them that Shouting is not even Level 1 in music and I really shouldn't still be hearing it in Year 6! Somehow they wanted to behave today, thank the Lord!
In case you didn't catch it- I took part in the lovely Floss's A pause for Adventyesterday. Do have a look if you can. It's always nice to have feedback!
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