Frump to Fab 2024

emma108pd

Hi I would love to join i am over weight have a disability diabetes and i going back to training i need to lose weight and gain strength in my body i will be reading through the thread.
I am going to do a plan and stick to it.
I started training in beauty therapy and applied for college in September to do hairdressing. 

FreetodoasIlike

@thepurplepixie Sorry, I was confusing the Pandora bracelet with @Makingabobor2 so please ignore!

@Makingabobor2, I would still sell the Pandora bracelet and get something you love.

@thepurplepixie No! Your idea wasn’t boring at all!! DIY vouchers were a very popular choice for a retirement gift when I was working. I get that your former colleagues may have thought it would be boring or bland and you deserved a treat, but it wouldn’t be  a treat if you never wore it/loved it. And to be honest, how dare they think that your couldn’t afford it! Sell it!! Jewellery is often seen as a “something to keep gift” but not if you don’t love or use it. I often think that  jewellery as a retirement gift is a bit of a cop out and no real thought goes into the gift.

Makingabobor2

@FreetodoasIlike, I did consider it, but DD bought me a charm for it the Christmas after I had it, and it is a special family one. So even though I don't really wear it, I sort of feel like its sentimental now...which is silly really.  I've probably worn it about 5 times in the nearly 7 years since I had it. 

SandyShores

@Makingabobor2 I bought some Crew Clothing jeans from v1nted recently.  I liked them so much I went and bought a new full price pair from the shop.  They seem to have loads of different styles so they might be worth a look.

Makingabobor2

SandyShores said:

@Makingabobor2 I bought some Crew Clothing jeans from v1nted recently.  I liked them so much I went and bought a new full price pair from the shop.  They seem to have loads of different styles so they might be worth a look.

Ooh thanks. I'll have a look

SandyShores

They seem to do offers regularly @Makingabobor2 and accept blue light discount card too.  You sound like you have a similar figure type to my daughter and she wears Levis.  Expensive but they have a good shape and they seem to last for ages (unlike the pair of M&S ones I bought just before lockdown).

Tomorrow I'm taking delivery of my new desk/dressing table and chair.  I've wanted a dressing table to be able to sit at and do my hair for ages, so I'm really excited.  I'm longing to start styling my hair a bit more rather than air dry and the occasional straighten.  

There's something sentimental about some jewellery, I don't know if its the uniqueness or who/where it was purchased or gifted.  I'm not hugely sentimental about things, as long as the people and pets are okay I'm okay, but that bracelet held something for me.  I've also got a bracelet my MIL gave me (she died about 3 years later) and that's really precious and would never be sold.

thepurplepixie

I tried to give my necklace to my DD but she only likes white gold/silver so yellow gold wasn't for her.  I do have granddaughters so one day one of them might like it.

On a more lighthearted note I discovered something I really like this week.  My savory treat is a Warburtons crumpet, love them dripping in butter but this week I found thin Warburtons crumpets.  They are lovely and definitely a new favourite.

I've got a hair appointment for Monday, I have quite short hair and it really needs a trim,  my hair is fine and flyaway and I need layers or it looks very flat.  I wanted to book for the following week just before I go on my visit to Buckingham Palace but the hairdresser I use is on holiday but if it is newly cut I will be able to do it myself.  I got my royal invite this week which was quite exciting.  I think I need to buy a small folding umbrella for the day so I can pop it in my handbag.

helensbiggestfan

Good Morning Lovely Ladies. 

Hello Emma. welcome to the thread.  Good luck with your course and your journey to Fabdom. I thoroughly enjoyed my beauty therapy course even though I never used the qualification to work in a salon. I did the course more for my own satisfaction than anything else, same as my degree. I just like learning about stuff for learning sake.  Nowadays I tend not to do any formal courses as such (too expensive and just too much hassle). Instead I like you tube tutorials etc and my own reading.  

 I found the science of skin care really interesting and gradually encompassed a holistic approach to health, beauty and well being.  I try to practice all I have learned and I continue to take a keen interested in complimentary medicine, nutrition etc.  I used to make a lot of my own skincare products but not so much these days although I still make my own face masks. 

Bad news......still no weight loss.  Will just need to try harder.   

Good news .....my blood sugar levels are coming down nicely.  I must be doing something right 😉.  

Yesterdays chiro went well, have booked another block of 6 treatments.  Picked up some nice hardback book from the chazzer, great for decor as well as being books I really want to read. Also some DVDs.  Spent the grand total of £4.50.  Watched one of the DVDs last night.  The original "Far From the Madding Crowd" with Julie Christie and Terence Stamp - 60s "It" couple and each an icon in their own right. Lol.  I think it's a much better version of the story than the recent remake.  The cinematography is beautiful,  shot on location in Dorset and Wiltshire so it really captures rural England. Can throughly recommend it, a lovely story about true love, devotion and patience and a way of life that may have largely disappeared but which remains a part of our collective cultural heritage and which a great many would love to see return.

  Don't get me wrong I love my creature comforts and mod cons and am under no illusions about the physical hardships our ancestors endured but I have to confess there are times when I have a secret hankering for the bucolic idyll of days gone by.  😂.  However, I know myself ..... I wouldnt last a winter.  And I'm not really a country lass ........

As beautiful as they are realistically I don't think my next house will be a cute cottage in the middle of nowhere.  Been there, done that but I was younger and fitter then. It was my first house in my own name. It was a wreck (all I could afford). I couldn't afford to pay contractors so I rolled up my sleeves and with a miniscule budget and three years of blood, sweat and tears I turned it into a dream cottage.  I sold it to a TV executive for more than double what I paid for it.  Best financial investment I ever made.  

I just wished I was fit enough to do it again but that ship has well and truly sailed.  Time is a cruel mistress, bringing in her wake all manner of aches and pains, loss of strength. As Bette Davis said "Aging ain't for cissies".  

Well, my view is that although even Cher couldn't "Turn Back Time" I can at least give it my best shot,  ditch the Frump and be the best that I can be.......😂🤣. Just gotta keep up the good fight.  

thepurplepixie

Far From the Madding Crowd was my O level English Lit book, we all went to see the film.  Other cinema goers must have been horrified at a crowd of 15 year old girls arriving at the cinema.

helensbiggestfan

Lol.  I wonder how many of those15 year olds were swooning over Terence Stamp.  Those cheekbones!!!! They were the real deal too, no implants in those days. He's still a handsome man,  something of a silver fox. 

He suffered from a severe gluten intolerance and bought out his own range of gluten free flour. I bought some to make bread. Don't know what I did wrong but it turned out like a brick.  😂.