It is a bit strange, I think. The wine glasses that we bought almost 6 years ago have started to fade. They used to be black but now the black has started to rub off the glass making the glass slightly embarrassing to use for future company. We bought them in that particular colour as we were obsessed with black at that time.
We had black plates, cups, toast holder, egg cups, butter holder, gravy jug, water jug and I am sure many more of these black items for our kitchen.
Now it seems much more fashionable to mix and match colours and styles of our homeware.
this trend can be seen in women’s’ fashion- 5 years ago, everything matched like jewelry, shoes, clothes and even eyeshadow.

(Simon wrote this by the way)

I often wonder what “respectable home owners” do.  Part of me wants to be one and the other part of me wants to completely rebel against it.  From what I can gather, minimalism is in.  A room should contain as little as possible.  For example, a sitting room should contain a sofa, an armchair, a television and stand and a lamp.  Colour should also be used carefully.  Monochrome is essential here.  So if you pick beige as your colour then everything should be beige or tones of beige.  The twist, however, is that you need a twist of colour – generally a colour that is on the opposite end of the colour spectrum.  Therefore, a colour like cyan or turquoise offsets the humdrum look of a beige room.  Add a single stem in a narrow vase in another complimentary colour and you have a respectable sitting room.

It also goes without saying that every room in a respectable house should have a focal point – an interesting picture, a colourful bed pan or a clever patterned tile.  It should scream out – “look at me” – but obviously in a respectable way.  Anyone who screams in a respectable home is obviously a Philistanic family member or neighbour.

It was about time we got rid of our former black glasses.  In fact, it probably was time we got rid of any black-coloured item.  A trip down to the Next store would be inspirational indeed.  This season’s colour could be seen and then we could go to other shops to buy them but for half the price.  A respectable family, of course, would not shop in a multi-national company like Next.  They must shop in boutique-style places where every piece of furniture has a story.  For instance, a kitchen table must be made from the purest oak from Venezuela and dipped in the creamiest Magnolia from the paint pots of Swiss artists and then lovingly carried by three priests to the shop where the price tag is written in Nepalese ink for no less than one thousand euro.

I am half way through the bottle of Advanced night repair, estee lauder and am starting to see amazing results, my skin is much smoother, any small lines that were forming look less and less and every morning I have a glow about my face, I would recommend i highly!Even though it is pricey( €50), I think it rocks..I ama hoping to use the bottle up by the time I get to duty free in a month!Want to try Dr. WElls super mushroom serum and then I can decide which one is the best!

Also want to buy a pair of good sunglasses, Ray bans appeal to me highly but simon says not to buy them as I will resemble one of my crazy relatives, I won’t mention her name but let’s just say it has made me think carefully about buying them!

Anyway, 3 weeks and 3 days till Dubrovnik…shame I couldnt use ANR on the rest of my body!!Imagine a big bottle version, actually there probably is a version, I will go check it out!

Went to try out a new hairdressers in CArlow today, I used to go to “Bohemian Heads” originally as Neil, one of the “dressers” did my hair and I loved him, he didnt love me as I think he has a boyfriend and last time I checked I got myself a husband, it never would have worked out, we’d only talk hair for 10 minutes max and then be silent…

anyway, the new revamped new location of BH looks well cool and pukka. the chairs are all funky soft leather and the chair on the wash basin is

1. red leather

2. soft

3. hasa a big footrest so you can lie at the basin!

4. is a massagin chair thata comes with a control…how relaxing!

Plus the staff were so nice and used my first name obsessively e.g. “Rozz, you look fab” or “Rozz, can I get your number?” and so on.

Anyway, I got a colour put in and you would barely know only for the fact that my original colour is as to be expected…a boring lifeless dead dark not cool number 7(?) blonde, it sounds better that I have made it sound.

I did have lots of fun ideas about going back to my original colour but didn’t realise it was that bad…so the colour I got was between Cocoa brown with a squidge of a red that i cannot remember the name of. It looks shiny, glossy, brown and non-dark blonde and boring but not really much of a change if you get me. It washes out in 10 washes so I can always go back to my original colour if I get bored with life.

Anyway,I’d recommend the salon but I will still go to the other salon for my cut, Maria does my cut there and until she moves to BH, I will follow her!

It rained as per usual for my trip to the hairdressers.

Now, Im all ready to go for school on Monday, 5 weeks left to teach the junior infants everything!Fun!

Ta ta!