I saw this lace maxi skirt when I was browsing the Forever 21 website and have completely fallen in love with it! I am in a bit of a dilemma about it though, as I think its absolutely amazing and would quite easily go with a fair amount of my clothes already, but at the same time, it is essentially a see-through skirt, which isn't really called for that much in my current occupation! It is gorgeous though, so I guess I could just treat myself and save it for best?!

Charmed

I had to write something about the gorgeous charms currently in Primark at the moment. Most of them are only £1, like this beautiful monkey! He is so cute, and even has movable arms and legs! I also got a carousel charm, which I have been after for ages, and the horses actually move around the stand.

On the shelf in Primark all the charms were displayed together, with a silver ringed bracelet, but I brought some pearl bracelets and attached them to there. Very Thomas Sabo-esque and all for the cost of £3! Amaze.

It's official

Turns out the reason that I was feeling bigger was no illusion, and actually weighed myself yesterday showed the results and then some. I know that its almost Halloween and all that, but this really was truly scary! Obviously, I have no doubts that of all the things in the world I should be worrying about it is very egoistical of me worrying about my weight, but I still am.

I also know, that it is exceedingly obvious that the weight gain is down to cake and a somewhat blasé attitude to the gym. So I'm going back to basics with the toning up/losing weight thing and will therefore hope that it should happen relatively easily?! I hope I'm not being deluded, which there always is a high possibility of!

In a bid to be marginally helpful, I am going to recommend a rather good website indeed: www.beautyjudge.com. It basically is a site where you can review any beauty products that you buy to help other readers (therefore helping them and making you feel good, adding fuel to the 'there's no such thing as true altruism' debacle). You can read reviews straight away, or become a member for free to review products yourself, which is very simple to do, and occasionally you get sent things to review which is another delightful bonus.

A year ago I wrote on here that I would review products, and, rather embarrassingly obviously, never did, so I am putting paid to that by linking you to my reviews there. All of my reviews are logged under Caroline 216, and apparently there are 72 of them, so I'm sure a years delay is fine for that (?!)

Back to (non) reality

I decided to write a blog today and was rather surprised when I tried to set one up that I actually had one! The two week deadline which I have set myself has well and truly passed, as I sit here writing over a year after my first post. Tsk tsk. I would be delighted to say that the reason that I did not write was because I did truly metamorphasize and have been too busy looking beautiful for the past year, but in truth, setting up a blog 3 days before final exams probably wasn't the best idea in the world!

Lots of things have inevitably changed:

• I am a teacher now. A fully-fledged teacher with a class of my own (a rather lovely, charismatic bunch of 7 year olds, who have the uncanny ability to drive me insane on an hourly basis).
• From living on the same street as the boy when I first started this job, we are now in what is commonly termed a long distance relationship. Fortunately not as horrifically unromantic as it sounds, but a bit grim nonetheless.
• The days of pining over not being able to find the dress I wanted in a size 6 are well and truly over. It seems as though cheesecake became a far bigger part of my life than it ever was.

Some things, however, remain very much the same:

• I am still carrying on a somewhat torrid love affair with unattainable items of clothing; the piece du jour being a rather fabulous black lace number, currently sold out on an abundance of websites.
• As mentioned already, cheesecake is very much still a passion.
• I am still intoxicated with the idea of looking beautiful, as much as I still seem to show as little inclination of doing anything about it as I ever did.

So that's about it. Hopefully this will result in more posts than my previous attempt at becoming a 'blogger' (2; dreadful) and I may finally attempt the reincarnation process. Of course, I may bow to the inevitable and not quite get anywhere, but hopefully by then I will at least have posted something relatively entertaining/useful/diverting.