Hi my loveliest (and most discreet) of readers!
I’ve added discreet today as I have a bit of a confession to get off my chest.
As you may know, I post on Instagram. I like to use it document my days in pictures, which comes in handy when I have senior moments and need a memory refresh on something that I did last year, last month, yesterday!
But sometimes it can push my limits of creativity and last week was one such time when my creative juices needed to flow if I was going to keep up my neat little grid formation of - one OOTD/outfit, one non-outfit - picture formation. (What can I say, I like symmetry!).
You see, last week I was busy gardening, de-cluttering said garden, cooking, walking in strong sunlight or strongish winds. Non of these things was conducive to good outfit posts.
So I took an Insta OOTD break. I cheated. For the sake of symmetry, you understand.
I posted pics of outfits I wore this time last year.
And I think I got away with it, for no one seemed to comment on it ... or perhaps dared to!
Here are my cheats.
CHEAT 1
One of my fave summer dresses, a yellow floral.
Here I szjoojshed it up with duck egg tassel earrings (that colour IS in the floral print, trust me!)
CHEAT 2
I’d worn this outfit for a posh restaurant meal last summer.
Aqua linen dress, embellished cashmere cardi, glitzy sandals.
You know, I’m not really missing restaurant trips.
They do say that do something for 30 days and it becomes habit. Well, I’ve not been to a restaurant in 3 months - I think that habit may be well and truly embedded now.
What about you? Are you missing and yearning for restaurant meals? Or maybe not so much?
CHEAT 3
Toile seems jouey print sun dress and cobalt blue cardi.
And here I really pushed the limits of my daring.
You see, this was taken in the pergola this time last year.
Then an August storm made mincemeat of the pergola - right now it is anything but as pretty as this.
But did anyone pick up on that, I wonder?
Read about the pergola disaster
I’d like to think I got away with my cheats.
CHEAT 4 ?
So the wind has abated today but it looks like the gardening won’t ...
... so I have this pic on my Insta back burner.
You see that passion flower behind me? We hacked that baby right down to the ground after The August Pergola Disaster of 2019.
Do you think anyone will pick up on that?
Can I carry on pushing my luck on Insta?
Dear reader, can we keep my Insta cheating our little secret, pleeeease - what happens on this blog STAYS on this blog, right?
For I was on an Insta BREAK!
A la perchoine,
Mary x.
