oooh! I have just found this lovely blog http://mariezvezda.blogspot.com/p/craft-fair-display-ideas.html - filled with fab ideas and gorgeous bits and bobs. I have moved recently and a real bug bear is my jewelry always being tangled and boxed away - I was going to buy a jewelry stand but then on this blog I found the idea of hanging earrings on a pretty teacup! brilliant! here is mine...

my next plan is to use up an old canvas I have for other bits and i will post a pic when i've done it. thats at least £15 saved! whoop.

up the downs!

so after a long deliberation I have decided NOT to join the Lido - it seems another extravagant (if lovely) way to spend money. Instead I am taking to the Clifton Downs, which are gorgeous and luckily just at the end of my road. After dusting the cobwebs off my old trainers and finding something slightly luminous to wear, I'm off for a jog! Saving at least £45 a month, no bad! xx

to spend or not to spend...

now would it be worth joining my local lido? when i say lido, it probably conjures up images of a cold wee filled, fly spotted pool. but NO! this is clifton after all...the lido is ace, and gorgeous and well, expensive. It's £45 a month, gulp, but if i went 3 times a week it would be worth it.

I can't afford to join now but if i carry on sodding the shopping i will soon have enough to get myself a lovely lido membership AND get fit and healthy....

La library!

ooo i nearly swerved into a shop today to look at some (gorgeous) shoes, but managed to force myself away. Instead I directed my energy towards the local library, where of course there is a tonne of fabulous free stuff! I have joined up and now I can borrow books, great films, and find local free events so pretty happy about that :)

plus I have saved at least £50 on them shoes....

beat the urge to spluuuurge

so i shop because it makes me feel good, and it's a little treat just for me. but now i want to replace it with something more constructive, that still makes me feel good, but hopefully the feeling will last a little longer. such as:-

• go for a walk or run
• instead of buying a magazine, read a good book
• do something pampery! have a bath or face mask or sommat
• call a friend and have some wine (can't all be wholesome)

this week i thought I would get stuck into my book...

won first mini battle

pippa: 1 shopping: 0

i have the day off today and was pottering around the house, sorting out bits and bobs. i suddenly thought 'ooo i need a new diary, a nice pretty one' and went online to order it.

then i remembered the pact, and dug out my old filofax with a perfectly good diary in it. ta daaaa. pippa 1 shopping 0.

spent the time instead doing something creative, and did a page of my journal/scrap book. feel sooo much better for doing that and i have saved my first fiver!!! XXX

does it really matter what we wear?

well, judging from this picture, yes, it does a bit. if first impressions are anything to go by...but does it really matter if we are on trend, when they bounce here there and everywhere (jumpers with massive animals faces on anyone? remind anyone else of their year 6 pullover?!). Instead of thinking about how right what I wear is for fashion, I will focus on what's right for me. this look may not be :)

and so it begins...

Welcome to SOD SHOPPING!

At the start of a brand new lovely fresh year, 2012, I have decided to SOD SHOPPING for the whole year.

It is going to be tricky, because shopping is my fall back, my pick-me-up and the thing I do when I want to put off something else...But this morning, I bought myself some new jeans, that I 'had to have' and felt, well, crap. It didn't pick me up, it didn't erase the things I was meant to be doing, it made me blue. It is time to SOD SHOPPING, to reassess why I do it, and to see how different life could be if I stopped.

It has been done before, and I will find inspiration from those who 'shop their own wardrobe'. I will post here when it's tough, or when it's wonderful, and all those little bits in between.

I knew I would not do it if I kept it to myself, so here goes! Please join me, and if you don't, wish me luck...SOD SHOPPING!!