Tag: clothes

SHOP FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DESIGNERS…

Clothes Vintage

The website ‘shop it to me’, http://www.shopittome.co.uk is an online site where you sign up and tell them your favourite designers. You will then get a personalised email alerts telling you of sales, VIP events and secret promotion codes.

It searches for sales items on more than 480 top brands, from high end designers like Chloe and Marc Jacobs to popular high street branches like M&S and Gap.

You can specify your favourite brands, your size and what you are looking for, and then it only alerts you when some relevant items go on sale.

MY HAND MADE BABY KNITS…

Baby hats and booties

I am now ‘Great Aunty B’, (love it) my niece has had a lovely little boy (7lbs 2oz) after a gruelling 66 hours of labour. Fortunately mother and baby are doing fine 🙂

For the last few days I’ve been busy knitting in the right colour as they decided they wanted the sex to be a surprise.

Baby hat

This wool is adorable (King Cole Cuddles). I also knitted a white baby blanket as well and finished it with a blue ribbon trim (Pictures to follow soon).

If anyone wants any of my knitting patterns feel free to ask.

Baby knitting

RECYCLE YOUR CLOTHES TO THOSE WHO NEED THEM…

Clothes Vintage

If you haven’t heard of the M&S Shwopping scheme then read this article.

M&S launched a shwopping unwanted clothes scheme with Oxfam with recycling bins – or Shwop Drops, which are in all M&S stores across the UK (except Simply Food ones).

You simply deposit your unwanted clothes (M&S and non-M&S) into the bins.

The target is for M&S to recycle as many clothes as it sells which is around 300 million items a year.

One million tonnes of clothes are thrown away in the UK each year and about half of these end up in landfill but none of the donations you give will go into landfill, instead good used clothing will be sold via Oxfam. Even ones that are not suitable to sell will be recycled.

For more details on this and other M&S environmental and ethical plans go to http://www.plana.marksandspencer.com