* Gemma's Thoughts and Loves *: bag

Hello!

Just a not so little boxing day sale haul for you today. I am not the biggest fan of sale shopping, it irritates me when i have to pick clothes up off the floor and search through tightly packed rails. Also they never have anything in my size, even when they have the sections of sizes. People bug me too when the sales are on. I'm not a fan of being rammed and my stress levels don't cope. This year i decided to wait a week after boxing day to visit the shops as well as shopping on line. Even though I hit the sales late I'm still rather impressed with the lovely items i have brought.

First up are my on line purchases:

New look

I have already shown you guys this dress on a previous post. It cost me £8.00 reduced from £14.00. Its a silky feel blue bird print tea dress from New Look. This has to be one of my favourite purchases as I can't resist a nice tea dress.

Missguided

I love love missguided. I visited their website in search of a sparkly new years dress but as usual i was distracted by their sales page and came away with this lovely lightening bolt jumper. It cost me £9.99 reduced from £19.99. They are still available if you want to grab yourself one.

On Saturday i decided to visit the shops to see what was left over. Most shops like Office, Zara and Debenhams were too busy for me to handle but i did visit the sales lines of Topshop and Primark. Here is what i brought:

Topshop

Aztec velvet skater dress, was £39.00 reduced to £20 / Burgundy skinny fit jeans £45 reduced to £20 / Ear Cuffs, was £7.50 reduced to £3.75.

Primark

Burgundy wool dress £20 reduced to £10 / Blue daisy print tea dress £14.00 reduced to £5 / Ear cuff £1.00 / winter boots £5

I also visited Boots to see if there were any of their Christmas gift sets left. Unsurprisingly the shelves were pretty bare. I did how ever find a Soap and Glory Shower travel bag hiding underneath a self. Very excited when i found it. Originally it cost £18.00 but it was reduced to £9.00. Inside contains six travel size products which are "Girligo" Body moisturising mist, Hand food, "the righteous butter" body moisturiser, "clean on me" shower gel, "calm one calm all" bath bubbles, and finally "scrub of your life" smoothing body butter.

Did you grab any sale bargains this year? Feel free to leave a comment below.

Gem x

Trend A/w 12. Tweed and leather.

These photos were taken from the Burberry show at London fashion week this year where the collection was country-inspired. Tweeds, corduroy and herringbone were prominent parts of designer Christopher Baily’s creations for Burberry Prorsum’s Fall 2012 collection. The presentation is typically the largest, and most elaborate, during the week of shows, and featured claps of thunder and real rain against the sides of a glass tent. You can shop the collection here at uk.burberry.com.

The prices for a burberry outfit are more for people on a high budget. I myself could never afford burberry so i have searched the web for similar low budget versions.

The wool peplum trench coat

£2,195 from Burberry