Shopping Sprees!

Well its been a busy week, preparing for work on monday. On Monday I met my friends Juli, Sam, Anne and Amy for lunch in Ickenham, my last ever monday lunch with them which is a shame. On the way back got stuck in loads of traffic so instead of taking 20 mins to get back, it took 40! Was good practise for me, and I had my ipod playing through the cassette player so I was singing to myself like a loony to pass the time.

Tuesday we braved Ikea, quite straightforward route apart from the crappy signage! We missed the entrance and ended up nearly back in my own area when we tried to just go round to get to the entrance... I was constantly in the wrong lanes because the signs were always too far ahead, so by the time I could read them I was in the wrong lane! I bought myself a lazy susan for my scrapping tote and some cute little jars for embellishments.

Just thought, I really should post some of my recent layouts...

Today I went back to Harrow to continue my shopping spree from last week! Bought myself a whole pile of jumpers for winter from Primark, they're so cheap I nearly got one in every colour!!! Found some smart black shoes, finally a size 3 1/2 which seems nearly impossible to get!

Also, please explain to me why most shops won't let you try knickers on over your own? Ok, they are worried about hygiene, I get that. But how are you meant to know what size you are if you can't test them over your own??? Maybe its just me, but I find I'm never the same size in different shops. Plus, I felt completely valid in telling the customer services this because I tried on two pairs of jeans, both size ten. One pair was too tight, the other fit fine. So how can I trust their knicker sizing to be the same????? Plus, I don't even know what their sizing is like in knickers.... this was a bit rant I had today! I didn't want to buy them, then find they didn't fit because obviously you can't return them either! i was not impressed, I was tired and ratty as it was lol.

That aside, shopping was cool although I've spent an absolute fortune this last week on new clothes for work (as I don't have a uniform now I needed to replace some old jumpers and get some smart trousers and shoes) and have the Ally Pally scrapbooking show this weekend, followed by the Ickenham weekend crop next weekend! No spending for the rest of the year I think haha! (Yeah right).