A tiny Friday treat

In case you needed an excuse to treat yourself, hell it's Friday!  

And if any of you are Mothers like me, then this may well apply:-

 

In which case, I think it's perfectly acceptable for a little pick me up before the onslaught of children and the weekend.  Looooooong gone are the days of Friday night after work drinks.  I don't actually want to cry when I recall my old company's tradition of Friday drinks in the office at 4pm, followed by drinks in the bar downstairs, normally ending up somewhere rather nice for dinner resulting in a weekend either on the sofa with a takeaway (that is for lunch....) or hair of the dog in a pub.  I don't want to cry, I want to dissolve into full on hysteria.  Only sometimes....

No, for us, the weekend starts at 9am tomorrow morning with dropping off after a sleepover (that's the joy for this evening), drama and the 7yr old has the bright idea of the whole family going to the driving range.  Sunday morning it's rugby all round.  Lie in?  What lie in?

So yes, I think a teensy tiny purchase as a reward for the lack of me time that you get as a mum at the weekend, can be easily justified. 

Oh and it's my wedding anniversary today so double bubble. (even though we never do gifts on our anniversaries - details, schmetails.  Actually this year we're buying each other a bed.  Just the one bed to share, can I please point out.  Vaguely romantic..?!)

So I'm talking cuffs - NOT of the handcuff variety... even though the 11th wedding anniversary gift is Steel.... Nope, sorry dear Husband.  I'm talking jewellery.

Now I know I've talked about these before but I am always being asked where I get my leather ones from that I wear all the time.  I literally wear these every day, all year round and have done for over 6 years.  Actually one of mine - from Hultquist is nearly 8 years old.

Therefore starting with leather ones which are similar to mine - tan leather, go with everything and at a bargain price. 

Pieces Mitsa Leather Wrap Bracelet from ASOS £12 



Mine are all tan/brown but I do love the idea of a black one for A/W.  This one from Argento is a bargain at £12 in the sale. 

August Woods at Argento Black Leather gold lock cuff bracelet £12




They do actually have a chocolate brown one as well in the sale. 

August Woods Brown Leather Cuff £15




And in fact, I found a tan leather one.  Again - from August Woods at Argento.

Gold lock cuff bracelet £12 BARGAIN! 




A navy blue faux leather version from Mango in the sale may be useful. 

Fastening Cuff in navy now £6.99



However I may be moving on from the leather as I've seen this instore at Reiss and it's simply gorgeous.  Absolutely ideal if you're thinking of keeping your wardrobe very simple and monochrome.  One bracelet and you're done.  Quite often in the A/W, for a night out especially, I love wearing all black and the addition of this would finish the outfit perfectly. 

Darcy Print Animal Cuff £49 from Reiss






Or a smaller width if the wider one is too full on for you.  They also do this in a plain black and a burgundy as well. 

Patty Print Animal hair cuff £39



Another option that I'm quite keen to explore is enamel - this looks like a fab bracelet and easy to put on - very important in my book as I'm trying to juggle three kids, football kits, swimming kits, packed lunches, homework folders etc at 8am in the morning.  I simply cannot be doing with those fiddly, blasted lobster clasps on bracelets.  Cursing they ensure.  A lot of it.

Oasis White Enamel Dome multipack bangles £12




With the enamel bracelets, a plain gold one would be perfect.  In fact, plain gold ones work perfectly against most, if not all, of the cuffs here.  (I can feel a plan coming on....)

Belt Buckle Bracelet from Topshop £18.50 (free shipping at TS with the code LFWTREAT)


Ditto this one - on its own or stacked with one or all of the above or below. 

Plain Black Cord Bracelet £14.50



And another one for good luck. 

Hinged Bracelet £10


As I'm on a roll (and want all of these), last one.  All of these gold ones together would look just sublime.

Cut-Out Star Bracelet £8.50 from Topshop




For an injection of colour, I have one of these in rose gold and black (admittedly no colour there....) and I love it - wear it with my watch. 

Whistles navy friendship bracelet £20



I also love the horn and leather bracelet which would look perfect on its own or layered with a selection of other cuffs or smaller bangles.

Horn & leather bracelet from Whistles £20



Or in the silver and pink 




And whilst we're on the subject of layering - this is one of the cutest bangles I've seen in ages. 

Bee Bracelet £9.99 from Mango   They also do a dragonfly online as well.


Spike torque bracelet £9.99 from Mango - also available in silver



So there we have a selection, all of which I would wear in a heartbeat. Make mine look quite dull now - oh darn writing this blasted blog.  I loved mine before I started this post and now I Need (yes that is my version of *need* clearly) a set of gold ones....

Finishing with my pic from today and yes, I did go out for lunch, I did not swan up on the school pick up in this.  The Husband took the afternoon off and we went out for a lovely lovely lunch locally.  Exceptionally abstemious of us as normally we'd be off for the day or the weekend but it's the first day back to swimming lessons for my three small things and "polish halo", I thought I'd best be there to make sure it all went swimmingly - boom boom (new swimming teacher, new time, son with Aspergers - I'm sure all those in a similar boat will understand!)  

However, we have benchmarked a day out for the near future and in the meantime I got to wear my favourite dress (well actually it's a toss up between this and the Sportsmax Code one to be honest....) of the year.  Thank you sun for shining as you were 11 years ago today. 


Reina Dress - DVF
Taupe Jalouse boots - Ash
Whisky Medium Marcie Satchel - Chloe 

I have a large glass of wine waiting for me and a sleepover to supervise.  Rock and Roll.......  (Oh and I might have had a Zara delivery.  If I write it really small, I don't think it counts)