Tasks for the day: Clear your wardrobe, think like Lady Gaga

As Make do Kate rightly points out, the Easter weekend is the perfect time for a good cleansing wardrobe clearout. And instead of just thowing the unwanted clothes away, you could use them to do good. TK Maxx have joined forces with Cancer Research UK for a campaign called Give Up Clothes For Good. You can take in bags of your unwanted clothes and homewares to your local TK Maxx store now - each bag donated could be worth up to £30! You can even get involved online by donating your status to charity at the dedicated Facebook app http://apps.facebook.com/tkmaxxgiveupclothes. This is running from now all the way through to 25th April, so if you don't have time for a clear out this weekend, there's plenty of time to start the spring cleaning. As part of the campaign they have created a video with a "Lady Gaga" who donates her costumes, including the one she's wearing: and we all know how much I love Gaga! (I'm like an embarrassing teenage fan-girl!) I found this video hilarious, and thought I would share it with you to liven up a gloomy Easter Sunday! Can you imagine how wonderful it would be to bump into Gaga whilst having a good scrummage in the bargain bin (or is that just me?!)

Happy Easter everyone, have a chocolate egg and a hot crossed bun for me!

Love, Tor xx

The Fabfrocks guide to: Carboot sales

I love carboot sales and I always manage to bag a bargain when i'm out at them: I have been known to spend a pleasant summer weekend with my mum and my sisters hopping from one to the other. This weekend is the weekend most bootsales officially start up, and I have three lined up to attend, so what better time to write the Fabfrocks guide to carboot sales!

1. Do your research. It only takes a couple of minutes to find out where the sale is and what time the sale opens to sellers. There are different thoughts about what time you should arrive: I always like to be at the sale quite soon after it opens to get the pick of the stock, but other carbooters prefer to arrive towards the end of the sale when sellers might negotiate a little more on the price.

2. Decide what you want to pay before you ask how much something is. Very few stalls will have prices on things, so I always like to know how much I think something is worth (to me) before I ask, and I never go over the number I had in my mind. Also, don't be frightened to negotiate: if you had a lower price in mind then it doesn't hurt to ask! The worst someone can do is say no, and even if they don't like your suggestion, they're often prepared to meet you in the middle.

3. Carry loads of change! I know it seems really obvious, but it's easier to get a £1 book for 50p if you have the 50 pence piece in your hand, rather than a £10 note. Its also a good idea to carry one of the many cotton bags we all have shoved in a drawer: not all sellers are organised enough to bring carrier bags, and it will make it alot easier to carry your purchases home!

4. Be open minded. Its a famous old phrase that one mans junk is another mans treasure: I often go to bootsales looking for books (I read alot) or brooches for my collection, but find dresses, tea sets, even an old monopoly board! There is an awful lot of junk at your average boot sale, but I try to see the potential in everything!

So, what are you waiting for? Why not go out and bag yourself a bargain at a bootsale this weekend! You never know what you might find!

Love, Tor xx

Easter Treats: lovely non-chocolatey goodies!

Hi Guys,
So Easter is upon us and i'm going to try and be very good and not eat too many candies and treats (I say this even though the boyfriend came home bearing an Lindt bunny last night!) I'm not buying anyone eggs this year ( I think most of the family are trying to be a little more health conscious) but if i'd more time to think it through I would have got some of the lovely non-chocolatey Easter gifts available.

Easter is the perfect time for pastel colours and cute overload: think bunnies and chicks and an excuse for any other baby animals to make an appearance!



Bunny girl t-shirt by artisans for ASOS, reduced to £12. Littlehorn bunny t-shirt dress from ASOS. £25. I love this teeny chick necklace ($44 from Peggy Li) It has the perfect seasonal theme, but is subtle enough that you could wear it all year around too.

A cuter and more traditional gift would be these adorable egg cups from hundredsofbuttons: at $4 each they're also much more afforable too! I particularly like the his and hers ones: wouldn't they make a great moving in/house warming gift!? This time of year is when I think Spring officially begins and I always start to feel excited about being able to get my sandals out the wardrobe and remove some of my winter layers.

Hope you all have exciting plans for the bank holiday Easter weekend!
Love, Tor xx