Sep
23
2009
Self-Present
I got a present today. A present from me for me. A Self-Present. No reason really, I pretended it was a ‘Well done Spud on your new job, From Spud xx’ present but really it was a ‘just because’ kind of gift. I’m OK with that…I come from a long line of Self-Presenters, well my mother was one anyway. Every Christmas she would buy herself a present from herself, wrap it up, pop it under the tree and then be absolutely delighted with it. Every one a winner!
For about a year I’ve had Ravenhill’s Etsy shop marked as a favourite and, in particular, her beautiful matryoschka dolls. I particularly love the ‘attachment parenting’ ones with babies in slings but my babywearing days are pretty much over and, besides, I’m not that keen on those muted tones.
So I chose the one in my favourite colours…turquoise and acquas. Lovely. This one, the one on the left. Isn’t she a doll (well she is, of course, but you know what I mean). Here she is, out of her beautiful packaging and settling in to Chez Spud, looking around anxiously for marauding Megaboys…
She’s quite a delight. I’m rather thrilled with my Self-Present actually, I know it’s indulgent but I Don’t Care and I’m Worth It (flicks hair about in manner of just stepped out of the salon smuggery).
It’s only very recently that I’ve realised that turquoise/acquas are my favourite colours, and I wear them with increasing frequency. Here…
and here
oh and these shoes. I love these shoes, they have GOLD soles…if only they had diamonds on the soles then I could write a song about them and become a gazillionare…
But it turns out other people have tuned in to my preferences before I managed to notice it myself…the wife made this for me Diggy
Julochka made the fish in this photo for me, and her daughter made some of the clay figures (I made the crap ones), and Kristina gave me the little cup
And when I look around I see this corner of Diggy’s room
and remember the decorative border in Bertie’s room as a baby
and hints of it in the curtains even…
All of which has made me decide that if I EVER find and keep a web designer to overhaul Chez Spud, I will be going with turquoise and acquas as my colour theme. The post I wrote a few weeks back about having finally found a designer who didn’t disappear off the planet was premature as, erm, she has disappeared off the planet. I am worried about her though as she is having a complicated pregnancy.
The first one also disappeared off the planet without warning. I was so worried about her too but it turns out I needn’t have wasted my energy. Whilst she was supposed to be working on the final template design for my blog, having taken 50% of her fee, she was overhauling her own website which has now launched. I’m very very cross, she just never replied to emails…many, many, many emails asking if she and her family were OK (they had been ill with swine flu). Eventually I got my money back through a paypal dispute but I’m furious to find I needn’t have been anxious about her welfare, she was just off doing her own stuff. I’m so, SO tempted to name and shame actually. I just can’t think what the problem was…although I her prices have increased massively from the amount she quoted for me. Perhaps she realised she’d undersold herself so didn’t see the job through? Really unprofessional, shabby actually.
And breathe.
I need a turquoise/aqua gin cocktail made by Julochka
Served in the blue room, where else?
Great post! Except for the part where people disappear off the face of the earth….boo. I just love your photos. They’re magazine worthy, honestly.
Very classy colours! Glad to hear you got your money back – I remember you posting about it. What a swine
A girl has to do what a girl has to do to make herself happy. And so be it that you are a Self-Presenter. Join the club…I do it all the time!
Love the matrouschka! I just bought one last weekend on a fleamarket in Berlin. Not quite as cute as yours. ( It has Mulder of the X-files on it and Scully and a couple of little ugly aliens hidden in it. Why did I buy that???)
Do you know that there is a blog for you to drool over turquoise stuff?
Right here, http://www.houseofturquoise.com/
Just go there and breathe in..breathe out…and you will forget about that mean mean web designer. Have fun!
Love turquoise colours myself. Love the doll too. Mr D is a bit of a web designer give me a shout if he can help. x
What fun colors and prints and photos! Glad you are finding the fun in your day!
I love aqua too. One benefit I’ve found in having a girl is exploring colours that I wouldn’t have thought of previously, including *gasp* pink! Fab doll, I do like to treat myself but sometimes I pretend things are for Amelie!
I am definitely a Self-Presenter. Don’t get me wring, I love love love surprises, but sometimes it’s good just to buy that one thing that you know will make you happy. Or two things. Four? I’m ok with that too.
I wear blue most often as well (as I sit here today in black and white…). glad you found your colors…
I’ve never been disappointed with a gift to myself. (Other than sometimes feeling a little guilty for spending money on myself.) Love the color scheme you’ve chosen!
thatys my favourite colour too! Hence, I guess, my love of hte Belize ocean. Its a perfect turquoise.
oh thats beautiful. i wish i could add some color in my wardrobe…its crispy white in summers, grey in fall, black in winter and rust in spring…what to do?
aqua is really your color!
given your web design experience I belive you deserve another present–go for it! Turquoise is lovely–symbolizes strenght and spirituality–here’s to a shopping spree colors optional! c
love..love the matryoshka…i had a whole collection growing up..the actual dolls that fit into each other… i could kick myself for not hanging on to them…your collars actually look really good on you
i just love those colors thumbs up for self-presenting, i do that all the time and enjoy it immensely
Self present! Love it! I’m so buying me a present every Christmas from now on! And on my birthday!
Love, love, love the curtain material. And hurray for self-presents!
OOh I self-present ALL the time. The husband used to be a fabulous present buyer (especially from a lovely little shop on Bond Street, whose delights come in darling little turquoise/aqua boxes). But he lost his present buying mojo when he decided to SAVE FOR OUR FUTURE. Future smoochture. A girl needs pretty things to coo and fawn over. My next self-present will be an entirely new bathroom, although sadly I will have to share it with Husband and Wonderboy. Hmm. Might need to go shopping at lunchtime…
This is a very pretty doll and you totally deserve it, especially that it’s in your favourite colours (it’s in my favourite colours too, by the way)
I’m so glad I haven’t properly discovered Etsy yet. It’s very good for my budget that I didn’t. I mean, I know where it is, I even have a link on my blog to it, but until I make the first purchase, the floodgates are closed…
meet me there, i’m on my way. and have asked husband to chill the gin…
You have such wonderful style! It comes through on everything you do. Curses to flakey web designers!
I buy present for myself, bur posing them as presents for Liver and Little Man all the time- The shame.
I love turquoise. I just bought turquoise nail polish and am staring at my turquoise nails right now as I type this. Although it looks a little too freaky when I wear a turquoise with my turquoise nails, which happened a lot this week, believe it or not.