What is on my desk?

After seeing a couple of blog posts about "What is in my bag" I thought I would do a wee spin off on this and show everyone in blogging world - what is on my desk!

I am pretty lucky to have my own desk meaning I can try and personalise it throughout the year. (Wait 'til you see it at Christmas).

Favourite Things this Friday

Hello Readers!

As you might have noticed I have been playing around with the title of this post. Let me know what you think!

This post also comes from the amazing technology of scheduling posts as I am at TITP this Friday!

So here are my favorite things this Friday

Favourite things Friday.

Well here we are at the end of another week. I've been working from home today (yipppeeee) because my car has its MOT (booo! fingers crossed it passes).

So here are my favorite things of this week....

Rings!
I've bought quite a few rings last week and also found a new found love for some of my old pieces. Check them out....

Maybe don't wear them all at once :/

Birthdays!
It is my lovely friend Kirsty's birthday today! (Happy Birthday!) So we are heading out for some eating and drinking in the lovely capital of Edinburgh. I love seeing my friends...it is always like old times when we get together. (Me and Kirsty have been friends for about 7ish years. (Still unsure when we would categorise our friendship starting but 7 years is pretty good!)

Bloglovin'
Forever late to the bandwagon I have just discovered Bloglovin'! (I know...I know) If you enjoy reading blogs then this is the place for you to be. You can follow blogs (just like Twitter) and when you log on all the new posts are there for you to catch up on! Brilliant eh!

Pageviews
Wow! Last time I checked my page views were up to 719  views! This is amazing considering I started this blog about 6 weeks ago! I genuinely thought no one would want to read my blog but it seems to be they do! (*jumps for joy*). If you have any suggestions for what I should blog about please let me know. I am still getting on my feet but please keep coming back to have a read about what I have been up to!

Fun Blogs this week:
 Cocktails and Daydreams
Fleur de Force



Have a lovely weekend! Look out for some more posts next week!

Steph
<3

Massive Summer Haul

Guess what lovely readers! This is my first haul post! *woooooooooo*

If you are new to the blogging scene and not sure what "haul" post is then here is the low- down.

Women's Bodies

On the back of my most recent article called “Keeping Fit” I noticed a kind of media furore about weight loss, dieting and general ogling at celebrity women’s bodies.

Yep…it’s summer. The time of year where frenzied paparazzi’s will follow celebrities around “trying” to obtain that gold dust photo of them looking fat.

How sick is this right?

Surely celebrities have the right to look fat? Not at all they should uphold constant standards of beauty and to never look in the least bit…(dare I say it) normal. (pffft give me a break)

I was absolutely astounded at the harassment Kelly Brook recently received because she looked fat. That’s right! Kelly sexy Brook! Kelly Brook has one of the most enviable bodies (in the world) and even she can’t go on holiday and relax like the rest of us.

I was horrified at comments about her “jelly belly” and “wobbly bits”. I see not very many people complaining when she has a tight bra and knickers set on and looks “flamin’ hot”.(please note there is a little bit of nudity in this article…it is the Sun after all) (P.S I think the title infuriates me the most)

Some of the comments were actually awful! Most of them from a mix of men and women commenting on her weight and the size of her body. One said: “I think Kelly is lovely but to be honest! When she gets back from hols she needs to hit the treadmill. Too many tortilla's and corn chips, me thinks.” Another said: If she could lose 4 stone i would be interested, nice nips though.” And finally, “Mama Mia???? Mama mammoth more like. This is what you get when your photoshopper is on holiday. It's safe to say there's better photos of you about Kel.”

Many of the comments tried to stick up for Kelly stating: “She’s a real women” “Real women and real curves in the right places”. However, it began to get me thinking about the information that is played out in the media.

For example (not this particular one) some articles have stated that she is a size 10. I’m now not so convinced that this is her true size. Could I have been hypnotized by images that have been photo-shopped?

This morning (01/07/13) Anthea Turner was speaking to Lorraine Kelly about the influence of photo shopping. She has completed an article for the Sun (I love the Sun don’t you? Trying to campaign for women’s rights and then throwing a lovely page 3 girl in front of you…Grrrr) where she shows an image of her normally and finally one that has been photo shopped. The difference is pretty extreme but I think it makes a valid point that pictures in magazines can’t always be trusted.

*Ahem* listen up guys! All women do not look like page 3 models! Most of us don’t have flat stomach, pert bums, smooth thighs or even luscious lips. This is a mad world we live in!

On the back of this I started to think about the influence of these images and how this must be making young women (and me!) feel. Personally, I’m pretty OK with my body. We all have stuff we don’t like and I KNOW I will never be like Lucy from TOWIE or a Victoria Secrets model. And you know what, I’m fine with that. As long as I am fit, healthy and fit into my clothes I don’t mind.

My Blogilates instructor Cassey Ho also wrote about this on her blog stating that your only competition should be yourself not other women! Pretty powerful huh?

Anyways, I hope this maybe incites you to think about your views to photo shopping and images online? How does this make you feel?

Enjoy your week

Steph

Keeping fit....

Hi everyone!

Hope you are doing well!

Today I'd like to share with you my exercise plan that I have been completing over the month of June. Check it
out...