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Showing posts from December, 2018
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Happy New Year to you All xx
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Last Frenchie Walk of the Year Great turn out and even bumped into an old work colleague
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Make sure you bag a bargain
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Merry Christmas Came across these really interesting WW1 Christmas photos 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
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Had fun painting the Daughter's nails
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I'm a Woman I came across this today.  It's Cher and Raquel Welch from 1975
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Last Fishnet Friday of 2018 - Enjoy
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Good Girl Karlie Kloss looking amazing for Carolina Herrera
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The Office Party or not Enjoy
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I'm Alive Getting Ready to Party.    Play it Loud
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Lola modelling her 2018 Christmas Jumper
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Christmas Pud
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Scooters Pin Up Style Angie Dickinson MM Jayne Mansfield Gina Lollobigida Audrey Hepburn Anita Ekberg Jean Shrimpton Raquel Welch Claudia Schiffer Georgia May Jagger
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Pearls Before Poppies Today I found out about a charity auction that took place at Christies, London in December 1918 called the Red Cross Pearl Appeal. To help raise funds for WW1 war effort, Lady Northcliffe, wife of newspaper baron Alfred Harmsworth who founded The Daily Mail, launched an appeal asking women to donate a pearl from their necklaces to create a new string which would be sold to support the Red Cross.   Donations received included Queen Alexandra, 9 duchesses, 27 countesses and a number of viscountesses.  Countess of Rothes, whose husband had been wounded in France in 1916, donated a pearl from a necklace that she had worn as a passenger on the Titanic. Nearly 4,000 pearls were donated which was enough to make 41 necklaces.  It was decided that these necklaces would have ruby clasps which over 50 were also donated.  These necklaces were auctioned on the 19th December and raised £94,044 (£5 million today) which was used to run all the Red Cro
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Christmas Pin Ups U to Z Ursula Andress Vivien Leigh Wendy Glenn Yasmin Le Bon Zhang Ziyi
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Christmas Pin Ups P to T Pamela Anderson Thea Queen Rihanna Sophia Loren Tyra Banks
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Christmas Pin Ups K to O Kylie Lauren Bacall Marilyn Naomi Campbell Olivia de Havilland
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                               Christmas Pin Ups F to J Fergie Gisele Audrey Hepburn Iman J Lo
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Christmas Pin Ups A to E Christina Aguilera Beyonce Cara Delevingne Dita Eva Mendes
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Ane Brun I have just discovered Norwegian singer, songwriter, Ane Brun.  Ane is currently the voice behind Samsung's Christmas TV ad.  Beautiful voice.