Things I’ve learnt…

Things I’ve learnt from my friends husband walking out on her and her three small children ~ Listen. At the beginning your number one job in this situation is to listen. Do not offer advice. You’re not a counsellor or a therapist, you weren’t in that marriage with them. She will 100% be getting conflicting […]

New Blood

I’m bored with my friends. WHAT!?!! GUYS!!!! Come on…as if that statement could be true. You’re the only ones who have supported my average to marginally above average work for the past 18 years. No, what I mean by that provocative and attention grabbing sentence is that I want to see other people. She’s all […]

We’re launching our first Menswear collection!

~ LAURA LEE JEWELLERY BLOG ~ At LLJ we believe that jewellery is for everyone. And with that in mind, we’re launching a brand new, concise menswear collection for our loyal male customers. Having always loved a well-dressed and stylish man, Laura had been thinking about creating a range of classic and timeless designs for […]

Stripping laid bare

I’ve been thinking a lot about strippers recently. Hear me out! I’ve started pole dancing. My current writing project involves a piece about a stripper. It’s a monologue that includes pole dancing and is hopefully going to be performed one day. Not by myself, I might add, as I’ve written a character who’s 28 years old. […]

The New Sixteen

At the time of writing this I am two weeks away from turning The Big Four Oh.  At the time of you reading this however I am a mere five days away from turning forty. Five days away from a life changing birthday. Well, it doesn’t have to be life changing of course, but I’ve decided […]

Written on my face

{Jawline examples from 2009} The first time I ever heard about plastic surgery was in the early 90’s when I found a picture of Dolly Parton in one of my Saturday magazines. I was so fascinated by the picture that I cut it out and pinned it to my cork board. Dolly was dressed in […]

#diditmyselfdidnti

I grew up with nothing. Literally nothing. Totally untrue of course but that’s what my ‘deprived’ teenage brain told me. It told me that I was at a disadvantage in the, seemingly, third world country I was living in as I didn’t have access to the things I so desperately needed. By third world I […]

Shit loads of money

Last week I had the privilege of going to the theatre twice. On Monday night I went with a friend to The Old Vic to see Fanny and Alexander and on Wednesday night I went with my work friends to the Noel Coward theatre in the West End to see Girl from the North Country. While […]

Raising Tiny

My niece looks like my brother. Sounds cute but she’s actually my sisters daughter. I’m not saying she’s currently resembling a nearly 42 year old man but, Tiny, as we like to call her, has the same heavy brow and cheeky smile that our brother possessed as a child. She also really looks like her […]

The pen is mightier than the keyboard

As the process of buying a piece of jewellery, at the shop I work in, went from a handwritten receipt to a few taps on an Ipad I knew that I would never again hear those sweet words ~ “Oh haven’t you got beautiful handwriting”. Along with “You smell amazing” and “You’re how old?!” it’s […]