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An interview with yours truly has just appeared in UK-focused online magazine retro.life.style. Not sure where the retro fits in as the features all seem pretty hip and directional to me, but the magazine itself is well worth a browse. And they asked for a picture of me in my new shoes which I was only too happy to oblige with.
Shangri-la-la-la
So, I’ve been taking my spoonful of oil every morning and afternoon and have by now ingested thousands of extra calories in neat oil. I am deliberately not doing anything else which might be construed as ‘dieting’. I am eating everything I want to eat and only exercising when I feel like it. By rights I should have put on a least a couple of extra pounds in weight.
But, my body appears to have been taken over by an alien. A thin person. The sort of person who forgets to eat, who can eat three-quarters of the way through a chocolate bar and then put the rest away.The sort of person who pushes plates away announcing that they are ‘stuffed’, and who eats her favourite things first because she knows she won’t have room later on. I have lost my taste for sweet things and heavy carbohydrates and am craving fruits, vegetables, fish and light foods such as Thai stir-fries. I’m drinking loads of water. If I don’t do some exercise during the day I start to get stir-crazy.
In short I am doing everything that one is told to do to lose weight, but unlike every other diet I have been on ever, I am not having to exert a single ounce of willpower. On the contrary I spend most of my time feeling like I’ve eaten too much, until I analyse what I’ve eaten and it’s not half as much as I was eating before. I have no idea how this is working, but something is definitely different. And, not surprisingly, I have lost 3 pounds in two weeks without the slightest effort.
Targeting men
We love men here at mirrormirror. Apart from the obvious, they are generally extremely good customers who buy lots of jewellery and write very nice gift messages.
The only problem is finding where they congregate. We always get lots of male customers whenever we are featured in the broadsheet newspapers but that doesn’t happen all that often, so I’m trying to think of ways to advertise directly to men (preferably rich).
So far we’ve advertised quite often on Popbitch, with good results, and have just taken out an ad on a political blog written by someone called Guido Fawkes (maybe not his real name?). Guido claims to have a readership made up of opinion formers and political commentators, though I suspect the bulk of his readership is made up of bored investment bankers and lawyers. Nevertheless I am confidently expecting John Prescott to place a bulk order for all of his mistresses very soon.
If there are any male readers of this blog, can you recommend any other blogs or websites with a predominantly male readership which might be good places for ‘mirrormirror’ to advertise?
(Speaking of male readers, my brother texted me earlier on this evening to say that he had indeed completed the Paris-Roubaix cycle ride in a time of 12 and a half hours. Am beside myself with admiration given that it’s been so hot today I couldn’t even be bothered to walk to the park).
Forza Azzurri
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One of the very nicest things about being half-Italian is that one gets to support two teams in the World Cup. And that one of those teams features the quite spectacularly beautiful Fabio Cannavaro together with the quite impossibly sexy Francesco Totti.
Yum yum.
Phew what a scorcher!
The sun is shining, the weather is set to be fabulous this weekend and everyone’s feeling very tra-la-la. (Though spare a thought for my poor brother on the way from Paris to Roubaix).
My new Weather Pixie says it’s hot (just trying to work out how to add her to my side bar) and I’ve just found out that mirrormirror is hot as well. Happy days!
Commenter of the Week – Aunty Cookie
It’s that time of the week again!
And just to prove what a truly international audience the mirrormirror blog has, this week’s commenter is Aunty Cookie (aka Shannon) from Australia. Aunty C makes extremely cute cards and illustrations which she sells via her Etsy shop. She is always begging us to buy her stuff, so go and make her day. She also has a blog.
She sounds a bit mad if truth be told but in a nice way, which makes her a perfect mirrormirror person. I have to make her Commenter of the Week because I freaked her out last week by commissioning one of these, though it’s all a bit up in the air at the moment as I’m not sure whether we’re going to take our dining table to Seattle or not. She insists she can’t sew but those of us with eyes can see otherwise.
Hopefully she’ll pop in to tell us what she’ll be wearing on the red carpet.
Shoes as Idea II
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Today I bought a pair of these.
They were far too expensive and a rather too flat for someone as short as me, but since my feet are the only part of me which isn’t currently overweight, and since I shall in a couple of short weeks be feeling stylistically challenged on the Costa Smeralda, I thought what the heck. Particularly since I am in love with them.
Unfortunately, my feet, after a long winter of neglect, appear to have been borrowed from a hobbit and in no way do justice to their shimmery beauty. Maybe I can wear the sandals as earrings instead?
Shoes as Idea I
Maybe I’m a bit autistic or something, but I think I like pictures of inanimate things – shoes, clothes, architectural details etc. – more than I like images of people.
I also love real life shoes, probably because I have perfect size 4 (37 no idea what it is in the US, but nice and dainty) feet which means that I can always find shoes to fit, however fat the rest of me is feeling.
So you can imagine I was very pleased to discover the work of shoe designer and shoe illustrator Mark Schwartz. I found out about him when he sent me an email this evening, having obviously found my email addy online. No message, just a link to his blog. Is this clever marketing or is it spam? Whatever, it’s worked for him as I’ve written this post. Maybe it’s something I should consider doing for mirror mirror.
Have a few shoes. (All pictures from Mark Schwartz’s website).
New image
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I’ve been doing some work! At long last we’ve got round to freshening up the photos on the mirror mirror homepage.
Our original plan was to overhaul the homepage every season, with new product photos, a different seasonal background pattern and an on trend colour palette. I would like to do this eventually, but at the moment just don’t have the time or money to make it happen.
In the meantime I’m pleased with how this has come out – it seems both more contemporary and summery. What do you think? (Honestly).
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