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I wonder when she changed the title of her video to this now:
For me, in my late 30s, I think a lot of her pieces are cute. The problem is she wears it all together. Rather than maybe mixing the prissy/granny blouse with jeans and funky shoes, she goes full granny. On their own, the tie-neck blouse, pearl earrings, long skirts, big coats, even the gray hair, could look great! There's a cool way to do this look, but she doesn't quite get it right.When did "making yourself look older than your actual age" become a trend ?
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I went to uni with a girl like that. Every time anyone asked her where she was from, she said just outside NYC. Turns out she live in central ConnecticutI'm totally with you, I've just bought on the edge of the Cotswolds and by the edge I mean, across the other side of my road is the border and even I get a bit nervous as to whether I should say I live there or not, she lives 6-7 miles away from the border not to mention Strawtop which is 10+ miles!! It's getting ridiculous now.
It's like saying you live in Midtown Manhattan but you live in the middle of Queens, it's just not the same and so embarrassing if someone catches you out.
That's not any ordinary road !!!! That's a COTSWOLDS ROAD in a area of outstanding beauty. Come on Tattlers get a grip !!!!View attachment 861477
Ermmmm......exactly what sort of adventures* are you likely to have on a tarmac road in boring dead flat countryside??
* Praps an assignation with Aldi???
Don't fall for old Josie's manipulation in her videos. Josie uses her audience whenever she feels the need to win an argument and can't get her way in an adult manner by negotiating or compromising. Neither of them will be designer of the year, but I think they have similar tastes for that old house and are both stuck on Soho Home decor as well. At least Charchar realised that they needed to use antiques, in what is a centuries-old house, or else it would have ended up looking like Freddy's flat. Josie just wanted to get the freebies that didn't fit the house or the large rooms. I recall Josie, proudly and very self-importantly, saying how SHE told Freddy she should use a pink velvet rope on the stairs as a bannister rail. Many areas in the Old Rectum were painted with pink undertone paint, even the staircase walls and both of them like that green colour. I hate that green but I think the study looks much better than Josefiend's powder room, which was a gigantic fail and utter waste of time and money. She also used that powder room saga to make old Charchar look really bad, just because he advised her to rather get a professional painter than paint herself, as she could spend her time better doing more important (business) work. Suddenly all her subscribers were up in arms because Charlie wouldn't "allow" her to paint. I call nonsense on that, Josie does as Josie wants. Then we saw that so-called painting in the powder room and what a terrible mess it was and their painter had to finish the job, not to mention getting all the paint off the beams. She said afterwards that she wouldn't do it again. I must admit, I took delight in every second I saw her painting because she hated it and had carry on doing it for the sake of the argument. Even silly Freddy painted better than Josie. We also never saw the chairs she was going to paint gold and uphoster (thank goodness), in what was clearly not upholstery fabric. When people asked about the chairs in the comments, there were no replies. I think if Josie was not in a relationship, her house would look exactly like Freddy's - pink and gold!Why does it seem that Charlie has taken over the decor of both their house and strawtop? It's all very stereotypically masculine - dark woods and dark greens (not nice ones, either), rather harsh and unwelcoming.
Besides the gold on everything everywhere, she seems to only have the pink room - which slipped by Charlie before he could get to it, and her little hideaway closet. Isn't it her bloody house?
She keeps saying "this wouldn't suit our home" etc., but there are other ways to do traditional that aren't Downton Abbey, and that are more her feminine style - or at least neutral.
If they're saying that the horrid green colour of the new coffee machine is a "hint" for what the new kitchen will look like, then there goes that room!