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Luckily I didn’t get distracted by the wilder animals and I decided that I would buy a Pug this time which is how I ended up with Albert

I needed to take him for a little walk after a long day stuck inside but lets just say Albert is a little bit reluctant to go for a walk and instead sits down in protest (FiFi is the same I don’t know how I pick them).

I probably did chose a bad outfit for a) walking the dog and b) walking the dog in the snow, but as soon as I put this dress on from Boom I knew I had to wear it.

I teamed it with this super cute shirt from Pig and shoes from Maitreya to give it that kind of glamour private school kind of look.

The shoes, I bought a while ago but couldn’t decide what to wear them with (sadly as look at how beautiful they are). As soon as I saw the shirt and dress together though I thought I have THE perfect shoes to wear with it!

I guess wearing the socks over my knees was a compromise against the cold although no doubt a big winter coat would have been better but hey a girls got to do what a girls got to do for fashion!

Cropped & Unedited

Outfit
Dress: *BOOM* Ayko Argyle mini-dress rose
Shirt: Pig – Guayabera in White for Stumblebum
Shoes: Maitreya Gold * Moxie Coal
Skin: LAQ ~ Nellie 03 [Nougat] Glow skin
Hair: >TRUTH< Francesca – chocolate

Pose
GLITTERATI – Long hair – 3 – 4

Speaking of advertising, I have begun to notice that everything I buy, whether it be clothes, toothpaste, a car or toilet paper has some celebrity’s tick of approval. Retired basketball stars advertise carpet. Britney promotes Pepsi and gets herself into legal celebrity strife when spotted drinking Coke. MacGyver extols the virtues of MasterCard, all which is based purely on monetary remuneration rather than on the actual merits of the product. Do I really believe that Jackie Chan drinks Mountain Dew or that Justin Timberlake eats and enjoys McDonalds?

Even fictional characters have gotten in on the act. The Simpson’s swear by CC Lemon – a Japanese soft drink. Bugs Bunny really digs Nike shoes and USA War Bonds. And Kermit the frog, since he has the need to drive places all the time, wouldn’t go anywhere if it wasn’t in a Ford or BMW. What makes advertising executives think that I would allow the opinion of a Muppet to influence my car buying decision?

Even if they did actually believe in their products and wished to share their wonderment and awe with the rest of humanity. Even if Big Kev really did rejoice whilst using Shower Power in his spa bath, what possesses us to believe the recommendation of random famous people? Do Britney and Kate Moss have such great track records that I would want to believe what they say?

Some prominent individuals in the circle of household names have serious drug problems, anger issues or are inflicted with an addiction to one thing or another. Some celebrities get married eight times in the space of 3 and a half days. That should tell me that they may not be the greatest judge of character. And if they aren’t any good at picking their future partner, what makes us think that they would be any better at choosing a car or a skin care product? When I choose my household cleaning chemical should I trust the guidance of someone who is familiar with chemicals of the pill popping kind? I don’t wish to disparage those people who have achieved stardom, but wish to stress to people the fact that surely there is someone better than Tara Reid to plug the newest Kenwood Chef Mixmaster.

So who should the advertising companies use instead of the rich and famous? People who know their onions, I think. Someone I can trust to really know what they are talking about. Someone that I would bump into down at my local Chinese restaurant. I’d like to see my Nan advertising pasta sauce. A greasy mullet-possessing mechanic advertising my car. Somebody my size advertising my clothes. My friends Bernie and Andy advertising the latest movie. A highly-strung teenager advertising caffeinated soft drinks. A geeky IT guy advertising my iPod docking station.

I want no more good looking, rich, famous or skinny people with fake teeth trying to sell me stuff. If you were on a billboard I would smile and probably purchase whatever it was you were peddling. That’s because you are like me. I can relate to you. You are just like my brother, my mother, my aunty or my best friend. You have probably never been married more than 3 times and have probably even used Shower Power or Easy Off Bam. So I always seek out personal recommendations….plus then if whatever I buy is crap, I have someone to blame.

Till tomorrow

Kacy

108/365, originally uploaded by ChrisSinn.

A lovely day in Wootton Wawen!

I know – it doesn’t sound like it could be the name of a village, more like a speech impediment, but it is a real place – Wiki says so so it must be true! We visited the Church (St Peters) after discussing it last night with Annie (thankyou!) we were blessed, for it was a lovely day, and even though Birmingham itself was pretty hazy, the sun came out for us in Wawen and it was bright and clear. After finding the correct views I wandered around the graveyard, whilst my location manager took it easy in the sun – we should have bought a picnic (and did if a Double Decker and a Mars bar counts ) although perhaps a graveyard isn’t perhaps the place to lay out a blanket and crack open the vino

The picture doesn’t entirely capture the beauty of the flower lined path up to the church, but I’m pretty happy with it – more graveyard related photos will appear in the next few days – there are some fantastic daisy shots you’ll be happy to know