KEEPING COOL.......

Sorry there was no blog last week. The reason being that I was on holiday. I always take this week off in May as it's Chelsea Flower Show week, and generally I seem to have good weather! Remember that for next year if you're planning some time off in May!


As it was so hot last week it got me to thinking about how to keep cool......! I got searching on the Internet and came up with these tips. Hope some of them prove helpful to you!


Wear lightweight, light-coloured cotton clothes. Heat is trapped by synthetic fibres, but cotton absorbs perspiration and it's evaporation causes you to feel cooler. The light colours reflect the sun's radiation.


Eat small meals and eat more often. The larger the meal,the more metabolic heat your body creates breaking down the food. Avoid foods that are high in protein, which increase metabolic heat.


Run your wrists under a cool tap for five seconds each every couple of hours. This is because a main vein passes through this area and it helps to cool the blood.


Eat spicy food! Although this may be the last thing you fancy in the hot weather, curries and chillies stimulate heat receptors in the mouth, enhance circulation and cause sweating, which cools the body down.


Women should replace their usual body moisturiser with a cooling Aloe Vera aftersun product to use morning and night. This will help to lower your skin temperature.


Drink Chrysanthemum Tea. Practitioners say chrysanthemum is a cooling herb which clears the head.


Slow down and avoid strenuous activity which will stimulate your body and raise its core temperature. If you must go jogging, do it during the coolest part of the day, which is usually before 7am!


While you're out, keep house curtains drawn to stop it heating up like a greenhouse.


You may be longing for a cold beer or a chilled White wine spritzer. But you should avoid alcohol because it dehydrates the body. You are better off with mineral water or low-sugar fizzy drinks. Also avoid drinks with caffeine such as coffee and colas, these increase the metabolic heat in the body.


Take a tepid bath or shower just below body temperature, especially before bedtime. Although a cold shower might sound more tempting, your body generates heat afterwards to compensate for the heat loss!


Sleep on a feather or down pillow with a cotton pillowcase. Synthetic pillows will retain heat.


Sit back, close your eyes and picture snow. Research has shown that the body reacts to these daydreams, reducing its overall temperature!


So hopefully armed with these tips you'll keep nice and cool on these sweltering days. Keep thinking those cool thoughts.....!!!!!!

Look forward to seeing you all in the shop after my week off. Those cool clothes are flying off the shelves don't wait too long before you come in!!!!!

LOOK WHAT I FOUND..........

INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT SHOPPING.....


Just when I was wondering what to write about this week and coming up with zilch I decided to trawl the net and see what I could find to liven up your week. And here is the result.


I found this on an American website and some of it will make you laugh, some pull your hair out and some make you think "WHAT".....
I came up with a few choice answers, but I'm sure you will come up with your own!



Every woman knows that shopping has a relaxing effect and this is exactly why we love it so much.


1. When women shop for clothes they feel better than when they have to buy kitchenware and domestic goods.

2. Women who shop for over 17 hours a week and spend over £100 are slimmer and healthier than those who spend less time in stores and spend less money.

3. Woman think about shopping as often as men think about sex! 74% of women admit they think about shopping every minute ie 950 times a day. Two out of five women claim they are shoe and bag addicts!

4. Women-shopacholics have fewer wrinkles and feel much younger than women who dislike shopping.

5. The majority of women who love shopping are more confident and suffer less from depression.

6. During an average lifetime a woman spends 25 184 hours 53 minutes shopping.

7. A woman spends around 48 hours 51 minutes looking at shop windows during a year.

8. Women that do shopping a few times a week are usually in a better mood than women who only shop at weekends!

9. Woman spend more money on clothes for a holiday than on the holiday itself.

10. The most bought items by women are jeans, t-shirts and tops.


Well what did you make of those? I have got several answers for all those points!!!!!!!!!
Hope they cheered you up on another dank old day!!

FEELING BLUE.....

Well I expect you are all feeling as blue as I am after the Bank Holiday weekend, how disappointing. I stayed indoors and even lit our log fire, I mean log fires in May!!!


The shop is looking really cheerful at the moment.

Last week we had our new range of jewellery and bags in from Spain, they would certainly brighten up any day.
The necklaces are long with fantastic ceramic beads, glass beads, leather, nickel free metal and fabric. We also have earrings to match the necklaces. Their rings are adjustable which is a godsend,how frustrating is it trying to find a ring that fits? Bangles come in every colour under the sun. And to top it all of they are very reasonably priced!

Our Nancy Mac dresses and cardigans are now here, I've put some of them in the window this week. My favourite fabric is the Poppy, it just makes me think of summer days walking through a corn field with poppies growing around the edge of it. We had this made in three different styles so there is something for everyone and something for every occasion . Pop in and have a look before we sell out, they would be perfect for that drinks evening, wedding, christening, out for dinner or to the races. Hurry up!!!! We cannot reorder the Nancy Mac dresses!

Oohhh and our Owen Barry suede and leather bags from Somerset are to die for! I want one in every colour!! What would my husband say! We regularly get new colours in of these as they make them to order. So if there is a particular colour you are looking for ask and we can check their colour swatches and get one ordered for you. If they have back up stock we get them within a few days, if they have to make them it can take up to four weeks. But they are all made in Somerset!!

I feeling a bit more cheerful now having written about all the lovely things I've got in the shop to look at! Might just have to stop writing and go and try on a pair of Toni Pons espadrilles!!!!!!!

Come on sun we know you're there somewhere!!!!!!

JEANS...............

So do you love yours or hate yours? Do you find the experience of buying them heaven or hell or have you just given up completely?!?!


I had given up buying jeans years ago as my body is just the wrong shape for them, I have a small waist for my hip size, I have an hourglass figure! But now 9 times out of 10 you will find me wearing jeans! Did I have liposuction, go on a drastic starvation diet or keep going to the gym constantly? NO.


'Therapy' started to stock NYDJ and FDJ jeans which are made for women with a curvy figure! So I figured I had nothing to lose but try a pair and see how I got on! Well first of all I had to get my head around the idea that you have to take at least a size smaller than you really are for these jeans to work!! To work, what could that mean??


NYDJ and FDJ have four way stretch and they hold your stomach in and lift your bottom up!! They are miracle workers!!


Well I am a fan and will not wear any other jeans, as the saying goes 'does exactly what it says on the tin'. It does feel a little strange at first because you really do have to struggle to do the zip up, I broke a fingernail the first time I put mine on. But after about 20 minutes you can feel them giving around the waist and the top of the leg and moulding to your body and you do forget that you have them on. And they do make you look a size smaller!! They are miracle workers! I honestly thought I would never find a pair of jeans that would fit me let alone look and feel so good!!! I am a convert!!


When buying any jeans you do have to give yourself plenty of time, do not rush it as you will invariably end up with the wrong size. With the NYDJ and FDJ this is even more important as the fitting is the most time consuming part of getting the right pair. We have been selling these jeans for about 4 years now and we know from experience that for NYDJ and FDJ virgins you need at least an hour for us to fit you correctly. We may come across as being a bit bossy when we are fitting you but as we sell them everyday and we wear them ourselves we do know how much they give and what they should look like when first put on. At the end of the day we want you to go out with the correct size and knowing that you will look fab whenever you wear them. They are not the cheapest of jeans so we really do want you to get the right size first time!


Once you've tried them you will not want to wear any others. Of course they do not suit everyone but do not be disheartened because we do keep other makes of jeans that suit other shapes. So why not pop in when you've got time a good trying on session and see what we can do for you and your jeans!!!!

IT'S RAINING AGAIN......!!!

So we've got another week of 'April Showers' on the way. And what we all really want is some lovely warm weather so we can get out of our Winter clothes that we are all throughly bored of wearing, and into our scrummy summer clothes!! Well at 'Therapy' we have a solution for you......LAYERING!!! Us Brits as a nation do not do the layering look very well, it's not something we think of doing, but just take a look at our chic European cousins, they have it down to a fine art. It's a good way to wear your summer clothes before the weather is really ready for them and you get to inject some fun and vitality into your wardrobe! At 'Therapy' we buy Part Two and Jackpot which are both Scandinavian companies who have done layering for years! You can wear that little linen sleeveless top, just pop a long sleeved t-shirt underneath it and a light weight knit over the top and bobs your uncle! Even a linen dress works well with layering, a pair of jeans or jeggings underneath and worn with the said t-shirt and little knit or jacket and the problem is solved! If you do not feel confident enough to try this look for the first time without a little guidance we are happy to do a 'Gok Wan' on you ( rest assured we will not make you strip off completely!!). If you are confident with the whole layering look we have loads of fab clothes that make the job easy.So hurry down to 'Therapy' in Petworth so you can start wearing those lovely summer clothes even if it does feel like February outside. In 'Therapy' at the moment we have an offer on our Part Two t-shirts, if you buy a top and a long sleeved t-shirt together the price of the long sleeved t-shirt will be £20 instead of £25! I've put a few layering ideas in the window this week, so if you're passing have a look, pop in and have a chat or let us put something together for you! Roll on the warmer weather! I suppose the perfect solution in a perfect world would be sunny and warm during the day and for it to pour with rain at night! Then everyone would be happy!! Take care.

NEWSFLASH.....

Our Nancy Mac dresses have just arrived in store today, so hurry on down if you don't want to miss out, they are absolutely fab..........

TIME.........

Well Easter has come and gone in a flash and I am now a Gran to twins, born 4 weeks premature!! Oh my god how did that happen, it only seems 5 minutes ago that my son was a little boy, surely he's not old enough to be a father to a daughter and a son!!! All seems to be going well and they both my son and daughter-in-law seem to be very laid back about everything, but oh how times change.....no staying in hospital for a week, even after a c-section and the babies being prem!!!! No bathing for the babies for at least 5 days after they are born, I remember the nurses bathed the baby the day after they were born and then you had to do it with them watching before you left hospital!!! You can pick them up even if they are sleeping! And you can take them out as soon as you want no staying indoors until the babies at 2 weeks old! I really think I must be getting old....do you think policemen are looking younger!!!!!
Well enough of babies and getting old! As the weather has been so dull I've put some cheery colours in the window this week.....

DISASTER........
I am trying to do this on my iPad for the first time,I have taken the photos on the iPad camera but can get them from wherever they are onto the blog? The answer a big fat NO!!!
Well I'll just have to ask a 4 year old how to do it!!!!
If you would like to know what I've put in the window I'm afraid you'll have to make a visit to lovely Petworth and come and have a look!!
Looking forward to seeing you all. We've had loads of fabulous new clothes in so it's worth giving yourself plenty of time so you can have a good mooch and rummage!!

Take care.