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[loveallthingsitalian]

Although they are a thousand times better than any of the females IMO

 

[Twilight]

I've just had a look at the website to remind myself of their names & came up with a list of adjectives to describe them, strangely they all began with S: sarcastic, screechy, scruffy, seedy, self-absorbed, silly, simpering, sloppy, smarmy, smug, spluttering, stodgy, stumbling & ultimately superfluous.

 

[Brissles]

I don't think QVC presenters are salaried, they're more likely to be self-employed (a bit like real performers :RpS_rolleyes: ). Those with grown up or no children have tended to do more hours; Jilly for instance only tends to do late nights.

I suspect it's a fairly safe TV job, judging by the length of service of some, but not likely to be particularly highly paid (relatively). But it also allows time for other screen work -adverts, voice over, corporate training films etc.

Its always been a mystery how these presenters 'survive' with doing a few shifts a week to live on. There is only so much voice over work to do, and there must be a helluva lot of 'corporate' work to keep out of work actors and presenters off the bread line.

I think a lot of the married part timers have partners who have good jobs. I heard once that Dale's wife has her own shop, Old hairy chest's wife also has an interiors business, Jill Frank's hubby had his own PR company, JR's husband has been a musician for decades, I think Ali Keenan's husband has his own company, Ali Young's husband was a pro footballer, Kabler's husband is a GP. So I don't think any of this lot would starve if they were given the push.

 

[Twilight]

Adding ickle Claire's husband to your list brissles, he's a very successful landscape gardener.

 

[Brissles]

And who remembers Claudia (pronounced Cloudia) Sylvester ? she left in 2011 - how time flies !!

She now designs jewellery, and cant believe she hasn't been approached for 'eek. excerpt from her website..........

"My Bespoke Jewellery Range is by commission only and examples can be seen on my website www.claudiasylvester.com. My Ready to Wear Silver Collection is available now.

The CS London - Luxury Home Collection will Launch in-stores February 2020

I'm a Mother to our four wonderful children aged 21, 19, 13, 9 and married for 26 years to Chartered Psychologist and Leadership expert Steven Sylvester. We are all advocates for healthy nutrition & living and I have a passion for Cooking, Hot Yoga, and Tennis where i'm the current mixed doubles Captain at Stoke Park Club."

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

And who remembers Claudia (pronounced Cloudia) Sylvester ? she left in 2011 - how time flies !!

She now designs jewellery, and cant believe she hasn't been approached for 'eek. excerpt from her website..........

"My Bespoke Jewellery Range is by commission only and examples can be seen on my website www.claudiasylvester.com. My Ready to Wear Silver Collection is available now.

The CS London - Luxury Home Collection will Launch in-stores February 2020

I'm a Mother to our four wonderful children aged 21, 19, 13, 9 and married for 26 years to Chartered Psychologist and Leadership expert Steven Sylvester. We are all advocates for healthy nutrition & living and I have a passion for Cooking, Hot Yoga, and Tennis where i'm the current mixed doubles Captain at Stoke Park Club."

Did she not represent a beauty (I think or house things)brand last year? Obviously the bespoke jewellery didn’t pay all the bills although I did see some of her designs and they were fab. She was a lot classier than the current lot.

 

[ERICS MUM]

Did she not represent a beauty (I think or house things)brand last year? Obviously the bespoke jewellery didn’t pay all the bills although I did see some of her designs and they were fab. She was a lot classier than the current lot.

Yes! Can you imagine CS doing a show with Debbie Flint or Chloe Everton ?

 

[Twilight]

Did she not represent a beauty (I think or house things)brand last year? Obviously the bespoke jewellery didn’t pay all the bills although I did see some of her designs and they were fab. She was a lot classier than the current lot.

It's an Australian brand called Nude by Nature.

 

[I Love Chocolate]

I was having a nose at Claudia’s website and it said you could buy this for a Push Present. I have never heard of this so Googled. Apparently, it’s a present the baby’s father or woman’s family gives the mother for pushing out the baby! (C-sections included too).

Is this a thing now? Anyone ever heard of it?

 

[Brissles]

I think the term originated in America (don't they all ?) along with baby shower and school 'proms' !

 

[maymorganlondon]

I was having a nose at Claudia’s website and it said you could buy this for a Push Present. I have never heard of this so Googled. Apparently, it’s a present the baby’s father or woman’s family gives the mother for pushing out the baby! (C-sections included too).

Is this a thing now? Anyone ever heard of it?

I thought it used to be what eternity rings marked, no?

Relentless commercialisation of every event in life just saps the real significance from them. Rather than celebrating or marking the life-changing experience of becoming a mother, it becomes a question of what you got given as a gift and how does it compare to what others got... And for the giver a new arms race to spend, spend, spend to keep up. So much trivialisation combined with anxiety! How destructive of the joy of baby!

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

I was having a nose at Claudia’s website and it said you could buy this for a Push Present. I have never heard of this so Googled. Apparently, it’s a present the baby’s father or woman’s family gives the mother for pushing out the baby! (C-sections included too).

Is this a thing now? Anyone ever heard of it?

Started with celebs and filtered down to the snowflakes. Same with “baby moons”. WTF?

 

[Brissles]

The only 'fad' that I subscribed to was the "bottom drawer" !!!! which has gone the way of the dinosaur ! Kids today find it quaint that I did such a thing, but oh the joy of just buying 2 tea towels one week, being given a set of Port glasses from an elderly aunt from her 'collection', a Pyrex dish from the hardware store, all getting ready for when I had a home of my own soon after I was engaged.

There was no living together then, no credit cards, or charity shops to get bits from, and there certainly wasn't any wedding lists for the guests - we were just grateful for anything that was newly bought, even if it DID mean we had 3 toasters !!!

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

The only 'fad' that I subscribed to was the "bottom drawer" !!!! which has gone the way of the dinosaur ! Kids today find it quaint that I did such a thing, but oh the joy of just buying 2 tea towels one week, being given a set of Port glasses from an elderly aunt from her 'collection', a Pyrex dish from the hardware store, all getting ready for when I had a home of my own soon after I was engaged.

There was no living together then, no credit cards, or charity shops to get bits from, and there certainly wasn't any wedding lists for the guests - we were just grateful for anything that was newly bought, even if it DID mean we had 3 toasters !!!

I remember it well! Plus items courtesy of green shield stamps and ( no longer PC )cigarette coupons (I got a mixer and other bits this way). Also there was no colour coordination- if you had visions of a green kitchen but auntie Dot could get a bargain on yellow kitchen items well, tough t***y, you just had to be grateful!

With us it was multiple tea sets, none to our taste and we don’t drink tea!

 

[Brissles]

Yes LATI I had forgotten about the stamps ! Courtesy of Embassy vouchers I got my ironing board, a teak coffee table, a table lamp, and a set of enamel saucepans decorated in brown with a floral pattern - I've seen them at antique fairs since !!! Ohhhhh you're right, there was no such thing as colour co-ordination, fancy kitchens and bathrooms were a dream in the future, so as long as the bathroom was 'clean' and you tried to hide your disgust at the candlewick 3 piece mats, it was ok. What memories.

 

[Suki 1]

Did she not represent a beauty (I think or house things)brand last year? Obviously the bespoke jewellery didn’t pay all the bills although I did see some of her designs and they were fab. She was a lot classier than the current lot.

Claudia has come back to QVC she has a range of make up items can't remember the brand.

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Claudia has come back to QVC she has a range of make up items can't remember the brand.

Does she actually have a connection or just a brand ambassador?

 

[Twilight]

I found a wooden box in a charity shop the day after our older daughter told us she was pregnant. Decorated with ducks, it's my baby box & buying all those lovely baby items to put in it is a joy. When we got married my mother in law gave us a basket of 101 useful items from a box of matches to a Pyrex measuring jug that's still going strong 41 years later, what a brilliant idea :cheer2:

 

[Loveinamist]

I bought curtains and cast iron pans from a fab fire salvage sale in the church I was getting married in. I loved those curtains, the pans I needed to be Geoff Capes to lift. I bitterly regret not buying a lovely display cabinet from a used furniture shop for £30, a lot to spend newly married in 1982 I just couldn’t stretch to at the time :RpS_sad:

 

[loveallthingsitalian]

Someone bought me a large (plastic) laundry bin and filled it with washing bits, pegs etc. Not glamorous but very useful and was kept going for years.

No One seems to think of buying practical gifts such as a ladder, especially if you don’t live next to family where you borrow stuff. Despite not having two pence to rub together we bought a really sturdy ladder as we knew we had loads of DIY to do. 49 years later it’s still going covered in paint from every decade. Tools and tool box - much much better than a dinner service.