Forever Amber Company Magazine feature

Forever Amber featured in Company Magazine

Forever Amber Company Magazine feature

Oh, look! It’s a strangely blurry photo of me in front of my shoe wall, in this month’s Company Magazine! You should all rush out to buy it (Or, you know, download the digital version for iPad, like I did, because I was too lazy to walk to the shop…) and then write letters to the editor demanding to see more from the redhead with all the SHOOZ. Because you know you want to.

This photo was used as part of a feature on fashion bloggers and their closets. As you can see from my (slightly paraphrased) quote, I declined to provide a photo of my ACTUAL closet, because, trust me, you do NOT want to see that mess. In fact, that walk-in wardrobe I mentioned is the main reason I want to move house right now, not even joking. Speaking of which, remember that house we liked? The one we totally weren’t getting our hopes up about, except we actually were, to the extent of driving past it every week and picking out furniture? THAT house?

Yeah, someone bought it.

Hey, remember that three-week long frenzy of activity, in which we frantically called our mortgage company, repainted the house and FINALLY got around to repairing the mess on the ceiling, caused by the Watergate incident (and which I’d always known we’d only fix if we were selling up), all with the aim of selling our house fast enough to hopefully be able to make an offer on The One?

Yeah, someone bought it on the very day we finally completed that process. OF COURSE they did.

We were gutted, naturally. On the plus side, though, at least I got to go around for a while going, “I TOLD you this would happen! I KNEW we wouldn’t get it! And I was right! Say I was right!” And everyone had to say I was right, because I totally WAS right. I’m hardly ever right about anything, so, at least I got something out of the whole thing. Apparently I’m on a bit of a roll right now, so if you have any predictions you want made, hit me with them! Magic Eightball Amber, she say outlook not so good…

Once I’d worn out everyone’s patience with my I WAS RIGHT proclamations, I plunged into a pit of despair from which I would emerge periodically to once again comb through the property listings and declare that it was no use, because we would NEVER find another house we liked even half as much as that one, and that what would likely happen now would be that someone would buy our house, but we would have nowhere to move to, so we would be forced to build a makeshift shelter out of old shoe boxes or something.

This went on for about three days, at the end of which we went to see another house, and…

We loved it. Uh-oh. Instantly I switched mode from “We will sell our house and have nowhere to go,” to “We will NEVER sell our house, and will be forced to  live here forever, with my shoe collection gradually expanding to every room in the house, and my clothes one day exploding out of the closets and going running down the streets shouting, “WHY MUST SHE TREAT US LIKE THIS?”

So that’s where we’re at, basically. If we do sell this house, I guarantee we will do it on the very day the one we like is sold to someone else. And if we don’t manage to sell this house (Which is the most likely scenario according to my imaginary Magic Eightball), that other one will stick around forever. There will be other houses, though. At least that’s one thing we can take from the events of this week. And I have absolutely no doubt that I will obsess over them all, until finally we find the one that’s destined to be ours.  Now, if you’ll all excuse me, I have some photos of walk-in closets to go and pin…

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COMMENTS
  • Ahhhhh! Am definitely grabbing an issue on the way home from work!!
    Your shoe obsession paying off 🙂

    Blog: Emily Jay’s Masquerade

    April 10, 2013
  • Or… the people who have bought the house might have actually just bought you some more time – the sale might fall through and then the current owners will want to sell it for….um, 20% off. RESULT!

    April 10, 2013
  • I can very well remember the trauma of house hunting. Getting my hopes up every time thinking “What if this is THE ONE?! Perhaps the sellers will love us so much they’ll sell it to us for 50p!”. And, every time, it was mouldy with wonky floors, and the seller would proudly announce “We’ve only been burgled once in 25 years!”.

    I’m sure you’ll find the right one in the end, and sell your house just at the right time, and it will all work out beautifully. Although, if you DO have to do the shelter-out-of-shoe-boxes thing, I would imagine 100+ shoe boxes is enough to build a rather fancy fort 🙂 xxx

    April 10, 2013
  • AAhh, moving house is stressful. I’m sure you will find your dream house (walk in wardrobe and all) very soon!

    Corinne x
    http://www.skinnedcartree.com

    April 10, 2013
  • Congrats on the feature Amber!!

    April 11, 2013
  • Oh, it’s all so horrid! Half the time it’s panic that you will never find anything. The other half the time is filled with night terrors that your dream home will slip out of your fingers or that you’ll have two mortgages that will eventually destroy you and all you will have left is a cardboard box on the street. But then it all works out wonderfully… 😉 I’m keeping good thoughts for you!

    April 11, 2013
  • Congratulations on the feature! I’ll seek the magazine out as I’m always keen to come across other UK based bloggers.

    Sorry to hear about the gazumping thing on the house, moving sucks, it really is so stressful but I wish you the best of luck! x

    April 11, 2013
  • Ugh, it’s a heartache, but I’m sure you’ll find the right place in the end and it’ll be fabulous. As is the write-up in Company, congratulations!

    April 11, 2013
  • Oh yes, a walk-in wardrobe would be amazing! Or a dressing room. For a while there, I toyed with the idea of turning our spare bedroom into a dressing room… hang on, we just threw out a whole bunch of junk that was taking up space in that room. The dressing room might be back on the agenda!

    Good luck with all of your house stuff!

    April 12, 2013
  • Congrats on the feature Amber. Checking out the issue now.

    April 13, 2013
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