I’m sorry I missed your birthday, darling lady :(. I just can’t get it right the way I used to, but my sentiments are just as sincere despite being a little late.

Where do I begin with your insatiable fabness. You are YLF Royalty and we adore everything about you - inside and out - is a good start.

You are an extremely inspiring, captivating, enchanting and engaged forum member. You don't suffer from analysis paralysis, yet each purchase is thought out, calculated and very effective. Your style is intuitive and innate. Your small but highly functional wardrobe a brilliant example for us all - and so is your KILLER style. Your secret weapon is Mama-Sveta who alters your clothes to Sveta-Perfection. We all want a Mama-Sveta.

(I still chuckle that you've become an immense Trouser Gal when you swore years ago that it was impossible to find trousers that fit. And look at you rocking them all from flares and slouchies, to BF jeans and cropped styles - and with the best of them I might add. This is what makes fashion fun. You don’t let your clothes boss you around and that’s key).

Sveta, amidst your intelligence, incredible warmth, great sense of humour, eloquent use of language and unending tenacity, is a genuine kindness and thoughtfulness that has touched me deeply. Your support for YLF, and for the Cox Castle during our grief has been incredible and I will never forget it. THANK YOU for being wonderful you. Your constant appreciation for YLF does not go unnoticed, and you are a gem. This silly distance is preventing us from having tea and cake together on a regular basis. I demand that me meet again in 2014 because it’s high time. Hope that you had a wonderful birthday and that you feel very celebrated. You are special and don’t forget it.

love

Angie

xoxo