One of the first things that I began looking into when I found out that I was pregnant earlier this year was clothes (quelle surprise!). I had noticed a few maternity brands in fashion magazines and friends of mine gladly recommended a few places too, so I typed a few names in Google and started bookmarking those with potential. However, that little exercise didn't last long because it turned out that actually I couldn't find that many clothes I liked the look of! Oh dear.....

But just before Easter I went to Spain to visit my family and do a few Caradiaz business meetings and was pleasantly surprised to find that, although the so-called maternity ranges were just as bad over there, some shops had quite a few clothing ranges in plus sizes which actually looked really rather nice. So I took my sister with me on a 'big' shopping spree and that's where most of my maternity wardrobe came from. Back in the UK, I bought also a couple of pieces from super-stylish, yummy mummy maternity brand Isabella Oliver. Their maternity clothes look absolutely fabulous, I got their Autumn-Winter catalogue in the post a couple of weeks ago and could have easily gone mad buying stuff!

But, rather ironically, although I do actually run an on-line shop myself, when it comes to clothes, I'm just no good at buying on the internet. There is always something that doesn't fit quite right and, although most on-line shops have quite reasonable return policies these days, it's quite disappointing.

That is why we don't do things like rings at Caradiaz. In my opinion, when size does matter, you're better off going out to the shops and try things on.