{"id":108410,"date":"2021-07-30T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T07:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=108410"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:34:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T13:34:43","slug":"it-says-blue-on-the-tin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/julia-roberts\/it-says-blue-on-the-tin\/","title":{"rendered":"It says blue on the tin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who watch QVC regularly will know that I am a bit of a purple fan, so when we were choosing a new colour for the walls in our family room, I was leaning towards purple, but my husband Chris was not so sure. The compromise is that this shade is called Scotch Blue, so it must be blue\u2026 right? More on our painting antics later!<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s been another couple of weeks of medical appointments for me, starting with my eighteen-month check-up after my ankle surgery in January 2020. The good news is that the realignment has worked well, and the muscle strength is much improved, but I have been experiencing some bouts of acute pain recently. My consultant said it is caused by bone scarring from the extensive surgery, so he arranged for me to have steroid and hyaluronic acid injections. I went for them on Wednesday and although not as painful as the botox injections deep into my calf pre-surgery, they were not very pleasant. A big thank you to nurse Nancy for allowing me to squeeze her hand (suitably protected in surgical gloves, of course) as Chris was not allowed into the appointment with me. Apparently, it will feel worse for a few days before I start to feel the benefit\u2026 what\u2019s the saying? \u2018No gain without pain\u2019 or some such thing.<\/p>\n

Steroid injections I\u2019ve heard of before, but I was quite surprised about the hyaluronic acid. The only time I\u2019ve come across that is in connection with skincare, which leads me nicely into tomorrow\u2019s Today’s Special Value from Perricone<\/a>, launching on air at 9pm tonight. It\u2019s a five-piece collection comprising of 177ml Citrus Brightening Cleanser, 30ml Cold Plasma Plus serum, 59ml Photo Brightening Moisturiser, 59ml Face Finishing & Firming Tinted Moisturiser and the product I\u2019m most excited by, the hypoallergenic CBD sensitive skin therapy Soothing & Hydrating Eye Cream. I have to be so careful with the skin around my eyes, but I have been fine with this after patch testing for 48 hours. Looking at the reviews on our website, the tinted moisturiser seems to be a customer favourite \u2013 ten reviews and nine of them are five-star. One of the best things about buying your beauty from QVC is the current 60-day moneyback guarantee\u2026 the other is when we have special price offers like this Today’s Special Value. I\u2019ll be on with Karra Beck during the 5pm show tomorrow, assuming we still have stock.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I\u2019ll also be presenting the second of the Diamonique<\/a> Festival shows. The first two-hour show is this afternoon with Debbie Flint and Lee Clarke, and then Alison O\u2019Reilly and I pick up the reins tomorrow from 2 \u2013 4pm. We have some really pretty coloured Diamonique pieces and a very glitzy watch that I have my eye on!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Of course, lovely Alison O\u2019Reilly joined me for a chat on my Permission to Pry feature on my Instagram page, juliagroberts, a few weeks ago. Today, it is your chance to find out more about our \u2018techie\u2019 guest Lee Hobein, who had a very busy day yesterday with the Hisense TV Today’s Special Value<\/a>. I wonder if any of you treated yourself to it? It will be great for watching the footie on when the season starts up again in a couple of weeks. I always ask my P2P guests if they are a dog or cat person and I\u2019m pretty confident that Lee will be joining forces with Alison and myself as a cat fan. If you can\u2019t watch live at 11am, I always post a video for you to catch up later.<\/p>\n

Speaking of cats, Wilfie has now returned home. It was lovely having him here for his \u2018holiday\u2019 and I must say he was as good as gold. I\u2019m rather looking forward to our next \u2018catsitting\u2019 duties, whenever they may be. Lovely as it was to have him here, I do confess it was easier to get on with painting the family room once Wilfie had gone home. I didn\u2019t like shutting him out of the downstairs of our house, but it was preferable to risking purple paw prints across the wooden floors, tiles and carpets!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Yes! I did say purple, although as mentioned above, it is actually a shade by Farrow & Ball called Scotch Blue and in certain light it does look more navy, at least that\u2019s what I keep telling Chris\u2026 it\u2019s definitely dark purple! We were going on over a very pale grey, so to get the true colour we had to undercoat first, which we did on Sunday. Then on Monday we applied the first coat with the second one on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Chris does the high-up edges and ones that really \u2018show\u2019, while I do the skirting boards (mostly lying down so that I could see what I was doing) and all the rollering! I absolutely LOVE it, particularly as we have now moved our pale grey sofas in from the lounge in readiness for the arrival of the new \u2018gold\u2019 ones in September!<\/p>\n\"\"\n

This is the view from one of the sofas looking down the garden. It\u2019s funny how after only a couple of days it feels as though it has always been like this. It\u2019s also a great vantage point from which to observe the birds flock around one of the bird feeders \u2013 clearly they were a bit \u2018peckish\u2019 when I filmed this.<\/p>\n