{"id":98010,"date":"2020-07-07T13:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=98010"},"modified":"2020-07-07T13:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:55:44","slug":"highs-and-lows-stars-and-rainbows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/jackie-kabler\/highs-and-lows-stars-and-rainbows\/","title":{"rendered":"Highs and lows, stars and rainbows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

Hope everyone is well? I\u2019m writing this blog at the hairdressers – how happy I am to be back here! It\u2019s very different of course, with Perspex screens and stylists in visors and so on, but it feels very safe and I\u2019m so grateful for all the efforts my salon has made to make us feel comfortable. I normally have my hair cut and coloured every six weeks but lockdown has definitely showed me that I don\u2019t need to do it as often as that; I\u2019m so grey now (I started going grey at 14!) that the grey has blended in with the blonde so it hasn\u2019t been nearly as bad as I thought it would be. Still – very glad to see the salons open again!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a funny few weeks, full of highs and lows. I\u2019ve been really missing friends and family recently, and of course at work I also had to say goodbye to my lovely \u201croomie\u201d Claire Sutton who left QVC after 22 years. We\u2019ve shared a dressing room for the past seven years (this is the last photo we took in it on her last day!) and there was laughter and also many tears as the lovely Miceal and I helped her to pack all her stuff up. We couldn\u2019t even have a leaving party of course, due to the current restrictions, but we will absolutely be keeping in touch and hope to celebrate her new chapter with her later in the year.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

I did have a quiet celebration at home though when the paperback version of my new book The Perfect Couple, was released. The ebook came out back in April and stayed in the Amazon top twenty for 10 weeks; \u00a0last week it hit the USA Today bestseller list across the pond and topped the ebook charts in Canada, and I also signed translation deals for Germany and, rather randomly, Sri Lanka. It\u2019s all been rather crazy and I\u2019m so thrilled and grateful. Thank you too for all your lovely messages about it, you\u2019re very kind.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I bought myself a little treat from QVC – not, as you might expect, a piece of jewellery or a new pair of shoes but a telescope! I\u2019ve always been fascinated by space and astronomy, but good telescopes are generally enormous and I didn\u2019t think I\u2019d have room for one at home. Then I had a show where we featured the Celestron Firstscope<\/a> and I was so impressed! It\u2019s a really compact, table-top telescope which is brilliant for star gazing \u00a0and viewing the moon and planets like Venus, Mars and Saturn. I\u2019m waiting for a clear night to see if I can take some photos of the moon through the viewfinder – I\u2019ll share them with you if I get any good ones!<\/p>\n

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QVC Beauty Pick of the Month for July<\/a><\/h4>\n

The QVC Beauty Pick of the Month for July is the iconic Ageless Throat and D\u00e9colletage Creme from Prai – 241811<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n