Following a three-year training course in dance and drama, Claire Sutton was propelled into the heady, hectic world of showbusiness. She's enjoyed a successful and long-lasting career as a dancer, model and presenter, and has a wide range of commercials and theatre stints under her belt.

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Take a trip down memory lane with Monday's TSV

I had to let you know about such a fantastic TSV that we have on this Monday (26th October). I was so lucky to be asked to try it before the show…

Imagine having super special personal photos, you know those absolute favourites, displayed for all to see. Mine hang on a little ribbon in my kitchen usually, they're the most delicious ones of the children, the iconic moments in my life the pictures. The ones I'd NEVER want to be without, well, they're now beautifully and artistically printed on to a fleece soft blanket!

Can you believe the wonders of technology? The best bit is that you can also include things like tickets and art work - I've included Joe's winning art work and my wedding favour with a poem I wrote and a ticket to watch GLADIATORS!

That was the TV show where I spotted Dan in the audience as I was twirling my pom poms as a member of G -Force!  Dan has squirreled it away for all these years, aaaaah!

Take a look at my ever-changing hair through the years...

As promised, here are a few (bit of an exaggeration!) pictures showing off my varying hair dos. Hope it gets a few smiles...

Oh I can see my daughter in the first one and an example of a rather short fringe for the terribly smart school photos.

A night out with the girls brought a tear to my eye...

I have just arrived back from the school run, run being the operative word! It's amusing to me and others that now we are SO close to school, we are so the last family racing through the playground!

Tom and Joe are already attempting independence by taking themselves to the line and this morning have even scooted in without a kiss…AAAAARGH, it's the beginning of the end!

The reason for the later start this morning was me trying without success to 'find my eyes'.

Let me explain...last night I went with some girlfriends to the cinema to see 'My Sister's Keeper' a film based on Jodie Picoult's novel. Well, all I can say is discreet, quiet tears? Oh no, noisy shoulder heaving sobbing would be a more accurate description.

I found it SO devastatingly sad. I won't spoil it if you haven't seen it but it was emotive and truly moving...or so I thought. I was utterly surprised when we came out into the foyer and whilst most of the seven of us were clutching soaking tissues a couple of the girls were totally dry eyed. How can this be? I mean as a mother, surely it is impossible to resist the inevitable 'putting yourself' in the situation of the film. The poignancy of a young girl fighting to live and her acceptance in the end of her death I guess has parallels to my life.

Summer in the Dales and an update on our building project

I'm sure those of you ensconced in school holidays will agree that by the time our little darlings are dreaming sweet dreams, we are just about fit for a G & T and an early night too. That's why my netbook and I have not been busy for a good few weeks!

So, in between being at QVC with you all, my household has been FULL ON with bells and whistles on! We've had all the usual attempts to entertain Tom, Joe and Maddie, let alone Dan, whilst desperately trying to retain control over the Wii remotes, enough said... 

However, the fantastic days of divine sunshine put us all in happy moods, though poor Twinkle, our kitten, watching us with desperate eyes whilst we all played out is tricky to bear.

Injection No.2 was done today and her operation is in the diary, so Twinks can be allowed out into the big exciting world soon. In the meantime, I've actually bought a kitten harness and lead so Maddie can 'walk' her around the garden! Can you believe it, I'm such a soft touch. Maddie can be so persuasive!

We have another addition to the family

This is Twinkle our eight-week-old kitten saying hello to you all! She's either an angel or devil and currently I think the latter as she's currently attacking both me and the computer.

The claws are lethal and the tiny teeth are SOOOOO sharp. However, oh my word the angel version is DEEEElicious and in fact in the space of that bit of typing (shows how slow I am!) she's now wedged firmly next to me and...asleep!

It's all Dan's fault - Mr 'I'm a dog person we're not having a cat' only went and took me to a barn and upon opening the door and being confronted with eight squirming 3-week-old kittens, I burst into tears and got all the children in to see.

The trauma of our Monkey Puzzle tree

'HEADS!' That was the constant cry at my house on Friday. No, not a game of heads and tails but the yells to those below my humungous (at least 50 foot high) MONKEY PUZZLE tree as it was (I can hardly bring myself to write it)...cut down!

I know, and believe me the thought of taking down such an incredible and magnificent specimen has weighed heavily on Dan and I, not our neighbours though. As we nervously went to explain that it was to be removed on the advice of tree specialists, there was a palpable air of excitement!

It seems a monkey puzzle collects all the filth and when it rains, outpours the captured debris all over the drives, cars and windows of our neighbours! Not to mention the lethal pieces (sharp is not the word) that drop like stealth bombers.

I'm back after a poorly couple of weeks

I know it's utterly RUBBISH of me how I've been conspicuously absent from my blog page. But, whether I've been missed remains to be seen because now I'm back!

I'd love to say I've been off somewhere exotic but no, and I was SO determined not to be a complete whinger, but I've been a poorly girl for such a long time.

Ordered home

There I was slapping on the fake tan and makeup and trying so hard to overcome the endless poorly feeling, but I guess being sent home during my shift (almost during my show) told me perhaps the time had come to admit defeat and accept I needed to get better.

So, that's what I did. My fractured rib (from coughing so relentlessly, would you believe) will slowly fix, my blood tests show nothing sinister, phew, and my chest consultant will hopefully give me a clean bill of health.

Don't miss ghd's first ever TSV!

Do you remember in December last year the excitement we all felt preparing for the very first ghd show? Well, times that by 100 and guess what, we have our very first TSV from ghd!

I shall be with you at 6pm this Saturday and I'm just praying the special edition styler will still be available and won't have SOLD OUT early. I remember how quickly they were selling on that very first show!

If the amazingly stylish and versatile world of ghd has been calling you, then on Saturday your dreams can become reality!

I'm LOVING our new jewellery collection!

I'm so excited, we're launching such a sophisticated and unmistakably glamorous new collection of gold jewellery tomorrow. It's Massimo Fanetti Italian Gold Jewellery, and you'll be able to catch it at 4pm in the afternoon.

I've heard from so many of you saying that you want something different and thrilling from your gold - well here it is! Everything in the collection has exquisite details and is really modern looking without being too 'bling'.

I'm going to be presenting this magnificent range with Patrizia Carletti, the designer, and I can't wait to meet her - she's flying in from Italy especially to be with us for the premiere and to share her inspirations and passions for her designs.

I know you'll welcome her warmly and I hope you enjoy this delicious jewellery as much as I do!

Don't forget to join us at 4pm on Wednesday 20th May.

See you then,
Love,
Claire. x

The 10th anniversary of Honora Pearls

I can't believe that Ralph Rossini and I will be together on Saturday for a spectacular three-hour show. Can you remember the first ever Honora Pearls show on QVC?

It seems like yesterday that I was asked to present the show; I remember how excited we all were to have such an important and prestigious company like Honora joining us. Their experience and knowledge had enabled them to create divine pearl jewellery for so many years, and it seemed they featured in every high-profile glossy magazine and adorned so many celebrities! Was it any wonder we were so excited? And now, 10 years later I still am SO thrilled to present the shows.