May 2012
10 posts
White Lace
I just had to keep this stunning photo from First Comes Love as a separate post! I fell in love with this dress (as modelled by the real-life bride who wore it on her big day) by Elvi Design, a Kalamunda-based label which specialises in made to order bridal gowns. Everything about this dress was perfect, down to the way it framed a large tattoo on the bride’s back. Definitely one for the...
First Comes Love Bridal Fair
On Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the second annual First Comes Love Bridal Fair, an initiative of the lovely folks at Studio Bomba. The premise was to create an alternative bridal/events fair for people who want to eschew carbon copy weddings and inject more personality into their celebrations. The ladies cooked up a collective of over 100 local creatives in...
Morning Sunshine
MinkPink floral jacket | Urban Outfitters draped skirt | Vintage blouse | Mimco Glider Muse bag | Topshop Adorn boots | Karen Walker Number One sunglasses
Upon hearing this weekend would be bright and sunny, Marc and I decided to head back to our old suburb of Maylands for our traditional Saturday breakfast and some wandering. Every time we go back here I realise just how much I have missed...
Ankle Grazers
It’s officially boot weather here in Australia! In my usual crazy way I stocked up on ankle boots during the summer and they have been sitting collection dust on my top shelf just begging to be worn. Well wait no more, because it’s gotten rather cold and rainy all of a sudden - perfect weather for donning a pair of boots to combat the elements.
These two Topshop pairs are among my...
Somewhere Fancy
While I am swaddled in a knit jumper at home I can’t help but dream about what I might wear if the sun came out and I had somewhere fancy to go to. The three items above instantly sprung to mind for some reason, all on my current ‘to buy’ list.
After lusting over just about everything Secret Squirrel has made for the last few seasons, I still can’t believe I don’t...
Life Lately #2
It’s been a busy two weeks since I posted my last instagram update, what with leaving my job, Marc going to Sydney again, Perth Fashion Week and tons of writing. I rewarded myself with a couple of special buys to see me into Winter (and my new job!) but that’s for another post altogether. For now here’s a few fun moments captured on camera.
Cuddling sleepy cats has become...
Last Minute Gifts For Mother's Day
The countdown to Mother’s Day has officially reached a crucial stage - it’s this Sunday! If you don’t already know what you are getting your mum, now is time to track down a last minute gift.
After my last Mother’s Day post with a variety of gift ideas, I thought I would hone in more on online magazine subscriptions as they make the perfect present that you can customise...
Daul
This blog used to be filled with odes to Jeffrey Campbell practically every week, however as of late I haven’t been that enamoured with the quirky shoe god’s designs. Until now, that is.
Meet Daul, my idea of heaven in a shoe. There’s floral, a perspex heel and a super cute ankle strap all wrapped up in an on-trend but unique style. Why is it that the moment I found them on...
In My (Makeup) Bag
I always enjoy having a peek into other bloggers’ beauty kits so I thought I would try my hand at a similar post. Little by little I’m becoming more of a cosmetics junkie and I find myself leaning towards buying more luxe products now that I am past my teens. Here’s a round up of some of my all time fave buys, some on the higher end of the price scale and some costing next to...
Vara, My Love
To say that I am obsessed with shoe god Salvatore Ferragamo’s ‘Vara’ pumps would be an understatement. Since I first laid eyes on these sweet little shoes on another blog, it’s been my quest to find the perfect pair. The style of shoe with a small block heel and signature bow have been around for a few decades but they are still in production to this day. I had my...
April 2012
10 posts
Mine
I finally bit the bullet and purchased this Michael Kors beauty with my first proper pay check. My obsession with rose gold has proved more than fleeting with my newest bag and purse both sporting the pinkish metal. I think this piece will round out the trio quite nicely!
And in a case of great luck, I managed to save 30% on the order as a first time customer of Revolve Clothing, so coupled...
Mother's Day Gift Planning
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and I don’t know about you but I always seem to struggle to get a good gift. I usually just do the same thing and get my mum a funky broach from a vintage store, but after a couple years of doing the same thing she now has a pretty extensive collection!
I thought I would brainstorm a couple of ideas both for my sake and yours if you seem to...
Coveted: Leopard Shift
Perth Fashion Week is a few days a way and as usual I have nothing to wear! I’m going to go for a quick last minute late night power shopping trip on Thursday night to see if I can nab any suitable threads, but until then I am stalking the web stores of the Aussie high street retailers to see if anything catches my eye early on.
This leopard shift from Forever New stood out to me as...
Life Lately
I really don’t take my camera around with me enough. The focus has been playing up over the last few months so it’s been packed away in its case waiting to be taken in for a service, and in the meantime I’ve been pretty slack in documenting my adventures! Instagram has been a god-send in that regard but I still seem to forget to take snaps when I’m out and about. Here are...
DIY: Re-upholstered Foot Stool
After being on a bit of a DIY hiatus I am really excited to be getting back into the swing of things. It’s been a goal of mine to tackle some larger projects and I already have a few in the works to show you guys. I finished off this foot stool last month after thinking about it for years!
The original piece was an antique foot stool we picked up from a garage sale for $15, with...
Pop-Up Fantastic
Everyone loves a good pop-up shop, but when there are nine in one place it’s even better! Enter the 140 Pop-up Project - a series of curated studios featuring a selection of Perth’s best creatives and boutique retailers in the heart of the CBD. The first event of its kind in Perth, 140’s pop-up hub aims to draw patrons in to a playful new retail experience that...
Soaking Up The Last Of Summer
Just as winter is knocking on our door here in the southern hemisphere I am finding myself dreaming of escaping to some sort of tropical destination to relax for a while. As my partner Marc is from Mauritius I have been dying to go there since we met, but in those six-and-a-half years it still hasn’t happened! Still, I often find myself dreaming up pretend outfits that I would wear if we...
Copy Cat
Can’t afford the hefty price tag of the incredible Charlotte Olympia Kitty Flats? Never fear - Micil has you covered with their version of the feline shoes for a fraction of the price. $750 to $37? Yes please!
It seems though that all the other cat lovers in the world were onto the same idea as the cheaper version have gone the same way as their pricey predecessors and are nearly sold...
The White Elephant Sale: Round Two
In the midst of all that’s been happening I completely forgot to share a few photos from the second White Elephant secondhand clothing sale we held in February! As my co-pilot Robyn decided to pack up and move to Melbourne, we organised the event in record time and had about double the stock as last time. We hired out a hall and filled it with racks of vintage and secondhand...
Light and Leaves
Something about growing up that I am really looking forward to is having a sweet little apartment to decorate as I see fit. Somewhere with floorboards, white walls and a flood of natural light to bathe everything in brightness.
When I saw this post on Leah Goren’s blog A Future Present about her lovely little kitchen look I just couldn’t resist sharing. There’s something...
March 2012
7 posts
Cheap and Cheerful
Today when I went into Kmart to buy some tights (winter is coming!) I couldn’t help but walk through the clothing section, and I was completely surprised by what I found. Kmart is probably the last place I would expect to find a gem, but here I saw quite a few items that I would have loved to call my own. And what was even better was the silly prices attached to the clothes!
I ended up...
asos Loves Students
Students of Australia, rejoice! Online retail giant asos have just extended their student discount over to us Aussies, which means if you sign up and grab the code off Unidays you can get a cool 10% off your order each time. I’m sure I am not alone in feeling the crunch of a student wage coupled with an addition to clothes, so this will work rather nicely in satisfying our need for new...
Red Tiger Relaunches
When I heard a friend of mine Millie had bought a shop in Subiaco along with her boyfriend Henry, I couldn’t believe that two folks so young were embarking on such a huge project. But after popping into the store and having a chat with these two, it’s clear that they know their stuff. They are the proud new owners of Red Tiger, an independent retailer of affordable, quirky...
Sparkly Sandals
Ok, so I know we are in Autumn now here in Australia but that doesn’t mean I can’t drool over the Spring/Summer stock landing in Northern Hemisphere online stores, does it? Yep, I definitely have season envy over here. After experiencing one of the hottest Perth summers ever I’m not eager to revisit the sweltering temperatures again, but I would love to be able to get my hands...
Zig Zag
Don’t you just want to jump in this bed with a good book and forget about the real world for a moment? That was my wish anyway when I came across this lovely setup on Urban Outfitters. I think bedrooms are best with lots of light and white space, fresh linen and plenty of pillows. Some white washed floor boards wouldn’t hurt either!
I was previously a convert to all-white bed linen...
Rosey Posey
Whoever said florals should only be reserved for grandmothers and little girls clearly hasn’t seen this Topshop dress. The ultra modern colour combo and shift shape make it top of my list to ring in the new season, especially if paired with a tasseled belt and ankle boots. I’m really obsessed with all the graphic floral prints hitting stores lately, some with a playful Hawaiian...
Hello, I'm Home!
pretty new shoes / the beach on a hot summer day / watermelon at the markets / Chloe going for a walk / Ben Gibbard from Death Cab / shoes on display at our sale
It’s certainly been a while since my last post, and even longer since I was in the regular routine of blogging before we went to Europe. So much has been going on over the past couple of months and I didn’t want to...
February 2012
2 posts
Europe: A Recap
This was the view from our hotel room in Kuala Kumpur, about five minutes from the airport. I was horribly sick and so these palm trees were all I saw before I passed out in bed and stayed there until our next flight. Below you’ll find a link to each post from the trip in case there were any you missed. I’m working on a new design that will allow me to categorise my travel posts a...
Paris: Photo Diary
These were the fleeting last moments captured in Paris before returning home to Australia. Any amount of time in Paris is magic, so even though we didn’t go to the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, the flea market on the outskirts of town, the vintage stores in the Marais and many more things as we had planned, I still enjoyed what the city had to share with us. It...
January 2012
12 posts
Paris: Jardin du Luxembourg
Barely an hour after arriving at our apartment in Paris’ Latin Quarter Marc and I both started to feel unwell, which quickly developed into a nasty flu that left us bedridden for the next day and a half. Though we were far from better on the third day, it was our last chance to see Paris before our flight home so we gathered come croissants from our corner boulangerie and...
Southwest France: Périgueux
When we arrived back at Marc’s parents’ house after our whirlwind trip to Spain we were pretty exhausted, but I was determined to fit in a bit of sightseeing before we left for Paris. The next day we jumped in the car and set off for Périgueux, the prefecture of the Dordogne department which in turn lies in the Aquitane region (I still don’t fully...
White Elephant Secondhand and Vintage Sale
Regan: dress $14, ankle boots $15, sunglasses $10, bag $10
Lucy: blouse $10, skirt $8
Regan: bolero $12, skirt $7, boots $15, top $2, bag $10, belt $6
Lucy: dress $14, bag $10, sunglasses $12
Regan: blouse $7, skirt $6, bag $12, Docs $30
Lucy: blouse $7, skirt $10
Regan: dress $15, clutch $5
Lucy: dress $20, bag $16
Regan: dress $15, jumper $8, bag $8, Docs $30
Lucy: blouse $4,...
Southwest France: Biarritz
Biarritz lies at the very bottom-left corner of France, less than 30km from the Spanish border. It’s a luxe seaside town favoured by the rich and powerful of Europe who flock by the droves in the summer months for a bit of sand, sea and sun. Unfortunately for us we were just days away from winter when we visited, and despite the sun shining brightly it was...
Zaragoza, San Sebastian and Saint-Jean-de-Luz
After leaving Barcelona we took a road that ran practically parallel to the Pyrenees that border France and Spain. Our next port of call was Zaragoza, the capital of the province of Aragorn and one of Spain’s largest cities. Despite being home to one of the largest churches in the world, there wasn’t much else to see here besides a portion of the Roman...
Face Facts Design Competition
I know a lot of you out there are budding designers and even more of you can’t resist a great competition, so make sure you get your designs up by 29th February. Not only is it a great platform for you to get your work out but the Face Facts campaign also promotes positive messages to our youth. Entries will be based on public votes and I’ll be sure to keep you updated on the...
The Road to Spain: Barcelona Day Three
We had to be out of Barcelona by midday on our last day, so we had planned an ambitious morning ticking off the last few sites we were desperate to do before leaving. First stop was Parc Güell just in time for opening. Alas many other people must have had the same idea as there was already a decent crowd! Parc Güell is another of Gaudi’s creations - a sprawling...
The Road to Spain: Barcelona Day Two
On our second day in Barclona we planned a whirlwind trip from one end of the city to the other, mostly by foot. From our hotel we passed through the Parc de la Ciutadella to the port before taking a stoll by the beach. Then we caught a cable car across the water up to Montjuïc, a hill with sweeping views over the city. Montjuïc was the site of the 1992 Olympics and...
The Road to Spain: Barcelona Day One
We spent a whirlwind three days in Barcelona as part of our French-Spanish road trip, committed to see as much as of the city as we could pack in. Day one began with a bus trip around the main sights which afforded good views but didn’t give many opportunity for photos. Still, I quickly fell in love with Barcelona from what I saw. It’s the architecture that...
A Map Of Sorts
Now that we’re a few days into the new year I’ve begun to get a feel for what it’s going to be all about. There are a few things that will inevitably happen, for example finishing university for good, and then there are the things that I have decided will come true. Rather than making resolutions per se, my list for 2012 is more like a map of goals to guide me through...
The Year That Was
2011 was a jam-packed year and I got to the end of it wondering where it had gone! Initially I had felt that the year completely passed me by and I didn’t have too much to show for it. Then I decided to make a list of all the things that had happened and all that I had achieved, and I was pretty gobsmacked with the result. It turns out I was rather productive after all!...
2012
I’m not going to lie, the best part of 2012 so far was seeing these photos pop up in my instagram feed of Zooey Deshcanel, Alexa Chung and Tennessee Thomas ringing in NYE together. These ladies are my three favourite style icons and I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw them all together!
I’ve got some posts coming to wrap up 2011 (a little late, I know!) and of course my...
December 2011
12 posts
The Road to Spain: Andorra
Andorra. Where do I begin. It was one of the most beautiful places I have seen in my life. Perhaps I should clarify first: it wasn’t so much the town I loved as much as the awe-inspiring drive through the Pyrenees to actually get there. Once we had left Toulouse the towns started to get fewer and fewer, and the roads more windier as we ascended into the mountains....
The Road to Spain: Toulouse
And now the real adventure begins! Our Spanish/French road trip was to take six days and would see us journey from near Bordeaux to Barcelona, stopping in at plenty of big and small towns along the way. We had been talking about it for some time - winding through the Pyrenées and zig-zagging across northern Spain - and now it was finally here.
First port of call was...
Southwest France: Bordeaux
We visited Bordeaux a couple of times in our last trip to France but never really spent enough time to really take in the city. I was eager to go back to explore all the sights I had only seen from a distance, so after Saint-Émilion we had lunch in one of Bordeaux’s many squares and then set off on a self-guided walking tour. Well as it turns out, the map we were...
Southwest France: Saint-Émilion
Another day, another trip to another quirky French town! On the way to Bordeaux we stopped in at the world heritage listed Saint-Émilion, a former Roman farming area turned medieval stronghold. Saint-Émilion is home to another famous monolithic church dug out of a limestone cliff, as well as many stone forts, walls and towers. The surrounding vineyards seem to glow with their...
Southwest France: Aubuterre
Upon arriving at Bordeaux airport after a short flight from London, we jumped in a car for the hour-long trip to Marc’s parents’ house in a little village called Festalemps. Festalemps lies in the department of Dordogne, an area full of medieval villages, vineyards and sunflower crops. It was our first time visiting Marc’s parents new-ish place - a...
London: Photo Diary
Quite a picture heavy post as you have seen, but believe me they are but a few out of the hundreds I took! London was a number of weeks ago now so I thought I would choose some of my favourite moments to give you a brief snapshot of our time there. What really hits me when I look at these in hindsight is how much I adore the place, oh what I wouldn’t do...
London: Autumn in Hyde Park
Experiencing London in autumn was very different to the snowy winter weather that met us on our last visit. The city seemed to be in its element this season, and what better place to soak it all in than at Hyde Park. The grass was blanketed with orange leaves, squirrels frolicked in the greenery, children fed white swans in the Serpentine and people from all walks of...
The Beautiful City of Bath
Last year we happened upon the city of Bath by chance as the last stop on a tour of Stonehenge and Windsor. We had no expectations going in, but in the mere two hours we were there I absolutely fell in love with the place. When planning our most recent trip Marc and I agreed that we must go back to this wonderful old city to spend some more time.
For those who...
London: Portobello Markets
I don’t know quite how it happened, but we completely missed Portobello Markets last time we were in London. That’s pretty hard to imagine, considering my love for vintage, markets and the movie Notting Hill, as well as the fact that we were staying so close by. I promised myself that I would not miss it again this time, so when choosing the perfect place to...