Monday, April 28, 2008

songs for… monday?

Close enough is good enough people. Yesterday was a blur of nothingness, including the So You Think You Can Dance Australia final in which Jack won [YAY!] and Rhys wore a black blazer covered entirely in sequins!!! Can you say wow?! I can. Wow.

Moving to New York - The Wombats
Love Song - Sara Bareilles [two weeks in a row ooo yeah, I just love to sing along to it]
Four Minutes - Madonna, JT and Timbaland [been into this for a little while but still deserves a mention]
Prescilla - Bat for Lashes
What If - Cog
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You may or may not remember a post from a while ago about a white blazer I found and fell in love with but didn’t buy due to sheer impracticality. Guess What!!! I was in that shop today, Temt, and there it was, on the last chance rack. One left. Odds it would be in my size? Pretty much Zero. Guess What!!! It was my size. SO despite my extreme poverty I bought it didn’t I. I’m waiting for my sister to come home and berate me as to its ridiculousness. And then ask if she can borrow it. Haha. Super excited. I even just finished reinforcing the buttons, something I always say I’ll do but never actually end up doing.
In this photo:
white blazer from Temt
white tee from sportsgirl
purple tank by country road
scarf by just jeans
vintage belt
jeans from seduce
Was a bit challenging getting the lighting to work cause there’s clearly a large window not far away but I didn’t want to use artificial light and so heres what your getting. I’m in love with this jacket and the possibilities it brings. I may wear it this friday night, I’m going to see my alma maters musical. Or if I go out thursday, but we all know I’ll just end up taking it off. Will keep you posted. Maybe. I’m pretty sure my track record for keeping you posted when I say that is pretty shocking awful.
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Browsing through a few shops today, Temt, Sportsgirl, a few shoe shops, I find myself to be intrigued by the ‘trends’ I’m seeing. While having surprisingly few strongly negative reactions to any, I’m wholly uninspired. The western shirts seem to already be on their way out, purely due to over-exposure I’m sure so thats over. I did see some grossly embellished boots which made me want to throw up a little in my mouth but even Temt, disposable fashions head quarters, had a surprising number of OK items. Not stuff I’d shell out the big bucks for, but not stuff that you’ll wear twice and then forget about. Quite bizarre. The white jacket shown above is an excellent example. It’s a simple white blazer that will last several seasons… though it’ll probably wear out before I’m sick of it but at the sweet price of $19.95 thats a price I’m willing to pay for less-than-great quality couture. Literally. Ha.
So some shopping tips for yall, if your looking for some comfy cheap knits and tights head on over to Temt. Looking for somewhat overpriced [when you're a starving uni student] but nicer more individual stuff, check out Sportsgirl.
Nice to meet you anyway, thanks to the 4 people who visited on saturday!
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Saturday, April 26, 2008

hello again.

I’m busy with nothing at the moment so blogging is, as always, sporadic at best.

You know that feeling when your always busy but getting nothing done? So annoying.
I’m very angry at my body at the moment because even when I’m not busy I’m so darned tired if I’m not sleeping I’m approaching a vegetative state in front of the tv or if I’m feeling particularly frisky, the computer. Right now would be an excellent example of this.
On thursday night I had the 18th of a girl I went to school with at her house and then a few of us went out afterwards just for kicks, it was Anzac Day on Friday which = no uni or work because the shop is closed on public holidays. Hurray for sleep, not so much for bank balance. Anyway, I wore one of my fail safe outfits because I got home an hour before I left and I left 20 minutes late.
Apologies for the terrible photography, I’ll try and figure out something better at some point.
In this photo:
Black and yellow [looks kinda green here, its greenish yellow] dress by Mink Pink
vintage belt
tights by ?
black patent peep toes from payless [halfway through the night switched to black ankle boots, I drove and therefore had a car in which I stored said boots]
bag is vintage, Glomesh and its the real stuff too, my mum had it, it was her mums back in the day. Love clothes with a story.
I’m also wearing a massive stack of silver necklaces mostly vintage or chains I’ve accumulated from broken necklaces over the years, they’re covered in this pic, I was in a hurry. Interestingly, one of them was the chain strap for a bag which I much preferred as a necklace.
This dress has several happy memories associated with it. Now, however, it will also remind me of the time my best friend [LD] ruined my night by chewing my ear off about her fight with her boyfriend for the ENTIRE NIGHT. You don’t have the context so that might sound insensitive but I wasn’t the only one who thought she was ridiculously overbearing. When we went out from the party, 3 of us, we introd her to a few guys we knew where we were and they thought she was a complete snob. Which she’s normally completely not so I wasn’t happy Jan!!! *end rant*
[Jan isn't her name, it's a pop culture reference only tv watching aussies will get, soz]
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Monday, April 21, 2008

today i…

- got woken up at 4.45am by my best friend, lets call her Optus [shes a phone person] telling me her boyfriend had a car accident and she had to go pick him up and take him home and got completely freaked out, hence the phone call.


- rolled out of bed at 8.15 [15 mins late] somewhat confused about whether said phone call had taken place, completely lost track of time and almost, ALMOST, missed my train.

- got angry at/confused by my chemistry lecturer [he's an absolute tool] and then actually took something in in biology.

- actually attended a chemistry tute which was useful in explaining to me how to use Hess’ law which isn’t really a law at all

- met up with the random who picked up my phone at uni on friday and called my most recent call which was my other best friend who lives in bendigo [200 kms away peeps, lets call her LD for long distance], how lucky am I.

- the rest isn’t very interesting, spent time with some friends then other friends, hung at Optus’ house for a bit then came home and, for the finale

- GOT 5 OUT OF 12 ON MY MID SEMESTER TEST FOR CHEMISTRY. No shit. I didn’t really do it properly… not at all properly actually. And I did no revision and it was for the first 4 weeks of uni and given we’re in the 7th… I was screwed before I even started. Really quite worrying, but oh well.

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I also marvelled at the impressive use of a tripod over at www.fashiontoast.com, I know I link her a lot but they’re great photos even if they weren’t using a tripod. And would you look at her boyfriends arms?! Good lord.

I am now pondering the colour I should paint my nails though I think I shall postpone that till tomorrow night because I’m working tomorrow and thats hell on the nails and right now shower and bed is looking mighty fine. I wore a fashionably uninteresting outfit today while in a massive hurry so no photos.
Oh and, highlight of my day, this blogs had 7 visitors in the last 7 days, how thrilling! Even if you’re a one time visitor, twas nice to meet you anyway.
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Yesterday I entered the iCing and ModCloth polyvore competition, mainly because polyvore is just so much fun. [visit www.galadarling.com to enter, the post is a few days old now]. Thought I’d post my set here too, just for kicks.
<a href=”http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?.mid=embed&amp;id=1323597″><img width=”400″ src=”http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFjRLTUt2N0FPM1JHdjVGMnhTYjdGakEAAAACaWQKAWUAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg” title=”modcloth sequin heels set” height=”400″ border=”0″ /></a>

It’s a look, not one I’d really wear, but I love the ombre dress and the sequinned heels which are the required modcloth item. I’ve made a few other sets which I might post at some point if I feel so inclined. Gnight all.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

goodbye weekend

hello study.


heres what I wore on…thursday. I’ve been away for the weekend hence no posting and no fashionably interesting things happened, I was at my friends holiday house and we went to an 18th of a country friend so it was super casual, wore jeans and that awesome white and pink levi’s hoodie. Also was freaking freezing incidentally. The weather has been sufficiently cold for me of late, thank god I was sooo over summer.


 
 
In this pic;
black tank from dimmys
black jeans by Cheap Monday
brown boots from Laurent
white n black striped cardi by Don’t Ask Amanda from General Pants Co.
bangles by diva [gold] the accessory company [brown] and random local stall [wood]

These are two of my most often worn necklaces, the scabble piece is from Etsy seller Groglmann or similar [sorry  forgotten the exact name]. The other was  an 18th gift [clearly] from one of my best  friends, temporary chain, I’ll find a better  one at some point.


note: this top is really ODD, the right hand side kept falling down. I can’t recall regretting wearing a white bra more that I did this day. It was an extremely cheap top though. Thought I’d add this in just in case you were interested…

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songs for sunday. 2. [if we get to 3 i'll have a regular fixture. wow.]

what if - Cog

i love work - butterfingers

ooh la - the kooks

the kids don’t stand a chance - vampire weekend

the age of understatement - the last shadow puppets

lets dance to joy division - the wombats
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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Ah ha!!!

I now have bona fide proof that a white blazer isn’t an utterly impractical and stupid purchase!!! WOO HOO. Well, it clearly is, BUT it is also potentially awesome and would allow me to look even a little bit like Lulu of the blog everybody is ugly which I stumbled upon and got an immediate this-is-going-to-be-one-of-my-favourite-blogs moment. I was right. Behold by clicking here.

Now the blazer I found a week or so ago was a bit diff, more dressy in that shiny fabric dress blazers are often made of. Its a discovery I made in Temt which is a chain store here in Aus which is generally crap but has the occasional good thing, you just have to sort through the piles of crap. Everything is under about $50 or $60 so thats pretty awesome. This blazer was originally, I dunno, $40 or $30 but is now $19.95!!!!!!! I KNOW. Another difference between my and Lulu’s blazers, HERS is Helmut Lang and $220USD, and MINE, apart from not being mine yet, is Temt and $19.95. *sigh*

I didn’t buy it. It was the impractical and stupid aspect that cause that. I am now regretting that choice. I might go back. It might not be there, it was on sale and if its not there I might cry. I took some crappy change room pics on my mobile which are, well, crappy mobile pics. [For all the Americans out there mobile=cell...why do you call it that, mobile makes way more sense] However I bluetoothed them to my computer but they are, as previously mentioned, crap.

Crap huh!? Cute blazer though. Hope its still there.

In this photo: [just in case][this just became an unintentional outfit post, score]
white blazer from Temt
purple blouse by Lovely Girl aka random brand sold in little asian-run [they're adorable, they know me] store near my house [also found for roughly double the price in Bardot about a month later, interesting ey!]
cream singlet from Kookai
jeans by Cheap Monday.
[I was on my way home from uni. Melbourne Central is just FAR TOO TEMPTING... haha get it, TEMTing.]

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I just wrote a mini essay about an item of clothing I DON’T EVEN OWN. That’s sad. Oh and, those pics I said were coming of my friday night outfit. Yeah didn’t take any. Soz. Though I suppose its more a me soz thing than a you soz thing. I wore a thrifted dress, originally from target with a vintage belt of my mums, black opaques and gold nine west heels I bought for my year 12 formal that I love and don’t wear enough. They make me very tall.

PS: the reason I say they make me very tall is because I’m already quite tall so I really mean it. They are 10cm, I’m 174cm, that means 184cm, ie. taller than the average male. Fun times. Figured I needed to explain that comment as you [non-existent you] don’t actually know me! :)

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Irrational Thoughts

Prompted by Camille of the blog Childhood Flames, discovered through one of my favs, Fashion Toast. She [Camille] simultaneously makes me want to run to my room and experiment with outfits involving high heels and tights while holding her down and feeding her doughnuts. [not a typo, thats how we spell it here] Seriously, check out those legs. Yikes.

Also happen to think she’s suicidal for wearing heels, let alone those heels, to university or school or whatever it is she does [she's still a teenager, like...umm... oh yeah, me.] However, heading out tomorrow for a two part evening, the second part of which is country [read: bogan] themed. Don’t think I’ll dress up in that way, I may just dress up! I shall provide pics. Maybe.

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I am also currently gripped by a sudden but not very compelling need to clean my desk. Really. Its a disaster zone. I can see a beer, a bag, my glasses, a hat, gloves a scarf and two pairs of sunnies. Yet practically nothing that actually belongs on my desk. I think I shall document this for you all. Yes I know this is boring for you. I don’t really care considering I use the term ‘you’ very loosely given I’m writing this to cyber space, not any specific individual. No offense if theres actually someone reading this though. Haha.

Second ones a close up shot. Just for kicks. I’m such a slob. When I uploaded these pics I found an outfit photo from when I worked…awhile ago, can’t remember. Anyway, it features the shirt I bought from Savers which I think I mentioned and, coincidentally, wore again today.

Shirt from Jacqui E via Savers
Jacket by some noname brand, can’t be bothered checking.
vintage belt
Jeans from MNG
Boots by Sachi. These boots have been very good to me, a tidy $100, I’ve worn and still wear them to bits. One of the few items I own that I see on other people regularly, especially the black ones. But I don’t really care, for once.
Ring from sister, bought in Barcelona. I think. It’s glass and AWESOME.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2008

who needs chicken soup

When you have a lil hot chocolate on a cool evening such as this one. If only summer would GO AWAY I could enjoy it even more snuggling up in my winter woolies. Makes me shiver just thinking about it, be gone hot weather!!!

I send wishes for sweet dreams and tights-friendly weather to all.
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new!

Somewhat of an experiment, I bought a cap today on impulse while in Dangerfield. Well I guess not fully impulse but I don’t own anything like it. What do you think?

So its grey which means it’ll fit in PERFECTLY in my wardrobe, I’ve come to the conclusion my wardrobe is scarily monochromatic, as I mentioned the other day. There are certain colours I wear a lot of as well, purple, turquoise and ones I wear a bit, blue and randomly, yellow. [The reason it's random is because yellow actually doesn't look very good on me when I'm not tanned which is pretty much always]. However, the vast majority of my wardrobe is black or grey or at least contains a lot of one or both, with a bit of white thrown in. I think this applies more to my casual wardrobe, most of my dresses are coloured though some black or white or both. It is a quandry.
Theres a supremely relevant post on a blog I’ve visited recently about monochromatic wardrobes that are ACTUALLY monochromatic, but I can’t seem to find it!
Yep officially can’t find it. How annoying, if I do, I’ll let you know.
Oh and you know how I was having a dilemma, leather jacket or white hoodie? Yeah well;
I made my decision! Serious facial expressions not an option when I look this shit sorry. Hoodie was $89.95 by Levi’s, the jacket ended up $149.95 and not the best fit. Who am I kidding, its not as awesome as the Bardot one, so it won’t do. [Every time I type that sentence with Bardot as the brand it surprises me too, I swear.] So I love the hoodie, its super comfy and I bought a medium so its cushy, the small was a bit restrictive. Note: sizing wise I have large shoulders, medium stomach and arms, small waist and boobs so size depends on the item. Alrighty, off to make some hot chocolate and get myself to bed at a reasonable hour. Ciao.
Nice to meet you anyway!
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Sunday, April 6, 2008

songs for sunday.

Sweet About Me - Gabriella Cilmi

Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
New Soul - Yael Naim [pop culture reference: macbook air tv ad]
Prescilla - Bat for Lashes
Whistle For The Choir - The Fratellis
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds [pop culture reference: Weeds theme]
Don’t Fight It - The Panics
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Outfit goal for the week: wear tights with a dress/skirt to uni and make it look effortless and casual enough.
Shopping goal for the week: My financial situation is finally allowing for the purchase of a new item for winter, either: a white zip up hoodie by Lee, it has pink lightning bolts and is like NOTHING I own. Or, this black leather jacket I’ve blogged about before. Having issues with my wardrobe being too monochromatic, my new favourite jeans being grey brings to light the amount of grey, specifically charcoal clothes I own. So thats a vote for the hoodie. But, I’ve wanted the jacket for ages. *sigh*. Tough choice, I’ll keep you updated though.
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Friday, April 4, 2008

Extremely thrilled to report that on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday of this week, one person visited this blog. YEE HAW.

Apart from that my life has been exceedingly dull, well, not for me. Uni life is f****** spectacular, the number of people I know has sky rocketed, I find myself with so many acquaintances whose company I enjoy but who I have to make next to no effort to see. I find this to be thoroughly enjoyable.

Found my Miffy t-shirt and thus am wearing it today, I hadn’t told you of its disappearance but it was a cause for serious concern. A Miffy t-shirt is a truly wonderful thing.

Currently at work, it is 5:51 here in Melbourne, I’m closing in exactly 9 minutes, so help any customer who gets between me and the door.

Blog of the Week: I couldnt possibly pick one, therefore we have a tie!!!

Daddy Likey: Winona is so painfully witty I only hope someone can get as much entertainment out of this blog one day as I get out of hers. My personal favourite is Inadvertently Ask Daddy Likey. Genius.

Fashion Toast: Rumi even has an ebay store where you can find some AWESOME vintage clothes she discovers and models with aplomb, awesome personal style.

5:57, must be off, hope to see you again soon, if not, nice to meet you anyway.

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