eccentric sympathetic

I'm going to be the outrageous woman who wears the most eccentric clothes and says the most inappropriately-appropriate things. I'm going to pick my kids up from school and have all the mothers talking. My house will look like a shambles to outsiders, but really it will be full of the most wonderful memories of exotic places. That's my dream for say, 30 or 40 years...



Trinny and Sussanah summed it up pretty perfectly...


And I am currrrrently in the process of planning winter essentials for the coming months. I love new seasons :)

ciao!!

i'm your basic average girl

At the end of this year we have a semi-formal. And it's a dress up one. So everyone rocks up as disney princesses and ninja turtles and sailor moons and whatnaught. Today, while we were supposed to be practicing protest songs in music, we were googling and brainstorming over what to go as. Right now I'm stuck between Kim Possible and Poison Ivy from batman. Don't laugh, it's a pretty tough decision hahaha....

Today was a big brainstorming day. Brainstorming my english assignment, fashion parade outifts, semi-formal outfits, and what to wear with this vest... still not really sure what to do with it. To chop, or not to chop...



(2nd & 3rd photos are kind of... mid-leap)
AA skirt, op shopped tunic dress, vintage vest, hand-made bow & country road wedges.


Yay, I got an award, thanks Amelia!
Well, I've got places to go and people to see (not really, more like homework due and flute practice & gym to do)
ciao!!

13.2.2009

Sorry for the lack of presence this week, it's been a pretty up and down week. On Tuesday one of my best friend's mother passed away. It was completely unexpected and we are all still in shock. She was the most amazing woman i have ever met, and did so much for the community, i can't even begin to describe. She was always so positive and vibrant and had a beautiful imagination and personality.
It has been a tough week, but hopefully things will steadily, start getting back to as normal as possible.

We had a plain-clothes-day/valentine's day thing at school today. as per every year actually.


sorry about my bathroom as the background. the best i could do when it's dark at night. my room is an absolute mess. and so is the whole house really.
wearing- aa skirt; old white tshirt; sportsgirl & mum's belts; vintage scarf; docs; op shopped bag.


this was then transferred into a stencil for a simplification project.
happy valentines day!!

toot sweets sounds like what they are

this is my procrastination at its finest. i was supposed to be doing homework at this time. note: ripped up sheets from 2 page english task 'about me', and the magazines i read instead.

First of all, with all the bush fires around Victoria and South Australia, I hope none of you were caught out in it. It really is unbelievable that one end of the country is caught up in raging fire, while the other end is completely flooded out. Bad stuff.

I'm pretty sure most of you own/ have read/ have perused this book before. But I'm going to post about it anyways because a. all i'm wearing during the week these days is uniform and pjs; b. i love the collagey-ness of it; and c. she really uses my kind of sarcasm :)
So here are some of my favourites from the book, Like I Give A Frock.






Oh man the heat. Anyone else on the verge of melting away into oblivion? yesterday it was 38 degrees preeetyyyy much the whole day. and in our big thick school skirts... what a killer. Hopefully today will be better.
Til next time :)

hey there good looking

So I went away again this weekend. Which makes it the 3rd weekend in a row. I am so psyched for this coming weekend to chillax, maybe check some markets out, reacquaint myself with whats happening in the outer-rowing-circle world, and actually wear something a bit interesting (as opposed to rowing-clothes and 5-hour-car-trip-clothes).
Now let me acquaint you all with a few things i have been... well loving isn't the right world... lusting after isn't the right phrase either.... i dunno. pondering. lately.
yes, pondering over the amazing-ness, and frantically trying to come up with ways of incorporating these few things into my wardrobe. with a few of my own things mixed in between.









Van Gogh t-shirt. Red Lips. Face Art. Venice Bag. Topshop. Scarves. i-D October 08.

Oh mannnn that new Topshop collection is absolutely amazing. I want it all.
xx

when the red-red robin comes bop-bop-bopping along

I'm am totally stuck for free time at the moment. So this will be a quickie. School is so time consuming. But on a complete change of subject, anyone else totally hanging out for winter like me? I am so keen on bringing out the thick stockings and woolen socks and scarves. So psyched for scarves. And while perusing a friends vogue spring rtw collections magazine, you know, the one that was out like in Paris or somewhere, i was stricken by the felt hats at Diane Von Furstenberg. They are amazing. I really need a big floppy felt hat, for those winter days when my hair is in pretty much one big dreadlock. Actually, one right now to cover my mess of hair would be good.



I also bought an amazing vest in an op shops the other day, and I am stumped as to whether shorten it, or keep it the same. Because it's a really weird shape, and kind of flares out at the bottom. Although I'm really not inclined to hack away at the amazing fabric, i think it's a bit too much of an old-fashioned cut, and could do with a bit of a crop. Ideas?



My obsession with peacock feathers never ceases to grow. and has now even transferred to my art visual diary. The only solution for this obsession would be a pet peacock, i think...



Have a lurrvellyy week all!!

if you can imagine it

I couldn't wait til i got back to post this. I made a peacock feather headband/headpiece thing. It's out of 1 peacock feather, a random button, and 2 brown feathers underneath (that you can kind of see/ my hair is covering)



ignore my tshirt. yes the holes in the neck bit were intentional. a kind of let's-see-what-happens-when-i-try-and-shred-this-tshirt attempt gone miserably wrong

so I've now been back at school a whole week. and it is SO hard. well actually just i guess because i havent actually done proper school in about 4 months. i forgot how you actually have to be quiet, and listen, and take notes, and then you have to actually understand. oh man, i went chemistry, biology, maths, all in a row today. my brain is so burnt out and all a big jumble of cells, organelles, funcitons, relations, compounds and elements. tough stuff. back to the books again for the year i guess...

ok now i promise i am actually going away for the weekend