i lost my new $1 brown belt in a fitting room.

sad face.

love your style

I love European street style. It's so interesting, so creative, so many colours, so much layering. So much more interesting that fashion in Australia or America, i think. A big generalisation I realise, but i just love looking at it.

My latest city of lustworthy style, Copenhagen. So funky. Check it out.

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Laneway Fest

so excited, bought tickets to the st jerome's laneway festival the other day!

gotye
feist
the presets
clap your hands say yeah
the brunettes
the panics
dan deacon
the holidays
bridezilla

uber pumped!!

and the bands play (as the name suggests) in the lanes and streets in the city, so we'll literally be dancing in the streets!

bring on Feb 24

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50 things you should do in your life

in no particular order...

1. be an extra in a film
2. do something you fear
3. eat something you've caught
4. love your body
5. swim with a dolphin
6. take a taxi to the airport and catch the next plane to anywhere
7. live like a celebrity for a weekend
8. watch a lunar eclipse
9. make fire without matches
10. have you portrait painted
11. fall in love in paris
12. shower under a waterfall
13. write a song
14. go to the film festival in cannes
15. read a book in one sitting
16. grow your hair long
17. have a white christmas
18. climb the eiffel tower
19. go white water rafting
20. talk to a stranger on the bus
21. learn to juggle
22. collect something pointless
23. drive a convertible
24. act out 'the Sound of Music' on a mountain
25. ride a rollercoaster
26. memorise a poem
27. become someone's nemesis
28. shoot a short film
    
29. start your own business
30. meet someone with your own name
31. work in soup kitchen or volunteer to help the underprivileged
32. have a star named after you
33. live overseas
34. create a world record
35. be a contestant on a game show
36. pay it forward
37. milk a cow
38. get your dream job
39. own an original work of art
40. grow your own vegetables
41. go to a fashion parade
42. teach someone a skill
43. invent something
44. learn to cook and have a personal specialty
45. perform on stage
46. own a tailor made item of clothing
47. learn CPR
48. have a movie marathon of a favourite actor, director or genre
49. dance like nobody's watching
    
50. sit somewhere for a day and just watch the world pass you by

how many have you done?

a rolling stone knocks out moss

is it possible? a photo exists of kate moss not looking impossibly stylish, sophisticated and beautiful? so it seems.

in this photo moss actually looks her 40 - odd years. it was taken ata Glastonbury festival, where she is usually snapped looking effortlessly cool. i guess it was bound to happen at some stage. no-one can look perfect at all times, especially after having a kid and still partying harder than most 20 year olds.

it's also good to know that even fashion and beauty icons have bad days.

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paris, je t'aime

paris = ♥

snip chop stitch

i have officially become an old woman.

yesterday i arrived home at about 1pm after a mid-morning coffee with my mum and brother (who's visiting from canberra). it was beeaaaaautiful weather outside, a perfect 26 degrees and sunny. and how did i spend the rest of my day?

i watched a sex and the city marathon, and sewed. that's right, sewed.

i've never been much of a sewer, other than learning how to use a machine in year 8 art classes, i've pretty much left any alterations up to my mum. but yesterday i suddenly had a massive urge to alter a tshirt i bought last summer from an op shop for $1. don't ask me where it came from.

the tee is huuuuge with blue and white stripes - i bought it at the time thinking i could wear it as a tshirt dress, but the sleeves were too huge, it just looked silly. so it's been sitting in my wardrobe gathering dust for the past year. but yesterday i fished it out, and a sudden rush of inspiration made me set to work on it.

first i cut off the sleeves. then i rolled up what was left of them and sewed them in place. i cut a couple of piece from the ends of the cut off sleeves and sewed them near the shoulders, as little tabs (hard to explain but it looks good). finally, i used a piece of leftover fabric to make a little pocket on the chest, complete with a little orange button.

and TA-DA! i have a wearable t-shirt! it's pretty big still, but looks good as a very casual, throw on tee. i'm also considering chopping off the bottom to make it more t-shirty than dressy. but i'm so proud of my alterations! and it's made me want to make a start on some other things in my cupboard now. watch out old tshirts....

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bargains bargains everywhere

oh op shops, how i love thee. i started my holidays by doing the rounds of my locals, and they didn't let me down! $10 got me 3 books, some Little Golden Books, a brown plaited belt, a little porcelain ornament and a pair of high waisted denim shorts!

i was ecstatic with the shorts, who needs to spend $90 in a shop when you can get a pair (that fit perfectly) for just $1??

i've got shoes on my mind

i've got a hankering for some t-bars. flats or heels. or better yet, flats and heels. with little socks. cute cute cute.

im freeee and it feels goood!