dear tilly

ootd

2011-07-19T20:53:00.001+08:00

So this is actually kinda of an old outfit and I've worn it a again since I took these photos. I just love it so much. I think I originally wore it to the movies. My local cinemas has cheap mondays for students so we go pretty much every week and although I'm not wearing any here it is a good excuse to crack out my many, many pairs of heels.

I really wanted to wearing the earrings that I'm holding in the second photo but I could only find one of them. :/

What I wearing:

Oversized black tshirt from target and extra long black singlet from ASOS underneath
Cardigan from work. I hated this cardigan when we first got it in, I think it was mostly the price that I hated though. Even with my discount I wouldn't have even considered buying it but when I came to Perth and I started doing occasional shift at our clearance store I couldn't resist it when it was down to $15 or $20.
Galaxy print tights from Black Milk Clothing. Love these tights soooo much. They don't do plus sizes unfortunately but I manage to squeeze into their largest size and luckily they seem to be stretching a little over time. I've got some of his other designs as well and I completely love them all :)
Black boots from I Love Billy.

I potentially own too many floral skirts - OOTD

2011-06-28T03:14:00.002+08:00

I think I wore this to work a couple of weeks ago, I just fond the photo's floating around my computer and thought that I should share.

What I'm wearing.

Black tshirt from Target. Love this thing, have about 4 of them an wear them all the time.
Black cardigan from work. I think I've got it in ever colour it came in. Last seen here
Floral skirt from Factorie. This is crazy comfortable, especially considering it is about 3 sizes to small. I've got it in another colour aswell and love them both.
Black thick stockings, which are perfect for winter.
Love necklace from Sportsgirl and pink necklace from Need Supply Co.

day 21 - Something you don't like

2011-06-27T17:02:00.000+08:00

Mushrooms. I really, really, really don't like mushrooms.

This is, however, pretty adorable.

From: Typo

Pretty pretty pastel floral - OOTD

2011-06-14T21:17:00.000+08:00

This is a couple of days late I actually wore this to work on Sunday.

What I'm wearing

Black t-shirt from Target. I am in love with these t-shirts I think I've got about 4 of them wear them to death.
Light grey cardigan from work. I think I've got this cardigan in just about every colour it came in, so comfy
Floral skirt form Cotton On. I FREAKIN HATE this skirt. Love the pattern but I was so uncomfortable all day long, I had to readjust the skirt about every five minutes. It was the first time that I'd worn it but the elastic band is already starting to unravel. I think I might retire it.
Key necklace handmade. I think the key used to open the front door of the house I grew up in.

My hair was particularly well behaved on this day. Normally it is pretty hard to taame, especially when my fringe is wayyy to long (like it is at the moment). Also, my hair is finally growing out. YAY. About 2 years ago I got it all cut off, I'd never had short hair and wanted to see what it was like. I didn't mind it for the first year but ever since I've been trying to grow it out and it is finally getting longer.

day 20 - Place you most want to visit

2011-06-14T20:56:00.000+08:00

London.

My mum travelled when she was my age and when I was younger she told me stories. Stories and London and about Israel, and ever since I've wanted to go to both of those places but mostly to London. It's cold and rainy and I'm going to love it.

day 19 - Something that made you smile today

2011-06-13T20:42:00.001+08:00

Harry Potter related tattoos make me smile.

all images from: We <3 this

day 18 - Something you don't like

2011-06-12T20:51:00.000+08:00

I don't like mushrooms.

day 17 - The first big purchase you'd make it you won the lottery

2011-06-11T20:41:00.003+08:00

A plane ticket to London and a place to live when I get there.

Straight through this universe in my head - OOTD

2011-06-11T07:19:00.002+08:00

I've been trying to take photos to do an outfit post for a really, really long time but I haven't been able to get any photos that were even slightly usable from my DSLR with the self timer and I was getting absolutely nowhere. So I figured that I'd try my webcam and they turned out at least a little better than my other attempts.

I snapped these ones quickly after work yesterday and seeing at I worked the late shift and didn't get home until after 10pm it was dark outside, so I think I'm going to have to try it again in the daylight and hopefully I'll get better results. Don't mind the closes ups but not to fond of the full body shots. hmmmm.

Wore this to work today. I work in fashion retail and we are meant to wear full price product at all times but as it is a straight sized store not that much fits me. I always try to wear at least one piece from there though.

What I'm wearing

Black button up oversized shirt from work. I am totally in love with this thing, I actually hhave two of them. It is just really comfortable and perfect for work and running around after customers because it is pretty lightweight.
Floral skirt from Cotton On.
Knitted circle scarf from Rubi
Thick cotton stockings from Target. I only bought these the other day and was totally stoked to find them half price!
Silver filagree ball earrings from Just Jeans. I loved them so much that these are my second pair of them.

lyrics: Space Travel - Yellowcard.

day 16 - Favourite boys name

2011-06-10T23:30:00.002+08:00

Emlyn.

I remember first hearing it when I read Merryll of the Stones by Brian Caswell for school in year 9 and I've loved the name ever since.

That or James. Love the name James too.

ps. I always seem to get crushes / fall in love with guys named Sam, so I guess I like that name too.

day 15 - Favourite Disney princess

2011-06-09T23:58:00.000+08:00

Ariel from The Little Mermaid

For the longest time I thought that Anastasia was a Disney princess and I could never understand why she wasn't included with the rest of the princesses in promotional stuff. Needless to say I was pretty disappointed when I found out that she wasn't actually one of the Disney princesses and if she was it would have been a much more difficult decision as to who is my favourite.

day 14 - One of your most prized possessions

2011-06-08T21:33:00.002+08:00

Ted.

day 13 - A recipe

2011-06-07T16:23:00.000+08:00

Tomato, zucchini and red onion skewers

1 large red onion

250g cherry tomatoes

2 large zucchini

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

2 tablespoons olive oil

Cut onion into 12 wedges.

Thread onion, tomatoes and zucchini equally among skewers. Place skewers on large tray, drizzle with combined vinegar and oil.

Cook skewers on heated oiled grill plate until browned all over and tender.

Serve.

(4)

New shoes. Yes, I have new shoes, again.

2011-06-06T00:25:00.002+08:00

My new wedges from ASOS finally arrived and I love them. Originally I thought that they were going to be blue and I was a little disappointed that they are a dark green instead but they have grown on me and now I love them just as much as I thought I would.

They are a little higher/harder to walk in than I thought they were going to be but they are just so cute that I kinda don't care. Unfortunately my big toe - which I thought was healed :( - is still quite swollen (I do hope that it eventually goes down) so it's a bit of a squeeze to get them on my right foot. So I'm not going to be able to wear them until the swelling has gone down.

I think I'll probably wear them with my darkest blue skinnys and I cant wait. :)

day 12 - Your day, in great detail

2011-06-05T23:20:00.003+08:00

I pretty much had the worst day ever today and can not deal with doing this one at the moment. I'll probably do it later for another day though.

Peace. xx.

day 11 - Favourite musical

2011-06-04T22:34:00.001+08:00

My Fair Lady

day 10 - The last movie that you saw at the cinema

2011-06-03T03:02:00.001+08:00

I saw Fast Five last. It was EPIC, I've always liked the series even 3rd one but I ammm sooo pleased that Dom and Brian are together again. :)

day 9 - A photo of you taken recently

2011-06-02T14:10:00.001+08:00

Taken just now on my webcam.

day 8 - A photo of you that is over ten years old

2011-06-01T12:34:00.001+08:00

Rain rain go away, come again another day.

2011-05-31T16:44:00.009+08:00

Only not, I want the rain to come. In fact it is men't to be raining right now but it isn't and all I'm getting is this crappy grey cloud cover (which admittedly I still love but not when the weather man said I'd have rain all week).

What I should have is this -

source: google images

so that afterwards we get this and that delicious smell just after the rain has finish falling.

source: google images

but at least it was raining yesterday morning and I was able to snap this before running off to work.

day 7 - A song you want played at your wedding

2011-05-31T03:00:00.001+08:00

L.O.V.E. by Nat King Cole and this particular video because The Parent Trap was the first place I heard it.

When Adam's Flesh and Adam's bone sits at Cair Paravel in throne, the evil time will be over and done.

2011-05-30T19:22:00.002+08:00

source: google images

Oh how I'd love to live in a fantsay world like Narnia. With Knights who actually ride in on white horses, where aminals talk and magic happens.

day 6 - A photo you took

2011-05-30T17:56:00.001+08:00

me, New York City

day 5 - Favourite smell

2011-05-29T18:29:00.001+08:00

Vanilla and I love The Body Shop Vanilla perfume oil

day 4 - Your favourite quote

2011-05-28T02:58:00.003+08:00

source: I found the photo on fuckyeamakeout about a year ago but that tumblr account is now deactivated, so if anyone knows where t comes from?

“true love, true life”

day 3 - A silly photo of you

2011-05-27T14:40:00.001+08:00

This photo is crazy old, from like '07 but it was the only silly photo that I could remember. I'm sure I've got heaps more I just couldn't remember them. :P

day 2 - Your favourite book

2011-05-26T10:27:00.001+08:00

If you know me at all, which I guess you don't, you'd know that I am a huge reader and books are my life, I'm even currently studying to become a editor. So it came as a huge surprise to me that I don't actually have a favourite book.

I always thought that the Happy Potter series as a whole was my favourite - it definitely had a huge impact on my life and I still want a HP related tattoo - but I'm not sure that it is my favourite book/series, at least, not anymore.

I looked up too my book shelf when I started to write this and realised that I don't have my Harry Potter books with me anymore. I don't exactly have the largest amount of storage space for books anymore so most of mine are at home with mum but still considering how much I love HP I'm slightly shocked that they didn't make the cut! Thinking back now I'm pretty sure that I didn't bring my HP books with me 'cause I figured that any library would have them and seeing as I live on campus and about a 4 minute walk from the library it wouldn't be too difficult to get them out.

ps. these are the books that did make it cut

I definitely have a favourite genre though, all but four of the books that I have with me are fantasy.

day 1 - A picture of the city you were born in

2011-05-25T15:38:00.010+08:00

Australia and I have never had the biggest love affair. Summer is too long and winter doesn't go for nearly long enough. It is too hot for me, too sunny, too sandy, too Australian. I have a burn time of about 5 minutes, even with sunscreen, but even so it's where I was born and where I grew up. I guess I'll always have a little bit of a soft spot for Australia - that tiny little while in the middle of winter where it is sufficiently sold enough.

Top ten favourite things of all time

2010-09-19T02:34:00.003+08:00

Was reading this post over at Smaggle Style and she asked her readers what there top ten favourite things of all time where and listed her own and it got me thinking about what things I value the most.

So here's my list, in no particular order because it was hard enough deciding on just 10 things.

Books / the smell of old books
Vanilla perfume
Rain
Cold winter days
Watermelon juice
Lucas' papaw ointment - it seriously saves my life and my poor dry lips
My key necklace
Ted
Laughing
Indie style

lace love love

ps. some of the things that didn't quite make my list are travelling, photography, cuddles, New York City, dancing, frozen yogurt with mixed berries from Wendy's, sleep, Coca-Cola, cute old couples still in love, good hair days - they can instantly make a day feel better - and Harry Potter (oh wow I kinda cant believe that HP actually didn't make the list, it would definitely come in at number 11).

disregard: lack of attention and due care

2010-02-26T11:53:00.002+08:00

I've been really neglectful lately but I finally have a laptop so I should be able to blog a bit more, even if I only have a tenuous internet connection. I think that I have actually missed it.

Life has been pretty crazy lately. I've moved out of home - a huge step for me - and I'm starting as a first year uni student all over again, among other things. I've only done a week of my new course but I'm already in love. It's just so much more enjoyable that my last one - I'm actually learning about things that I want to be learning about.

I don't know if I've said this before but I want to be an editor or anything in the publishing industry really. I've always loved books but it was only last year that I realised that I loved them more than anything. So, in my new course I'm minoring in editing and I had my first class for that last Monday and the lecturer said something that I guess I'd never really realised before - that editors have to be writers as well - Only I'm not really the best writer. I always get total mind blanks and can never thing of anything to write, especially when I'm put on the spot and have to write something immediately in class.

I've always firmly believed the old cliché that to write well you must first write what you know - which I now realise is completely ridiculous considering the amount of fantasy and science fiction that I read. However, I’ve always felt that I never had anything interesting enough to write about, that I wasn’t an interesting enough person, I guess. I’ve always wanted to write, and have always liked it as well – I just want to write, to write anything at all but when I’m writing something I’m always to pre-occupied wondering what other people might think of it to actually focus of the writing much.

I figure that this blog is the perfect place to practice my writing so expect to see many more posts from me (not that they will necessarily be filled with writing about writing or writing at all for that matter, still love the pictures.) I'm also thinking about doing some outfit posts, I've got many new friends at uni whose help I could enlist to take the photos. Also, if I write about it here than I actually have to do it.

Time for me to go to bed, I've got work tomorrow. Night all

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

2010-01-17T19:09:00.003+08:00

Happy New Year guys, sorry I haven't posted in ages. I'm presently on a friends computer but as I'm moving to the big bad city for uni in only two short weeks I am really going to need my own computer. So as soon as Apple releases the newest version MacBook Pro I'm snapping one up. (Please, please, PLEASE let it be soon.) And regular posting (not that my posting has ever really been regular, much like my period, sorry, I know TMI) will resume. But in the meantime I leave you with some librarys/bookshelves that I would love to have.

How seriously cool would it be to have this staircase bookcase.

I'm really sorry but I dont have the credits for any of these, I found them stuffed away in a forgotten file on my USB.

all grown up

2009-11-14T00:22:00.006+08:00

How I wish this actually was a post about Rugrats.

I was reading Ms. Muse's lastest post and it took me a little while to realise who I was looking at. It's Dakota Fanning on the cover, hasn't she grown up.

Now I just want my copy of Teen Vogue to hurry up and get here, I think Miss Dakota Fanning is a fabulous covergirl for my last Teen Vogue. I figure seeing as I'm not a teenager anymore I wont renew my subscription. I think I might subscribe to Oyster instead.

In other news I just ordered my first pair of Jeffrey Campbell shoes, the 99 zip wedge. They are on backorder until the end of December but I dont imagine I'd get much wear out of them in summer in anycase.

Love, love, love.

As much as I love the Acne ones that I posted about a couple of months ago I think I love these even more, much more in my price range and also much more walkable. Plus the Acne ones have been sold out for ages.

shop shabd )) leggings + shorts + tights )) aurora

2009-11-05T14:01:00.001+08:00

Shabd: Inspired by Hubble telescope photos of worlds being born and stars dying. They bring design, chance and chaos into a perfect balance.

I am wild about these stockings.

and these tights are also pretty rad.

Unfortunately they are a little bit out of my price range but I found these slightly similar ones from We Love Colours instead. They aren’t quite as cool but they are much more in my price range.

Nathalia Ponomareva: Green Berry Tea

2009-10-31T18:02:00.000+08:00

I cant remember where I first saw these tea bags - I think it was on someones twitter feed -. But aren't the birdie teabags just the cutest ting you ever saw?

"Nice project here designed by Nathalia Ponomareva from Russia. These tea bags created by the principles of origami. While the tea infuses the bird or the shape is gradually expanding. This is very poetic."

Green Berry Tea

Does anyone have any idea where I could buy some of these? Or something similar?

United Paper People

2009-10-30T23:10:00.007+08:00

"So hit the lights and turn the record up now
I hope you hear this in your sleep
Spin off the typical I miss you baby
Who would've thought we were so deep"

summary : i never miss anything how i missed you ...

I was going through my CD's the other day and come across a Kisschasey one and realised that I hadn't listened to them in ages, so lent over for my ipod and found out that they werent on it!! Complete oversight i know, I have no idea how I forgot to put it on to the computer or how it got deleted (seeing as it is a burnt CD and all).

But I had completely forgotten just how much I love Kisschasey.
I remember the first time I heard them, it must have been the end/beginning of 2005/2006 , regardless it was the 2005/2006 summer holidays and I was at a friends 18th. The party was starting to wind down and I was sitting out the back in the garden listening to music - didn't know it at the time but it was Kisschasey's United Paper People album - when the most adorable guy came out and sat with me. I cant remember what we talked about or how it came up but eventually he started talking about the song that we were listing to. I don't remember what he said about the song either but I get the feeling that he liked it. I don't really remember what happened after this either. I think the birthday girl and a couple of other people came back outside with sleeping bags and we started talking about the stars, and he and I didnt say much to each other again. But from now on when ever I hear of Kisschasey I'll always think of his smile as he talk to me.

Lyrics by Kisschasey
Image by junest

I know I've been absent for a while but now that semester is over and I don't have to worry for a while about those pesky assignments that seem to get in the way of life I'll have more time for this blog and I'm looking forward to getting back into it.

Wow that is the longest runon sentence I've written in a while.

Anyway, glad to be back and I hope I've still got a few readers left.

FAshion HAyley

2009-09-15T10:08:00.004+08:00

I've been reading Fashion Hayley on and off for about a year now and I never realised that she was also a stylist, and an awesome one at that.

I'm just loving everything about these images.

Frederic Bastin

2009-09-10T01:21:00.000+08:00

I love Oyster. I've never read Oyster before but after only one flip through, I love Oyster. Oyster brought me to photographer Frederic Bastin and these photographs.

The British Farmers & The Math teacher and his Student

The Churchgowers

The Musicians & The Cowboys

The Forest People - which is my favourite, not just for the image itself but also for the caption that goes with it.

Living in a secret forrest village Rachel and Toon have many chores to complete. Rachel must collect berries every dawn and Toon is to chop wood. But last week in between chores - in the deepest, most hidden part of the forrest - they secretly shared a kiss.

Which then lead me to his website and these photographs, which I also love.

Hans Christian Anderson

2009-09-09T21:23:00.004+08:00

So, today, I was on Threadless because they are having a $9 sale for 09.09.09 and was looking at the old tee's that I voted for and came across this one. I'd forgotten just how much I love it but then I go to the creaters website and come across the orginal drawing and now I just cannot decide which version I like more, opinions??

Hans by Aaron Gilmore

Atacoma pre A/W 09

2009-08-13T01:21:00.002+08:00

I have a new shoe crush.

I first saw them on Rumi of Fashion Toast and loved the silver bottomed ones she's wearing until I went to website and saw these ones.

Shoes: Atacoma Black by Acne

Red Lipstick

2009-08-12T15:36:00.000+08:00

When looking through quotes for this post title I came across two that I could juts not decide between.

"Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." Which sadly was said not by a fashionista but by Jerry Seinfeld.

and

"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." Gwyneth Paltrow

I have long loved bright red lipstick and envied the people who can pull it off.

image credit

Library

2009-08-11T15:18:00.001+08:00

Despite some seriously hideous choices in rugs and and chair coverings, this is a personal library setup to rock my socks.

by Andrew Lister

Eletheowl

2009-08-10T15:08:00.004+08:00

The coolest garden Owls, in forever.

by eletheowl
via Daydream Lily, via spices for violet

Seriously, WHAT!

2009-07-27T16:33:00.003+08:00

For some reason the blog isnt showing up properly, so testish post to see if it will work.

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Okay, so that was really, really random. For some reason Blogger didn't like a post that I had made so it stuffed up my entire blog. So I had to delete that post, it wasn't the most riveting of posts but it is still annoying that that is what had to be done in order for my blog to be visable again. hmpht.

notebooks.

2009-07-14T11:20:00.000+08:00

One can never have too many notebooks, I was just reading this topic over at the frankie forum and I realised that I do in fact lust after too many notebooks.

A long time favourite has, of course, been Moleskine. I've only ever had one of their notebooks before, one of the City ones but I think that I might have to get another one after seeing this 2010 dairy of theirs.

It is a day a page dairy and as we know they cans be quite bulky and hard to carry around, so Moleskine have thoughtfully split it into 12 little notebooks but with a hard cover to keep them in when not on that month. I think I'm in love.

Another brand that I am fast falling for is O-Check. they have some pretty adorable designs.

And I have got to stop talking about notebooks because I get payed today and I might just be tempted to blow a large chunk of it on them.

Not all of them are notebooks per se but they are all papergoods so I think they count.

Emma Watson

2009-07-13T16:53:00.006+08:00

Being an avid Harry Potter fan from way back when the third book came out I was pleasantly surprised when Miss Watson appeared on the cover of the current issue of Teen Vogue.

Having only just watched the first movie when it was on T.V. last weekend I couldn’t help but wonder where the time had gone, and when Emma had had the time to grow up, despite our being the same age.

tea party

2009-04-24T18:46:00.007+08:00

tea cup from

I adore these Miu Miu teacup heels. They come in two different styles and quite a few colours but these are without a doubt my absolute favourites.

rain, rain.

2009-04-15T18:27:00.004+08:00

Tashkent Carrow flat by mociun

These shoes are the perfect ones in which to do a rain dance. As I hate summer and would love to bring in winter a little bit early this year as soon as I saw these beauties I couldn't help but feel as if they would complete the perfect rain dance ensemble to usher winter into 2009.

Exchange

2009-03-19T16:10:00.000+09:00

“He had a whole collection of beautiful notebooks himself. He loved stationery. But he hardly ever used it. Like his gran he felt that he’s be spoiling it, even trying to put his ideas onto paper. He’d tried a couple of times, but become too embarrassed and self-conscious in the attempt. By now he knew that he’d never be a writer. ‘We’re readers. That’s what we are,’ he told his gran. ‘And we read enough to know that we can’t do it. To know that writing is hard.’”

Exchange - Paul Magrs

Vintage frames

2009-03-17T20:30:00.001+09:00

A while ago while I scouring the internet for vintage looking frames for photos I came across these frames - as in glasses - saved them on my computer and found them again yesterday while I was attempting to organize the files on my computer.

This pair is rather nice and are surprisingly from Apperican Apparel

These ones, which I love but cannot remember where I got them from.

And these loverly ones. I just love the model as well, don't you?

Superman supergirl, show me your stuff

2009-03-13T14:16:00.004+09:00

too true, too true.

ps. I really did used to love that song by Killing Heidi

Little hearts

2009-03-13T12:57:00.001+09:00

I wish people would walk around with little hearts on their forehead, so I could press it when I decided I liked them.

OMG yes completely.

page.a.day - 11 march 2009

2009-03-12T03:42:00.002+09:00

page.a.day - 10 March 2009

2009-03-10T07:03:00.000+09:00

page.a.day - 5 March 2009

2009-03-06T13:34:00.001+09:00

L.O.V.E.

2009-03-03T16:40:00.007+09:00

L is for the way you look at me
O is for the only one I see
V is very, very extraordinary
E is even more than anyone that you adore can love
L-O-V-E, Nat King Cole

I received a chain mail email type thing and usually I’m not the biggest fan of them but this one was just so adorable I just had to share.

What does 'Love' mean?
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does 'love' mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined.

'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'
Rebecca- age 8

'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.'
Billy - age 4

by mikki

'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'
Karl - age 5

'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.'
Chrissie- age 6

'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri - age 4

vintage portrait of old couple among foliage

Vintage - Portrait of a Couple

'Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny - age 7

'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'
Nikka - age 6

'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'
Noelle - age 7

Me and the Mr.

'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy - age 6

'My mummy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare - age 6

'Love is when Mummy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine-age 5

'Love is when Mummy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris - age

'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day'
Mary Ann - age 4

'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren - age 4

Uncle Archie and Margaret Griffiths

'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.'
Karen - age 7

And my two favourites:

'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica - age 8

'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7

.anthropologie.

2009-03-01T14:20:00.003+09:00

As I was reading all the blog posts from my favourite blogs that I missed while I was away I came across a post from Sally Jane Vintage about the fashion line Anthropologie and have (as I do) fallen completely in love with some of their pieces. Particularly this bag and these shoes.

page.a.day Shoes

2009-02-23T06:02:00.000+09:00

While I was in Canada I bought a page-a-day 2009 desk calendar, so it unlike most of my books actually made it home with me. It is a absolutely fabulous collection of shoes and I'm going to share my favourites with you through out the year. As it is nearly the end of February (and I have only been home with my scanner for a little while) here are my favourites from the beginning of the year to now.

I wish I had a apple tree. - Today I want.

2009-01-21T13:34:00.003+09:00

one.

An apple tree, a pink lady apply tree.

I moved house in September and had to leave my apple tree behind, I really want another one as I very muchly love my pink lady apples.

two.

A goldfish. Well actually I want two and I shall name them George and Mildred.

three.

A MacBook. I really, really, really want a MacBook. It really sucks not having your own computer and having to borrow from friends. Only I cant really afford one at the moment so I'm going to have to wait until I get back to Australia.

four.

A BlackBerry. I cant decide between the Bold and the Curve. Any ideas?

Today I love

2009-01-14T09:20:00.008+09:00

one.

Snow. I've been in Canada for over a month now and I'm still not sick of snow. Snow is pretty and snow is fun and get this - snow crunches. Yes seriously, snow crunches when you walk on it! Can you believe it? No I can't either. I had no idea it did this and got the biggest shock the first time I walked on snow. It has been snowing pretty much all day today covering all the dirty mucky brown snow of days gone in its pretty new white snow look. I didn't take this photo (found it somewhere on Google) but is is very, very close to where I'm staying and outside looks like this only with snow EVERYWHERE and a lot deeper. I've taken quite a few photos today only I have no idea where the coard to plug my camera into the computer is and have no hope of finding it because it is lost in my room back in Australia.

- it's a couple of days later now, 'cause I had to surrender the laptop and never got to finishthis post, and the snow is starting to melt :( I no longer feel like i am in Canada, apart from the snow covering thr ground it felt like an Australian autum today. Very dissapointing. I like my winters cold thank you very much.

two.

Winter clothes. Jackets and scarves and boots and hats.

- a couple of days later again and I bought a very lovely hat today. This hat infact, from Jacob.

Flickr Favorites IV

2009-01-12T12:55:00.000+09:00

And now not 5 minutes later I bring to you my latest batch of Flickr favorites

Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings--

2008-10-02T13:03:00.005+08:00

"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."

The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carrol.

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But regardless of whether or not pigs have wings - I secretly think that they do - I am in love with Sally Jane Vintage and all of her wonderful vintage shoe finds, of which she has many. Such as these and these, which I particularly love.

A. Denomay

2008-10-01T00:06:00.001+08:00

I have fallen completely, totally and hopelessly in love with A. Denomay's photography. Especially these two photographs, Voltaic and After Tomorrow respectively.

Flickr Favorites V

2008-09-30T22:55:00.004+08:00

hmmm, so maybe, just maybe, I've been going a little bit overboard with faving on Flickr but I just can't seem to stop myself. If I see something that I think is pretty I just have to favorite it so that I can go back and look at its prettiness another time.

Long time no post.

2008-09-30T22:51:00.001+08:00

I didn't realise just how long it had been since my last post. oppsie.

But big things happened. Such as I moved house and . . . well no that is pretty much it for big things.

I promise more blog post soon though.

Today I love

2008-08-19T00:39:00.007+08:00

one.

Rain. It hadn't rained for almost two weeks and I was starting to get worried that winter was coming to an end but the rain graced us with its presence tonight : ). However is was rather brief and it is very dark outside so I wasn't able to get a photograph of it but I will share a wonderful one that I found in Google images and that I'm sure the rain tonight looked very similar to.

two.

New Found Glory which is a rather delightful punk-pop band from South Florida. I am most fond of the song Too Good To Be, which over the past 3ish weeks I have played 300+ times with the rest of the album's play count coming in close to that.

There is just something about it that I keep on coming back to. Every time that I put another band on I get fed up with it pretty quickly and put New Found Glory on again - even Fall Out Boy, who I have had a long living love affair with.

Htebazile Nodsdoh

2008-08-13T23:32:00.002+08:00

. . . is my Jedi name.

This morning, on the radio, they were asking what everyone's Chinese Olympic name was (in complete bad taste I thought but still mildly amusing) - the first three letters of the street you live on and then the first 3 letters of your mother's maiden name - and I got to thinking about all of the others, like Rock Star name and Stripper name, and I came across a website that listed a heap of different ones. I'm rather fond of my Soap Opera name - Elizabeth Lawley.

Anyway, I can't even remember the point of this post so I guess I'm just going to have to leave it there.

Oh wait, I remember now.

And I saw the Jedi one and fell completely in love.

The End.

Today I love

2008-08-12T19:32:00.003+08:00

one.

Dresses from Mod Cloth. Such as this wonderfully loverly Georgia Peach Dress. It truly is loverly.

and this equally loverly Marmalade Cat Dress. It truly is loverly also.

"C-3PO: He made a fair move. Screaming about it can't help you.

2008-08-11T19:34:00.007+08:00

Han Solo: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han Solo: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
Chewbacca: Grrf.
C-3PO: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, R2: let the Wookiee win."

Is my favorite beyond favorite Star Wars quote, I even very nearly once got it printed on a t-shirt.

I was reading this post by quietmilk the other day and while I don't agree with her about not liking Star Wars - "I find your lack of faith disturbing." - , as I am a long time lover, I now have a desperate craving for some Star Wars Bubble Gum.

Flickr Favorites III

2008-08-09T17:31:00.000+08:00

I appoligise for the lack of posting of late but would like to share with you some more of my Flickr favorites.

I kind of went crazy the other day and went on a faving spree - mainly of the same person as well. Oh well, it's always nice to appreciate good art.

Flickr Favorites II

2008-07-30T19:57:00.001+08:00

Flickr favorites

Crying Glasses

2008-07-26T11:13:00.000+08:00

I have recently fallen in love with this photograph, I'm not entirely sure why but for some reason I just feel drawn to it. However, I'm having some trouble working out who it actually belongs to. I first spotted it in a Contextualizing the Garment uni manual that my Textiles tutor lent me for research on my final creative art piece for that unit and the photo was attributed to Helmut Newton, who was a German-Australian fashion photographer, but when I got home and looked him up his website made no mention of this photograph at all. So then I looked up the title of the image and found Hayley Newman's website so as far as I can tell the photograph is of her during a social experiment of some kind, which is helpful because now I know who it is of (and also whose idea it was) but not who actually took it because so far I have been able to find at least two names that have been credited to it (I thought that there was also a third but when I went looking for it just then I was unable to find it) - Casey Orr and Christina Lamb. If anyone knows anything that might solve the mystery it would be greatly appreciated as it has been bugging me for a while now but regardless it is a wonderful photograph that I wanted to share.

Breaking Dawn

2008-07-24T18:09:00.001+08:00

Considering that I get mildly giggly, okay make that very giggly, every time I think about the impending release of Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer I thought that I would share this wonderful count down thingymagig.

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"It is the flagrant lack of practicality that makes high heel shoes so fascinating."

2008-07-23T00:45:00.006+08:00

Which I believe was said by Stephen Bayley.

But anyway, to the point, I was browsing Flickr, as one does at 1 in the morning, and I came across these two pairs of shoes. The above (the white pair) I have fallen totally and hopelessly in love with, I don't think that I have ever wanted a pair of shoes as much as I want these shoes. And the other ones I have also fallen in love with, but to a lesser degree, as in I think that I will survive if I don't have them.

The pair of shoes that I really want would be a mix to the black and white pair and the shoes that i talked about in this post - for them to look like the shoes that I already have but for them to have this pairs colouring. hmmm. love.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

2008-07-21T17:58:00.009+08:00

A year ago today.

It is kind of sad. I miss Harry Potter. It was fun looking forward to the next book coming out but now its done. I'm definitely not obsessed with the series as I used to be, I think the story not being finished had a lot to do with that. Because (yes, I know that it is very bad grammar to start a sentence with 'because' but it just needs to be done) you didn't know how the story was going to finish so you had to keep on reading until it was and now that it is - well, it's just different now.

And (yes I know, another grammar faux pas) I don't care what people say about how we still have the movies to go, it just doesn't compare. We already know what is going to happen. The excitement is different, sure it is exciting waiting for the next movie to come out but IT IS a different type of excitement - with waiting for the next book it was the excitement of the unknown, waiting to find out how the series was going to end, waiting to see what was going to happen to to the beloved and not so loved characters that I had grown up with. Like I said, it's just different now.

Flickr Favorites I

2008-07-20T22:52:00.003+08:00

I just thought that I would share my Flickr favorites with all you lovely people.

VIS2512

2008-07-18T18:33:00.013+08:00

Textiles Final Creative Project.

I'm mildly proud of it.
We had to choose a theme and then build off of that - my theme was childhood. Childhood in general, my childhood and others' childhood. For the silhouettes of the girls I made potato stamps (like you do in pre-primary) and for the rest I used stamps left over from my Aunts card making faze.

Annie and Oliver (yes I named a female Oliver, I think it suits her)

Bessie and her balloons

Josephine and Jacqueline

Molly and her umbrella

I cried because I had no shoes

2008-07-08T13:06:00.001+08:00

But then I went out and bought a new pair.

I am completely totally and utterly in love with my brand spanking new pair of brogue heals. I love them completely. I do however need to get a skirt that will go with them as I cant wear jeans with them for the rest of their life, although they do look rather nice with my dark blue straight legs.

hmmm.

Oh well, shoe dilemma for another day.

Etsy

2008-05-09T14:53:00.004+08:00

I have just started to list my bags in my Etsy shop. Which can be found here

Why join the Navy when you can be a pirate

2008-04-17T22:41:00.009+08:00

Yes, yes.

I just realised that never before, in all of my 4 previous posts, have I mention what it is that I do. Currently I've got 3 designs (all girls) and I draw them onto fabric (t-shirts, tote bags and the like) and then sew their clothing on.

Bessie, Molly and Lanna (named for Rheannalanalan), modeled by the lovely Amecia and Rheanna

acai-blueberry-pomegranate (tripple antioxidants)

2008-04-17T03:08:00.004+08:00

Are the three main ingredients in this yummie Vitamin Water that I've been drinking and no I don't drink it because it is 'Vitamin Water' but because it tastes nice.

And in other more textiles related news I finally have photos of my bags. Rheanna and Meekaleeka help me out today with them and I'll post some as soon as I can be bother resizing and editing and stuff. yep yep, cant wait.

I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone.

2008-04-17T02:57:00.004+08:00

This is Molly. This is, however, Molly on her very best behavior, her hair isn’t usually quite so neat and her ribbons aren’t usually still in, she’s surprised us all by still having her socks pulled up and her dress still neat and tidy and devoid of dirt.

Molly might be a bit of a little rascal, I guess that’s what you get when you grow up in a house full of boys, but she is, underneath it all, quite sweet and a lovely child. You can tell already that she’s going to grow up to be quite the little heartbreaker.

Bessie

2008-04-11T23:15:00.002+08:00

I'd like to introduce you to Bessie. Bessie, short for Elizabeth and named for Bessie in Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree series, while always wearing the same outfit (she's really awfully fond of it), she wears this outfit proudly and in many different colours.

Bessie is a lovely girl who while not the most outgoing person is certainly not shy. I’ve known her for almost two years now but to someone who doesn’t know her she may come across as a bit of a plain Jane but to her friends she is one of the most interesting and individual people they know.

She can generally be found at the library, reading anything and everything, she is always striving to expand her knowledge of the world. She is however awfully fond of those trashy teen fantasy romances.

Previous 'Quote of the moment'

2008-04-10T19:12:00.002+08:00

As we know, there are no known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
- Donald Rumsfield

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
- Edward P. Morgan

Welcome

2008-04-09T16:56:00.000+08:00

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