candy canes + lions manes

Hello banksia

2009-05-06T18:59:00.000-07:00

Hairs so awesome, i'm going to try (after i get my hair cut and de-matted tomorrow)

MICRO MESH ME

2009-05-06T17:42:00.000-07:00

micromesh patterned tights i love it. sultry and seductive

viktor vauthier shoots it way too well

Going to try find those polka dot tights today to wear under my dress on Saturday :)

and a fluro clutch.

p.s. bought an erin wasson x rvca dress on the weekend its awesome

Smiling buttons

2009-05-04T23:48:00.000-07:00

These photos inspired me to start making another collage of a bird out of newspaper this arvo. The newspaper bird series spawned from my boredom of shredding newspaper at work and grew into a colourful and playful flock which i took home and stuck on my mirror above my fireplace. I'll take a photo when a couple more birdies are concieved!

OLA

2009-05-04T22:19:00.000-07:00

Bought this floral dress with awesome sleeves from a vintage shop a few months ago on Crown Street and only just got around to chopping and customizing it a little. Wore it with my Docs the other night and faux snakeskin purse.

My spanish lessons start tonight i'm quite excited actually! 5 weeks to gain a "competent" understanding of the language- my time management is horrendous.

shine shine shine

2009-05-04T18:29:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know where to buy garden gnomes?? I'm having a garden party on saturday for my birthday on sunday and thought it would be cute to put a couple of gnomes at the front gate! Mum and I are going to Paddy's markets today to buy chinese paper lanterns to hang from the trees. I'm covering my garden in candles and having candelabras and candlesticks on all of the tables and the bar.. also lining my pool with tea lights and putting floating candles in it :)

Also, how cool's this idea- my best friends mum told me:

- you collect empty tins (like the ones you buy diced tomatoes in, take off the labels and the lids and fill them to the top with water.

- then you chuck them in the freezer

- when the water has frozen you hammer a nail into the tin and make a shape (i made a heart) from all the little nail holes

- leave the tins in the sun for the water to melt

- when tins are dry and empty, light a tea light and put it in the bottom so that when it's dark, the light shines through the heart shape and looks pretty :) -- i'm going to make about 20 and scatter them about the garden or on ledges.. i'll take tonnes of photos, in the meantime i need to pray it doesn't rain

Also, i borrowed some little butterflies and flowers from my friend which i'm going to stick on my garden shed covered in ivy.

Mmmm i think i want to be a professional party planner now it's so addictive :)

dunce

2009-05-03T21:20:00.000-07:00

Camouflage lined Converse high-tops, Paige jeans, Country Road blouse, Roccobarocco embroidered blazer.

Went to the Lebanese on Crown St. again for lunch today for a felafel kebab im addicted :)

red globe grapes

2009-05-03T21:07:00.000-07:00

so much fun

steaming crimson skies

2009-04-29T19:19:00.000-07:00

selection of fun photos taken by none other than seraina from cheapchampagne one night at mosman. Musical accompaniment: 'Talahina Sky' by Kings of Leon.. matches the summery carelessness- i think we had just finished school :)

i'm wearing a crocheted/beaded dress from markets (my obsession with all things crocheted began here), GAP champagney grey ribbed shoestring singlet, leather slouchy boots, small leather shoulder bag with extra long strap, Joy bracelets.

kebbe tahini night

2009-04-29T04:01:00.000-07:00

i met Emerald at this little lebanese joint in Surry Hills last night for dinner - it was beautiful, i love being surprised by small and shabby middle eastern restaurants.

then we went to mosman and caught up with a few people, it was funny.

i wore tsubi circa 2005 clock leggings, banana republic linen shirt, events cream linen bomber, vintage fringed cowboy boots from retrostar Melbourne, shag tan suede shoulder bag.

spag bal + red wine

2009-04-29T02:33:00.000-07:00

took my twelve year old cousin from london to Glebe markets the other weekend. she has the most amazing voice i made her sing the whole car trip home!

leggings were my mums when she was my age i found them under the house in storage a little while back. i made the bracelet on my right hand from loads of buttons of all varieties i sewed onto a long thin piece of floral cotton, i started with white buttons and sequins and progressed through the colour spectrum to pale pink

Ranch weekend

2009-04-28T08:01:00.001-07:00

the farm was amazing, the Yarralong is such a beautiful place. we made a little bonfire when we got there and had hung out around it all night drinking and eating steak & sausages and toasting marshmallows and drinking tea with condensed milk.

Claw worthy

2009-04-27T15:59:00.000-07:00

[Sartorialist; Sartorialist; Altamira; Altamira]

Textures to tune your day to

Eye candy

2009-04-26T19:46:00.000-07:00

[Cobrasnake; Facehunter; Messthisdress; Messthisdress; Prada&Meatballs]

Caught

2009-04-26T19:29:00.000-07:00

[streetwide]

Thou shalt not worship false idols

2009-04-24T19:14:00.000-07:00

Off on a double date road trip to the Hunter Valley this weekend, i baked anzac cookies and banana and date loaf. It's the most beautiful day, i'm going to pick up a disposable camera on the way weeeeeee

Happy anzac day everyone

P.S. check out this hologram picture of Mary AND Jesus i bought yesterday. I thought the two in one thing was kind of cool!

Also, download 'Piano' by 'Hot Chip', syncing my ipod with hot chip i stole from a boy at work for the trip.

Cookies mix

2009-04-24T18:56:00.000-07:00

Stumbled across this little vintage furniture/junk shop in Bondi last week and found this awesome tasseled woolen poncho.

When i get round to it i've got to get my mum to teach me how to crochet capes and clothes and things i think it's so funky. She's knitting golf head covers at the moment for her golf clubs in really cool contrasting colours, i'll post some piccys when she's done

From the recycled clothes store across the road i found this thin jersey spotted dress.. reminds me of Tsumori Chisato a bit.

Packing lists

2009-04-24T18:07:00.000-07:00

I've had this furry leopard print satchel style bag that used to belong to my mum hanging on my hat-stand for ages so i did a little diy the other night and pressed little silver studs i bought years ago from an op shop throughout the leopard pattern

Bueller, Bueller, Bueller?

2009-04-23T06:35:00.000-07:00

Best movie

Best jacket

Filtration

2009-04-23T06:18:00.000-07:00

Had a nice walk home this evening, made me think of all the wacky interesting ideas there are out there that never leave people's minds. There should be public white boards on telegraph poles for people to write them on as they walk past.

Rev head

2009-04-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

[English Vogue]

I want a big jar of badges, they can't get old

Tree house

2009-04-22T05:15:00.000-07:00

Display behind counter @ Anthropology store NY Jan 09

Sickest shop and window displays ever- please come to Sydney!

Ribbit

2009-04-22T03:08:00.000-07:00

[cobrasnake]

I want to be that sparkly horse, or at least have her on my jeans

Love forever

2009-04-21T17:12:00.000-07:00

Yayoi Kusama, below, is 80 y.o. and lives in a mental asylum around the corner from her art studio in Japan. She spends her days there and comes home for food and to sleep. Couple of fun facts for you

She's currently exhibiting at the MCA- her last one room installation my mum took me to a few years ago was brilliant so i'm going to try get there this weekend.

Master

2009-04-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

May as well seeing as i'm on a TR tangent now.

Raw voyeur

2009-04-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

Few of my fav Terry Richardson editorials... god i'd love to meet him! I'd also love a few rolls of the fabric Daria's wearing!

They say

2009-04-21T02:10:00.000-07:00

... you can't go wrong with a life-size plastic Bok Choi pendant on a long silver chain for 10 bucks.

Cutest thing i've stumbled across in a while, plus it has comedic value

From GLEBE markets April 09.

Wyn one

2009-04-20T18:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.wyneveen.com/

Danger chains

2009-04-19T23:07:00.000-07:00

Few rad pieces from Lizzie Forunato Jewels S/S 09 "Live Long Summer" collection:

The Secret Hero Of These Poems Necklace

Three Days of Peace and Music Necklace

Almost home time

Big fry

2009-04-19T20:20:00.000-07:00

Art brut

2009-04-19T17:20:00.000-07:00

"following visions of “beautiful mansions with big domes” that “made a negative in [his] brain,” he added several floors and a steeple of wood and sheet metal and bits of tin and broken glass and remade the building into not so much a work of art as a monument to his waking dreams, an assortment of refuse and warped planking transformed into something of obsessive detail and intricacy" -- Excerpted from The Colorful Apocalypse by Greg Bottoms.

Browsing through outsider art (art created outside the boundaries of official culture) is one of the most fascinating things. These artists work in isolation from the commerical artworld, deriving inspiration purely from their pyschological landscapes rather than from what's happening around them.

MIKEY WELSH - one of my favourite.

Top to bottom: Welsh in his studio; studio; mural commissioned by Maven Store, Vermont.

Punch it

2009-04-19T02:17:00.000-07:00

[pic-jac&jil] - DIY..

Studded belt $35 SHAG store Paddington

Organic walls

2009-04-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

Erin's, Isabelle's & Elisa's places shot by the Selby.

Love the mish-mash eclecticism and those lions head plates on Elisa's wall.

Going to South America in August, i'm going to collect funky bright street art to cover my bedroom walls in. can't waittt

Easy wat

2009-04-18T23:13:00.000-07:00

[uk.vogue]

White winter

2009-04-18T01:01:00.000-07:00

Feeling winters going to be whiter this time around with textured layers, white lace and white sheer tights yum.

.. Hence my decision to buy the white leather version of these Nicola Finetti heels over the black suede- bar my poor toe nail job they're pretty freaking awesome aren't they.

+ a White Panel Bodycon TOPSHOP mini (to order this week) + my H&M sparkly black opaque tights and i will be well on my way.

In the meantime i need to find something for tonight- heading to Mumma's 50th, she's hired out a room in an Italian down the road & then to the city for my best pal Emmy's 18th... thinking Scanlan & Theodore silk ruffled blouse, nude slip, new shoes :), gold cross dangly earrings ($6 from Glebe last week) and turquoise nails- meant to be there in 30 so i better run

Have a fantastic saturday night!

Escape to an off-world colony

2009-04-17T02:46:00.000-07:00

Don't you love how the fluorescent writing lights up that lace

Few random snaps I pulled out of the gazillion taken during during my recent visit to New York and San Fran - i'm going to pick a handful to print onto small canvases and align in two rows above my bed, inspiration courtesy of the one and only Selby.

The first of many posts tonight - lots of long lost time i need to make up for,

So full of possibility I love this thing.