We're on fire.

Rhiannon had a party last night. There was a fire and I wished I had brought along marshmallows.




"It's a bottle, really"

The fire was more impressive earlier in the night.

Nom nom nom

We love vegetarian pizza.

There is a zombie on my stairs.

Actually, Tash is too cute to be a zombie.



The best thing about having friends the same dress size is that we can swap our clothes when we get frustrated with our own wardrobes.





I hope you are all having a lovely Friday night.

Twelve by twelve by twelve

Today Dylan and I went to an exhibition at Griffith University where they were selling $12 cd sized prints by the students at the uni. I also picked up my camera (squeals with excitement) and rummaged through the shelves of one of my favorite second hand book stores.

Baby ate my eight ball

About half an hour ago my mother brought me a Canon EOS 1000D SLR as a very early birthday present. I am hoping it is ready to be picked up tomorrow morning when I go into Brisbane, but I doubt it because we brought it online at 10pm on a Friday night. Either way by next weekend I will have a proper camera and can stop whinging at Dylan to take pictures of my outfits with his DSLR.





Speaking of Dylan and his DSLR here are some pictures from Sunday when we went to West End. I am wearing a vintage dress that I brought the day before at the vintage fair. Right now I am feeling quite the nerd, sitting at home on a Friday night listening to music.

Tonights playlist is:

Baby ate my eight ball - Super Furry Animals
The Dandy Cowboys- Soko
I like giants - Kimya Dawson
Sour Cherry - The Kills
Baby's gonna die tonight - Adam Green
Pete Standing alone - Boards of Canada
Ghosts and Lovers - Marissa Nadler
Loomer - My Bloody Valentine

One Uniform

I just came accross this website where a girl wears the same dress for 365 days. Sounds rather nutty right? Well just you wait until you see the pictures. She has seven copies of a very simple black tunic which can be worn both frontways and backways and each day she posts pictures of the way she has worn the dress. While doing this she raises money to support the education of children in India.



In other news I got home from school today to find a package waiting for me on my doorstep, it was the lovely peter pan collared blouse that I brought from etsy. So I am a very happy girl this afternoon.

To the fair, the vintage fair.

Saturday Tash, Jenna and I went to a vintage clothing fair in Mt. Gravatt. Mt Gravatt is a super long bus trip from the city, right out in suburbia. There is also a complete lack of ATM machines. The vintage fair itself was lovely, far less scary and packed than the last one I went to. I brought a couple of lovely dresses, a hat and a two bow ties.

Heart paper lover

Instead of doing my assignments I took pictures in the garden.





I also made these felt badges and attached an old key to some vintage lace so I could wear it as a necklace.





I am really looking forward to this weekend, I am going to a vintage fashion market and to a same sex marriage rights rally with Tash, Jenna and Ryan.

lemonaide cure

Yesterday I spent the whole day in bed drinking lemonaide on account of picking up what I think was food poisoning. It was not very fun at all. I am feeling a bit better now, though I have not been able to sleep since 3am because I slept most of yesterday. I have spent most of this morning browsing Etsy and brought this lovely peter pan collar blouse from Noble Town Vintage




Today I think I will make some felt badges, catch up on some assignments and read a book.

Harry Potter

Yesterday I saw the new Harry Potter movie. It was not too bad, the actors are a lot better actors now then in any of the previous movies. However the story line was rather unclear, most of the film seemed to focus on the now all grown up and hormonal character's love lives. In the cinema there was a man in front of us who would snort or laugh really loudly during the funny parts, that was rather entertaining.



This is what I wore, I think that cardigan is pretty Hogwarts inspired.
dress & bag: valley markets
cardigan: cotton on
shirt & hat: thrifted
shoes: Rubi shoes

A quiet Friday night

Tonight my mother and I baked cupcakes. They turned out really well. Except we had to experiment a bit with the icing, the first batch we made turned out clumpy and strange.



Tomorrow I am going with Tash, Jenna and Callum to see the new Harry Potter movie. We were going to dress up except we were lazy and did not get costumes.

The result of post-school boredom

First day back at school today. It was not as bad as I was expecting, we watched a sci-fi movie in English and an economist came into to talk to us in exit preparation studies.



This afternoon I discovered that I can draw on both my hands with eyeliner, I hope that I am not as scary as the monster from Pan's Labyrinth.
Now I am going to go and read Nick Cave's novel And the ass saw the angel

Modern art, dinosaurs and chocolate cake

Today I went with Emily to Brisbane to go to the Gallery of Modern Art. We went into lots of book stores and saw an amazingly life like statue of a woman in a bed.


Skirt, belt, cardigan and hat: thrifted
Interpol shirt: Belonged to a friend
Scarf: Target!
Bag: army disposals (I sewed cute vintage buttons onto it)

Giant sculpture by Ron Mueck called in bed.




Yesterday we were nannas and sewed and made chocolate cake, in the background is the wonderful environment-loving fashion magazine Peppermint

The final week of freedom

Last week of holidays, trying to ignore the fact that I have a essay due Monday that I have barely started. I am not sure what I did with the last week of holidays. I have a habit of waking up around midday, which is going to be a problem as I have to start waking up again at 6am.

This is an outfit I wore last week at Jenna's birthday celebrations.



Dress and jacket: Valley Markets
Boater hat: Thrifted

Tonight I have spent my time procrastinating that essay by sewing and watching old movies with Emily. Last night I went to Kate's 19th birthday get together. It was a lot of fun, I lost at drinking games and scared a guy with an afro.

Happy Birthday Jen Jens

Jenna is 17 today, horay!



These are my top 5 reasons that I love Jenna
1. She cooks me special vego spaghetti.
2. She looks adorable in her ever expanding collection of 1960's mod dresses.
3. She has the cutest laugh in the whole world.
4. She is a expert on 1960's-70's music and lets me borrow her records.
5. She cheers me up because she is like sunshine, rainbows and kittens personified.

Happy birthday Jenna!!

Etsy find

Instead of working on that essay I have been trawling etsy and just brought this adorable 1950's salt and pepper shaker set from Hellcat Vintage



Right now I am listening to Blood Red Shoes' album Box of secrets and am about to go finish reading The Essence of Humanism in the vain hope that it will give me something to write about in the essay that I still have not started but have spent the past two days worrying about.

Abstract mind

In the past 24 hours I think I have listened to Sonic Youth's new album around 20 times. It's such a great album, nearly as good as 'Goo' which would have to be one of my favorite albums of all time. While I have been subconsciously memorizing every lyric from 'The Eternal' I have been also internally debating the best way to approach an essay I have to write.
I have to analyze the impact of humanism on society, based around a contemporary issue. The issue I chose to look at was woman's rights. This would generally be a really easy essay to write, I could easily go on a hobby horse and write a couple thousand words on the way that humanism and the gradual break away from the church has lead to women being given a more equal role in society. The problem is that I go to a christian school, and therefore cannot write an essay that focuses on the misogyny of Christianity. So I am going to have to try and express my views in the most diplomatic way possible. I think that if I had spent the time writing this essay that I have thinking about the compromising nature of it (good marks vs. expressing my opinion) I would have it finished by now.
Today I have to go to the university library to borrow some books for the essay because my local library has a plethora of books on gardening and self help and a drought on anything slightly useful for academic purposes. Speaking of gardening this is a photo of an outfit I was wearing a couple days ago. I really want to turn one of the old tyres into a tyre swing.


Tee from the valley markets, thrifted skirt, gloves and boots, vintage necklace from my nannas house.

Transformation story

This is a bit of a personal post inspired by this competition held by one of my favorite online stores, Modcloth . The competition was to share something in my life that has transformed me.
I believe the greatest change in my life was the move from country New South Wales to Queensland when I was 14. I grew up in a small town, about 6 hours away from the nearest city. As a child I was rather shy and slightly nerdy, so I did not fit in too well with the other kids. I preferred to read books and daydream.
One week after I moved to Queensland I met a girl who is still one of my closest friends, Tasha. Soon after we met I went with her and her family to this beautiful coastal town called Tinnanbar, we sat on the beach and rode an electic scooter around the town (well Tash did, I tried to but fell off it and ran into a bush.)
Now Tasha and I wear each others clothes, finish each others sentences and cheer each other up when we feel 'fat' or break up with a boyfriend. Because of Tasha I have now managed to break out of my shell (though I still have nerd pride) and make some super amazing friends.