can you believe

It came to my attention the other day that I have a shortage of red shirts. What is with that? This is the whole section of my wardrobe that is red. Quite obviously NONE of these were appropriate for the ensemble I was planning. I am hoping to rectify this situation ASAP.

I also have the following items on my shopping list

• a navy shirt
• a cute red necklace
• white shirts ( one can never have enough white shirts)
  

PS I am not sure that I love this Iphone camera app - photo didn;t quite work out as I had wanted. I will have to muck around with it a bit more - when I can find the time

hump day

How can it be Wednesday already? How? This means that there are only 2 more days until the weekend. Seriously the weeks are flying by me. I feel like if I blink i will miss it. You'll notice I am still getting the help of a photographer each day. I am rushing off to the gym this afternoon for a mad step class, and the it is off to Dad's for dinner and no doubt some dessert - always a Sara Lee Danish (pretty sure I have mentioned that before) Have I also mentioned that I am doing the 12 week challenge at the gym? OMG...it is gonna be scareeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Turning Japanese...I really think so

Haven't uploaded a pic of myself recently - so thought it was probably about time. I have had this dress for ages, but switched it up today by tying my belt kimono style. I love the graphic print on this dress. I also wore cute new red shoes that I bought on the weekend - if you can believe it they were Homy-Peds. I will have to get a photo at some point - they did not hurt me at all - not a band aid in sight.




PS Can you glimpse what is behind me in this photo? Can you? This was taken this morning.

formal attire

Last night I went to what felt like my 10 000 formal. Yes your dress beautiful. Don't you look great. Blah Blah Blah...so to bring right back to me I thought I would again take a trip down memory lane and show you my formal photo. This is quite literally 19 years ago. I think we can all admit that apart from the earrings and hairdo, everything still totally wearable. I still have the dress - alas it does not fit. I love the dad has obviously put some effort into his outfit - and left his socks on - oh no wait a minute that is his permanent tan line, from wearing boots and socks all day. He also has a permanent singlet ( if anyone is interested) Also while I'm talking about dad - he never ever wears uncollared shirts - ever. I have never seen my dad in a round neck t-shirt. EVER! His pyjamas even have collars.

cottage industry

I have my aunty Shirl on board for a little dressmaking project. I arrived at her house the other for a dress fitting and this sign was on the door!

I have also recruited another 'worker' - so effectively I have two people who could hang this sign on their door. I told them that managers ( ie me) don't have to do much except rake in the big bucks so they should get used to it.

can you see a pattern?

Not just the pattern on the dresses (it was the 70's) but another pattern??

I posted this photo a few weeks ago. Apart from working out that it wasn't Shirl's wedding we can't really narrow it down - other than we think Mum might have been pregnant with Jojo - maybe - which would place it somewhere around 1975. We know it is after 73 because mum is wearing a wedding ring. Dad is no help at all - as this was obviously a family gathering on my Mum's side, Dad would have just tagged along - in a totally loving way of course because Dad likes hanging out with Mum's family. My mum is from a family of 14 - 12 girls and only 2 boys. Mum was around the middle. This is a photo of the sisters with their dad - my poppy. p>

Can you see the pattern I speak of? As a hint it may have something to do with why I constantly have to go to the gym...

PS My Mum is in the back row - the purple dress and beside her is my Aunty Shirl. My Aunty Ivy is in the front row - pink dress beside poppy

gotta love it

My sister and I with a kanga! And you can see again the theme of mum dressing us the same coming through. I am pretty sure we both loved these outfits - in fact I am also pretty sure that my sister is constantly on the look out for something similar...in contemporary fashion kulcha! If you see one let me know stockists - she will be there to buy it. It of course does NOT have to be terry toweling or quite so short in the crotch area.

cranky head

I have a cranky head today...just my head - nothing else is cranky. I thought this picture summed up my face perfectly. Of course I was obviously cranky here because the whole birthday cake thing was taking too long, today the crankiness is for entirely different reasons. Although I did eat cake today to try and alleviate the cranks..not sure how successful it was. My mum is in the green dress - sometimes I wish mum was a hoarder and didn't throw out everything - I think I could fully rock this dress ( even if I do say so myself)

in the words of

one of my favourite blogs...don't say that you can't have a practice dress up in the middle of summer (ok slight exaggeration). I don't know why the urge struck , but it did. So my sister and I found ourselves putting on our clothes for the upcoming holidays. I couldn't bear to put all of mine on - so I just went with Jacket, scarf and beanie. My sister however had jacket, scarf, beanie, polar fleece, thermal vest and thermal long sleeve shirt. She did however leave the thermal long johns off. We can both without a doubt say that we were definitely warm enough...here in our lounge room...in sunny SEQ...

That 70's show

continues. I really don't know how all of these photos got scanned into a folder on the computer. I don't think I was meant to find them but oh well - I did. This I am pretty sure is at my sister's christening - which must be 1977. The 'adults' in the photo are my nanna and grandad - My dad's dad who was known as 'Matty' - and his 'new' wife - who is the only nanna I have known. I think once again Margie did a fully rockin job with the dress - can anyone say cute green maxi dress? I think I may also see a hint of red shoes - can you? Is it possible grandad's pants were too short when we was standing up? (He was quiet a tall man) and if I said 'cankles' what would you say back to me?

saturdeeee night

the big fancy staff dinner was on Saturday night - you know that I had problem after problem with the dress. AS a result I simply HAD to buy a new dress - which in itself was fraught with difficulty. SO many thanks must go out to Jojo - who came dress shopping with me twice, Dad who endured Thursday night, and Aunty Shirl who ventured out on Saturday morning in to the big smoke with me. The dinner was nice and it was great to catch up with some people who I hadn't seen for ages. Always good I say. I didn't drink anywhere near as much as I wanted to - which I guess in hindsight is a good thing.

Also I promise to stop boring you with collages - but it is so much fun. You might also notice that I still have the wish necklace on. It went with the dress - thankfully...

red

I have mentioned before that I love red. When I was mucking around on picassa last night I came across these photos and thought they would perhaps give an insight into my love of all things red. Let me walk down memory lane:

• the red trike - with of course my mum and dad. I am figuring this must have been around 77 / 78?? That trike provided hours of entertainment for years and years and years. Literally I am pretty sure that we were still using it well into primary school - late primary school. You could double people on the back - standing up so it was way cool. Our neighbours also had a marvelously flat driveway that had a turning circle. I love that mum has me in a cute red stripe t.
• The red trench and beret. I was on my way to Townsville- this was my 'travelling outfit'. That tree grew into a huge mango tree in our backyard.
• The Asian influence. These are some of my 'portrait' photos. I still think I fully rocked that mandarin collar. And mum also fully rocked the large round
• The harem suit - Mum also liked to dress my sister and I in themed outfits. Each season we would have a 'good outfit' - and there was always a theme. They may not have been identical but they always coordinated. I remember for this outfit I had to wear a fruit brooch - which I did not think was rockin!
• The red bikini - what can I say - this was a crocheted bikini - from when they were first popular I would imagine. That very well may have been the last time I wore a bikini. Mum loved this bikini - she still talked about in 'modern times'. It was expensive but oh how she loved it.

so now you can see - why I love red so much.

My New Favourite Person

is the shoe repair man. I literally took this basket of shoes to him this afternoon - 5 pairs in total. They all need to be resoled. He was so nice and kind and even gave me 11 dollars off because there were so many pairs. He is just a little local business ( not one of those shopping centre people) and well it is only costing me 100 dollar to get 5 pairs of shoes fixed. One pair was disgustingly in need of a polish and I said 'sorry about that" and he said "don't be, polishing is included!" I love him and everything he stands for.

This afternoon was all about jobs because then I headed over to the dry cleaner - I have a dress that I bought ages ago for a really good price ( do you see a theme? it is a different dress to this one) Anyway when I bought it it had a stain on it - again probably not a good idea - but it was 200 and I got it for 25 - so I figured at the time that I would be able to get the stain out. The dry cleaner is not holding high hopes, but oh well. What can you do?

I then went and picked up our tickets for the big holiday - woo hoo.

shades of red

Not the snazziest photo of me - but I do love love the feature of my camera. Still. I just need to be able to work it a bit more quickly. I'm still in the learner driver stage with it.

The scarf I am wearing I bought on the weekend in a trip to Indrops with Shirl - and it is going to be one of my OS scarves...the bracelet I love - it is from a little shop in Byron - and I'm not sure if you can see my shoes but they are red patent - one of the pairs I bought on the holidays.

A girl's gotta have goals

So my new latest thing - (I know - I constantly have latest things), well it's not really 'new' but I have set a goal for myself for the next 2-3 month period. I have a big fancy celebratory work party in September, and I desperately want to wear the pictured dress. Now I committed a big no-no - and when I bought the dress it did not fit me , but I knew that one day it would. It was an absolute bargain - which I know is a false economy but I also thought it would never go out of style. I think it is a classic. So no surprise it still does not fit me - it was giggles galore last night when I was trying it on - but I will wear it. I will, and now that it is in cyberspace I really have no other option do I?

Also you can see my new bedspread - I haven't had one for ages. So really the best thing to do when you're saving for an overseas trip is to spend money ...isn't it?

PS. You might notice I have started to label/tag my posts - I don't know why - just thought I would, but it means I have to go back through all of the old posts and add labels to them - it will without doubt be a process...

renovation rescue

I think I mentioned ages ago that a friend helped me ( ie they did most of the work and I watched) create a walk in wardrobe in the sleepout section of my bedroom. I realised I never got around to posting a picture. It has really made my life a trillion times better. WE don;t have anywhere near as many clothes hanging around in the spare room - in fact there are none! It has also made me realise that I really don;t need another little black knitted top...because well I have several that still have the tags on them. Luckily they are truly timeless...aren't they? Does a black knitted top ever go out of style? Also it is obvious that I belive that you can never have enough white shirts

Dressing Down

WE all know winter has arrived. The arrival of winter also means the arrival of flannelet sheets, slippers and dressing gowns. I desperately needed a new dressing gown. So accordingly at the shops last weekend we asked dad nicely if he would buy us one. He nicely refused! The audacity!!! He then spent the whole week telling us how warm he was in his dressing gown, that he was getting off the phone to go and put on his dressing gown etc etc. My sister gave him a dressing down and said he better not pull this sort of 'refusing to buy us stuff' stunt when we are on holidays at the end of the year. The upshot - I had to buy my own dressing gown!

to be sure

to be sure...it is St Patrick's Day to day - now I am neither Irish or catholic but you know I like the colour green, so accordingly this was my ensemble today -



is it possible to wear too much green?

computer arrrggghhh...

what is with this program not letting me upload a picture today? last time I was on it wouldn't spell check - which is something I seriously need because of my typing ( and whoops I have accidentally activated the italics)...weekend went by in a blur as usual - another week at work awaiting - as usual. I did get a super bargain at the shops - 2 dresses for 80 - yes 80 - dollars. I love it when I happen to be looking for something at Myer and it is the day it is a further 50 percent off sale items. I have a busy few weeks coming up - wedding, weekend away, another wedding and weekend away - have i mentioned how I am saving for a big trip at the end of the year - it doesn't sound like it does it? Anyway surely the dresses will feature in the blog over the next few weeks - and maybe just maybe I'll be able to upload a picture of them...

scissor sisters

This morning I was dressed and ready for work and then I thought " mmmmmm this top I'm wearing feels very hot", so with barely 2 minutes til departure time I decided to cut the lining out of the top - which seemed easy at first but then really wasn't something that should be rushed. My housemate and I were in fits of giggles at the absolute ridiculousness of the whole thing. But let me just say that I was a lot cooler today sans polyester lining ( what is with that anyway) Of course I used 'the good green scissors" which have been in our family for a gazillion years - we actually stole them from mum and dads a few years ago and I don't think we have been forgiven as every time dad sees them he says something along the lines of " oh the good green scissors I've been wandering where they are".