Gold and Black

Gold. I LOVE GOLD. I am so obsessed with gold right now I went all the way out to Highpoint to buy Gold Lame leggings from Cotton On (on sale only $12.50). Now I'm not one for shopping malls, infact this was may be the first time I've been to Highpoint (maybe I've been to the cinema there). Anyway WOW Highpoint is Huge. It was fun, but so so so exhausting.

I wore this hat at Highpoint and got a few stares. That's one of the reasons I don't do malls, unless you are dressed in tracksuits and ugg boots or other "normal people" clothes you get stared at so much. The hat is actually Henry's...instead of the bf pants I'm doing the bf hat (I don't wear pants remember) OH and notice I'm wearing all gold and black...I love love love gold sooo much right now.



My love of gold made me fall in love with this bag. Yeahhh yeah there isn't much gold on it, but there is enough. The bag that my mum planned to buy me for my birthday (from my bday wishlist post from ZU) had silver studs and not gold...so I no longer wanted it. So I called up my mum and told her to get me this bag at Cotton On instead for my bday...and seeing as she hates shopping (yeah that's right she HATES shopping!) she gave me the money to buy it now. YAY. And she gave me $100 and the bag was only $40 so now I have some left over money for a much needed blanket (brrrrrrr its freeeeeeezing in Melbourne right now) Thanks so much mum.

Anyway I did decide that the bag didn't have enough gold, so I bought some gold studs at Lincraft and now it has a cool gold stud crucifix. I like that we did it asymmetrical now (at first we only did it because the studs were so hard to put on)Now I think it looks more personalised and cool and I don't want to make it even. As I said it was impossible to make the studs work, the instructions showed 4 pieces and we only had 3!!! We ended up inventing our own way to make them stay on....and hopefully they will!


Yay for GOLD.

Melbourne Street Fashion---from 2003!!!

These were taken at the VCA when I was a student in 2003 for a project I did called "Top 10 best dressed at the VCA". They were taken with a big old SLR camera from the USSR (pre digital camera times) and before the street style blogs that are everywhere now. I actually started taking street photos in 2001 and I found those photo's yesterday so maybe I will post them tomorrow (if I scan them), but they were taken with a digital camera from my highschool which was maybe a 2mp camera that you actually inserted a FLOPPY DISK into, so it only took about 11 photos! So old school!!!! I have long since lost the floppy disk but I have the print outs so stay tuned. (This is if I finish my homework...I'm so far behind and have 10 days to finish everything...gulp)

I won a $50 Myer voucher

I never shop at Myer (Australian Department store) mainly because its just so expensive. So when I won this voucher (thanks Vodafone) I was thinking what could I possibly get at Myer for under $50? I soon found out the answer....not much. I went no less than 3 times to the store to find anything, anything at all that I liked or wanted that was less than $50 (I didn't have any money to add to the final cost). I thought I would get a book I want, but a quick look at their book section revealed what a joke it was. They had a total of 2 art books and 1 fashion book! So crap. So then I went downstairs the "The Basement" which is the young fashion section that used to be called Miss shop. I hate The Basement, everything is so expensive but so plain and not worth the price. I did find a leather bicker jacket I liked but they didn't have my size and it was also $80 so $30 out of my price range. I then went to see if maybe they had a cheap blanket because it's been so cold recently we have been getting out the ugly sleeping bag and putting that on top of our doona. Well the cheapest blanked was $299.95. Ahhhhh for a blanket? Crazy. The homewares section was full of plain pieces that didn't excite me at all. I was beginning to loose hope and patience. I really don't know what people see in Myer, everything is so boring. In the end I gave up and just got some makeup and a necklace so I could finally leave. Nothing too special.

I do like this necklace. It was only $12.95 and its by Jag. I like that its a giant stud, its so punky and so me right now. I am happy I got this.

I got some white sparkly eyeshadow by prestige. I really like white eyeshadow on my skin and always have some on hand but have just run out. So this was a needed purchase, nothing too fun.

I got some Chi Chi lipgloss (The red one actually) because I've wanted it for a while. I used to use it as a teenager and I thought I'll give it another go. Well its not as good as I remembered but its good for something I got for FREE!

So that is what I got for $50. Not much really, but still I'm happy because it was FREE. I just wish that it was for Target or BigW where my money could have gone a lot further.

Talking about BigW and money going far. I got the best bargain today.

These cute slippers for only $5!!!! They were on sale for $10 but because there was a small rip (visible in the picture) that I can easily sew I got them half price!!! YAY! So comfy. The only problem is Hachiko loves chewing on and attacking the pom poms. I don't think that will last if I accidentally leave them in the lounge room with him overnight.

Bedroom Makeover

Bedroom Before:Not to scale floorplan. The bed was up against the wall with the dressing table beside it. The desk was at the end of the bed.

It did look cute, but it didn't really feel like a "real bedroom"

The computer didn't make the room feel like a relaxing safe haven of sleep. It made us feel stressed about homework and if one of us was staying up late studying the other would have to endure the lights being on when they were trying to sleep.


Bedroom After:

Not to scale floorplan. We moved the computer into the lounge room on a new white desk that matches mine in the lounge. We sold the old red desk and bought 2 new bedside tables from ebay for $12.50 each. The bed now sits in the middle of the room, giving each of us some much needed personal space. The dressing table sits at the end of the bed which gives us a pretty view to wake up to.

The yukata (summer kimono) sits above the bed in its new middle of the room position. Idealy the bed would be white, but that's not happening any time soon.

We each have our own reading lamps. Only $7.95 from Ikea.


My bedside table with my fave fashion magazine and kawaii bunny money box from Tokyo.

Henry's bedside table with an Architecture book and a replica eames chair from Tokyo.

My dressing table has too much stuff! The lamp is an ikea lamp that I actually bought off ebay.


Beside the window is a collection of Vintage Japanese ink paintings. I want to get them framed as soon as I have some money.

What do you think? We are so much happier with the new layout. It's like a real adults bedroom now (kinda, all the pink girly things still make it very "me")

Melbourne Street Fashion website coming soon

This is a sneak peak at what the website will look like. It should be up and running on my university server by the 30th of May (that's when the project is due). I took 24 new photos today and should be taking about 50 or more photos again on Sunday (its so exhausting!!!) Once the project is over I'm going to get my own domain name and run the site with hopefully weekly photos, so watch this space. As soon as I have the link for the website I'll post it on here as we have a competition in class for the site with the most hits. Please help me win! Lol.

Where is Agathe from Style bytes?

I read Agathe's blog Style bytes daily, and she recently went away for 5 days but now its been almost 3 weeks and her husbands blog Trashion has been pulled down. Has anyone got any information? I hope she is ok. The reason I am worried is she is normally a daily blogger and this is very uncharacteristic of her to disappear for so long without notification.

Fashionspiration: Heartbreak High

Ryan looking hot.

Dennis in party mode.

Mai in cool 90's makeup.

Mai's jacket is so 90's, I had one so similar! Nicki's hair is cool.

Ryan and Mai fighting. They lived behind that roller door in a big warehouse. Drazic lived there too and slept on a mattress in the back of a Ute

Drazic and Anita, the love birds. (She tried, and failed to tame his bad boy ways)

Dennis.

Sarah the hippy. Her mum was really strict so she had to change her clothes at school to look cool.

Mai and Ryan at the "Shark Pool" which was the local hangout (me and my friends went to a pool house called Universal)

Anita and Sarah

Class clown Dennis and bad boy Drazic, best friends

Heartthrob Ryan in Dolly magazine (Aussie teen mag)

Drazic, no he wasn't gay.

Mai seems to love her hair mascara. (I did too)

Gothic Tess

I used to wear black lipstick too when I was gothic at 13 (for about 2 months)

Bolton, from Season 3.

Ryan made my heart melt.

Mai and Nikki.

Dennis always had something strange going on with his hair.

A teacher and Thania

Mai

Mai, she was "crazy" and an artist. I LOVED her the most.

I can't tell and Mai

Nikki, Ryan, Drazic, Sarah, Mai, Anita and Kurt

Drazic, every teen girl in the 90's favourite bad boy.

Thania has some cool eyebrows here.

Nikki and Mai, clashing bright prints and tye die....seem familiar???

This show was my favourite TV show when I was a teenager. Its an Australian TV show based on a successful Aussie movie of the same name that came out in 1993. It originally aired on Channel 10 but switched over to ABC after 2 seasons. That's when the show got gooooooood (fashion wise). The fashion was so inspirational for me. My favourite characters were Mai, Nikki and Thania. I wore bindi's like Nikki, crazy prints and hair mascara like Mai and pigtails like Thania.

My highschool was reallllllly similar to the one that this show was set at building and fashion wise. The reason for this might have been that the ABC sent people to my highschool to do research for the wardrobe department and they took a photo of me (and other people too, but hello they took a photo of me, I inspired the wardrobe people when really they inspired me)!!! You see my school had no uniform, the only rule was you had to wear shoes. So we had all the crazy teen styles of the 90's, the hippies, grungers, homies etc (no emo back then).

I really want to watch some Heartbreak high now, to see if it's really as good as I remember or if really its kinda lame.