Hailed in

in the park

Today was a very long day at work, so in the evening i went for a quick stroll through the park behind our house with Miss lola. Today's outfit, a surprise:) a cool 70's inspired green & brown print dress...of course whats surprising to any one who knows me is i hardly ever ever wear green or brown, but i LOVE this dress. Worn with the coolest cowboy boots, inspired by the divine Miss Tina I think its a pretty cool look.

Dress is once again from Camberwell market, boots I've had for so long I can't remember:)

Very tierd today and another 9 hour day tomorrow so a quick song from the band ive been listening to all afternoon...Mumford & sons

Spring! at the cafe

Having had the most lovely Spring day today I'm getting in the swing of blogging...(also there are only 27 sleeps left till Movember which means Mofashionista again:) For those of you who don't know Movemember is a great fund raising campagin started by some blokes in a pub to raise money & awareness for men's health issues including depression. Check it out
http://au.movember.com/

Mofashionista is the team that my lovely man, a great friend & I formed last year as a part of this. Basically it involes Justin growing a great Mo, and myself doing my part by wearing as many dresses as i can over the month, at least one per day, and nothing but dresses! check out last years efforts: http://mofashionista.blogspot.com/

Anyway I thought i'd start blogging in October by doing my outfit each day, so here's the first :)

as you can see i had time to stop at the lovely Red Cup cafe in Box hill for coffee before work in the sunshine. I'm obviously imagining I'm an italian movie star or something lol.

The dress is black with white polka dots- Camberwell market.

Pale green cardy- Camberwell market.

Matching polka dot shoes-Myer on sale.

Pandora necklace.

it was a great start to the day

thanks to Puppy on the Radio (POTR) for the photography

Shift at camberwell library today, then home for dinner and another walk with miss Lola.

here's a bit of Lou reed, always kwel....

Things I could do instead of putting laundry away....

Apparently there are many things I can do instead of actually putting the clothes away that have been lying round the house all week. That is of course one of the main problems with having lots & lots of clothes, especially if you have my habit of being 'creative' and trying a few things on each morning.

I can go looking in a lovely little shop & accidentally buy another dress, ( Black tunic style with a white peter pan collar, so Audrey...) and even contemplate buying a couple of other things. This kept me busy for an hour today, I'm still debating about the black cardy with the skulls, I saw a gorgeous pic of one the other day worn with a couple of roses on the collar and I'm convinced it would look divine with a black pencil skirt. Is there an appropriate age to wear this sort of thing thou? and am i past it. It was soooo pretty thou, wish I'd taken a pic.

Apparently I can also find pics of just about anything online whilst wasting time, I managed to find a pic of the cardy I'm currently pondering, except the one i want is black with white skulls...what do you think? sadly i couldn't find a pic of the dress, but I'm sure i can model it later.

Yesterday I spenat a couple of hours putting music on my iphone, and I might have to walk Lola in a little while, but I guess first I should actually put some cothes away...mabye I should reorganise my clothing system first :)

Raspberry Red

The other day I received a divine gift from one of the lovely people I work with. It was an English wool, raspberry red coat. Apparently it had been bought by her sister in England who doesn't wear it here. It really is the most thoughtful thing, fits me perfectly and given that on a practical aside I catch public transport in Melbourne- mornings can be. Also have an obsession with overcoats. Seriously I have so many there was no way i could justify another purchase, even a lovely cheap one from a market, so this was an amazing gift.

I had decided recently that this winter i would love to brighten up my black and grey with splashes of color and that idea has narrowed down to red. ( for those who care, apparently charcoal grey is the new black for winter...seriously) I have a gorgeous red pashmina that a wonderful friend bought me back from India that I've been wearing, and the weather in Melbourne has just turned last week to the perfectly crisp mornings that i adore. Autumn is defiantly my favorite season. I have also decided that i really do need a pair of red boots, what a gorgeous way to brighten up a grey day. So I went searching online and found these......


Doc Martins so they'll last for years, perfect color and just sooooo beautiful!


So I think soon I'll be all set for those crisp perfect autumn mornings..............

oops!

So now i do feel bad cause its been a very long time since Ive written anything. I think i got away with it for November ( btw watch out for Mofashionista next year which is already being planned with tshirts, badge and much more!) but now clearly have no excuse.


Looking around and in fashion mags lately i cant help but notice that seems to be an excess of brown around. Apparently brown is the new black but we here ( ok its just me really lol) believe that brown is never the answer. If you must wear brown pair it with a perky pink or something but not all by itself or with ( please no) cream......What does everyone think cause i seriously don't think it does anyone any favour's.....


So what have i been wearing, well my hair is now back to black which always makes me rethink thinks a bit. I have been wearing a lot of black, with maybe a slight Gothic edge. yes note that i said Gothic and not emo.......Personally ( with apologies to Trinny & Susannah ) I'm thinking lots of lovely black with a pop of color. one of my fave outfits lately is the black checked skirt, black singlet and shoes with pale pink cardy and bright pink bangles. Or even more simply black skinny leg jeans ( so Reservoir 80's yet somehow I've started to wear them....)
what will you be wearing this year?

Has it been a week already

So apparently it's been over a week since i last blogged here. In my own defence i have started another blog....but still oops.

Apologies for cross posting if you're reading my other new blog "Mofashionista" but just to explain what I've been doing quickly a gf and i are raising money for the movember cause through the idea of mofashionista....a different dress each day. Check it out if yr interested...

Since the incident with the yellow dress there has been much going on in my life but very little buying of dresses or clothes in general . Which according to some people is a very good thing.

Since i now can only wear dresses and have to wear a different one each day things have both more simplistic yet somehow complicated. The decision of what to wear in the morning has been narrowed somewhat, ie it's going to be a dress. However having worn a couple of my fave's over the last few days i'm a bit sad about not wearing them for a month. I'm also worried that by the end of the month i'll be left with those i really don't like. Today's dress is purple btw, a gorgeous Cue dress that i bought a long time ago on sale and still love.

A highlight of this week has been taking my little Lola to Camberwell market with us. She's such a little social girl she was thrilled to be out and about. Unfortunately i ended up with a very sore arm from her pulling on her lead! She has been given two bandannas in the last week so next time we go out she'll be looking stylish. Also just for Lee i have uploaded a real picture of myself.