Memories

Deirdre, me, mum, Aunty Elsie, Siobhan. 

I was looking through photos on my facebook today and found this picture. Makes me smile and laugh. Look at my Mum's glasses... WOAH!! I don't even remember how old I am here. But I do remember my dress being really itchy and crying to my Mum. Deirdre and Siobhan are like sisters to me. Since being the only child, these two girls felt like sisters. We have so many fun memories from when we were growing up. Siobhan was the one who suggested I start my own blog.. and I'm like " Blog? What's a blog?" 

I have one more shift tomorrow and I have four days off! Got wedding stuff to do Friday then The Gumball festival. Lots of drinking and dancing for me all weekend.

Hope you all had a lovely Easter xxxx

The Easter Bunny!

Happy Easter to you all!! This morning there was a bunny rabbit in my yard... no word of a lie!!

Sorry for the poor quality photo. It was taken on my iphone. The people that live behind us have a shit load of animals and every now and then there's one-two bunnies in our yard as they sneak under our fence. 

So seeing him was a nice little surprise on Easter Sunday. When I was little I had a rabbit and ever Easter my parents planted all my Easter eggs with my rabbit. Makes me miss being a little girl. 

I'm off to bed as it's ANZAC day tomorrow. It's the biggest day of the year for pubs, clubs and bars all over Australia and I have to work for it :( The one day Aussies play 2UP..... I'll get into it more tomorrow.

Easter Saturday

• Hope everyone is having a lovely Easter! Ben and I are working all weekend... BOO! I went grocery shopping this morning and decided to buy Ben and I some Easter eggs. Even though Ben doesn't like chocolate, I'll eat his. 
• Slow cooking Massamam Beef Curry. Ben is night shift all weekend so I try to be so so quiet so cooking in the slow cooker is the easiest and safer option. 
• I went through my bag and these are all the lip balms/lip glosses I have. I don't think I'll be buying anymore for a while. 
• Morning tea had a cup of tea and a hot cross bun. 

Here's a quick outfit post. Feel some what rock chick here. Very basic outfit, but comfortable.

Singlet: Volcom

Cardi: All About Eve

Second Skin (Jeans/Leggings): Just Jeans

Flats: Wanted Shoes

Necklace: Just Jeans

Earrings: Diva

May I add, these pants I am wearing ARE NOT JEGGINGS! I think jeggings

are the worst fashion item EVER!!! If only worn as pants. If worn with a dress or over a long top yeah fine. I bought these pants from Just Jeans and their called Second Skin. It feels like a really thin denim, it still has a fly and button and pockets but they feel so light. 

So there's my rant AGAIN about jeggings.

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Sneaky Around

The other week I bought some Adidas sneakers for Ben off eBay. He truly has a sneaker/skate shoe fetish. So it's got me looking around for some sneakers for me for winter.

Onitsuka Tiger Ultimate 81

Converse Chuck Light Low 

Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66

ADIDAS Instinct Hi

ADIDAS Silver Collection

About  6 years ago I was obsessed with high top sneakers. I tried on so many styles, but they just didn't suit me. And they definitely wouldn't suit me now. But I alwas go straight to the high tops whenever we go into a shoe store. My favourite are the grey and pink Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 and of course old faithful converse chuck ones as well. 

I better purchase some sneakers quick smart because between May - November  Ben and I have to STOP going out, spending money (especially me) and saving for this god dam wedding!!! It's going to be hard. Over the weekend I'm going to do a clean out of my wardrobe  and sell unwanted clothes on eBay. Then go through to see what Winter essentials I need. This is going to be the toughest year of my life!!!

Sorry for the delay in posting. After a few tantrums, it's taken me a while to figure out how to copy photos into iPhoto and blah blah blah!!!

Wish me luck!

Last week I applied for a job as a Sales Support Administrator at a company that makes and distribute cloth nappies for babies.  When I worked in Sydney in the Fashion Industry this was my last role. Since leaving Sydney in 2005 I haven't had the chance to work back in the industry as there isn't any jobs here in the Hunter Valley. But I stumbled across this job by accident, applied for it last Tuesday and got a phone call on Monday lunch time. I normally get really nervous about interviews, but this one I'm not as nervous. I really REALLY want this job!

I spent an hour (that's long for me) shopping trying to find a dress or a top to wear to the interview but I couldn't find anything. So I had to find something to wear from my wardrobe. So I've decided on a purple top, black pants and black heels. I'll post up a picture tomorrow on my blog for you all.

In other exciting news, we purchased a iMac on Tuesday. On Monday we visited Ben's sister as she just had her second baby. Her husband and her bought an iMac as well and Ben was sold on it. That night Ben said we should drive back to Newcastle and buy one. We really needed a new computer as our previous PC is five years old and super slow. I was a little naughty and said "Why don't we take money out of the wedding account to buy one?". For once Ben actually agreed, and here I am typing away on my new iMac on the super cool wireless keyboard.

It took me 20 minutes to figure out how to even save the photo onto the computer..... I need a iMac manual for dummies.

DO you have an Apple computer? I feel like a Apple Arsehole with my iPod, iPhone and now iMac. And this is coming from someone that was against iPods. Oh, technology you always grab a hold of me!

Oscar de la Renta Spring 2012 Bridal

One of my favourite Bridal Designers is Oscar de la Renta. He makes beautiful and stunning gowns. My wedding gown is a Oscar de le Renta design. Of course I cannot afford the gown as it is $13,000! I'm getting mine made for $2680! Pretty good hey?

Oscar de la Renta Spring 2012 Bridal collection is out and here a few photos I got off his Facebook page today.

Photos from Oscar de la Renta Facebook

Photo credit:  Dan Lecca

Isn't his creations just stunning? Really takes your breath away really. I can't wait to see how my wedding gown turns out.

xxxx

Festvial Outfits - Polyvore

In three weeks I'll be attending a local festival called The Gum Ball which one of our very good friends organises. It's a two day camping festival out in the bush, it's very children friendly and major bonus it's BYO!! But of course no glass is allowed. Ben and I go every year... we pretty much have to go to support our friend Matty and because it's so much fun as well that we want to go. I never used to be a camping girl, I am still a princess and have to shower, bring my wet ones to constantly clean my hands, wear layers of layers of clothes and wear fresh clean socks to bed. 

I decided to do some Polyvore sets on what to wear to a Autumn/Winter Festival.

Festival Outfit Day 1

Festival Outfit Day 1 by pipalachic featuring beanie hats

Toi Et Moi t shirt
70 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Agent Ninetynine duffle jacket
130 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Denim skinny jeans
100 AUD - justjeans.com.au

Faux fur handbag
30 NZD - justjeans.co.nz

Agent Ninetynine beanie hat
20 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Scarve
20 AUD - justjeans.com.au

Relay Mud Wellies | Womens Wellies | Wellies | Gumboots | Designer...
wellies.com.au

Festival Outfit Day 2

Festival Outfit Day 2 by pipalachic featuring low rise skinny jeans

Insight 51 top
90 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Levi's low rise skinny jeans
100 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Body bag
10 AUD - justjeans.com.au

Agent Ninetynine scarve
50 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Agent Ninetynine slouch hat
20 AUD - generalpants.com.au

Boot
wellies.com.au

As you can see I used a few items again. Ben makes me pack light whenever we go camping. But most of the time I always chuck in extra long sleeve tops, another jacket and another pair of normal boots. But gum boots or wellies are mainly worn as it's always muddy at Gum Ball.On the Saturday of the festival they have a Op Shop Bop where you wear your best Op Shop Clothes and they crown the King and Queen of the Op Shop Bop for the day. Winners win a double free pass to next years festival. I'm going to make sure Ben and I buy something this year for the Op Shop Bop. Op shop is like second hand or charity stores.

Also I used all Australian brands in my Polyvore too. Need to show more Australian brands for my oversea readers. 

It's my Friday today! After working six days in a row I have Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off. And I'm spending it all with my Benny.

Happy Monday everyone!

Manikinn Winter 11

Manikinn have asked me to show their new and upcoming Winter 2011 collection. I have purchased off Manikinn and they have awesome oversized tees. Their Winter range includes baggy over sized jumpers and 100% cotton tote bags. The collection is available online 1st May.

 

Manikinn is an Australian brand based in Western Australia. I had never heard of them until I saw them on another fellow Australian blogger. I think I will be purchasing a baggy jumper for winter this year. 

For my overseas friends, Manikinn is currently offering FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING!

Pretty AWESOME!

Wedding Favours

If you've followed my blog for a while, you probably have realised I go to ALOT of weddings. My friends all decided to get married all at once. But I do love weddings. Finding the perfect frock, shoes, and bag. Catching up with school friends, eating, drinking and dancing the night away. Since I've been to a few weddings it has given me inspiration. Inspiration on what NOT to do. I want my wedding to of course be different and unique to the last wedding I went to.

This post is about wedding favours for your guests. It's nice to get a little gift from the Bride and Groom to say thank you for coming and celebrating this special day with us. Out of the many weddings I've been to there were only two that had great favours that have stuck in my head. The one we went to Byron Bay we got given rubber bands to wear that had the wedding theme on it and the date. Ben and I still wear ours now. And another wedding we got beer coolers... A must for beer drinkers like Ben and I. 

Of course being me, I had to have something no one else had done yet. In one of my previous post we've decided to do a Lolly Bar. I have changed my colour scheme for the wedding. Well not so much change I have added more colours. Red is my main colour but I am adding pink and white as well. I'll be having red, red and white lollies at the lolly buffet.

I was going to use white little noodle boxes so guests could use them to fill them up. But I've decided to get little pink paper bags. I am decorating the bag with this little sticker that I got customised on Etsy.

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 How cute is it? I showed Ben last night, he wasn't impressed with the moustache as he has a beard.
If you're getting married take a look at MAU Promos  on Etsy. She has some great stuff. Especially with the Australian Dollar being so great, definitely do some overseas shopping.

I was not asked my MAU Promos to do this post. They do not know I have a blog, I simply did this for my own benefit and to share my tips.

Stripes with Spots

I wore this last week and had every intention to post it up LAST WEEK but of course I was too lazy. Last Thursday it was a little cool so I put on my spotty tights I got from Sportsgirl while I was away on holidays. I've already got a ladder in them :( But oh well. 

Here are a couple of things I got while I was away. 

A girl I used to study Fashion with at TAFE has her own store in Coffs Harbour. So I visited her cute little store. The skirt is sample she made, it doesn't really suit me but I still bought it. I loved this "Baking is sexy" tee as well. 

I got this super cute bag from Sportsgirl. I can hardly fit my iPhone it so I don't think I'll even use it. How pathetic am I? I can't leave the house without my phone! 

That's it for now. got some wedding DIY posts coming up. Seven months to go!! 

xxx