As you can probably tell from these photos, my garden is out of control. See all that grass? that’s meant to be a garden bed. There is a whole lot of cleaning up that needs to be done to start this year right, so I thought I’d get stuck in, in proper serious fashion.  Mind you, the actual outdoors work bit only tends to last about an hour or two in this sun, then it quickly becomes beer o’clock! But hey, that’s what the holidays are for really.  Taking three times as long to get anything done because you have to keep on stopping for a nap.

Outfit Details

Ruffled & Checked shirt – Route 66

Dungaree jeans - Bernie Dexter

Ballet flats – Big W

Horse shoe earrings – Collette Accessories

Lipstick – ‘Moulin Rouge” Boots No. 7

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Fresh flowers are lovely, I have a whole garden full of them. But there is something about being given flowers that I find bitter sweet. That whole fading beauty thing; knowing that as pretty as they may be that moment in time you just don’t get to hold onto it.  I know is a big part of the appeal for so many, but I find it hard to get past. I’ve tried buying and arranging fake flowers but  just can’t get quite the same sentiment of beauty from them; that is until I found myself with a selection of stunning vintage flowers in their original lustre ware vase!

Mr SKM bought me this beautiful vase filled with flowers at the Camberwell markets a little while back. The flowers have a sort of velveteen finish and soft pastel colours that compliment the vase perfectly. But it has started a whole new addiction… lusterware!  Luckily for me, this isn’t an expensive one with all sorts of pieces still available in Op Shops, garage sales, markets and even the odd raid on Nana’s house.

Pretty, no?

Today on Lustable I find the perfect handbag sized, wicked perfume!

It’s Sunday. In fact it my first Sunday off in a very long time, so I’m going casual, cowboy boots and all.

When I first found this dress at Harem, it was the colour and the print that grabbed me. I adore this shade of blue and the deep pink of the roses was a fabulous contrast.  There is only one massive problem with this dress and that is that it is too short for me by far.  I knew it when I was in the dressing room, but somehow convinced myself that it would still be okay. It really isn’t though and without leggings or opaques underneath it is just so many kinds of wrong. Damn it.

What I really need to do is take it with me down to the fabric store and find a solid fabric in a magenta then add about another 10cm to the hem. In the meantime though, I am experimenting in my off time with this shorter length (over opaques only) and my deep plum vintage cowboy boots.  Once I messed around with this outfit enough I felt confident enough to unleash it on the world and headed off to lunch and a spot of window shopping. As an aside I have to add, why is it that every single time I shop at Westfield ( one of our big malls), I’m asked at least twice if I work for Allanah Hill? Is it because I do my hair and I’m not afraid of colour? I wonder….

The other problem with this dress is that the waist sits a good 5cm above my natural waist line, so it reminds me a bit of maternity wear. It may not look like it but it feels like it from the inside and keeps throwing me off my game.  So I’m just not sure. I half love it, half hate it.. so it may end up looking for a new home shortly. The boots however, I am in love with, so they will have to get their own post shortly too.

And while I was shaking it up a bit today, I even threw in a little blue eyeshadow and glitter. I don’t know; either I’m a little bored or a really need a nap!

Outfit Details

Pink Leopard cardigan – Temt

Blue rose print dress – Harem

Black Opaques – Voodoo

Vintage cowboy boots – Retrostar

Earrings & Handbag – Equip

Dog – This is Lola. She is a Papillion cross Shitzu and she is very, very naughty.

The sun here has been beautiful this last week. It doesn’t take much, but it totally changes people’s moods and seems to fill everyone with new inspiration. I’m already dreaming up new outfits and thinking about great adventures to have in them, as well as the usual seasonal reorganisation that hits with a vengeance.  The sort where you want to pull everything out, colour block it, then polish your halo.

Outfit Details

Red Angora Cardigan – Friends of Couture “Hollywood Moment”

Blue cherry dress – Vintage from Ruby Red Dress

Shoes – Target ( many seasons ago)

Necklace and Earrings – DIVA ( from a lovely friend and don’t they work with the cherries well!)

Black belt – Malco Mode

Lipstick – SAVVY “Poppy”

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P.S: Remember you only have one more week to get your entries in to WIN an OSIM foot and leg massager valued at $750!

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Saturday – the sun finally shines and the spring time dresses come out!

Outfit Details

Dress – 1960′s vintage raw silk pleated dress

Necklace – 1960′s vintage plastic bead necklace

Earrings – Screw post 1950′s pearl clusters

Shoes – Emporio

White hair flower – Bexterity

Stockings – Voodoo seamed stockings

Lipstick – MAC Russian Red