I have a small collection of Burda magazines from the late 70’s and early 80’s. These were bought new back then by my mother for her own use and I have them now for safe-keeping. I loved looking through these…
Month: January 2012
A sludgy little skirt
Hooo boy. We are having an insane heatwave right now… been 37C or above for over a week now. Australia Day was 42C, phew… We all spent the entire day in bathers, in and out of the pool. The fireworks…
Australia Day
Today is Australia Day, and what better cuisine to enjoy than a meat pie and sauce served on a paper bag. Mmmm mmmm. Fabio approves. Wishing all a perfectly wonderful day!
My darling Clementine
I have made a new top! A nice floaty loose top perfect for our fiercely hot summer days. And we’ve sure had a few stiflers lately :S so I will be wearing it immediatemente. I used Rowan shot cotton… again.…
Coming to my senses…
Employing that pleasing dichotomy of minimal with steam-punk in my outfit today… yeah? Dichotomy. Is good stuff. Now, I’ve had a re-think. And thank you all for helping me to come to my senses! I did feel a…
Crunching the Numbers…
I’ve been pretty inspired by reading some posts by other bloggers on the sum total of their clothing expenditure; particularly Waves with her very interesting breakdown of her clothing costs for 2011 and her feelings and thoughts on the same, and Terri…
Hot pink shorts; 6 different ways
So, shorts, and particularly linen shorts are always going to be a warm weather thing and perhaps not an obvious candidate for “see how useful this item of clothing is!”…. But I am an Aussie after all, and typically lead a…
Blue-collar crime
The charge; gratuitously making for myself the same shirt, a second time. Namely the Vogue 1248 triple collared shirt. Well, how many collars does a girl really need?? (tsk tsk) No plea entered, as the defendant is so clearly guilty as charged.…
