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Instagram My Life

Posted by dramaofexile in Home, Inspiration, Shopping and tagged with , , , ,

RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND MY IPHONE IS DYING! If anyone has seen my phone of late they know it’s been on its last legs, it’s screen more reminiscent of a complex spiders web. But today I dropped it for the last time! It is no longer charging, the ‘off’ button at the top won’t work, and with 12% battery to go I’ve decided that if I’m going down, I’m going down Instagramming!

Here are some snapshots from my week. Jesse and I have had the loveliest day DIY’ing around the house, changing up our room and fixing up our little courtyard, or as Jesse is now calling it his ‘little Parisian cafe’. I don’t think I’m going to have battery power to instagram them! Photos to come though, we’ve got a huge shed at the back of our yard that our old landlord has been storing a heap of ‘junk’ in, and after finally raiding it today we found some gems! Lots of vintage glass bottles and jars, a great ladder we’ve made into a shelving unit, some planter boxes and our housemates brought home an amazing mustard yellow retro two seater that was left outside our local Salvo’s. Primo!

my favourite lil’ guy, he sits in a jewellery box my mother gave me from when she was young and gaurds all my treasures

AMAZING black beans & persian fetta on an arep from Sonido’s, the Columbian cafe two doors down from my work. They DELIVER it to me in the shop and everyone who works there is a babe. Win!

My favourite rouges

 

All the classics

My good friend Tamara gave me this sheet music for my 21st birthday, and I’ve finally gotten around to framing it this week. Only 2 years later…

Just some mates of mine

Finally getting around to reading this, I’ve never been the hugest fan on Patti but the writing is already so beautiful, I’m hooked.

My heaven looks like cream silk and powder blue tulle

We went to see Holy Balm at Liberty Social the other night for a good boogie!

This is just a bored self indulgent selfie

This is me with Jesus

My new addiction. I really am a marketer’s dream, I’m a sucker for some good packaging

So apart from my iphone dying it’s been a pretty good week! To top it all off, I’m going to crawl into my bed with fresh sheets, eat this bowl of vanilla ice-cream with heaps of sprinkles (because I eat like a 5 year old when Jesse isn’t home) and watch some Boardwalk Empire!

Can you tell I haven’t gotten out of my kimono all day?

Here’s Edith to say goodnight to you all, from me…

xx

Vintage Garage/Retail Therapy

Posted by dramaofexile in Fashion, Outfit, Shopping and tagged with , , , , , , ,

Today I actually went shopping, something (believe it or not) I have not done in a pretty long time. Working in retail, and the fact that I’ve been focusing so much on buying for the shop lately, have meant that I haven’t really been looking for myself, and I’d rather spend my days off blissin’ out at home or at the markets.

I started out the day in a real 40′s vibe.

1940′s Raffia Straw Boater with velvet trim – Love Vintage Fair, Brisbane

1940s’ Dress – Fabulous 40′s & 50′s

Belt, Earrings and Hosiery – Alannah Hill

Ring – 1950′s vintage

I went to my old faithful stomping ground, Vintage Garage in Smith St, Collingwood, for some much needed indulgent retail therapy. A select vintage market with some of Melbourne’s finest vintage dealers, I always find something amazing when I go there.

I did notice the absence of Miss Bonnie Rose’s stall, Bonnie Rose Vintage, who has since packed up her place at Vintage Garage to focus on her styling etc. She always has a wonderful 40′s collection, and I was glad to see in her replacement was an equally amazing lass who does great 40′s and 50′s.

I left with an amazing pair of authentic 1930′s silk damask and ecru lace pajamas. They are absolutely divine, incredible condition for their age and so many unique little details, I don’t think these babies are gonna stay inside the house! I may be getting back into a wearing-sleepwear-outside phase all over again.

 How sweet are these little heart pockets! I die!!!!!

Mr Donkey thought they were pretty primo!

I also bought some other goodies from Lost & Found around the corner, some 30′s style mary-janes, a 70′s does flapper throwback dress with heaps of buttons and great sleeves, a beautiful garter belt and a gorgeous 50′s black velvet open opera coat – all at really affordable prices, which is what I guess you can expect from Lost & Found, it’s easy to get LOST in there. God I’m making dad jokes, what is happening to me?

I’ll leave you with this little lullaby….

xx

Sick Puppy

Posted by dramaofexile in Film, Outfit, Personal and tagged with , , , , ,

I’m siiiiickkk!!!!! And it sucks and I am in a state of delirium, doped up on codeine and glued to my bed/couch. I have the next three days off, an army of movies from the video store and a shit tonne of minestrone. Tonight I found myself watching La Belle et la Bête, eating half a block of turkish delight chocolate and lounging around in lingerie and lace.

I’m wearing my ENORMOUS new knitted floppy 70′s painters beret which is so so comforting to mope around the house in, even if it is pretty ridiculous and I haven’t ventured outside with it yet. Also a 60′s scalloped ecru lace jacket I picked up from the newly re-opened Clara Fox.

Anywho, I’m off to undoubtedly drown myself in tea until the early hours of the morning, but I’ll leave you with my favourite scene from Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête, which is Belle first entering the castle. I always love the hands holding the candelabras, Belle’s billowing cape, the over-dramatic score and when she glides down the hallway. So amaze!

xx

Grumpy Sunday

Posted by dramaofexile in Outfit, Personal and tagged with ,

 

I’ve been in a mood all weekend. The weather hasn’t helped, and all I want to do is stay in bed and  eat watermelon, drinking tea and  watching Mildred Pierce. My mood always reflects in my dress, hence the very funeral-orphan-esque mood of today.

1920′s vintage silk drop wait dress – Ebay

1944 black suede pumps – Clara Fox

vintage millinery flowers reworked

gifted pocket watch necklace

1950′s velvet opera coat – Shag


I’m going to stop being a sook…..NOW. Tomorrow expect colour.

xx

Bobs Your Uncle!

Posted by dramaofexile in Beauty, Film, Inspiration, Personal and tagged with , , , , , , , , ,

Me, Photobooth, 14/6/2012

I’ve always had my bob. From a young lass with a bowlcut of strawberry blonde to a black, angular cut of a late teen, and now a more sophisticated, sleeker darkest brown. I’ve dabbled in other styles briefly, growing it out to just cut it back once more. Nothing compares to a tapered neck-line, a perfectly shaped fringe and a graduated bob.

Being a bit down this week having still not found a job (please somebody hire me!), I thought I would treat myself to a $25 cut at the Biba Hair Academy (so lavish, I know). I instantly felt more myself again, and it got me thinking about my bob-spirations. So here are some sassy women who I have taken lead from in the past.

Louise Brooks.

My total muse in just about everything, pure perfection. A constant style reference, and one of the most obvious in regards to bobs, but you can’t go past the original pioneer.

Clara Bow.

Especially in her role of Rosie O-’Reilly in Rough House Rosie (1927), this other equally ‘It’ girl of the 20′s has always been a huge influence, and lead me to play with pin curls and various other styles.

Anna Karina in Vivre Sa Vie.

If Louise Brooks is my 20′s crush, Anna Karina is my 60′s Brooks. Beautiful in every film, the doe-eyed Danish actress, singer, writer, director and artist has me in constant battle….to do the chop, or go for the medium length 60′s locks?

Elina Löwensohn

This Romanian-born American actress caught my eye with her take on the bob in the Hal Hartley films, Amateur andSimple Men.

Uma Thurman

Pulp Fiction. I mean really, enough said.

Phryne Fisher (Essie Davies)

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries began this year on the ABC. A new Australian drama set in 1920′s Melbourne, following Phryne Fisher as she “sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit”.

I tell you what, if I got a dollar every time the old lady on the train or the man at the convenience store told me ‘You look just that Miss Fisher lady from the ABC!” I would never have to work again. I didn’t want to like this show, the acting and story line isn’t that great, and I HATE being told repeatedly how much I look like somebody else, but this show has fantastic costumes, a lead star with an unfaltering bob and she is SOOO SASSY it’s not funny! Like, seriously has a different man every episode and keeps a gun in her garter. My guilty pleasure for 2012.

So there are some of my favourite bob-spirations!

I’ll leave you with this short story by the beloved F. Scott Fitzgerald called Bernice Bobbed Her Hair. Well worth a read and a laugh.

xx

Market Flowers

Posted by dramaofexile in Flowers, Outfit, Personal and tagged with , , , , , , , ,

Today my boyfriend Jesse and I walked the short stroll from our house to the Queen Victoria Markets to do some flora shopping. I thought I would get him to take some awkward photos of my 1960′s inspired outfit in our street as it was such a beautiful day after a week of rain.

I got a bunch of fresh blood red and cream roses and another slightly older bunch of assorted roses which are now hanging upside down in the kitchen drying. Jesse got a fern friend.

Jesse in his recently acquired thrifted knit looking like a dream in various shades of grey. At Market Lane Coffee.

I’m wearing from my previous work, Alannah Hill, double collared knit and harlequin tights, thrifted tartan Fletcher Jones kilt, 1960′s brown velvet cropped jacket, 1960′s shoes, felt Notman Durand hat and hat pin from Clara Fox.

Also how gorgeous is this 1930′s footage of the flower markets in Paris? So beautiful.

xx