tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75523522678364037262024-03-13T20:03:56.824+10:00Pull Your Socks Up!Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.comBlogger427125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-1158460436044422012016-09-02T22:58:00.004+10:002016-09-04T08:00:44.438+10:00I Am One of Your Biggest Fans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tonight I gave Phrynne's arse a virtual squeeze goodbye at the Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition volunteer thank you drinks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an enormous fan of 1920s design I wasn't alone in feeling a wee bit melancholy about the exhibition's end this Sunday, where costume design genius Marion Boyce, and her team together with the National Trust Queensland, gave fans a chance to get very, very close to the exquisite works of art sported by Australia's infamous TV lady detective.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put my hand up to holler and harangue visitors at the interactive exhibition, but largely succeeded in causing a number of near-death experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I've lost count of the number of times when visitors approached me, thinking I was a statue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then I'd move. C</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ue screaming.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Volunteers were asked to wear all black or white, or dress in period costume. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I picked out some bits and pieces that sort of fitted the look of the era and no-one seemed to notice or care that I wasn't dressed in head-to-toe authentic 20s gear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found the 1930s green scalloped dress above at a huge antiques barn in Auckland, NZ, earlier this year ... it was lying on the floor and they asked $15 for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't mind if I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">The exhibition's costumes were chosen for their various attributes in purveying the fashion fantasy that most audiences have of the 1920s ... fine craftsmanship, the principles of haute couture, exotica and of course, glamour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Many of the pieces were much-loved original antiques, but largely, the costumes were made from scratch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">In fact, many pieces were once mere fragments of garments where some buttons or lace were salvaged, then the garment remade from scratch and lovingly reproduced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">It occurred to me that the design team not only needed bespoke tailoring and costuming skills, but they were also responsible for restoring glorious works of art, so that we the audience could fall in love with these exquisite treasures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Armed with this information, one confused-looking patron still sidled up to me about ten minutes after she entered the exhibition and stated loudly "these dresses are all made in China aren't they?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Me: (goldfish impression).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aside from this stunning display of confused ignorance, it was a remarkable crowd that have passed through Phrynne's doors and I've never seen such an incredibly stylish and knowledgable crowd of gorgeous people gathered in one hot spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">It's the first time any of the three season exhibitions have travelled to Brisbane and considering Miss Fisher's breaking hearts in 120 countries now, I thought it only fair to share the beauty of this exhibition with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Enjoy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I snuck a selfie in Marion's workshop before morning crowds poured in and most probably before I rapped some poor dear over the knuckles with my steel ruler for touching something she oughtn't have (kidding jeez).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tell you they're a brazen lot our friends of advancing years - I should know!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best question: Is that your own outfit or have you just borrowed something off the mannequins for the day? (not kidding)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided that the thing missing from the exhibition was a proper knicker-fest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So I decided to oblige.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My invitation to colleagues to "cop a feel of the fabrics" went down very well and I'm still smarting from a pinched arse.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a distinctive theme injecting this post, which makes me all-shades-of-green happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I continue my very public love affair with green and I'm pretty sure green loves me too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact, I believe it's nature's Switzerland: it's neutral, easily makes friends and maintains the peace when matters get hot and fractious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly I'm pushing those boundaries with this sequinned top I bought at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shagmelbourne/?hl=en">Shag Melbourne</a> in May.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's certainly received a lot of love and while visiting my eldest, he took one look at it and decided he needed it for our day-party adventures in doof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">King Street, Melbourne at 5.45am and off to get a few hours kip before invading the Prahran op shops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was feeling particularly bilious while wearing this shade of green glitter eye shadow for no other reason than I was about to be diagnosed with a horrible virus lasting seven weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A friend gifted me these fabulous herringbone leggings and I wore them with shorts snapped up at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BGX9uOVuYkl/?taken-by=thriftinonclifton">Thriftin' On Clifton</a>. Don't miss out on the next one if you're in Melbourne on September 4, the sangria is yummy too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure there are a few <i>Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries</i> fans reading this and Brisbane is incredibly lucky to have the Series 3 costume exhibition visiting Old Government House until September 4.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So when organisers put the call out for volunteers to help manage eager crowds, you couldn't keep me away!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a couple of sneak peaks of 20s-themed outfits I've worn as a volunteer and I'll post exhibition and more outfit pics plus some Miss Fisher costume secrets in my next post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which will be uploaded at the exhibition's end. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not in a year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That just wouldn't be fair right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desiree xox</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at #2 Son looking all flash and cool for his Year 12 formal.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all know how many hundreds of dollars parents lay out for their daughters to look special on their big night out.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's mind boggling how much cash and energy is spent on looking super-spesh.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But you know, I think it's way cooler how my son looked at his watch at 3pm and announced it was time for a shower, had a shave, got dressed and stepped out the door smelling amazing and looking a million bucks.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later he told me all the girls were falling asleep by 8pm because they were exhausted ... gosh all that spray-tanning, hair-do's, makeup, nails, blah blah blah ... it takes it out of a girl.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the boys looked fresh, cool, and proud to be looking good.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mama was proud too.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So she wore a 1930s silk nightie.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besties since preschool. That's 13 out of 17 years folks, almost a lifetime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was treat time on Sunday and Advanced Style was a treat for the eyes and the soul.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We laughed, we cried.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was wonderful.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday, it was all business in the courtroom.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in the bathroom.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And waiting for hours outside.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hold your precious ones close my friends.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love Desiree xoxo</span><br>
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-91543593317747523492014-08-31T19:34:00.000+10:002014-09-02T09:37:20.793+10:00Polyester Girl<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forever drawn to the wild, psychedelic prints and saturated colours of clothes from the late 60s and 70s, it seemed natural to collect the polyester pleasures that made my heart soar.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However it wasn't long before I remembered my mother's words about man-made fabrics; they just don't breathe.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In cooler climates it didn't seem too much of a bother but here in Brisbane, my wardrobe was getting jammed with amazing gear, yet I had nothing to wear.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nylon, crimplene, nylon-jersey, polyester of every weight and thickness in every colour under the sun greeted me merrily each morning: "pick me, pick me Desiree!"</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It finally dawned on me why there was such an abundance of beaut maxis, flares and jackets in the op shops and markets ... they were an instant sauna in a bag and people in our sub-tropical climate simply couldn't abide them.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I sold off and gave away a large portion of my polyester friends *sniff*.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm afraid I cannot bear to have clothes hanging in my wardrobe that I can't wear for comfort reasons, instead adhering to a cotton-only policy for 1970s gear and drawing on my life-long love and adoration of all things 1930s and 40s.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rayon was an inexpensive, affordable and hard-wearing fabric during that era, and since it's a synthetic manufactured from wood pulp, it seems a more humidity-tolerant fabric.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a relief! I love the styles from the 30s and 40s ... the details are beautiful, the fabrics fare incredibly well for their age and I like the tailoring.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But if you've been popping over here for a while, you'll probably know I never, ever wear any era from top-to-toe ... not my scene.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Modern synthetics are still very dodgy in my opinion, but depending on the cut, they can be worn on days like today ... the last day of winter. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today I chose a few bits and pieces that I can get away with before the sauna cranks up for six months of summer.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An ode to nylon in its many forms. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1940s slip, lace coat, Top Shop shoes, spiked headband, other jewellery, gold powder compact, feather hair clips, gold belt - all from op shops, markets, eBay </span></div>
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-39142164022105687982014-08-25T12:45:00.000+10:002014-08-25T13:01:31.172+10:00It's So Easy ... Sometimes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wonderful, drenching rain means tea, crusty old movies, hot scones and sewing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully we've had plenty of it all here so I'm feeling rather smug and happy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And bloated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is one of the three-skirt bargains I picked up from the Red Cross op-shop last week where I bought three skirts for $10.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The waistband on this one was too small so I unpicked it, added some fabric to the waistband, re-did the gathering to fit my waist, then sewed it back on.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day I got a blood-bomb and my waist shrunk a couple of inches. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WTF is that about?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I unpicked the sodding thing, re-made the waistband, re-gathered the skirt and sewed the fucker back together.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This skirt is lucky I love it, despite it reminding me of the 80s when I didn't have a pre-menstrual waistline like saggy elastic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1970s <i>Coffey</i> movie t-shirt - Creative Markets</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1950s tapestry handbag - gift from my beautiful sister, Merilyn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a t-shirt in a skirt and if you need to rustle one up in a flash,</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> here's how:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grab a guy's t-shirt (bloke's t-shirts are WAY cooler than chick's ones).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut the sleeves off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sequin top, Marvel t-shirt - op shops</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gold lion necklace - gift from lovely Miss Ada</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love Desiree xox</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linking to <a href="http://notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.com/2014/08/visible-monday-137-how-to-do-warm.html#disqus_thread">Patti's Visible Monday.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been in a style funk for a couple of months now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In limbo for this long, my it's no fun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then our local Vinnies and Salvos recently shut up shop for a couple of weeks and reopened in vastly improved, bigger premises just a few doors away from their original digs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Days later, I was strolling down the street and spotted a new shop, Pop Up Vintage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly the planets were aligned and it was time for a jolly good rummage to whet the appetite. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been wearing cast offs since I was a kid and I can't recall an occasion when I didn't get excited about wearing someone else's clothes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I learned to sew at a young age and was sewing most of my own clothes by 16 then once I started working I loved treating myself to new gear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I always returned to second hand clothes and to this day, I get more of a thrill from finding something odd, used and inexpensive than prancing about in clothes from over-priced, pretentious boutiques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the 90s, I wouldn't have been seen dead in saggy floral frocks like this, even when they were popular here in Brisbane. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was strictly black all the way for me back then, which I still love, although these days my black outfits are usually highly decorated.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But ever since I grabbed this fine cotton frock from Pop Up Vintage for $12, I've worn it nearly everyday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black sequin 80s top was a closing-time $10 bargain from Camberwell Market in Melbourne during our recent adventures and I found the cotton stretch skirt at the Red Cross shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I took it to the counter I was told if I bought two items I'd get the third for free, so I found two more skirts and paid just $10 for the three.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't worn tube-style skirts since my Madonna days in the 80s, so I'm cracking open yet another time capsule. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my recent wardrobe purge, I realised I'm low on skirts and a Scottish kilt for three bucks?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She only cost me a few bucks, so it's no great financial loss, yet Miss Camel Toe has attitude and understands me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green leather jacket - Camberwell Market </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I trawl op shops and second hand markets for ideas when I'm in a style funk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baci,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desire xox </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was more of a reflex action when I decided my crooked hair could do with a tidy up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But look at my frock. Look, look, look the frock!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I pounced on it in the Salvos yesterday, eight bucks with original tags and it's the most delicious pure silk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And she doesn't get too judge-y when I make poor hair decisions. BFF. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yup, I'm having a super bad hair day and I ventured out sans paper bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friends, thank you for your kind comments on my last post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually, thank you for even popping over here!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm so very grateful and chuffed with your visits and I love to read your thoughts and visit you as often as possible.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are your buns burning? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's coz I just gave you a MASSIVE arse-squeeze.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baci,</span><br />
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-18715014097718401832014-08-08T16:36:00.001+10:002014-08-08T16:47:09.050+10:00There's A Hole in my Bucket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week, Number One Son stepped in and swept Bella and I off for some respite from the insanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One must eventually return to routine, but briefly resting under the wing of that wonderful son and brother for a few days certainly helped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An hour before setting off for the airport, I decided my hair needed some zing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It helped. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stayed two nights at #1 Son's quaint, old, inner-city, worker's cottage, then he put us up in a beautiful old heritage-listed hotel, Warwillah, a beautiful Queen Anne-style mansion built in 1896, which was once home to Governor-General Issacs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just one of the beautiful, original stained glass windows at Warwillah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was wonderful to rug up in our coats and hats; here I'm wearing a 70s velvet skirt that rarely gets worn in Brisbane. The parrot brooch was a gift from <a href="http://vintagebirdgirl.blogspot.com/">sweet Vintage Bird Girl</a>, while the 1950s coat was ten bucks from a Brisbane market.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A mish-mash of brooches (who can stop at just one?), including the Anti-Joyce badge Clare (formerly Miss Simmonds Says) made me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tiki Tour continued with a visit to Brighton Beach, where the brightly-painted huts draw tourists even on the coldest, yet sunny days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bella picked up fab leather boots for five bucks, plus a glut of clothes for her, scored for a dollar or two</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found her chic, warm coat at an op shop in Canungra during our <a href="http://pullyoursoxup.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/un-package-holidays.html">school holiday adventure.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday it was breakfast at Balaclava, where Bella discovered she had a taste for Yo-Chi frozen yogurt and sourdough toast with smashed avocado and feta. Yum!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucky I had a second cup of espresso.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It meant I had to make a run for the nearest public building, where the <a href="http://misstallulahporkchop.blogspot.com/">delectable Miss Tallulah Porkchop</a>, spotted us sprinting for the loo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are the chances?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As you can see I nearly suffocated the poor wee dear in excitement. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Melbourne's a big city, so we couldn't believe our luck! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From there, Miss Porkchop directed us just a few meters down the road where we sprung upon <a href="http://stitchingpurpleblooms.blogspot.com/">gorgeous Clare of Stitching Purple Blooms.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A majestic blue whale, a locally-themed ocean exhibit and volcanoes were some of the features of our "school day".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking ahead, I realise being a full-time carer to my husband isn't viable and we will have to work with any and every agency to get the help he needs. It's an incredibly taxing job and after four years, I feel my kids and I are the ones that need some care. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully I can find a way to fill the holes in the non-existent bucket.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please, no sympathy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hugs, D xo</span>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best things in life aren't always free.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Usually they're just really, really cheap.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like our spur-of-the-moment holiday.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't even begin to explain how much we needed a break, living with serious illness is incredibly draining and we all desperately needed to get away.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With four days to go before Bella's return to school for term three, Anto and I scoured the web for motel bargains on the Gold Coast.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We settled for a cheap-but-clean place at Coolangatta at $79 a room per night, compared to the average price of $200 a night for a place we'd only be sleeping in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not precious when it comes to holidays.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel so incredibly lucky to get out of the house, that a holiday motel room is simply a place to shower, flop and sleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the fun stuff is found exploring my surroundings, not slumping in some hotel pool bar that serves $7 cola.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taken the day we set off I didn't have time to plan outfits, I shoved three pairs of leggings into a bag with a couple of short and long-sleeved t-shirts to layer on cold days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lucky I did, we had some of our coldest mornings in more than 100 years on our trip away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Point Danger on the Queensland-NSW state border, a place <a href="http://pullyoursoxup.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/girls-gone-wild.html">Bella and I adore in summer </a>and now, winter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, this is our winter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sickening isn't it?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a special place in my heart for beaches in winter, born from many hours spent on New Zealand's wild beaches pretending I was a windswept wench waiting for Harvey Keitel to return my piano keys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After three days on the coast, we headed for the hills bound for O'Reilly's Retreat at Lamington National Park.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We arrived rather late on Saturday afternoon, just in time to take in the tree-top rainforest walk, learn more about the history of this beautiful, remote spot and slumping in leather chairs in front of a crackling fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a replica of the<a href="http://www.oreillys.com.au/about-us/the-stinson-rescue"> Stinson that crashed</a> in the remote, dense rainforest several kilometres from the mountain-top home of the O'Reilly family in February 1937.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were only two survivors who were found and rescued by a party organised by the O'Reilly's, 10 days after the plane was lost in low cloud and authorities had given up the search over incredibly hazardous terrain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original newspaper reports have been preserved by the family, plus the replica and a 12-hour walk to the crash site are among the tributes to that time when people relied on word-of-mouth to get their news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anto told Bella the names on wooden planks on the swinging tree-top walk were of the people who'd fallen off. Haaa!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back down the mountain in the dark, we decided it was too late to make the hike back to Brisbane so we stayed at The Canungra Hotel, a gorgeous old place filled with charm (and more crackling fires!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The original hotel built in the 1930s, where all the guest rooms are still intact, spotless and beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm waiting for a ghost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's waiting for her horse-drawn carriage to arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the sort of thing I love to see on holiday: cute cottages with rusty roofs, a thriving vege garden and probably a lot of possum visitors at night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello kids!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are we awake then?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good, because we've been a tad run off our feet lately so the pics are gonna appear snappy-like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily these were all taken away from home, as the house is a tip. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Phoenix has been on his feet and we've been racing from one end of the city to the other during the past week, merging chores and playtime.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BTW, The Phoenix is now happy to be known by his name: Anto and our favourite wee lassie, The Stylist, would love you to call her by her given name, Bella.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been spending a bit of time at West End recently and on Thursday Anto felt the need for a second-hand book rummage so we headed to Bent Books and stuffed our faces at our favourite Greek eating spot, Char Char Grill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I needed a sit down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Been too busy to do my hair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's with all the smug looks then?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last Friday night, Bella and I tootled off to the ballet, <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was delicious. And of course, tragic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lassie has been so enjoying developing her photography skills, that snapping blog pics of Mama is now incredibly passe and dull.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The view over Brisbane River looking towards the city, taken during intermission.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eeek scary woman with spooky eyes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the show, we were having a bite to eat at the QPAC cafe when Bella nudged me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The artistic director of the ballet, Li Cunxin, was standing right next to our table.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He's regarded as the god of ballet by many and is the subject of the book and film, <i><a href="http://maoslastdancer.com/">Mao's Last Dancer.</a></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He signed Bella's program and we were right chuffed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here she is early on Saturday morning, squashed into the back seat of the car with a modest selection of bags and hats, plus a wee few clothes, bound for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vintagedesignermarkets">Vintage and Designer Markets at West End.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so good and waited right until the end of the day before pouncing on a pair of boots I really "needed".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've managed to halve the number of clothes and shoes I own in the past six months, so I think I deserve one treat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of the beautiful tribal jewellery, sold by Sam of <a href="http://www.scylladesigns.com/">Scylla Designs</a>, which reminded me of <a href="http://vintagevixon.blogspot.com.au/">Vix</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such glorious, huge pieces!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early night, then back to finishing off hand washing what feels like every item in the house because the washing machine's buggered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Exhausted yet? Me too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're forgiven for thinking I've been sewing in the dark, or at least choosing my colours while blindfolded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the case of this little number, surprisingly neither is the case.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's my Franken-top, made of leftover cotton fabrics from other projects, using a pattern I op-shopped for 50 cents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If only I paid as much attention to my roots as my sewing projects eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Stylist and I went to see <i>Maleficent </i>just over a week ago, well before we needed to pile on lovely warm layers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's school holidays now, so we can operate at a slightly slower pace for the next fortnight.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the screening at Southbank I took the lassie for a wander over the Brisbane River to have a sticky beak at Brisbane's heritage-listed Treasury Building.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It now operates as a casino and we couldn't go inside to check out the beautiful interior together because of age restrictions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we snapped off some pics and made a bee-line for the nearest stationery shop to top up our stocks, then escape the people-herding confines of the CBD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're here in Oz, I hope you're enjoying the cold snap.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Welcome winter!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linking up to <a href="http://notdeadyetstyle.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/visible-monday-133-mixing-old-and-new.html">Patti's Visible Monday.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love, D x</span></div>
Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-19985119672781499632014-06-18T18:33:00.000+10:002014-06-19T10:40:17.370+10:00Get A Different Disease<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I nearly caused an accident today.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, maybe I didn't. Maybe the driver was blinded by a reflection.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, it was a near thing at the roundabout next to the bus stop this morning.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actually it happened about four times.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luckily the bus arrived, coz it c</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ould have been nasty.</span><br>
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-17016473023679469522014-06-15T22:05:00.000+10:002014-06-15T22:05:24.328+10:00We Can Get Together<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'Ere what's this then?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Us outdoors in the sunshine?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Has the world turned on its axis?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not quite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Phoenix was well enough for a Sunday drive and picnic in his pride and joy, his 4L MKIII Ford Cortina, a beefier version of the Gene Genie's car.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's what Sundays are about aren't they? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last week <a href="http://www.frecklefaceblog.co.uk/2014/06/sunday-girl.html">Tania Freckleface</a> described her ideal Sunday and this is how we spent ours today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We took a drive a few miles north from home to Nudgee Beach's leash-free dog park and to Redcliffe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Very simple you understand, but it was just right for us: a glorious sunny day, three petrol heads in a grunt car, a delicious picnic, fantastic company, admiring other people's dogs without out the hassle of shit and fights, a search for sea shells, a bit of colouring in, great coffee, ice cream, fish 'n chips and pecan pie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Phoenix spent a couple of decades living in Sheffield, home to the <a href="http://sopastcaring.blogspot.com.au/">lovely Curtise</a>, and he gets quite a kick out of describing the local lingo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here he's describing the concept of a "scrape", where a balding man disguises his scalp with a comb-over and if the issue is particularly worrisome, a bloke will "look like he's scraped his hair up from his armpits".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly these matters are quite understandably disturbing to a child, even though I'm sure she won't need to worry about perfecting a "scrape".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about those amazing sunnies huh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got them for The Stylist on sale from Dolls Kill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She also needed to wear her new pink boots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ate, we danced, we threw my hat about, we lolled about in the sunshine, we marvelled at a nutty sculpture.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday indeed.</span><br />
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-63456591946230057732014-06-09T21:35:00.003+10:002014-06-09T21:35:37.466+10:00Can't Sleep, Bed's on Fire<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"You start a conversation you can't even finish it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You're talking a lot, but you're not even saying anything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Say something once, why say it again?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- <i>Psycho Killer,</i> Talking Heads.</span><br />
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-899530815109149322014-06-05T12:56:00.001+10:002014-06-05T15:50:01.013+10:00Face the Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I watched an interesting episode of Stylelikeu's <i>What's Underneath Project</i>, a series in which</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> interviewees remove layers of clothing while deeply personal questions are posed to them.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dominique's statement that she could never determine if she was capable of leaving the house unless she was wearing baubles and a boa, rang true for me.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't have anything particularly challenging to </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">achieve that morning, yet I knew I wouldn't be able to get anything done if all my colours matched perfectly, nor if I was wearing griege.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me, THIS does certainly not go with THAT ... no two outfits are ever the same.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I've been experiencing particularly rapid-cycling mania, which has been happening a lot lately, I need my comforts.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a quick pick-me-up my comforts are: red lipstick, liquid liner, big earrings, big rings, bangles, scarves, huge headwear, big footwear, hair dye.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I have more time or I'm worried about blowing a gasket, I have other friends to help me through a rough patch: glitter eyeshadow, masses of necklaces and more rings, 1930s nightie-frocks, layered hosiery, furs and repeat. Twice.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miss Camel Toe did a fine job of helping me through the day.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She's my hero and I love her so much, I don't know what I'll do if she ever runs away.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To quote Rog, "being in your body is a good place to be because it's the only place you can be".</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I guess if person's body and mind are at war with one another, there is no room for fast, faddish fashion... one must find a way to peace.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found my peace in layering a Japanese haori jacket over leather shorts, my Miss Camel Toe t-shirt and a 1930s scarf-tying experiment.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was yesterday, today is today and I cannot predict what I need to wear to feed my soul tomorrow.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I probably only have one or two school excursions left in me.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids are growing up, The Stylist is off to high school next year and school day trips where parents round up strays and tie droopy shoe laces while filthy dishes congeal in the sink at home, will drop off.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I jumped at the chance to take in a bit of local history with The Stylist's class.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The front entrance of Queensland Parliament House, a magnificent building nestled between the Botanic Gardens and the Brisbane River. The House was occupied from 1864, yet construction wasn't finished until 1889.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're lucky this beautiful part of Brisbane's heritage is still standing. During the 1980s, the scandal-ridden state government of the day decided to pull it down after the discovery of a serious West Indian termite infestation.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heritage groups kicked up a fuss and five years of work to treat the building and restore its interior saved it for us to enjoy today.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back of the House, the wee nippers are getting ready to go in for a tour of the grand staircase and the Upper House before taking our seats in the Lower House public gallery, just in time for some playground hijinks by the politicians.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Watching the Grass Grow" - seriously.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though these two stained glass portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra of Denmark stand over two metres high, they are rather conservative in size and colour compared to the magnificent piece of Edward's mother, Victoria.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could barely snap a clear pic of this enormous crystal chandelier, it was so big.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were damned well behaved too, not that I expect kids to be seen and not heard, far from it in fact.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fuchsia and orange carpet in the Upper House and original tiles in the foyer. That's style!</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then it was down to the Botanic Gardens for lunch and hi-jinks. This is a peepul tree and I would have needed to stand about 70 metres back to get it all in the frame.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The gardens have been there since around 1864 and are home to rare and valuable flora. We suffered a 10-year drought starting in 2001 and it was terrible to see the suffering of such a beautiful park and gardens. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many of the plants which thrived in our sub-tropical climate had to be removed and replaced with drought-tolerant species.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To me, the Gardens are valiantly recovering, but I can see evidence of the past stress.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still very beautiful and peaceful though.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This, I don't know what it is and it's vaguely disturbing.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't wear this outfit on the excursion, these pics were taken a couple of days later when I *gasp* wore my Franken-Frock two days in a row.</span><br>
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-31089416016622985482014-05-19T13:25:00.000+10:002014-05-19T13:27:00.712+10:00How Very Grand!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a highly fashionable, in-demand, stylish, social butterfly, my diary is rammed with appointments, invitations and A-list events where I score tons of free shit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I often forget to tend to things boring people do </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like wash my hair, trim my pubes, pluck my brows and turn on the dishwasher.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So yesterday when The Stylist and I decided we needed to make a show of being super-ordinary and do something other than homework, colouring-in and ignoring the dirty washing pile, we dropped everything and went to see <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We couldn't make it to the premiere opening because I was soaking my bras that night so better late than never eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had about two inches of regrowth to blitz on Friday night so thought I'd may as well put a few drops of pink hair dye in the conditioner.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a very short attention span and a bit of old-lady-memory-loss, which is an interesting combination - I often get quite a fright in the morning as I stumble to the loo after a night spent with the dye bottle.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beats a hangover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ain't she cute? And looking grown up? Eeeeek!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"FREEK" necklace - custom made by <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BONESCOUTURE">Bones Couture</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1980s earrings and 1950s ostrich-skin bag - second hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh and the hair? I mixed about a teaspoon of Manic Panic's Hot Hot Pink with a cup of conditioner and left it in for about 40 minutes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made the biggest roast pork in history with impressive crackling like leather straps and burnt my hand on the oven. Worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to look like a lobby boy and I think I could have pulled it off if it wasn't for the handbag. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, I finished off a dress for The Stylist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The fabric is a cotton sheet and the pattern (dated 1974) - both from op shops.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a bit wide in the bodice and shoulders, but it's my first go in making something for the wee lassie in a while.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted the dress to be big enough to wear in a couple of years if she wants, even if she ends up spray painting, studding or shredding it in ironic teen defiance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think the puffy sleeves are damn impressive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do love a puffy sleeve don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh and this is the pattern (also dated 1974) I used to make these two frocks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skimming Blogger search stats is a rather amusing way to waste a few seconds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet I'm still scratching my head over how someone landed on my blog while looking for 1950s deaf schools.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, real life has been a little more interesting than some people's strange internet habits these past couple of days.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For a start, it's been deliciously "wintery" here in Brisbane.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Snort away, I realise how utterly ridiculous autumn temperature ranges from 7-19 degrees celsius must seem to people living in climates that enjoy four proper seasons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's all relative to what one is used to isn't it? After all, I can stomp around in Docs and long sleeved shirts to avoid sun damage when it's 30+ degrees if necessary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early yesterday, this was the morning view from the back deck where I enjoyed my coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later in the day, my attempt to distract about 200 school girls from their soccer matches was a partial success.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was The Stylist's special request that I "dress crazy" to come and watch her game ... I told her I would just wear my normal clothes, yet I must have looked like a neon orange field line marker judging by the sweet gasping faces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday The Phoenix bought last minute tickets for The Stylist and I to see the ballet <i><a href="http://www.queenslandballet.com.au/on-stage/2014/coppelia">Coppelia</a></i> last night.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So she and I got to wear fur and tights and sleeves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Woohoo!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found her owl patchwork bag in an op shop this week for $4. It's brand new and she loves it. Win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wee lassie is rocking one of my 1940s fur capes and my comic tights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once we got to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (with bright pink blusher intact) we were very pleasantly surprised that the ballet patrons had bothered to dress up for the occasion. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This good news follows sharp on the heels of the rant in my last post, complaining about the casual culture that seems to be poisoning our DNA.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bravo to heels, sparkle, hair-dos, bling-bling and eyebrows, it was a feast for the eyes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a children's story time telling the story of Coppelia and colouring-in between acts, which was lovely as there were people of all ages attending. A little girl told her mother at the next colouring table: "I want all of that lady's outfit!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not a very exciting shot, but as you can see we were seated in "the gods" because it was a last minute ticket race, yet it didn't hinder the performance in the slightest, the theatre is so beautifully well-designed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you have a fab weekend, tomorrow's Mother's Day here and we've got a full house tonight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What to do when you're itching to make a frock yet don't have enough fabric?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You make a Franken-Frock that's what.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You might recall the lampshade I made <a href="http://pullyoursoxup.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/diy-blitz.html">here</a>, which left me short of orange fabric.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I could have made a skirt but I chose to create a Franken-Frock for the following reason.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's my protest against mass consumption. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The frock may not be everyone's cuppa, but I love it because there's no chance there could be another one around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to make something that's obviously handmade, obviously scratched together. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patchwork on a large scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made do with fabrics in my stash and I've made quite a dent so it's time to start raiding the op shops for more.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reason for my protest? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm absolutely sick to the back teeth of seeing people wearing shitty 3/4 cargo pants, fugly sandals, polo shirts and wind cheaters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There I said it. I step out the door and I feel like I'm being hit over the back of the head by khaki and griege.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear People, Please get your shit together and stop following the fucking herd. It's giving me a headache.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">End of tirade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pink star necklace - handmade gift from dear <a href="http://peeteespalace.blogspot.com.au/">Krista</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wearing my pink necklace for <a href="http://peeteespalace.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/the-thing-about-pain-is-it-demands-to.html">Krista.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm still using the bag I made, it hasn't fallen apart yet, god knows I've given it a right thrashing and it's still looking new. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bet you weren't expecting the back to look like this huh?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of these fabrics are lightweight cottons from op shops, so is the zip.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used the same pattern as the one I used for the frock in my last post, the pattern is dated 1974.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In other news, #1 Son turned 25 today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gave you a fright with this pic didn't I? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went into labour two days before he was born and this pic of me looking like an egg cup was taken just as things were starting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a long, difficult home birth, which left his father and I so exhausted, we didn't even get to take a pic until he was two days old.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cat got such a fright, she had five kittens! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our tiny West Hampstead flat was full of babies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy birthday son!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So there you go, Franken-Frocks, homebirth, having kittens and growing sons, all in one post.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you're kicking off the week in fine style!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baci,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desiree x </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First up, I attacked this piece of upholstery fabric, hellbent on making a bag.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This means that I made two bags, connecting them at the top and partly down the open sides.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I used a lovely bamboo handle I've had for years and threaded it through a casing I sewed at the top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything was from op shops and the bag cost me about $2 to make.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used my new granny bag for shopping today and she felt like a dear old friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I was out I found this brand new piece of cotton fabric, about 2m long, for $4.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I found this hideous standard lamp and shade at the Salvos and dragged it home on the bus with my overloaded shopping trolley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A pair of scissors, hot glue gun, a roll of yellow fringing I bought at Vinnies ages ago and some <i>Doc Martin</i> in the background was all I needed to make the transformation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our weekend has started early as it's ANZAC Day tomorrow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have any family that served, but The Phoenix's grandfather was in the British Navy for a decade and survived every single naval WWII conflict, from the Russian convoys to the North African and Pacific conflicts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's incredible he and a few of his mates survived being dive-bombed and sunk three times by state-of-the-art aircraft ranging from Stukas to Zeros.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope your 99th ANZAC commemorations are special, we'll be having a quiet one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I may swan about in 1940s knickers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baci, D xo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't think of it until The Stylist and I arrived at the meeting point for our date with Will and Kate yesterday </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I should have made the Duchess a rose headband fit for a future queen!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure she would have popped it on immediately and finished her pit stop Brisbane visit in real proper style like.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My wee lassie and I were the only ones in our family up for a long, hot wait to grab a glimpse of the royal heads.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It seems there's nothing like a celeb-royal visit to release our local loonies and precious bogans (white trash) onto the streets for wonderful slinging matches over barricade space and anything closely resembling a legalised scrum.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's an experience neither of us will forget.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We traveled to Southbank and found an excellent shady spot with a view of the Wheel of Brisbane, suitable for a very long wait.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a good spot for The Stylist and she waited patiently, slathered with 50+ sunblock - Mama's orders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got a good, close look at Kate and she even shook The Stylist's hand, which naturally, will not be washed for a couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for her old man Will, he was too far away, but I expect it was for the best as the natives were revolting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earrings, tooth necklace, yellow African necklace, 1950s handbag, gold skirt - op shops</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for your kind comments on my last post, luckily Kate read it and told me she and Will would be delighted to pop over for a BBQ and bring themselves a couple of cardboard casks of plonk.</span></span></div>
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Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-58698639575385875312014-04-19T01:20:00.000+10:002014-04-19T01:39:57.458+10:00We Have No Secrets<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A week ago today, we had people over for drinks and finger food, which turned into dinner, thanks to our dear foodie friend Paul who was staying with us.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remarked in my last post it was the first time I'd entertained a decent-sized crowd in five years.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Truth is, it was the first time in half a decade that I'd fed and watered any group other that my immediate family.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why?</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because I was scared of falling off the wagon.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It will be five years on May 2 since I had a drink and I still haven't had a drop.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been blogging for four years and each year I make a point of giving myself a pat on the back here.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But don't congratulate me, I don't expect accolades.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before that date in 2009, despite my ernest efforts, I'd slowly been making a big mess of myself and couldn't face a social occasion without getting hammered to some degree.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three days later I was having my first stay in the loony bin.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The people I hurt the most were my children. But they still seem to like me.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The words of #3 Son will always ring in my ears. </span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was making my daily late afternoon detour to the bottle shop for supplies and the wee chap (aged 7 at the time) piped up "Why are we ALWAYS coming here?"</span><br>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be forever grateful for their forgiveness and for my dear husband, The Phoenix, for getting me through.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday I craved another poison: neon!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't get enough of it so as you can see, I piled it on, even my lipstick was a neon shade of red.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pink spiked bracelet - gift from <a href="http://vintagevixon.blogspot.com.au/">darling Vix</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh and remember my Frida lamp?</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those interested, it wasn't purchased from an op shop, anyone who gave that away would need their head read.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, the lamp and hand painted cushion were from a wonderful local emporium called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Creative-Treasures-at-Wynnum-Market/442380499119405?ref=ts&fref=ts">Creative Treasures</a> which stocks locally-made crafts, clothing and soft furnishings, retro records, vintage clothing and collectibles.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pics of the lamp illuminated and our gorgeous new cushion, both made by Recycled by Wendy, who has an amazing eye and knack for mixing stunning fabrics and tapestries to make cushions, reupholstered second-hand furniture, throws, footstools, bags and clothing.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need this enormous cheongsam satin cushion and footstool in our house pronto.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even the chillies are handmade using satin fabric.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I bought these vintage sunnies from Creative Treasures for $5.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight, blinged up once more and my hair curled with hot rods.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you're all enjoying your long weekend.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're off to Southbank tomorrow to ask Will and Kate to dinner. haaaaa!!</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baci, D xx</span></div>
Pull Your Socks Up!http://www.blogger.com/profile/14147274267016718793noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7552352267836403726.post-26725652271138509862014-04-15T23:18:00.001+10:002014-04-16T00:37:55.072+10:00The Purple-Rinse Set<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I gave you a sneak peak of my purple-rinse in the last post shortly after The Stylist cut and coloured my hair.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I let my 11-year-old daughter do my hair.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think she does a lovely job and it's a great confidence booster for her to be given carte blanche with my mop.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope it's a fun way for her to learn some small aspects of responsibility - especially with the rather serious task of ladies' hairstyling.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've given up on hairdressers.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the past 15 years, my favourites have either become so successful they can charge prices I refuse to pay, or they've gone completely insane.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Must be the chemicals.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm not precious, so I've been cutting my own hair for the past four years and I couldn't be happier.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd rather spend the money I've saved on a yummy treat for the kids or something nice for The Phoenix.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice I didn't mention buying something for me?</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I'm not being a martyr, I'm just trying to get my wardrobe under control, which means this year's long, hard look at my collection has become an extended project.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm focussing on finding new ways to wear things I've owned for a long time, being realistic about what I feel good in, cherishing the things I love, trying out things I haven't worn for a long time to see if I still like them and most of all, finding new ways to wear old shite.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I can't wear it anymore, it goes.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did I mention I broke the car? Long story, not going there, so it's the bus for now to run daily chores.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today #3 Son, The Stylist and I caught the bus to town and public transport means comfortable clothes are a priority for me.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'm not about to surrender my personality for comfort.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never know what my beady eyes will spy at the op shops and I want to be prepared to lug a chair home on the bus if I simply must have it.</span><br>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today it was a Frida Kahlo lamp and a hand-painted cushion in addition to sundry op shop bargains.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So much weirdness going on and as our friend Paul, who was visiting us from Hong Kong said, "there's nothing normal about this house".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's time ladies and gents."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Juli and Kitty. Woof! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Phoenix sporting his haircut and wedding tie. x</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Helen the Luscious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mental much?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This afternoon we waved off Paul, who flew on to Sydney to holiday with his family, The Stylist dyed my hair and we looked very, very tired.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'd better link up to <a href="http://www.mispapelicos.com/2014/04/share-in-style-flowers.html#.U0j1gF5vXwI">Sacramento's "Flowers" theme</a> then hadn't I?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Love D. x</span><br />
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