red rosettes and a green bow

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

This is one of the items I picked up from the Woolloongabba Antique centre.  I usually wear dresses cinched in at the waist, but like that this actually comes in just below the bust.  Makes for a slightly different silhouette.  These are taken in the back garden where we are spending more and more time.  We have a small veggie patch coming along nicely now.  And it seems like every week there are new flowers and berries to discover.

blue hydrangas, woven bags and picnic plans

 

 

Last weekend we were invited to attend a surprise party for a friend.  The mister and I arranged ourselves in the park quite early (likely too early), so we took a stroll around the Japanese gardens whilst we waited.

 



 

 





 

 

I found this lovely 70's maxi dress in a local op shop a few weeks ago.  I really like the flattering cut and the fact that I'm not treading all over the hem.  I can even manage a bit of badminton in it!

 



 

 

 

I had a sun hat I found in a 'take me' pile of things in a hostel in Barcelona.  Free = awesome.  The stone around my neck is from that beading place and I just popped it on some left over string.

 



These are my trusty old glasses that were on a cheapo rack at Witchery years ago.  They are the only glasses I haven't sat on.  The bag is an amazing find at a local op shop.  I have no more words for how much I love this bag.  It's an epic love.
 

 

 

autumn bloom

You'd be forgiven for thinking it's spring here, but no, I'm not on that side of the world.  I'm even getting the all too familiar sniffly nose and itchy eyes from allergies.  But the greenery and flowers are worth suffering the pollen.

Told you this number would get a work out.  Candy-stripe 50's dress in the lightest cotton.  Sandals are from Spain somewhere and are the type that give you nothing but pain for a month, and then are like a second skin.  My satchel and cardi are thrifted and I picked up the earrings from the Brisstyle market.

The mister calls this my 'light bulb' moment.  Well played.

So this is when we went for a stroll around the Brisbane botanic gardens at the foot of Mt Coot-tha.  I'm loving cacti and succulents at the moment and am slowly trying to fill the corners of the house with them.

I've a had few thoughts on safety: no cacti on bedside tables or near light switches where searching hands might find them eeeek!

intergalactic planetary, planetary intergalatic

Educational (and pretty) excursion.

penny-farthing perfect

 

This is a new favourite place to find frills and frocks.  I'd been told to go to Paddington, Brisbane for a while, and was pleasantly surprised.  Brisbane, and Paddington in particular, have a quaint country town feel.  And as much as Brisbane doesn't have the terrace houses of Melbourne, old Queenslander houses are converted into shops, which is pleasant from a aesthetic and recycling point of view.  Getting around is still tricky at times with the maze of one-way streets, but no where near the amount of traffic. 

 

 

 

Be still my beating heart, I am in lust (if not love) with this lemon lacy number.  It's a perfect 3/4 sleeve shift dress, but just a cinch too small.  I console myself with the fact it will make someone else very happy.