Things I want to wear to work that are slightly more than inapropriate

1) Shorts with tights
2) Shorts without tights
3) Underwear-y looking singlets
4) Near sheer shirts over a black bra
5) My Faux-pening Ceremony wedges
6) Leopard print wedges
7) Dotti imitation jacket of the actual jacket your jet-setting boss has...(been there, done that)
8) Slouchy jumpers that make you want to nap
9) Casual Fridays on Monday
10) A gold sequined skirt

But I'm going to do it all this week! I'm so sly and cunning, almost like a fox, so I reckon I can pull it off. One by one I'm going to chip away at the clothes I actually want to wear and slip them into my routine, almost soccer-mum/please-take-me-seriously-I'm-really-not-15 office attire. Ok maybe not the bra reveal...let's try and avoid that lunchroom conversation. I'm most apprehensive about the leopard wedges, I mean no one wants to be that girl - the girl clomping around the office like Bambi (or that girl in the above photo, cool outfit but...). Basically I just scored what I think is almost an ULTIMATE TradeMe score (the almost sheer shirt which is v.office appopriate - minus the sheerness and all - for $40) and it really lit a fire under my ass to figure out a way to wear it almost all day every day.

My dream come true?

I really want to go live in a foresty, mountainy town (Twin Peaks would be ideal, but I'm open to other locations). So how about this wall mural?! I think yes!



Couldn't find a mountain themed Townes song on YouTube I liked (what's with that Mr Tube?) so here is a song that would still fit in well in my mountain town/mountain-on-my-inner-city-apartment-wall life

Happy Halloween

p.s. Christina Ricci in the 90s = awesome!

I found you, Miss New Booty...

but does it really want to be found? Ok, so here's the thing. Summer obviously came along over the long weekend - duh! And with that comes a new wardrobe, or at least eliminating something from it. TIGHTS! Goodbye old faithful friends and hello instantly transformed and weather appropriate outfits! And hello something else...booty on show. I don't know about you, but all weekend while skipping around in the sun and in my newly transformed outfits I felt somewhat exposed. A gust of wind, a reach too high or even the 'is it really THAT short' realisation could have me looking like little Miss frilly knickers up there. I'm sure it's all nice and stuff to have your booty filed in the ass category of Titty City however I am going to let those girls bask in that glory without me if I can help it. Public near nakedness makes blush, call me crazy but I've never been a fan...I mean what if it's laundry day and I DON'T have my frilly knickers on? Then what? Shame and humiliation, that's what.
Tights are just so awesome because they a) make EVERYTHING instantly more dressed up, they also b) make EVERYTHING longer. I don't care if it's the same skirt and you haven't grown - take away the tights and it's about 10cm shorter (exaggerate? me? never...). So hooray for maxis? No. I like my new looong dress and all, but I will not hooray the word maxi. Well I guess then it's hello 'bending down like a lady at work' (bending the knees, not the torso) my new best friend for summer.



I need to learn how to booty shake like that. Maybe getting an actualy booty first would help...

The woman who lived in a shoe...

So I have a wee bit of a problem. I'm a shopaholic. I'm not joking. At all. See below photo as proof (p.s. those little new buddies of mine will make it five, yes FIVE, pairs of shoes from the same place in 1 MONTH!) Ok even THAT was a bit extreme for me. Also not a good thing that I have a staff account at work too...
But here's the thing, while my shopping can get slightly out of control at times, my wardrobe is totally going bonkers - and I only wear about two thirds of it. I KEEP EVERYTHING! I can't let that pretty top I loved when I was 17 go (x10 or so). THAT is my problem. Hoarder at 23, awesome. Do I smell a long weekend project? Trash bags and TradeMe watch out.

I could think of nothing worse

than having these two star in the same film. Kiera Knightly has got to be the most painful person to watch, ever! Ever! However Carey Mulligan is giving her a run for her money and is climbing very fast up that chart for me. Urrrrgh! Why do people love her so much? How has Kiera Knightly gotten so many jobs? What lunatic put these two in the same film? Are you trying to make me combust?! I really do not get the hype and adoration around these two, it boggles my mind.

I GOT MY SOCKS! I GOT MY SOCKS!

That's right! I finally got my socks and why yes, this is the most exciting thing to happen to me all week. Actually I didn't so much go get my socks as did some young fella I know because he works sweet hours. Thanks! HI SOCKS!


p.s. will blog about something worth reading soon. I promise, even if I have to force myself to be interesting.

I HATE YOU NEW ZEALAND POST

I WANT YOU SOCKS! Where ever you guys may be

HAIR CRISIS

I have essentially had the same haircut for my whole entire life. I had a brief fling with long hair during high school (not my best phase) and every now and then I try and grow it and then I pull a Britney and get rid of that shit.
But now I'm at this point and I want to DO something. Already got two new tattoos in the past three months so no to that. Unfortunately cannot afford any kind of plastic surgery so that's out. Whats left is my hair.

Its red and when my fringe is cut sometimes it looks like lego hair. It pretty much looks like this right now....



(yeah, I'm eating, Churros - they were suuuuuper good.Food photos are part of something which I will keep you updated on. But apart from the eating, THE HAIR!!!)

Ok so I have a few options.
1- Dye it. Possibilities are red again, with maybe a hint of pink?? Or Brown again. Blonde may be rather expensive.

2- Cut it shorter somehow. Re-do the fringe?

3- Perm. I might be joking a bit, but I think I'm a bit serious..

4 - Hair extensions. Expensive and pretty hooch if done wrong.

Please help, hair identity crisis!!!
S-dogg?????

I couldn't go to Valentino today, I had work...

Alexa Chung wears the Valentino dress I want, want, want.


Sigh, sigh, sigh

Ahoy Sailor

Most people that know me know that I have a bit of a 'thing' for two particular styles - western and sailor. Sailor can be tricky, sometimes costumey or tarty, but this particular outfit from Dior had my heart beating a little faster.
Just the right balance of nautical and pattern to balance it out. The rest of the RTW collection I was slightly less enthused about - a bit too frou frou or something, can't quite out my finger on it.

Really?

I'm going to cut right to the chase here. Call me crazy, but I was really really underwhelmed by the Balmain Spring 2011 collection. It wasn't totally ugly - but it was boring. It seemed, dare I say it, a bit lazy. Torn tees and torn jeans. A rocker jacket and torn jeans, and so it went. What's going on here? This collection, to me anyway, seems like a 'fashion victim' collection - that only those with that combination of a need to be cool and lots o money would consider buying.


I'm a Balmain fan. Hello! Don't take me as a hater, it hurts a little to write this. But it really feels uninspired and lazy. Not just these terrible t-shirts, but the jeans, shorts, jackets - all so formulaic. And not just lazy in design but lazy with no attempt what so ever to hide or slightly conceal a tried and trusted formula to funnel money out of the hands of some very shiny people who want to look rock n roll but don't necessarily know why. Rock n roll by credit card.

Why the hell would you pay hundreds of dollars of these? Even if you had that much money - SPEND IT ON SOMETHING ELSE PLEASE! A Chanel 2.55, an over priced t-shirt from Alexander Wang, a lobster dinner! ANYTHING ELSE! And this coming from me - the girl you come to when you want to be convinced into buying something totally pointless and overpriced and still fee good about it after your credit card has been swiped. I would buy 'just a t-shirt' from Alexander Wang if I had the dough - I appreciate the quality, subtle tailoring it offers that Supre can't quite grasp, and yes I'd enjoy the fact that I just bought an Alexander Wang tee and could still pay my power bill that month. But this collection...I wouldn't go there at all. I mean seriously, even I could make these. I. Don't. Get. It.

The best things in life are free

Especially when they are teeny tiny mini in size!