Archive for September 2010
September 14, 2010 | 
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Sunday was a great day for a gorgeous cafe breakfast in Fitzroy’s Django Django—my personal favourite, followed by a 2 hour vintage wander in Smith Streets ‘Lost & Found Market’, my god this place is filled to the brim with vintage bits n bobs, clothes, furniture, books you name it the clutter alone makes me nauseous. However, there is so much to look at I could of easily spent another hour in there but I find the amount of choice given simply overwhelms me and my hubby has to lay me down on a bed of vintage fabrics and place a paper bag to my mouth to stop me from hyperventilating, there is so much stuff. The lovely staff allowed me to take photo’s whilst they blasted one of the many ‘sound tracks to my life’ The Clash, The Specials and The Selector. It was a grand day of shopping. I even spied myself a dress *eeek*
Here is our day… WARNING! this is an epic picture post.
he’s is always this handsome. I’m lucky.
Eggs Florentine, it’s simply mouth watering.
and now to the shopping…
Well I think that’s enough for now. I’m exhausted.
There are a lot more photos on my flickr. The Lost and Found Market is epic in it’s self, lots to look at and it’s almost impossible to leave without making a small purchase.
If I have to mention a downfall, it would be that they don’t have eftpos which is annoying, so take ca$h.
Happy Shopping.
I love to set myself a sewing challenge, for me it comes down to self satisfaction, and I find the whole process relaxing, a sort of get away if you like which in turn makes me happy especially when everything goes to plan and turns out to exactly what I envisioned . In most cases inspiration is what sparks off a sewing session especially when you spot an image in a magazine or on line and think I’m going to make that. For this sewing challenge I have bookmarked this fantastic Etsy store (the dressmaker is an amazingly talented lady) I fell in love with some of the clothes and this one image of this fabulously gorgeously dressed girl who also has a blog and sells yummy S H O E S. The overalls and button up shirt teamed together so perfectly so I thought why not have a go at making it purely for the love of the image, I wouldn’t say I dress in any sort of style or genre I like to spread my fashion wings a little, dress to how I feel, I live in black throughout my working week and I’m trying to avoid wearing it on the weekends apart from the occasional leather jacket or capecoat, I look forward to the weekends. Anyway I have dug through my healthy pile of vintage patterns and combined the top of the dress pattern with the bottom of the pant pattern and made some changes to the shirt pattern and came pretty close to the picture so yay new clothes for me. I’m liking this skirt too so that may be next on my sewing list.
and the finished product! which cost me $50…love it!
and for no particular reason I’ll add this image of myself and my hubby because we both like it and you can catch the other pictures on my Flickr if you’re bored waiting for the laundry to dry or on hold with Telstra.
hey! that Arcade Fire Album-The Suburbs is pretty damn good it’s catchy and makes you want to sing into the shampoo bottle in the shower, try it! I did and haven’t looked back.
