Yeah! Looks like summer has finally left us! Two days under 30 degrees and at night it got down to 16 degrees. I can wear my new flanellette leopard print jammies and blue socks without sweating, and last night with the one doona on, I woke up a lil chilly.
Bring on the cooler weather please!
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
High tea and curries.
Have had a few really busy days, On saturday night we went to my Dad's cousin Dot's 50th birthday. It was held at Brighton Leagues social club just past Brighton and it was packed full of people I haven't seen for probably about 10 years! The food was fantastic and plentiful, lots of fried rice, charkai chicken, sweet and sour pork and fish, sesame green broad beans, stir fried vegie noodle dishes. About 70 or so people went including Nan and Pop and my dad's younger Brother Spikey (not his real name!, I think his real name is Kenneth but all I have ever known him is as Spikey), my cousins Markia and her boy Chevy, she is due again in August. Stevie spent alot of time with nan and pop, and thought Dot's brother Aurdi was hilarious. He was bombarded by many relatives (he was one of only a handful of non-new guinean people there) whilst outside smoking, having to deal with bad braveheart jokes. Just before the cake and singing happy birthday alot of the younger girls put on a new guinean traditional dance show with grass skirts on. I had a grass skirt when i was one!
Sunday was spent cleaning and organising for the week, as I had today off. Mum also had today off, so went went into Newstead (near New Farm) where she had to sign over the papers for selling her car! poor Ivy! Mum's getting something slightly smaller. Whilst there we decieded to venture to James st at NewFarm, we visited a traditional Indian supermarket and I spent $40 but bought about 8 curry pastes, 4 huge 400 gram bag of spices, traditional naans, pickles, chickpea dishes and the like. Considering most things were priced at $2-3 each, I bought a whole heap! I am going to make stevie some chicken curry tonight. We stopped by alot of the lovely homeware shops and retro shops but struck big at a shop called Maiocchi. Its mainly japanese like, with amazing structured and quilted dresses all made of Japanese fabrics. It also sells kokeshki dolls, quiled purses, babushkas's just beautiful things! I wanted everything. Whilst there I spied the most beautiful Spencer and Rutherford bag. When I used to work at David Jones I used to drool over there small handmade bags. They now do larger bags as well, and I found the lovely Lulu High Tea which I just had to have! It combined some of my favourite things, cherry blossoms and tea sets! I got it after much drooling and my mum going, you work hard, get it! So I did. I did very well only getting the bag and a babushka keyring. I want to go back and get a lucky cat keyring aswell, but they have opened a shop at the wintergarden in the city so for birthdays and anniversary's I will be sending stevie there! I might get the matching purse one day, its just got cherry blossoms all over it.
Now that I can't get all shoe obsessed, I think it will be my bag collection which will go off tap!
We then headed to Chermside where we did a bit of shopping at big w, I have picked up millions of cardigans for only $20 each which I have been loving and had some japanese curry for lunch. By 1.30 we were stuffed and I came home for a nana nap! Its super windy today, blowing a gale so instead of going for a walk I think I'll put on some music and dance around the house.
Hope everyone is well!
Here are some lovely sites to look at: http://www.spencerandrutherford.com/Collectionnew.php?Type=1#
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Caught by the fuzz....
I went to the podiatrist bright and early this morning at 9.30, Stevie walked with me and went to breakfast at Cafe Nada. My appoitment was for an hour as I had to have all this measuring done and then a plaster cast of my feet made. Stevie came in and watched that bit, which was quite brave of him! Supposedly I dont have one big 'abnormality' with my feet but a series of three things, each about 3 degrees out which are all going the same way, and are all adding up which are causing the difficulties I've been having. I will only need a 3/4 orthodic which should hopefully mean I can still get the two pairs of shoes I want.
After my appoitment we quickly hailed a taxi and went to the movies to see HOT FUZZ, a really brillant english film with simon pegg who was in shaun of the dead. It is about 100 times better than shaun of the dead which I thought was pretty poor despite my love for b grade horror flicks. It had one of stevies favourite people ever in it, Stephan Merchant from office and extra's fame.
After that we went for some malaysian food which was lovely and then ice creams after that!. We caught the bus home, and mum and dad were over at the house, after spending the day before at the Sofitel hotel for their 28th wedding anniversary. Stevie played 'catch the advocado' with dad, who climbed up our huge tree to retrieve about 40 ripe advocadoes we have! Score! Its unfortunate we can't sell them in scotland, you pay a small fortune for them there!
Stevie has gone into the city for band practice which he is loving. They are recording on good friday, and playing there first gig on the 31st of may. He has found an amp he wants which we will try to squeeze into the budget in the next couple of weeks, the painting of the house will have to wait a little!
Because of going out for lunch, Im just going to make myself a whole lot of roma tomatoes roasted a little with some rye cruskits. I got three punnetts the other day for 50cents each! I've gone tomato mad! I made lasange last night with a whole heap of them, and been having salads as a side every night so they don't get wasted.
Must go have a shower and get in my jammies,(new ones, white flanellette with black and light blue desa leopard spots!) and do a little snuggling up on the couch watching the bill!
After my appoitment we quickly hailed a taxi and went to the movies to see HOT FUZZ, a really brillant english film with simon pegg who was in shaun of the dead. It is about 100 times better than shaun of the dead which I thought was pretty poor despite my love for b grade horror flicks. It had one of stevies favourite people ever in it, Stephan Merchant from office and extra's fame.
After that we went for some malaysian food which was lovely and then ice creams after that!. We caught the bus home, and mum and dad were over at the house, after spending the day before at the Sofitel hotel for their 28th wedding anniversary. Stevie played 'catch the advocado' with dad, who climbed up our huge tree to retrieve about 40 ripe advocadoes we have! Score! Its unfortunate we can't sell them in scotland, you pay a small fortune for them there!
Stevie has gone into the city for band practice which he is loving. They are recording on good friday, and playing there first gig on the 31st of may. He has found an amp he wants which we will try to squeeze into the budget in the next couple of weeks, the painting of the house will have to wait a little!
Because of going out for lunch, Im just going to make myself a whole lot of roma tomatoes roasted a little with some rye cruskits. I got three punnetts the other day for 50cents each! I've gone tomato mad! I made lasange last night with a whole heap of them, and been having salads as a side every night so they don't get wasted.
Must go have a shower and get in my jammies,(new ones, white flanellette with black and light blue desa leopard spots!) and do a little snuggling up on the couch watching the bill!
Monday, March 19, 2007
Feel my bones
Shorncliffe
Shorncliffe
Suttons Beach parklands
Shorncliffe Church
Low tide over looking the Shorncliffe Jetty
Redcliffe
Suttons Beach
Scarborough,a boat and wind surfer
Redcliffe Jetty
The week has gone so fast! Its nearly the end of March already.
We'll lets see, its Autumn and we are still daily in the low 30 degrees temperatures, its like summer has gone on for months and months. It is getting marginally cooler at night, hovering at about 20 degrees. It is making days off nice as I go for a long walk around Scarborough and Redcliffe and even down to Margate! and the water is beauutiful and blue.
Tommorow Stevie and I have the day off. I have to get up early and go get fitted for orthodic inserts for shoes! Cry Cry Cry! I went to the podiatrist last wednsday and unfortunatly was met with bad news. My feet are in a bad way! I walk with a pronation going inwards which has led to bunions on my two inner sides of both feet and the starting of tailor bunions on my outside of my feet aswell! Ouch. It has only really become noticeable this year, my big toe on my right side is heading inwards :( and I have the big telltale lump which is my bone moving out and on the left my second toe is heading upwards. Supposedly this would be a result of how I walk and not neccessarily of my shoes, as because of my wide feet, I normally wear ballett shoes all the time. I used to wear pointy shoes but I cant get away with them anymore, mainly because of how my feet have gone! So to stop the progress I need to get some insoles made which I will have to use all the time, I have to get rid of my ballett shoes which are the worse things to wear and start wearing orthodic shoes.I have to wear shoes all the time now aswell! Luckily there is a shop that sells some kumps orthodic shoes which are actually really nice. I want a pair of mary janes called Glitter and another slightly heeled strapped pair called Irene. http://www.kumps.com.nz
Unfortunatly they are super pricey at $200 each, but my health fund will pay $250 per year, so I will get both and just be out of pocket $150 which I will claim on tax. I need to always be wearing strapped or laced up shoes as slip ons are the worst shoe for your foot! My instep is going to cost $400 but I also get half of that back from my health insurance!
I will have to sneakingly wear my ballett shoes when I'm wearing my nice dresses. In the week since I have know about how I walk, I have been trying to correct it in my own not very scientific way and have pulled a hip muscle! Hehehe so I'm hobbling and probably making it worse!
Why did it have to happen to me! I love shoes, I have atleast 50 pairs!
Yesterday we picked up stevie from the train station and went out for dinner. On the way, we went the coastal road as it was such a glorious day and took some pictures. These were taken at about 5.30pm so you can see what a bright and sunny day it was.
We're going to go for some lunch and go see the movie Hot Fuzz tommorow after I see the podiatrist and then stevie heads off into the city for his band practice. On Wednsday he is going to see Converge! I am well jealous! He got given a free ticket, I used to love Converge and haven't see them since 2000 when I was in germany!
I picked up all my lovely laybys and have ordered my new uniform, which is majorly impressive! We got two pants or skirts and 5 tops. I ordered 2x pleated skirts, 2x white cuffed long sleeve tops, 2x blue cuffed long sleeve tops, 1x black 3/4 length boat neck top, 1x black cardigan and a black 3/4 length belted collared shirt dress. We also get cuff links and a blue neck scarf and a black short jacket with the order. I also have gotten a few pinafore dresses and a few skirts and cardigans to mix and match with. I have been sneakingly wearing them already! I love black and white! The new uniform isn't due to us until about June.
On saturday night we are going to a party at Brighton, Its my dads cousin Winnie. So stevie will get to meet all the Papua New Guinea extended relatives, it will be a pretty big party as its her 50th. The food will be great no doubt!
Enough rambling. I'll post some pictures. Happy UK mothers day Judy! Hope your being spoilt rotten!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Gawd my feet hurt! I have to go to the podatrist tommorow, I know I have bunions by the big lumps coming out of the side of my feet. I wear such sensible shoes these days, really only ballet slippers and my zoe wittners tbar's, I soo hope I dont have to give up those! They are so beautiful, I was going to get another pair, so I can have one for work and one for going out good. I wonder what he is going to tell me what I have to do from now on. Its dramatically narrowing my shoe selection down to about zilch :( I wish it would narrow my big flat wide feet!
We had a really quite big weekend, we had uncle keith's birthday on saturday night which stevie got very drunk and sick at! and on sunday we tried to escape the 38 degree heat by heading to the hills up to Maleny and Montville. No suck luck it was boiling even up there! We got the name of the bed and breakfast we are staying at next month Tanderra House, which is a lovely big qlder.
http://www.tanderrahouse.com.au/
We got out at Maleny and went to the little village markets and visited alot of the shops, alot easier when its not hailing like it was when Judy visited! We then drove down to the Mapleton to go to the Mapleton tavern for lunch, it seems like everyone had to same idea as it was packed!
http://www.mapletontavern.com.au/index.html
Its a beautiful pink qlder which overlooks the sunshine coast hinterland called the Blackall ranges. We'll go there for lunch when we head up again next month.
The party on saturday night was really great, about 50-60 people went. Uncle keith and marion were dressed as the Osbournes and Madeline and Courtney went as the Veronica's. Stevie accidently nicked keith whilst shaving his arm for his transfer tattoos! hehe. Stevie went as the singer from the mc5, I went as a flapper girl, mum went as a 70's girl and dad went as bob marley. My uncle frank (my mum's brother) went as rod stewart and his wife arooua went as diana ross. They looked great! Theyre were quite a few sonny and cher's, alice cooper, a few cyndie laupers, the construction worker from the village people and quite a few punk rockers, there were also quite a few blues brothers.
Stevie was up all night after dinner dancing with everyone! He was very drunk at this stage and was swigging from his bottle ala keith richards! My mum also was up dancing doing what I call the foxy chicken run. She was strutting her stuff in her short dress!. At around 1am we went home and made it about 50 metres from the house before stevie begun being sick in the car. I was sitting next to him which led to a mass exodus out of the car, my dad left about a minute earlier then us and came back to the car where he went to get a bucket of water to wash down mum's car, and he ended up driving us home. Despite having the seat all the way back, stevie liked sleeping on my dad's shoulder for the hour drive home. He made it all the way to Scarborough before being sick again. He had a really good sleep before being woken up rudely by myself at 6.30am to go to work where he had to comprehend with a early morning train ride with very noisy children on it, with a sore tender head!
Stevie had some good news on the weekend, he won two awards at a really big tattoo convention. He won 1st and 2nd prize in the traditional section which is by far the most popular catergory. Yeah stevie!
We had a really quite big weekend, we had uncle keith's birthday on saturday night which stevie got very drunk and sick at! and on sunday we tried to escape the 38 degree heat by heading to the hills up to Maleny and Montville. No suck luck it was boiling even up there! We got the name of the bed and breakfast we are staying at next month Tanderra House, which is a lovely big qlder.
http://www.tanderrahouse.com.au/
We got out at Maleny and went to the little village markets and visited alot of the shops, alot easier when its not hailing like it was when Judy visited! We then drove down to the Mapleton to go to the Mapleton tavern for lunch, it seems like everyone had to same idea as it was packed!
http://www.mapletontavern.com.au/index.html
Its a beautiful pink qlder which overlooks the sunshine coast hinterland called the Blackall ranges. We'll go there for lunch when we head up again next month.
The party on saturday night was really great, about 50-60 people went. Uncle keith and marion were dressed as the Osbournes and Madeline and Courtney went as the Veronica's. Stevie accidently nicked keith whilst shaving his arm for his transfer tattoos! hehe. Stevie went as the singer from the mc5, I went as a flapper girl, mum went as a 70's girl and dad went as bob marley. My uncle frank (my mum's brother) went as rod stewart and his wife arooua went as diana ross. They looked great! Theyre were quite a few sonny and cher's, alice cooper, a few cyndie laupers, the construction worker from the village people and quite a few punk rockers, there were also quite a few blues brothers.
Stevie was up all night after dinner dancing with everyone! He was very drunk at this stage and was swigging from his bottle ala keith richards! My mum also was up dancing doing what I call the foxy chicken run. She was strutting her stuff in her short dress!. At around 1am we went home and made it about 50 metres from the house before stevie begun being sick in the car. I was sitting next to him which led to a mass exodus out of the car, my dad left about a minute earlier then us and came back to the car where he went to get a bucket of water to wash down mum's car, and he ended up driving us home. Despite having the seat all the way back, stevie liked sleeping on my dad's shoulder for the hour drive home. He made it all the way to Scarborough before being sick again. He had a really good sleep before being woken up rudely by myself at 6.30am to go to work where he had to comprehend with a early morning train ride with very noisy children on it, with a sore tender head!
Stevie had some good news on the weekend, he won two awards at a really big tattoo convention. He won 1st and 2nd prize in the traditional section which is by far the most popular catergory. Yeah stevie!
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Cruisin...
Howdy! Well its been ages since I've written on here, things have been a little hectic of late.
I've settled in really well being a manager (and being paid manager wages...yeahhh!) its quite a bit of extra work and a little more stress but things are going really well and I can honestly say I really like my work 9.9/10 which is fab. The 15 minute bus ride per morning and mum picking me up in the afternoon's is great aswell. Mum and I have been doing a lot of antique shopping and normal shopping on our joint sunday's off together which has been great, went up to samford two weeks ago and got a beautiful vintage geisha doll and another bird ceramic for our room. The antique shop at samford is lovely, and because we have been getting alot of rain and storms lately everything particularly the countryside at daybro and samford is lush and green. The cows look very happy in their fields.
My aunty di is down from Katherine at the momment, she was meant to come down on Saturday but she was flooded in the northern territory. They managed to get through for a sunday flight, on sunday afternoon we picked up stevie from the train station and all went to Morgans for fish and chips. Aunty Marion and Keith and the girls all came with us well, I made a roast sweet potato, roast peppers, roma tomato, lettuce and roasted pine nut salad and everyone brought along wine and goodies (in my mum's case she brought along salt, her and her sisters are what keep the salt mines of the world open!).
Its uncle Keith's 50th on saturday and he's having a big party at their house, about 60 people are going and they've got it all catered for and have over 15 cartons of Brown Brother's wine for the night. I think my mum will have a very tender head on the sunday! Its a costume party where you dress up as yr favourite rock star or favourite era of music. Stevie is going as the singer of the mc5 and has an afro wig and mc5 shirt and a little scarf for his neck. I am going as a flapper girl as I love all that...shooobywoooby war music. I actually scored a real dress from the 1920's which is peachish in colour with black spots on the skirt. I already have tbar shoes, I bought some kylie minogue black fishnet stockings (normally $24, I scored them for $3 each at a big sale at Myers, I bought 10 pairs of beige and 3x black!), I got some gorgeous drop black earrings from myers, and already had a beaded necklace and braclet set, from kleins at my work I got a feathered black fascinator and feathered black broach.
I'm going all out for it! On sunday I also got some glitter hairspray as I am doing my fringe in finger waves at the front and a bun, and also got some peachy lipstick as I am wearing my Bvlgari bling bling spec's and heavy rimmed black glittery eyes. I also have a vintage lace black shawl to wear. I got dressed up in the gear last night and I was impressed! I will definatly take lots of pics on the night, my mum is going psychodelic for the night and keith is going as ozzy osborne complete with tats from stevie, and marion as 'SHAAAROOONNN'.
A fun night should be had by all.
Stevie is going really well in his two bands, we have new mobile phones and he is mr popular forever getting msgs from all his million of friends! Hmmp!
We are offically going on a big holiday next year in Febuary. I booked it this week, how exciting! We're going on a cruise through the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef for 7 nights. We have a stop over in Cairns where I booked a trip to the Kuranda Rail and also a day snorkeling on the reef. It seems like its one big eat fest! The food looks amazing, and the good thing is I have a year to organise a cruise worthy wardrobe! Cocktails with the captain..hmm lets see what sorta outfit I can come up with! Drinking (probably ginger beer) by the pool...something maybe glam?
Haha p and o pacific sun will not know what's hit them!
Here is a site about the cruise http://pocruises.com.au/html/n808-south-pacific.cfm
We are going to book a few nights in May to go up to Maleny and Montville to stay at a bed and breakfast with my mum and dad for the weekend. Its beautiful in winter and stevie wants to go up there.
I have sent away for some brochures for Morteon Island as we want to go there for a fishing (!) holiday in september for a week.
Hope everyone is well, will post pictures of saturday
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Shopped out.
What a great few days! I worked yesterday by myself, but didnt have optomety, It was fairly busy in the morning with people coming in to pick up glasses, but the last 2 hours were dead which allowed me to catch up on a HUGE amount of paperwork,which I finished. I feel so organised. We dont have optometry tommorow either, so I will finish the rest of then. I got home yesterday just after 4 and went for my walk and then spent 3 hours cleaning the house top to bottom. It looks awesome, I wanted my sunday to be a day of leisure!.
Today, mum came and picked me up at 8am and we went to the big redcliffe markets, I got quite a few bargains!I got a black buisness shirt brand new for $4, it was too small for the lady selling it and she never wore it, it's a basque brand shirt from myers which normally cost a small fortune. I also got some pates pottery. Pates pottery is one of the most famous antique ceramic makers in Australia and they are very collectable, this lady's husband collected pates but had decided to scale down his collection to only the green and maroon era. I already had a pates green and brown vase in my art deco room, so was well pleased to get a decorative ashtray for $10! Its also going in the art deco room. I just need some hat boxes for that room, and it will be literally finished (bar some framing of pictures and making my curtains). I really really love japanese 50's ceramics and animal planters, my patio in the front is full of them. A lady at Redcliffe collects them and sells them with cactus in them. I have already gotten about 4 from her in the past, and this is my first time back at the markets for about 4 months. I got two lovely ones from here for $15 all up, a bird vase (I'm trying to limit one table to bird planters, and another to cats) and a gorgeous donkey one. I mentioned my love of flamingoes and low and behold she had two at home! She is going to fix one up, do some planting for them and phone me once there ready! Yeaaah! She went to florida for holidays, the home of kitsch flamingoes and picked them up there.
We got some fruit and vegies, some relishes and headed out of the heat, even at 8am it was scorching hot in the sun.
Back into mum's lovely car called IVY which has the best air conditioning in the world, we went along to Chermside. 4 hours later we were done! We were quite the happy shoppers, I put some awesome awesome clothes on layby, the fashion has gone totally 60's mod here, Lou lou would love it, all the Target designers stuff is amazing and very reasonably priced. I however went to Big W where I got big buttoned 3/4 cardigans in red, black and yellow for $20 each, 2 dresses in grey and black which had covered buttons, were jersey material and very slinky 40's with capped sleeves for $24 each, a rouched capped sleeve skivvy shirt for $15.00, an awesome grey leopard print cashmere cardigan for $20.00, a cropped top shop like jacket- 3/4 sleeves, huge buttons and sits on the waist in heavy twill for $30.00. I also got a pleated knee length skirt for $19.00, black white and grey flanellette leopard print jammies for $25.00 (no one quite loves flanellette jammies as much as me!). The clothes were totally amazing, and matched with all the stuff I got the other week at myers and target, I will be one greatly dressed mumma this winter! www.target.com.au and www.bigw.com.au
We then ventured onto myers, where I got 4x Love kylie (kylie minogue) fishnet stockings which were reduced down to $6 each,two textured fishnet knee high socks for $4 each, a diamontee bow clip for my hair down to $6.00, some pink pearl drop earrings for $4.95 and some awesome spanish jewelled earrings for $6 which match a braclet I got from myers during the week which was reduced. I also bought two new rimmel lipsticks...they have discontinued my favourite colours, full on and hello...do they still do them in the uk? And had to get a colour called 9-5 and went a bit daring with a plum colour called bourdeaux. I normally always stick to pinkish tones and keep the red to if I'm going out at night as I can look a bit over pouty!
We had some sushi for lunch, my favourite food ever and mum picked up a beautiful dress from Target actually reduced down to $19. It had cross over straps and was baby doll in design, white with black spots and a big black ribbon under the boob. The skirt of the dress had two layers so it was nice and full. She is going to wear it out tot he Sofitel for her and dad's anniversary next month. I am on the look out for a black corsage so I can make a broach (thank you spotlight and yr broach making kits!) to attach to the ribbon under the bow. She got an awesome sparkly bag yesterday from Rockmans the shop next door to me at KippaRing which was reduced down to $10. I am tempted to get one myself as its sequinned and square and a good pratical size for a evening bag. We are just on the look out for a capelet or little cropped bolero-y sorta thing to wear with the dress.
On the way home we stopped at Tiki Boo to look at a mannequin for our room, the lady is willing to reduce it to $145 for us from $180. It is in perfect condition and has a lovely old fashioned curved feet. I want to show stevie first though. Whilst I was there I found a great sturdy cane like table with a drawer. It was for $28 and I only had $23 on me, so I got my lovely mum to bargain it down for me, which she did! Yay! The table is out on the deck as my poor little table was heaving with all the planters I had on it. It looks great holding all my bird related ceramics and has a handy drawer to put magazines in for when sitting on the deck. I just need another saucer chair out there and it will be complete. This Tuesday we are going to start to get qoutes for the painting of the house.
We are heading up to Montville and Maleny in April to stay at a beautiful bed and breakfast Mum stayed at last year, and have booked two nights there. I also looked up some deals for Seaworld on the gold coast, and there is an awesome one where its only $125 per person and you get three nights stay at Sea World nara resort, a full day at Seaworld and a night show into the Australian Outback spectacular at Movieworld included in the price. It all up is worth $750 twin share. I have to ring tommorow to book it for the 25th, 26th and 27th of March which will be a nice break for us!It means stevie only has to take the monday off, whilst I have banked hours owed to me which I can use. I havent stayed at Nara resort since I was about 12, and I love Seaworld.
Phew! I have sat on the couch for the last hour eating my sushi and iced pepsi max enjoying a breeze and watching some black and white movie I never got the title for. Stevie is due home soon, tonight I'm making mexican pasties, some spanish rice and salad for dinner.
I'll get back to relaxing and will post pics when stevie gets home!
Today, mum came and picked me up at 8am and we went to the big redcliffe markets, I got quite a few bargains!I got a black buisness shirt brand new for $4, it was too small for the lady selling it and she never wore it, it's a basque brand shirt from myers which normally cost a small fortune. I also got some pates pottery. Pates pottery is one of the most famous antique ceramic makers in Australia and they are very collectable, this lady's husband collected pates but had decided to scale down his collection to only the green and maroon era. I already had a pates green and brown vase in my art deco room, so was well pleased to get a decorative ashtray for $10! Its also going in the art deco room. I just need some hat boxes for that room, and it will be literally finished (bar some framing of pictures and making my curtains). I really really love japanese 50's ceramics and animal planters, my patio in the front is full of them. A lady at Redcliffe collects them and sells them with cactus in them. I have already gotten about 4 from her in the past, and this is my first time back at the markets for about 4 months. I got two lovely ones from here for $15 all up, a bird vase (I'm trying to limit one table to bird planters, and another to cats) and a gorgeous donkey one. I mentioned my love of flamingoes and low and behold she had two at home! She is going to fix one up, do some planting for them and phone me once there ready! Yeaaah! She went to florida for holidays, the home of kitsch flamingoes and picked them up there.
We got some fruit and vegies, some relishes and headed out of the heat, even at 8am it was scorching hot in the sun.
Back into mum's lovely car called IVY which has the best air conditioning in the world, we went along to Chermside. 4 hours later we were done! We were quite the happy shoppers, I put some awesome awesome clothes on layby, the fashion has gone totally 60's mod here, Lou lou would love it, all the Target designers stuff is amazing and very reasonably priced. I however went to Big W where I got big buttoned 3/4 cardigans in red, black and yellow for $20 each, 2 dresses in grey and black which had covered buttons, were jersey material and very slinky 40's with capped sleeves for $24 each, a rouched capped sleeve skivvy shirt for $15.00, an awesome grey leopard print cashmere cardigan for $20.00, a cropped top shop like jacket- 3/4 sleeves, huge buttons and sits on the waist in heavy twill for $30.00. I also got a pleated knee length skirt for $19.00, black white and grey flanellette leopard print jammies for $25.00 (no one quite loves flanellette jammies as much as me!). The clothes were totally amazing, and matched with all the stuff I got the other week at myers and target, I will be one greatly dressed mumma this winter! www.target.com.au and www.bigw.com.au
We then ventured onto myers, where I got 4x Love kylie (kylie minogue) fishnet stockings which were reduced down to $6 each,two textured fishnet knee high socks for $4 each, a diamontee bow clip for my hair down to $6.00, some pink pearl drop earrings for $4.95 and some awesome spanish jewelled earrings for $6 which match a braclet I got from myers during the week which was reduced. I also bought two new rimmel lipsticks...they have discontinued my favourite colours, full on and hello...do they still do them in the uk? And had to get a colour called 9-5 and went a bit daring with a plum colour called bourdeaux. I normally always stick to pinkish tones and keep the red to if I'm going out at night as I can look a bit over pouty!
We had some sushi for lunch, my favourite food ever and mum picked up a beautiful dress from Target actually reduced down to $19. It had cross over straps and was baby doll in design, white with black spots and a big black ribbon under the boob. The skirt of the dress had two layers so it was nice and full. She is going to wear it out tot he Sofitel for her and dad's anniversary next month. I am on the look out for a black corsage so I can make a broach (thank you spotlight and yr broach making kits!) to attach to the ribbon under the bow. She got an awesome sparkly bag yesterday from Rockmans the shop next door to me at KippaRing which was reduced down to $10. I am tempted to get one myself as its sequinned and square and a good pratical size for a evening bag. We are just on the look out for a capelet or little cropped bolero-y sorta thing to wear with the dress.
On the way home we stopped at Tiki Boo to look at a mannequin for our room, the lady is willing to reduce it to $145 for us from $180. It is in perfect condition and has a lovely old fashioned curved feet. I want to show stevie first though. Whilst I was there I found a great sturdy cane like table with a drawer. It was for $28 and I only had $23 on me, so I got my lovely mum to bargain it down for me, which she did! Yay! The table is out on the deck as my poor little table was heaving with all the planters I had on it. It looks great holding all my bird related ceramics and has a handy drawer to put magazines in for when sitting on the deck. I just need another saucer chair out there and it will be complete. This Tuesday we are going to start to get qoutes for the painting of the house.
We are heading up to Montville and Maleny in April to stay at a beautiful bed and breakfast Mum stayed at last year, and have booked two nights there. I also looked up some deals for Seaworld on the gold coast, and there is an awesome one where its only $125 per person and you get three nights stay at Sea World nara resort, a full day at Seaworld and a night show into the Australian Outback spectacular at Movieworld included in the price. It all up is worth $750 twin share. I have to ring tommorow to book it for the 25th, 26th and 27th of March which will be a nice break for us!It means stevie only has to take the monday off, whilst I have banked hours owed to me which I can use. I havent stayed at Nara resort since I was about 12, and I love Seaworld.
Phew! I have sat on the couch for the last hour eating my sushi and iced pepsi max enjoying a breeze and watching some black and white movie I never got the title for. Stevie is due home soon, tonight I'm making mexican pasties, some spanish rice and salad for dinner.
I'll get back to relaxing and will post pics when stevie gets home!
Friday, February 09, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Daredevil Desa
My dear dad has a talent sourcing goodies for free, whether it be 2 fridges for us, numerouse retro chairs, a huge box of retro goodies for my birthday ect...and his finds don't just stop with humans. Today he got for free one huge and awesome scratching pole which maybe just the saviour for our carpet in the front room for the time being, before it moves to the cat shed/enclosure.
Desa being fearless kitty loves it already and is permantly perched on the top level which is nearly 6 foot high! Heres desa voicing his delight with his new toy!
Monday, February 05, 2007
photo log
I've got two days off in a row! Yeah heaven. Since I've been at my new shop I've been having every sunday off and then normally a tuesday or wednsday off, but its nice to have two in a row.
Today I am wearing one of my new dresses, with a lil shrug and a new broach I got yesterday from Lilly Cottage.I'm meeting mum at Chermside when she finishes work at 2pm and we are going op shopping to find costumes for Keith's rock and roll fancy dress. I am going as Cyndi Lauper and need an 80's tafetta dress and a pink or yellow wig. Mum, is going as my suggestion as Mumma Cass from the Mumma's and Pappa's and is wearing a kaftan with a ham sandwich attached to her..:). At Chermside I am going to join stevie and i up to a mobile phone company, for $29 a month as I really should have one for work, and it will be good to have text aswell. I'm going to get a dark magenta pink one though I really want a qwerty one, but there's non to choose from.
Mum and I went shopping a little yesterday where I put on layby three eiderdowns for my three bedrooms, one sky blue, one dusky pink and one minerally green. They are silk and two have loop stictching and one has square stitching and they were only $35 reduced from nearly $100. Bargain! I also got an embroided green cushion for the art deco room.
I also bought some plastic fishing storage compartment's which I organised all my earrings into, into colours and studs and drop earrings never the less! I am getting two more today, one for my broaches and braclets and another for all my hair ribbon. I still want a mannequinn for my broaches though!
Yesterday we went to Lilly cottage to pick up my awesome flamingo quilt for the front porch, I also couldn't resist buying some more things, including a gorgeous memory board for the art deco room, a bird for the shabby chic room, a guardian angel vintage picture for the hall (I was given one like this when I was born), a broach and two hair pin sets, a flamingo! I also had some lovely phad thai.
I had also got three handbags in the last two days from op shops for $2 each!
I also finally took photos of our new embroided cushion that has bluebirds on them for our bedroom, also our new bluebird wall pocket above our bed. I also took some pic's of the old picture I got from the markets and the little bird ceramics I got the other week. When stevie and i had the day off, we found a new drink bottle in awesome condition, in yellow's for $2 so its up above the plate display matching the three pink and red one's we have on the other wall.
This week I have found some awesome clothes for my new uniform, I put on layby some black cardigans, a pinafore dress, a white and black shirt, two pairs of black shoes, two skirts and some new fishnets. That is it though! As our new uniform is designed by morrisey and should be very swish!
My photos are rubbish sorry, I was in a rush to take them before stevie left and he had no battery left!
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