Travel: Weekend in Sydney

I'm really stoked to be off to Sydney for the weekend with the Boyfriend today. We're staying right in the center of my favourite part of Sydney, the Haymarket. I love China Town and I can wander around for hours, so it is a realt treat for this little Gwei Lo. We've got a lot of eating activities planned, and not much else, but I will get to catch up with a few girlfriends, and most importantly spend some quality time with the Boyfriend before he's away for the next two weeks for work.

Daily Outfit: Trash and treasure

I felt like a bit of juxtaposing for today’s outfit, to celebrate the high and low end of my wardrobe and the sort of trash and treasure mentality that I live within. I do love to mix the high-end with the low-end, I'll happily scrimp and save for a $300 pair of jeans or a designer clutch, but at the same time I am happy to wear nameless pieces I've picked up in op shops or $5 t-shirts from Big W. Today's Daily Outfit is an exercise in playing one side of my wardrobe off against the other. 

Daily Outfit: Monday Moody Blues

It was a rather miserable and overcast day here in Canberra, and it seems I dressed to match the weather. The moody blues of this outfit could easily have been inspired by the view out my office window of the gloomy Monday sky, the rain and the drizzle hanging over Mount Taylor. It wasn’t intentional but it certainly worked with the setting.

Daily Outfit: Sunday dinner casual

This evening the boyfriend and I headed into Belconnen for a quick dinner, which I figured was the perfect opportunity to road-test one of the four blazers I picked up at the Vinnies Monster Warehouse Sale yesterday. It was a nice evening and while I hadn't planned on shooting the outfit I was wearing, I thought it would be a waste of the outfit and the Lake Gininderra backdrop. As a result, these pictures were taken on my Nokia Lumia 925, and not with my camera.

Daily Outfit: Vinnies Monster Warehouse Sale

This morning I headed to the St. Vincent de Paul Society warehouse in Mitchell for the annual Monster Warehouse Sale, with Jiawa and Heather.

I've been to the sale twice before and I usually come away with at least one decent addition to my wardrobe. This year, however, I was lucky to score not one but four navy blazers to round out my wardrobe and further my descent into a world of an almost entirely navy/blue wardrobe. I'll be sharing my haul from the sale later this weekend, but first I wanted to share what I wore today and these amazing photos that Jiawa took of me after the sale.

Friday Fixation: New World Transparent Specimines

While I was in Tokyo last year, a friend of mine directed me to check out the colossal Tokyu Hands Shibuya, which is a department store that sells a bit of everything and lots of really cool odds and ends. It was a great recomendation and I spent a couple of hours wandering around in dazed awe of the whole place. 

And then, somehow, I saw a display case showcasing the work of Iori Tomita. As you can see with what I have showcased here, he creates beautiful artworks by turning marine life translucent, and dyeing the hardest parts of their bodies, that which remains behind.

Daily Outfit: A burst of colour

I was feeling the need for a burst of colour today, and what better way to inject that into my wardrobe than with two items of clothing in this rich orange? Keeping in line with my colour limited wardrobe aesthetic, I've only allowed myself one other colour and one shade (orange and white respectively), in addition to my all-blue wardrobe. I've been slowly culling everything that doesn't fit into these parameters from my wardrobe, and wearing only blue suits me. However, occasionally I get the urge for that burst of colour, and that is where the orange comes in.