Weekly Wish List: Corduroy

Country Road Skinny Cord Jean



If you didn't already know, I don't like coloured jeans. I never really have. But to probably most of your surprise I really like coloured corduroy jeans. I bet you're thinking, whats the difference? I slightly agree with that and have decided that coloured corduroy jeans are on the border of become coloured jeans. Think of them as coloured jean's second cousin who lives on the other side of the world and who you haven't heard from since you were 13. Then it makes them perfectly OK and different from coloured jeans. The thing I love most about corduroy is it has that lived in feel. I guess I haven't moved on just yet from my hippy summer... Though I love the red and brown I think a pair in either maroon or burnt orange would definitely make my winter wardrobe. The one thing about corduroy is that it only works if its tight fitted. If it's too loose it just reminds me of my primary school uniform and please don't even think about flared corduroy jeans...

What do you think? Are corduroy jeans cool? Or am I being a total hypocrite?

Weekly Wish List: Pullover

American Apparel Fishermans Pullover

It may still be summer according to the calender but the weather is proving otherwise and so this week I have decided to play along and go for a pullover. I've seen a few around but all of them were either the wrong colour for my skin tone or a weird style. But the lovely people at American Apparel have made the perfect style pullover and in as many colours as you can think of. There are sixteen different colours in fact and I love them all. But I choose four that I thought would work best. I love the simplicity of the camel coloured one but the navy and purple are more exciting. Even though it's obvious that the camel coloured one would go with a lot more, I still think the navy and purple would go with most thinks as well. My favourite would have to be the last one. It's a dark grey with specks of different colours. It would go with everything and still give me the bits of colour I want. I would be happy with any really or all...

What do you think? Too Nana? Or perfect for winter?

Weekly Wish List: Ombre Lips

A couple of days ago I saw this look in a magazine and really wanted to try it. I spent a couple of hours you tubing how to's and practising over and over. But I still couldn't get it right at all. My problem... the colour lipstick's I was using were too similar. Even though to me my pinks looked totally different, on they looked exactly the same. So my weekly wish list for this week is to get completely different colour lipsticks to create the ombre look. You are also probably wondering why I want to make my lips two different colours when they can look just as cool with one. Well this can also make your lips look bigger and fuller which is pretty cool if you ask me. They also look awesome and are something different from the too common smoky eye. The one thing though is it has to be shiny and you have to keep the rest of your make up simple. Meaning you have to use clear gloss on top to complete the look and step away from the eye liner... And unlike me you have to use complete different colours (still matching though!).

What do you think? Is it something you will try? Or is it best left to the runway and professionals?

My Little Wallet

After just counting I realised I actually have 13 wallets. Yes 13. Whilst trying to justify this really I only use four and have only bought three of them. The rest were just gifts. So really adding one more to the collection really doesn't matter. So welcome wallet 14 you will be truly loved just like your 13 other brothers and sisters. Though you're not suppose to have favourites, this one is. Only because I made it. I saw the pattern and just decided to do it. I picked up the next coolest looking material and then this baby was created. Surprisingly it didn't take too long and is also the perfect size for my Mimco bag. It is also the first thing I have made to wear my new labels. I haven't gotten around to sticking them on things I have already made (see I told you it would take me a couple of months... at least.) but it was lucky enough to be stuck on something. Even though I already have a truck load of wallets and I absolutely love this one I am hoping to make a few more of them. I don't know what I'll do with them but they are just so darn cute.

P.S How cool do the labels look?!

Taking Over the World

Weekly Wish List: Time



Nixon The Spur


In the title I said time. Really because it's coming to the end of summer and what comes with summer, endless holidays. The shops are bringing out their Autumn collections and school going back is just around the corner. So if possible please may some fairy somewhere gives us endless summer holidays. Cool thanks. The weekly wish list item in the picture can't give me time but it will at least help me tell it. I have been wanting a rose gold watch for a while now and there hasn't seem to be many around (or I just haven't seen them). Looking through an American magazine I saw a gold version of the watch and decided to look it up. Lucky for me it comes in rose gold. So much better. Though I don't know if I can get them anywhere in Australia yet. On line they cost a gazillion dollars... try around 300. Not quite what my budget will be willing to pay for a watch. I also want to know what the size looks like in real life. In the picture is looks big which is what I like. So until I find the watch in Australian land or at an affordable price, the weekly wish list is where is shall stay (sadly).

What do you think? Are gold watches in general suited better with the elderly? Or can they be cool?

I Heart You

First up, they are really dodgy photos but I just wanted to post them up even though I am uber tired. So that probably explains why they are terrible. The first two pictures ( if you can even call them that!) are of a necklace I crochet. I got the pattern from Pip Lincoln's book, Make Hey While the Sun Shines. I originally had no idea how to crochet and was going to teach myself from the book to make it for my mum's birthday. That was in November. I struggled to figure out how to do and eventually had to give in and get mum to teach me how to make her own birthday present... Two months late. It's not that it was even hard. Once I got the hang of it I had finished within a couple of hours. What made me really like it was that it's a bib necklace but it has the quirky touch of crochet. I also thought it was pretty cute that it was called, I heart you. The last picture is of my very own labels. I recently decided that I wanted to make labels to put on everything I make. So when I found a website that did them I was really excited and as of Friday, I now have them ready to sew onto everything. It's really hard to see what they say in the picture but it says the brand name, Olivia Ashley and then of course where they are made, Australia. I decided to keep the tag simple. So they background is a cream sort of colour and the writing is silver. Eventually they will be sewn onto everything that I have made... Hopefully that won't take two months...