First off, I took photos of my bookshelf. I thought I'd show you that. I got a bit bored...
I bought this mohair bucket hat on Friday at David Jones for $40. I love it because it reminds me of Burberry Spring 2009. It's so stylish and fits my head perfectly. Yay. Celebration.
I bought these black gloves from the Basement in Myer's for $25 along with the cream ones in the other blog. They are really comfortable and keep you warm. They are pretty awesome. I got them on Thursday and Aelia (my sister) bought a pair too.
These are the gloves i got that I was wearing in the photos before. I saw them and knew I had to buy them :)
I love reading atm and I bought one of these and my mum paid for one. They were both $17 from Dymocks. I have two more books by Sarah Dessen, author of This Lullaby, called The Truth About Forever and Just Listen. She is a great author. Reckless is the third book in The IT Girl series (I have the first two books already) out of six/seven. Cecily von Ziegesar also wrote the Gossip Girl series and this series features Jenny Humphrey as one of the main characters (also in Gossip Girl). I got these on Thursday and read them while I was away. Highly recommended. They are great.
Here are 3 badges that my mum bought for me, for a dollar each, at Smiggle. They are so cute and there were just so many choices there. I love badges, haha. My friend, Eilish, has so many awesome ones and I have no idea how she finds any in Tasmania. I have never seen any badges sold anywhere here, haha. Well, I guess I don't look much.
Oh My Gosh, Oh My Gosh. This fan is amazing! It was at an expensive costume store called Antons. And I mean EXPENSIVE. They sell amazing suits that are made out of amazing fabric. There is also amazing old-fashioned pieces that you can't find anywhere. (I will talk about Antons more later.) They also have heaps of collectables all around the store and it is just so home-y. Anyway.... This fan was on one of the shelves for $12!!!! They had a few other colours (black & gold, black (mine), white, pink, black & green, black & white) but I only had enough money for one and black goes with almost anything. OMG. It is freaking AMAZING!
I also bought stockings because they can go with so much and I have seen some amazing ones on TV shows like Gossip Girl and Skins. I got the red ones ($15.50) and the black patterned ones I wore in the other photos ($18) at Socks Club in Melbourne Central. The tartan ones are rather horrid but I didn't buy them and wasn't there when my Mum bought them for me. They were $22 at some random place. They don't go with much and they look like something a school would make you wear. But oh-well.
There were some beautiful stockings I saw in an Alannah Hill store but that was on the last day and I didn't have any money. Gosh I love Alannah Hill. Some were knee-high socks that were black then has a thick rim of another colour. The fabric was beautiful and look great when you wear them (one of the sales women had a pair on). There was also a pair of knee-high socks that were black striped with silver glitter. Yaaay.
There were some beautiful stockings I saw in an Alannah Hill store but that was on the last day and I didn't have any money. Gosh I love Alannah Hill. Some were knee-high socks that were black then has a thick rim of another colour. The fabric was beautiful and look great when you wear them (one of the sales women had a pair on). There was also a pair of knee-high socks that were black striped with silver glitter. Yaaay.
On the last day my mum and I went to Job Warehouse full of fabric and my Mum bought me all of this fabric. It was $307. Such a bargain. These first ones are silk. They are normally $40 a metre. We got the red one (4 metres) for $40 (WOAH!) and the Blue one (2 metres) for around $30. OMG. I am gonna make a waistcoat out of each like some of the ones with suits at Antons. I am obsessed. 
There is around 4 metres of grey fabric which I am gonna make a suit skirt out of. It's gonna be sweeet. The blue one is a light taffeta that I had to get to make a skirt (because it stays stiff wonderfully) when I was looking at all of the taffeta for my competition dress (explain later). The white stuff is cotton and can be dyed very easily. It is so old and an amazing bargain. We got nine freaking metres of it for $17. It would be worth around $100. OMG!
The black one with the fine whited dotted stripe through it is amazing. It's quite thick and very cheap. We got around 10 metres I think. It feels about that much. The suit is gonna be amazing. The greeny-blue taffeta (12 metres) was around $50 and is going to be the dress I make. Can't wait to see how it turns out :)
This last wool is worth so much money. It is unbelieveable. However. It used to be self lined and after the twenty years it has been sitting there, it has slowly fallen off so now the back has got glue over it which should wash off. It is going to look amazing as a suit. You can't see it now but it will. We got all of it (around 7-12 metres) for about $60 which is excellent. (If the glue doesn't come off then we will have to try and do something for that because if we don't then it comes off and will stick to all my other clothes & fabric and ruin that.) Amazing!
All of this is sooooooooo kool. I spent so much time shopping. No joke. Around 30-40 hours. SO at least I got some amazing stuff out of it. It was so much fun even though I'm usually not very into shopping; well honestly, I wasn't that into it then either. It was so rewarding.
Farewelllll. Gemmma.
Well I assume you know what Aussie Rules is. I've already told you about this. Here are just a few more pictures. I don't what you'll get out of this but yeah...
Farewell.
4/09/2009
Melbourne 2.4.09 - 6.4.09 -- Summary
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Day 1
Well, starting off at the Hobart airport. It was a barrel of laughs as you can see.
Then the taxi after the hour flight to Melbourne. Wow, from the plane we went over the suburbs and there are just soooo many houses. Gosh. 
And on the way to our hotel on Little Collins St. we headed past some amazing sites and I saw this awesome Ferris Wheel. I've never been on one. Something to do before I die. Sorry about the bird poo on the window, haha.
The hotel was so big and so central. Gosh. Three bedrooms, dining room, lounge room, kitchen, bathroom and ensuite. So much fun though. And old fashioned. They also had some amawing paintings up around the joint but I didn't end up getting photos of them. :( 
Soon after arriving we headed out shopping. I spent almost all of my money on the first day. It was a hot 27/28 degrees. Here are photos from the Allannah Hill boutique. She is my favourite Australian designer. She is so girly and feminine. She grew up in Tassie too and I think I'm related somehow (no pun intended). 
On the first day, my mum, sister and I went shopping all around central Melbourne and went to heaps of shops. Whilst we were doing this, my brother and Dad were having beers with my cousin, pffft. I was just starting to write what I bought but I'll keep that until later.
Day 2
On Friday we went to the Melbourne International Flower Show.
There was so much at the flower show and I took a heap of pictures which I will talk about later. There was also a sculpture show and I will alssooo talk about that. It was a bad day, weather wise, and once we got inside the main building it started raining then there was lightning and a whole storm. I wore high heel stiletto boots and we were stuck there for a few bloody hours just standing around. Grrrrr. It was fun catching the city circle tram though. Haha.We also went shopping a bit after that in the arvo, once the weather cleared up, and got to all the lovely stores we traditionally go to. Yaay. Bought a few more things. Spent more of my money.
Day 3
On Saturday, my brother and I were pooped so stayed in the apartment that morning. I read. He did homework. Very boring. Anywaaay. At around 2 we went to the MCG for some AFL. Collingwood (my sister's team) played Melbourne (my brother's team) and it was quite fun. We were on the top level but we still felt quite close. It felt like we were about to fall out the way in leant down though.
After that game we went back to the apartment and got there around 6pm because we had to walk (only around 6 block lengths). We went past Flinders St. Station and some buskers there were hell cool. (thinking about that now, I don't remember too much remarkable fashion. Pretty plain now, gay.) As soon as we got to the apartment we got ready and left again for Etihad Stadium (previously the Telstra Stadium). We got great seats and had tea there, very healthy. It was Carlton (my Dad's team) playing the Brisbane Lions (my team). Unfortunately my dad told the ticket lady that we all supported Carlton so we were on the first level, among all the Carlton fans and right behind the goals (amazing seats if you don't know).
Day 4
On Sunday we went out to Carlton and went to an amazing cafe/bakery/cake store called Brunetti. Highly, highly reccommended. Beautiful cakes that live in a cabinet stretching along the cafe for about thirty or more meters. WOW.
On the way to Carlton, changing trams, we went down the stores to an AMAZING antique store called Ambiance. I'm in love. I can't tell you how much I love it. You have to go there or I will hate you forever. It is so awesome. I think I have a few photos and I will try to find more information on it because I love it so much.
We went around Carlton some more. Then went for a little shopping. Kind of winding down. On the way back we went to the ABC store and my Dad bought That Mitchell and Webb Look (look at sinsofmymind.blogspot.com for my blog about that). Hilarious. I love it. My brother and I almost bought the whole Mighty Boosh set (three series) but he chickened out at the last minute.
That night we went to a restaurant where my cousin manages the restaurant and bar. The hotel is called Ridges and it is on the edge of Carlton and it is amazing. Also highly recommended. Sunday was so fun, I saw so many amazing things.
That night we went to a restaurant where my cousin manages the restaurant and bar. The hotel is called Ridges and it is on the edge of Carlton and it is amazing. Also highly recommended. Sunday was so fun, I saw so many amazing things.
Day 5
Monday was over very quickly. In the morning we packed up and left the apartment at 10am. We rushed around shopping. We went to Job Warehouse which is a huge store jammed with rolls and rolls of fabric. There were at least a few thousand different fabrics and some are twenty or twenty-five years old. My mum bought me a heap of fabric to use (so nice) and I will take a photo of them all. It cost all around $307. Wow.
After that hour spent in there my Mum and I went back down Bourke St to Alan's Music where my brother had so much fun checking out all of the quitars. It was actually heaps cool.
Then we went to the food court, had lunch, went to the airport, dropped off our bags, had a beer with my cousin then hopped on the plane at 2pm and landed back in Hobart at around 3:30.
Hope you enjoyed that. More to come. Byeeee.
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