Well, I've had a busy week. In Canberra for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. In Sydney for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and Saturday was in Launceston at the AATFA state finals. I came second in the evening wear again so I'm going to Sydney on the 10th of October. I'll post photos when I find some.
I bought three pairs of converse. A jacket, a jumper and The Mighty Boosh first season.
This video is the David Jones Spring 2009 preview. Enjoy your week.
xx G
Merry Easter.
Today I had my uncle, aunt and one of my cousins, Bec, over today for Easter Monday lunch. It was pretty fun. I wore this...
I have three of her other books and I love her very muchly. Here they are... 
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.
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!
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, this is the first time I have ever taken photos of what I am wearing. As you can probably tell. It is in my room (I apologise for the mess, haha) and it's what I'm wearing right now. I have no idea how to introduce this.
Well the cream gloves and patterned stockings are from Melbourne. I got the wool, fingerless, ivory gloves for $25 at the Miss Shop in the Myer Basement. The stocking were $18 from the Socks Club in Melbourne Central. Pretty rad. (please comment.)
Pink cardigan - Supre $10; Patterned top - Challans (sale) $10 (down from $120); Second hand skirt; Shoes (which you can't see but are flats - black with white polka dots and a bow on the front) - Sandlers $25.
For the holidays my art teacher made me(well he kind of obviously really wanted me to take it home but after he conveyed that he wanted to make sure it was 'all up to me') take home my painting to finish. We had to find an Australian artist's painting and recreate as what we think Australia is today. Lame. My original painting was one called Mount Dryden from Mount William (I think) from 1857 by artist Eugene von Guerard.
This is a painting I inheritated from my Great Nan when she died last year. It's a picture of some ballerinas doing Swan lake. (I used to do ballet and she's had this for fifty years in her room so she wanted me to have it.) It's beautiful. You can't see here but the detail is amazing. Last year in Sydney my Mum and I found this designer's (Fleur something) boutique where she had the same one and some more from the same artist out the front. Pretty ironic.
I will post some more real soon about Melbourne because I obsessed with recording it in some way and I hope you have a nice day :)
*waves enthusiastically* Byyyyyeeeee.
Loving art.
1. Knocked Up
2. Charmer (has music video)
3. On Call (has music video)
4. McFearless
5. Black Thumbnail
6. My Party
7. True Love Way
8. Ragoo
9. Fans
10. The Runner
11. Trunk
12. Camaro
13. Arizona
Hope everyone else had a good day; everything kinda fixed itself for me. I'm still not playing soccer but I get to stay at Eilish's party and go to the Hamilton Show on Sunday. Hooooray!
Bye-bye.
