Riverland Madness

One of my most favourite places in Melbourne is Riverland, right by the river, hidden beneath the the iconic Federation Square. Fed Square is so touristy - it's great to see this hidden treasure seemingly catered to those who are lucky enough to stumble down the stair behind the building - for sunny days with cold beer and wine!

Today we went to celebrate the birthday of a dear, dear friend.

A fashion blogger I stalk follow religiously is Song of Style and I love how she pairs ankle length clog boots with insanely short dresses and skirts. I then decided to give it a go myself today - and realised I failed miserably as I had neither her skinny legs nor her height.

I had fun dressing up anyway!

Dress - Asos, Bag - Jigsaw, Shoes - Rubi

And of course, my other fashionista half, Hong Yi - she decided to slash her jeans this morning - paired up with her Ozzy Osbourne sunnies she's looking rocker chick for the day!

Thanks Hong for taking pictures of me!

That little dress

I've been MIA as I've been somewhat uninspired, unmotivated by my thesis this semester. It's Week 8 - and I have no actual building form. I sit by the computer for hours and hours and produce nothing... not sure what's going on!

So I blog. Ha ha ha.

A new love of mine after coming to Melbourne are vintage stores. This is very un-asian (certainly the mother went ick when I brought her to one of my favourite vintage stores- (Lost & Found on Smith St, in Brunswick) but the idea of someone else's trash becoming my treasure has some appeal for me.

If there is one thing I like about Melboure is that everyone and anyone is allowed to express themselves by streaking naked across the street if they want to - (this is true!) which means it's the perfect place to discover one's fashion style without (too much) judgement from other people...

So this is what I managed to grab from the mad Retrostar warehouse sales last weekend (for $10...!):

Other lovers of vintage and DIY's are Cheryl and Hong - and we've made a point to stray away from the usual thights+tshirt uni ensemble and dress up during the weekend!

I have many more DIY ideas that I want to do - when I find more time to procrastinate I'll post them up - till then, gros bisous!

she is semi-liberated

for the first time in my entire architecture life (i.e. 6.5 years) i actually finished my final studio folio submission on time. and by 'on time' i mean 9 hours before it's due.

i actually had time to sleep (3 hours), take a long, hot shower, paint my face, pick clothes, and put on booties.

obviously someone up there thought that surely that's too good to be true.

you see, after i chucked the submission CD into the assignment chute, i happily skipped to the mall, and zoomed towards nine west for that shoe.

and found that i was short by $4 in cash.

and for some retarded reason, my debit card didn't work.

or the credit card.

sales girl was giving me sad, i-pity-you look. i told her i'd run to the atm machine. she smiled and said would hold shoe for me.

ran to atm machine.

card declined.

weeped.

called cherie, who came to save the day. poor girl was happily flipping through books on lygon and trammed all the way to the city.

she is sweetest person in world who said she'll come save me even if i was short by 1cent.

everyone needs a cherie in their life. thank you for being my superwoman! you are numero dos after momma.

anyway, i'm thinking: with said shoes.

image from cupcakes&cashmere

but may potentially look like asian seafood (lala). so. perhaps not with cute grey socks. but do tell me what you guys think. with that said, i'm crazy into these kinds of platform-heeled sandals now! (perhaps two seasons too late, winter's fast approaching) i swear to you, they are so bloody comfortable and light and you won't be limping away an hour later.

also very inspired by the fantastic miss hong and want to take fashion pictures but:
1. am terribly unphotogenic, i kid you not
2. can't bring myself to ask someone else to take a picture of me.

so here are my questions:
1. is it possible to carry out cute socks with aforementioned shoes?
2. how does one appear photogenic in fashion pictures?!

p.s. i want to introduce my new favourite fashion blogging website - park&cube - i love her style & her pictures! (perhaps want to get pictures taken like her, youknow, the 'i'm-so-shy-please-don't-take-my-picture-ok-fine-if-you-say-so-take-my-picture-giggle' kind of way.)

update: okay, i tried to take a picture... excuse the mess in the background! i was just out for dinner with some friends & had on old t-shirt - so lazy me put on a skirt, tights, black flats - and dashed out the house. came home and decided to try on shoes - the mother says that it doesn't go very well with black and would like to see it with grey socks.