The Shoe Addict

Likes and dislikes

2012-01-28T11:17:00.001+11:00

What I dislike are people coming to conclusions without asking the whole story, being used, left behind and lonely. I don't like the way people say I exclude myself when they're the ones going off and doing things. I dislike when nobody asks me how I feel, or for my opinion, I dislike how people change because of other people, and then they leave, and I dislike how everyone takes everyone elses side but mine. I dislike how people say I'm being ridiculous and I dislike how clothes aren't made to fit, well humans, but especially me...I wish I lived in the 50s, but that's a rant for another post.

What I like is me, myself, and I, Marilyn Monroe, spending time with people who don't take me for granted, my job (I really love going to work and not hating my job/coworkers), working hard at Zumba which is making my body - especially my boobs - awesome, reading chick-lit, watching TV shows on DVD (21 Jumpstreet anyone? Johnny Depp is so sexy), buying a ridiculous amount of high heels that I'll never wear all of but they look oh so pretty on display...too bad I can't wear heels to work.

Foundations

2012-01-26T11:53:00.002+11:00

Well, my old fuller coverage foundation I was using was Maybelline's Dream Smooth Mousse. Then one day I put it on and was like 'oh hey, it's too dark for me' despite me using what I believe to be the lightest shade. It makes my skin look wonderful, but I fear I'm looking like I'm wearing a mask now when I use it so I don't use it. So I moved back to using my Max Factor Xperience foundation which is a lovely foundation but doesn't seem as fabulous as it was when I first used it. It doesn't have as much coverage as my Maybelline and doesn't want to cover my red patches and uneven skin anymore. So I was in Priceline and decided on a whim to buy Bourjois' Healthy Mix Serum foundation. I vaguely recalled one blogger raving about it and since it was 20% off I got it. I purchased the lightest shade. I used it today and I am not impressed. To be fair, on the packaging it doesn't say it's a full coverage foundation but I found it covered nothing. I put it on and had to cover most of my face with a layer of Benefit's Some Kind-a Gorgeous in lite (also, I'm peeved off at how ridiculously overpriced Benefit is to buy here in Australia, most products are like double the price and I can easily buy them from the Benefit website in the US and including shipping save money!)

So, I'm looking for a replacement foundation, that offers pretty high coverage for pale skin. Can someone help me out please?

Wii

2012-01-17T19:38:00.001+11:00

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My sister and I got a Wii on the weekend. I blame peer pressure and playing everyone else's Wii's and experiencing their awesomeness, but what pushed me over the edge was playing Zumba for Wii at my friends house which was so epic. It uses some routines I know from my DVDs but also has new ones and you can also pick the level which is handy, I skipped straight over Beginner to Intermediate on mine this arvo seeing as I've been Zumba-ing for over a year now. It has a bar at the bottom which fills up when you do the moves right, which I like because it encourages you to do better and go harder. We have 5 games for the Wii so far, one of which is the Michael Jackson Dance Experience. It is so cool. You do some of the moves he does in his video clips for various songs, I'm looking forward to cracking out the Thriller dance in public! If any has suggestions for good Wii games we should get, I'm all ears =]

Back to work

2012-01-09T18:34:00.000+11:00

Well today was my first day back at work and it was pretty good. People were complaining about how nice and warm it was outside and that we were stuck at work but I'd rather be at work as it's airconditioned and at home it isn't. I was very proud of my 2 year olds that moved up with me and settled into the 'big kids' room with no dramas. The only downside is that I'm room leader now which means paperwork galore! Luckily most of it doesn't start until February because that's when we start our programming but there is still heaps to be organised. At least I have time at rest time while the children are asleep to get stuff done. I was nervous about meeting the parents but they've all be so wonderful plus I've met some of them before when their kids were in the babies room with me. This year is gonna be fabulous!

New Template

2012-01-03T16:49:00.003+11:00

Do you like my new fancy pants template. I saw it on Adventures Of Ebony and wondered how she got such a nice layout, and I found it! Of course I had to make mine pink, and you readers can choose from a pulldown menu how you want to view it which is awesome

Da Vinci eye primer

2012-01-03T10:22:00.000+11:00

In between all my rants I'm thinking of throwing in a few product reviews, usually about items I use and love. So hopefully you all like this addition to my blog =]

Today I will be reviewing the Da Vinci eye primer. Now, I'm pretty sure I brought this for a fraction of the price from one of the daily deal websites I use, and going on the products website I'm surprised at how much it retails for and feel like I got a real bargain. I like to apply a bit of coloured eyeshadow under my eyes as eyeliner but find when I come home it has faded away to nothing without use of a primer. I found the Da Vinci primer in my drawer and decided to try it out on new years eve. Using my finger I rubbed a bit under each eye where I planned to apply my eyeshadow and then applied the eyeshadow. It seemed to really pick up the eyeshadow and make it stand out. When I came home, my eyeshadow looked as it did when I first applied it, perfect. When I removed the rest of my makeup with a makeup wipe it refused to budge. So for my first foray into eye primers I'd say this is an excellent one. It can be brought here. I have an Urban Decay primer which I won in a blog giveaway from Ling of The Best Beauty Blog so I'll be sure to put the two against each other.

New Years Eve

2011-12-31T15:18:00.001+11:00

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I know I don't post on here very consistently, or often, or about stuff that always makes sense, but it makes me happy to see people reading my thoughts and I thank you for it. I wish you all a very happy new year and an awesome 2012. I hope you'll join me next year where I shall try and post more often and make more sense.

Bonnebell Vitagloss

2011-12-29T17:28:00.000+11:00

Despite for a while now trying to not buy new lipglosses, I still have a ridiculous amount of them. I use several at once (well obviously, I don't layer like 5 of them on top of each other) once of which is Bonnebell's Vitagloss Moisture Stick in Simply Strawberry.

Yes, I do realise Bonnebell traditionally is a company which produces products marketed at well, girls under 10. The reason I purchased this was that I remember loving it when I was well, probably 10 and seeing it in a lipgloss bargain bin at Priceline I couldn't pass it up. The lipgloss is well, meh. 10 year old me loved it but 22 year old me doesn't. It's sticky and if you put too much on it goes clumpy which is gross. On the plus side it smells like a strawberry chupa chup. I hope to finish it soon so I can get through my other eleventy million lipglosses.

Acrylic

2011-12-24T16:22:00.000+11:00

For over a year now I've had acrylic nails but I've decided to grow them out as I was over them. I could get them removed, but last time I did it was painful and they ruined my nails underneath as they basically used a file to get under the acrylics and lever them off, very ouch. This growing them off business is annoying me. It's probably not as noticable to everyone else, but I can see the difference between my acrylic nail and my real nail. And trimming them was a nightmare. I brought a clipper like they use in the salon (picture below), but it was hard to cut my nails with it and it also chipped bits off the edge of my acrylics.

So today I resorted to using regular nail clippers but a bigger set, made for toes which actually left my nails looking better than when I used the salon nail clipper. I'm currently distracting people from the mess that is my nails by painting them in not too garish colours and covering them in holographic glitter. This one in Silver:

Which I purchased from Crush Cosmetics. It is awesome. It looks great and dries, as claimed, within seconds. I'll have to definately purchase the Gold when it comes back in stock.

Vaseline Aloe Fresh

2011-12-17T11:50:00.002+11:00

I've been lucky a lady lately, winning a few blog giveaways. One of which was hosted by Cosmetic Cupcake. I won a 375ml bottle of Vaseline Aloe Fresh Lotion SPF 15.

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The biggest plus for the Aloe Fresh Lotion is that it contains SPF. I usually try to go for SPF 30+ being as pale as I am, but I've read that the different in protection between a SPF15 and a SPF30+ is only a couple of percent. The lotion smells lovely, and is a great consistency which is easily spread on the body. I love pump bottles, as they're just so convenient for application for large areas of the body, and I must admit pumping their tops is pretty fun. So thank you 'Chelle for your awesome giveaway! Be sure to check out her blog.

Out with the old..

2011-12-14T18:50:00.003+11:00

Am I the only person, who takes joy in throwing out old stuff, to make way for new stuff? For example, I just got rid of half my bras, because I'd outgrown them, which means wooo I get to shop for new ones! Those undies, with the tiny hole at the top, gone! To make way for a shiny new pair. Those dresses I thought I liked, but now look bleurgh on, bye bye! The only exception to this rule are work pants, finding pants to fit my booty is extremely difficult, and the pairs I do own I will wear to death. One pair has quite a few holes in them, small ones mind you, but they're growing. But I refuse to throw them out. Lucky I work in childcare.

Tousled

2011-12-06T17:35:00.001+11:00

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In two separate blog giveaways I was lucky enough to win products from the Herbal Essences 'Tousle Me Softly' range. So a big thank you to Angie of An Obsession With The Fabulous and Ling of The Best Beauty Blog (both awesome blogs, so check em out!). I ended up with two of each shampoo and conditioner, and one styling mousse and one spray gel. The aim of the range is to give you sexy tousled hair, I'd say a la Brigitte Bardot. Did the products tousle me? Well, I tried the shampoo and conditioner, and they smell gorgeous - of wild violet and pomegranate - and I then half dried my hair and let it air dry the rest. Usually when my hair dries it is pretty much straight, but with this shampoo and conditioner my layers, well tousled - I had a loose wave at the ends of my hair which looked really pretty. Next wash I'll be sure to try out the mousse or spray gel and hopefully end up with even more tousled locks. Thanks again to Ling and Angie for my lovely products!

People

2011-12-03T10:09:00.001+11:00

This is gonna be a rant, so If you don't wanna hear (well read) me rant, skip right along. Ok so, arranging to meet up with a certain friend is almost impossible, she's never ever free between work and uni and family stuff. But Friday evening I found out later she'd been trying to call me because she wanted to meet up for dinner. A little notice in advance would have been nice. First off, my phone is never on me as nobody ever texts me besides my best friend Lauren (not myself, another Lauren). My phone was on silent, charging and I had to clue she was trying to reach me. If this friend calls me it's usually about her trying to convert me to this...thing...she's a part of, it sounds horrible but I avoid those calls, so when I saw a text later with her asking me to 'call her' I though nothing of it, if it was that important, put it in a text? Secondly, everyone assumes I'm always free? It could be because I always say I am, which I usually am...mostly because everyone tends to go out places without inviting me, I'm like the afterthought if I ever get invited anywhere, which is rare these days. I either have to arrange my own outings, which are impossible as everyone is 'zomg busy', or just do nothing. If I ever wanna do something last minute, nobody is ever free, so I've given up on that. Makes me wonder if I should give up on certain things altogether..

Blogs I look forward to - Part Two

2011-12-01T19:43:00.001+11:00

I shall keep it short and simple with this installment of blogs I look forward to. All these blogs are created by gorgeous girls, with awesome tastes in fashion, and wardrobes I envy. I also hope none of them mind me using their pretty pictures on my little old blog =] So go on and check out their blogs!

http://esmeandthelaneway.blogspot.com

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www.afashionloveaffair.com

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kendieveryday.blogspot.com

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http://vixenvintage.blogspot.com/

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Lita

2011-11-27T14:59:00.001+11:00

Considering I'm not really a fashion blogger as I rarely post what I'm wearing, I guess it's not that much of a crime to hate the Jeffrey Campbell Lita shoes, right?

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I just do not get the appeal. The big, ugly and clumpy and not particulary flattering. I do not care how comfy they are, same applies to these as it does to Crocs, it doesn't matter how comfy they are, when they're ugly. There are plenty of cute and comfy shoes out there, that are also flattering, oh and cheaper. Guess I'd make a bag fashion blogger as I don't have or want a pair of these.

Blogs I look forward to

2011-11-21T18:32:00.001+11:00

There a quite a few bloggers in my reading list I get excited about when I see their name pop up with a new a blog post. One of them is Veronika's Blushing. She's always so put together and her hair is amazing and although I rarely watch youtube videos, I enjoy watching hers...especially her hauls, kinda wish I lived in America when I see all the awesome stuff she buys.

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Another blog I always look forward to reading is buy now, blog later. Laura dresses fabulously, and I envy her gorgeous Mui Mui handbag. And she has pink jeans, awesome!

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What blogs get you excited?

Last Night

2011-11-20T17:21:00.001+11:00

Last night I celebrated my birthday with (most of) my friends. I say most of as one friend was sick, and a certain friend decided to tell me they couldn't come at the last minute because of something else being on which sounded like they knew about for ages. Ah well, I enjoyed my night with the friends who came, although I wish Siobhan could have come but I didn't want her contagious virus, so lucky she kept it at home. We went to The Retro, and almost everyone - including me - got lost getting there...even though I've been before. I totally fail at knowing how to get places. The girls I came with and I spent a while waiting while the other attempted to navigate their way to The Retro, during which time we were starving. We eventually got food, and the others arrived with my present, a gigantic cupcake!

It was as delicious as it looked. Mmmm Oreos! Between the snacks we ordered and the cupcake I was full, but the others weren't so we went in search of food along the harbour. As we were walking, me carrying my cake in it's massive box, a firework display started! It was epic. The first one made me jump because I wasn't expecting it. They were so awesome, everyone said it was my birthday present...and a pretty awesome one at that. They all finally got food. After which we wandered back to The Retro to meet my friend and her boyfriend and his brother. It was packed, luckily we had stamps from going in before we didn't have to wait in line. Unfortunately my choice of footwear wasn't the best choice for dancing. The platform at the front of my heel curved up so it was hard to balance on, causing to me almost fall quite a few times. Next time, I shall wear more sensible shoes...well try to! In all it was an awesome night. I definately need to go out dancing more often. Here are some more photos from the night:

Why Lauren isn't allowed to use a knife...I try and stab people with it :P I actually almost got someone with the knife with my reckless knife waving, whoops!

My pretty princess crown. I wanna wear it all the time!

My favourite photo from the night =]

Happy Birthday to Lauren

2011-11-18T17:02:00.001+11:00

So yesterday, was my birthday! I turned 22 (but shh, I'm staying 21 forever) and all the children at my centre - all 60 odd of them - sang me happy birthday, it was so cute. I gave the babies in my room cupcakes, which wasn't the best idea as they ran around crazy for the rest of the afternoon. Us teachers got chocolate cake, I had two slices...lucky I went to zumba that night. For my birthday from my family I got the Miss Dior Cherie perfume.

It smells so gorgeous. I've been wanting it for ages and everytime I went into Myer or David Jones I'd spray it on myself, mostly cause it smells pretty but partly so I could find out if it gave me a headache or not. Fortunately it doesn't. My other present was a Tiffany and Co necklace.

It looks like this one, except instead of a plain heart tag for the second charm, it's Tiffany blue. It's so tiny and adorable. I had a wonderful day. Tonight I'm going out for dinner with my family, and on Saturday I'm going out on the town with my friends, which shall be epic.

Tacori

2011-11-10T17:32:00.001+11:00

Hey all. Be sure to head on over to M Loves M for an amazing giveaway. She's giving away a gorgeous ring worth over $2000, yes you read that correctly. So what are you waiting for? -click-

Box It Up

2011-11-09T18:36:00.003+11:00

Today I recieved another of my Lust Have It subscription boxes, and I was disappointed. Personally the products inside this months one weren't the kind of products I get excited about. Without giving away too much about the contents to anyone who is awaiting theirs, a nail buffer and hair products don't excite me. Last months one was so-so also. Which is why I've moved on and joined up with Glossy Box and I Love This Box. Excessive, maybe a bit, but I cancelled my Lust Have It subscription and will probably just maintain my subscription to only one of these once I decide which is my favourite. A plus for Glossy Box is that I filled out a survey to help to - I'm assuming - tailor the contents of the box to what I like. So here's hoping their boxes impress me.

I'll tumbl for ya

2011-11-06T19:44:00.002+11:00

This is just a post to plug my tumblr -click- which is full of prettifulled pictures. So yeah, check it out =]

In other news, if you Google search 'How to pronounce Siobhan' my blog is the first result, turns out lots of people wanna know how to pronounce Siobhan. If you're curious, clicky here.

Chiffon

2011-10-30T16:47:00.002+11:00

Sitting in my wardrobe for quite a while has been a black high waisted chiffon maxi skirt I brought from Supre online in a moment of 'omg, I can totes rock that' but turns out, I can't. I'm not exactly tall - I'm 5 foot 4ish - so I'm worried it'll make me look like a gnome. I always see other bloggers rocking the maxi and looking awesome, so it can be done. I just need some tips on how to style it without looking stupid. How do you wear your maxi skirts?

MAC

2011-10-25T18:16:00.000+11:00

I recieved my order from MAC makeup wholesale today. I'm going to say straight off the bat, these items are not geniune, especially considering the price points. I only paid over $10 for one thing which was an eyeshadow palette, but the rest of the stuff - which included foundations, mascaras and blushes that retail (for the genuine article) over here for $50 a piece - I paid under $10 for. So I thought I might as well try it out. They claim to be items made in the same factory as MAC and are the best replicas out there. As I pulled the pieces of my order out of my box, a few items looked unfamiliar as they have appeared to have either thrown them in my mistake or have sent them as free trials, either way, woo free makeup! Some of the packaging could pass off as the real deal, but some of them are real shoddy, but as long as the item does a reasonable job, to pay under $10 I'll be happy as even 'drugstore' makeup here isn't cheap. So I'll be trying the makeup out, and be discussing the good, the bad and the ugly on here.

Brush strokes

2011-10-24T18:52:00.000+11:00

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If you're in the market for a new brush to apply your face powder, I don't suggest buying the one above. It's called the rounded powder brush by Cosmetica and I brought it from Target. It looked like a nice brush, big and much fluffier than most brushes I saw...and played with :P and for I think $21 it seemed like a good buy. At first every couple of times it would loose a hair and I figured "hmm, that's not good" but now every single time I use it, it looses even more hair, so I end up having to search for and pick them off my face...or else I end up looking like I've grown lovely long black hairs on my face. If anyone can recommend a good fluffy powder brush that doesn't shed and isn't an arm and a leg (so no MAC for me) I'm all ears. My old was a Natio one, and I replaced it with a new identical Natio one, but for some reason the new one wasn't fluffy, it was flat and I hated it so I gave it away. So yes, any suggestions, fire away!

I Love This Box

2011-10-21T17:19:00.002+11:00

I Love This Box is about to launch here in Australia, which is like Glossy Box or Birchbox. I already am signed up to Lust Have It which I've been reasonably happy with so far. But the brands I Love This Box are offering include Benefit and Chanel so I wanna join, but that'll mean I'll be spending $30 on the boxes a month if I get both, which is money I could be spending on other stuff...or cosmetics I know I'll love. But the benefits of boxes like these are that I get to try more expensive brands I usually wouldn't spend my money on. Both subscriptions can be cancelled at any time so I'm considering having both, and then in the future cancelling the one which wows me least. What would you do?

Christian Louboutin closed toe patent pumps

2011-10-17T19:01:00.003+11:00

Since my shoe purchases yesterday, I really shouldn't be buying shoes. So to deter me, I'm looking at Christian Louboutin shoes. How does that deter me you may ask? Well, the waaaay out of my budget prices make sure I just look at them, and not buy them. Like these:

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They're the Pigalle 120 patent-leather pumps and they're gorgeous. Kate Moss always wears them with everything and they look fabulous. I'd wear my pair all the time...expect to work, kinda a occupational health and safety with the kiddies. I'd even wear them to bed!

While I'm shopping with my imaginary limitless credit card, I'd also love a pair of these:

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They're only 2000 pounds...I think I'd cry if I converted the price into Australian Dollars. They're covered in Swarovski crystals and would sparkle with every step. The heel looks comfy and when I'm not wearing my Pigalle's, I'd wear these.

And when you didn't think I could find any more bling, I found my dream wedding shoes:

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They're not Louboutins, but these Jimmy Choos are gorgeous. Look at the bling! I guess I better start looking for a husband who brings in a lot of moolah..

Legra

2011-10-16T20:18:00.000+11:00

I went shopping today. I may or may not have come home with 4 pairs of new shoes...in my defence two of them are for work! One of the pairs of shoes I got I've been wanting for ages. They're these beauties:

They're by Siren and are called Legra and are gorgeous (and obviously not for work). I wanted them as soon as I saw them and when my local shoe store was having sale making them just under $100, I had to make them mine. They'll more than likely be my birthday present to myself. What, you don't buy yourself birthday presents? They're the best, because you picked it, so you know you'll love it.

It's my birthday in less than a month, so I've been planning what I'm going to do for it and I've decided on going to The Retro Hotel in the city. I love it because they have all different floors of music from new stuff to 70s and 80s. I don't really like going to the city as it's such a hike and I fail at taking public transport but since it's my birthday, it's a special treat. I'm so looking forward to it, now to find something to wear. You can never be prepared too much in advance :P

Crimson Rosella

2011-10-14T18:34:00.002+11:00

I decide that I'm going to grow my hair longer because making high ponytails without hair my hair falling out of them are impossible, and then I find this awesome blog and suddenly feel the need to chop my hair off again. And possibly dye it blonde...which won't suit me, but I do wanna go blonder for summer. I wanna try the John Frieda Sheer Blonde lightening spray stuff (click) but am slightly concerned it may make me too blonde for my liking. Ah well, the only way to find out is to try it out.

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I finally ordered online from the Lush store. I say finally, as last time I tried, for some reason before payment some of the items I wanted changed the quanties themselves so I was buying 2 or more items, instead of 1 and when I went back to change it to 1, it changed again, so I gave up. But this time it worked. I had to buy some more Snow Fairy body wash. It smells sensational. In the bottle it smells pretty nice, but after using it, you smell amazing...as does your bathroom. I also got some Snow Fairy lip tint, a soap and scrub and they threw in a free Cupcake face mask. At first I thought silly me accidentally ordered it - I do love cupcakes after all - but as it expires in a few days I guess they chucked it in for free before it expired. I'll be using that tonight. And my room now smells like a Lush store, yum!

Hear hear

2011-10-13T17:14:00.001+11:00

I'm sorry to be posting again about a search term someone typed in to Google that led them to my blog but I just find them so darn amusing. Someone typed in 'short girls look bad in ankle boots' and found my blog, but I'd like to correct them, everyone looks bad in ankle boots...unless you're like a model with 6 foot long legs. No offence to anyone who likes them, just there are plenty more flattering shoes that you could be wearing. And don't get me started on peeptoe booties.

I want to update my blog roll, and if you'd like to add my little blog to your blog roll, I'd be happy to add you to mine =]

I'm sick of exercise braggers on Facebook

2011-10-10T18:37:00.002+11:00

My post title is how one person found my blog, and it made my lol, cause it's true. Anyways, on the weekend as well as attending my adorable cousin's 1st birthday party (with a jumping castle, and cupcakes!) I went to the Oroton sale at DFO. It was a biggie, 70% off RRP and as it had started earlier in the week and was ending on Sunday, the day I was going, I didn't expect to find much left. But as dad offered to drive me, I went anyways. Lucky I did because I got some lovely stuff. I spend $300 on a bag, shoes, wallet and keyring and saved $700, yes $700. I was pleased as punch. I got this style of flat, in silver but it's a kinda crackle finish. The keyring is this one, but in pink. The bag is similar to this one, but it's all chocolate leather. They don't have a wallet like mine on their website, but it's a glomesh one. If you don't know what glomesh is, I suggest you google it now because it's so crazy awesome. I already have a vintage glomesh wallet, but I couldn't pass up the beautiful black leather and glomesh one. DFO is like my favourite place to shop, I wish I lived in Melbourne, they have 3 DFOs which so isn't fair. Ah well, in January me and my friend Lauren will be making our third yearly pilgrimage to the DFO in Canberra which is at least twice the size of our DFO, and much closer than Melbourne. I'll just have to try not spend all my moolah online in the meantime..

Hey

2011-10-04T20:08:00.000+11:00

Hi all! I'm not dead, just been work work working. Well, we did have a long weekend last weekend which was awesome. On Saturday night I went out for dinner with the girls to Pancakes on The Rocks at North Strathfield and got terribly lost. Even though I totally knew how to get there, I decided to go another way, stupidly. I've learnt my lesson, I shall go the way I know to places, even if is the long way, or I will end up lost. The pancakes were delicious, like always. I polished off the whole plate...and was still hungry. Man I eat too much, haha. On Sunday I went shopping in the city with a friend. We went into all the expensive designer stores - Chanel, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Mui Mui - which was a first for me. My friend was planning on buying new flats, so went into Chanel, and they ignored us. I'm assuming they thought we were much younger than our age (I'm 21, almost 22, and look, well, much younger) so we couldn't afford to buy their $800 flats. Yes, $800 for flats, I was gobsmacked. So we moved onto Louis Vuitton where the sales lady was very nice and my friend got $600 flats, which is still waaay too much in my opinion, I thought the $120 flats I got were kinda exxy but they're adorable and leather and I'll wear them all the time! But yes, designer stores are intimindating. Especially since half the stuff in the store is more than my car. Someday I'd love to own some designer gear, but currently, I'll stick to being a cheapskate :P when I marry my rich husband (in my dreams) then I can have designer gear.

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400 posts, woo hoo! Turns out I managed to fill 400 posts with my ramblings, which people actually read occasionally! Thank you to those few who read my little old blog =]

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I recommend you check out this blog post on The Best Beauty Blog on some amazingly horrible customer service in a clothing store.

Oh Zumba, how I've missed you

2011-09-19T18:59:00.000+10:00

I did Zumba again for the first time in over a week and it felt sooo good. I couldn't Zumba cause I've been having a sore head for my ears being blocked because of my allergies. I even missed my weekly class. I won't go on again about how awesome Zumba is, but I will complain about how everyone and their pet cat is doing Zumba...well maybe not their cats, but everyone is doing Zumba. Which is fine and good, I know I'm not the only person who does Zumba. But everyone always brags about doing it on Facebook. I. Do. Not. Care. Sure, it works, but you've done it once, which means you look exactly how you did before you did Zumba. Doing it once does not give you a bikini body so shut up and keep Zumba-ing. I've been doing it over a year and still don't have abs like Beto, so you can keep dreaming.

Quality over quantity

2011-09-10T19:50:00.000+10:00

I just had - yet another - wardrobe cleanout. I tend to buy stuff that's "oooh, adorable!" but will never wear...usually because it doesn't suit me or I just change my mind and don't like it anymore. I actually haven't brought that many clothes lately, and what I've brought has been the same kinda things, cropped shirts, anything leopard print and lots of dresses. I've been doing crazy over the brand Dangerfield lately (and just saw on the website they're opening an online store soon, watch out Visa debit card!) unfortunately their full priced clothing is out of my budget, but on sale I'm happy to pay $40 for a dress as they're of such high quality. As they're retro inspired clothing the hemlines are decent, something that you rarely find in clothes these days. I'm definately not tall, at 5 foot 4ish, and many modern dresses and skirts are indecent on me. And if they're a decent length, they're usually see through. I guess it serves me right for buying cheap clothing, so I try and buy better quality stuff when I can but still for cheap. How do I do it you ask? Well, DFO is a favourite place of mine. For those not in Australia DFO stands for Direct Factory Outlets aka heaven to my ears. I've gotten clothing from there for a fraction of retail prices. My favourite stores in the Homebush DFO are Country Road, Brands United, Cotton On and Wanted Shoes. I also love to op-shop. I go straight for the dresses and often find adorable vintage dresses but my favourite op-shop purchase is my black Country Road cardigan. On the original tag it was marked down to $80 (brand new with tags I should add) I paid $6 for it. Ebay is also another love of mine, but that's a whole another post.

Totally employed

2011-09-07T11:34:00.004+10:00

As of yesterday, I now have a fulltime job! It's at the place I've been working casually at recently and as of tomorrow I start fulltime work. Woo! Hello steady income. At the moment I'll be with the babies which I'm looking forward to as they're so adorable.

In makeup news, I purchased another...erm tube? of Max Factor Xperience foundation.You need hardly any to cover your whole face and it gives light coverage but covers up un-even skin tone and red patches - which my skin is having a ton of lately, I've brought products that are supposed to fix all that and I will be definately raving if they do and ranting if they don't. You will need a concealer to cover big pimples. I haven't finished my current tube but with Priceline having a half off deal on it I couldn't resist.

Since it's Spring here in Australia it's now sunscreen time. Yes, you are supposed to wear it year round and I did put a SPF on my face if I was going out in the sun in Winter but I didn't see the point in wearing sunscreen on my body when it was covered in clothes. I'd love to find a tinted moisturiser with an SPF of 30+ because sunscreen alone (even if it's face one) usually makes my skin all oily looking. I've brought a Face Of Australia one I've yet to try but if anyone has any suggestions (keeping in mind I have pale skin) I'm all ears.

Maybelline Lash Stiletto - Ling's Linky Party

2011-09-04T11:56:00.001+10:00

via Google

My favourite mascara at the moment has got to be Maybelline's Lash Stiletto mascara. I have it in Blackest Black and believe I got it for free with a magazine (the only reason I buy magazines to be honest, to get free stuff). It's an amazing mascara. It lengthens my lashes and also thickens them. It also holds a curl after curling my eyelashes with an eyelash curler. Nothing to do with it's performance, but the package is tres sexy. I'd definately recommend buying it, and I will definately be buying a new one when this one is past it's prime.

This post was done to join in Ling's Linky Party and you should definately go check it out =]

Zomg photos

2011-08-24T16:10:00.000+10:00

So, I've been working a lot lately, 5 days last week and 4 days this week which makes for a boring blog post, that's when I do find time to blog so I haven't been blogging at all. The centre is wonderful and it totally helps that it's so close to home, a 5 minute-ish walk to get there. My poor car has been neglected though, ah well, it makes it all the more exciting when I do drive it.

Zee boy has texted me 3 times, saying that he misses me and actually likes me and wants to get together. I haven't replied because he had his chance and now he's lost me. In a way, after all that's happened with guys in the past, it's good to see that someone - not to sound conceited - has realised what they're missing out on. I'm definately not going to go back to him though, I don't miss him and am better off without him.

Contents of my Lust box

After seeing many international bloggers having had boxes from companies such as Birchbox sent to them, full of lovely beauty goodies, which come monthly but do not deliver overseas. I was delighted to discover Lust Have It which is an Australian version. At $14.95 a month, including delivery and companies such as OPI and Dermalogica being involved I had to sign up. My first box looks interesting but so far I have only tried the Mirenesse lipgloss which is lovely shiny pinky nude colour. The Naked Tan self tanner will come in handy when I get my fake tan for my dance concert in December so I can prolong my tan. I'll be giving the Burts Bees lemon cuticle butter to a friend as I don't like the smell of Burts Bees products. In the background of the photo is an item not included in the Lust box but an absolute favourite at the moment - my Lanolin lip balm. I brought it online during my 'Omg my lips are dry' induced shopping spree. It keeps my lips nice and soft and it's reassuring that it has an SPF 30.

Another product I'm loving at the moment is my Kiehl's Rare Earth Pre Refining Tonic. It makes my skin lovely and soft and it's too soon to tell as I've only been using it nightly for around a fortnight but hopefully it makes my pores less noticeable.

Lately I've been buying a lot of cropped tops and button up tops. The button up tops are perfect for this transitional weather. At this very moment I'm wearing a black button up unbuttoned over a leopard print dress. As I don't care for trends, this summer I'll be wearing high waisted skirts and cropped tops...the same as last summer. One thing I do need, as it's still kinda cold, are black cargo pants for work, not the trendy tight ones you can't move in, the baggy ones. But they're impossible to find. All the ones I find are either expensive or don't fit my booty.

Phew, what a long post. I hope the pictures made it more enjoyable =]

The Best Beauty Blog 1st Birthday Giveaway

2011-08-21T11:53:00.000+10:00

Yes, I have been neglecting my poor little blog and will blog properly later but first I wanted to share with you the awesome giveaway Ling has going on her blog The Best Beauty Blog. It's her birthday and in celebration she's doing a giveaway full of awesome stuff. Go check it out, it's one of the best giveaways I've seen in a while and I'll definately be jealous of the winner.

So this is it

2011-08-02T20:26:00.000+10:00

So it's over with zee boy. I'm not the type of the girl who's gonna change to what a guy wants me to be, I'm me and you better accept me for what I am or you won't be in my life much longer. I also won't be the girl to be saying 'yes sir' to everything a guy says to keep the peace, I will speak my mind and don't you sulk about it or say I'm wrong, everyone's entitled to their own opinion. Also, I won't put up with a guy dissing my interests, fair enough you don't have to be into shoes (actually, if a guy showed a huge interest in ladies footwear I'd be a bit concerned, lol) but please don't diss my interests to my face. I guess in the end it was a good thing, it's give me a better idea of what I do and don't want in a man and I'm very proud of myself for not shedding any tears about it being over.

Also, I wanna know from my readers what you wanna see more in my blog. Complaining? haha, that's gonna happen regardless, or outfit posts (yes, there haven't been any in ages but if people wanna see em I'll make an effort to bring them back, or lists of things I wanna buy, or I dunno, give me ideas and I'll do what I can to make them happen :)

Would you rather

2011-07-29T17:34:00.000+10:00

Borrowed from emmabovary as it's an interesting spin on the usual makeup questionnaire.

1) Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, eyeliners, lipsticks, and lip-glosses or lose all of your palettes and eye shadows?

Palettes and eyeshadows. Mascara is a beauty must have for me and I'm just learning how to use eyeliner so I can't lose them.

2) Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again?

Chop it all off. I currently wanna chop my hair off again to above the shoulders. But it's winter and cold so I might have to wait until summer

3) Would you rather have a coral cheek or a pink cheek?

Pink definately. My blushes are all pink and I love them.

4) If you had $1000 to spend, would you rather buy clothes or makeup?

Clothes, specifically shoes. Preferably Louboutins.

5) Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner or eyeliner as lipstick?

Oooh, lipstick as eyeliner, I guess a pink could work as an undereye accent if done carefully.

6) Would you rather only shop at MAC or Sephora?

I've never been in a Sephora, well not even a dedicated MAC store as I don't believe we have them in Australia, but I'd pick MAC, cause their stuff is so sparkly.

7) Would you rather only use one eye shadow color or one lip color the rest of your life?

One lip colour. Using one eye shadow would be much less versatile, whereas if you picked a perfect lip colour, that's classic, you'd be set.

8) Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?

Summer clothes in winter. Layer layer layer!

9) Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails all year round?

Red nails? I guess the red I have on at the moment is pretty bright so I'll go with bright red nails.

10) Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or your favorite eye product?

If we're talking mascara, don't take them away from me! Take my lip stuff, haha. Although I am in love with my lanolin lip balm which helped fixed my dry lips, and I wouldn't want that taken away from me. Why must you steal my stuff?

11) Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a ponytail or a messy bun?

Messy bun, easier to do.

12) Would you rather never be able to paint your nails again or never use lip-gloss?

Never be able to paint my own nails again, I may be cheating but I'd go get someone else to do it, like I already do, haha.

13) Would you rather shave your eyebrows and have none at all? Or sharpie them in everyday?

Sharpie them in, I am so not shaving my eyebrows!

14) Would you rather live without makeup or nail polish?

Isn't nail polish makeup? Nevertheless, I'd live without nail polish as makeup gives a broader choice.

A day in the life

2011-07-22T14:33:00.000+10:00

Soooooo, what have I been up to lately? Besides not blogging obviously. Well I've been spending a lot of time in my jammies. And some time looking for a new job. And also some time doing casual work at a lovely centre down the road. Casual pay rates are awesome. I've also been sleeping. And hanging with the boy (btw why can't everything be so simple?) but not seeing my girls enough, but it's ok we have Siobhan's birthday picnic on Sunday. It was supposed to be at a park but it's been pouring rain for the last few days so it's going to be an indoor picnic. I've been abusing my bank account with online shopping and spending too much time trawling ebay. I've been reading lots and lots of my subscribed blogs, and tumblr-ing what I see and like. I've developed a love of Marilyn Monroe and have decided that when I grow up I wanna be her. My fish keep coming back from the brink of death and I so don't have too many pairs of shoes. I did another wardrobe clean out - I swear I keep the op-shop down the road running with all my donations. I've got into a routine with my Zumba-ing. I do it at home on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and I do my dance class on Tuesday and go to Zumba class Thursday and give myself the weekend off. It's working pretty well and I'm loving the new Exhillarate DVDs I brought off ebay. So yeah, that's my life at the moment, gotta say I'm pretty content at the moment and I hope things keep going on as they are =]

ABC me

2011-07-11T10:49:00.001+10:00

So I borrowed this from Ling at The Best Beauty Blog. Any excuse to talk about myself I'll take.

A. Age: 21, and I'm staying 21 for evers. It'll work out well because at the moment I look like I'm a teenager.

B. Bed size: Single

C. Chore you hate: All of them? Haha. I don't clean unless I'm being to at work.

D. Day: Every day at the moment! Being unemployed is awesome....until I spend all my money online

E. Essential start to your day: Ummm, I don't really have anything must do things in the morning

F. Favourite colour: Pink! Girly girl, that's meee.

G. Gold or silver: Silver. Tiffany & Co silver please :D

H. Height: Five foot four ish I think

I. Instruments: Can't play any

J. Job Title: Not applicable at the moment, haha

K. Kids: None yet

L. Live: Sydney

M. Mum’s name: Marina

N. Nickname: I have plenty, haha. My high school friends call me Noblar which I used to hate but it's grown on me

O. Overnight hospital stay: Never

P. Pet peeve: Umm, plenty but none are coming to mind. People in general really.

Q. Quote from a movie: “Nobody puts baby in a corner" from Dirty Dancing, ahhhh so romantic.

R. Right or left handed: Right.

S. Siblings: One younger sister

T. Time you wake up: Well unemployed it's around 10, but I used to get up at 7 for work.

U. Underwear: Usually of the pink variety

V. Vegetables you dislike: Most of them, but especially peas...I hate peas!

W. What makes you run late: I'm usually pretty good at being on time. If I'm running late it's because I got distracted by something awesome

X. X-Rays you’ve had: None

Y. Yummy food you make: None, haha. I'm a bad cook

Z. Zoo: Elephants! The baby ones!

Oh! I forgot to add that I'm tagging anyone who read it all to do this quiz also. But sure to link me to yours =]

A letter you'll never see

2011-07-10T12:23:00.000+10:00

This is going to be one of those personal blog posts that will make no sense to most, but it's something I need to say to someone, but can't. So bear with me.

To I know who,
Listen, we all have our leftover baggage, which can be hard to deal with. But especially with my 'zomg, all guys suck' state of mind I'm thinking I'm doing an ok job at getting past that and trusting that you're not one of those 'guys who suck'. Come on, I totally believe that you're different. I'm giving you your space, yet now after me opening my mouth and saying the whole texting all the time thing makes it's confusing...you want space yet text me all the time? And now you've decided it's crowding you. It's frustrating, I'm trying to be me, get past all the baggage and now you're seemingly not talking to me? And the comment about how I need to be in a relationship yet you want to be in one...it makes no sense. If I needed to be in a relationship how come I've been single for what? Over two years? I just don't understand. If I'm going to try and leave my baggage at the door you need to give me the same courtesy. I've probably mentioned my ex way too often, but it's mostly because I'm acknowledging that you're, thankfully, nothing at all like him. Look, I want to make this work, but you need to let me know what you want...sooner rather than later cause I don't want my heart broken again.

Big News

2011-07-02T17:10:00.000+10:00

Ok, here goes my life updated. First off, I met zee boy, and all is going amazingly. For once I'm actually positive about a relationship working out, so fingers crossed it all goes well. We've seen each other three times and have been texting heaps - the proof is in my ridiculous phone bill that I don't wanna talk about, I'm now on an unlimited plan. This makes my past relationships feel like they weren't real true proper ones, if that makes sense. And I can be my ridiculous, talk before thinking self around him and I can wear my super dooper high heels around him cause I'm tiny and he's tall. It is awesome :D Any tips on not screwing up relationships would be helpful, haha.

I also have got work, and the best part is that it's a childcare centre that's a 5 minute walk away from home. It's not a permanent job, as they needed casuals and when they need permanent staff they hire from their casuals. Plus casual work = more moolah per hour. But yes, it's a start and it's a lovely centre so hopefully I get more shifts there. In future there will be a maternity leave position which is promising. So yes, fingers crossed for me.

I'm still standing

2011-06-25T18:33:00.000+10:00

Hey all. Just a quick post to let you all know I'm still alive. I was planning to update you all on my life but then I went and screwed up my neck and the paaaaaaaain. Next week I promise a proper update. Thanks all for sticking around =]

P.S. I've been updating my tumblr a lot recently. It's mostly reblogs, but go look, pretty pictures!

So far, so good.

2011-06-13T12:43:00.000+10:00

I swear this post won't be full of complaining. Cause something nice has happened to me recently. Well, someone nice. I'm just gonna come out and say, due to my persistance that a friend I go out to meet guys, and the raining preventing us, she made me an online dating profile. I figured I might as well try it out and if all the guys on there are major sleazes after one thing - which is what I was expecting to be honest - I could just not go on there again. But turns out there are some nice ones on there. A guy that's been texting you almost non stop since Thursday afternoon, and makes you smile. But more importantly, a guy who didn't make it clear he was just after sex during our first conversation. Before you go and bag out meeting people online, and how stupid I am and how unsafe it is, I just wanna firstly say I'm so scared to meet the guy. What if we don't get along in person? What if he's nothing like he seems? What if I'm not what he expects? It's just all so scary, and happened so quickly. There have been no "oh, that's not gonna work moments", it's all been "damn, we go so well together" which is ridiculous, we only just 'met'! And the stuff you're not supposed to talk about like past relationships, and how much of a complainer I am, and how I'm so boring and do go anywhere we've talked about, and he's not running away, it's crazy. It's early days, but this is nice, I hope it lasts.

Things I want to add to my wardrobe - part three

2011-06-04T11:00:00.000+10:00

I think it's time I posted another installment of Things I want to add to my wardrobe.

Black and white striped cardigan - I used to have one, but it was 3/4 sleeved and I prefer my cardigans to have full length sleeves, so I got rid of it and now want to replace it with one with long sleeves.

Sexy red dress - Since I've discovered how awesome it is to go out clubbing, I've been needing new dresses. Anyone who clubs knows what kind of dresses you wear, but everyone always wears black. So I want a red dress to stand out from the crowd.

Denim cut-offs - Preferably, I'd like to get a pair of vintage high waisted jeans and cut them up into denim cut offs. Also all the cut-offs I've seen new in stores are super skanky and show your butt cheeks, not a good look.

Biker boots - I want a black pair of biker boots, with buckles. I know the exact style I want, yet I haven't seen any in stores =[ the search continues.

Red heels - I own like a million pairs of black heels, and I've decided I need a pair of red heels, since I don't have a pair. And searching for a pair of red heels keeps me away from looking at black heels...usually.

Cape - Capes are awesome. And I want one. The perfect one I found is a cross between a trench coat and a cape but it's like $300 so it's waaay out of my price range. So I'll need to find a waaaaay cheaper alternative.

Jeans - I'm so not looking forward to buying new jeans, as it's always a hassle to find ones that fit properly without me needing a belt. But since I chucked out most of my jeans as they were either too big or didn't fit properly, I'm in need of a new pair.

Never settle for second best

2011-06-04T10:39:00.001+10:00

So I finish my current job next Thursday. I figured why settle and be paid less when I'm worth more? Same goes for other areas of my life. I've decided from now on I'm refusing to settle for just good enough. This happened with my ex. The first guy who came my way I basically threw myself at, and if you look back to the start of my blog, you'll see what a disaster that was. I'm also not going to settle for good enough for my overseas trip. I know exactly how I want my trip to be, and I had two choices of who to go with, and I almost settled for a trip that wouldn't have made me happy, just to make other people happy. And I'm sick of pleasing other people to keep the peace. Dude, it's all about me, and I will have my perfect trip dammit. Even if I have to wait, well I want to wait until it's warm overseas. I hate the cold and am not letting the cold weather (which is even colder than winter down here) ruin my trip. I've wanted to go on a Contiki tour for like, forever. They've been operating for like a million years and every person I've talked to who has been on one has loved it and I really wanna go. Plus I'll get to meet a ton of new people around my age, and maybe even meet a nice guy...it happened to someone I know! Have any of you out there been on a Contiki tour before?

So anyway, I'll try to blog about more fashion-y stuff in the future, it's just complicated when real life gets in the way. On the upside, being unemployed will mean more outfit shots for you guys, woo! And I'll post my current list of things I want to add to my wardrobe soon.

Woe is me

2011-05-23T19:07:00.001+10:00

The dramas just keep coming for little old me. It's looking likely that I'll be quitting my job tomorrow because the Director wants to pay me below my qualification because she thinks I'm incapable of working at a Diploma (my qualification) level. First off, I passed my course...with a Credit mind you...so I obviously did something right to do that. Secondly, I don't think she can even do that. Her reasoning is that I don't do Diploma stuff so I don't have to be paid as one. That's bull, she never gives up the time that every other centre does to do said Diploma stuff such as Programming and Evaluations. I'd be happy to do Programming, if she gave me time to do it. I'm not doing work at home. Plus, she says she's given me chances to show her I can do it, she hasn't. Short of stealing someone else's job, I've shown her that I'm perfectly capable of running the room. I don't have 40 years experience like someone else in the centre so obviously I'm not as good as them, but the kids aren't walking over me like they used to so I'm obviously doing something right. Another reason for demoting me is that I don't wash the dishes. Seriously, other people enjoy it more than me (and are much quicker) so I let them do it. But really, the stuff she's saying I can't do is stuff she hasn't even seen me do yet. It's really unfair and I'm going to refuse to sign the stupid contract tomorrow. If I signed it, I'd be paid less and expected to do more because apparently at the moment I'm useless. Let's see how useless I am when you can't replace me. I am not signing the contract. I'd rather go somewhere else and get paid for my qualifications....more money and better working conditions. It'll be nice to work someplace where everyone doesn't think I'm useless because I step back and don't try and steal other people's jobs. It's just all so frustrating. At least if I don't have a job that'll mean I'll have plenty of time for sleeping!

Oh, and mum found the missing food. It was in the cupboard that I looked in several times. Apparently I'm blind -_-

Black Hole

2011-05-22T16:18:00.001+10:00

I swear there is a black hole in my room. Things that I know I own just disappear! First it was my Oroton purse, I've looked in allllll my handbags and it's nowhere to be found. Then it was the box of Nutrigrain bars and packet of cookies I brought. I brought them, along with some other food for a night in last week and they've disappeared. I last saw them in my room. And no, nobody in my family ate them. They can't have just disappeared, and I didn't eat them. I really wanna know where they are. It can't be a monster hiding under my bed taking my stuff because I don't have an under bed, just drawers. I just really wanna know where all this stuff is!

You don't know what you've got until it's gone

2011-05-14T22:58:00.000+10:00

Fair warning, this entry will probably make no sense whatsoever to most of you out there, so feel free to skip if you get confused. I just gotta get my feelings down someplace. It really is true that you don't know what you've got until it's gone. At first it was just a game, just doing stuff to fill the time until you left. And then bam, I didn't do it and you're gone, but not for good, and I just want you back. I know it won't be forever, but I'd rather have you for a bit rather than not at all. It kinda sorta turned out that I cared more than I should...especially after what happened. But obviously it was going to come out eventually. Half of me is like, fine you're never gonna speak to me again but the other half is kinda sorta winning and wants you all to myself, for that little amount of time. So yeah, here's hoping you contact me, the waiting is killing me.

Blog

2011-05-14T12:25:00.000+10:00

Of course when I felt like blogging again after over a weeks absence, Blogger decided to be out of action. But I'm back! Last weekend was pretty jam packed for me. Friday night I went into the city for a friend's gig. I don't go into the city....well ever. So that was experience for me. It was pretty awesome though, the gig was great and I got to dance which was the best bit. My shoes, well the shoes I borrowed killed my feet, so next time I'm going to wear a pair of my own comfy heels. We didn't get home until like 5am, which is latest I've stayed out. It was insane. I stayed up for almost 24 hours. And then couldn't sleep because I was so wired. The next day I paid for my lack of sleep though, but I pushed through because I had to shop! Siobhan and I went op-shopping, but didn't find anything good besides a ton of traffic, apparently everyone was out and about where we wanted to be on Saturday. So we went to DFO instead. I was well behaved and only came away with two pairs of shoes. One pair of sparkly high top Converse for work, and a pair of red suede wedges. I also got a gorgeous dress from Peter Alexander. It's supposed to be a dressing gown I think but it's too nice to just be worn around the house. That afternoon I went home and slept. I don't function well on 3 hours sleep, haha. Yet I wanna go out again, crazy, me? No! This weekend has been much more low key. Tonight I'm having a movie night at mine. I have no clue who's coming, it may just be and my snuggie. Which is ok, my snuggie will watch the Spice Girls movie with me!

Naughty

2011-05-03T18:00:00.000+10:00

I wish I could say I hadn't blogged in ages because I'd been super dooper busy, but that would be a lie. I've just been super dooper boring lately. Today my Urban Outfitters order came. Everything's bigger in America. I brought this scarf and it's huuuuuge! Like on the model it looks of average size, but in person it's massive. Which isn't a bad thing, I'll be able to keep warm this winter, and even share my scarf with a friend ;) It's going to be the winter of cats eyes sunnies and stripes for me. I got these and these sunglasses and they're perfect. I do need to stop buying sunglasses, I have a boxful and soon won't have room for more.

I'm hoping to travel overseas, maybe at the end of the year. I wanna do Europe - specifically Italy & France - the UK and US. I really wanna go Contiki for Europe but a friend I'm going with has seen some horrible reviews on it and doesn't wanna go anymore. I still wanna go, especially since I've never been to Europe and they plan everything for you and you're with a group of people your own age which means new friends, yay! Has anyone done a Contiki tour before? Another thing which is putting me off slightly is that we'll have to travel overseas when it's winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and I've heard it's freezing cold. I don't do cold but my 4 weeks off are in December/January so I have no choice...unless I quit my job and travel later in 2012 which I am kinda willing to do if Europe in winter will be too cold for me. What I think we might do is fly over to the UK, then start our Contiki tour there, and then spend some time afterwards in the UK and then fly over to the US and shop our little hearts out! If anyone has suggestions on where and when we should go, I'm all ears =]

Pin Tucks and Pin Curls

2011-04-29T22:04:00.000+10:00

When I came across this giveaway, I knew I had to enter it! The retro swimwear is just adorable and even though I hardly ever go near water, winning would give me an excuse to do it more often. One requirement of entry was to share the giveaway, so here I am sharing it! Be sure to enter too!

New Car!

2011-04-26T20:47:00.000+10:00

Today I finally got my new car. Well, newer car. It's a 2003 (I think) Subaru Impreza. It's white and perfect and I get it tomorrow night. Although mother is pissed at me for spending money on said car when my old one is fine according to her but she doesn't know about all the things that are wrong with it. Fix one thing, and then you're fixing things forever, whereas Subarus just keep going and going and going. The car I learnt to drive on back in 2006 is still going strong and it's 18 years old. So yes, I'm very pleased with my new car. Photos to come soon.

OOTD Friday

2011-04-25T13:34:00.001+10:00

Since I've been lacking a lot on the outfit front, I decided to take a photo of the outfit I wore out on Friday. The colours I wore were actually inspired by what one of the little girls wore at my centre. She had on a pair of khaki pants and a bright pink top and it looked awesome, so I had to try it out. I had to chop off my head because my hair looked horrible because I was too lazy to wash it.

Jacket: Factorie

Shirt: Supre

Singlet (under shirt) & Jeans: Jay Jays

Boots: ASOS

Necklace: Diva

Happy Easter

2011-04-25T11:04:00.000+10:00

Happy Easter everyone! My day was spent eating. I consumed waaaaay too much chocolate and will need to Zumba for a whole day to work it all off. Ah well, chocolate is sooooo worth it. I also have Cadbury Creme eggs to eat! I need to get to the shops this arvo to see if any shops still have them so I can stockpile them and won't have to wait until next easter to get more. What did you do for Easter?

Ebay

2011-04-22T21:54:00.000+10:00

Me and ebay (or ebay and I to you concerned about grammar) are firm bff's again. After practically a whole day of browsing I managed to find a lot of stuff I want. It started with the shoes. And as is always the way when I buy new ones, I feel the need to get rid of old ones...or new ones I never particulary loved/made my legs look fat. Lately my obsession has been with leopard. Leopard anything! I really need to get around to wearing all my leopard stuff/go places so I can wear it. I also realised I need a pair of sexy red heels (to be worn with a sexy black dress), and a sexy red dress. Which then led into me rediscovering pin-up style clothing. Which means I now want to look like this all the time click. I want everything on that website! Except it's kinda outta my price range, especially when I don't even know if the clothing will fit right when it arrives. Unfortunately, I have a uniform to wear for work which is far from pin-up and even if I didn't I don't think pin-up clothing would go down very well. Regardless, I need to get my hands on some pin-up style dresses ASAP. Luckily for me on ebay a certain seller is selling quite a few that are made for me. Hopefully I can win more than one of them especially since according to the measurements they'll fit me perfectly. The downsides to shopping for clothes that are figure hugging is that with boobs and a small waist the dress will fit only one of the above, never both...even retro style clothing. That's why I decided to take up sewing....which hasn't happened yet. I has patterns! But no material and zero sewing skills. I'll get there one day!

Come back voice!

2011-04-22T11:59:00.000+10:00

I've lost my voice, which is sooo not cool as I spend a lot of time talking. It all started with a sore throat. Then I had to use my voice because the children at work were being, well, they weren't listening. I was almost gonna call in sick in the morning, faking a lost voice (I'm horrible, but I did have a sore throat and I wanted an even longer long weekend) but yeah, I lost it during the day. It wasn't totally gone yesterday, but I kept on talking. Now it's basically gone. I want it back =[ on the upside, 5 day weekend. Woo! Since the shops are closed today, I've been online shopping. Urban Outfitters you are win. I'm also hopefully looking at a car this afternoon, if it hasn't sold. And if it's as good as it looks online, I may possibly have my new car!

Lesson learnt

2011-04-18T19:25:00.000+10:00

I took my earrings out, well it would have been for my dance concert back in December for my fake tan and kinda sorta never put them back in. I wore studs in my first holes every once in a while, but not consistently. And my second holes I went through a stage where I wasn't going to bother with them anymore. I finally put earrings back in both holes on the weekend, and do they hurt now! I had studs in each but they were painful so now I'm wearing sleepers in my second holes, and bows in the first holes. So yes, I shall keep my earrings in from now on. I'm probably lucky they didn't close up fully.

I'm on the hunt for thick, warm scarves and cardi's since Winter is coming up. We've had a taste of the cold lately and I'm not liking so I plan to bundle up and hope for the best. I think the key will be wearing layers, upon layers, upon layers. Topped off with a scarf. I need a big warm black one ASAP! And maybe one in a bright colour like pink or red. And I want new boots. No more suede boots because silly me always buys them and then has nothing to wear in the rain. Yes, I waterproof them but I'm still scared of wearing them in the rain. I want some cowboy inspired boots and some biker boots...since I'm so hardcore, haha.

Why Lauren isn't allowed to bake

2011-04-17T11:05:00.001+10:00

Last night was the 21st I spoke about in my last post. It was soooo cold last night. I'm not going to enjoy winter one bit this year. I actually walked out the house, into the rain just wearing my tight black dress and to tie in with the theme, my leopard print stockings (oh, and shoes of course...really high black heels which I ditched in the car in favour of not so high black heels) saying "hey, it's not so cold!". I decided I had to wear my black coat when we got to the party, which was in the boot of my car. It was raining, so I wasn't getting out of the car and walking around to open the boot. So I gracefully (I'd like to think I looked graceful...I just hope I didn't flash Siobhan who was sitting in the passenger seat) climbed into the backseat, to pull down the backseats to grab my jacket. I also put my jacket on in the car, so all night I was convinced I looked horrible. I was pleasantly surprised to see when I got home that I actually looked pretty alright. Anyways, back to the party. Again we were the awesome table who played games (this is a dig, a what? a dig, ohhhh a dig) and it was good to catch up with people I haven't seen in ages. We left before 11 as the birthday girl was drinking this huuuuuuge glass of beer and we didn't want to be around behaviour like that. I hope she likes our present though. Siobhan and I made shortbread. It was kinda a distaster. Mixing it all together was well and good, but making into lovely shapes was hard as the dough kept sticking to everything. We finally made all the shapes, including the birthday girls name and a 2 and 1. We put them in the oven to cook, and when they were done it turns out we had two massive cookies. All our hard work to make pretty shapes was for nothing! We managed to break them into eatable pieces and we tried some and it tasted pretty awesome. But yes, I also apparently left the oven on...and made a huge mess. This is why Lauren isn't allowed to bake. I don't know what I'll do when I move out...eitheer starve to death or marry someone who can cook reallllly well.

Oh! I also went to the fitness expo yesterday. I was only going for the Zumba related part of it and I got to meet Beto, the creator of Zumba! I had a photo with him and had to clue what to say to him but 'Omg, I love Zumba'. I'm a loser. But yeah, I also got some new Zumba gear. Some epic Zumba cargo pants and a new singlet. And the headbands. I paid 9 bucks for one Zumba headband on ebay and they were selling all 3 for $15, so I brought them. I also got some pink jazz boots. Yes! Pink! When I saw them I had to have them. I've wanted pink ones for ages but haven't been able to find any, and these are high top ones too. They're so comfy and I can't wait to wear them to dance class.

I'm now off to clean my room. Well, it's mostly just putting clothes and shoes away/in the wash. And maybe I'll get rid of some old clothes.

Here goes

2011-04-13T19:25:00.000+10:00

A random post because I bet you're all out there waiting to hear about my super (boring) life. I'm not impressed because my skin is freaking out at the moment. I managed to get sunburnt a couple of days ago at work, when I was wearing sunscreen. If I was a superhero, that would be my superpower...defeating sunscreen. I wear the highest SPF available here. I also still manage to tan wearing sunscreen, which is good because it makes my skin look a bit less transparent, but since I wear a t-shirt for work, it equals tanned forearms and white shoulders. So not cool. Anyways, back to my skin. It's also breaking out. Kinda serves me right for being lazy and not removing makeup before bed. So I'm in damage control at the moment.

On Saturday I'm going to another 21st. This is a jungle/animal themed one. I'm not 100% sure what I'm wearing but it's sure to involve leopard print and a tight black dress. The tight black dress is because I'm seeing someone there who decided to pick another girl over me, so I obviously have to send the message that "lol, you picked her, but loooook at me". I may wear my leopard jacket of win, and if I do I'll be sure to take some photos to show it off. What would you wear to a jungle themed party?

Party

2011-04-10T11:29:00.003+10:00

Last night I went to a 21st birthday. It was one of the girls I sometimes work with as she's a casual at our centre. It was fun, we were the group in the corner not drinking and playing ridiculous games. I was so proud when I worked out the point to one of the games as I'm a bit on the slow side and need everything explained to me. Luckily the party was a less than 5 minute drive from my house so I could get home to my bed in minimal time. Next week I have another 21st. It's an animal themed party so I get to crack out the leopard print, yay!

Lately I've also been car hunting. I've only had this car for a year but it's second (or third, or fouth) hand and the steering and engine are going apparently. So I'm planning to sell it and upgrade. I haven't decided on what car I want. I have narrowed it down to three choices though. They're all second hand cars, it's just a matter of finding the right one, in automatic and in a nice colour. All images borrowed from Google.

Subaru Impreza

As having a WRX is waaaay expensive to insure, I'll settle for a nice Impreza. Not in silver though as I hate silver cars, in black or white. Every suitable one I find though sells quickly as they're quite popular.

Toyota Rav 4

I saw one of these at dealer and was like 'heyyyy, cute car'. They're a Toyota so they're reliable and you sit up high so you can see everything.

Ford Fiesta

The newest of the bunch and the hardest to get one in my price range but it's do-able. Downside it isn't all wheel drive like the other two, but it is very cute.

An Outfit and some blog love

2011-04-09T09:27:00.001+10:00

Yes, I'm a horrible blogger. But here are some photos of me in legwarmers...that should cheer you all up! This is what I wore to dance class on Tuesday night. As we are finally (unfortunately) getting Autumn weather I decided to break out the legwarmers. And of course I had to go all out 80s in my off the shoulder jumper.

Pink crop top: Forever 21 (who put up their shipping prices, so not cool dude)

Jumper & tights: Supre

Legwarmers and dance shoes: Ebay

I also want to blog about what's happening to one of my favourite bloggers Amber. One of her blogs, Shoeper Woman has basically been copied, practically the same name and everything. And now the copier is trying to buy trademarks so Amber can't use it anymore which would be devastating as first off she had the website first, and secondly her blog is awesome and she makes a living off it and it wouldn't be fair to take it away from her. So pretty pretty please visit her blog as the more traffic she gets the better so she can win this battle and keep her blog.

Blah blah blah

2011-04-02T11:49:00.001+11:00

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately. I just feel like every day that passes means more stuff I need to talk about when I blog, when in reality I haven't really been doing that much. I got a day off yesterday and sacrificed an extra sleep in to go shopping. I didn't find much I liked in the shops. Although in Sportsgirl they had this pink duffel coat that I fell in love with, but I'm not paying $170 for a coat. It's much nicer in person, the shade of pink is like candy! I shall have to stalk it and buy it when it's on sale...if I can find one. I did end buying some stuff in Cotton On. A leopard print dress. I almost didn't buy it because I didn't think the medium would fit across my chest and there was no large and I couldn't be bothered trying it on and brought it anyways. Luckily I did because it fits and looks awesome on. It's so flattering. I think I need to go buy this dress in more patterns. I also got a summery scarf and a red, white and blue striped overnight bag.

I've always wanted to travel, in paticular to Italy (because of my heritage), France (I did French at school, and who doesn't wanna go see the Eiffel Tower?!), England and The US (just for the shopping). Myself and a friend are in talks about going, hopefully at the end of the year when I get 4 weeks off work because the centre is closed. We're looking into doing a Contiki tour, and then staying longer in London and then flying to America. I also have decided that I need to travel because once I do, I can buy my dream car. Well, the most affordable of the many dream cars I have, Porsche's and Ferrari's are hardly affordable. I want a Subaru WRX. Like this one:

credit

Second hand, because the new WRX isn't to my taste. So yes, watch out world, Lauren is coming to conquer your shoe stores, one country at a time. I fully intend to travel overseas with one partially filled suitcase and come home with two very full ones.

OOTD

2011-03-27T13:35:00.000+11:00

Finally an outfit of the day. I've been pretty lazy about taking photos lately/wearing pretty boring stuff. But today I decided to wear something nice and take some (dodgy) photos. This is the first time I've worn jeans in ages because a) it's been hot hot hot and b) fatty has been too scared to put them on. But they look pretty good on, if I do say so myself. Also, see if you can notice something different about me. It's the thing I did last week.

Top: Factorie

Vest: Cotton On

Jeans: Jay Jays

Shoes: Tony Bianco

Braclets: Diva and Equip

So far my weekend has consisted of movies, pizza, getting stuck in traffic, being used as a taxi, pancakes, new makeup, sleeping in a creaky bed, seeing certain people for not long enough, eating Maccas (Happy Meals ftw!) and Autumn-esque weather. I'm not sure I'm ready to give up all my pretty summer dresses so it will be likely that I wear them with my collection of tights and cardis.

New Shoes

2011-03-23T19:22:00.001+11:00

Online debit card + shoe sale online = new shoes for Lauren! As I'm a fan of Siren shoes on Facebook I was alerted to the fact that they were having an online sale. Well, since it was pay day on Tuesday, I haven't got any new shoes in a while, I haaaad to have a look. And of course, I found some lovely shoes to buy.

These:

and these:

are mine! Well, they will be once they arrive. I can attest to the comfort andf quality of Siren shoes, already owning two pairs of theirs. The gold ones I'd seen before in store and they're gorgeous and well the black ones. I kinda sorta don't need any more black heels, but look at them! They're so different. And not all totally black. I'm hoping they look as nice on as they do in the pictures.

Back to work

2011-03-21T20:12:00.001+11:00

Monday means I was back to work today. It was a pretty good day, not a full room of kids which made it an easier day. ~~My favourite~~ I mean, I like all the children evenly. Psh, you can't help but have favourites, and one of my favouritest kids was there. She never fails to make my day. I love picking her up and tickling her because her little laugh is so adorable. I just wanna squish her! She got my finger and said "nose" as she pointed to my nose. She then proceeded to pull my ears and say "ears" and then pull my nose really hard, giggling saying "nose". When I pretend to cry, she giggles and she copies everything you say. She calls me Ro-ree which is soooo freaking cute. When I have a baby I hope it's half as cute as her. I'm already looking forward to the weekend. Friday night I'm having a sleepover with a friend, and then Saturday I'm hanging out with my girls. And then Saturday night I finally get to go dancing! It better not rain!

Rain rain go away

2011-03-20T16:13:00.000+11:00

So we didn't end up going out on the town last night because the weather was horrible. It rained and rained and rained and just when you thought it was going to stop raining, it rained some more. So we're going out dancing next week, but this week we went for dinner at the pub, and then rented some movies. Only $2 bucks each! Seriously, most places *cough* Video Ezy *cough* charge like $6 or something ridiculous, I wouldn't know, I don't rent movies anymore because of the price...especially when you can buy DVDs for waaay cheap...or ask mother nicely to record that movie you muuuuust see on the PVR. We rented Easy A - which wasn't as good as the hype and Piranha. We watched 5 minutes of Piranha before deciding it was lame and going to bed. Before all the movie watching we did something else, which I can't mention on here because I wanna surprise my friends when I see them...so date soon ladies? I swear I won't get sick, and and what I did is awesome. How was your weekend?

Finally

2011-03-18T21:00:00.000+11:00

Phew, I've finally gone and read alllll the blog posts in my Google reader. Man it took ages as I ~~stalk~~ follow too many blogs. I'm always cutting down, getting rid of ones that are finished or aren't relevant to me anymore but I'm always finding plenty more awesome blogs to fill the space. Good news is that I'm all better. It took almost a week to be able to eat properly again and I'm still scared that I'll get sick again because now the bug seems to be going around the big kids room at the centre. Ughhh, I'll cry if I get it again, but fingers crossed, I'm fine so far. I better not jinx myself by mentioning it... Anyways, tomorrow night I'm going out dancing with a few friends. I was supposed to go last week, but we all know what happened then. So yes, exciting! Dancing! And I also plan to sleep alot this weekend because sleep is good.

Sick

2011-03-13T11:14:00.000+11:00

The downside of working in childcare, if a horrible bug (well, bugs) are going around the centre, you are sure to get it yourself. I got both, and to not go into too much detail, it affected both ends. So not cool. Friday night I was driving one friend to pick up two others joking that I was sure to get the bug that the kiddies have got. I felt perfectly fine, and then suddenly I didn't. I couldn't even get sick during the week so I could have a day off work! Silly me. But yeah, I'm fine now. Hungry but can't eat much which is weird as I love eating. Hopefully I can get something in me at lunch. I still managed to get to the reception of my cousin's wedding yesterday. Looking pretty good if I do say so myself. Unfortunately I couldn't play with my baby cousin in case I made him sick. I think today I'll do some online shopping, it was pay day on Tuesday after all!

Broke

2011-03-09T21:07:00.000+11:00

Two blog posts in a day, I'm on a roll! I just needed to vent a little. I'm sick of university students (well, certain ones) bitching about how broke they are, and how they can't drive anywhere (because petrol, is zomg expensive!) or buy anything (because everything, is zomg expensive!) yet other uni goers have what appear to be brand spanking new cars. I don't get it. First off, I so don't see the point in anyone my age having a brand new car...especially with the way P platers drive, they're gonna crash it...or some other stupid P plater is gonna crash into them. Plus, I work fulltime, and I don't have a new car. How does a uni goer, without a fulltime job afford a new car? Finance on a new car is a stupid idea as you're gonna end up spending thousands of dollars more on it, and it makes insurance more expensive...which is zomg expensive anyways. *shakes head* I don't want a new car, my car is fine as is, it gets me from A to B, is so freaking adorable, I haven't had to repair anything on it (touch wood!) well, the mirror so doesn't count. I've heard about how expensive uni is, yes you can HECS it (to anyone overseas, it's when you pay off your uni fees, once you're working...or something, I think. I didn't go to uni) but apparently certain courses you have to pay upfront, which is thousands and thousands of dollars. So why buy a new car, and whinge about being broke all the time? And why are some uni-goers better off on the money front than others? Yes, some may have parttime jobs, but they don't bring in that much cash. Confusing, and please stop the bitching.

Chicken Pox

2011-03-09T19:27:00.001+11:00

Today I had Chicken Pox...well not really. The kids decided to go wild with red sticker dots which resulted in my diagnosis being Chicken Pox. I had dots everywhere! On my nose, on my back...even in my hair. They cured me though and removed all...well most of the spots. But then they decided that the stamper textas were to be used on skin, not paper. First they started on themselves, and then I ended up with some doggy paw prints on me, for me to "go home and show your mummy and daddy" said one child, in her adorable Pommy accent.

This time tomorrow I'm going to be much less pale. I'm getting a fake tan for my cousin's wedding which is on Saturday. My dress is a pale pink, which makes make look even paler, so a fake tan it is. I'm not going dance concert dark, I'm hoping to look like I've spent the day at the beach. Well, if I spent the day at the beach I'd come home red. I'd like to look like Kim Kardashian after a day at the beach:

via google

I've also added a lovely website to my sidebar, as she's having an awesome giveaway. Her blog is great so check it out.

What a weekend

2011-03-06T19:40:00.000+11:00

Phew, what a weekend! On Saturday I took Siobhan to Macarthur Square since she'd never been. We shopped up a storm! More sequins and leopard for me as apparently I want to dress like a cougar. But I say everyone needs more sequins in their life! I also got a new laptop as I killed my old one. Apparently using Frostwire often doesn't bode well for the life of your laptop...especially when it keeps telling you the files you're downloading are viruses. Siobhan banned me from downloading Frostwire on my new laptop so I guess I'll be using iTunes a lot more from now on. I think I've managed to get everything I need from old laptop to new one. Music was the hard bit. I have an iPod, but backed up all my music to my new mp3 player. And then I copied the files onto my laptop and into iTunes from my mp3 player. I caused myself a lot of grief when I though I had a ton of music missing, turns out I didn't and all my frustration with Apple - as their iPods are gay and you can't get music off them easily - was in vain. But yes, my new laptop unfortunately isn't pink...but it's sexy and black and it has better speakers, and a webcam.

Fast forward to Saturday night where I found two friends to come to what was supposed to be an epic 80s night at a local pub. Turns out it's just old people, wearing their clothes from the 80s sitting around listening to 80s music. No dancing or hot (young) guys which was a huge disappointment. So we moved onto The Mill, which was where I had my birthday. Finally, some dancing was to be done! In between some crappy remixes the DJ played some good songs and we had a dance. As The Mill is a local hang out, I tend to see people I went to high school with there. I'm gonna sound horrible, but I like seeing people from high school, because most of the peaked in high school, and are now looking not so crash hot. They're more of everything. More weight, more makeup...oh but less clothes. It makes my little Zumba butt very happy.

Speaking of Zumba, I tried to be friendly with Zumba live again. I started off doing the 20 minute flat abs disc...which sooooo works. And then did a few songs from Zumba live. Man it's a step up from the other discs, but in small doses I think I'm ready. It's hard work, but not as much hard work as my weekly Zumba class with Nancy. It's intense, but soooo good!

Babies

2011-03-04T18:25:00.000+11:00

The last two days I've been working in the baby room...well under 2s. I'm kinda pissed at the director because she gave me no warning whatsoever that I was being moved, but I like spending time with the babies, they're so adorable. You're not supposed to have favourites but my absolute favourite kid is in the baby room so I got to spend the last two days with her! She's so adorable, she calls me Ro-ree and she's just started walking and it's so cute watching her walk...and say uh-oh when she falls over. She's chubby and precious and I annoy everyone by talking about her all the time. Working in the baby room is so tiring, it's a workout in itself because you're constantly running after the babies, or pulling them off tables, or from behind curtains (hide and seek behind the curtains is a popular game as of late) or away from the high chair they were about to climb in. It is super fun though.

I'm going shopping with Siobhan tomorrow. Hopefully we find some awesome stuff...and I get even more things that are on my wishlist. Then I'm hoping I can drag some people to the retro 80s disco that's on at a local pub. I love me some 80s and you can win prizes for dressing up and I'll take any excuse to put on my legwarmers!

Ebay

2011-03-03T19:54:00.000+11:00

I've hopped back on the ebay wagon. Not that I was ever totally off it, just I haven't had the time lately to look for the super awesome bargains ebay has to offer. But I'm back, and I'm buying all your unwanted Tony Bianco shoes! For much less than retail naturally. I own two pairs of Tony Bianco shoes so far, one were my birthday present to myself (doesn't everyone do that?) and the other were a riduculously discounted pair at their outlet store in Canberra because one shoe was a 7 (my size) and the other a 6 1/2. I was determined to have them even though the 6 1/2 shoe is a bit too tight. But I will make them fit! They're a tan pair of peeptoes. That look exactly like the ones below but they kinda have dots on the leather...if that makes sense. Either way, they look hot on.

On ebay I won these flats for $26.30 including postage. They're pretty and they're leather.

And I also won a pair of these heels. For $42 including postage. Which I'm thinking is not bad considering Tony Bianco shoes cost around $160 full price.

So yes, here's to buying more (cheap!) shoes on ebay.

Mod Fox

2011-02-28T20:43:00.001+11:00

As soon as I saw this outfit, I had to repost it. I hope Michelle doesn't mind me using her picture on my little old blog. This outfit is perfect. From the denim jacket (no gross denim on denim here) to the high waisted skirt, and the white button up top. The cute little red bag tops it all off. And she gives me yet another case of serious fringe envy. This is the kinda outfit I'll probably be found in when the weather cools down a bit. Run, don't walk to her blog!

How to Pronounce Siobhan

2011-02-27T19:32:00.001+11:00

I've got yet another awesome blog that you guys must read! I may be biased as she's my friend and all, but you really should check out Siobhan's blog. She's just getting back into blogging so she needs encouragement to blog more.

-EDIT-
Since many people are arriving at my blog after googling 'How to pronounce Siobhan' I though I'd update and tell you exactly how I do it. Down in Australia, I say it as 'Sha-von' =]

All My Stuff

2011-02-26T11:17:00.000+11:00

I ~~stole~~ borrowed this from the lovely emmabovary as it's a cute idea. The celebs usually list their favourites in each catergory in Shop Til You Drop, I'm no celeb but I'm still doing it.

Fashion

Jeans: Oh gee, haven't worn mine in ages but I do love the slimming effects of black skinny legs

T-shirt: Hmmm, at the moment my Jaws t-shirt. It's a dudes one, and it's pretty huge but I love it

Shoes: My black peeptoe high heels by Siren with the red sole

Watch: Black plastic bangle watch from Dotti

Sunglasses: Bright pink aviators

Swimsuit: My navy and white stripey retro one piece

Dress: I love them all!

Bag: Kathy Von Zeeland bag in the perfect shade of brown

Designer: Louboutin. Oh I shall get my hands on a pair of his shoes one day!

Beauty

Lips:Candy Kiss Lipsmacker. What? Nobody's too old for Lipsmackers!

Mascara: Maybelline Lash Stiletto

Bronzer: I'm too pale to bronze

Shampoo: Always switching

Hair Prod: Bobby pins

Bodywash: Lush Snow Fairy

Moisturiser:Nivea Touch of Happiness

Perfume: I'm wearing Anna Sui Secret Wish right now which I friend gave me and I love it

New Discovery: Blush

Nail Polish: Black

Lifestyle

Candle: I don't do candles

Workout Zumba!

Luggage: My pink suitcase is pretty trusty

Gadget: None, technology hates me

Online store: All of them! Haha

Car: WRX

Stationary: I don't do much writing

Flower: Plastic. I'm allergic to flowers

Book: Whatever I'm reading at the moment

CD: INXS

Drink: Water

Almost the weekend

2011-02-24T17:13:00.000+11:00

Thank you to everyone who was concerned about my sunburn, it's much better now. Still red but I can at least move without pain now. It's starting to bubble which I'm not quite sure is good or bad. Anyways, moving on. I'm excited, I'm going to Zumba class tonight! The Zumba lady works us soooo hard but at least I know I'm getting a good workout. Plus I like going to classes as my DVDs can get pretty repetitive.

I'm looking forward to the weekend. I don't exactly have anything planned but I hope to change that. I've got all 4 of the Jaws movies on DVD and was hoping some of my friends would like to come over for a Jaws marathon at some point. The movies are supposed to be scary, and I don't like scary movies but the Jaws movies are a lol-fest. Everytime I heard the infamous du-dun music I started to laugh because I knew the shark was coming for someone. I'm so hyped because I get Monday off. Win! I plan to sleep in and do as little as possible. Maybe get a pedicure. We'll see.

Messy

2011-02-23T19:56:00.000+11:00

People (i.e. people I don't much associate with in real life, but am 'friends' with on Facebook) seem to enjoy messy weekends, which I'm led to believe involves a lot of alcohol. A messy weekend does not appeal to me one bit. For starters, I don't do alcohol. Secondly, mess? Does that mean I'll have to clean up afterwards? If yes, I don't do cleaning (except at work because I'm paid to do it). I just don't get it. I like clean weekends. Where you get to sleep in, and then do as little as possible as to not get messy.

Ouch

2011-02-21T21:11:00.001+11:00

Remember the friend's birthday I melted at? Turns I didn't just melt, I burned (sorry new readers, hope I don't scare you away!)

I didn't wanna crop it too much because that view is scary enough. Before you give me a lecture on the importance of sunscreen, I'll point out that someone else applied the sunscreen on my back and missed that whole area. Yeah, fail. And my back feels like it's on fire. I've been applying antiseptic cream but I swear it's getting worse, not better. If anyone has any remedies for me I'll be very appreciative.

Now, for something much cuter. TURTLE! If you don't like turtles, you may wanna look away now.

Complete with an adorable heart on her bum.

That's her lying on my pillow, she's so huge and I have no clue where I'll put her, but I had to have her.

10 of the best blogs with under 50 followers

2011-02-20T13:39:00.000+11:00

Being a blogger who doesn't have a million followers like some blogs do, I know how hard it is for you to get your blog seen. I always see bloggers featuring other bloggers who already have a huge following, so I thought I'd feature some of the blogs I enjoy reading that have less than 50 followers. Well they may well have many secret admirers but I'm going on their Follower box.

1. Bette On Toast - adorable, relatable and I really envy her haircut.

2. Beauty By An Indian - an Australian blogger which means I know I'll be able to get my hands on the awesome stuff she reviews much more readily.

3. A penny for your shoes - a blog about shoes. Need I say more?

4. Emy's Beauty Blog - reviews a lot of gorgeous makeup. Surprised she doesn't have more followers.

5. English Rose Vintage Style - blogs about vintage...which is always a win in my book.

6. Everything Shoe - shoes! And she's also completing Shoeperwoman's Shoe Challenge so you get to see her awesome collection of shoes.

7. My Orange Stilettos - more shoes. Are we sensing a theme here?

8. Overimaginated - a cynical post on Valentines Day...win!

9. Where Heart Meets Sole - awesome blog name, and I love her style.

So there you have it, be sure to check out their blogs and give them some love!

I like big butts..

2011-02-19T23:09:00.000+11:00

Is is sad to say that after all this Zumba-ing that I kinda miss my butt? It's still there, and I don't think I'll ever be booty-less but I kinda miss it cause it's smaller now. At least I'll be able to fit into clothes better right? Cause clothes are kinda sorta made for coathanger-esque girls with no shape. But yes, bye bye butt. The upside is that my hips and thighs are smaller which is winnnn, I never liked you anyways thighs so good riddance! Even though I haven't done Zumba the last two days because I've been feeling horrible because I'm sick with a cold/my allergies are being mean. But thanks to drugs I'm feeling much better. So here's to feeling much better in the morning (and for it to be less hot, I'm meltingggggg, damn you summer!)

Perfect

2011-02-19T20:24:00.001+11:00

I just gasped when I saw this adorable dress on this blog I just discovered. It's absolutely adorable, I want it!

I think this blog will making it to my ever growing list of blogs I stalk...erm follow *shifty eyes*

Unexpected interruption

2011-02-19T17:16:00.000+11:00

Wow, it feels like I haven't been online in forever! I'm currently about to try and catch up on some blog reading as I haven't been online the past few days. Wednesday I wasn't online because I was at a friends house making another friends birthday present. Well, technically I did go online...I was Facebook stalking to find pictures for the present - which by the way was an awesome scrapbook which he loved. On Thursday I Zumba-ed with a friend at mine and then we went to see Black Swan. Oh dear, it's not a very Lauren movie...too much blood for my liking. And I totes don't get why she kept, erm, touching herself in it. The dancing in it was pretty awesome, Natalie Portman was amazingly thin for the role and she deserves all the awards she'd been getting for it. But yeah, not a movie I'll be seeing again. Friday I basically spent in front of the TV, catching up on taped TV shows. Also feeling sorry for myself because I'm sick/allergic to everything. Then today I had the previously mentioned friends birthday party. It was hottttttttt! I was melting. I can't believe how hot it was. But I was wearing awesome black and white t-bar shoes which everyone commented on so it was all good.

Oh and quickly, a good friend mine has recently started blogging again so if you'd like to read about the mushy (sorry Duong :P) ramblings of an awesome asian chick, click here.

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T18:22:00.000+11:00

Valentines Day, the day of the year that singles feel inadequate as couples shower each other in gifts. Personally if I had a special someone, they'd be getting Valentine's Day treatment every single day, not just on some stupid holiday. I was supposed to have a date with one of my girlfriends but she got sick. Feel better Vonny! So now I'm Valentineless. Ah well, I did get a chocolate rose from one of the girls at work, which I surprisingly didn't immediately devour. Chocolate doesn't stand a chance near me! Anyways, Happy Valentines Day to everyone, I'll be alllllll your Valentines! There's enough Lauren to go around =]

Houston, we have a problem

2011-02-13T13:43:00.000+11:00

Turns out I kinda sorta have too many tops. I keep finding adorable t-shirts I must have, add in my new fascination with cropped tops and button up tops and we have a problem. My shirt wardrobe is filled to the brim and I can't bear to part with any of my tops. A few are tops I will not get rid of in a million years (such as my INXS shirt) and many are new tops just waiting to be worn. I really need to stop buying tops. Dresses and shoes on the other hand, I can never have too many of. I actually got rid of a few dresses today...but did buy a few yesterday. So it all evens out!

Blog Roll

2011-02-13T11:19:00.000+11:00

Don't forget to check out my Blog Roll for some fab must read blogs!

Who cares?

2011-02-09T18:29:00.000+11:00

I'm sick of every second person on Facebook going on about doing exercise. "I did a million sit ups" "I'm soooo toned after working out like once" "I've been using my crappy exercise thingy that I brought from the home shopping network and it'll break after one use". Obviously that's not what people post, but that's what I see when I read their statuses. I do Zumba every day, do I tell everyone about it every single freaking time I do it? Nope. Because I don't wanna annoy the crap outta everyone like certain people are doing to me. Am I more toned? Yes, but not after one workout...it took hard work and I'm very proud of my Zumba body. I am kinda sad that nobody's noticed...maybe I should post about it on Facebook, or I could just keep working hard quietely and let the braggers brag and see how long they can keep on doing their workouts consistently. I've been dancing for 16 years and you cannot make me quit. Even when I'm sick, I go to class and dance. And now Zumba is an extra type of dance for me to do. I've been doing it practially every day about 2 months. Gee, I'm bragging now, but it's my blog and arghhhhh, I don't care about your epic workout session!

Woe is me

2011-02-07T21:20:00.000+11:00

I'm getting sick, I can tell. On the weekend my throat was sore...this crazy weather hasn't helped it. After melting on Saturday, Sunday afternoon was so cold and windy. In addition to my sore throat I have a blocked nose and my usual blocked ears. So when I'm not coughing I'm going "Huh?" to everything everyone tells me. Oh, and don't forget my hayfever/allergies, my sinuses are all itchy. Anyone with tips on how to overcome my cold before it hits me bad I will owe big time.

Shoeper Shoe Challenge, take two

2011-02-05T11:08:00.001+11:00

As some of you will know, I attempted to complete Shoeperwoman's Shoe Challenge last year. It didn't quite go to plan. I didn't manage to save all my shoes, and especially since I have quite a few pairs of brand spanking new shoes which I refuse to get rid of, imma cheat and not get rid of all the shoes I haven't worn. I'm such a rulebreaker, I know. The shoe challenge did teach me that I don't need all the shoes I have, especially since I don't wear them all. I did get rid of a lot of shoes throughout the challenge, such as ones I wore out once that killed my feet. But yeah, this afternoon I'm going to have a long hard look at all my shoes and I must get rid of some more. I may or may not try this years challenge, I'm undecided as I sucked so bad at the last one. But yeah, if you have an interest in shoes I highly recommend visiting Shoeperwoman's blog, if only to drool at her amazing shoe collection as she completes her challenge.

-EDIT-
There is now a pile of maybe 10 pairs of shoes on the floor of my room to get rid of. Now I feel the need to tackle my wardrobe...yet again.

I swear I'm alive

2011-02-04T22:41:00.001+11:00

Oh gee, I've been such a bad blogger of late but lots of stuff has been happening. It's been my first full week of work and that's been exhausting. And I'm kinda sorta not hating my job anymore due to my role being changed and now me and the other girl are sharing the job which is great. Getting cuddles off all the adorable kiddies sure does help, and apparently the babies think I'm a climbing frame...I had three climbing on me at once the other day. I also had a girls night in on Wednesday. Lots of girly gossip, and Thai food (satay chicken for the win!) and Facebook and giving away clothes from my overstuffed wardrobe. Unfortunately one of my girls is going to India for a couple of weeks so we can't make our girls night a weekly thing but when she comes back I am so kidnapping them all and we'll go do awesome stuff. To top it all off, it's been HOT. Yes, that did deserve caps. It's a bit unfair to mention it when everyone in the northern hemisphere are icicles but down south we're melting. We've had tops of 40 degrees Celcius (around 100 F) and it's been waaaaay humid. Luckily my work has aircon so I've been all nice and not melty there but at home it's another story. I swear my bed would be cooler if I had my electric blanket on high on it. It's so sweaty and my fan does almost nothing. The upside is that I get to wander around the house with my top rolled up showing off my Zumba abs. Well, not exactly abs yet, but awesome (white!) flatness. I also went to my first Zumba class of the year and omg, I was shocked at how much fitter I am than last year. I used to wanna die halfway through the class but this time - even in the heat - I was grinning like the whole way through. My stamina is soooo much more than last year, it's crazy. My friend was looking at me like I was insane. I probably am, haha. So yeah, that's the week that was. Bring on the weekend - sleeping and trying not to melt are my plans. Oh, and I wanna buy ugg boots. Yes, in this weather...am I stupid or what? But I wanna have them all ready for the first signs of cold weather.

New fonts

2011-01-28T19:21:00.001+11:00

I saw that Blogger added some new fonts to choose from to personalise my blog so I played around with them and you can see the results. I think it looks super swanky and I especially love the header font.

It's finally the weekend, woo! I get to sleep in which will be epic. I've got a friends 21st tomorrow night. I'm hoping everyone isn't incomprehensible drunks so I can find someone to talk to. I like meeting new people so this shall be fun...providing I'm not in one of my anti-social moods. What are you doing this weekend?

On a Zumba related note, I tried a new workout today, the 55 minute Zumba live dvd. Live, more like dead in my case. Partway through I was lying on the ground exhausted. It was fun to do some different moves but man, it was tiring. It was only 10 minutes more than I usually do but that made a huge difference.

Australia Day

2011-01-26T14:30:00.001+11:00

Public holiday today because it's Australia Day here. So I'm sitting at home doing nothing while most other Aussies do Australian things like go to the beach and have bbqs. But I don't like crowds and it's uber hot right now so I'm sitting here in my pjs with my fan on and I may do some online shopping but it turns out that if you spend two weekends in a row shopping you kinda sorta don't have that much money yet and spending money isn't a good idea if you wanna quit your job and then won't be able to find another one. But yes, I rediscovered this you tube channel. I don't do you tube, I don't get it but my cousin showed me his videos years and years ago and he posted a new one on Facebook so I thought I'd check it out. So now I'm going through the videos and watching the ones I haven't seen. Huge lols, and I may kinda have the hots for him..

sigh

2011-01-25T18:19:00.000+11:00

First day back at work and I already wanna quit. For those of you that have been reading my blog for less than a month, I've been hating on my job for a while...well specifically the person in charge. I've been there less than a year and we've had 3 different directors which makes it so confusing for me when the first one tells me I'm great then the next two tell me I'm hopeless. So why don't you quit you say? Well, it was really difficult for me to find a job in the first place, and secondly if my future employer calls the centre the director won't say anything nice about me. But yeah, it's been so confusing for me, I get told to do one thing by one person, and then I get told off for doing it. Or I'll do something and then someone will be like "Er, you shouldn't be doing that". It's so frustrating. Basically I'm supposed to take charge and be in control of the room more, as in giving out orders and picking what goes on when, but when I do that I usually get told it's not good timing or someone else will do it before I get to it. I feel so useless. I'm considering applying for new jobs now because the director wants to pay me less which is probably something she can't do because I should be paid at a certain rate because I'm qualified but at least it will give me a good reason to leave. *sigh* I'm so confused.

Leather

2011-01-21T11:06:00.001+11:00

Apparently leather is a huge trend this summer, according to magazines I've read recently. Then I saw this leather Chloe dress featured on The Fashion Police. I don't see how leather can be such a huge trend im summer. Summer in Australia is hot and sticky. Did I mention it was hot? And leather and hot don't go together because it's a heavy material that keeps you warm. Hasn't everyone seen that episode of Friends where Ross gets stuck in a pair of leather pants? Yeah, I'm betting that would happen to all these summery leather pieces. Like a leather t-shirt, what's the point of a leather t-shirt? To me t-shirts are supposed to be comfy. And leather isn't very comfy. The only way I'm buying into the leather trend to to buy a leather jacket, to keep me warm in winter. I shall leave it to everyone else to go around in their leather t-shirts, pants, shoes and sweat in summer.

Benefit

2011-01-20T21:10:00.002+11:00

I just placed an order online from Benefit cosmetics. They're much raved about around the blog world so of course I had to see what all the fuss is about. I do already have a blusher trio thingy I got of theirs (6 bucks on ebay!) but I'm yet to try it. I really need to try it, haha. But back to my order, what I got was:

Beauty be bop - The colours look perfect for pale me, and highlighters are my new friend at the moment. Plus look how much I saved from retail prices, ftw!

Lemon aid - If it does what it says it does, I think I'm gonna love it

Lust dusters - I got the light lilac shade which looks like it'll make a nice highlighter or I can use it as eyeshadow. And look at the price! 5 bucks, I couldn't pass it up.

So yes, I'm eagerly awaiting their arrival. I hope they don't let me down. I've already gotten rid of a ton of cosmetics I don't use but I think I'm gonna have to do it again because I always go back to the same items. I do need a new foundation soon, so maybe if I palm the stuff I don't use off to friends I'll feel better about splurging on a nice foundation, as foundation is very important and all. Any recommendations on good foundations?

Grocery shopping

2011-01-19T16:19:00.001+11:00

Today I went grocery shopping with the family. I actually really like grocery shopping because I go around picking foods I wanna eat, and of course I always find some chocolate I want. Since Easter is apparently soon enough there are already Easter eggs in the shops. Which means they are selling Cadbury Creme eggs. I looove them. They are almost sickly sweet but they're just right. For those of you around the whole who haven't the slightest clue what they are, here's a picture:

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They even look like real eggs! Anyways, onto my outfit. I tried on a quite a few things today before settling on this dress. It's a size too big (which is what I get for ordering stuff online) but it works because all the extra fabric down the bottom makes for some fun twirling.

Dress: Sunny Girl

Belt: Thrifted

Shoes: Novo

Necklace and Ring: Lovisa

Bracelets: Equip

Are we liking the detail shot of my accessories? If so I'll try and include them more in future. Tomorrow we're going into the city which means I get to go to Tiffany and Co and spend my birthday moolah! I still don't know what I want but I'm sure I'll find something I love on the day.

Outfit of the Day

2011-01-18T16:45:00.002+11:00

This is what I wore out today to run errands in the morning and then get my nails done. Jeez photos make this look waaaay unflattering but it's a cute outfit in person I swear. I'll be getting rid of these shoes too. They're too big and the lining is one of those material ones that get stinky. The flash made my top kinda see though in some of the photos and I was like 'ahhhhh, I hope it wasn't see through in person!'.

Top: Cotton On

Shorts: Dotti

Shoes: Urban Outfitters

Necklace: Equip

Ring: Ebay

I've also noticed more people are reading my blog. If you want me to add you to my blog roll, let me know and I can do it. I love reading new blogs so don't be afraid to post your link!

Pink nails

2011-01-18T15:57:00.001+11:00

Today I got my nails infilled again and cut much shorter as I keep catching them on things and bending them back which is realllly painful. They're now a pretty sparkly pink with designs on my ring fingers. I've already managed to ruin 3 nails though between going to get my iced chocolate at Gloria Jeans and getting into my car. Ah well, only one is really noticable and I'll be bound to scratch them in future anyways. I've really gotten used to having acrylics these last few months and it's awesome because nailpolish seems to last longer on acrylics and not chip, especially professionally done. So I don't have to paint my nails in between infills because they don't chip. What do you do with your nails?