Wedding Bells..

Before you go getting any ideas I'm not the one getting married! lol.

Mazzy is counting down to her big day in April, so being the awesome friend that I am I have been helping here tick off a few items on the never ending wedding task list. We got up bright and early on Saturday morning to hit the the Sydney flower markets to get some ideas for table decorations and bouquets (this place is amazing BTW and oh so cheap, never buying flowers from florists ever again). Her house is now filled with jars and jars of flowers, smelling oh so sweet.

Lovely vintage feel

Now that she has also locked in her bridesmaid dresses I thought that I better start to think about what I am going to wear. Sad to see that all the pretty summer dresses in the shops are already being replaced by autumn stock!! We haven't even seen summer in Sydney yet, sob sob.

I was going to make something to wear, but considering my 6 month no shopping pact will end on the 1st April (yay!!) there is no better reason to buy something new to wear. It's been hard not buying anything off the rack for the last 4 months, however the discovery of some wicked vintage sites has saved our sanity.

Love the idea of a one shoulder dress (if the tan evens out before then)

Since its an evening wedding I am toying with the idea of a full length dress - love the blue one.

Love the silver belt detail for a bit of bling - means that I wouldn't have to worry about what jewellery to wear

Should really steer away from black but its just so flattering

I really like the lace detail

Simple, classic with a sexy edge

Hmm sooo many ideas, might need to do some reconnaissance in the shops to see what is there. Does putting something on lay by break my no shopping promise even if I am not paying it off till April?? Tehehe

Till next time

Nic xx

Going dotty

So with all the rain we had this weekend it was the perfect time to sit behind my sewing machine and get through a few projects that I have on my list.

Firstly, as shown in my last post I purchased a wicked blue and white polka dot dress from re:new vintage which  needed a bit of altering to fit right. I altered the height of the waist to bring it up a bit, as well as taking it in on the sides.

Before....

Before....

Removed the skirt and shortened the top half 

Took in the side seams

Ta da! Finished product

The other task on my cards was to make a pair or polka dot shorts (Simplicity 2258)

Cannot wait to wear these with a crisp white singlet and heels or flats

 

This is the second dress that I purchased. Love it!!

Till next time.

Nic xx

Vibing Vintage

I came across this shop on etsy yesterday and within half an hour I had purchased 2 dresses. Sooooo much to choose from and spoilt for choice.

re: new vintage http://www.etsy.com/shop/renewvintage?ref=seller_info

Picked up the following dresses for $30 and $35 each such a bargain....

This is the slightly altered version - took up the waist and took in the sides.

My friend Mazzy happened to pick up these two stunners that were actually on my short list - seriously going to have to borrow these at some stage hehe. Lucky that we have such similar taste as it can basically double our wardrobes.

Now I have to be good and restrain myself from buying the whole shop. You can check out Brookes blog here http://www.renewvintage.blogspot.com/

Till next time.

Nic xx

Buttons, buttons, whos got the buttons?

Well hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and NYs! Sad to be back at work already, could really have done with another week off lounging on the beach reading my book.

Over the break I managed to get my craft on and this was the result (would have done more but there was some serious beach time to be had).....



I had loads of fun making this lamp (which was inspired by one that I saw on Pinterest) and buring my fingers with the hot glue gun. It was super easy, take one lamp (found), new lampshade (Target $10) and a bag of random buttons (Lindcraft have bags for $8) and get glueing.

As you can see I didn't have enough to cover the whole lamp but decided to make it in a wave type pattern so that it didn't look like I ran out :)

I have to say that when the lamp is turned on its pretty cool. Now I just need to work out where I am going to put it.

On another note, I previously made two paperbag waist skirts for myself, however I was inspired by the ones that I made for my little cousins in my last post so I decided to join them together and made a reversible one for myself.....

Well hope I inspired you to get recycling.

Till next time.
Nic xx