Dreaming of Vintage Treasures

Day 4 in Eden started out with a morning swim. I really enjoyed boogie boarding, floating on the waves and sliding into the sand (and getting sand burn).  We went for a drive to the Eden wharf and walked around, taking in the beautiful sights. The end of the wharf was fascinating and it reminded me of a Freddie Mercury  statue   that was built in front of a lake in Montreal.  Source At the ocean lookout, my mum and I got talking to a sweet elderly lady who was walking her dog. Her son said that he'd moved back to Australia from New Zealand to live near his mum in Merimbula. He said that he took his mum for a walk to the beach every day, which is just about the sweetest thing I'd ever heard. For 3 weeks over Christmas time, the town is filled with tourists, he said, and then they have the beach to themselves for the rest of the year. It was lovely to chat to them. Hello from the lookout! For dinner we went to a ...

Hello again! Just like in last week's blog post , I'm using some photos I took a while ago that I never got around to posting.  I wore this outfit out to lunch with my uni friends. I love catching up with them and hopefully I'll get to a chance to see them now that we all have work holidays. I like the colours in these photos - the green velvet dress and red lipstick seems to perfectly match the bright yellow sunflowers.  I'm glad I captured some photos of this dress as I've now sold it on. I bought it from Ishka (a fab hippy shop) years and years ago, back when I was in high school. I remember being thrilled that it was only $10. I got so many wears out of it.  I finally decided to sell it because I found the pockets around the stomach to be unflattering. For that reason, I usually wore the dress with a top over it, like in this post about a visit to a strawberry farm.  I hope its new owner enjoys it but I am sort of regretful tha...

A little while ago, my mum, sister and I went to my favourite place to visit - Daylesford. We didn't realise how hot it'd be until we got there, it seems the heat intensifies immensely in country towns!  I always love visiting the Mills Market there, which is filled  with vintage and second hand stalls.             I've been here many times over the years but only just noticed this Elvis and Ringo banner! I found a vintage Whiting &Davis snake bangle for $12 which I was thrilled about, they sell for silly prices on eBay. I'm forever keeping an eye out for jewellery like this. I've got 3 Whiting & Davis snake pieces of jewellery: A gold snake necklace that I wore to my friend's engagement party . A silver snake bangle last worn at Christmas time . And now the bangle  below .  Three's a collection, right? Here are some things I admired but didn't take home with me. ...

After a day out in Merimbula , my mum and I began the next day with a walk by the beach. The sky and water looked beautiful. I cooked some pancakes with strawberries and nutella for my family and I. We then drove to the Eden wharf to buy some mussels, as my mum wanted to make paella for lunch. We stopped off to say our annual hello to Denise the horse who we've now renamed Denis after discovering he's a boy! He's usually very friendly and let's us pat and feed him grass but this year he bit my sister! We laughed about that for ages! Then we popped into Tribal Suzani Eden Specialty , a hippy shop that we like to pop into whenever we're in Eden.  I love these lamps, puppets and Turkish plates. Last year, I bought a raw amethyst stone for myself and a snakeskin bag for my mum from this shop. This year, I bought a bright coloured maxi dress, which I'm sure will pop up on this blog soon. It's not too often that I buy brand new c...

After such a busy weekend last week , I was glad to do a whole lotta nothing this weekend.  Well, I did do a few things... I spent Saturday planning and doing other things for work. On Friday, the school I work at celebrated Book Week. I dressed up as a ladybug because my class is learning about mini-beasts. It was so much fun getting dressed up and wearing a velvet cape for the day. I can only imagine how much more excited the children were about wearing their costumes! I spent the rest of the weekend reading and watching T.V. I'm hooked on watching Sons of Anarchy. There's so much shocking drama in every episode. Each time I think the main character Jax (below) is going to finally leave the club, he's somehow pulled back into it. Source I also found some treasures at the market: A vintage, dagger collared shirt (the seller had created it from a dress), a shift dress with a heavy beaded collar and a horn-shaped necklace. When I p...