Eye Catcher

This has caught my eye on my way to/from work the last few weeks!

Road Trip Day Two: Citrus, Sugar Cane & Railway tracks

Top - Junk / Skirt - French Connection (ha same combo again.. didn't realise that til now!) / Handbag - Vintage / Circle Scarf - Bonds / Sunglasses - Ray Ban / Bracelets - A little boutique & Tiffany & Co / Ring - (two finger) YTBA / Tights - Avanti / Shoes - Topshop

Road Trip Day One: Mountains & Sea

We decided on Thursday that we were going to go on a spontaneous road trip to Yeppoon on Saturday.. and this was the road trip of road trips for a standard 2 day weekend, that's for sure. We're talking 8 hours each way plus time for exploring = a whole lot of driving! The trip was for Mr B to see another potential 'project car' in the flesh, but we were trying to avoid making this weekend about 'doing things'.. rather we tried to see it as a mini getaway. Really wished we had planned better and had a couple of days off to explore more.. but since we are planning another little getaway next month, we decided to save our leave :)

Car trip essentials

Yeppoon coastline

Top - Junk / Pants - French Connection / Sunglasses - Ray Ban

A distinct reminder we were in North Qld

1770 - An absolutely pristine place and somewhere I have wanted to visit since seeing it on Getaway forever ago!

Yeppoon sunset

Play it again

For some time I have been wanting to start a record collection however, I haven't had anything to play them on. Usually every visit to an op shop I see them, at ridiculously cheap prices and think how great it would be to be able to play them, crackling and all. This weekend on discovery of a few vinyl classics, I decided to just do it. I figure if we owned records, it would push us to invest in a record player. We found a little one (for not much) which will do the job. We figure if we find we do regularly use it, we'll invest in a better one. At the moment it is sitting on the floor of our living room, until I can find a little display unit at an op shop for it! Looking forward to hunting out some more records now! And keen to get some modern music on vinyl also... :-)

Recent Purchases

Vintage shirt-dress $60 - Paddington Antique Centre

Vintage skirt $40 - Can you keep a secret?

A couple of recent purchases. Glitzy shirtdress I'm planning to wear on my birthday in a months' time with some stacked heels and also casually tucked into skirts. The skirt will be quite transeasonal, I'm planning on wearing it during winter with tights, a long sleeve blouse and a scarf and in spring with a singlet & flats.

I found this great new little vintage boutique at Greenslopes called 'Can you keep a secret?'... There are some amazing things in there! Sometimes I can justify spending a bit more on vintage if the pieces are in good condition and I can see myself getting a lot of wear out of them. :-)

Found: On the street

For reals. Today was my lucky day.

It was put out to be picked up by council collection in a neighbouring street.

Needs new tyres, front brakes, mandatory wicker basket and handle bar streamers but I'm seriously swooning over it's beauty.

Catching up on reading

Busy with work = behind in my free-reading....... I have collected a number of free mags on my coffee table over the last couple of weeks.. I hate that some of them are full of ads but some are great for the fashion pages and a good money savers!