Coral reef

Coral reef by showpig featuring Alexander McQueen scarves

Morning tea

Morning tea by showpig featuring RED Valentino dresses

New shoes

My Trinkletinas arrived yesterday. A delicious and totally worth-it purchase from Irregular Choice. 

Platform obsession

I'm currently going through a shoe phase. Gazing at shoes online is my new therapy and mode of relaxation. Want all!

Tokyo Milk

Tokyo Milk: my latest obsession. Magnolia at New Farm has a couple of the hand creams, but for the rest of the range I need to go online and order from the US. Such deep, dark temptation...

Gail Sorronda headpiece

I WANT IT NOW.

My best and worst fashion of the Golden Globes 2010

Hate. Sir Paul, I don't care for your scarf. And Friend, it's the Globes, not a swingers fondue party.

Hate. Put them away, everyone's seen your personal golden globes more times than we care to remember. And maybe try a different hairdo or shade of fake tan in the future.

Love. Simple, great dovegrey colour, structured draping.

Love. She is SIXTY-FIVE! Good on her. Super hot.

Hate. Gorillaface. Try not to get it so wrinkled.

Love. Everything but the hip shelf.

What the hell? Hate! Is she a washed-up 1970s casino dolly? And the SHOES! Ugly, ugly, ugly.

Love. Mini-hive, French attitude, panache, relaxed.

Love. Mr Schue, TAKE ME HOME.

Love. Emily looks soft and glowing and John looks sharp. Pull your pants up though.

For some reason, love. Unusual. Colour a bit beige though.

Love. Worthington, you arrogant bastard. You look foxy and confident and so does Natalie. When she is gone we will be married and I will be your red carpet arm candy.

Hate. Chick from The Office, sort your bodice out and DO YOUR HAIR PROPERLY.

Hate. Patricia. You are not a bag lady / a million years old.

Hate. Cory Monteith- GET ONE THAT FITS.

Love. Clooney and Friend- she somehow gets away with the twisted midriff bits.

Love. Sparkly, structured, simple.

Love. This is weird but she pulls it off.

Butter London

Mmm.

Paula Walden jewellery

Ooooh.

Gingerbread Nightmares shirt

Ha ha.

Toad heels

I would totally buy these.

Marion Godart jewellery

When I was in Paris, I bought a giant multicoloured disc necklace and a big red plastic rooster brooch from a cute little boutique. They were both by French designer Marion Godart. I love these two pieces a lot at the moment. My next task is to find out where I can buy more online!

Reese Witherspoon looks terrible

Seen the new Avon perfume ad starring Reese Witherspoon?

She looks nothing like her usual fresh glowing self. Her face seems to be a whole new puffy shape and she totters over the bridge like a 19-year-old slapper wearing her first pair of race-day heels. The shot where she looks back over her shoulder at the camera is deeply tragic. She appears to have no neck. Stumpy McGee. Check out the dark circles under the eyes in the final shot.
What happened, Reese? Did they CGI you? Do you really look like that? I know you didn't create the ad, but surely you checked it, right?
I do like the camellia tree, though. That would be nice to have in your front yard.

Viktor & Rolf

Looking for a new perfume yesterday. Wandering through Myer in a vaguely bored dozy state, barely registering the umpteen new fragrances from Sarah Jessica Parker, Kylie Minogue, J.Lo, Britney, blah blah blah. Every single one of those lame perfumes always smells super sweet and like a tryhard teenager to me. Pass. There was a new one from Gucci which I liked. The Marc Jacobs range is always lovely. My favourite though was Flowerbomb by Viktor & Rolf, the Swedish nutcase design team who created paperclip eyelashes and 3-D word dresses.
Plus, the advertisement design below is beautiful. I love my new fragrance.

More of my brooch collection

You've already seen quite a few of my brooches, but seeing as there's nothing quite like a good stickybeak through someone else's stuff, here's the rest of the collection.

Tiki god brooch from Rubi Rocket

MJ mini-cassette brooch

Vintage 80s icecream brooch

Black ghost from Mombasa

Flower paste brooch from friend

Vintage pop-up Easter brooch

Three Blind Mice brooch from georgielove

Olive bead cluster

2 x Eiffel Tower stamp brooches

Pineapple

Halloween pumpkin

Garden

(all made by me)

Plastic bat brooch

(made by me)

Giant African Grey parrot

Black-banded parrot

Rainbow lorikeet
Sunbird(all made by me)

Best in Show polymer (made by me)- one of my favourites!

Storybook brooch from georgielove

Mini felt bird

Mao and Andy Warhol pins from GoMA

Stripe and spot pins from Riverbend Books

Moustachioed lady pin from Tilly Bloom

Red plastic bird from Equip

Butterfly fish

Elephant

Gingerbread twins

Anchovy

(all made by me)

Set of three handmade llama brooches

(gift from a friend from Nepal)

Silver fan from Diva

Enamel zebra from Paddy's Markets, Sydney

Crystal spider from Ebay

Black enamel owl and enamel flowers, both from Ebay

Baby photo brooch (it's me!) and 6 Birthday brooch

And yes, I do wear them both.

Purple/orange crystal and enamel pansy, from Galeries Lafayette, Paris

Icecream charm brooch, made by Ema-Lea

Christmas brooches: pudding and sock from flea markets

Star from Equip
Angel from a friend






Blue stone brooch from a friend

Green hummingbird from a friend
Sparkly elephant from Ebay

Pearl elephant from a friend

Hanimex Film Processing Consultant brooch, op shop

PNG Olympic Team 2000 pin, Sydney Olympics

Senior Leader pin, op shop

Plastic metallic leaf, Lifeline