Small Things #2

I am really bad at buying plants and then not getting around to potting them for weeks and weeks - I'm such a terrible plant mother. These are some new guys that I finally potted properly. I'm keeping them all lined up in the sunniest spot in the house, now to be known as the 'plant nursery', until they get settled.

This is a pile of nearly 200 photographs I recently had printed (9 cents a print = bargain!) Now I need to find time to put them all nicely into a photo album.

Kuwaii kicks I wrote about here arrived a few weeks back and have barely left my feet. I love them so!

Lost + Found

This past weekend I ventured out to the new Lost + Found Market in Brunswick. The Smith Street, Collingwood branch of Lost + Found is a well established haven of vintage amazingness, so I had been itching to go and explore their new premises.

I was very happy to come home with this copy of Marianne Faithfull's first biography. I read this years ago after getting it from the library and I've wanted my own copy ever since!

Pastel Pretties

 Street Peeper's Phil Oh, by Isaac Likes.

Last week it was this picture taken during New Zealand Fashion Week. This week it's this one from New York Fashion Week. The pastels. I loves them.

The New Smith

I was very happy to get my hands on a copy of the new Smith Journal, from the makers of Frankie magazine. It seems that everyone wants to know why the new magazine isn't named 'Frank', seeing as it's a more masculine version of Frankie - this is what editor-at-large Rick Bannister had to say about that:

"…even though Smith Journal was created by the Frankie team, it’s not simply a male version of it. It’s not the brother of Frankie. It’s different. It’s more like Frankie‘s guy friend. A guy who’s interested in a lot of different stuff to Frankie. (Smith Journal and Frankie would definitely want to hook up though, I reckon, so they had to be from different families, otherwise that would have been weird and wrong)"

Photography Lessons #2

From top: jasmine on my street // hangover breakfast // Melbourne laneway // Smith Street // Collingwood Children's Farm // goat! // Abbotsford Convent // Abbotsford Convent Slow Food Farmers Market

The photography lessons continue! These were all taken using a Fujica camera with a Super Takumar Lens.

Good Times Mix Swap

A while ago I participated in the mix cd swap that Mallory from Where the Lovely Things Are proposed to readers of her excellent blog. There's no better way to discover new music than receiving a handmade mix, and this particular mix swap had the added bonus of getting paired with an awesome new bloggy friend. This is what I received from my mix-swap partner Helena, of The Herbarium.

I was extra chuffed when I received this beautiful hand knitted bow with my mix - so sweet! The theme for the mixes was GOOD TIMES, and though we both chose some similar artists, all the songs we picked were different - surely this equals a musical match success!

Thanks to Helena's mix I am now totally obsessed with this song:


Metronomy - The Bay from David Wilson Creative on Vimeo.

Thanks again Helena, and thank you Mallory for coordinating it all!

Shoes 'n' Socks

{pics from top via aucklandstreetstyle,  foureyes, madebywhite, browndresswithwhitedots, louderthansilence, herecomesthesun}

I'm loving these cute shoes and ankle socks, socks layered over tights, and socks and sandles - lets definitely bring that look back.

Georgemania

I can't wait to see Martin Scorsese's George Harrison documentary.

Photos via Fuck Yeah George Harrison

Pastel Perfect

I've been glued to katherineisawesome.com this week, her New Zealand Fashion Week coverage has been freaking amazing. This shot of off duty model Rosie is one of my favourite things of the week, I'm so blown away by those pastel shoes!