Scent love

Being 15, it’s pretty hard to pin down your ’signature scent’ so on the weekend I set out to buy some more perfumes for my ’scent wardrobe’. I couldn’t just run into a department store and sniff every perfume, I did quite a bit of research based on perfumes and other scents that I love, ie. Miss Dior Cherie, MJ Daisy, Lancome Poeme, Ralph by Ralph Lauren and various Victoria’s Secret body sprays. Turns out I favour gourmand(food and dessert related) and Chypre (citrus and moss) fragrances with a patchouli base note and strong disliking  for Oriental scents or anything too musky. I made a list and very soon I returned with CKIN2U (I’ve loved in2u ever since it came out in 2007, I had a bottle but I left it in China), Gucci by Gucci (the ad, Natasha poly, Raquel zimmerman and freja beha, need I say more?) and Juicy Couture (Hate their track suits but this perfume is just amazing, do you believe in love at first sniff?).

Packaging/the bottle is  important for me too, one of the reasons why I love Miss Dior Cherie so much is the super cute glass bottle with a silver bow and MJ Daisy with the rubber daisies. I love the Juicy and Gucci bottles but CKIN2U is boring but I already knew that and it doesn’t matter!

Hehe a little family, I share some of it with my mum. I think Eau Mega by Victor and Rolf, Flora by Gucci another bottle of Miss Dior Cherie are next!

Yesterday:

Cut out tank: Valleygirl circa 2006

Grey skirt: My own design

Lace jacket: My mum’s

Polka dot pumps: So old, can’t remember…

Brooch: Present

Bow: My own design

XXASAB

I love…

Alexia Admor.  Being a blogger you put yourself out there for all sorts of critism, hate and heaps of spam comments. If you’re a blogger with a blog email, you also have to put up with all sorts of strange PR emails (penis enlargements anyone?). But every once in a while you get amazing offers and opportunities. A few weeks ago I was contacted by Alexia Admor and voila! I got myself a gorgeous dress! All the way from NYC!

Isn’t it adorable? And it has pockets, anything with pockets is a +! Thanks everyone at Alexia Admor! I suggest you give their store a little browse http://www.alexiaadmor.com/

Today:

Taupe blazer: Lovelygirl

White T-shirt: Weekend

Floral skirt: My own design

Quilted lambskin bag: Vintage

Perspex wedges: China

Bold watch: Gift

XXASAB

Recent additions

You know that feeling of joy, pride and ‘general giddy-ness’(obviously masking guilt) when you put a newly bought piece of clothing in to your wardrobe/closet depending on what continent your on? Just divine isn’t it? Well I got plenty of that over the weekend.

Vintage, Chanel-esque, lambskin, super soft, quilted bag, excellent condition

Alice and olivia, patterned dress (gift from my mum’s friend)

Bold shouldered, drape back t-shirt

Lace back long sleeve t-shirt

Champagne light blazer

Grey skull scarf (McQueen ish, kinda feels back because I could easily afford a real one…)

 

And a newly embelished tank, by me!

XXASAB

PS. I always feel like such a bad designer whenever I buy RTW clothes…

Preppin’ for school

These holiday has come to a sad end, and as always I don’t want to go back to school but it’s inevitable, I have to. But unlike previous years I actually have 9, yes count ‘em 9 frees to look forward to, meaning late mornings(well, later) and long lunches! And also unlike other years I’ve put EXTRA effort into stationary and notebooks  (I always put effort into it, but not as much as this year).

Check out these scissors! They are the most amazing, hilariously ’me’ pair of scissors ever! And those biros are so adorable, even though I’ll probably never use them, I had to get them!

Who like plain, boring, lever arch files? No one! Which is why I had to bedazzel the heck out of them! And sacrifice several copies of vogue and harper’s bazaar. Heavily featuring Heidi Mount, Lara Stone, Natasha poly and Balmain.

And now food, in my group of friends at school, I probably get the best lunches and the I’m the only one who eats healthy food on a regular basis. Everyone else either eats at the canteen, doesn’t eat or eats my food (which I don’t mind). I’m happy to say I’m scarily organised when it comes to food and have lunches for the next 4 weeks planned out. I won’t bore you with sandwich details (though, my sandwiches are amazing) but I am going to tempt you with these:

Low fat, organic date, dark chocolate muffins made with whole meal flour. I’ve been perfecting them for the past few months.

A few days ago:

Blouse, headband and skirt: My own design

Shoes: Louboutin

Bag: Vintage

Necklace: My mum’s

Watch: Casio

XXASAB

More jersey magic and some OTT love!

With the left over metre of my new favourite fabric, black jersey I decided to make a form fitted skirt, inspired by the (possibly Herve Leger) one worn by Lara Stone in Brazil. Well to put it frankly; not really, I just saw it and thought “Hey, I need a nice plain black skirt, has to be form fitting but also has to hide my unfortunate saddle bags, ah! Side peplums! Double side peplums!”

I’m not usually a bra flasher but I recently got myself some fabulous Pleasure State Couture lingerie and it’s so gorgeous and ornate I just couldn’t resist!

I would like to thank darling porcelain blonde for passing on the Over The Top award me this me. Who I can’t wait to catch up with when my homework’s done and schedules are cleared.

1. Where is your cell phone? Right next to me, just deleted a whole lot of stuff to free up some space

2. Your hair? What about it? It’s down, no fuss, minimal product, just the way I like it

3. Your mother? At work

4. Your father? At work

5. Your favorite food? Anything really wholesome and comforting

6. Your dream last night? Can’t remember but it’s the first time in a long time I’ve slept past 8am!

7. Your favorite drink? Belini, tea, watermelon smoothies, green apple or pineapple snow shakes from bubble tea

8. Your dream/goal? To make a mark on the fashion industry in the form of a designer

9. What room are you in? My sewing room

10. Your hobby? Keeping you lot entertained!

11. Your fear? Time, school, failure, and the usual, heights, most animals, and twilight fans…

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? In new york, reaching my goal (see no.8) oh and “Alive!” thanks Porcelain Blonde for reminding me

13. Where were you last night? At home, being boring

14. Something you aren’t? A fan of tanning

15. Muffins? Hmmmm, I love making them but I only eat them warm.

16. Wish list item? Chanel; 2.55, Mulberry bayswater, Alexander Wang Rocco, sheer-ish black t-shirt.

17. Where did you grow up? 8 year in China, 7 years here

18. Last thing you did? Make scrambled egg whites on toast

19. What are you wearing? work out clothes, t-shirt, shorts, socks, silver converses!

20. Your TV? is on, watching Little Britain

21. Your pets? I don’t have any

22. Your friends? Are all recovering from the Big Day Out
23. Your life? Will hopefully be full of 5,7, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 22.

24. Your mood? Happy

25. Missing someone? Heaps of people

26. Vehicle? I’m 15 years old, I can’t drive! But you know, a chauffeur would be fabulous.

27. Something you’re not wearing? My usual white glasses -gasp-!

28. Your favorite store? Tug of war between spotlight, lincraft and clegs

29. Your favorite color? Black, goes with everything

30. When was the last time you laughed? 34 seconds ago “I wun that wun”

31. Last time you cried? Can’t exactly remember but it was about school

32. Your best friend? Lisa and Marla/Munchie

33. One place that I go over and over? My usual coffee shop

34. One person who emails me regularly? WordPress, TFS, net-a-porter, google alerts, None of my friends email me because why email when you have twitter, msn, phones, morse code, snail mail

35. Favorite place to eat? Anywhere with great company and yummy food.

And I’m passing it on to

Lady Melbourne, Sea of Ghosts and We Won’t Go There

XXASAB

PS. Louboutins and K-mart in the same outfit, I’m laughing too.

Chanel Haute Couture ss10

Oh Karl, how you never seize to amaze me! I was shocked when I got word that the show wasn’t at the Grand Palais, as far as I’m concerned some of his best has been shown at the Grand Palais and anything shown anywhere else was shit (Pre-Fall in ShangHai, Cruise at the Venice Lido, Pre-Fall in I dunno, Russia?) but this collection was just spendid! From the little embellished short-suits, to the draped, light dresses with crystal sprinkled neckline and every sherbet pastel, frou frou cocktail dress in between! But the same couldn’t be said for the shoes, hair and stockings, let’s start on the hair, some kind of weird bride, bride of frankenstein puff with grey streaks (again reminding me of Daphne Guinness) and bangs, the shoes weird odd, silvery, concoctions with baubles and the stockings, oh dear the stockings, wet looks -shudders-. My true Aussie pride came out the day after Australia day when I found out Abbey Lee Kershaw was the bride! And only a tiny bit annoyed that it wasn’t darling Lara Stone, who’s actually getting married soon…
 

 

 

 

 

picture credit-style.com

XXASAB

Christian Dior Haute Couture SS10

Galliano has done it again! Another picture perfect couture collection. Evoking a very strong sense of dare I say it; old hollywood glamour and dripping in rich, delicious hues of red, cream, maroon and royal blue. Although the first few looks were a little too equestrienne/ Mary Poppins/Daphne Guinness for my liking, the overall collection has incredible editorial potential.”Karlie Kloss walking as if she were a thoroughbred dressage pony herself” -style.com. Ohh my deary, I can so see that, poor Karlie and her walk. I’m not even going comment on the whole Tavi-being-front-row-at-the-show-thing, but lets just say her hat is the least of my worries.

 

 

 

 

 

Picture credits: Style.com 

Happy Haute couture, I mean Australia Day ASABettes! Whether you decided to spend the day at the beach, enjoying a BBQ, attending a party, moshing at the Big Day Out, or just chilling out at home glued to the style.com I hope you have a delightful day!

XXASAB

Basic is best

After making my jersey bandage dress I wanted to created another dress that is simple, comfortable and at the same time elegant. I played with several ideas before settling on a draped dress with a slight ruffle hem and a little touch of lace at the back.

 

 

You might have seen me tweet quite a bit lately about ‘the snood’, no, not the crocheted headwear worn by women to keep their hair back as Super Kawaii Mama thought (though I agree, traditional snoods should make a come back too), but the scarf-hood! Or circle scarf as some call it.  My mum was quite eager to knit me a snood and since I know she’s a fabulous knitter (but she never finished things) + I was keen on getting my hands on one before winter starts, I let her knit away! Lucky me, she finished it within 4 days! Even though it’s the middle of summer, I still wore a snood today.

In other news, wanna take a jab at what Marla gave me?

How about now?

Oh yes, it is what you think it is! Isn’t it adorable?

XXASAB