rock to the beat of the radio...

getting my rock and then roll on tonight at kings of leon. i expect to see a lot of leather, leopard and flanneys!!!

make money to spend money...

apparently i'm not alone. apparently there are others out there, that have and do live their lives like me, perpetually in the red. that's right for nearly ten years now i have given little to no thought of my financial freedom, taking it as a given that i will always be 'in debt'.

i was never very good with numbers and quite frankly i could go ahead and blame a school system that feels it's necessary to teach algebra but then negates the number games we play every day.

a course on credit cards, investments and mortgages may have seen me stick out general maths past the age of 16 and would have been a lot more helpful than anything pythagoras had to offer.

i could also blame it on my 'i have to have it now' generation or the inherent spendalot gene passed on from gales gone by but really i am 27 these days and recognising that well shit i got myself into this mess, i better start digging my way out of it.

visits to banks and financial planners aside one of my biggest hurdles to getting back in the black is shopping. you all know this. i know this. fashion is my high. fed directly through my credit crackpipe and it needs to stop.

i need to get savvy and here's how i'm going to do it.

1. no more credit cards.
2. go through and try on every single item in my wardrobe and sort the style from the fashion.
3. fashion pieces are generally worn once and are mostly trend based. these pieces are off to eBay.
4. make money to spend money. use eBay as a resource for 'investment pieces' only.
5. we all have those pieces that once they've hit fb will never see the flash of a camera again. it's time to form a fashion collective and get swapping sistas.
6. learn to lay by. 
7. subscribe to my style bibles (christmas is just around the corner. wink wink, nudge nudge)

these 7 steps might seem simple to savers everywhere but fashion fiends will no the above is a discipline and i'm giving myself a year to master it. let the countdown begin...

friday fashionspiration gets sexy...

Who's Sexiest People 2011... out today

ryan gosling

teresa palmer

colin farrell

miranda kerr

alexander skarsgard

Liam Hemsworth

Jennifer Hawkins and Jake Wall

Jodi Gordon

Ricki-Lee Coulter

Lara Bingle

Natalie Imbruglia

Mel B

Jennifer Aniston

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Mila Kunis

Kim Kardashian


Ryan Corr

Olivia Wilde

Emma Stone


Katie Holmes


Ryan Reynolds


Gerard Butler

get off of my cloud...

i'm only 27 but it seems i have already turned into my father. the more i look around the more i find the state of things getting under my skin.one of which was a video 'news' story on news.com.au under the catchy header 'Lara Bingle on her weight gain'.

now i'm pretty sure the actual story here was supposed to be about the fact that lara has made who magazine's sexiest people 2011 with a side angle that she's an ambassador for the meal delivery service eat fit food.

instead the interview went something like this:

'beach babe lara bingle'  featured in who magazine's sexiest people 2011 is 'courting controversy yet again'. lara watchers have noticed 'the formerly petite bikini model has packed on a few kilos'.

cut to lara as she eloquently answers "i am a woman. what they used to compare me to was when i was 19. I'm now 24. we all change. i'm sure i'm going to change again. from now to 30, 30 to 40. you know that's just life and i'm embracing it".

the interviewer then moves in with a few well placed jabs 'the well nourished lara is also embracing her role as eat fit food ambassador' and then goes in with the hook 'but the question remains how much has she put on?' i'm assuming lara's response of "i never said i gained 5 kilos" is in relation to some other irresponsible reporters misquote of figures.

the 'news story' then lets us know that we can get a 'good glimpse of lara's new curves' in this weeks who magazine out today.

i realise that this little fluff piece may just be the straw the broke my back but isn't it about time we felt a greater responsibility on what we're putting out into the world.

how are we supposed to expect women and girls to embrace their bodies when the message out there is that you'll be 'courting controversy' if you put on an insignificant amount of weight.

there are a million positive ways this interview could have gone and yet they went for cutting jibes about her body. a body by the way that incase you missed it in that interview, has been named one of who's sexiest. a body attained not by starving herself but by eating healthy well balanced meals.

as women we need to take a greater stand on the trash we are willing to accept as a social norm.  these headlines and stories are in saturation because bottom line they sell. 

and maybe it's because of our insecurities (created and perpetuated in the media) that we find ourselves fascinated but i'm imploring you to ditch this destructive diatribe. instead how about we fill up on the positive and show society that being an empowered, healthy and confident woman is a beautiful thing.

tall poppy...

poppy delevigne

 

l o v e  h e r !

a carnival of clowns...

derby day attendees

i've written about this before and if this years spring racing carnival is anything to go by i will continue to write about it until i die... 

yes we live in a world where people believe 'dressing up' means a 'tan' as effervescent as your morning berocca, paired with a dress as tight and short as a hooker on hollywood boulevard and of course the obligatory big birdesque headpiece but really can we please put it out there that the races  are meant to mean class not arse.

unfortunately as one journalist put it the races are more popular than ever, a veritable  'schoolies for adults' and while i don't disagree with the statement, i do disagree with the tone of the article that this is somehow a good thing. because it's not. it's foul.

if you want to get 'pissed' in the sun, go to a festival. if you want to look like a tramp go to CQ on a saturday night. if you want to act like a jersey meatball, move to jersey.

there are literally only a handful of occasions these days that call for that extra effort and old style grace kelly glamour and the races is supposed to be one of them. 

some of you will be cheering my little tirade while others will still be sitting there head cocked to the side and eyes narrowed at the word class. for the latter let's go back to basics:

CLASS: meaning of high quality, integrity, status,  style or elegance.

ELEGANT: meaning tastefully fine and luxurious.

now instead of posting 65 million photos of fug, because there are actually that many,  i have decided to show you one lady who wear it well. take notes, please, because wedding season is upon us and trust me the same expectation for elegance over excess applies.

derby day

melbourne cup day

oaks day

love the cov...