by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 11, 2010 | Life, Outfit Of The Day
One of the absolute highlights of James and my trip to Melbourne happened on the last day, in fact it happened on the way to the airport: we got to visit Circa Vintage!
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Having met the lovely Nicole at our tea party we were super excited when she invited us to the shop on our last day in town! There was a New Zealand TV show filming in the store that day for a competition of some sort so the shop was bustling with excitement ^_^
The shop itself was full of so many beautiful things! I seriously could have spent my entire bank account with very little trouble, to be honest if we hadn’t been on the way to fly home I probably would have left with bags and bags of beautiful vintage dresses and accessories!
Nicole was lovely enough to let me try on some of the dresses and I had such a wonderful time prancing around like a princess!
The first piece I tried on was this beautiful pink number:
The fabric had the most beautiful floral designs woven into it and on the front there was a big bow!
The next piece was a purple lace dress which was much more form fitting. Here I am as the lovely Fiona helped me clip it at the back, I was too small for all of the dresses so we clipped them for the photos ^_^
Mwahaha we even convinced James to get in the spirit of things as he tried on this delicious vintage wool suit. I had to tell him like 50923842 times that a wool suit wouldn’t do well in Brisbane’s climate and he still didn’t want to part with it! How dashing does he look seriously?
This next dress was my favorite of the day and they practically had to bribe me to get out of it!
It’s a beautiful blue chiffon piece with lace details sewn around the bodice and skirt.
Being surrounded by the camera crew! I can’t wait to see how they edit the footage together!
One of the many reasons I loved this dress was the twirling action! I felt like a Disney Princess XD
The dressing up bug was contagious and Candicefound the most lovely fitted purple dress!
Ok we took way to many pictures…. but how awesome is it?!
By this point the day went something like this with James falling asleep in the chair while I camwhored 😉
Being clipped into the next dress by the wonderful Nicole and Fiona:
This is the only picture of both of us from the whole damn trip!
The whole atmosphere in the shop was beautiful!
PEARLS! It’s like some kind of lovely dream 😀
Group shot of all the girls! Left to right: Nicole, Fiona, Me, Candice. They all look so pretty!
Bonus pic! Jamestitled this photo “Parasols at Dawn” heehee!
If you want to visit Circa Vintage check the website for more details or drop into the store at: 102 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria. I can’t wait to go back when we move down!! |
For even more photos from Circa Vintage go check James blog here.
by VioletLeBeaux | Mar 6, 2010 | Life, Outfit Of The Day
Today’s outfit was very stereotypical French inspired.
The kind of France that’s in my dreams… where everyone always carries a baguette all the time and has a poodle permanently attached to their arm. Yes that may be the kind of France that doesn’t exist but so what, I love my outfit anyway!
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Dress- Target Stockings- Myer Cardigan- Angel Sissi Heart Ring- I made it 😀 Hat- SkyLine VintageShoes- Modified by me Other jewelery- random places
This outfit was for James’ birthday which was last Thursday! None of the pieces were very expensive at all but it comes together for a very sweet look and my hair is super curled/teased.
Make up for the day! I wish the camera captured how sparkly the pink was ^_^ I’m wearing the green lenses from my previous review.
Later that night we had a small family party for James but it was really hot that night. Instead of brushing out my hair I just pinned it up on the back of my head and added a bow.
Getting in the festive mood!
Here’s a bonus pic because I love you all 😀
Thanks for looking at my outfits! |
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 22, 2010 | Life
So this is going to be my big Melbourne post 😀
I’m sure you’re all sick of hearing about it by now! There is one more post coming up about something we did down there but it’s a surprise so I suppose you’ll all just have to deal with hearing about it for a tiny bit longer ^_^ I’ve actually got a lot of other photos from down there to be used in tutorials and the like as well…
But on to the photos!
So on the first day we mostly just rested because we had to be up at 2am that day for the flight.
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Sight seeing on 2 hrs sleep really isn’t very fun, so we took it easy and just had a little wander around Box Hill shopping center. That night we went out for a yummy dinner and got our first taste of Melbourne traffic, 2 1/2 hours for a 45min trip LOL apparently no one told us that there happened to be an ACDC concert on that night… oh wait that’s not true we were stuck on the flight with a crazy ACDC fan! He had been waiting in line to check in with us and struck up a conversation about how awesome ACDC were and how he was flying around the country to see every concert, we were polite and then somehow we ended up next to him on the flight as well >_< Most awkward 2 hours of pretending to be asleep ever.We also met SuperKawaiiMama‘s adorable children Miss 5 and Miss 2 who have more energy than anyone I’ve ever met! On the Friday we also went shopping… ok yes we did a *lot* of shopping! You’ve already seen the photos from the tea party on the Saturday so now we’re up to Sunday which was Valentines/Chinese New Year!
We went down to China Town for CNY and saw the dragon dances as well as more shopping…
James bumped into Mr Gadget outside and 5min later we bumped into Fashion Hayley! It was so strange to keep bumping into people we knew in a city we didn’t live in!
Our outfits for the day:
People kept asking for photos as well which was quite amusing. Some guy even wanted us to take photos with his kids >_< The strangest part of that day was being hit on by a skeezy old asian guy who apparently thought I was 15… Gross and all kinds of illegal!
Delicious lunch that day:
Mr SKM enjoying the delicious lunch:
Ok yes there was a lot of cam-whoring that day!
The dragon (edit apparently when there are only 2 people it’s a lion) eating up some yummy looking watermelon:
Those fire crackers were so loud!
Of course the whole time I was trying to keep up with you guys online as much as possible!
Including making fun posts like our Valentines Day Entryto the Nuffnang competition. This was taken while I was getting ready ^_^
SuperKawaiiMama’s yard also made a great backdrop for all of the photos. So pretty and green!
And we had a lot of fun being ridiculous!
Jamesdemanded I include this because he thought it was hilarious 😉
Miss 5 decided my make up wasn’t pretty enough one day so she gave me this awesome make over! Ready for a night out yes?
One day we went wandering around the city by ourselves, it was really beautiful.
That night we were supposed to meet up with my awesome old friend Steampunkeriebut I managed to twist my damn ankle on the curb in China Town so we had to cut it short and had drinks instead. I had the weirdest green tea and icecream concoction I’ve ever tasted, it was really yummy though!
That afternoon we caught the train home and were surprised at how clean, easy to use and efficient it was! |
Living with another creative girl with similar interests produced a lot of late night crafting sessions 😀
That night we made hair clippies, mine is the rosette on the left ^_^
We ate a RIDICULOUS amount of delicious food there, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten out that much in my life. It was SO good!
So much food!
We did a huge amount of shopping, I loved all of the imported Asian make up stores like The Face Shop and Missha. I’ll have some product reviews for you soon from there once I test everything out 😀
We also visited some Op Shops and got some great bargains! The highlight of which was an old guy stopping his mobility scooter and saying “An old guy like me can say it… YOU LOOK REALLY GROUSE! Really beautiful young lady!” I have to say, I’ve been described as a lot of things but “grouse” is new on my list! For the overseas readers, grouse is really old Australian slang for awesome eg. “This beer tastes grouse mate”.
Jameswas in his element taking photos of everything, I think he really enjoyed having so many locations to shoot at and new interesting back drops!
Here’s another one of his:
On the last day we all ruined our awesome diets with a fantastic meal of McDonalds…
There was a carousel at the airport, so awesome!
After a long awesome filled week it was time for a very sad farewell ;_; (you just need to pretend that I’m not laughing in this photo ok?)
Back to Brisbane and back to the horrible humidity 🙁 On the plus side hopefully we’ll be back in Melbourne sooner than you think!
Thank you so much to all our wonderful friends who made our trip so great! Special thank you to SuperKawaiiMama, Mr SKM, Miss 5 and Miss 2 for letting us stay with you and showing us such a wonderful time! It’s awesome to know that we won’t be alone when we move down!
Now I can’t wait to get back to Melbourne! <3
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 19, 2010 | Hime Gyaru, Life, Nails
Recently we held a tea party at the new Cristina Re store and it was so beautifully decorated I couldn’t wait to post the photos!
When we decided to take a trip to Melbourne, the one thing I *really* wanted to do was have a big meet up where I could catch up with all of my blogging friends and everyone else we knew in Melbourne ^_^
SuperKawaiiMama was completely awesome about the idea and organised a tea party for us at the new Cristina Re flagship store. I had only heard of Cristina Re in the sense that she makes the beautiful scrap-booking supplies and stationary and I had no idea that there was a beautiful little cafe attached!
The cafe was decorated with beautiful butterflies:
We had a great turn out! From left to right below:
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Super Kawaii Mama, Me!, AuroraHime, Nicole from Circa Vintage, Esme and the Laneway, Fables in Fashion, Kitty’s Drawings, Petite Valse
Being that we were pretty much all bloggers we had a huuuge amount of photos by the end of the day!
There were two token boys there as well, Kitty’s Drawing’s partner Johnny and Jameswho was being the photographer for the day ^_^
Here he is!
Everyone was dressed so immaculately!
The setting was delightful and oh my god the food… the food!
There was so much food! We had spinach quiche…
Macarons:
Tiny delicious cupcakes:
And the most beautiful hand made chocolates:
James ate about a billion of the delicious sandwiches!
Everywhere you looked there was something else beautifully presented!
It was quite funny, not many of the people who came had actually met in real life before but I don’t think there was an awkward pause the whole time! We bloggers sure can chat!
SuperKawaiiMamaand I chatting to our hostess, who was the friendliest person in the entire world!
I so love this photo:
We ended up staying right up until closing time because we were having so much fun 😀
Some of these photos are by James and some are by SuperKawaiiMama
Esme and the Lanewaylooking beautiful as usual!
Some of the yummy food:
There were several yummy teas served that day including mint, lemon, chamomile, fruit and others that I’ve forgotten. We had a lot of fun trying to work out which tea was which because they all came in the same tea pots XD Lucky dip tea!
I was totally jealous of Aurora Hime’snails, they had little bunnies on them!
SuperKawaiiMama, Aurora Himeand I all had crazy nail art on so we had to take group photos 😀
More food… because I just can’t get enough of it! The service at the cafe was really great, and they just kept bringing more tea as we drank it all.
I wanted to take this chandelier home with me!
We had such a wonderful time that day, it was a really lovely introduction to Melbourne and it was great to finally meet some of the people I’ve been chatting online to for years! I can’t wait to go back!! |
Thanks so much to everyone who came to have tea with us at the Cristina Re store! <3 <3 <3
by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 17, 2010 | Hime Gyaru, Life, Outfit Of The Day
I am still spending much too much time having fun here in Melbourne so I’m going to photo spam your a little bit. I promise there are going to be a bunch of tutorials when I get back so you’ll all just have to put up with it 😀 You guys are totally going to love the photos from the tea party too!
A while ago James and I went antiquing at the Woolloongabba Antiques Center which was a heap of fun!
Basically it’s a gigantic warehouse that has a whole bunch of smaller shops inside it selling all manner of antiques and pretty things.
Here are a few photos from the day!
I spent so much time looking around at everything, I swear I could lose days in antiques stores 😀
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We found some awesome old roller skates that I really wanted to buy!
So many jewelery display cases, so little time >_<
There were so many beautiful scarves, I wanted to take them all home!
Bonus picture of the day, at the vintage hair setter 😀
 By the time you’re reading this I’ll probably be on a plane on the way home back to my own bed and back into the swing of normal blogging ^_^
Hopefully we can get back to visit the Woolloongabba Antiques Center again!
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by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 13, 2010 | Competition, Hime Gyaru, Life
This Valentines day Nuffnang is giving it’s bloggers a chance to win a $250 gift voucher, so we thought what better way to spend Valentines Day but together attempting to win enough chocolate to keep us happily blogging away for a whole year. And so…
Once upon a time there were two lonely bloggers… they both loved pink and they both loved sparkles, they both loved anything fancy but they lived 1000 miles away from each other 🙁
The distance seemed insurmountable. They would never meet on a train, they would never meet at a supermarket… would their sparkly paths ever cross?
And then along came a little blue man… a Nuffnang man! He left them a little trail of digital bread crumbs to lead them to each other…
The bloggers were ecstatic! They finally had someone else to share their pink sparkliness with!
They shared similar academic pursuits…
And a love of exercise…
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And it was nice to have kindness and support in such a mediocre gray scale world….
Or not….
They explored the possibilities of alternative nutrition…
Though each was sweeter than the other… at times.
They dazzled the locals with style and grace…
And spread love and happiness where ever they went!
But they kept large sticks in their large handbags in case of disaster…
They went to bed early every night and made sure to get their beauty sleep…
But that didn’t always seem to go to plan…
So they practiced their elocution until they fell asleep!
All of this joy is thanks to one little blue man, thank you Nuffnang we LOVE you!
And while their world is now more beautiful, there is always room for another seat at the tea party!
We have more special Valentine love to spread to the insanely cute Cheesie of www.Cheeserland.com because if we can have this much fun when she’s not even in the room, imagine what we can do when she actually visits!
Next on our lovely list is local Melbourne princess Aurora Hime and her Tumblr that never fails to inspire!
Last but definitely not least is the devilishly dark and deliciously decked Miss Amelia Arsenic of Destroyx for more reasons than we could possibly list.
So if you want to improve your reality, don’t take the red pill, take the little blue man!
We HEART you Nuffnang!
Thanks Nuffnang!
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