We've been b-b-b-b-bad...

It’s been a while since any of us have posted, over a month! Our sincere apologies! We have all been quite busy with travelling, moving house, working, eating and just being generally lazy, I speak for myself when I say eating and being lazy.

I did go away, I had a wonderful midyear tropical getaway, I got out of the Perth cold and spent 10 days in humidity heaven (apart from the frizzy hair). Looking back, it now seems like a lifetime ago. I’m well and truly back into the swing of normal life and am more than hanging out for my next holiday, sigh.

The weather has warmed up considerably in Perth, is been delightful. I’ve been spending my lunch hour most days sitting on the foreshore basking in the sunlight. Hopefully this marks the end of leggings and coats because I was really getting a bit over it! I’m more of a summer girl than a winter one so I’m so happy to just be able to wear a t-shirt!

Unfortunately, I’ve put on a bit of weight this year so I’m feeling incredibly frumpy in almost everything. Now that the weather is warming up that means less layers and less clothing to hide myself. Until I lose weight, which will probably take a while because I’m utterly hopeless when it comes to dieting, I need something to make me feel a bit better about my situation. My solution for the time being, a pair of jeans that actually fit and don’t take a small team of people to peel them off each time I wear them. And, a pair of killer wedges to make my legs look longer and slimmer. I’ve been putting off buying a new pair of jeans because I’m forever telling myself that I’ll lose weight and then they won’t fit so I’ll have to buy another pair. I decided to go with a cheapish pair from Jeanswest for now, mind you, apart from being a bit too big in the waist, the overall cut of them are probably better than any pair I’ve had for a while. (BTW, that is not me in the picture, sigh).






I’ve had my eye on these wedges from Wittner for about a month now, they also come in a pale pinkish/purple colour and I originally wanted that colour. I decided to go with the black mainly for two reasons. The first is that apart from a pair of peep toe pumps and boots I don’t really have any other black heels, and I have two pairs of lighter coloured wedges/casual heels already and I also have a tan pair of wedges on my wishlist. I ended up having to buy these on the net because both shops I went to had sold out, pretty annoying because I had to pay an extra $15 for postage, but at least I didn’t miss out. I really think Australian sites should have free postage within Australia for any order over $100, don’t you think? These are now officially my new favourite pair of shoes, they are quite the find if you ask me. They are pretty high to wear casually, but because they are a wedge they are not too hard to walk in, thankfully. And, the higher the shoe the slimmer the legs. If only I could find a pair of 6 foot wedges? My legs would look like toothpicks.

I think I might buy a maxi dress too to try hide myself for a while. I’m really loving khaki at the moment and I saw a khaki maxi dress in Bardot I might go try on. Maxi dresses don’t seem to like my body shape so it may or may not be a winner.

On another note, Samantha Wills has released her new collection and it’s all I can really think about these days. I’ve already told my husband that’s all I want for Christmas, boxes of Samantha Wills jewellery, but I don’t know if I can wait that long. I have my eyes on a turquoise and silver ring, I think I may have a bit of a credit card accident soon? Ssshhhhhh…

Once again, apologies for there not being much action on here for a while. I’ll try hard to not be so lazy in the future.

Ishia
XoX

An update

So, I haven't posted in a while, and here's why:



Aaargh! Quell horreur! Because of our home loan application, we had to temporarily cancel all of our credit cards. It also means that I've been pretty preoccupied with signing the hundreds of nearly identical documents that come with this house-buying racket. Sigh. I was so naive going into this process! I had no idea how much was involved. Settlement is in two weeks, and the sigh of relief I breathe when this is all over will be so strong that it may drastically alter global weather patterns. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I was pretty sad to cut up the cards.

I have, however, managed to pick up a couple of things in the last week:



A work top. It's actually pretty cute, the sleeves have a nifty twist detail that gives it that little kick of chic that I like to look out for. It's a cherry colour throughout - the flash has made it look a little ombre, but that isn't the case.



Not one but two pairs of shoes. I utterly ruined my favourite pair of Repetto ballet flats on the day of the Great Perth Storm (you might have seen me walking through the knee-deep floodwaters of Subiaco if you checked the news that night) but Cult Status hasn't had my size in to replace them. Boo! Luckily these onces from Wittner are just as supple and comfortable, so they will happily hold the place of the Repettos for the time being.

I also found a really nice pair of all-leather pumps in Wittner at the same time. Checklist?

• 100% leather throughout?
• No platform?
• Toweringly high stilleto heels?
• Red sole?

OK, so they're not Louboutins, but they're damned nice all the same and I'm happy to welcome them to my wardrobe and cross them off my wishlist. Thanks, Wittner, for a nice shoe-flavoured diversion. (By the way, they have SUPER CUTE animal print ankle boots at the moment that I totes would have bought if I wasn't already leaving with two pairs of shoes. Get 'em while they're hot.)

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So I need some style advice. I'm in a bit of a rut lately, style-wise. I work in a plant lab, so I need to wear long pants that can take a bit of a beating, and flat closed shoes every day. Over time I've refined this into a denim-and-ballet-flats uniform which serves me very well (and doesn't get me asked if I'm interviewing elsewhere - the standard of dress in labs is not particularly professional, so tailored pants are viewed with suspicion.) This works really well for me and I'm pretty happy with it.

HOWEVER. This five-year reliance on denim has me at a point now where I don't actually know how to put together a casual (or even smart casual) outfit that doesn't involve jeans. I don't know how it happened, but somewhere along the line my wardrobe developed a big gap between the jeans section and the church and dinner dresses section. So I need some advice. What should a girl who is fairly insecure about her legs (what I'm trying to say is no miniskirts please, or superskinny pants) buy for the bottom half of her body to fill this gap? I'm thinking casual pants or skirts but I have genuinely no idea where to start. What happened to me? All ideas welcome, keeping in mind my general wardrobe direction of Parisian ballerina. I did see a few things in the last couple issues of Shop Til You Drop that I like, namely a velvet skirt and a leather skirt. So that's a start. But I'm still pretty stumped so fire away with the suggestions if you've got 'em.

I need a stylist.