joyeux (belated) anniversaire!

i'm late for my own party.

a celebration dinner for my mum last night, a stop by my favourite coffee shop downtown for a chocolate macaroon, a last minute meet up with my over 21 mate & one too many glasses of champagne lead to a late night, a massive headache & forgotten coursework, which meant, of course, that i had to spend today making up for it. add in a few extra hours sleep, a million cuppas later & all is seemingly back to normal.

a big merci for all the early birthday wishes, suggestions & ideas.
i promised i would deliver soo;

the outfit i wore last night is actually one of my newest favourite creations. it consists of my dads old denim jacket (which he loved too too much - its perfectly worn in),
an aa tee shirt dress, vintage belt & those shoes (!)


in terms of fashion what were you like as a child?
as a child i can remember hating it when i would receive clothes at christmas or whenever, not because i didnt like them but because what they got - i would never wear. i think it was mainly due to my extreme pickiness & even then i favoured vintage & secondhand. i was always playing dress up in my mums closet, which was filled with so many amazing pieces from her modeling days. (sadly its all gone now, when i could have fully appreciated it) though, the real turning point i had into the fashion obsessed happened when i was eleven. we were on our weekly weekend shopping trip to the "big city" with mum's best friend & her family; traffic was horrid & i remember being so bored waiting in the backseat when out of desperation my mother's friend handed me a copy of W with kate moss on the cover. by the time we arrived at the shopping center of all shopping centers - i just wanted to stay put, still in the car, & oodle over the gorgeousness that lay in my lap. it was love at first sight & its been that way ever since.

& to july stars who suggested an interview - i absolutely love the idea! im afraid though that interviewing myself would end up quite conceited & boring, so if anyone out there wants the honours - you know what to do.

keep the ideas/suggestions coming. they give me a good excuse to post when my minds gone completely blank & im feeling uninspired.

i cant believe 10.17 is already a year old! ive met so lovely people (you know who you are), got to visit so many lovely places & got to buy so many lovely things & post all about it here since last june. ah, time goes by too fast.

heres to another fabulous year *clink clink*

my glass will be full of sparkling grape juice though, i think ive had enough bubbly the past 24 hours

cheers!


love, A.