Christmas day normally involves flying across the country for me so I always plan to wear something dressy but comfortable. I think this skirt allowed room for two serves of turkey!

I'm heading to the sales tomorrow, I hope it's calmed down a little because I've heard it's been crazy. I have a wedding soon so I'm on the look out for accessories. Always accessories!

I have discovered this fab new website where my shoes are from too, big discounts on gorgeous shoes.

Silk top: Camberwell market
Skirt: Made by Lady M
Heels: from here
Necklace: Valley girl
Watch: Second hand(and no, its not a J12!)

Christmas Day Outfit

Merry Christmas everyone, thanks for being part of a great year for Lady Melbourne.

Where ever you are in the world and how ever you celebrate, I hope this time of year is happy, safe and filled with joy and happiness for you.

Christmas wishes to you and yours!

Not long to go until Santa arrives, have you all been good?!

Just a quick one today because like the rest of you, I'm super busy.

Jacket: Sonia Rykiel
Skirt: Vintage Pierre Cardin
Heels: Urban Originals, US
T-shirt: Barkins
Necklaces: Valley Girl

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas: Day 4

Above are some darling pastilles that I bought from a shop in Carlton, if you look closely the address is on the bag. They were about $7.95 from memory and are so perfect as a stocking filler, Kris Kringle, or 'just because.'

I thought I'd just show you some of my thrifty gift ideas for Christmas as I'm on a campaign to make as much as possible this year.

I think if you put a lot of love and care into making simple gifts that look great most people love them.

So this is quite possibly the easiest and prettiest gift you can do yourself.
Buy soaps from where ever you like really and wrap them in Japanese rice paper, or old heavy duty wrapping paper. I like the 'old' effect that it gives the little packages.

Soap: $1.00
Paper: $2.95
TOTAL: $3.95

While searching for interesting paper I came across this sheet for $1.00 at a news agency. I love the blue bird and isolated I thought it would work well in a frame.

As with the soap, you can buy frames from pretty much anywhere. Even vintage frames can look great if you paint them up.

Rice paper or interesting wrapping paper can look superb framed up as a house decoration. If the person doesn't like your taste in paper, they can simply change it.

Paper: $1.00
Frame: $11
TOTAL: $12

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas: Day 2

Darling Angela from Angela See Angela Blog made this for me and I am so touched! She's managed to capture LM so well, right down to the books I read!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas: Day 1

Happy Friday y'all, I've only just made it with about 30 minutes to spare but I've barely been near the computer in the last two days.

Last night was the Nuff Nang Christmas party and it was lovely to catch up with Alicia and Hayley amongst many other Melbourne bloggers. We're lucky to have a really cool scene here in Melbourne where anyone can come to these parties, not just fashion bloggers but anyone that blogs.

Happy Friday....just!

This dropped into my inbox today and it was a lovely surprise I can assure you:

'You are receiving this email because your label, blog, or collection has made it to the final 3 in your category!
There is no panel of judges, so it really is people power that counts. We urge you to rally your fans, database, and friends and family for any support over the coming days.

Voting for the awards will close on the 20th of December, with winners being announced on the 23rd of December.'

Your loyal fans will be eligible to win any number of fabulous prizes from our following sponsors simply by casting their vote:

· Estile.com · Mino HD Flip Video Cameras· Diva · Bras n Things · Dressed Up · Cristiana · Mavi · RetroSuperFuture · Converse · Williams · FrockShop

So I guess this is one last push to ask for your vote, I didn't realise there were prizes to be had as well!

I bought this dress at Savers but re-cut it. Sadly I didn't take a before picture for you but it was almost down to my ankles and baggy. I like the colour, the stamp on the fabric says 'Paris, France.'

I'm happy with that!

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Winners of the Peppermint magazine give-away, chosen at random(and a little late, sorry!) are:
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House Keeping

Yesterday Arissa who is one half of the well known Singaporean blog team Monoxious visited Melbourne and along with a couple of other bloggers I had the pleasure of showing her around.

I didn't have a lot of time because I was working, but I managed to fit in a visit to Marais and Somewhere boutiques, then a spot of lunch.

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Monoxious comes to Melbourne

Tavi the 13-year-old blogging sensation seems to be the line in the sand for fashion editors and bloggers alike at the moment.
Is she a teenage savant, or team Tavi as Anne Slowey from US Elle put it so eloquently?
And why are fashion editors sitting up and taking fashion advice from 13-year-old girls?

The issue has raised questions on children in the media, exploitation and the fashion packs obsession with eternal youth. Bloggers all over the world have thrown their hat in the ring, because Tavi who started her blog when she was 12 has managed to attract the attention of some very serious fashion heavy weights.

Last night I sat down with Scott Schuman to talk blogging while he is in town to spruik his latest book, ‘The Sartorialist.’

"The thing with teenage fashion bloggers, is that they’re little girls trying to be 30 year old fashion editors. You can’t grow a blog without original content or by pulling images. It’s just not enough."

Schuman meets me with a blank look when I mention his children in relation to his thoughts on young people gaining so much media attention. Perhaps the topic is ‘off limits,’ but it’s an interesting notion to consider the opinion of one of the worlds biggest and most recognised fashion bloggers.

"It would be more interesting to consider the dynamic of who her friends are. I mean, what do they think of this girl who dresses all crazy?" he tells me when I quiz him on just why fashion editors seem obsessed with the likes of teen blogger Tavi or 8 year old The Littlest Dandy.

"I have the freedom to shoot what ever I want. I can provide original content and have complete editorial control over the images I create. These kids don’t, I think that editors are just finding something to write about with an interesting angle. Children blogging!"

Considering the state of flux that mainstream media is facing at the moment with advertisers moving dollars online, and readers changing their viewing habits, it’s a question worth posing to the man behind what Time magazine selected as one of it’s top 100 design influences.

"I get requests for people to use my images, and I’ll let them use one or two, but you’ll never be able to grow a blog or make it a real business if you can’t inspire people. Tavi will never be able to grow without original content."

For those not in the sartorial know, Schuman started his blog 4 years ago on the streets of New York to showcase what he saw as every day people with great style.

"When I worked in the fashion industry, I always felt that there was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life," his biography tells us.

Fast forward to 2009 and the launch of ‘The Sartorialist,’ a compilation of Schuman’s most memorable photos from his travels over the last 4 years.

"What still inspires me? Colour, posture, attitude or the light can inspire me. For me it’s more about the photographs and the feeling I’m trying to create, most people wouldn’t believe that it’s not always about the fashion."

I bumped into my fav Melbourne fashion blogger, Hayley

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