Okay, so in all honesty, I will never pass, in any world, as Anja Rubik – frankly, this is as a) I am not a super model, b) I am certainly not Polish, and last, but certainly not least c) I don’t have legs that are encroaching on my ear-space.

Yeah, so what I’m basically trying to convey is: The only thing I an Anja Rubik have in common is a haircut. Yeah, I could have just said that straight-up, but I’m a wonderfully enigmatic individual. Yes, I’m laughing on the inside too. Welcome, dear world, to a time in which Jayne cannot tie her hair up into any form of ponytail – well, technically I still can tie my keratinous strands – it’s just that they end up in the form of two stumpy bunches woefully attached to the nape of my neck. That’s pedophilic hotness right there.

I’ve already received a plethora of compliments, all of which I have taken in my stride and my ego has been pumped to epic proportions. Although, the reoccurring comment runs along the lines of: “That’s cute! Makes you look older!” Which in itself is quite an odd statement – why is being older suddenly cute? Like a geriatric cat, perhaps? You know, the one that ends up running into walls due to its astigmatism and people go, “Oh, isn’t (insert generic cat name here) cute? Running into walls? Awww!” And older? Was I looking ridiculously youthful in the days before this cut? Do I look like I’m 15? Oh wait. Maybe I do.

Anyway, I’ll stop with the ranting: HAIR PORN!




I have also been on the look-out for the perfect collection of Christmas dresses! Unfortunately, being one with less than perfect skin (especially that on my back) I'm severely limited in my choices. I need to be able to obtain a dress that not only covers my back, but also manages to make me appear 5 kilograms lighter and with a waist the approximate width of a skeleton on a starvation diet. Impossible? IT VERY WELL MAY BE!



SOME "dressydressy" CHOICES:

- Vivicam (YESSTYLE) Bow-Accent Ruffled Silk Dress.
- Vivicam (YESSTYLE) Ruffled Front Chiffon Dress.
- Vivicam YESSTYLE) Silk Square-Neck Empire Dress (IMAGE'D)

Sod my sodding skinfail.

Labels: fahsionsista, personal, yesstyle

I haven't been the most active blogger for a while, and for that, I apologize with all my soul and all of the little beating organ that pumps the sludge known as blood around my body. My heart, that is. All the same, life has been quite busy - and with my mother being ill with a busted arm, it's been a quite mentally hectic week. A hectic week with my mother crowing on about her bunged up arm - which, by the way, is actually quite bad. I'm just complaining and winging, because I can, and it's the expected paradigm in a blog post. I love her, I really do. Love you, mum.

But in other news, I bought my dear boyboy a Panasonic DMC-GF1 for our 2nd Year Anniversary - of which I noted in the previous post. Not one to receive presents without giving back, I decided the best bet was to buy him a camera in return. Huzzah! Surely, I am creative and intuitive! High-fives all round!



In other news, I have taken to, well, taking a great many photos with my new Olympus Pen - and it's good fun! I just wish my life was a little more interesting so I could test it out on people and events. HO'HUM. So, instead of taking it anywhere really, I took it to my local Westfield. I know. Groundbreaking.





TOTALLY HOT ROCKIN' OUTFIT Also, did you check out my calf muscles? That's what happens when you do sprinting when you're younger and then play basketball for years on end in high school.Yeah, you get calf muscles the size of small calves. WORDPLAYHIGHFIVE! :

- STAR.MIMI - Studded Elasticized Waist Shorts (YESSTYLE)
- PUFFY - Rhinestone-Detail Long Tank Top (YESSTYLE)
- COTTON ON - "Rocking Out, It's What I Do" long tee (COTTON ON)
- SPORTSGIRL - Golden Stud Necklace (SPORTSGIRL)
- STUDDED GLADIATOR SANDALS - Hong Kong Stall
- CASIO - Ladies Retro Digital Watch, Gold (EBAY)

ALSO - SPOILER: Sheldon got to cop a feel in the The Adhesive Duck Deficiency /flail:

Penny: Is that my arm?
Sheldon: It doesn’t feel like an arm.
Penny: Then maybe you should let it go.
Sheldon: Allllrighty.

I had to. I'm sorry.
(Not really)

Labels: fahsionsista, love, personal, photography, yesstyle

If you have been living under the social equivalent of a rock, you will not of heard of the great, totally frakking awesome news: I HAVE AN OLYMPUS PEN E-P1. My lovely boyfriend bought me this awesome camera as out Two Year Anniversary present! (Which is on the 18/11) Isn't it lovely? Isn't he lovely? Isn't it all just, you know, lovely?

For those who are not in the know, the Olympus Pen E-P1 and E-P2 series are basically hybrid cameras - they are neither a true DSLR nor a traditional compact. It's a nifty unit which replaces the DSLR-renowned qualities of being large, clunky heavy and overly complex - and has the Olympus 4/3rds (17 x 13mm) sensor that is considerably larger than the those of the compact camera and shoots down the competitors with excellent image quality of up to ISO 6400! It also offers the interchangeable lenses! Sweet deal - great camera, I can't wait to test it out on friends and family!

For all those people who actually want to know all the gritty details, my kit is composed of:

BODY - E-P1
LENS - MZ 14-42mm, f3.5-5.6
LENS - MZ 17mm pancake

Now, enough of the technobabble - the main point is: IT'S PREEEEEEEETTY! Vintage aesthetic = awesome! I'm planning to also invest in a leather 1/2 case and a flash unit in the near future - self Christmas presents! (Images follow to illustrate this elusive point)

Thank-you sweetie, you always get me the best gifts! ♥ :D

IN OTHER NEWS: I'm stoked that my new Yesstyle package is on it's way! I always love receiving packages, and Yessyle one's are no exception! I've been really into the brand STAR.MIMI - an awesome Taiwanese brand that Yesstyle also stocks! What was an interesting surprise was finding an advertisement for STAR.MIMI in a recent Taiwanese edition of Mina magazine:



As I'm not really a big fan of too much colour (as you can probably tell by my monotone wardrobe) STAR.MIMI's simple clean styles are really great for me - enough lovely layering and breathable cotton fabrics to make any girl comfortable in her own skin (or these clothes, as the case may be!) What's even more impressive is the way they also present a variety of variations on wearing their items with "suggested combinations". An example of this can really be seen in their blog posts - wanted to get a winter trench/military coat? This will make you REALLY want one: LINKLINK - CO'MON Yesstyle package, come to mama.

STAR.MIMI - Official website // STAR.MIMI - On Yesstyle

Labels: love, personal, photography, yesstyle

Sometimes, in life you come across some really stupid people. No, I'm not going to even give a shot at being PC here, some people are just consumed by pure, unadulterated Moron. Now, we all live life hoping that we don't somehow inherit this Moronic gene, but some take to being a Moron like fish take to water, like ducks take to flying, like office ladies take to cheesecake.

So when I came across this, an article aptly titled, "Mark of stupidity: Burglary suspects drew masks and beards on their faces using permanent marker pen." I'm not sure what pushes a man to "shrouding" their ugly mugs with shoddily scribbled Sharpie and stalking out to perform an "attempted second-degree burglary", but there you are. Wow, Iowa must be a boring place.

Meet the efficacious Matthew McNelly and Joey Miller.



Obviously, the fuzz are just as befuddled as I as to why McNelly and Miller the Moronic opted for the Sharpie Batman Indelible Ink look, but surmised that they may have been trying to intimidate the apartment’s occupant. Intimidate or tickle-pink-with-hilarity? They’re kinda similar right? I mean to say, if you’re on the floor rolling around, clutching your sides from laughing so hard (AKA ROFLMAO-ing), maybe even to the point that a little incontinence is your folly, that gives any burglar time to nick the plasma, doesn’t it?

Last time I checked, you could get your hands on a pair of black pantyhose for about two solid dollars.

"Holy strawberries Batman! We're in a jam!"

IN OTHER NEWS: On the 11-02-2009 - at the Casting Society's 25th Artios Awards. JIIIIIIMMM PAAARRSONS. /FANGIRLFANGIRLFANGIRL. And he does the classic "International Student Peace Sign" pose too! That's just so redonkulous. I really can't believe this guy is nearly 40. NEARLY. FORTY. Holy crap in a bucket, that's insane.


IMG CREDITS: jimparsons.net

Labels: jim parsons, love, personal

I was writing an amazing post about my moronicism and got sorrowfully distracted by this Big Bang Theory Season 2 Gag Reel. I'm serious, if you haven't seen me shipping this reel before, then you obviously don't follow my twitter. Which you should too.



What are you waiting for. Watch it!

Labels: jim parsons, love, personal, TV

How sad is it that the internet on my dear iPhone (I think I’ll call it Monty, yeah, Monty the iPhone. That’s appropriate) is faster than that of my home’s horrendously capped wireless connection. My plans to create a wonderful new and shiny layout were once again foiled by my inability to receive an efficient connection speed higher than that of a banana slug making a trek across the Simpson Desert. EDIT: I MADE ONE ANYWAY.

Soooooooooooo…

This blog post comes from the bowels of my very short attention span. And suitable for the theme of the later part of the month (Hey, Halloween!), I present a collection of very interesting, and some plain bizarre pumpkin carving designs.

Now, in Australia, pumpkin carving or much of any Halloween frivolity is much more subdued than it is in say, America. For one, the weather in Australia during this period does not involve much Creepy at all – more often than not, it inspires the mind to thoughts such as “Where’s my beer” and “I thought I had more shorts than this” and the classic “Let’s go to the shops, I need air-conditioning treatment”.

Interestingly enough, Welsh, Irish and British myth are full of legends of the Brazen Head, which may be a folk memory of the ancient Celtic practice of headhunting in which the heads of enemies may have decorated shrines, and there are tales of the heads of honored warriors continuing to speak their wisdom after death (Creepy, but o-kay). The name jack-o'-lantern can be traced back to the Irish legend of good ol’ Stingy Jack, an apparently greedy, gambling, hard-drinking old farmer. He tricked the devil into climbing a tree and trapped him by carving a cross into the tree trunk (Yeah, the devil ain't too bloody smart if a drunk Irish dude can outsmart him/her/it). In a spate of revenge, the devil cursed Jack, condemning him to forever wander the earth at night with the only light he had: a candle inside of a hollowed (and I’m, assuming massive) turnip. The carving of pumpkins is associated with Halloween in North America where pumpkins are both readily available and much larger- making them a heck of a lot easier to carve than friggin' turnips.

Enough of my Wikipedia aided rambling, on to the Cucurbita pepo designs! Images from Martha Stewart and Extreme Pumpkins.

The death's head pumpkin is quite a common occurrence, I'm assuming, but I love how these have been painted and stacked just to show you how CREEEPYYY they bloody well are. Nice work.

ZOMG! Raccoon pumpkin carvings! How cute!

Seriously, I know quite a bit of effort has been put into this, but really? Is this the way that one should propose? At Halloween, at that?

HEY! I HAVE OTHER STUFF TO SAY!
My new bag: If you’ve been paying any attention at all to my previous posts (blog, twitter or facebook), you will know that I been completely obsessed with the arrival of MY NEW DELLA STELLA BAG! Zomg! It’s like sexy. A sexy sexy bag. It’s as if I’ve taken David Boreanaz and transported his soul into a bag. Yes. That sexy.




It's a vinyl puddle of high quality pockets and a fantastic zipper-trim that gives it massive style factor. The fact that one may decide to carry it several different ways is also extremely appealing. Just the other day, when I popped into the local newsagent to grab my copy of Grazia and some card stock, I flipped up the top and converted it to a short-handled tote and managed to comfortably cram everything in - these items joining my pre-exsisting Frankie magazine, Mimco wallet, Gorilla keys, Diana Mini camera, spare Kodak 400 film and a cup of noodles. Cool chickens.

Want to be this sexy? Of course you would, it’s from yesstyle – unfortunately, due to its Ultimate Level of Popularity it’s already out of stock. Oh poopy!

That's how boredom was created: Believe it or not, I'm, yet again, working on another blog layout. Why? I'm not sure, but at this rate, I'm changing blog layouts faster than the output of my blog updates. OH HOW SHOCKING! Ironically, by the time many of you see this post, I will have already changed the blog layout.

Oh, how I do laugh.

Not to mention: Ever since I updated my dear Monty, I have been more present on Facebook than ever before. Except for that stage in my life where I was constantly playing those Playfish games and feebly attempting to level up my pixellated restaurant/rollercoaster/littlebearthingy . But, we don't like mentioning that stage in my life. It's quite traumatizing. Coming back to the topic at hand, I'm implying that I will be giving a shot at uploading a picture to my account from my phone everyday. EVERYDAY? you may say, with caps. Yes, every day. Cool, eh? DO CHECK IT OUT!

Labels: personal, yesstyle