Spring block print love

Its officially the season when new leaves and flowers bloom, I can wear lighter layers and summer is just round the corner. And spring summer to me is block-print-fabrics-in-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow season, yaay...

To be honest though, my favourite game right now is "what am I going to wear in Paris?" interspaced with "wait! What am I going to wear in Amsterdam?" Can you tell I am excited?

Its about half a dozen weeks to take-off, rouge winter coat is in my virtual shopping cart, I am constantly browsing websites for what to do there and lamenting the exchange rate between the Australian Dollar and the Euro.

I think I got my constant penchant of changing clothes from all the Hindi movie songs where the heroine changes half a dozen times in the space of one five-to-seven minute song.

I digress, all I am trying to say is I love wearing my block print dresses in warm weather but I am also obsessed with winter clothes right now. Phew! Happy mid-week lovelies.

Dress: Anokhi, Jewellery: India and Sydney Markets, Beanie: Peru

Tropical swamps and ducks ponds

Shorts: Vintage Levi's 501s, Back-pack: Vintage, Jewellery: India and Sydney markets

A beautiful sunny day plus loads of early morning chores ensured that we wanted to do something that involved some effort, therefore off we went on bikes riding along swamps and duck ponds, spotting birds and bats, eating hot dogs and generally having a ball.

I wore a tee-shirt with a crochet cardigan over a pair of ancient Levi's 501s and then kept taking layers off all afternoon to stay cool, can you tell I am in love with this woven bikini? We met heaps of pretty pups, climbed trees, chilled by a lake, planned renovations in a house we don't have yet, came home and cooked Indian dinner, all in all a beautiful day. Hope you had fun whatever you did. Happy start of the week, can't wait till the Easter break!

Rainbow Shiva

Shorts: Insight, Tee-shirt: Janpath: Delhi, Boots: NineWest, back-pack: Vintage

The city council has painted Taylor square crossing rainbow in order to celebrate MardiGras this year and ofcourse I like a million others couldn't resist taking photos on the funnest crossing I have ever seen. I may have ranted about the cost and the stupidity of keeping it on just for the month of March but rainbow crossing for a month is better than no rainbow crossing at all!

So I know I haven't been posting frequently and have been commenting sporadically on my favourite blogs but I've had a lot on my plate and I am still dazed and dreamy about Axl Rose singing Happy Birthday while I was in the audience ON my birthday. Basically the boy aced it by giving me one of the best birthday surprises of my life. I was quite apprehensive that Axl wouldn't turn up etc but he was right on time, sounded amazing, the band was tight and I have been listening to them non-stop ever since. And now my leather pants have come out to play, but that's stuff for another post. Now that autumn weather is starting to make its presence felt all my grand-pa cardigans are out of hibernation and the cold weather in Europe is making me excited for the onset of winter. I know I'll be complaining about the chill pretty soon but for now I am looking forward to it. Have a happy weekend!

Backpacks, bushwalks and cotton-tops

Billowy top +back-pack: Vintage, Shorts: Ksubi, Jewellery: India+Sydney markets

Spend another warm, sunny day by the bushlands in Sydney's north shore, walking by the water, skipping about in my billowy cotton top, visiting an organic garden and chook farm then finally fell asleep on a massive, warm rock by the water. The best kinda lazy day. What did you do over the weekend?

In which I put no thought into what I am wearing

Vintage leather backpack, Jewellery and Silk scarf: Sydney markets+India, Plaid Shirt: Minkpink, Cotton dress: Topshop, Suede boots: Wittner

The day that most people equate with over-priced flowers, expensive jewellery and cheesy cards was also the day that women (and a few men) all around the world danced for awareness as well as to demand an end to violance against women. Ofcourse I couldn't stay away from an event like that and joined the crowd of juggling, dancing women and kids at a park close to home and then promptly stalked the cutest puppies in the park. I am not even joking, we went and sat where most doggies were playing till they came over to say hello and proceeded to give them cuddles plus belly rubs. Absolutely the best way to spend an absolutely commercialized sham of a day.

Here's what I wore for comfort and to stay cool. I know I look like something a cat dragged in but that's the way I like to be, sans make-up, wearing what I feel like, keeping the hair off my face with whatever comes first to my hand and generally turning my nose up at spending hours primping and grooming. I'd rather spend hours playing with my clothes, colourful objects, jewellery and running wild in the bush. Speaking of jewellery this is one of my favourite necklaces, I mean its paisley, doesn't that say it all? I love love silk scarfs turned head bands, just messily tying my hair up and hoping it will stay put. Also I am happy to report my creative funk has resulted in a couple of pages of sketched henna designs as well as elephants (I dunno why I am obesessed with Ganesh and elephants) that will hopefully be replicated on tee-shirts soon. Plus I might indulge in some needle-work on this plaid shirt, I wear them shirts a lot and it wouldn't hurt to individualize them a little bit. Also I need DIY ideas for my leather backpacks, since they are suddenly in fashion again, I want to personalize mine, thoughts?

Hope you had fun whatever you did to celebrate the day of love and your loved ones made you feel warm and fuzzy!

Amour eux de la montagne

Dress: Indonesia, Bag: Vintage, Silver: India+Sydney markets, Leather back-pack: Vintage, Shoes: Palladium

We spend the last weekend of the year, at the Blue mountains just outside Sydney exploring caves, walking up and down beautiful mountain tracks, chilling by stunning water falls, saying hello to wild wallabies, eclectus parrots and more water dragons than I was comfortable with. I left the house wearing a pair of fluro pants and my crochet cardie but discovered it was super hot when we got there so I changed into a kinda tattered/ almost backless maxi with my trusty Palladiums, they look great with anything, are super light compared to other hiking boots I've seen and they were exceedingly useful on the Himalayas during monsoon, even more than the professional walking shoes that people had bought for heaps more money, I rest my case. I don't know about anyone else but for me, Palladiums rule! I can't wait to buy a few more on sale, been eyeing the leather ones lately but I think the canvas pairs can take more beating. Hope everyone is has awesome end of the year plans, and 2013 is wonderful! Happy Sunday all!

Seasons greetings in block print

Lately the sometimes sunny but suddenly not so warm temperatures in Sydney have made it easy to wear my maxi dresses and boots, therefore instead of complaining about the undecidedness of the weather I choose to be happy that I can indulge in a little light layering. As I have already waxed eloquent about my love for block print fabrics, I will not bore you with more of the same but just leave you with the pictures of this amazing dress that I wore traveling across the Himalayas and this perfectly worn-in vintage leather back-pack.

All my presents are packed and ready to be opened in a few hours, the wine's chilling in the fridge, appetizer kebabs are marinating, meat for the roast is thawing, I can hear the boy packing my presents upstairs and here I am chilling in another cotton block printed dress waiting for the festivities to well and truly begin. I hope all of you'll are having fun celebrating whatever holiday you wish to observe. Happy Holidays world!

Dress: Anokhi, Leather boots and bag: Vintage