Fairy Floss

I am having the best luck vintage shopping lately - someone's amazingly well dressed grandma with an incredible pastel dress collection is going around getting rid of her clothes (I speculate). This beautiful dress was $2. And I found it just hanging there, all lonely and unloved, outside on the street on the cheap rack of my favourite op shop! I was near hyperventilation, believe me. I'm wearing: Dress - Vintage Tights - c/o Oasap Cameo Brooch - Ebay Sweater - Vintage (from Tokyo) Bag - Vintage Belt - Vintage Hat - Wholesaledress Ring - Ebay Pocketwatch Necklace - Markets in Sydney Shoes - Forever 21 And here is a picture of me from yesterday when I was on a date at Luna Park (an amusement park in Sydney), eating some Fairy Floss in a real ladylike way. Aw yeah, I have fairy floss hair. Annika xxx

Annika made a dress

I really like the style of dress with a high waist, a 60s style bodice and a poofy circle skirt. They go for $100 + on websites like Jones & Jones, but really they are so simple and easy to make yourself. All you need to do is find a cheap pattern from a charity store/op shop that you like the look of (any kind of basic dress is fine) and use this as the pattern for your bodice. As for the skirt, you can follow my circle skirt tutorial here (sans velvet), and then all you have to do is join the two together! And basically any combination of prints and colours will look nice as well, particularly if you work with a patterned/plain combination, I think. Or you could do the dress all the one colour. There's loads of possibilities! Wearing: Dress - DIY Bag - c/o Oasap Shoes - Yesstyle Tights - c/o Oasap Collar embellishment - DIY Cameo Brooch - Ebay Belt - Vintage Hat - Wholesale Hope you're all having a creative day, Annika xxx

DIY Scalloped Denim Shorts

What you need: some plain old denim shorts with a straight hem scissors cardboard a sewing machine a pen some pins What you do: 1. Cut out a scallop shape from some cardboard, like the one in the picture below. 2. Fold the edge on your shorts up approximately the height of your cardboard stencil, on the RIGHT side of the shorts.  3. Trace around the scallop shape, making scallops all the way around the cuff of your shorts. Pin the folded up bit to your shorts so it doesn't move when you start sewing. 4. Using a small straight stitch, sew around your drawn lines. Lift and readjust the foot as you go to make it easier! 5. Cut out your scallops, just outside the line you sewed. Now iron, flip the hem inside out, iron again, and you're done! xxx Annika

Pink Hair & Pony Print

I love love love printed animals on clothes!! So when I found this dress at a random pop-up "Everything for $10" shop in Sydney, I was insanely happy. It’s so damn cute. I also made a ribbon thingy to attach to the collar of the blouse I layered under the dress – I have no idea what these kind of bowties are called, but I like them. Do they have a name? Can anyone help me out? You can see better pictures of it below. I also bought this double moustache ring because it's unbelievably kitsch. And I'm just oh so hil-AR-ious, right? And my hair is pink. A bit too pink... You can't see it because I'm wearing a hat, but the top is very much fluorescent. That would be the fault of boyfriend who somehow managed to convince me that I need not dilute the hair dye with conditioner. And my fault because I listened to him full knowing that he has no experience with hair dye. But, it will fade! Wearing: Dress - No Brand from Chinatown Bag - c/o Oasap Blouse - Vintage Collar thingy - DIY Brooch - Ebay Ring - Ebay Belt - Vintage Socks - Vintage Hat - From Osaka Markets Shoes - Wholesaledress Hope you're all having a lovely day, xxx Annika

I love vintage, I am vintage (plus a sneaky DIY)

Basically I just wanted to show you this sweet embroidered vintage blouse that I got for $3 the other day. It was a size 16, so I fixed it a bit by bringing it in, and chopped off the long sleeves as well. I've never brought anything in so successfully before! Check it out! It doesn't even look too crappy, hooray! If you want to bring in a shirt that's just a little too large across the chest and along the shoulders like this, here's what you do: 1. Turn it inside out. Poke the sleeve inside the main body of the shirt. 2. Where the sleeve meets the main body of the shirt, you should noticed that there is a sewn seam all the way around. Sew around this again using a long, straight stitch, but where you want to sew is 1-2cm (0.5 - 1 inches) in from the seam. (Try 1cm first, try it on, and if its still too big then you can go further.) And look at my diagrams because I explained that terribly. Obviously, do this on both sleeves. 3. Still inside out, do a similar kind of thing on both sides down the body of the shirt. DONE. Too easy (hopefully!) xxx Annika

You remind me of the babe (what babe?)

Just what I wore to Uni the other day. Also, I did that to my hair. I need some new shoes. Would anyone like to send me a new pair of shoes? Particularly oxfords or black heels? I pretty much only own 3 pairs of shoes, and these ones here are getting pretty battered. Send me shoes and I'll wear them in every blog post ;) (out of necessity. As I said, I've got about 3 pairs so they'd be on high rotation). Haha anyway enough of this awkward begging for clothes thing, I promise not to do it again (maybe). How are you all doing? Did anything exciting or unusual happen to you this week? Let me know! OH! And of course, what I'm wearing: Shirt - Vintage (and fixed up) Skirt - I made it Socks - Vintage Shoes - Yesstyle Hat - Wholesale-dress Annika xxx