Lolly Buffet Love

Being an OTT lolly lover and seeing so many cool lolly buffets on all the fabulous blogs about the place, I had already decided to have a lolly buffet before we even got engaged.

My twinnie and I love lollies ... when I was younger and people would ask what my favourite food was, nine times out of ten I would say with enthusiasm 'lollies!!!!' This love of candy almost definitely contributed to the big bucks I ended up paying my oh so lovely dentist in the recent past to repair probably ten years worth of holes and damage.

There are a couple of vendors around town who will set up a lolly buffet for you ... AND charge you a bazillion dollars for it. There are some really nice jars with lids at Targets but at $35 a pop you may as well pay to hire them. But being the thrifty (and scungy) chick I am I have already picked up two very large glass vases (one looks new) for our buffet. I still have a few yet to get but I have plenty of time to keep hunting.

With a bit of a clean I think this old chest of drawers (blogged about here) will fit the bill, adorned with vintage lace doileys and maybe some bunting signage to direct guests to the sweets.

On Friday one of my newest blog 'friends' pip posted about her ideas for the lolly bar for her wedding also scheduled for November. I am in love with the stickers she's ordered off etsy to stick on her lolly bags for guests to fill up.

Pip's choice:

Some other cool ones:

 

Check em out in Etsy seller's MAUpromos shop...

Pip, you may have inspired me to use some of these labels too. I hope that's alright.

Inspiration from Sweet Station, Wedding SA, Polka Dot Bride, Wedding Bee and Weddings Events.

  

What sort of lollies would you have? Ours are a secret until the BIG day.

Over and Out.

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 63.

I've gone a bit 50's housewife/rockabilly for today's outfit. I know when I get home the boy is going to ask me something like why I am wearing a tablecloth. He calls my lace dresses doileys and some of my floral dresses tablecloths. Now I've got another dress to add to the tablecloth collection.

We had a good weekend with football, dinner, music, dancing, gardening and a bit of garage saleing. What did you get up to?

     Wearing: dress - Purr via Vinnies, belt - bought online, shoes - Siren, headband - Equip.

Enjoy your week ladies.

Over and Out

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 62 and Compliments.

I've never been the most gracious person when someone pays me a compliment. I always tend to reply with a negative comment instead of accepting the kind words. Yesterday however I was overjoyed to receive super nice comments about my outfit while shopping downtown. First of all the chick in Equip randomly said 'oh my god, I love your outfit' then the super stylish girl in Portmans told me that she LOVED my skirt. She oooh and ahhhd over it and then said 'i hope you paid a lot for that skirt' ... I replied 'it was $4 at Vinnies'. Ah the satisfaction! Those two lovely ladies made my day : )

Today I'm wearing a peach coloured chiffon dress I picked up at Vinnies a couple of weeks ago. It looks totally vintage but from looking at the tag it actually is a cheap asian dress. What makes me even more convinced that it is from an asian style store is that it's a size XL!

 

Wearing: dress - Vinnies, shoes - Lily Rose (Vinnies $3.00), bangle - vintage, Ray Bans

Keen to do some bargain hunting this weekend. Have fun doing whatever you are doing.

Over and Out

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 61.

I picked up a vintage black maxi skirt at Vinnies on the weekend but wasn't quite sure how to style it. I took my inspiration for today's outfit from a blog post I saw on Style Zilla where the celebs featured look stunning.

Don't ya just love it when you spot an item in an op shop which you oood and aaaaahd over in the real store but just couldn't bring yourself to buy it? That happened with this Review top i spotted in Lifeline a while back. I had my eye on this top in Review maybe a year or so ago but just couldn't buy it - even on sale. It must have meant to be mine when it was in Vinnies for $3.

Hmmm, me thinks I need to grow like a metre - I look kind of oompa loompa like! Maybe my wedges would have been a better choice.

 
Wearing: top - Review, skirt - vintage, sandals - Pulp (all thrifted), headband - Portmans.

Over and Out

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 60.

Nothing exciting happening today and my outfit is unexciting but IS appropriate for riding my bike - no undie flashes today. There may have been some bum crack though. Once I got to work my quads were on FIRE - I'm not really 'bike fit' it seems. Riding into the wind in winter could be a challenge that I may never attempt as the wind atm is more than enough. I'm doing a spin class tomorrow morning at 6am - that could be interesting to say the least!

I'm not much of a 3/4 jeans girl but I think I got a bit excited when they fit me great and are a size 10! Being Country Road though I think their sizing is a little bit generous. Once again I'm wearing one of my all time fave Lifeline purchases - my lace & frills metalicus top.

Wearing: top - Metalicus @ Lifeline, jeans - Country Road @ Vinnies, belt - Levis @ Myer, thongs - Havaianas

Might do another outfit challenge tomorrow. Till then,

Over and Out

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 59.

I just realised those new to my blog may have no idea what my challenge is so let me fill you in ... I have been challenged/am choosing to not wear the same outfit to work for the whole year. I am open and willing to accept suggestions for colour choices, trends, copying celebrity outfits etc so if you have any ideas please let me know and I'll add them to my list located down the right hand side of the blog.

Anyway, today I am completing the linen challenge put forward by my workmate Kerri. It is no surprise that I love linen and have quite a few pieces in my wardrobe so this to me isn't too much of a challenge.

 Wearing: top - Sussan, pants - Jump, wedges - Hot Options (all op shopped), earrings - Sportsgirl, belt - Kmart.

The lovely Renee over at the days of nais awarded me a 'versatile blogger' award ... Go check out her blog which is filled with recipe ideas, sustainable living tips and of course, gorgeous and funky thrift purchases. I'm also slightly jealous as she has half the amount of followers I have and has only been blogging since January but she deserves it!

Anyway, the challenge is to share 7 random things about myself and then share the love by awarding the title to some other bloggers I follow. Well a while back I did a similar sort of thing and struggled to come up with 5 things about myself so today I'm just going to share one random fact ...

I am a bit of a netball geek. I just love it. I play two times a week and would be happy playing every day of the week if I could afford it. I watch the live games on TV religiously and follow the players in the ANZ Championship every week.

I'd like to put forward this challenge to my newest follower pip a la chic - she has a great blog with outfit posts, styling and eBay purchases and has the the cutest cropped hair! She is also getting married in November like me!

Till tomorrow, over and out

XOXO

Work Outfit Challenge - Day 58.

Hi all, another week has started and the weather really has started to cool down. Looking at these photos I think I may need to put myself on a bit of a diet. Not much effort went in to deciding what I was going to wear this morning either and I totally look like dork-zilla. Remind me never to wear this outfit again ... not at all flattering!

Will be visiting the gym every morning this week to burn some major calories as I'm on the late shift (9-5) lol.

Wearing: dress - big dub, top - Basque, flats - Novo, headband - Diva, sunnies - Vietnam

The races was fun on Thursday and here are some photos to squiz at. Enjoy! Oh, and the judges came over to our group and a bunch of us were invited to participate in fashions on the field. We forgot to go up and look what resulted. Yes, the girl winner looks classic and cute but I mean, who gives a guy in a WHITE suit a prize for winning best dressed male. SPEW!

photos - The Chronicle.

Anyway, on to the important photos ...

With my bro

Totally dug this chic's colour combo

The gorgeous Lauren and Anna. A big congrats to Lauren for taking out the best customer service award on the radio like half an hour ago!

Awesome friends - Anna, Jacinta, Mel and I (nasty champagne in hand)

Look I actually saw some horsies!  

My outfit - dress from asos, vintage fascinator from Vinnies, Jane Debster pumps, gloves from eBay and carried a Cassette Society clutch.

The weather was perfect right up until about 6:30pm when it finally started to rain. Was a great day had by all.

 
The gorgeous Bec and I a little damp after the rain

                     

Over and Out

XOXO