UK Mimco Purchases

Hi everyone!

My sister and I did another joint order from the UK Mimco website a few weeks ago (worked out cheaper than buying things here, even including shipping!)  I got two things: the Crystal Burst Cuff and the Bella Pearl Bracelet.  I love the little pearl and crystal charms on the Bella bracelet, but the extender chain is huge!  Does anyone actually have a wrist that big?  I have to double it over when I wear it, otherwise it hangs half way down my arm!

Mimco Bella Pearl Bracelet

Mimco Crystal Burst Cuff

Mimco Crystal Burst Cuff

Nail polish in the pic is Ulta3 Allure.

Thanks for reading!

Work Xmas Dinner Outfit

Hi everyone,
tonight's blog is just a quick outfit post from my work Xmas dinner which was this evening.  It was just at a small Italian restaurant and I didn't stay too late because I'll have an early start tomorrow.

Top - Dotti; Jeans - MNG; Cardi - Temt; Shoes - Witchery; Jewellery - Mimco

Bracelets - both from Mimco

I picked up the Noir Chain Bracelet last week when Mimco had 20% off storewide.  I wore the Dark Secret Bracelet as well.

Thanks for reading!

P.S. Don't forget to vote in my poll in the side column if you haven't already!  I think there are four days left until it closes.  A big thank you to people who have given their input so far!

Weekend, Outfit, New Sunglasses

Hello everyone, hope you've all had a great weekend!

I didn't really do much - just work on Saturday morning, then I helped my mum get ready for her work Xmas party in the afternoon.  She asked me to do a makeover so I just curled her hair, did some simple makeup etc.  Then I went for a run in the evening and we got pizzas for dinner.  They gave us the wrong pizza so I had to drive back to the pizza place to get the right one - how annoying!!  But they let us keep they wrong one, so I guess we got a free pizza out of the extra trip, haha!  And we watched a movie called Laputa Castle in the Sky.  It's a Hayao Miyazaki movie (Japanese animated movie), from the same writer director as Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle etc.  It was a little bit weird, but it had a nice ending.

Then today I went for another run, although because I was a bit lazy and was just bumming around this morning I didn't go until about 1.00pm and it was so hot!!  I was drenched in sweat by the end (TMI? Sorry!) and almost tempted to collaspe on one of the many hard rubbish collection couches or mattresses along the street (it's hard rubbish collection time in our suburb) although they would probably be full of bugs/spiders so I resisted the urge.

Then I drove to Greensborough to pick up my new sunglasses/help my sister pick some new frames for her glasses/pick her up from work.

My sister had a voucher from her work for 50% off at Sunglass Hut, so I got these Versace Sunglasses.

Versace Sunglasses

They just have a small Medusa logo on the side.  I'm not keen on sunglasses with giant diamonte logos plastered all over them (to me, they look tacky), but I think the logo on these is not too big that it screams designer.

This is what I wore today (I have no idea why my feet are turned in the opposite direction of the rest of my body, haha!):

Sunday Outfit

Top - Jeans West; Jeans - MNG; Shoes - Rubi; Bracelet - Mimco

Thanks for reading, have a great week everybody!

Casual Friday Outfit + New Mimco Bracelet

Hi everyone,
today was casual Friday at the hospital where I am doing my placement and this is what I wore:

Casual Friday Outfit

Casual Friday Ootfit

Jeans - MNG
Top - Jeanswest
Jacket - Dotti
Scarf - Dotti

I also wore my new Mimco Dark Secret bracelet.  This arrived from the UK last week (it worked out to buy cheaper from the UK website, including shipping, than to buy from here....how strange?  Just goes to show how we get ripped off on everything, including things made by an Australian company) but I haven't got around to posting pics yet, so here it is:

Mimco Dark Secret Bracelet

Mimco Dark Secret Bracelet

And just for fun, here is my eye makeup look from today as well:

 

Thanks for reading, hope you all have a great weekend!!

Current Lemmings

I am super broke at the moment, so here is a list of things I'm currently wanting but can't afford to buy.

Knit top from Sportsgirl - image sourced from www.sportsgirl.com.au

Urban Decay Naked Palette - image sourced from www.urbandecay.com

Too Faced Naked Eye Kit - image sourced from www.toofaced.com

Mimco Bracelet - image sourced from www.mimco.com.au

Thanks for reading!

Cupcakes + Outfit

Today, I was meant to be first aid volunteering at a local town festival, but that was cancelled due to bad weather so I had a free day.  I ventured back over to Westfield Doncaster with my mum to try our luck again in finding her a dress.  We browsed in Myer for ages and had a look in a few other places and couldn't really find anything.

We did bump into a good friend from high school and her mum who were out shopping as well.  We were best friends in primary school and early high school but have kind of drifted apart since starting uni so it was nice to catch up with her.

I also purchased some cupcakes for afternoon tea from Joy Cupcakes.

Clockwise from bottom left: Quince, Rosewater & Pistachio, Lavender & Honey

The Lavender and Honey one was probably my favourite.  Quince is one of my all time favourite foods, but the quince one was honestly a bit of a let down.  The cake part was just a normal chocolate cupcake and I think the icing was just some kind of buttercream with a bit of quince paste added to it.  I thought a quince cupcake would be awesome, but this cupcake was pretty ordinary.  The Rosewater cupcake was also quite good.

It was pretty cold today so I decided to wear a scarf:

This scarf was from Dotti.  It is one of those square scarves that you fold into a triangle.  Black cardi is from Quick Brown Fox (courtesy of sister's wardrobe) and underneath is a plain black tshirt.

I wore my Etsy bracelet again.  I couldn't get a decent picture of it on (it's really hard to photograph your own wrist), so here is a picture of it sitting on my desk, haha!

Simple, but nice!

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Mimco Shopping + Outfit of the Day

Hello everyone!
Mimco has 20% off storewide at the moment so I went into the city to meet up with my sister after her exam finished as she had a bag on laybay and wanted to pay it off today so she could get 20% off.

I have my eye on a few pieces of jewellery so I decided to get something today to take advantage of the sale.  So it got....

The Curb Chain bracelet in Matte Black

Better pic sourced from www.mimco.com.au

I really like the Matte Black chain, I think it's just something a bit different!  I have a few other things on my wishlist but I'm not doing great in the finance department so they will have to wait.

I also purchased this ring from Sportsgirl:

I wore this beaded tshirt/top thing from Jeanswest:

Wow, I am super pale in this photo!

Jewellery:

Various e.g. Diva etc.

Bracelet on my left arm is the Mimco Curb Chain.  Bracelet on my right was a Christmas gift from my sister from Etsy.  This is one of my favourite accessories - I wear it all the time!  Will have to get a better pic.

You can also see the mani I did earlier today - I was in a rush so I went with a quick dry polish: Cutex's 60 Seconds Supershine in 038 Galaxy.  It did not dry in 1 minute, let alone 15 minutes!  So it ended up super lumpy and dinted after I zipped up my jeans.

On the way home, we grabbed something to eat at the new German bakery in Melbourne Central.  At first we thought they were just speaking with German accents as part of the act so we were daring each other to say something to the sales assistant in German, but then while they were making my coffee we heard them actually speaking German, so luckily I didn't say anything, otherwise I would have been so embarassed haha!  We have been waiting for this bakery to open for months (or however long they have been renovating it) - I seriously checked to see if it was open almost everytime I was in the city (haha, is that a little bit sad?).  I think this is due to the combination of our German heritage and our love of bakery goods.

Anyway, we tried a salted pretzel, plum and quark pastry (quark is kind of like a cream cheese/curd/yoghurt type dairy product), marzipan pastry and hazelnut triangle (not all at once though, haha!)  They were all yummy!  The pretzels are exactly like the kind you get in Germany.  Here is the website if anyone wants to drool over delicious German baked goods: Lüneburger

We are supposed to be in for wild weather down in Melbourne this weekend! Yikes!!

Thanks for reading!

DFO Southwharf Shopping Trip

Hi again!  Today I had to go into uni to clean out my locker and see one of my lecturers (she wrote a reference for me so I had a small gift for her + we are trying to get an article we wrote published - fingers crossed!!) so I decided afterwards to head down to Southwharf to see if I could find a better purse for my nana and return the other one that I bought.  I was able to find a better one (although it's pink, so I'm not sure if she'll like it).  Does everyone else find that, whenever you go shopping with a specific idea in mind of what you want, what you want never actually exists?  It drives me crazy!!

Needless to say, I got a bit distracted from my purse shopping agenda and purchased a few items for me along the way.

Here are the things I purchased:
Equip had a three for two special, so I purchased a ring (so cute!) and two necklaces.

Equip ring - you can see my Ulta3 Watermelon mani is still holding up as well!  I did my toes this morning too as I wore thongs today.

Equip multi-strand necklace

Equip key necklace

Metallic purple pouch thingy from Mimco - I plan to use this to put my iPod in for when I put it in my handbag so it doesn't get scratched/the headphones don't get damaged.  I don't know how many pairs of headphones I've ruined because I just tug on them to pull my iPod out from underneath everything else in my bag.

Sideways pic (sorry, I must learn how to fix this!) - the colour is a little darker than this in person.

Leak proof lunchbox for salads and other food items which I don't want dripping all over the contents of my bag!  Very practical...if it actually works!  I bought this at Howard's Storage World.

My new lunchbox!

 The Lovely Bones DVD - I read the book in Year 9 and it kind of freaked me out a little bit.  I obviously liked it though because I re-read it in about Year 11 (I think) and I saw the film when it came out in cinemas (either this year or last year, can't remember).  The book and the film were quite different, but I did like both.  I think I cried through pretty much the entire movie though!  This was on sale at JB Hifi for $12.98 - awesome!

The Lovely Bones DVD

 Two tops from Levi Jeans.  They had buy one get one free and I really liked the tshirt so I decided to get the other top as well - it's just simple, loose fitting black top so I'm sure I will be able to get plenty of wear out of it this summer.  I really liked the print of the tshirt, but it has a weird, throat constrictingly high neck line, so I may attmept to alter it to make it less so.

Sideways again!  Levis print tshirt.

Levis plain black loose fitting top

 That's all from me for now, thanks for reading!

Passionflower + After Exams Shopping Fun

My last exam was on Friday morning so after the exams a few friends and I went into the city for lunch.  The original plan was to go home and then go out in the evening, but we all agreed we would be way too tired, having had fairly limited sleep the night before due to late night studying and stressing.

For lunch we just went to a little cafe in Degraves Street.  After lunch we walked up to Passionflower in Bourke Street.  Passionflower is an icecream/dessert cafe and it was freaking amazing!!  It seriously took us almost 20 minutes to decide what we wanted, there were just so many delicious options.  We were thinking about getting two things to share between the four of us but decided to go with "Chocolate Lush" which was like a tasting plate of all the different chocolate desserts: waffles, chocolate fondue with strawberries, tiramisu, chocolate crepes with chocolate mousse filling and three different flavours of chocolate icecream.  I took photos but the Bluetooth on my computer is not working so I can't get them off my phone so you'll just have to imagine a giant plate of chocolatey goodness.  They have a lot of quirky icecream flavours too like avocado, kumquat, black sesame, burnt orange etc.  I think I will be going back there a lot in the summer.

After dessert we decided to go shopping around the city for a bit as well.  We started off having a look at Stella McCartney in Target.  I wanted to have a look at the 7/8 pants as I thought they might be nice for work, but in person I wasn't really a fan.  Plus they were pretty long and I think, due to the turned up hem, I would have to cut them to take them up.  Maybe I'll go back and try them on if they go on sale.

Despite being extremely shopping deprived due to exams and being couped up at home studying (plus having done the Salvos "Buy Nothing New Month" during October), I only purchased five things (plus a magazine for my sister and a new purse for my nanna).

These are the things I purchased:

Denim Skirt from Just Jeans - image sourced from www.justjeans.com.au

T-shirt from Jeans West - image souced from www.jeanswest.com.au

Pleated cami top, also from Jeans West - image sourced from www.jeanswest.com.au

Two rings from Diva

I think the skirt will be a good length for me in summer as I am self conscious about my bare legs but this skirt is long enough (just above the knee) that I won't have to wear leggings underneath which will be good for hot days.  I also had a gift voucher for Just Jeans which was about to expire so it was good to be able to use that up.

I don't wear t-shirts very often but I really liked the print of the t-shirt that I bought.  Plus it is black (like around 80% of my wardrobe).  When I showed my sister the cami top she remarked "Yeah, it's nice, I think I've seen it in your wardrobe before," implying that I already have something exactly like it.  That is probably true, but I like wearing black, I think it suits me.

Thanks for reading!

Birthday Present - Mimco

Monday of this week was my 21st birthday.  I was unfortunate enough to have an exam on my birthday (and one the day after - thanks Monash!) so it was a fairly boring, study filled day, however it was brightened by the lovely gift I received from my super awesome twin sister!  As Faux Fuchsia would say, "Behold The Magnificance!":

Shiny!

And inside:

She knew I had had my eye on the mesh bracelets from Mimco for ages!  The matte black one is gorgeous and the iridescent one is super shiny (the photo doesn't do it justice).  The French champagne picolo was a nice surprise too!  I haven't drank it yet as I want to share it with my sister and I was in exam (i.e. no alcohol) mode since our birthday until yesterday (my last exam) and now she is starting to prepare for hers, so we will wait until after her exams and then drink it together!

The box it came in is really nice too, I think I will use it to store some of my jewellery as it will look nice on my bedside table.

It's hard to believe I am 21 now, I honestly don't really feel any different.  Perhaps that's because I didn't have a big, crazy 21st party like most people do.  It's just very difficult to organise that kind of thing at this time of year, especially seeing as our friends all go to different universities and very one is starting/finishing exams at different times.

Thank you for reading and a big thank you and hugs to my lovely sister as well! (If you are reading this....get back to work!!! Haha, she is supposed to be studying!)