What I looked like

A few days ago, it was my friend Hannah's birthday. She had a lovely dinner party attended by a very select few, myself inculded. In natural Sam styles, I was way overdressed. But, it was worth it, because I just couldn't keep this bad boy in the wardrobe any longer.
I got this dress from the lovely Sarah of Misfits Vintage. Its early 1940's, and its awesome. It had a few spots with damage. Some sustained by ruffians and others which could probably be attributed to the age of the dress. I fixed them by sort of darning over the tears. It worked quite well. They are hardly noticeable anymore.

Outfit:

Dress: Vintage - Misfits Vintage

Shoes: Big W, years ago

Broch: Gift from Boyfriend

So, I hope everyone's weekend is going well,

Cheerio Pretties!!

WAG's

Wives and Girlfriends......what can I say about this unique breed of woman. To be the wife or girlfriend of a serviceman is not an easy feat. You have to put up with a lot of crap. Mainly, well in my case anyway, army (dis)organisation. Were leaving on the 8th. No, the planes broke, were leaving in a week and a half. Wait on, were leaving this afternoon....
I get that you cant set some things in stone. Sometimes, routines don't work. I work in health care. Routines don't really work at all. Something always comes up and your routine gets thrown out. You think your shift is going really well, then 4 people that need mechanical lifters all need to go to the toilet at the same time, and Mr Jones has a fall. You end up running between rooms with people who cant control their legs sitting on toilets, while trying to mop up the bit that missed the bowl.
So, the point is, you have to learn to be adaptable, and be OK with it.
Anyway, the reason I'm writing this dribble on my blog about clothes and stuff, is that I found a bunch of photos from when my Grandpop was at sea, and my Nana was livin it up...so I thought id share, as my Nana has style, at my Grandpop has cool hair.

Grandpop, chillin in Venezuela

Nana and the Girls chillin at redcar, or Blackpool or some other British beach with a colour in the name.

Old mate, sleeping in the background

And Grandpops hair. I think he wanted to be Dirk Bogard

So, there we have it. Some styles from the Grandparentals. Nana being awesome and Grandpop having hipster in 2011 hair. My Grandparents kind of rock.

Cheerio...

makin stuff...

Ok, so, Sarah of Misfits Vintage posted this pay it forward and I was one of the first 5 to comment, so here we are. Paying it forward. 5 comments, maybe a stretch, we'll give it a go eh?....



I'm sorry I've been so absent, I just haven't been motivated to blog at the moment. Its probably the combination of working like a crazy person and it being too hot to wear anything cute and too humid to spend ages on hair that wont work, so I'm hoping that it will cool down soon, and swing also starts back up again this week, and ill find something cool to write about.
So anyway, if your one of the first 5 people to comment, ill make you something cool, so come on, get to it!

Re-fashion?

So, one of my first posts was after "The way we wear" vintage fashion fair, and I showed you guys an awesome dress I purchased. If you don't remember or are new around here, this is the original post, and here is a picture of the dress.

 So, the plan was to turn the dress into a skirt, because it was tiny. I'm pretty sure it was made for a child. I recently started setting up my sewing room, and finally got around to chopping it in half and making it wearable! Yay! This is how it turned out...

I look super tall or something here. I assure you, I'm not.

Skirt: Vintage: Re-fashioned by me
Blouse: Op-shopped
Shoes: Old bus depot markets

Please excuse my empty book case. I haven't got round to moving my books in yet.

So basically, I just separated the bodice from the skirt and made a waistband out of the bodice fabric, attached it and re-inserted the zipper in pretty much the same spot. I probably could have used more interfacing to stabilize the waistband but it turned out pretty well I think.

Hope your week is going well!

Ciao Lovies

Hair cuts and police hats

So, 4 days ago an important decision was made. One that will change my life for the next 2 weeks or so.....I got a hair cut! Its now quite short. My hair is outrageous and grows like mould in the shower (really quickly) so its not really a big decision. If its doesn't turn out well, it will only be a short time until it returns to half decency. It turned out OK. A little hard to pin curl, but i rag curled it the other day and it turned out OK. I need to make my sections bigger so it doesn't frizz as much.

Anywho, moving on from my hair, one of Harry's friends is moving to Melbourne to join Victoria Police, so last night we went out on the town. It was super exciting. Filled with unique and fascinating bars and people, oozing with zing and pzazz.....well not really. One can dream. It was a bunch of dudes, me and another WAG Hannah. It was fun. The boys are entertaining. Hannah is a cool chic, she's also a chic and she doesn't talk about guns and trucks and she uses words, not acronyms (the boys are all in the Army, hence never knowing what they are talking about).

We went to a bar that specializes in foreign beers, particularly German and the likes. The also have awesome food. I drank most of a giant beer and donated the remains. Ate a chocolate hazelnut calzone, and drank an incredibly strong long island ice tea, hence my headache this morning. 



The original Glamour Couple! 



Anywho, this is what I wore, I finally caught up with like 2007 and got an iPhone so sorry about the grainy photos. I'm really bad at blogging and always forget my camera lol... 



Outfit:
Top: Cotton On like 3 years ago (after my bag got left behind on my flight to Big Day Out)
Skirt, scarf, cardi: Op Shopped
Belt: Gift from Mum
Shoes: Vintage, One Legged Jockey
Bag: Vintage, from a fair, don't remember the name.



 So, I hope you are having a good weekend. Keep up the good work!

Toodle pip!

Nana in suits

I love a good suit. It says "I mean business". Even if your just on your Sunday walk.
As i said in my last post, I spent Christmas in Melbourne with my Mums family. For Christmas, my Mum got this mini scanner thingo of my Dad, so while we were there, we had a field day scanning old photos that belong to my grandparents.
One recurring theme with photos of my Nana is suits. She loved suits. When I travel back in time I'm telling her to keep all her clothes for her awesome future grand daughter because she had style!

So, without further ado, here they are, my Nana in suits!

Suits and babies...also telling her to keep that pram how sweet is it!!!

Just out walking in the countryside, in a suit

Toodle pip lovies,

Sam

xoxo



Helloooo blog land!! Happy Christmas and Merry New Year to you all!! Ive been on a little holiday. I went to Melbourne for Christmas to visit my Mums family, and then went to the south coast for a few days with my boyfriend to visit his Mum and Stepdad, and then boosted up to Sydney for the night to see Interpol (boyfriends Christmas present). Melbourne was coolness, the coast kind of wasn't coolness as i got the flu and that's not really fun; and Sydney/Interpol was coolness also.

So, here are some photos from my travels.....



Christmas day started well in this Laura Ashley dress I found in Estonia, my vintage utility shoes, blue hat and sweet white gloves



It ended in an apron, my mums moccasins and a dog oven mitt (photo to come at a later date)



Boxing day, a little less glam, my Mum, Sisters and two of my rockin Aunties.

Outfit:
Shorts: "cupcake" from KL, Malaysia.
Top: JayJay's (eek) many moons ago
Cardi and scarf Op shopped
Shoes: Shcu London



Sissies and I

Almost my whole family

Just chillin in the butterfly house at the Melbourne Zoo. Butterflies kept landing on my hat.

Cute niece at Scienceworks

Me at Scienceworks, on a cool ass bike

Outfit:
Jeans: Made by me
Top, cardi: op Shopped
Belt: gift from mother
Shoes: Converse all stars



Sis and Niece on a cool couch at Scienceworks, we are the coolest aunties around



Cutie making me a coffee at Scienceworks

Lookin like a dork at The Enmore waiting for Interpol

Just pulling down my shorts

Outfit:
Shorts: Cupcakes from Malaysia
Blouse: Op shopped
Shoes: Schu London

I picked up this lot from this cute antiques/gift/book shop in Mogo on the south coast called "Past and Present". A pretty pink scarf, gloves to match my blue hat, stockings and a lovely hat pin

 So, I hope you all had a fun festive season, now back to the salt mines and uni and work and stuff...

Cheerio kids