busy little bee

monday links: i'm old edition

- A great little video turning the "She was asking for it" idea on its head, here.

- The Sims Medieval Announced! Very exciting news for this Sims fan who can't find her Sims 3 disc. Can this be released, like, tomorrow? Please?

- An interesting article looking at the negative sides of Mad Men's treatment of female characters, here. Not sure how much I agree with these points but it's good to see some variety in what's written about Mad Men (ie: an article that is not wholly focused on Christina Hendricks' body).

- Another fantastic political ad from Get Up!, here.

- Hooray! Next year's Moleskines are available now. So keen to unwrap a fresh moley and get started on filling every page with lists and collages. Ugh, obsessed.

[image is a Polaroid of me, rather unattractively, blowing out my birthday candles at my 21st a few days ago]

pinhead

So yesterday I scored this AMAZING Romance Was Born 'Pinhead' jacket on sale at My Catwalk and received it today in the mail (next day delivery is a girl's best friend). The collar and most of the inner lining at the front are covered with safety pins, and the back is slightly longer and beautifully sheer. Holy wow. This and coffee with old high school friends have made an incredibly gloomy (note the rain-soaked, now frizzy hair) Friday turn wonderful.

holiday snaps

So after a ten day delay in London and Paris (it's a tough life), I returned home on Tuesday to a cold house and a great sense of relief. Getting back into things has been a little stressful but okay. There are only two more weeks of semester as of tomorrow so I have lots of sitting around time to look forward to after that.

I've been trying to upload these damn photos for some time now but Photobucket and I seem to have hit a bump in our relationship. I've painstakingly managed to bring these photos to you by way of a complex system of pulleys and weights (by which I mean, several websites and programs at once - it was THAT much of an issue). Obviously with several assignments looming I was more than happy to spend time doing that.

These range from food to fashion to crappy scenic shots, in Paris, London, Berlin and a bunch of Turkish cities.

plato's atlantis

Oh you know, just hanging out in Paris wearing an Alexander McQueen dress.
By which I mean, HOLY SHIT. I ACTUALLY OWN THIS THING NOW!? SO AMAZING.
When I saw a rack of McQueen clothes hanging in the Printemps Department Store here, I just knew it would be so special (actually, bittersweet) to own a piece of this fashion history. The dress is gorgeous - better picture on its way once I get back home - and one of those things you want to have on display rather than wear for fear of damaging it. Either way, it's obviously a keeper.

Anyhow it's my last day in Paris today (the worst part about coming to Paris is leaving it, I've had an incredible time). I'm leaving for London tonight, staying for three days and then heading home. I love traveling and all but I can't wait to sleep in my own bed! Not long to go now.

greetings from canakkale!

Due to being Travel Girl at the moment, I have little to no time to look at nor share pretty things over the internet. Right now I'm in a beautiful hotel in Eceabat, Canakkale (Turkey) after about about a week in this amazing country (so far I've been to Istanbul and Cappadocia) and about a week to go before Europe. However I do have uni work to do before getting back home (a big assignment is due the day I get on a plane back to Australia; god teachers are horrible) so hopefully I can procrastinate by blogging to some extent!

Also: in this Photobooth photo (note: it took me about ten minutes to get a half decent photo since the sun was so bright and we were about to leave the hotel in Goreme so I was rushing, not to mention the hotel owners thought I was insane wandering around the terrace with my laptop posing every few minutes) I'm wearing my Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony "giraffe print" furry sweater which cost me an absolute fortune and was worth every penny. First time wearing it today and it kept me very warm and shed absolutely everywhere so I've left a beautiful trail of orange and black fur from Istanbul all the way here. You can't really make out the gorgeous backdrop of the photo - 'fairy chimney' rock formations, or so they're called - but they're incredible and I have about fifty photos of them on my SLR which I'll update with when I get home. Turkey really is one of the most amazing places I've been to. I easily identify with the European side of things here but there's another flavour that is so different and special. I can't wait to explore a bit more and buy a few dozen more unnecessary trinkets and bags and carpets and cushion covers and and and ...

i go through all this

Drowning in fifty kinds of stress at the moment.
Fashion week posts coming super soon!

jackpot

This morning I stumbled upon a sale table of magazines at the newsagency in Kingston. There were 2006/7/8 issues of Vanity Fair, US and German Vogue, Marie Claire and a million other titles. I was already fairly excited rifling through these, but then I found four old(ish) i-D issues! One from 2006 and three from 2007. I can't wait until I have time to take a proper look through these, there's something really special about old magazines.

oh spring