Bicycle bicycle ...

My new bicycle bicycle ...

"Sunshine on my window makes me happy like i should be!" 

Im in love with this new and improved version of sydney weather and just in time for me to try a new look ... Bicycle Bella!

Having recently moved from holiday specific rider to enthusiastic cycler I thought it was time for an upgrade from my aunts old bike to a vintage inspired, pink, basket bearing cycling equivilant of a fashion statement! 

With the recent arrival of the sunshine I decided it was the perfect excuse to spend a day cycling and swimming! check out the cuteness below! 

Wat I'm wearing ~ blue Glassons dress with vintage shell necklace, butterfly stud earings, French Kitty vintage inspired bikini and coral Havanas topped up with my favorite Dotti hat!

Lazy Family daze... 


Can i just declare that one of my absolute favorite things to do on a sunday is lunch! Even better is when its the lazy family hang type of sunday lunch...
Sunday was just that kind of lunch - great food, (thanx aunty Jan) great company and of course that so cute attention stealing nephew of mine ... just cant imagine where in the family he gets that from??

see the pics below - My Sister making motherhood look effortless, my Mother (in the white dress) making Nanas around the world jealous and Aunt Jan- the women invented stylish... Oh the pressure!

Wat I'm wearing ~ yellow gingham button up Ark and Co dress from Modcloth.com,  Cotton On Body black frilly bandeaux, Miss Shop dinosaur designs inspired necklace, 'the' little Dotti hat, tan platted bow clasp  belt and Love Story mules.

Fairyland inspiring earrings...

My dear old (scratch that -YOUNG) Aunty Caz who was unusually missing from the family sunday lunch hang due to her nephew's engagement party (wait no scratch that again SURPRISE WEDDING) on the south coast came back to town with many stories and of corse the aforementioned TINY and INSIGNIFICANT news (please do note the sarcasm ) ...

She also came back with earrings - for non other than well ME :)
Awesome loverly silver lightweight Owl earrings an offering she told me she had procured from an obliging market she came across on her travels!
Im in love with them!
check out below ...

Wat I'm wearing ~ Vintage white Lace embroided, slit cut maxi dress with black Cotton On bandeaux, Vintage purple stone necklace,  new Owl earrings from aunty, Bulgari sunnies and 'those' mules.

Summer breezy!


In love with my new dress... abstract floral print, racer back, button down, vintage lace trim and it was only $10 from dotti! SHhhh fletch it was a nessary evil!

Wat I'm wearing ~ new Dotti racer back botton down dress with vintage lace trim, blue organza ribbon worn as sash, Dotti  hat and Jeweled flip flops a bi-product of my mothers month in italy in the summer of 09 & still going strong!

Working Gal... 


In between contracts and meeting potential new ones requires effort and many many many meetings, these then require outfits ... corporate, trustworthy ones, to quote a classic

'I need that top, its my most responsible looking out fit"

- Alica Silverstone in that timeless gal classic Clueless!

Heres a selection of my weeks most responsible looking ensembles, (no one would ever guess i was at heart secretly still 5 years old playing dressup's in my mummy clothing)

Wat I'm wearing ~ Black Dotti dress with Vintage crystal necklace, silver Baku earrings from bachelor #1, vintage black & gold clasp belt, with Sportsgirl tuxedo blazer and caramel buckle detail Rubi shoes flats.  And white bianca spender inspired Valleygal blazer with black Forever New 50's inspired camisole and Barkins simple black high waisted pencil skirt.

Hillside for the mid week cheeky drink... 

Despite my being a born and breed child of the ol'HD (Hills District) the idea of drinking and partying in the hills has never really been my scene mainly due to working & living in the city however with my recent return to paradise city i felt it only right that i give the 'local hang's' a fair chance...

Hump day drinks and pizza with friends and gossip at the Hillside ...
Verdict? I didn't hate it, the little bar that could (and did slowly take over an entire complex and make it into a pub) served up a decent and delicious pizza and the bar staff were friendly and efficient!

Wat I wore ~ new Dotti racer back botton down dress with vintage lace trim, trusty Sportsgirl tuxedo blazer and my current favorite love story mules topped up with Bulgari sunnies. 

The Dreaded Wisdom ... 


On a parting note i had recently been suffering from an ongoing disagreement with my wisdom teeth Namely that they had seen the need to come on through and I strongly thought that they and the previously noted wisdom should stay on partying in my gumms!

On thursday morn at approximately 7 am I won this debate - I had the suckers removed - Under heavy sedation as i really really REALLY do not care for pain!

Check out my loverly new fashion statement - Its called the scarf inspired ice beard! its going to be hott in all the hospitals - you heard it here first!
you will also notice that I've not been caffeine deprived and have instead embraced the new medical reasoning for my drinking lukewarm coffee through a straw!

Now that the swelling has gone down time to think about that soundwave out fit, cause i be a lucky bunchkin with a ticket ... oh yes Lost Profits here I come

"Burn burn burn the hate that gets me through burn burn for us, for them for you!"


More later

Danni

xoxo

Love is in the air ...

To Market to market...

A certain strapping lad and myself have been meaning to check out the growers markets at flemington for some time... About three years but hey we're city dwellers mainly and its sooooooo dam far to flemington (as boy points out it dose require visas to go that far past where the world as we know it ends)  

Moving past "our life of upper middle class suburban oppression!"

Boy is quite the handy man and requires tools (insert obvious pun here :P) 
hearing that the markets have some great hardware stalls (insert other pun - seriously ppl remove heads from the gutter already :P)  we ventured to discover - true or false?

Turns out TRUE! check out the big kid in the candy store below! 

Later whilst we wandered through all the remaining stalls selling seafood, spices and seriously great cookware, chopping on yummy Gozleme and Mr happily munching down a beef Kebab, I discovered the answer to a question I've had for a while ... 


To maxi or not to maxi?

The issue with myself and the maxi dress stems from this main issue - 
Im not very tall and also I'm not very skinny! 
AND you see designers largely have an obsession with designing maxi dresses in either disgusting lycra resembling fabric, or equally unflattering tube cuts (or sometimes in a value studded extra you get a tube cut lycra maxi!) 
I mean really? who are these tube cuts for? they confuse me more than I have adequate lines to properly describe! 

Maybe just a little rant?

AND GO... 
Are they for really skinny girls? it would appear not as those girls need to create the illusion of having curves, tube cut = fail for them ... 
Is it for pear shapes? no they have hips an arses, tube cuts empisise both these things and again fail, further confusion! 
Maybe for apple shapes? cant see that either, apples are like really skinny girls in that they also need to create the illusion of having curves, and a tube cut lycra dress would look more like walking apple pie then apple of the eye! 
Finally I know they're not for hour glass figures like mine because they look bloody awrful on me, case closed! 

Back to the issue at hand- I've finally found a maxi dress that is not only a cotton blend - has a nice Sass & Bide-esq pattern but also has a great Aline cut, for those who will understand ~


'I sound my barbaric Yawp!!!'

see pics below :) 

I highly recommend making the packed lunches and several 'getting psyched' efforts to go to these fabulous markets - Did I mention the loverly dress only cost Mr $10? Double win!




Valentines day!

The lead up to this yearly event is always anxious, if your in a couple then there's always the debate about wether its a hallmark holiday, no longer worthy of acknolowgement or a legitimate excuse to show each other you care? 
If your single it's the perfect opurtunity to exercise your inner miranda (SATC) cynical side... right up to the nailbittingly anxious on the day wait to see if indeed YOU will receive any of those 'mystery' roses that turn up on the hot blondes desk all day! ( I mean who needs that many roses???) 

SOoO naturally (such an attractive specimen) eligible bachelor #1 has asked me to dinner ... 2 Q's
what to wear? what to buy him?

I've been told to meet at a location at a time, I have no further details and the weather is hot and muggy- I need an out fit that can go from dressy to sundressy (its a word!) with just a few simple moves ...

I choose my new Mrs Press dress (still left over from the enforced shopping trip a few wk-end's ago -it was so enforced! DONT JUDGE ME!) 

I wear it with a simple long gold chain, red chandelier earrings and Allanah Hill red bow heals or if we go casual my tan jewel studded flip flops ...

Oh and the other issue... I buy him a new Xbox game  :) 

Snaps for bachleor #1 who has left a trail of bread crumbs that lead to me finding this on the table ...

V.spoilt - check out what it contained below :)

We might keep this one on rotation for a while me thinks... xo

Hats, Coffee and the Allanah Hill Holygrail! 

I have fair skin and my fair share of freckles, I have to apply gradual tan every day just to look healthy and non-vitamin deficient, I also have a nose that goes red if it even senses sunlight falling near it! solution - I NEED A HAT :)

Cue my new Dotti bowler! isn't it just Tre Cute!

I thought it was perfect for a girly N.Sydney lunch date with my two stylish sisters...

Worn with Miss shop yellow polka dot dress, Vintage belt and necklace, Sportsgirl sunnies, Allanah Hill yellow bow hair clip and Wittner cream leather wedges!

And again the next day when i caught up with a friend over the best coffee and sambo I've had in ages! seriously those who work in parramatta should try the coffee shop next to the asian place and before gosh- its great! 

Worn with Bulgari sunnies, Glassons blue linen dress, vintage earnings and necklace and my current shoe obsession my tan Love Story mules from Runway Girl!

Whilst I was whirling around this week I made a massive discovery!
I found an Allanah Hill sale! OK- I can feel the eye rolls from here (yes I said feel! they're intense those eye rolls)
It wasn't an ordinary sale though - it was a fantastic sale! 

It had the holy grail of Allanah Hill items...'My Beautiful Clown skirt' in red in my size!!!!!  

AMAZING, I have been looking for this skirt in a 12 or 14 from the time it came out 
(about 12 months). 

This is also a quiet achievement as the first time myself and the skirt in question entered the confines of a change room - It really wasn't pretty, it was another episode of Danielle bearlette in a change room with an item of clothing seemingly made for a child's play toy.

Today I took in a size 12 - it's still tight (more work to be done) -however it fits :D 

It zips up the entire way AND the pretty red jewel buttons each do up... did i mention its a 12??? WIN!

Isn't it just gorgeous... proper pics soon I promise! 

More soon

Danni 

xoxo 

The lady that lunches

You would think that having time off would give me plenty of time right? Wrong!
It simply amazed me how fast my week was populated between family, friends, boys that make my knees weak and those potential next contracts, my week was overflowing with social engagements!

Nephewing...

Mondays agenda to quote Carrie Bradshaw saw me "try on two new labels" Fleur Wood & new mother uni student. No, I haven't had a baby and taken up a degree! I agreed to help my sister with my cutie pie nephew nicholas whilst she had a meeting with a potential new supplier on campus at unsw (thats right -LP goods soon to be available on lower kensington campus - u heard it here first!)

Dressed in my new pale blue v neck embroidered Fleur Wood wrap dress that reminds me of something out of the notebook, with my tan mules and big white collette 'mum' bag , I was ready for a day of pram pushing through the park and those adoring looks that seem to follow our little nicca bear wherever we take him.
Reality ... Just a tad different!
My turbulent relationship with the weather continued as the wind kicked up & played mischievous with my dress!
My dress blowing up every five minutes, my hair looking more deshevelled then deconstructed cool and still attempting to push the pram in a strait direction, I could almost forgive the disapproving looks from grungy 2nd year Psychology students rushing down campus.
I decided that trotting around campus wasn't going to work as a plan and my inner fear of being mistaken as a teenage mother forced my retreat to the uni field nearby...
Greatly impressed with this development nicholas took to picking me flowers- so cute!
If only all the males in my life were this easy to please :)

Check out how chic my sister makes mother hood look whilst playing in the park post appointment.

Cafe Styling ...


Coffee with a mate who's ringtone has recently been changed in my phone to LMFAOs "I'm sexy and i know it"(to paint a picture) on my agenda and lunch with a GF we all call China, (Ironically she's not Chinese and she doesn't resemble fine dinner wear or porcelain in any way).
feeling  slightly bloated this morning and spent too much time looking at potential next jobs - I have to rush to get out the door on time, I grab ....Dark denim jeans, Tan belt,  a favorite red and beige pokadot Allannah silk cami & my red blazer! shoes? flats - cute little black ballets i picked up last winter from Rubi shoes!

Coffee never quite happened on account of my running eternally late however this gave way to being able to meet up with china muffin early and in a turn of brilliant luck we ended up at Cafe Sydney,
well some one has to do it, right?
Great lunch and my peach bellini  was delicious, Its the dessert however that takes the cake (pardon the pun!) fried banana, Peanut butter and salted caramel Parfait with salted caramel peanuts and choc caramel praline... It was heaven on a plate!

Now wheres that gym located again???

Chicks who Flick... 

The Vow has recently made its Channing Tatem shirtless way to our screens and again its china for the hook up with free tickets to a Chicks at the flicks event.

I needed comfort for this and the rain was still threatening very few hours however as it was chic event I also needed cool because as very self confessed fashion diva knows - its not the guys you dress up for, I mean they'd be happier if we all wore nothing... exhibit A zoo magazine!

I went for a black mini, grey v neck distressed cotton shirt, black tuxedo blazer, beige seam line fishnets and tan healed biker boots...topped up with lots of long chains and bracelets

The movie was fab and the goodie bags after where even better with some great sample products and yummy munchies like Lindts new Crunchy Caramel bars Mmmmmm....

Also Worth mentioning is the new place I discoved at mac centre selling churos... check out below and stay posted for an update on weather these are as good as they look - a certain spanish miss an I will report back soon...

Farewell Friday...


A favorite Mate to spend a friday night with drinking and generally getting up to mischief recently made a big decision to leave his very stable employment... no further comment on that - however it did give way to friday nights actually having an excuse to drink and dance... the brief was PARTY!

I took this as a great excuse to try out my new Betty Draper inspired purchase from Origami Doll, a label that I fell over during an enforced (yes enforced, I swear there was no getting out of it, no possible other things I could have been doing or apartments I could have been helping renovate) shopping trip to paddington a couple of weeks ago.

I teamed that with my red bow allanah belt and matching shoes...
Speaking of shoes do see the uber sexy heals on my pretty side kick to mischeif below.

 PS- the smiles on our faces couldnt be helped whilst gushing about the attractive males on the other side of the camera...

More Soon

Danni
xoxo

Rain rain go away come again a non-fashion day!

Sunshine on my window...

Feeling completely chipped this week as the sunshine has disappeared and been replaced by a kiwi esq grey cloud, humidity and bucket loads of rain.

Friday night rolled around and after having had an epicly unpalitable week combined with Sydney's current weather and its complete disregard for boots belonging to a winter wardrobe and frizzy over blow-dried hair being very out of style... to quote a dear friend "I wasn't feeling the love"!

I need to mention that I think there should be a refund option available on some weeks, I would have liked the option this week of saying;

'yea - thats not going to work for me - scratch that and lets start again'. 

Im just saying!

Curled up on a chair in my kitchen and watching the rain fall, sipping contentedly at my second long black of the day and fielding texts from friendlets on 'the plan' for that night I finally decided to accept that I was indeed heading out into the weather that night and my mission was clear ... find something to wear!

My thoughts were instantly drawn to the idea of dresses and tights with boots and a hot blazer - yes you say that would work ... Think again - thank you humidity!

The rain ruled out my absolute love affair with peep-toe styled heals (many of which are Peeptoe shoes if you haven't heard of them check them out now, I claim no responsibility for the addition like side effects) & my current collection of sensible shoes were proving uninspiring ... I thought all may have been lost... then lightbulb - DENIM!

Denim daze... 

being a little on the curvy side and having an hour glass figure means I have a volatile relationship with jeans, it always takes me ages to find a pair that are comfy, look great and don't give me massive cupcakes!

I often find myself in the change room of a General Pants or other "In crowd"store, half a jean leg on and unmovable past my knees- I'm looking at the label and it says 14? I'm very confused as I'm sure they meant adult and not kid size and yet they really would fit my arm...Suspect!
Did I mention that for the pleasure of not being able to properly fit into the jeans (after doing a contortionist act to finally pull them above your fanny!) you get to pay 1/3 of your weekly wage to take these gems home stash them in your wardrobe and never never never wear them? yep women we make oodles of sense alright!

I have wisdom to impart for cheap, comfortable and fashionable jeans that actually last head to Dotti!
I recently lost 20kgs and have thus gone through the above denim shopping dance several times. Im in love with my dotti dark denim skinny legs and my mates can attest they have been a regular occurrence on my weekend wardrobe roster, best of all they gave me change from $50, Ooooh yea coffee time!

The final verdict...

After cruising my collection of silk camis and cute blazers heres what I finally landed on;
My cute new black forever new 50's bustier cami teamed with blush coloured cropped leather jacket (love the Balmain esq sleeves on this jacket and the pale pink colour gives it such a cute 'pink lades' effect.), Toni Biancco Black Suede bow front pumps and my Dotti dark denim jeans!

Now wheres that dam cocktail? 

Danni

xxoo