Almost Posh: November 2014

Friday Fashionomics || Little Bargains

November 28, 2014
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I’d kicked around the idea of starting a blog for a year or more before I launched GhetteauxPosh. However, my world at the time was full-time mum and I couldn’t really see myself adding my voice to the huge number of successful mummy bloggers already out there. My wry observations about parenting had already been made by people like Laura at Laura's Plog and there wasn’t much else going on in my life at the time.

“Oh man, nappies! Amiright?”

Encouraged by Bridie at bridiemarie.com, I started blogging on a much more niche topic; fashion. Well, to be fair, I just write about whatever I like really, and what I mostly like is fashion so it’s what I mostly write about. I don't claim to be a style maven but I like shopping for and wearing clothes so why not blog about it.

This time, I’m going to throw a little parenting into the mix by revealing I recently set up an email address for my daughter, Miss L.

She is 20 months old.

This post may or may not be an excuse to post some cute pictures of my daughter

Before she was born, I dutifully bought a baby book with the intention of lovingly filling out each milestone in perfect penmanship, complete with handprints, artfully scrapped photos and mementos.

This eventually happened around about her first birthday in a slightly less polished format than I had envisaged; think double-sided tape and a box of coloured pens. Luckily, I had kept a bunch of scribbled Post Its in a memory box that were able to supply key dates. But honestly, I found it a massive struggle to remember to go into the room, get the box from under the bed, open the box, fish out the pen and the Post Its and jot things down. It sounds like a simple and easy thing to do but it just wasn’t.

Mums, are you feeling me?

More arbitrary cuteness

I am, however, quite often in front of a device capable of sending emails; whether it’s my desk at work, my computer at home, my phone on the bus or my iPad on the couch.

So my plan is to send her emails over the course of her childhood and to share the email address with close family so they can do the same.

I'll stop soon

Touch wood but I also see it as a touch of insurance, should anything happen to them before she’s old enough to know them, she will hopefully have special messages to keep.

I want her to know how funny and cute and clever she is. I want to capture the little things, like how she calls grapefruit “gallaput” and refuses to wear shoes without socks as well as the major milestones. This weekend, her first sit on the potty produced results and then she went into a big bed for the first time!

When she’s old enough, I’ll give her the log-in details, maybe around a special birthday, and I hope she enjoys reading them.

One day, all this will be yours

November 24, 2014
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Fashionomics Friday || Sparkle!

Best and Less

November 21, 2014
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Throwback Thursday: Knee-High Boots

90s

I didn't manage a #ThrowbackThursday post last week because I was too busy having lunch and gossiping with Bridie of bridiemarie.com so this is a bumper edition.

How's this one, circa July 1997.

Werk!

I'd got home to Adelaide that day from a road trip to Canberra and Sydney with some mates to visit one of our school friends who was stationed there with the army. My flatmate and I decided to have a photo shoot with the leftover film in my camera. #90slyf

Having being on the dole for the past year and a half, I had about $170 carefully saved spending money for the holiday. Upon arrival (after 12 hours on a bus), we browsed some nearby shops, I saw these boots for $99 and instantly fell in love. So I did whatever any fashion-forward dole recipient would do; I bought them.

Bear in mind this was 1997 in South Australia and I was still making regular trips to the small country town I had left. These boots were the first of their kind of the scene, where they certainly turned heads and raised eyebrows amongst the locals.

Sure, it kind of curtailed my spending for the rest of the trip (all of my mates were broke too so it didn't matter too much) but I never regretted it and I love them to this day, as they still sit amongst my boots. I even had them resoled a couple of years ago with a flatter, less 90s heel.

What else is going on in this picture?

A purple chenille jumper
Black chiffon dress underneath
Knee high stockings
New Just Jeans floral bag which was only recently thrown away
Woodroffe Sno Top in a glass litre bottle!! That bad boy was worth 20 cents on return!
My flat mate's light sabre
Dat brassy-ass hair
Dat dark Starlet lipstick

I gave more face in my boyfriend's leather jacket:

Cara de who now?

And then the front screen door of our fla with my beloved beret.

So urban. So edgy.

More of the boots in action:

Derp

A bad blink but a banging tan which is about the only thing Port Hedland was good for. I loved that daisy top and the quick-dry purple Bad Girl skirt. And I'd totally forgotten about that crystal pendant!

Mucking around at my Grandma's house. I never actually left the house looking like this but I think I knew that one day in the future I'd want a record of how good my legs were aged 19.

November 20, 2014
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Safety Moment: Dangerous Footwear

grievance

November 17, 2014
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Pyjama Game

ASOS

Further to my post about lifting my game with regards to my at-home wear, I decided to try and get some cuter stuff to lounge about and sleep in.

I like to be covered at night - in the winter, it's flannelette pyjamas and a quilt up to my ears and even in the warmer weather, I prefer to have something on. Preferably the air conditioner, so I can still sleep under a quilt.

For the last few years, I’ve favoured oversized souvenir t-shirts from various American locales which need to be consigned to the rag bag and Cotton On patterned lounge pants I bought for my maternity hospital stay last year. These are all okay, even if the leopard print pair (my favourite) are looking a little shabby from constant wear.

I’m not looking for anything lacy/satiny/slippery/sexy because lol and I haven’t done a nightie since primary school. So cotton-style pyjamas and comfy loungewear it is.

Obviously, spending a fortune on stuff to sleep in is against my frugalista principles, so sozz, Peter Alexander.

One problem I find in these places is that it’s difficult to get something without a cutesy motif, cheesy sleep-related slogan, demands for coffee or a faux French motto.

I checked out Kmart pyjama sets. Here's a sample offering.

I feel like a middle-aged woman in an XL Tweety-Bird tee-shirt and with a Hello Kitty phone cover

Do we all become 12 year old school girls when we head for bed? Actually, that sounds wrong. You know what I mean.

What’s wrong with a nice bold geometric logo and matching patterned pant? Or a Breton stripe? Plain tops seem so grim, the lace trim ribbon neckline elderly and those Henley-style buttons, why??

And seriously, would it kill anyone to have some sort of built-in support shelf? I don’t want to wear a bra or crop top to bed but if we have visitors stay over, I also don’t want to do a toilet run or early morning wake-up with everything bouncing around like a jumping castle on a windy day. Singlet tops are most definitely out for this reason, I do not need escaping hanging side boob.

I bought a sleep tee from Cotton On Body with a print of the Eiffel Tower (just barely acceptable in terms of fromage factor) for $10.

I did have a picture of it but it has disappeared but you can use your imagination.

I’d probably have had more of a look around the store if the toddler didn’t decide that tottering around, throwing carefully stacked piles of g-strings on the floor and getting handprints on the mirrors was good fun. After I’d weathered two conniptions trying to wrestle her back into the pram, I was too flustered to take much more of a look and just grabbed the tee - did I want to pop it in a charity - NO THANKS . . . did I want any of the water bottles for - JUST THE TOP, PLEASE.

I checked out Target online. $20 for a striped sleep tee? Are you having a laugh, Target? When I just bought tops to actually wear out of the house from Kmart for $5 each? Come on. Their offerings were either slippery chemise sets, homely brushed cotton stripes or $89 Missoni for Target pyjama sets. LOL. That’s more than what most of my daily outfits cost.

I took my search online and browsed the ASOS sale.

Oh this is cute, I could do this and the price is right . . .