Sydney Road.

This time last week I was super excited about my planned op shop adventure down Brunswick Street. I was expecting to find some fantastic goodies at great prices and a wonderful time exploring on my lonesome.

I only happened to visit two of the seven op shops listed on the helpful opshop.org. Partly due to the horrid humidity and my getting lost. Nevertheless, I left quite happy with my finds:

Don Bosco Brunswick Youth Foundation Inc. Op Shop

Wonderful op shop, with fantastic prices and some great goodies to be had. A true true op shop. I happened across these two dresses.

White dress, $7

I've been on the hunt for a delightful white dress for quite a while. All the dresses in the shops are generally too short, have terrible shape or are too plain and boring. This one has a sweet pattern, falls just below the knee and with lovely pearly buttons.

'Newspaper Mama' dress, $7

I call this my 'Newspaper Mama' dress because it has an interesting print which includes what looks to be newspaper clippings (as you can see below). The dress has a cool, cinched in waistline. Apparently it is "very '80s!" haha

Brunswick Savers

Huge, hot and sticky. Huge variety of things, as expected in a Savers. The only goodie I walked away with was this gorgeous thing:

Cutest meringue cardi, $5

The Boy suggests this cardi looks like a meringue, and I'm inclined to agree. I absolutely love it. It reminds me of all the things my gran used to knit for me when I was younger. I hated them then. I love them now :) I automatically zoom in on anything that looks remotely handmade.

Too cute, right? :)

Fragrance

L-R: Happy Spirit by Chopard, E' Clat D'Arpege by Lanvin and Chloe by Chloe

I'm a lover of perfumes. I'm particularly fond of fresh florals, although I do also like those with sandalwood undertones. My mother and sister on the other hand, loves the sweet citrus smells.

Anyway, I thought I'd share with you the three favourites of my collection.

Happy Spirit by Chopard

This is the strongest and heaviest scent of the three, so I only wear it when I'm feeling dramatic. It initially reminds me of incense, with woody smells under a floral burst. It lasts well throughout the day and I have received many compliments for it.

E'Clat D'Arpege by Lanvin

This is my absolute favourite of the three. I've been wearing it pretty much everyday for the last... two years? Maybe longer. It's floral, subtle and classy. I feel neat and feminine when wearing it. It doesn't feel locked into a season, which is another reason why I love it. It's perfect in summer when you want just a hint of delight and warm enough in winter to dress up any outfit. Love love love love love.

Chloe by Chloe

I love the sweet rosy scent of Chloe. It captures youth and warmth, with a sprinkle of cupcakes and bunches of roses. I've been squirting this one on a lot this summer. It's light and breezy, which is what I love for summer. I am cautious of it possibly being too sweet, which is what deters me from wearing it everyday. I do enjoy it though :)

What are your favourite fragrances?

Deliciously ugly.

What is Sunday if not a day for baking? :)

I have just finished licking the bowls containing the yummiest cake mixture yet! The chocolate cupcake mixture tasted like chocolate mousse and the icing like a fancy chocolate-with-a-hint-of-coffee bar. Delicious!

Can't wait to start eating these beauties! I just slopped on the thick icing with these babies. They look like yummy mud pies :D Deliciously ugly.

Best of all? It was all packet mix! Green's Velvety Chocolate cupcake mixture. Seriously, if you're packet-mixing it up (as I often am!), go for the Green's cupcake mixtures. They always turn out awesomely :) I especially love their sparkley fairy cupcakes :)

Chinese New Year

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Over the weekend, my boyfriend and I went to the Chinese New Year festival held at Box Hill. It was very hot and packed full of people. We had a very yummy dumplings lunch and later brought some BBQ chilli pork from a stall holder. Soo yum! We left pretty quickly though. It was just too hot and too many people. I wish we had seen the lion dances. They are always amazing :)

We returned home (very happily) with these:

His and hers slippers. Yoshi for the boy, Kirby for me. I love them so much <3

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra @ Sidney Myer Music Bowl

February has arrived! And that means the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. Free of charge. All you have to do is bring a picnic rug!

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I have intended to go every year for the last five years. And every year I have either a) forgotten, b) been too busy, or c) lacking company and/or energy to go.

I am determined it will be different this year.

The schedule is as follows:

Wednesday 9 February - Mozart and Mahler

Saturday 12 February - Beethoven's Fifth

Wednesday 16 February - Romeo and Juliet

Saturday 19 February - Made in Australia

For more information, check out this website.

Glass goblet

I thought I'd share a few more Savers goodies with you all :) I love the trinket bric-a-brac section of any op shop. You can really find some fun treasures there.

This time I found a nice glass goblet for me to put all my little mementos I collect from trips out with the boy, like rocks, sea shells and such. The other piece is a cute porcelain shoe, the petals have snapped a bit, but I still think it has charm. And finally, the crochet doily.

Tangled

I had a lovely lady date the other day with some of my fellow Disney Princess obsessed friends to see Tangled. It was the perfect group of girls to see this adorable film with :)

I admit though, all the way through it I kept seeing glimpses of past Disney Princess films which irked me a little and there are instances were they could have done a whole lot more with music, singing and story. Overall though it was a darling movie and I'll be getting it when it comes out on DVD :)

It was a wonderful return to the princess genre and Disney definitely left it's creative mark on Rapunzel. I enjoyed their creativity with the storyline :)

It was magnificent to watch. Before the film started, there was a preview for a film called Mars Wants Moms and the CGI humans in that film looked creepy. Half the time we were wondering if they were human or not (click here and you'll see what I mean). The computer graphics in this film is much more comfortable. It had the visuals of a classic Disney movie, without the general harshness of CGI films.

Also, it made Flynn a spunk. Matt le Blanc smolder and all! Not as spunky as Aladdin, but spunky enough. Second spunkiest Disney Prince, definitely.

The evil witch was wonderful and she got the best songs - yep! It truly is the return of the traditional Disney princess movie with songs and all :) Nothing quite as awesome as Poor Unfortunate Souls (my all time favourite 'bad guy' song, followed by Gaston), but great fun. My friend has already learnt all the words!

This little guy, Pascal, is my favourite side-kick yet. He is just too adorable and cute and squishy and I want one! Hahaha He won a lot of laughs out of our audience. Moreso than the horse Maximus, who is rumoured to be one of the best horse characters in the movie business *nods*

And it was all layered with the perfect amount of mushy sappiness. What more do you need from a Disney princess movie? :)