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JEN’S TOP 10 FAVOURITE BANDS OF ALL TIME

01 Monday Dec 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, bands, Blue, bow, Classic, colourful, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, frills, j fashion, lace, list, Mint, Music, otome kei, top 10, Vintage

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So yesterday I briefly mentioned that I have a top ten favourite bands of all time list tucked away in my head. I thought I would share it because what’s the point of being a music fan if you don’t spread the love of your favourite artists!

SO IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, JEN’S TOP 10 FAVOURITE BANDS!!!

10: The Crooked Fiddle band: http://www.crookedfiddleband.com/ These guys were first introduced to me through my current band. Both Tim (bass) and Jake (guitar) were (and still are) huge fans at the time that they linked me to the wonderous sound of Crooked Fiddle. What really cemented them as a favourite band was the first time I saw them live. (Incidentally it was also Vanishing Shapes first ever proper gig) They are absolutely nuts in the best way possible.

9: System of a Down: http://www.systemofadown.com/ I stumbled upon this band in year 9 after growing bored with Linkin Park and various other not so fab metalish hardcoreish bands. If I had to choose a favourite album it would definitely be Toxicity

8: Panic! at the Disco: http://www.panicatthedisco.com/ I was 13 when I first heard this band. Their first album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out was a life changing album for me. I’m not one to listen to music over and over again, but, this album was on repeat for all of my major heart breaks in high school. This band was also a catalyst for my next band…

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This is Sundays outfit yo!

7: The Hush Sound: http://www.thehushsound.org/ Do you guys remember last FM? In high school it was the way I found new music. Anyway, the way it worked was that you typed in a band that you liked, and it would play you a bunch of music similar to said band. Of course the first band I typed in was Panic! at the Disco. Once my super slow internet started the streaming process, I heard this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjw4IAkQEQ fabulously orchestrated snazzy tune. I then proceeded to download the rest of their discography. What can I say? I was hooked!

6: Oren Lavie: http://www.orenlavie.com/ I’m pretty sure this man is the only solo musician on my list. No words can do the beauty and mastery of his only album justice. Every song is perfect, with amazing orchestration, and silky smooth vocals.

5: The Cellar Door: http://findthecellardoor.org/ One of my favourite Youtubers Abb3rz07 https://www.youtube.com/user/abb3rz07 introduced me to this band. From the very first listen I was deeply in love with this band. They are very folky, but not in an antiquated way. They also have a cello in their band. It’s a well known fact that cellos make everything better!

4: The Decemberists: http://www.decemberists.com/ This is yet another brilliant folky band! They have such a vast and varied repertoire, one can listen to them for hours and not get bored (which is no easy task for me!) If you’re going to start with one of their albums, I suggest their concept album the hazards of love.

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3: Dead Letter Circus: http://deadlettercircus.com/ This alternative rock band captured my heart with their infectious beats, and beautiful melodies. Like SOAD, I found this band after becoming bored with Linkin Park. I’m so glad I did, because their music is brilliant!

2: Fair to Midland: http://fairtomidlandfans.com/ I have a large Fair to Midland shaped hole in my heart, which I doubt I’ll ever repair. This band has produced the most perfect music I’ve ever heard, and the fact that I’ll never get to hear them live again devastates me. Their official genera is prog rock, but they also sport a very heavy folk influence.

1: The Gorillaz: http://gorillaz.com/ I’ve yet to meet a person who doesn’t like the Gorillaz. I have quite a long history with this band. I first heard them when I was about 5 on Rage. After seeing the video 19-2000 I fell in love with the music and art style. Being so young, I didn’t have the resources to track down the rest of their music.  My next encounter was not until I was 12. There was this website, take 40.com, which was really big with the year 6 class. Feel good inc. was in the top 40 at the time. I used to listen to this song on repeat, until it eventually drifted out of the top 40. When this happened I purchased my first ever CD, demon days. Since then I have been a hardcore Gorillaz Fan (except for plastic beach. Lets forget that ever happened)

Tulle and polka dots.

27 Thursday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, alternativefashion, Blouse, Blue, bow, Classic, classy, Coffee, cute, design, forest, home Made, nature, polka dots, thrift, tights

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So this is actually the outfit I wore on Tuesday (I was going to post it yesterday, but the woy woy idiots made me too angry).

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It was super hard to shoot this space the way I wanted to because the sun was constantly peeping in and out of the clouds. If only artificial light wasn’t so blah.

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I think I’m starting to get the hang of this loose chiffon blouse thing as well! I’m glad I’ve worked it out in time for summer, because it means I might have a fighting chance at maintaining my style without feeling too hot!

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Fairy Dress

10 Monday Nov 2014

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alternative, Alternative Fashion, alternativefashion, altfashion, blazer, Blue, bow, Classic, colourful, cute, design, Dr Martins, Dress, fairy, Fashion, Fashion Design, floral, flower, Flowers, Green, lace, Red, sewing, spring, Velvet, Vintage

Red Dr Martens

I sewed a dress yesterday. Today I wore the dress that I sewed.

Home made fairy dress Dr Martens

This is the first dress I’ve made out of a non stretch fabric. I also drafted the pattern myself. I’m quite surprised it turned out this well. The last time I attempted to sew a dress from cotton, it didn’t end to well (which is part of the reason I hardly sew dresses)

Velvet blazer forest little red riding hood

Hair bow: Alannah Hill, Choker: Home made, Velvet blazer: Thrifted, Dress: Home made, Tights: Myer, Shoes: Dr Marten.

I suppose you’d call this type of dress a ‘skater dress’. It has a fitted top, and the skirt is a 3/4 circle skirt. I’ve made the dress out of two layers of material. The inner layer is a floral printed cotton, and the outer layer is a sort of netting.

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The frilly bits around the base of the dress were hand gathered, and then hand stitched around the base of the outer net layer of the dress. (never. again.(Although, in saying that, the gathered net frill is what turned this dress from an nice dress into a really nice dress))

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If I had the choice, I would have used the machine to stitch the frill onto the bottom of the skirt, but unfortunately the net was super fragile, super stretchy and super uncooperative.

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Close up of the fabric.

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Close up of the bottom layer of fabric.

Red bows and tea cups.

20 Monday Oct 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, blazer, Blouse, Blue, bow, Classic, classy, design, Fashion Design, heart, sewing, tea, teacups, winter

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So I did the thing where you have a manic day, then you sit down for 10 mins and think “I’ll do all the things in 10 mins to the best of my ability” when in reality you end up melting into the chair while browsing the internet on your laptop which has 10% battery left, then half ass the rest of your tasks for the day once said battery dies.

This is why you’re seeing socks instead of shoes. (Basically I was too lazy to put my shoes back on.) It’s also the reason I missed the last dredge of sunlight this afternoon.

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Anyway this is what I wore today!

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Jacket: revival, Necklace: The cats pyjama pants, Shirt: Target, Belt: Alannah Hill, Skirt: Homemade, Tights: Ebay, Socks: Ebay, Shoes: The Emperors new

Remember how I mentioned that I cleaned out my closet? Well, I found this belt chilling out of sight! It’s one of those adjustable slide-y waist band belts, which makes it super good for flute playing (It expands as I breathe, leaving my lungs unrestricted!)

Market madness

19 Sunday Oct 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, beach, Blue, boat, cute, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, flower, heart, Navy, pirate, sea, sewing, stripes

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I participated in the Davistown markets today. It was a long, but great day.

My friend Ashley let me tack onto her stall

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Sorry about the orientation, my phone wouldn't let me rotate it!

It was a pretty quiet day, and I didn’t sell many pieces (I sold two pieces. Of those my mum bought one (I don’t think it really counts if your mum buys it)) but it was ultimately a good experience.
It’s given me the motivation to revive the etsy store I started (I’ll post a link once I get this up and running!)

Anyway, enough about markets!
This is what I wore today.

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Blazer: David Lawrence, shirt: thrifted, belt: Alannah Hill, Skirt: home made, petticoat: David Lawrence, socks: ebay, shoes: kmart, necklace: the cats pyjama pants, hair bow: Alannah Hill

I figured because it was a ‘seaside’ market that I’d go with something ‘sea’  themed.

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All in all it was a good day!

Polka dots and Pinocchio

12 Friday Sep 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, Art, blazer, Blouse, Blue, bow, Classic, cute, dot, Pastel, Pinocchio, polka dots, school uniform, spring, Uni

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Thursdays outfit made me feel like a school girl.

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I think it was a combination of the colour pallet, the jacket and shoe combination and long socks. I think it’s strange that something that looks nothing like a school uniform can make me feel this way.

Also, all the school uniforms that I ever wore never made me feel this adorable.

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Apart from my outfit, thursday was kind of a bleh day. I managed to loose my breakfast to the train floor, which left me hangry during my art class (we were presenting some artworks for progress marking. I was pretty happy with the art I presented, but the stuff I said about the works were not too great) , then in the afternoon the train was running half an hour late, which meant calling into work late.

It wasn’t all bad though. I got to have lunch with the Tim who is the bassist in my band, and Honae his wonderful and brilliant girlfriend :3. The train being late meant I was able to catch up with my friend Adam, which was lovely.

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Less than stellar photo of aforementioned art assignment.

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Blazer: Thrifted, Shirt: Target, Belt: Alannah Hill, Skort: Home made, Socks: Ebay, Shoes: Whitmans.

Oh well, shitty days are significantly less shitty when there’s lace on your skirt.

Roses are wet, violets are wet. I am wet, everything is wet.

29 Friday Aug 2014

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alternative, alternativefashion, altfashion, Blue, electric blue, Fashion, pants, Suspenders, Velvet, Vintage

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The title of this post perfectly describes my Thursday.

When I left my house Thursday morning it was raining a little bit, so I decided to bring my umbrella. I go to class, and by the time class had finished, the weather had improved dramatically. On my way back to uni it started to sprinkle a little. Then I open up my umbrella, thinking it will keep me dry.
The umbrella did not keep me dry. The ‘little’  shower turned into a torrential downpour. Consequently, I was soaked in the process. My poor little umbrella did not stand a chance.

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These pictures were taken after I had dried off ( and after the rain had stopped.) before the downpour I was having a brilliant hair day, but, as you can see here, my good hair day was not went to be 😦

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Anyway, enough about the weather. Let’s talk about my pants. These pants are Literally the most comfortable pants I have ever owned. I bought them from shop 55 in woy woy https://shop55.com.au/ (I know I keep saying this, but this shop is my most favourite clothing store ever) I can’t remember exactly what era they’re from, but I think Wendy (who owns the place) said they were either 70’s or 80’s.
Fun pants are fun Yo

Dreamy Dresses

22 Friday Aug 2014

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alternative, alternativefashion, altfashion, Blue, Classic, colourful, cute, Dress, Fashion, lady petrova, winter

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Lady Petrova’s webstore is a dangerous place for my wallet.

Basically there was this dress which I loved. Then it went on sale. Then it got marked down further, and the once more. Every time it was marked down it was so much harder for me not to buy.

I may have caved this week….

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…and this might be the dress in question.

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Usually I’m not a fan of wearing ‘bodycon’ dresses, but, the organza overlay makes it super cute and a bit classy.

The dress was designed by house of cards http://www.houseofcardsthelabel.com/ which is a pretty darn cool label.

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Dress: House of Cards, Belt: Shop 55, Tights: Sportsgirl, Shoes: Whitners.

It’s raining cats and dogs

21 Thursday Aug 2014

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alternative, alternativefashion, altfashion, blazer, Blue, cats, Dog, Fashion, ootd, pattern mixing, Shorts, style, winter

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This week hasn’t been good for weather. It’s been cold, wet and miserable.

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Jacket: thrifted, shirt:dotti, belt:Alannah Hill, shorts: hand made, tights:myer, shoes: whiteners

Because of this I thought it would be appropriate to pair my kitty shirt with my doggy shorts (because it really has been raining cats and dogs)

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The shoes I have on are my oxymoron shoes. I’ve nicknamed them this because they look like hiking boots, but they’re really not made for hiking.

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Winnie the pooh

23 Wednesday Jul 2014

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alternative, alternativefashion, altfashion, blazer, Blue, Classic, colourful, cute, disney, Fashion, floral, flower, sewing, Skirt, winnie the pooh, winter

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The album my band Vanishing Shapes is making is so close to (yet so far away from) being finished. We holed ourselves up in a room to have a decent listen/critique/obsess over our performance of every detail.

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Blazer: Cotton On, Shirt: Cotton on, Belt: Alannah Hill, Skirt: Home made, Tights: Ebay, Socks: Ebay, Shoes: Thrifted.

This is yet another skirt I made over summer. I saw the fabric in the baby quilting section in Spotlight and had to sew with it.

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I’m also really feeling blue at the moment. It’s such a serene colour.

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This my friends is the wonderful dude who’s mixing our music for us. He’s actually a bit brilliant. https://soundcloud.com/jack-tuckerman This is his sound cloud in case you’re interested :3

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I have no words about this.

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Or this. ;3

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