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Fox Skirt feat. My dogs!

02 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, altfashion, Animal, Blouse, bow, Classic, Coffee, cute, design, Dog, dogs, Fashion, Fashion Design, flower crown, Flowers, fox, knee high socks, Red, Ruby, socks

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I decided to take photos of yesterdays outfit in the back garden.

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Awwwwww, she’s such a baby!

My favourite thing about taking photos in the back garden is that I get to have my dogs in my photos

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The dog I’m petting in the photo above is Bubbles. We adopted her 9 years ago from the local RSPCA. We adopted Noodle a year later. It’s weird to think we’ve had them so long because they both act like puppies. (although, noodle is the most puppy like. As much as I love her, she’s a bit dense…)

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So Yeah, Dogs are great!

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Silly Dog selfie!!

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)

Manic Weekends

30 Sunday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, Blouse, bow, casual, Classic, colourful, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, kei, knee high socks, Music, nautical, otome kei, pleats, socks, Vintage

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This weekend hes been slightly manic. It started friday when I attended my friends bands album launch (They’re called Valko http://valkoband.com/, and if they keep heading the way they are, they could find themselves with a spot in “Jen’s top 10 favourite bands of all time” list.

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On Saturday I found myself faced with two long gigs with two different Orchestras: The New Empire Ballroom Ragtime Dance Orchestra, and the Central Coast Symphony Orchestra (Which will be called “Symphony Central Coast” from next year) Both gigs were so much fun, but today I found myself feeling quite dead.

Unfortunately I didn’t get to relax. I had my music schools end of year concert. Although it was very long (5 hours D: ) It was lovely to see so many children (and a few adults) enjoying music so much.

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I found an interesting fence

22 Saturday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, Alternative Fashion, Fashion, Fashion Design, Flowers, Green, nature, roses pixi, sewing

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I’m actively keeping an eye out for awesome places to shoot outfits in my local area. One of my searches lead me to this fence, which is right where I Park my car when I catch the train to uni.

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I love the way the ivy sits on the fence. It reminds me of a river.

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Big Green Bows

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, alternative, Alternative Fashion, altfashion, Beret, bow, Classic, colourful, cute, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, Green, lace, sewing, Skirt, spring, Vintage

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This is the last item from my weekend sewing binge.

Home made skirt green big bow

I bought this fabric about 5 or 6 months ago, and I originally intended to create a pair of pleated high waisted shorts out of it.

Big green bow polkadot tights

Obviously that did not happen. Instead I made this skirt. It was partially inspired by a grey polkadot drop waisted dress with a giant bow by Alannah Hill.

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The skirt is a 3/4 circle skirt with a gathered section in the lower portion of the dress. I made he skirt super flouncy (Because that’s the way I roll.) I’m thinking maybe I’ll have to compile a video of how swishy some of my skirts and dresses are (Comment or whatever if you want that to happen) because when I have a swishy skirt on, literally all I want to do all day is stand in front of a mirror and swish.

Also, just quickly, I reached 100 blog posts the other day (I totally missed it. I think this is post 103) so there’s that. Thanks to everyone who reads/supports my blogs 🙂 It means a lot 😀

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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.

Sometimes the only way to salvage a photo is to stick a vintage filter on it…

09 Sunday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, Alternative Fashion, corduroy, cute, Fashion, Fashion Design, lace, playsuit, sewing, teacups, teapot, Vintage

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I had a sewing day today. Because I got wrapped up in my sewing, I forgot to go out early afternoon to take my photos, thus having outfit shots with shitty lighting.

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Luckily I managed to somewhat rectify the situation with filters!

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Anyway, this is what I wore today. I made this play suit earlier this year, and don’t wear it often enough!

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It has the cutest tea set pattern on it

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Can’t wait to show you what I sewed it the coming days!

Pretty in pink and lace

07 Friday Nov 2014

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Alt Fashion, Alternative Fashion, beach, bow, classy, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, fashion drawing, girly, lace, mermaids, ocean, pink, sea, sewing, thrift

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As a person who loves sewing and thrifting I have developed an alterations pile in my sewing box. (an alterations pile is basically a backlog of clothes which I found while thrifting and I thought had potential to be altered into something more my style) 

Last night I made the first step to reducing said backlog.

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This was originally a plain vest shirt thing with an ugly belt around the waist. It was also slightly too big. I took it in a bit, unpicked the belt loops and used some wide lace to create the collar and sleeves.

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I’m actually really pleased with how it turned out. The lace makes it much more me.

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One last thing. The picture above is the first sketch of what will hopefully be my first collection. I’ve been thinking a lot about how my sewing and pattern making is progressing, so I’ve decided to take the first step (telling the internet so it will keep me accountable) towards making it a thing.

Edit: I had another thought and didn’t want to leave it in case I forgot! I’ve been looking for a subculture name to describe my look for about 5 or 6 years. Anyway, I finally found one! The term is otome kei.! 😀

Tree tops

31 Friday Oct 2014

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Alt Fashion, Alternative Fashion, Fashion, Fashion Design, Green, home Made, knit, sewing, skater, skater dress, tights, trees

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In all my years of sewing I’ve only ever successfully made one dress.

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This is that dress. It’s made from a scuba knit fabric (like the stuff they use for swimming costumes and black milk tights) I bought it on sale from spotlight then spent several hours sticking, swearing and unpicking until I ended up with this.

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More apples with more lace.

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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Alt Fashion, Alternative Fashion, Apple Shorts, design, Fashion, Fashion Design, lace, sewing, Shorts

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I’ve officially reached that point in semester where I’m struggling to put together outfits because  I haven’t been sewing because study. I’m also having difficulty with the weather change.

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I’m all about the layers, so being restricted by the Australian heat is tough. I’m also incredibly fussy about the fit of my shirts, which makes buying them an absolute nightmare. I’ll just have to stop being lazy and learn how to sew shirts!

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