Early new years resolution.

I must stop making a mountain out of a mole hill... or making something bigger than it really is OR stop making myself feel smaller because of it.

This guy appears to be worse at it than me though.

Old school Bigge Smalls?

These shoes are made for walking... around my office

May or may not have these little gems coming at me next pay day. So looking forward to the weekend! Can't believe it's been a whole year since the last festival and yet at the same time, I feel like so much has changed! Isn't it funny how quickly life can move?

The new play-over-and-over-and-over-and-over-and-over... you get it.

:)

...oh, hello!

..let me know when you want me to crash in on your party...!

Smile for Vogue Italia.

This makes me so happy. What beautiful images! Finally a fashion editor with a little foresight and social awareness!

The transition phase.

It's hard to be happy when you feel stuck between where you are, where you (always) wanted to be and where you are going. I should be so grateful for this oportunity but all I can think about is dying my hair to its' natural colour; buying clothes from Cue; taking my nose ring out; leaving my friends; leaving my flat; leaving HIM; leaving my coffee shops and milkshake shops and clothing discounts and the saltiness. Not having familiar faces; not having rips in my pant hose/Docs on my feet; no holes in my roof and no crazy Newtown locals. All gone.

After all this time I cannot believe how happy I was right here, where I am.

I hope I'm not going to be someone who is perpetually looking at the grass on the otherside of the fence. Sigh.

E X T R E M E

At least I have the issue of what shoes to wear sorted...!

When moving forward, one must take the right pair of pants with you...

I am only doing this post to document my current frustration of lack of money, lack of job prospects and lack of pants.

My my interview at PGG I must wear pants but I don't have a spare $500. I think my $1800 phone bill from SA diminishes all future pleasures for, oh I don't know, the next year?

So here are the options:



But they are probably too fashiony. Seed companies don't care for Karen Walker.



I would have to wear heels with them. Bonus- it would make me taller and seem older and sophisticated. Negative- they will soon realise I am just a little kid wearing big shoes and my chances of tripping is probable.

Shit. I am about ready to go naked. At least it'll make me stand out of the crowd...?

TIME

Okay, lets start the clock again. I haven't put up anything since well before I went away and it's been so long since I have been back that I forget that it happened. How terrible is that?! Just to document it, I am putting up a photo of the beautiful Camps Bay in Cape Town just to prove that it really did happen. Sigh.

So what's new? It's so easy to be complacent when we live across from one another but you were the one who brought up "writings from the past" the other day. I think this is the best way ever to record our ongoings in what some people call the prime-time of life.

So, as of this morning I entered a 10k run. It doesn't sound like a big deal to an Average Joe but I am not one of them. I am a Slow Joe and 10k is a really reeeeeally long way for an unaccomplished runner such as myself!

Hoping to lose some straggling kg's whilst chugging, puffing and cursing on the treadmill so I can purchase underwear such as these.



Not liking chances. Must forget what cheezels and twisties taste like. ASAP.

Uni almost over and interviews coming up. Life changing moments and all that. Must remember not to fuck it all up. Remind me? Biggest excitement is whether to wear pants or dress to interview... thinking pants to impress men. Clearly not a feminist.

Embrace new motto: "Think Thatcher".





Look after my skin more. We're getting OLD. Stop with the malboro's and refrain with the wine. Even less likely than my cheezel-free diet dream. Dewy complexion may be worth it?



OR



YOU CHOOSE.

Learn to be nice to current bed warmer. Play nice.




Just a few bits and bobs really. Five months and this is me. Great stuff!!

Relevant x2! This is my new favourite poem.

Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Homegrown

There is a huge newcomer that I am sure that you have come across but you should check her out. I can only imagine what it's like to be living her life right now. Just 17 and from MATAMATA of all places!

She has just been rated number one newcomer on models.com. Freak.

http://models.com/oftheminute/?p=28971

Cooler than cool.

Proves that one can absolutely have the skills to create a beautiful look and incredible label without any education... all you need is truckloads of money and shitloads of famous friends.

I quickly trailed through the shows in NY recently and Victoria Beckhams' collection was honestly one the of best there.

Shut up.

P.S. Can't wait to see you! So soon!




outrightly stolen from katherineisawesome.com

Wishlist/To do list AW 2011

STOLEN GIRLFRIEND JACKET



KAREN WALKER x BEAU COOP black heel (bottom right). Dream.



RUBY SHOES in either emerald, magenta or black. Available on Friday!



LONELY HEARTS FAUX FUR VEST



RUBY COAT



OPENING CEREMONY- painfully expensive but jizz-worthy.




MAURIE AND EVE BEIGE BOOT



LONELY HEARTS SILK MAXI SKIRT. Purple! Eee!



LELA JACOBS EDWARD SCISSOR HANDS JACKET FROM A/W 2011- half price!



KAREN WALKER PUMPKIN PLEAT SKIRT as seen in FQ



KAREN WALKER MUSTARD PANTS!



KATE SYLVESTER SKIRT

Ode to Vinnie - the twelve hundredth edition

In my recent hunts for my Vinnie Woolston fix I came across some goodies (of course), including an old shoot he did for British Vogue. British Vogue!














Tell me he's not the most beautiful creature on earth. You can't. Especially in the photos at the beach above. OUCH!

WinonaForever

I can't help it.

I love them too much.

habits...kicking the old and creating the new

So we're now into February. Things aren't too bad. *ahem*

Exercise more

Kick the drinking desires

LAUGH

Fight lung cancer

Drink water

SLEEP

See a kinesiologist

Get a new job

SAVE

Put fresh sheets on weekly as they're more snuggly and make me happy...

Socialise more

Spend time alone and in the quiet zone...


REALISE THAT I AM NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL!


What are your resolutions and how are they going?