Guilfoyle’s Volcano – a rough guide

How’s your Easter holiday been? Have you managed to get away for a bit? My (very) mini-break begins tomorrow (location will be revealed in an upcoming post, of course!), but I thought I’d… Continue reading

LMFF: Pier pressure

It was a whirlwind week, but LMFF is over for another year. Did you make it to any of the shows? If not, here’s the action you missed – away from the runway*.… Continue reading

Don’t you know it’s fashion week?

… and that means – ironically, because fashion week is when there’s always something to post about – that I’ll be off air for a little while. I’m blogging for City Weekly and… Continue reading

Happy Birthday St Gertrude, patron saint of cats!

The 17th of March is celebrated in many countries as St Patrick’s Day (and in even more countries, it’s celebrated as my birthday, haha!) but did you know that it’s also the day… Continue reading

Got a minute?

 If you have about 60 seconds, a scrap of lace or braid, a pair of scissors and some bobby pins, then you’re all ready for the quickest and easiest DIY ever.  I wasn’t… Continue reading

Fashion on Film

 AGGGH! It’s SO HOT here in Melbourne! It seems like weeks since the daytime temperature dipped under 30 degrees and it’s set to continue for a few days yet. If you’re sick of… Continue reading

Vintage fabric from Vietnam

Tell me, readers, what do you see here? Two pieces of gorgeous silk material?  You’d be right of course. However, this lovely silk has a lot more meaning. My neighbour of more than… Continue reading

Oriental Express

 I’m sure by now that if you’ve read a few posts of mine, you’ll realise that I’m rather partial to fiddling with all sorts of ethnic dress to make it more fashion-y. Somewhat… Continue reading

There’s a cat on the cover!

It’s not often a cat (let alone a serval cat called Tula) makes it to the front cover of a magazine, but then Peppermint is not your average magazine! It’s a showcase of… Continue reading

T-dress times two

Do you remember this dress?   More to the point, did I ever actually post about the original refashioning that I did on it? I was sure I had, which is why I didn’t… Continue reading