Lace & First Gear

I love this dress so much. It is awesome, just awesome I tell you!!


It's the one my mum got me from French Pony. I don't know the brand and I am too comfortable to get up and find out. Sorry about that. 


It was too big around the waist but I've packed on a bit of extra cushioning and low and behold it fits me.
Not that I am justifying my weight gain as a positive since I now fit this dress better... or am I?!

It’s the perfect work winter dress, short sleeves since I swelter under down lights all day, and thicker fabric than your standard dress.


Plus, it's damn cute. 

I am wearing these Windsor Smith $50 bad boys to death and they still look good! 


Patent makes everything look better. Just make sure you are wearing undies, ha. 

This is China Glaze – Jitterbug but I feel like it is failing me and not wearing very well.

I want to have robot fingers for more than 3 days okay. Is that too much to ask for? Is it?!

The palm of my hand looks so soft and fleshy.

Speaking of soft and fleshy, how disgusting is that story of the naked guy eating the other naked guys face off in America?! Gah.

I drove my Mother in Laws car to work on Thursday and I drove half the way in first gear.

It's an automatic car, but with steptronic. I couldn’t work out why the revs were so high when I was driving and then I realized I didn’t have it in Drive, but in First. Derrrr.

My bad. 

Don’t you think it is weird that this car has broken English?! 

Damn you Steptronic. Apparently our car has it, but I don't even know how to enable it. 

Kitty and I schlepped around Myer and David Jones for about 4 hours on Friday night, stripping down the lingerie racks for bargains. I got 10 pairs of Elle McPherson & other similar designers undies for $85. Yes please.

We look like mushrooms. 

We were also given these La Mer samples to try, and also the oil absorbing lotion, but could not find it when I took this photo.

I'm not in the market to change my skin care, but am still interested to know more about the healing properties that La Mer apparently have.. Have you used it? How did you justify the crazy price?

It's been fresh to death lately so I whipped out this hoodie which I bought whilst in line to the boat to go and see the Statue of Liberty in NYC.

It was so freezing that despite all of the layers I had on, I was still shivering and we ended up leaving and not taking the boat trip in the end.

This tacky tourist hoodie comes in handy on a cold night though!

I've had a bazillion "Great blog. Check out my (insert florist, clothes, toothpaste, dog food etc) company" comments lately and I am sick of the spam grr.

It’s all Pink to me.

There is lots of pink in this post.

I don’t usually have so much pink to share with you but this is an exception I suppose.

First up.

This China Glaze ‘Oxygen’ polish is a bit of a bitch. It takes ages to get the right coverage, not too streaky, not too gluggy and then it takes ages to dry. Far longer than any of my other polishes and that is with super fast drying top coat stuff. 

My roses are still going strong.
Strong like Bull.

I’m still in love with this bud vase. For only $10 I think I need to buy more, like 20 more, but not yet, not until I am allowed off my budget leash. 

Can you tell that my Mother In Law had two boys? Neither of them were partial to pink I am sure, so she is quick to stock up on extra girly looking things when it comes to buying presents for me.

You know what, I’m not sure that I own anything hot pink. Maybe my bridal belt which was pretty hot pink but that’s all I can think of. I have a deep pink wrap dress but that is all that is coming to mind. 

The Husband and I went to watch The Dictator on Friday night and as expected it was stupid, but quite funny. 

Why is one of my flowers bung? Why oh why. 

Whilst The Husband was buying his mum a mothers day card, he saw this and thought of me, so bought it.

He forgot to give it to me and then remembered on Saturday morning so rushed off to fill it out whilst I was in the bathroom.

It wasn’t until he opened it to write on it that he realized it was a Mothers Day card because it was in a wrapper, and felt terrible that he was giving me a Mothers Day card in light of our situation, haha. 

He added in a helpful ‘next year’ but it wasn’t enough to stop the tears.

He was so confused as to why I was crying and I was sobbing “I don’t know if its because you wrote such lovely things or because it was a mothers day card Wah Wah Wah Wah”. Poor guy. 

He was only trying to make me happy! Emotions are calming down now. 

I was trying to kill time in Geelong yesterday so went exploring the furniture shops and found this amazing seat in Harvey Norman.

I do want it. 

The colour is totally off here. Damn you instagram, you are meant to make my photos better not worse.

Anyway, this is my Clueless dress. I’m not sure if it before or after the make over though. 

Bye.

Yellow Jacket, Clomid, Mexican & Stuff.

I only blogged one last week. Sorry about that.

I’ve been in a bit of a funk really. I started some new medication and it really took it out of me.

I’m usually pretty upbeat and my glass is always half full but I feel like it is slowly emptying.

Whenever someone asks me “what is taking you so long to get pregnant” or “When are you planning on having children”, I feel the heat rise up through my body and my face gets red and I feel like spitting venom out. All I can say is “when the time is right” and hope that shuts them up.

The side effects of my medication that I have had were chronic headaches, one night it was so bad that whenever I lay my head down I was yelping in pain and the nurofen did nothing. The Husband thought I was having a brain aneurism. I had to take the next day off work as it was still really bad and I had no sleep. It hurt to move.

I’ve also had terrible hot flushes. One hot flush was so bad that I put my head in the fridge at work. I was literally dripping with sweat, red all over and generally going insane. That was my worst one so far, but during the night I tend to get little heat flushes and then go back to freezing. I cannot win.

The most annoying side effects has probably been that I have been highly emotional. I was watching I Am Legend (which I have watched 10000 times) and bawled my eyes out during it, which is unusual for me, and then was left feeling quite anxious and apprehensive about what was going to come next so badly that I had to turn off the TV and go to bed. I’m never normally like this!

I wrote this and then I deleted it.

I must have deleted and rewrote it 4 times before saving the post, closing the page and considering whether or not to post it over night.

I decided that I should post it because I have never held back on this blog before.

I know that I should not be embarrassed about it, and I am sure there are lots of other women out there who go through this and have nobody to talk to, but I cant help but be embarrassed by it. I’m a young girlwomanthing, I wont lie, I thought I would get pregnant within months.

I’m taking clomid which is fertility medication to help me ovulate. Apparently I don’t ovulate enough to get pregnant or some crap like that.

It was pretty disheartening after having all of my progesterone blood tests done and my doctor told me that not only did I have cysts on my ovaries, PCO but that I was also not ovulating and therefore would not be falling pregnant without some help.

I stood on Bourke Street in the city and cried outside the doctors surgery for ages. I rang The Husband and told him and he said that it was good news, not bad news. If I didn’t find this out now then who knows how long we would have tried to no avail.

I changed doctors early this year after my normal GP told me he thought that I was six weeks pregnant in December. I wasn’t. Thanks dude. Way to not do a blood test, and throw out predications like that without anything to back it up except for an absent period.

Anyway, I haven’t told that many people that I am on clomid so to all of my friends and family who are reading this, sorry if I haven’t told you and you think that I should have. Its all out there now.

In the end, so many women have fertility issues and lots of women can not get pregnant at all so I feel like I shouldn’t be complaining, and I should be considering them, but I am allowed to feel a little bit lost too. If you are having/have had fertility issues, I really hope that this doesn’t come across as insensitive or moaning too much, I really don’t want it to be like that.

I just need a little bit of luck on my side. 

So, the moral of this story is, keep your fingers crossed that it works and gets the job done!

In brighter news, I got a new jacket from Zara and it is freaking amazing. I have already worn it every day since I got it.

How could you not love it?! It is yellow for crying out loud!

You had better believe that I will be buying it in every colour that I see.

I’m still wearing my Zara Childrens Cardigan, don’t worry

I headed to Miss Fox on Friday to get my eyebrows and mustache threaded (it still hurts like hell) and after Victoria heard me whining about my skin and how I have given up on it, and life, she whisked me upstairs for a peel.

I told you I have gotten in a funk. I’m glad I’m back on the peel bandwagon again though, they really are fantastic.

My pimples are just spreading and multiplying and have even moved into my hair. WHY?!

This blue light contractions shows up oil and all that other grossness.

I hope you are not eating when you see this.

And before I get the obligatory ‘you should be thankful for you skin, some people have NO skin’ comment, everything is relative and if I want to complain about it, I damn well will. You really don’t have to read it. This is a very complaint centred post.

My skin is looking rather glowy after the peel, and it didn’t even hurt. Success. 

My friend Sam has started her own candle making business, called Coast – Natural Soy Wax Candles! I’m all about supporting small businesses, and friends, so thought I would share the love on here.

I ordered this Coconut & Lime candle ($25).

My Coconut & Lime candle is sitting on my desk at work, and it is omitting the most amazing smell even though it has not been lit yet! People are walking past and licking their lips I tell you. 

You can buy them on the Coast Facebook page, HERE  

I tried to be fancy and use rhinestones on my Dior – Plaza manicure but it was a fail. 

I went to Senoritas with cotton socks instead of going to boxing last week. Just how I like it. 

Essie – Fiji.

Standard pastel pink but it takes 4 coats to look good. Mine is a streaky mess. 

The Husband and I went to see Dark Shadows on Friday night and I really enjoyed it.

He fell asleep about 10 minutes into it and as were stuck in the third front row, I had my head on his shoulder so I could look up at the screen comfortably. At one point his head kind of lolled around and I whispered “you can rest your head on mine” as I thought that would be more comfortable for him. He snapped back something in gibberish. Maybe it was Serbian, I am not sure but it sounded like he was speaking in tongues. Weird.

He maintains that he just said “shhhhh” but let me tell you, he was a freak.

Speaking of freaks, Johnny Depp is awesome. The end of the movie was too weird for me though. 

2 coats of Sephora by OPI – Opening Night

1 coat of OPI – DS Magic

1 accent nail of China Glaze – Snowglobe.

I was intending on wearing my new blue dress to dinner this night so thought I would go all Beyonce on y’all and rock a blue nail.

Of course, we had Mothers Day on Sunday.

I took my mum out to China Bar, along with Joseph, Emma and Grant. The service was not very good this time as they were crazy packed but the food was still good! 

How weird is that guy in the back. He has a proper cone head. I’m impressed. 

My China Glaze polishes arrived from OzSale.com.au last Friday. Yipppeeeee.

I got Snowglobe & Nova. I was obviously holding back.  

On Saturday, that man that I so fondly call The Husband came home with a new coffee machine, a pod one.

The only issue with this is that we received a coffee machine as a wedding gift and have not used it yet. So now we have 2 coffee machines. The pod one is super easy though, which is what I like to hear.

Apparently the lady in Myer made him a cup of coffee and then he felt obliged to buy it, or something like that.

I’m happy, now I don’t need to trek down the street to get him a coffee on the weekend.

Well, okay, I’ve only done that twice, I usually say No. But still! 

Two blog posts so far this week. I’m already on top of my game!!

Glasses. Capes. Nails. Tributes

Looky, looky. I have glasses.

 It has been about 9 years since I last wore my glasses and my eyesight has deteriorated to a noticeable degree in the last 6 months. I drive past streets because I can't read the sign until it is about to smack me in the face, I have to walk up and down each shopping aisle as I cannot read the signs telling me what is where etc. 

Decided it was finally time to go and have my eyes checked. Discovered that yes, my eyes are on the decline and it was time to order some specs. 

Enter my new glasses.

Chanel 3131 Black on Beige glasses. 

The arms and inner are beige which makes them look a bit softer on my face. Win. 

I've already been told that I look like a sexy secretary. Well, don't mind if I do. 

I didn't want anything that screamed a brand name, so these and their subtle Chanel flower are perfection. 

Gross, I seem to have lost my eyebrow in this photo. 

I have my next threading appointment with Miss Fox this week. Thank goodness! 4 weeks between eyebrow maintenance has me looking like Oscar the Grouch. It's not pretty. At all. 

Here is Tuesdays outfit. I still love this vintage dress, even if I did pair it with hair greasy enough to fry an egg on. Mmmm speaking of eggs, I would love a googy egg and soldiers right now. 

My Essie order from OzSale arrived! Hurrah!! At $5 a bottle I really wish that I had of ordered more., dammit!!  

Left to right:

Fiji, Van d'Go, Knock Out Pout, Funny Face, Escapades & Luxedo. 

You know how it is, must swatch first thing!!!

I have Luxedo on at the moment and I love it. I don't normally go for dark colours but am really glad I got this. It is almost black, but more of a licorice or deep plum. 

I had OPI Meep Meep Meep on last weekend but it looks like crap in these photos. You will just have to take my word on it that it is nice. Not amazing, not terrible, just nice. 

St Patricks Day. Lots of drunken fools running around dressed as leprechauns and a good excuse to wear an otherwise questionable mint green polish!

China Glaze - Re Fresh Mint. 

In other news, I have a new cape!! I picked up this Seduce Cape at Myer today after seeing it yesterday and falling in love with it. I could only try on the black one yesterday and was running around scaring Kitty, who said I looked like a Vampire.

Not even a sexy Edward Cullen vampire,but more of a Dracula style vampire.

The white cape is a winner though. I tried it on quickly with some Kate Sylvester pants which were awesome but not awesome enough for $295!! Sheesh. 

I'm really looking forward to putting this cape with a better outfit. I'm thinking jeans and tan boots. 

Maybe a garlic garland too. Undecided. 

I tried on these Fuschia YSL Tributes and love them. If anyone feels the desire to buy them for me, I will not deny you this privilege.  I wear a 36. Thanks. 

Crap it is 10:23PM. I need to go to bed. I have a bed time of 10:30 and I am pushing it!! Goodnight.