La Casita De Wendy - Fashion

This is a bit of beauty and play from Europe!
Check out the online shop here 
How beautiful are the drawings for the fashion shoot
and i just think these clothes are just so playful and wonderful.

what have i been up to?

enamel collecting again...
stitching new jackets for the ladies
drinking wine
eating vegetables
using new buttonhole Bernina Beauty

ok people so 

Phosphorescence..

last night on warriewood Beach i saw it, probably been a few years since i last 

we used to see it all the time when we came back late from the boat and it was dark and the wooden oars would pick up blue light as they splashed into the water.

beautiful and rare and special

Marine phosphorescence...Bioluminescence is exhibited by a wide variety of oceanic organisms, from bacteria to large squids and fish. The light is emitted when a flavin pigment, luciferin, is oxidized in the presence of luciferase, an enzyme also produced by the organism (the chemical system is like that of fireflies). The light produced is usually blue-green, near the point in the spectrum of maximum transmission...

see the encyclopaedia definition here

I found a photo on the interweb from south africa.. nice huh!

Melbourne Finders Keepers

3 weeks and counting down to Melbourne Market Ever for Beattie!

Very exciting.

Stock is coming along nicely.

Love to see all you Melbourne People there on Saturday 9th October or Sunday 10th.

on a small note, i will be driving down from Sydney on the thursday or early friday morning if any friend wants to come down with me! Otherwise it will be car audio books and radio national! I am so cool.  haha!

this is what I have been up to this past week. 

Making new summer stock...

approving new coloured prints

walking Gladys

swimming

reading this

Here i am staying at a little house in Fairlight and playing with old polariod style photos. I love how technology has gone forward but backward at the same time.

This plant is too wonderful. It is called a Staghorn Fern

I am loving this cafe
I am listening to this album
I am enjoying reading this blog
I am living in a new/old/temporary house with a dog called gladys

Mono Kulture magazine #20
Spring 2009
Dries Van Noten


Question put to him by Claudia Riedel: 
"Apart from Designing it, would you also consider yourself a consumer of fashion?"?
Answer from Mr Noten: "It depends on what you mean by consuming, I think it is not a very nice word. You can use fashion, but to consume is really something you use and throw away afterwards. For instance, I love old garments and feel most comfortable when I've had them for a long time. Even when something is really worn, I have difficulty giving it up. The act of throwing it away is something I really don't like, because it has become a part of myself."


This is a beautiful interview from a Berlin magazine which I will share more inspiring, wonderful quotes with you over the next month. This Belgium Fashion Designer is sort of a guru for me. His ideals and beliefs about fashion i feel exactly the same on. 

so you have seen my new shots for summer here and do you like the new photos? Well they were taken by my neighbour and local surf photographer Murray Fraser. He is one half of Sprout Daily, the daily photographic surf report taken from my home town of Manly. I love this little gem popping into my inbox every morning, especially when i haven't made it to the beach. He is one talented man. Sign up to get it here

This was one of my favourite shoots this year.   back to the sixties 

Makes me feel like FREE.

oh and can you tell who this chicka is?

so here is a little story about my new model i showed you last week...
here is what she gets up too when she isn't working full time or modelling!
gypsy Jacket is the name of her business that creates patchwork handcrafted surfboard covers.

They are all custom made to fit your board and custom designed to look handsome or beautiful or hot depending on what you prefer.  A mixture of vintage fabrics and scandinavian prints lay alongside checked wools and textured soft cottons. These will definately love your boards and make you want to lay in them in the sun!
Contact her here
to get yours now.
They are also stocked in The Sugarmill in Narrabeen and Heritage Surf,  Manly.
just beware she just found this basket of goodies