A wardrobe snippet.

My dear friend, Amy, sent me a big box of goodies for Christmas. So lovely of her.
In that big box was a million vintage dresses and things for Mollie, handmade bibs in vintage fabric, kids books, a Dear Colleen tote (I've got the skill to pay the bills!) annnnnd this beautiful dress.
It fits like a glove, is super dooper pretty and I pretty much love it. I plan to wear it on Christmas day.
Thanks twinny!

Dress - Gift from Amy
Cute baby - Allllll mine

(And it's too hot to wear much else!)

Very great birthday. Epic post. (And a list cross off.)

Yesterday was my birthday.
As I get older, birthdays seem to get a little less exciting each year. It's hard to get very excited about gaining a year, especially when you're absolutely knackered! But this year I had a blast.
While, technically, yesterday was the day of my birth, I did most of my celebrating in the weekend.
My (much-planned) outdoor movie night came to fruition on Sunday night! I've had this in my mind ever since reading about a guy on Livejournal who had a projector and played movie in his backyard each week over the Summer. There's something magical about the idea of watching films in the fresh air.
And magical it was.

It was a night full of ammmmmazing food ( tofu cheesecake, apple hazelnut crumble muffins, homemade pizza, caramel corn, sausage rolls, salty popcorn, spring rolls... the list goes on..), great company and fine films.
We watched two of my all-time faves. 500 days of Summer and Everything is illuminated. So good.

But you know what made this years birthday REALLY special? You see that person in the top picture, arranging the furniture? That's not me! That's my twin!
My 'twin' Amy, who I had never met in real life, came to stay with us!
For those of you who haven't heard about Amy before, she is a lovely that I meet online and have an insane, and unbelievable, number of things in common with. We have text, or phoned, nearly every day for the last two and a half years and we met for the first time on Sunday. It was cool to say the least.

We just happened to have matching outfits already in our closets (or suitcase, in Amy's case..), which might be a tad weird for most people, but just makes sense for us. Needless to say some 'twinny' photos were in orders. So.. are we twins or what?!

Abraham made me wait until my real birthday before I was allowed to open my gift. He put it on the china cabinet a week go and it has been taunting me.  I was so excited to open it yesterday and, by golly, it definitely didn't disappoint. Abraham splashed out and bought me some gold jewellery!

The very best kind.. knitted! This incredible necklace is by the, super talented, Kute Kiwi.
I've had my eye in one of these for ages and pages. And it looks like I might have really good taste, Kute Kiwi's accessories were just used in the World show at NZ fashion week and her range will be sold in their stores! Thanks so much Abraham, best husband (and best birthday weekend!) ever!

Wardrobe Wednesday.

My outfit for the week is a bit of a special one. This was the outfit I wore to meet my 'twin' at the airport on Sunday. I'll go into more detail about that in the next post, but it's safe to say I put a fair bit of effort into trying to look awesome. It's really hard to try and find an outfit that sums up who you are as a person!
This is what I came up with.
The brooch is a favourite of mine. It's by Dear Colleen, I bought it at Craft2.0 in June. I've only worn it a handful of times, because it gets very mixed responses (most people don't 'get' it...) and I can't often be bothered with the questions, but I absolutely love it. I would buy another with a different slogan but the black just goes so well with everything.
The striped top was thrifted, the skirt was gifted and the shoes are from the big red shed.

Also, promised Abraham I would do a Wardrobe Wednesday for him sometime. So, this week, you get two outfits from me. This is an outfit shot of me, Amy and Abraham on Monday.

Me - Dress from Op shop in Te Puke, brooch by my friend Helen Stripy socks, sunnies from the Sallies and flats from the Warehouse.
Abraham - 'Gaywyre' (a band) t-shirt, brown jeans from the Sallies and Bata bullets that were my Grandpas.
Amy - Skirt altered from a dress, flats from the Warehouse, white cardi, sunnies and red beads thrifted in Nelson and a black singlet from somewhere. I hope I got that right.

If you'd like to play along with WW: take a photo, blog it, and pop over to Clare's place and add a link. Would be lovely to have you.