Almost made it...

Woo hoo! I'm back in the game...JUST! Phew, I seriously suck at this "be prepared and organised" thing. Any who, this look was thrown together in literally 10 minutes! Like my sister Falala Mele mentioned, we were running super late for church after hitting the gym for a morning boxing session and so I was running around like a mad woman grabbing this and that. My go to when I need to be out of the house in 10 or 15 minutes is a pair of tights and an oversized blouse and a jacket of some sort if its a bit fresh! Even my hairdo is a time saver style I use all the time lol. Slick one side with a bit of hairspray and let the other non-brushed or styled part hang loose and have a party. Sunglasses are always on hand, especially when there is little or no time for makeup. Here is what I wore:

Necklace: Sportsgirl $4/ Pearl ring: Purchased in Broom, WA borrowed from sister's closet/ BYS Matte Lipstick in Brown Sugar: $5

 

Sheer blouse: Supre $15 last season/ Blazer: Second hand from my uncle's wrdrobe/ Leggings: Kmart $7.50/ Nude Brouge Shoes: $40 Rivers, this season/ Sunglasses: $5 from a New York souveniere store, borrowed from sister's closet.

 

 

Yep, I almost...kinda ALMOST made the Aussie Curves cut off time for the Time Saver challenge but you know what they say..."close but no cigar!" I laugh at myself when I think I'm totally prepared or when I tell myself "this week you're gonna do it on time woman" and then I totally don't. This is a prime example of what my poor blogger life is like constantly. Luckily my organisational & time management skills are fantastic professionally or I would have HEAPS of free time to blog about everything I have no time to blog about because work sucks the time out of my life! LOL.

 

The End.

 

Big Love xx 



What I've been wearing...IG style.

I  signed up to IG and so began the spiral of me not posting here on my blog and not feeling so bad about it because I was still getting OOTD posts up right? Yeah, that's what I told myself but who was I kidding...I do love Instagram though and well here's simply a post of what I've been wearing IG style. Follow me @sikilou :) Please excuse the photo quality and get your scrolling finger ready...

Big Love xx

OOTD: A closer look!

Hi lovelies!!

Here's just a quick post to give you a closer look at my OOTD for a wedding I attended here! I didn't get a chance to post this picture with my wedding post because the only decent shot we got was on my sister's iphone that I didn't have access to at the time (please excuse the photo quality). Here it is:

Floral high-neck dress, $6 Thrifted- Salvo's/ Wedge T-bar heels, $60 from www.barefoottess.com two seasons ago/ Gold coin statement necklace, thrifted $3/ handbbag thrifted, $3 St Vincent DePaul's

This dress had been screaaaaaaaaming out for me to wear it since I bought it from a thrift store in early 2012. In my wedding post I mentioned that I had wanted to wear it to the Celine Dion concert I went to in Vegas while on our most recent US trip. Something about FINALLY seeing one of my most beloved performers in the flesh made me want to dress to the nines and that immediately made me think of this dress! Sadly it was waaaaaaaaaay to hot to be wearing this in Vegas so the practicality in me said "NO, Theresa...you will want to stab yourself in the foot with a rusty fork if you wear this and spend the whole time sweating your ring out and being hot & bothered...blah blah blah" haha, do you ever do that?

Ehh, long story short it went back kicking and screaming into my suitcase and was not to resurface again until this glorious day!! I'm glad I saved it too, its as if it was all meant to fall into place like it did and it was the perfect dress for this wedding!

Hope you like it coz I sure do! It's my faveeeeeourite thrifted dress to date!! :)

Big Love xx

Aussie Curves: Second hand...

HI LOVELY ONES!! *Waves with utmost enthusiasm* I feel like its been forever since I've done an Aussie Curves post and I've been missing it dearly! This week's challenge is second hand...HOLLA! lol. 90% of my wardrobe is now made up of thrifted, DIY and borrowed clothes that I LOVE! I guess my wardrobe transitioned this way over the last 4 years from: being a poor uni student, losing some weight, getting more creative with outfit choices and showing off my love for creativity in clothing. I find true individuality in pieces I thrift or as us Aussies call it...opshopping. No one else will be wearing what you have on, it's the best and cheapest insurance policy because we all know how much you would die inside a little if you showed up to an event wearing the same thing as someone else there! So there you have it, my little spiel on why I love second hand goodness!

These pics are totally throwback material from my graduation banquet in 2011! I have absolutely no way of pulling off a shoot this week because I somehow managed to sprain my knee and hinder my walking/standing ability as of late lol. so this event came to mind because the dress I wore this night has been one of my most fave finds to date! Anyway I'll let the pics roll and explain a little later...

What I wore: Floral sheer dress, Savlo's $1/ tan skinny belt, sister's closet/ Tan heels, $30, Target like 6 seasons ago/ Flower ring, Diva $5, 4 seasons back.

Raneece, Emma & Sister Mele x

With Nigel x

My beauties Charmaine & Lossy x

We sourced the jars from local thrift stores, found pebbles at a local beach and collected sticks and scrap material to make the table settings. The only thing we did buy was the goldfish lol.

We spent many hours in our dorm lounge room that we dubbed LoF (Lounge of Fun) cutting, sewing and painting these banners for the night!

With Tys, Jennifer & Rhi <3 

Bust that move! lol.

Clown time with the sister.

With Tegan, Jenny & Rhi...forever love these ladies x

My main x

I am friends with some of the most talented women I know. Friends Rhi & Emma designed and illustrated these personalised award for the night with water colour pencils!

The best closeup OOTN shot I could find. LOVE this dress! My sister found this at our local Salvo's on the "Fancy Dress" rack for ONE DOLLAR! I think it was someone's paint smock or something because there are random paint marks on it that are totally unnoticeable! On the rack it seriously looked like a "dodgy-old-woman-who-wears-no-bra-sack" if you know what I mean lol. but on was so lovely! 

So basically my friends Rhi & Tegan put their hands up for the Grad committee on the condition that myself and my main Jenny helped out...HELLS YES we thought...we love having creative control! Now the only problem was we had zero budget to work with from our Uni. Cool yeah, no. So after meetings with the Student Services Coordinator we agreed that any money we raised he would match it so on we went with numerous fundraising events to get a bit of dosh. It was a vision of ours to share the brilliance of thrifting and our love for second hand things through decorating the event with op-shopped and hand made things and this was the result! It was the best fun and we got loads of compliments and it was so nice to know we did it all at a fraction of the cost!

Its funny...I used to LOATHE second hand clothes because my parents managed a St Vincent DePaul's  so my whole childhood I was dressed in thrifted clothes. The horror of being in year 7 when every surf brand is the jam and all you want is a bloody "Billabong" jumper but all you have are the "cool" Supre jumpers with  Australian animals on them. KML...fast forward 10 years and here I am, an avid op-shopper with basically a whole wardrobe made up of second hand pieces. Life :)

Long story short...YAY for second hand anything! What do you think?

Big Love xx