Back In Melbourne

For the past five weeks I have been in Vietnam enjoying the hot weather, beaches, food and shopping so that explains the lack of posts. But I am back and it has been two days of being home in Melbourne where I have gotten back to healthy eating and exercise because slacked in Vietnam and ate and ate, but the food was wonderful. Yesterday I bought a lovely crochet skirt for a really good price and today a pair of taupe coloured platform wedges (shows up grey in pictures for some weird reason). Today's outfit was the croceht skirt I bought yesterday, a simple white singlet and Forever New denim jacket with my white Converse.

navajo beat

Last night I went out for a birthday dinner and the weather was lovely. Tonight I am leaving Melbourne to go to Vietnam where the crazy shopping will commence! The high waist shorts I bought on Thursday afternoon on impulse after trying them on. I wasn't supposed to but they are just so nice. Anyway, in Vietnam I will definitely be buying alot of beauty products and eating alot of food. Hopefully the Chanel foundation I want will be a tad cheaper over there. I am sick at the moment with a bad cough but hopefully will I will be better by the time I touch down in Vietnam!

as you do,

These past few days I have been so unorganised in school work, I have no idea where my head is these days but it feels good, I feel content and I care less about the things that I shouldn't care about. It really is a strange feeling, one that I can't explain but I think I am okay with it. Anyway I bought a black crop top and textured skirt the other day and I love them both (in first outfit picture). There are two more weeks left of school and then I will be on holidays for five weeks! The necklace is something I bought yesterday at a really good price from Portmans and the black skirt is one of the staples in my wardrobe and was also a bargain as well.

mirror error

Today was such a great day, the weather started off cloudy but brightened and warmed up around lunch time. I went to Lygon St with a friend and lunched at Il Gambero, a great Italian restaurant and had the Risotto Funghi which consisted of mushrooms and arborio in a Napoletana sauce! Delicious! And then afterwards we took the privilege of buying icecream (soy for both of us) at Casa Del Gelato, and then walked around and took pictures!

a saintly girl i'm not

The last few days have been pretty good. From the pictures above you can see that I've bought MAC's eyeshadow in the colour Wedge, I'm really happy with it, it's such a nice colour to wear every day, I just use it as a crease colour, now I'm hoping to get Vanilla or Brule as a base colour. But I really like MAC's eyeshadows as they're easy to blend and plus they don't wear off as easily. Yesterday I went lingerie shopping as my underwear collection needed more. There are so many nice clothes on sale right now and it is seriously tempting! I must resist!

lust holds my hand

It has been hot hot hot lately in Melbourne which is a good thing I guess, surely a nice change from it's temperamental conditions. It's nice and sunny and I have quickly developed a tan! I haven't been shopping much, my last purchase was a simple burnt orange coloured dress by Quirky Circus from Myer which I wore today. My days have been interesting, filled with dramas and homework, speaking of homework I really need to start tonight or right now preferably but lately I have been feeling extremely unmotivated to do work which is not good at all. All I want to do is just lie down under a tree with a book and read or sleep or be at a table where all my favourite foods will be on. Next week will be no doubt a hectic one as three assignments will be due in and I have to work others too! Gahhhh!

rest my chemistry

My days haven't been that interesting lately, but normal and normal is good enough for me I guess. I'm planning to get healthier and tone up since I haven't been exercising in ages which is not good at all! So I'll cut down on the junk and start off slow with exercising three times a week and then four times. I don't know, feeling healthy and looking fit makes me feel more in control. I still haven't got paid yet which means a delay in my shopping plans but oh well, I just hope I get paid by this week, likely not though. Today was chilly, rainy and grey in Melbourne which was a vast difference from yesterday's humid 33 degrees, so it was stockings, boots and a blazer for me with touches of blue and turquoise.

animal instinct

Yesterday was an interesting day to say the least, went out to lunch with a friend, went to school and did some drawing which was pretty fun and then worked from 5.30pm to 9.15pm, so it was a long day but I enjoyed it. This Wednesday when I went to lunch with Kelli, we walked around and browsed the stores and I did not expect to get a new item! I said I'd save! But there was the Portmans silk leopard print skirt staring at me in the face and I could not say no, especially when I tried it on and it looked good! It didn't help that my second opinion also liked the skirt! Haha! So I had no control whatsoever and bought it and wore it yesterday, in fact I might wear it again today! This skirt wasn't even on the shopping list! But oh well! I love it.

push on

Yesterday's outfit consisted of a floral dress from a market in Vietnam, a turquoise and gold belt from Forever New. Today I wore my Portmans maxi dress as a maxi skirt with a black top but I was in a hurry I didn't get a chance to photograph. These days have been okay, a little sad here and there but with recent happenings I've really tried to be more positive and move on alot faster from things the old Ivy would've probably moped about. I guess sometimes you just need to let things go and move on, because it's not the end of the world, what matters in the end is that you take chances and that you try. You just have to gracefully accept things. It is what it is.