louisalace

Terrerium times

2011-06-23T22:39:00.000-07:00

Recently my friend and I decided to make terrariums!

A terrarium is like a mini greenhouse where plants can grow and survive. I think they are also what lizards live in but lizards are a bit creepy in my opinion.

I had been wanting to make one ever since going to Magic Lantern Studio on Brunswick st and seeing one there. They also have the most amaaaaaazing garden window display.

Terrerium ingredients

Moss!

Plastic wildlife friends

Terrerium in action!
By now the plants are flowering heaps and it's looking really good. I want to moss to grow more so it's got a moss carpet. Hopefully soon it will!

Summer Time Washing

2011-01-06T23:44:00.001-08:00

The quickest way to make me smile.....

2010-08-04T01:33:00.001-07:00

MEOWCLICK

Wildlife Adventures

2010-08-03T06:09:00.001-07:00

The other day my friends and I went on an adventure around Centennial Park.

It's huge and has lots of people walking their dogs, riding horses and picnicing.

It also has lakes.

We found some amazing swans with their babies! Also a weird duck that followed us. We liked him though.

Photos taken by Tayte!

In store NOW!

2010-07-31T00:06:00.000-07:00

Buy Me!

I'm a sucker for cute songs

2010-07-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

SHOPPING!

2010-07-20T06:57:00.000-07:00

Click to purchase!!

New Model

2010-07-19T00:53:00.000-07:00

My lovely previous model, Sorrel, has been stolen away by other countries where i'm pretty sure she is having the most fun of her entire life.

SO with the re-opening of LouisaLace Vintage I have had to employ a new one......

She certainly isn't as cute but she does the job for sure.

Her name is Daphne.

Craft-a-noon/(Craft-a-goon) + blog resurrection

2010-07-13T07:06:00.000-07:00

It has been FAR too long between posts and it is now time to resurrect this blog.

I got a brand new maccy book recently, my friend has has one too so we decided to have a craft day and make super cute cases for them!

Shiny and new!

Crafting utensils.

Crafting essentials....

Craft in progress.

Finished!

By ebay store is reopening again really soon so keep coming back!!

2009-07-22T03:20:00.000-07:00

+ some other lovelies that didn't go other times!!!!!!

HERE

Tights!

2009-07-02T05:18:00.000-07:00

I love tights.
I like Brisbane weather in winter because it's good tights wearing weather....not too hot, not too cold.
These are my favourites that I own right now:

BLUE!

WHITE FLORAL FISHNET!

BLACK BACK SEAM!

I had been looking for these for AGES! but then i finally found them on ebay! Cass from Skins wears them and I want to be her (minus the drug problems and anorexia I guess).

She is lovely.

Then I saw these ones...............!

Pity they're Chanel and cost many hundreds of dollars.

BUT! i was at a party the other night and I saw a girl wearing some that were very similar....I asked her where she got them from and she told me they were Alannah Hill

(check out her website.....adorable!) from David Jones............where I just happen to have a job now!!! yay tights!

so i found them.......

and i wore them and got one thousand compliments!

Lately I have been finding all sorts of different coloured tights in op shops too (unopened!), they are cheap and different and wonderful and I love them.

Finishing tonight!

2009-06-30T22:58:00.000-07:00

Sydney

2009-06-29T19:26:00.000-07:00

Some snaps from my recent adventure in Sydney..........

Oh and my Splendour predictions were really really wrong...............but there are still some yay fun bands going!!

In my shop right NOW!

2009-06-22T04:29:00.000-07:00

Finishing tomorrow night!!!!!

HERE!!!!

Birthday fun times!

2009-06-17T04:18:00.000-07:00

It was my birthday on Monday, im 22 now.
To celebrate, I had a little party on Saturday night and I ended up wearing my NEW dress that I got off ebay.

My friends bought me a little brownie cake! My friend Emma attempted cupakes but they didn't quite work out....but it's the thought that counts right?!

On Monday Emma took me on a special adventure to the Gold Coast.

She drove us there in the stealth panther.

We had bird balloons!

We had delicious lunch and then found an op shop.

I bought these four lovely dresses for my shop.

It was such a fun birthday!

Tomorrow i'm going to Sydney for a holiday with Tayte. I'm so excited but as usual I haven't packed yet and I have to get up super early to catch the plane.

While we're there we're going to go and see Pony Up!....I love them.

Also, tomorrow the second line up accouncement for Splendour In The Grass happens!
My predictions/hopes = Grizzly Bear, Passion Pit, Regina Spektor....fingers crossed!!!

New items are in my shop tonight too so CHECK IT OUT!!

I'll post about all of my Sydney adventures when I return so keep coming back!

Snapshots lately

2009-06-11T05:14:00.000-07:00

Life update in picture form!..........

1. The other day I had a job interview in the city. After, I decided to buy a delicious bubble tea and go to Borders and read the lovely magazines that I had no intention of buying.

I thought someone might come and yell at me for sitting on the floor with my obvious intentions....but they didn't!

Nylon magazine is good and I love it because you get to see heaps of overseas fashions. It also talks about all of these shops that I went to when I was in America and makes me want to go back there A LOT. One day when I have paid off my credit card and saved up lots of money I will.

Dumbo Feather, Pass it on, is a cute little Australian magazine that is all matte and lovely. It basically tells five different peoples stories about their lives and what they do in story/interview form. I really enjoy it.

2. I received this dress in the mail the other day! I bought it on ebay from a store in America called Native American Vintage. It's like a little sailor dress with a big lace collar and pretty floral.

3. Look at all of these zippers! I'm studying fashion design part time at Tafe at the moment and I LOVE it! The other day my teacher showed me a room that is just full of things like buttons, zippers and all other fun, sewing related items and she said I could take anything, for free! She gave me this huge giant bag of zips and i'm going to make heaps of crazy clothes involving them.

4. This is my dog called Harry. I need to get him a coat because he gets cold at night time now that it's winter.

5. I went op shopping the other day and this was in one of them. I'm not really sure which part was for sale - the hat or the head......i decided not to enquire further.

6. These are some lovely geese that I know. They live near a secret car park and I go and visit them sometimes. I'm glad they are behind a fence though because geese chase and bite.

Also, it's my birthday party tonight and I don't know what to wear! I need to go and investigate my wardrobe now I think.

Don't forget to check out my ebay auctions ending soon!!

New things inside my shop!!

2009-06-08T03:43:00.000-07:00

Op shopping fun times

2009-06-07T20:39:00.000-07:00

During the week my friend and I went on a gigantic op shopping adventure in Ipswich. Lately I have been really disappointed with the op shops in Brisbane because they're getting too expensive and they don't even have good stuff!

Ipswich has HEAPS of op shops and we bought so many things!! Some for my ebay shop and some that I just couldn't part with that i'm keeping for myself.

These are the things I bought.........

My favourite purchases are this amazing velvet jacket, these cute grey shoes (which broke the first time I wore them but they are at the fixing man at the moment so will be back in action really soon!) and the four pairs of coloured tights that I found right at the end of the day (purple, white, pale pink and grey). I love coloured tights this winter!!

You'll be seeing some of the purchases in the shop over the next few weeks so don't forget to look!

Ebay goods that are new!

2009-06-04T04:11:00.001-07:00

Here are new ebay delights!! (A little late but better late than never right?!?)

Click here or on the link on the right to shop!!!

To market, to market

2009-06-04T03:19:00.000-07:00

I haven't blogged for ages! It's because i've been really busy...........ok that's a lie, I haven't actually been very busy at all.

I have just had a lot of blog posts in my head but then I just got so overwhelmed by them all that I just didn't write any at all. So now I will write lots....all in the order of happenings.

Last weekend my friend and I held a stall at the West End markets. The only drawback was that we had to get up at 4am while it was still dark, and because i'm not working at the moment, my sleeping patterns have got all crazy (going to bed late and getting up late) and so I couldn't sleep until about 2am = 2 hours sleep. Other than that it was really fun!

So after waiting around for an hour, disagreements with other stall holders, rearrangement of stall positioning and missing parts of clothes racks.....we finally got set up!

Here is our little stall..............

The idea of the stall was to sell heaps of our old clothes (Sam is moving overseas and I just had a major cleanout). Everything was $5 and most things actually sold! I'm glad all of my things went to a new home where they will be happy and loved.
I hadn't done such a big clean out for ages and it was weird seeing all of the things that I use to wear.

These are the sorts of things that I found:

band t-shirts and ones with swallows on the shoulders (i use to wear them with jeans, now i wear neither)
jeans (i really never wear jeans anymore, i find them ridiculously uncomfortable)
polka dot dresses (i had a little emo phase and was obsessed with these)
hi top converse (they had writing on them with pink eyeliner...hmmmm)
kitten heels with points (i use to be obsessed with these in all different colours)
skirts that sit at the hip (basically stick to high waister only now)
bubble hem dresses
button up shirt dresses

When I was way younger I also remember wearing overalls, platform sketchers, boardshorts, cargo pants and army print..............yeah I was a really unstylish child.

It's weird how styles change.....maybe one day I'll be throwing out all of my high waisted skirts, little vintage dresses, different coloured tights, ankle boots, glo mesh bags, cute blouses and everything floral..........I hope not though.

Ebay store open!

2009-05-24T07:50:00.000-07:00

Finally Louisa Lace Vintage is alive!

It's taken a little while, but with some help from my lovely friends the store is up and running. Yay!

Here are this week's treats:

Yay for two of my favourite friends - Sam for her modelling skills and Tayte for her photo taking skills.

Click here or on the link on the right to shop!

Updates every Sunday.

A sneaky preview!

2009-05-22T01:17:00.000-07:00

Yesterday my friend Tayte came over to help me set up the layout and things for my ebay store which is opening this Sunday! (Note the link on the right)

I have been collecting vintage clothes/bags/pretty things for ages now.
To start with I was buying them all for myself but then it got to the point where I would just buy something because I liked it, even if it didn't fit me at all. I decided the best idea would be to start a shop so that i could share my vintage delights all around!

Here is a sneaky preview of the things that will be going into the shop over the next few weeks:

I also made these new badges which will be going into my etsy store VERY soon!!

Stay tuned for ebay and etsy store updates!!!

Presents!

2009-05-14T22:10:00.001-07:00

Here are some lovely banners that my friend Tayte made for me! She has banner making skills that are good. Note that I have attached one to this blog and it looks so wonderful.

I will be using them in my ebay store too....which is opening so ridiculously soon.

I decided to try my hand at making one too.....with a little photoshop tutorial from my brother, this is what I came up with.

So i'm not sure why the berries and writing are purple here because everywhere else they're red. Hmmm...oh well.

Anyway, it's for use in my etsy store.....so there's nothing actually in it yet but you can see my banner in the real colours at least!

In return for the lovely banners I made Tayte this small deer.

Things I love today

2009-05-07T00:07:00.000-07:00

My new dress.

I got it from an op shop about one week ago and I think it is SO pretty! With its little belt and gathers and colours and pattern.

It hadn't been out and about on the real world until yesterday when I went on a New Farm park adventure with my friend Emma and our dogs.

It was fun.

Frankie Magazine.

It has the best articles and cute things that I love. I get so intensly excited whenever it comes in the mail. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by it's niceness that I don't know where to start and I just want to eat it up so it's all in my belly.

Flowerbomb Perfume.

It is my favourite smell in the world forever and the bottle is grenade shaped!

Ipod Tunes.

Lately = The Decemberists, She & Him, Au Revoir Simone, The Bird and the Bee, Emiliana Torrini <3

Strawberry Sundae Lifesavers.

These are AMAZING! I hadn't had them for ages and then they were in my dream the other night so i decided to buy some. They are now my favourite lolly. Try them right now.

White Rose Buttons.

I'm in the process of making a dress that will use these sweet little buttons. It will be pink.

My New Bird Cushion.
My mum bought this for me today because she supports my "pictures of birds" obsession. I thought it was very sweet of her.

Bubble Tea.
I love bubble tea. It is so sweet and milky and chewy and delicious. The fat straw is so fun and I just really love it.
Except.....I really only enjoy the EasyWay one. It is the most sweet and the bubbles have just the right consistency.

Things I don't like today:
That I have to do a lot of annoying things next week in order to get centrelink dollars.
That Dools was not on triple J today...he is my future husband.
That people who work at officeworks aren't very good at doing things (well, one of them).
That the shoes I was planning to wear tomorrow night need to be re-heeled and I haven't organised it.

OH WELL!

that is all <3

Dressups

2009-04-25T18:58:00.000-07:00

I love dressup parties.

They are so much more exciting than regular parties by far.

Last weekend I went to a dressup party. The occasion was that one of my friends was moving out of her house and another one was moving in - a farewalcome party. The theme was famous animals and I decided to go as the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.

This is what I wore.

The photo was taken in a laneway during our walk to the party. There was a black cat there.
It isn't that good because my camera was crazily making all the photos turn out greenish for some reason. I'm not very good at technology.

I got the dress from a church jumble sale that I go to where everything costs 50c. I love it there. The dress is by Anthea Crawford and would have been so expensive when it was originally bought. It was longer but I cut and hemmed it because I don't really like myself in long things. My mum was horrified when I told her that I cut an Anthea Crawford dress but i figure what's the point of keeping something the way it is if you're not going to wear it.

The shoes are from ebay and the frilly socks are from the kids section at myer. I had been looking for frilly socks for ages and I was considering making a pair when I finally found them. The bag is also from the jumble sale.

I'm wearing a giant mimco fob watch that I borrowed from my friend and the mask is stolen from work (soon to be past workplace) and re-vamped. I work at an event management company so we have all sorts of fun things that we have used on past events. This one is from a masquarade ball that we did a while ago.

This is one that was taken on a crazy new-age polaroid camera. My friend was a little leopard.

Easter fun times

2009-04-24T23:14:00.001-07:00

So I know that Easter was ages ago now but I’ve had this post in my head ever since….I say that like I’m some sort of post master but really this is my first one. The first of many I hope.

At Easter time my family and I went to a place called Warwick for my granddad’s birthday. It was mostly boring and there were lots of old people there but there were lots of delicious desserts which sort of made up for it.

We were staying at this “country resort” which is a totally huge attraction for tourists who want the “outback experience”. It baffles me really because I’ve been going out to the country since I was little to visit my grandparents and I find it lovely and relaxing for about one day and then I get a little bit bored and need to get back to the city.

Anyway, on the second day we went to one of the resort “attractions” which is called balancing rock. It’s basically these gigantic rocks that have formed all crazily and sit on top of each other. We had to hike (ok not really hike, just walk steadily) up a giant mountain (that's probably an exaggeration too) to find it and I don’t think I was really wearing the correct hiking attire but it was really pretty when we got up the top so it didn't really matter.

It was rainy but still really nice looking.

My brother got up way high and sat between the giant rocks.

Then we found a hut.

Then we left the resort and went to a lovely little antique shop where I found a pretty maroon glomesh looking bag which I bought along with a hat and some sewing patterns which the lady threw in for free! Delightful!

I'm going to start an ebay store soon that stocks all of the lovely vintage delights that i have/are waiting to be found....I just need to get a little bit more organised first and maybe learn a few more sweet technology skills.

I will also blog some of my adventures and things so keep coming back!