momentum

stationery crushing

 

 

 

 

credit: poppies for grace

the girl

Today my friend told me about another online magazine which launched this month called matchbook magazine, which seems to be popping up all over the blogosphere! My friend also said I remind her a bit of the "matchbook girl". Ha! I am not so certain of that. Anyway, in vain, I have tried to polish up on my poetic skills and compare The matchbook girl (1st entry below...written by an author from their new magazine) to The beth girl (2nd entry.. written by me!) Just a bit of fun. Enjoy.

The matchbook girl...

by matchbook magazine

views the world through rose colored glasses • loves to throw dinner parties, but has been known to burn the roast • values eccentricity over convention • is the first to laugh at her own bad jokes • knows the cha-cha, the charleston, and the tango • paints her nails bright coral when she's feeling blue • is infinitely curious • could happily live off of red velvet cake • pens hand written notes to her grandmother • has a signature shade of lipstick • secretly thinks she may be babe paley reincarnated • received an iPAD for her birthday, but will never give up her library card • has a bucket list a mile long and dreams a dime a dozen • is smart, but never a show-off • listens to the day's forecast, but trusts her own intuition • never says no to a sunday matinee at the theater • is quick to blush, but never short of a witty reply • has a skip in her step and a twinkle in her eye • always shares her last piece of gum

The beth girl...
by Beth Edwards

views the world through tortoise shell rimmed glasses • loves to throw tea parties, and has been known to conceal over-baked cupcakes with lashings of icing • values the convention of eccentricity • is the first to laugh at her own “bethisms” • knows the cha-cha, the charleston, and the tango are best left to the professionals • paints her nails bright coral, red or fuschia when she is feeling inspired • is curious as to why curiosity killed the cat • could happily live off of red velvet (cup)cake(s) • pens hand written notes with great pleasure, but too few and far between •  owns copious shades of lipstick and lipgloss and likes to mix things up  • secretly thinks she may be a crooner from the swing era reincarnated  • WISHES she will receive an iPAD for her birthday, but even if she does, will never give up her love of paper backs • always makes a new years resolution, and dreams big • is smart enough to know you are never “smart enough” to stop learning • listens to the daily 10 forecast, and trusts her own intuition to not wind up like some of its subjects • never says no to a sunday afternoon rom com at the local cinema • always willing to try to converse in witty banter, although she may not always pull it off • has a whistle on her lips, and a heart-shaped freckle on her knee • always offers to share her favourite flavoured watermelon gum

image credit: matchbook magazine

pretty

I want hair like this

and a bow like this

and a jumper like this. 

number 1

Despite what everyone said... I am glad they won.

That is brother/sister combo Angus and Julia Stone winning Triple J's Hottest 100 on Australia Day with their song "Big Jet Plane"

Their music is sort of like a lullaby. I know this song in particular has soothed me off to sleep a few times. One of my favourite albums to listen to at night.

angus and julia stone

wander lust

Hopefully by this time next year I will be able to pin point a few more places I have been to on a world map. One trip, and I'm hooked.

credit: FUTURE maps

< 3

credit: quotable cards

like no other

Sometimes I think advertising was an odd choice for me to study at university. I always had an inkling that I wouldn't pursue it professionally as a career. 

But then I see an ad like this and I remember why. 

I studied it because I wanted to connect with people, I wanted to focus on the beauty in the world, I wanted to move people and be moved.  

To be part of a creative movement, where a bunch of passionate people get together and think "we want to create something that is meaningful and fulfilling and transcends to the extra-ordinary". To live for those small celebratory moments where a creative spark suddenly ignites. Looking back, studying it was a real blessing- and in fact, some of my closest friends also studied it.

I can imagine everyone involved in the below felt a real sense of joy and pride in creating this piece of art... and, after all, it's not everyday you get to be part of 250,000 bouncy balls being thrown down a San Fransisco street...

like.no.other 

 

credit: sony (click here to see making of)

kikki.K

I have a great love for stationery. Perhaps it started when I was 4 years old and my parents bought me my own "home office". Everything was pink- my own in tray, my stapler, hole puncher, pen holder. I also had rainbow paper clips :)

So I guess that's why when I was first introduced to kikki.K, the Swedish stationery store, I fell head over heels... Boy oh boy do those Sweds know their design, first IKEA then the likes of kikki.K.

R told me the other day he was in Sydney and he stumbled across an "all-white kikki.K store". How pristine!

I'm also quite smitten with their branding. These are some of my favourites from their 10/11 campaign...

credit: kikki.K

don't sweat it

Earlier in the week, our CEO gathered our team together. As part of the informal meeting, she asked each of us our new years resolution.

When it reached her turn, she simply said her resolution was: "Don't sweat the small stuff".

This is one of my all time favourite life advice to live by. Sometimes though you need to remind yourself of this, otherwise before too long you may find your mind unwillingly slipping back into it's old ways.  And today, I found myself having a moment of...sweating the small stuff.

It was a real lightbulb moment for me that there was a reason why my CEO had re-instilled this in me only days earlier.

I highly recommend the below book which encourages you to keep things in perspective. Even though I read this book as a grade 9er in highschool in 2001 (woah 10 years ago!), it is still so relevant.

Today's moral...

credit: don't sweat

lbd

I am trying cull my wardrobe down to the bare necessities (task for the weekend) well maybe not bare. A better way to put it would be to ensure I have the essentials first and foremost such as a black dress, crisp white shirt, black pumps and then work my way up the clothes pyramid. Those that know me well will know that I generally lean towards colour, but since parting with my partying uni days of colourful cocktail dresses every weekend and starting full time work I think I have reigned it in a bit. I love how the class LBD can be translated into so many styles... particularly loving encorporating frills, glitter and bows!! 

believe

Mid week inspiration. This will be my new mantra.

dessert

Last night I went to Mud dessert bar at Bulimba for my friends birthday :) 

I ordered sticky date pudding for dessert and it looked so good I just had to take a picture! 

hung up on hot pink hangers

While I have a twitter account, I don't tweet too much. The last time I logged in, it had been around 200 days since I had last posted a tweet! I mostly like to just cruise/click around and read about whats happening in the world, and peer into the glamorous lives of others. In my journey through twitterville, I stumbled across this twitter profile picture of Nicky Hilton which caught my eye. Not only does she look gorgeous (loving her hair!), she also has a pretty neat set up in her closet. While you often see the wooden hangers in boutique clothes stores which are simple and elegant in white, or birch colour with a silver hook, the hot pink plastic hangers shown here are really cool and look great matched with all the white decor. Of course it helps when you have luxurious lust-worthy clothes to hang off them!

 

credit: twitter

gossip-worthy gowns

I think Gossip Girl's costume designer Eric Damon does a brilliant job styling the cast of GG. I particularly love the way he dresses Blair- she always looks so polished and perfectly put together. Seeing as it is summer here I thought I would pick a selection of my favourite Blair frocks, one for every occasion.

Black tie- Oscar de la Renta 

Beach holiday at the Hamptons- Alice + Olivia

 

 Cocktail party- Marc by Marc Jacobs 

Overseas trip strolling the streets of Paris (of course!)- Moschino

candle (light)

Blackouts are quite the annoyance. I wouldn't mind too much though if I had any of these enchanting fragrant candles by diptyque paris. J' Adore!