78 Eyelet Crazy

Credit: Google Images

My latest eyelet piece, TVD's Talia Cut-out Romper, arrived today! It was just the cherry on the cake for a pretty good day, and the perfect ending to a very harried two days. (I had a huge clothes disaster yesterday in which 3 pieces of clothing, including my new LB Hadley Blouse, turned grey in the wash, but when I came home today I found out my mum had managed to remove all the stains! She's brilliant!!)

I'm sorry but I totally forgot to take a close-up of the eyelet details so you will have to make do with a very pretty stock image from Google Images. In the meantime, read my review here.

/Now I'm really dying to get Thread Theory's reversible tank top (I've already decided what colour) since my self-rewarding reward budget allows for it (this whole self-rewarding thing is so screwed up) (but oh well) (who's complaining) but I think the postwoman, if not my whole family, will judge if I have 4 parcels arrive this week. I'm expecting LAB's either tomorrow or Friday. (Long story short: they sent me the wrong dress first time round, and the correct one's winging its way to me as we speak.)

77 In Transit

We created the stupid mistake,
cliche of going to Paris
believed we would be as much in love
anywhere else as in our Eiffel-shadowed, baguette-stained beds

Maybe the stars shine brighter in French skies,
maybe we both lied when we looked at each other and saw only
the reflection of what we thought we should see there,
and said "I love you" anyway,

and when we left it took our sense of entitlement with it
as if at customs, they had stamped
"via Romance"
instead of "via France",
"in Love"
instead of "in transit".
--

More poetry. I wrote half of this on the bus, while standing in between two people who were very much taller than me (in other words, while being slammed between backpacks). It made a lot more sense in my sleep-deprived head, but I've tried (hopefully successfully) to clear it up since then.

76 Patently Gorgeous

Since we're, um, not on the subject of closet staples but I love talking about them anyway: here's a mysteriously slanted photo of one of the best investments (student-budget-wise) I have made recently: patent nude heels from New Look. Usually I shun New Look unless they're having massive sales, but in the case of these beauties, after resisting them for one or two weeks (I forget)... I went back to the store and bought them at full price (less than $40, but still). Since then I have worn them almost every week so I daresay the cost per wear has lowered substantially!

Besides the fact that I usually wear nude coloured shoes anyway, these are shiny and just the right amount of pointy-toed, so I can pretend I'm wearing Kate Middleton's L.K. Bennetts.