Today Is Wild And It Is Yours

Hey guys!
It's been a while..greetings from Melbourne!

It's been just over a month now that I've made Melbourne home and man is this city ever great. I swear there is something cool hidden around every corner. Wether it be an awesome lane way of graffiti, a quirky hole in the wall cafe or an amazing vintage shop or market stall of hand-made trinkets..I'm continually discovering new spots I love.

I wanted to write this post though, to share a recent little project I've done here, for an online T-shirt company based in Montreal. Mister Dress Up was started by an community of artists in Montreal, Quebec to showcase their work and the work of designers and artists from all over the world, of all ages and all walks of life. Weekly, new designs are being added to their online store and this month I am one of the featured artists!

It's pretty awesome to be given a project like this, free range to do whatever you want..
but at the same time with so much freedom how do you ever choose what to do!!

I was indecisive for awhile, my usual. But then remembered a sketch I done awhile back of the words "Today is wild and it is yours". This quote is great and thought it would look sick on a shirt, so I
re-created it a bit and voila!

Obviously Im a sucker for quotes and I love rendering type and playing around with pattern so this piece is very much, me. But I love how it is a reminder to never stop looking at each day ahead with excitement..curiosity..wonder. Because today is all we have, why not make the most of it?

This notion has never been more significant as it is recently, with the passing of such a beautiful and special person I had the pleasure to know..and her equally beautiful mother. Both taken from us far too soon after battling a hard fight against cancer, I am still in disbelief that such a tragedy struck so close to home. Although my heart is filled with sadness for them and their families, I have never felt so grateful to be alive, and be healthy and to be able to travel and explore everyday. Far too often we forget how lucky we are.
Ashley and Roxanne, you're truly an inspiration.

Check out my profile and T-shirt, its for sale here until April 24th !!


Until next time,
thanks for reading  x

DAY 69 // Watermelon Picnic

Sunday Sunday Sundayyyyy.

Today was nice and sunny (unlike last sunday) so Cam and I decided to go for a little wander past our farm to see what else is beyond the creek..and we also thought it'd be a good excuse for another fun little photo-op with the second hand clothes we've bought. We are both wearing outfits that are solely put together from thrifted items.. and rocked the head scarf trend I blogged about the other day. The afternoon was tons of fun, we picnicked on the grass next to this hidden little dirt path surrounded by trees and farm land as far as the eye can see.

Here are some of my fave shots from the day..

Enjoy! xox

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DAY 68 // Santa, I want purple hair for Christmas.

Hello!
Another weekend is upon us..we've reached day 68 which means only TWENTY more days on the farm. A glorioussss milestone.

Not much to report today..other than I lighted my hair.. with a box die..streaking kit. you know those ones you used in grade 8. yup.
Every hair dresser in the world would be shunning me at the moment if they knew or saw what I did. But this is what farm life does to you though! Seriously, you get so bored on the weekends you end up making bad beauty decisions.

It wasn't a complete disaster..but it does look a bit..well..orange.
At least I have no one to impress around here and I plan on fixing it once back in an actually city where the hairdresser isn't 80 years old and wearing a cowboy hat and overalls.

What I actually wanna do is dye it purple. Some shade of purple that I'm undecided about at the moment. Because I figure..when else am I going to be able to have purple hair in my life? I'm only getting older...and more mature ( I guess..) and soon it's just not going to be cool to have purple hair. But now is.
And i'm a backpacker. I do what I want!

Christmas gift to self: Purple Hair.

Here's some purple hair inspiration that I've been drooling over for months.

Enjoy!
See you tomorrow xo

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I'm leaning towards this purple..it's intense but beautiful! Then again..she's freakin' gorgeous.

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Good ol' Mary-Kate .. she can pull of anything, not sure if I'd go this light but I love it.

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pink and purple mix. totally digging her whole style vibe.

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I just want my hair to be this long..PLEASE! 

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I like this pinkish-purple shade.. I feel like I could rock this color on the beach in Byron this Christmas. yes?

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Simple love this photo. 

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The whole look..amazing.

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Puprle to pink ombre..so cool. I think I would feel like I unicorn with this hair..and I'd love it.

DAY 67 // Afternoon at the Op Shop

Alright Thank. God. It's. Friday.
Another storm hit last night so today we couldn't pick watermelons (very sad news....NOT)
Instead we cleaned around the house this morning and Ian said we could be done work at lunch time due to the extra hours we've been working all week, Woohoo! This was music to our ears and we were pumped.

So with nothing much else to do with our afternoon off..we decided we'd do some guilt-free shopping! So we hit up Vinnies, the local op shop (which is closed on the weekends so we can never go to it) We were like giddy little teenage girls heading to the mall..

Both Cam and I walked away with some AMAZING finds. We only had an hour to spend in there but I'm sure we could have easily spent two. We tore that poor Vinnies apart. The dude behind the counter was looking at us like we were mental...going through the racks and racks of clothes and yelling across the store when we found something awesome.

Together we spent 45 bucks and carried away 3 backs full of uniquely awesome pieces that we absolutely have no idea how will fit in our backpacks.. but we don't care. We are two happy farm girls.

On another note..I can't help but think about how by shopping at op-shops we are being the most environmentally friendly consumers we could possibly be. We are re-using and up-cylcing clothes that would normally be headed towards a landfill. So not have we just saved our backpacker dollars..we have showed our planet earth some serious love at the same time, which is just another up-side to thrifting that I think is pretty freakin' cool.

Here are some of the looks we came up with this afternoon using solely second hand clothes! Most from today's shopping trip but some items I thrifted from other parts of Aus throughout my trip.


Thanks for reading xo
See you Tomorrow

vintage purse / brown, suede, high wasted shorts / black lace top / floral head scarf  (noosa)

vintage purse / denim cut-offs (agnes water)  / Cream crocheted top with fringe / rope belt / geometric silk head scarf

teracotta tank top / denim cut-offs (agnes water) / vintage purse / peach and cream silk head scarf

three new head scarves to add to my collection! 

faded, high waisted boyfriend jeans (agnes water) / black vintage leather clutch / black and white patterened kimono / loose black pocketed tank (Bilo market) 

brown suede, high waisted shorts / vintage red lace top (agnes water) / brown vintage purse / blue floral head scarf (agnes water)

high waisted jean shorts / Everlast muscle tee (Bilo Market) / turquoise sneakers (noosa)

DAY 66 // Lovely Head Wear

First off, My bad for not posting yesterday..yah I slipped. Can we just blame it on the watermelons?

It has been a hectic week..with longer than normal work days and so last night was one of those nights that flew by and before I knew it I was passed out in my bed.

But today we're back in action..another hot one out there (36 degrees here in Bilo), plenty of watermelons were picked and packed and we actually had four new contractors come help today which made the process easier and faster for all of us.

Now to the creative bit.. this post is inspired by the lovely british gals I met in Agnes Water on our recent time away from the farm. These girls all had great style and all LOVED wearing head scarves in their hair.

I've always been a fan of silk scarves...or generally any and all vintage head scarves. I have a collection at home of beautiful patterned ones that I've picked up from thrift stores and garage sales, but never have I really tried ...wearing one. They just hang there looking pretty.. I guess I've always been unsure about how I actually would wear one and pull it off.

So, we took a trip to the one and only Op Shop in Agnes Water and I picked up a couple beauties ..I think they were two for a dollar. I ended up wearing the blue floral patterned one a lot to the beach and by the pool to keep my hair back and my head cool.

 There are so many ways you can go about rocking this look..and I'm getting really into it. So as an tribute to my lovely Beachside Ladies and this 1920's inspired trend I thought today I'd post some head scarf inspiration and How-To's.

Thanks for reading xo
See ya tomorrow!

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