Lady Melbourne

When I started to think about where I was going to do my Christmas shopping I wondered if I could do it all by shopping with Australian and independent businesses.

Over the years I’ve been blogging there have been many things I’ve learnt along the way. Some things however are timeless and even at this stage in my blogging career I return to what I’ve compiled below and strive to do it better.

As is my usual want one evening I was randomly searching Etsy for vintage delights and happened upon this print from Ecceprints.

I’ve been thinking about doing this post for a while to combine two ideas in one: how I take care of the majority of my ‘hand wash only’ wardrobe, and to include a Hills Hoist clothes line for all my ex-pat readers.

My dear friend Kyra from Pybus PR asked if I was at all interested in discovering the Miles Mason Trading Company on Greville St so I popped in last week. Charlotte the owner talked me through the store and the business that she runs with her mother(loved that) and how after 5 years of wholesaling it was time to open her own bricks and mortar shop.

Tweet The blog has suffered a little bit lately but only because I’ve had a bad run of luck health wise. I mentioned two weeks ago that I’d had a nasty accident and I haven’t really been 100% since then, however I feel like with a bit more rest I will well and truly be [...]

Last year I had the opportunity to interview the photographer and artist David LaChapelle. It was an incredible conversation and although his schedule was tight, he shooed away the PR’s and his minders and we had a long chat about, well, all sorts of things.

Here are some of the major questions I put to him.

Tweet Jane Russell passed away yesterday, Tuesday 28th Feb 2011 and I’d like to pay a small tribute to one fabulous, stylish and everlasting woman. Aside from her contribution to music and film, Russell devoted a large part of her life to advocacy for adoption starting the World Adoption International Fund in 1955. She was [...]

So it is with great pleasure that I can let you all know that this year I will be taking short courses at the CAE here in Melbourne on you guessed it- how to blog. It’s not always an easy thing to quantify- what I do and how to make it successful but I’m putting my experience and qualifications together to teach anyone out there the basics of how to start a blog.

This coming weekend I’m donating my time to MC the fashion events at the ‘Fair@Square’ festival here in Melbourne, bought to you by Moral Fairgound.
Knowing that I’d need something fabulous to wear, Obus were approached and asked: If we give you this fair-trade certified organic cotton can you make a dress for Lady Melbourne to wear?
A: Of course!

Tweet During the month of Frocktober I’ll be frocking up in support of the festive fundraising initiative aiming to raise funds for the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation (OCRF).   A striking statistic is that, across Australia, “One woman dies every ten hours from ovarian cancer…for many women with ovarian cancer, the disease is already well [...]