My wardrobe is a a TARDIS and I go to Narnia under my bed...

Clothes have a great tendency to pile up on the floor in my room. One of the main reasons for this is the sheer clothes/wardrobe space ratio. Which is not at all proportionate or fair. And yet I keep buying more clothes. Each time I clean my room and restock my wardrobe I become more and more impressed with it's TARDIS nature. My mother has no idea how I managed to fit it all in this time. In all honesty I am not sure either.

I am a terrible hoarder. Of all things, not just clothes. I struggle to remove things from my posession, as I always think, what if I need this later?! Past experience has taught me that if I get rid of something I will indeed need it at a later point.

Besides there is a particularly amazing joy in owning this many clothes (I have drawers stuffed with things that don't require hanging, like pants, tshirts, long tops, pyjamas and jumpers). Quite frequently I stumble accross things I forgot I had and it's like buying something new all over again!

I must say though, there are 2 items that I have been looking for for many a year. A simple black skirt and a simple black dress. I do not own a plain dress or skirt. This is something of a failing when you consider that if I have nothing plain everything else must be patterned.

this...

goes into this...

to equal TARDIS
(keep in mind you cant see every item as they get a bit
lost being all jammed in like that haha)

A bow for all occassions

Just taking a moment to share some of my favourite summer clothes/outfits. I found the polka dot ress in a hidden away stall at Bondi Markets last month. The skirt on the other hand is from a shop on my favourite street. It is a prefect mix of sideshow and whimsy with merry go round animals printed along the front in grey. Grey is by the way one of my favourite shades to wear. The singlet looks a little bit bogan, usually I layer it over a lace top and tuck it in loosely but it was too hot today.

I also clearly have a penchant for tying bows in my hair to jazz it up a bit. Long, dead straight hair can look very....flat.

Don't Worry, You're Just As Sane As I Am...

Again too hot to do anything and today I worked. I have a lovely new bed spread, quilt and sheet set which I have been meaning to photograph but its much too hot to make my bed properly to photograph it. One day soon I will and it can be marvelled at. I adore it. Red, yellow, blue and cream with stripes, checks, and vintage childrens fabric patches and hand screen bits.

I am a huge Harry Potter fan. I am not entirely sure what I am going to do once the last movie is out. What will I have left to anticipate. But that is a problem that is some months off.

For now I thought I'd share with you a photo shoot of the lovely Evanna Lynch. She is a very...ethereal creature isn't she.

This is by far my favourite. I love the mix of blue prints and those shoes are beautiful.

The blue with her platinum hair is especially lovely.

Photos courtesy of Evannafan.org

On another note I am really must have these shoes. Unless of course I try them on and they look horrid on me. I suspect this is the kind of shoe that looks best on a lovely slender leg.

I stumbled across them in Zu Shoes in Melbourne but they didn't have my size in the store. I have a tendency to slip out the back of shoes so unfortunately I can't just buy shoes without trying them on. There are a few Zu stores in Sydney though and I will be there a couple of times in the next month. Heres hoping I get lucky!

In My Mother's Clothing

It has been far too hot lately. I went to Melbourne to visit my father last week and it would have been the perfect opportunity to photograph some of my finished projects. 90% of my suitcase contained things I had made or altered in some way.

However 38 degress, while not the hottest it could be, was not very conducive of outside photography and my camera doesn't like the indoors unfortunately.

I had a bit of fun with my outfit today so I thought I'd post about that instead. It was so hot I wanted something light and comfy and after some wardrobe raiding I put this together. The dress is actually a halter dress that was a bit too dressy for just going to lunch with a friend. I found this cropped lace top that used to belong to my mother and paired it up with a new belt found in a second hand shop. In the end it was just what I wanted and quite light and cool despite the black and length.

Hair wise in this heat the only way to wear hip length hair is in a bun or in milkmaid braids which hurt my head after a while.

And i don't think you can see them very well but my shoes are new, so new they still give me blisters... I got them on sale. They are truly beautiful with a black and white art deco design.

Adventures In Wonderland

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I have to say, I am getting pretty excited about the new Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland. In just a few days over a month it will be in cinemas and in delightful 3D glory. I have always been a particular fan of the world of Lewis Carol and I elected to study the story of Alice for my Advanced English HSC paper. I thought it was very appropriate to the topic of 'Imaginative Journey.'

Last year I turned 20 and decided to ring in the new age with an Alice In Wonderland themed birthday party. I made the guests play croquet and participate in 3 legged races and tea cup relays as well as musical chairs.

I painted roses red and cooked up a tea party storm of wonderful proportions.

And the guests turned up, for the most part, in costumed glory. Everyone looked stunning.

But my main reason for blogging about this is I made my own costume, pretty much from head to toe. I made the ears, earrings, neck tie, ruffle tail, shorts, anklet and steampunk style WR badge that you can't really see as it was on my tails coat that I added when night fell.

A friend and I are going to go and see Alice In Wonderland in 3D at the Imax cinema in Sydney, which according to a Scottish guy is the largest in the world? The things you learn from tourists...however that could also just be the Australian hyperbole. I want to dress up and insist my friend dress up also. I figure i already have the costume?

The only problem is I wore this in the middle of winter, and it is now the middle of summer here. Eeewww. Tights are therefore not ideal, but essential to the outfit! Do you see my dilemma? Also Sydney is a 3 hour train trip away and I've done that trip in a corset before much to the disgust of my internal organs... but it is possible. All for the name of fashion and fun?

Being so long, the only way to curl my hair is to put it in rags overnight.

White rabbit and Cheshire Cat


Adventures in croquet. I'm not sure how my friends feel about their photos being on the blog so
unfortunately you are stuck looking at me. (you can also see the evidence of my
second unsuccessful attempt at the 3 legged race)


And finally toward the end a few stragglers arrived uncostumed but still welcome

Hope you have enjoyed.
x

Introductions are in order

Hey,

I'm Madolin, if by some weird chance you've managed to stumble across this blog and don't already know me.

I've been watching an unusual amount of television lately. By unusual I probably refer to the fact that I've been watching it at all. With the exception of a few UK shows I tend to forget that television exists. But I've been doing a lot of Art assignments lately and mindless television does make a good background.

Anyway the reason I bring this up and in fact the reason for creating this blog is this: there are a lot of very nice clothes out there. I always have plans to make this dress or another or that item of jewellery or make something out of that piece of fabric. I rarely get around to actually following through on these grand thoughts, probably because I'm lazy. But I figure if I make this blog maybe it might help me to follow through on at least some things.

At the very top of my list is the fact that I need to take in my teapot dress. Either I've shrunk, it's grown or it never quite fit me as I imagined it did. I suspect the latter. The next item is to put a dart in the back of my cars dress.

There's also a whole load of jewellery that I need to make or at least jot down some drawings for. Same with dresses. Fortunately for me the internet and the 'snapshot' button of my media player can provide me with a wealth of images for inspiration.

As to Violet Baudelaire's dresses, I thought I'd start off with something that I wish I was skilled enough to make. Aren't they unbelievable? Look at the detail in that wedding dress.
Maybe one day.

Bye birdies x