Apologies dear readersI did promise to bring you an outfit post and news of my new hair product yesterday but I had an awful night sleep and was exhausted yesterday so I definitely wasn't photographable. I certainly don't want to be scaring you off!
I will tell you now though the hair product I found in Magnamail were these strange little pin curling devices called Spoolies. I did try them out on Thursday night but much to my frustration I couldn't get them to stay in my hair. They just kept unwinding themselves. I tried with various thicknesses of hair but I couldn't get the darned things to stay in. I won't discount them yet though as I am rather useless with hairstyling and my hair is desperately in need of a cut. Something that my lovely Mum is going to do when she comes over in a week and a bit! So I will probably ask her to give me a hand with the Spoolies. I will say this for them though the pieces of hair that were in them can out in a lovely curl so i think if i can get them to stay in long enough they will do a good job of creating a pin curled effect. As for my outfit post as I said i had very little sleep on Thursday night so Friday morning I woke up looking like a zombie. Never a good look in a photograph. Friday morning in Sydney was a bit of a chilly one so I donned a little red pinafore dress that has a sort of 60s style to it and popped a black short sleeved roll neck underneath. I topped it of with my red beret and my cute red pumps i picked up in Target for the bargain price of $5! I promise i will recreate this outfit at some point soon to bring you the photos. In the meantime ...
Have a great weekend dear readers ... x
Born in 1869, Jeanne Paquin trained at the French fashion house Maison Rouff. In 1891, 22 years before Coco Chanel, Jeanne Paquin was the first woman to open her own fashion house. Her husband Isodore financed the venture which Madame Paquin daringly situated right next door to the great designer Worth on the Rue de la Paix in Paris.
Paquin soon became famous. She was know for using fine silks, furs and fancy trimmings . She changed the dowdy black the was predominant in the 19th century by lining with red silks and with the use of beautiful embroidery. Paquin also used Egyptian and Chinese motifs. Paquin introduced the empire waist dress in 1906 as an imitation of the Regency style.
Paquin was excellent at marketing her clothing. This she did by sending her models to big event such as the opera and the races and having them parade in her latest designs. She was also the first person to sell her items to department stores and wholesalers and the first to open businesses overseas in London, Buenos Aires and Madrid.
Lets see what Miss Piggy thinks:
As he's a pro the hubby has been drafted in to make the birthday cake. Here it is in all its gorgeousness: 
Gung how fat choy (Happy New Year!) dear readers ... x 
I know its weird to have a favourite station but I just love Museum station in Sydney. The train we caught home on Sunday headed through there and it always makes me smile. I just adore the Art Deco feeling to it. It reminds me of stations back in London. 
I especially love the old posters. The hubby and I spotted a 
Museum station opened on 20th December 1926. It was named for its proximity to the Australian Museum. Museum was built to accommodate workers and shoppers. Department store Mark Foys even had their own tunnel entrance on the corner of Liverpool Street and Castlereagh Street. 
The tunnel leading to the station have great pictures of the station being built and a complete photo history. 
Hello dear readers!
The hubby and I both thought the play was fab and wonderfully acted especially the parrot! I wondered if watching a recording of a live play on the silver screen would not be a little weird but after a while you forgot you were in the cinema and it really felt like you were watching a play. So much so that the cinema audience actually applauded in the end!
The hubby and I did plan on stopping in at the 
I bit of an anticlimax I admit but I pop some of this on my 
Pears soap was first produced and sold by Andrew Pears at a factory near Oxford St, London in 1789. It was the world's first transparent soap. According to Unilever records Pears was the worlds first registered brand and so is the worlds oldest continuously existing brand.
In 1835, his grandson Francis Pears joined the business and created the company A. & F. Pears Ltd. In 1838 Andrew Pears retired, leaving Francis in charge of the company. In 1851 the company was awarded the prize medal for soap at The Great Exhibition.
I was browsing all the gorgous items on 
Tamara de Lempicka (May 16, 1898–March 18, 1980) was born Maria Gorska in Warsaw. Born into a wealthy family, her father was a lawyer and her mother a socialite. In 1913 at the age of 15 Tamara met the man she was determined to marry, a well-known ladies' man, gadabout, and lawyer by title - Tadeusz Łempicki. Tamara staged a campaign to win Tadeusz and they were married in 1916.
In 1917 during the Russian Revolution Tadeusz was arrested by the Bolsheviks. Maria searched the prisons, tracked him down and after several weeks secured his release. The couple fled to Paris where Tamaras family had also escaped.
In 1925, she painted her iconic work Auto-Portrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti) for the cover of the German fashion magazine Die Dame. As summed up by the magazine Auto-Journal in 1974, "the self-portrait of Tamara de Lempicka is a real image of the independent woman who asserts herself. Her hands are gloved, she is helmeted, and inaccessible; a cold and disturbing beauty [through which] pierces a formidable being—this woman is free!" De Lempicka won her first major award in 1927, first prize at the Exposition Internationale de Beaux Arts in Bordeaux, France for her portrait of Kizette on the Balcony.
Tamara became obbssesed with her work and neglected her daughter. When Kizette was not at boarding school she spent the majority of her time with her grandmother. However Tamara also imortalised Kizette in a number of paintings and in other painting the women show a likeness to Kizette. In 1928, her long time patron the Baron Raoul Kuffner visited her studio and commissioned her to paint his mistress. De Lempicka finished the portrait, then took the mistress' place in the Baron's life.
After Baron Kuffner's death from a heart attack in 1962, she sold most of her possessions and made three around-the-world trips by ship. Finally De Lempicka moved to Houston, Texas to be with Kizette and her family. There she began her difficult and disagreeable later years. Kizette served as Tamara's business manager, social secretary, and factotum, and suffered under her mother's controlling domination and petulant behavior.
