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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
My Best Friend Jen Sewing Group
My Best Friend Jen holds first ever sewing group!
As you can see by the photos, some of us took the group seriously...Others not so much!
Three to start, four next week.
Anyone interesting in attending our Tuesday night Preston group, please contact me via email jen@mybestfriendjen.com
As you can see by the photos, some of us took the group seriously...Others not so much!
Three to start, four next week.
Anyone interesting in attending our Tuesday night Preston group, please contact me via email jen@mybestfriendjen.com
Rose St Markets
The Rose St. Artists' Market showcases Melbourne's largest line-up of emerging artists and designers each weekend - right in the heart of Fitzroy. With so much new talent on offer, my visit to Rose Street uncovered plenty of hidden gems, like the beautiful hand made hats of Adelina Design
If I hadn't just spent the last five months overseas Emily Petch of Adelina would have had on red hot customer on her hands buying everything, in more then one colour!
Monday, May 10, 2010
I Love Vintage...
…And Vintagelovesme.com
Now everyone can shop online and go straight to the cool stuff (no more rumaging though racks and racks of clothes only to be beaten to the cool stuff).
Easy to use and pretty stuff to look at vintagelovesme.com will send your friends green with envy. And the best thing is that this site is new to the weorl wide web so you’ll also be the first to know!
Now everyone can shop online and go straight to the cool stuff (no more rumaging though racks and racks of clothes only to be beaten to the cool stuff).
Easy to use and pretty stuff to look at vintagelovesme.com will send your friends green with envy. And the best thing is that this site is new to the weorl wide web so you’ll also be the first to know!
Friday, May 7, 2010
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
My Best Friend Jen On The Town
Seen on the best looking heads around Melbourne are My Best Friend Jens signature hats, made from recycled materials. The lovely Bec Dunn wore hers to Melbourne Cup while the ever stylish Renata Muss wore hers all over town!
All styles, colours available please contact Jen
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My Best Friend Jen Goes Web Wide!
Hi Everybody!
A very exciting announcement to make!
http://mybestfriendjen.com is now a registered web address!
Stay tuned for the official launch!
Love,
Your Best Friend
A very exciting announcement to make!
http://mybestfriendjen.com is now a registered web address!
Stay tuned for the official launch!
Love,
Your Best Friend
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Issue 2/20100406 Everybody is buzzing out.....
A Dedication To Renata
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, right?
Yes!
But nothing smacks of a glittering friendship more than a sequined dress, right?
YES! YES! YES!
Armed with the inspiration found in the sequined dresses that adorn the walls of Renata Muss, an Australian Comedian living in London, (she's pretty and pretty famous love her here) and the giddying heights of Camden Markets second hand sellers; I decided it was time I tried one on.... then immediately brought it!
Fatally love struck, I begin to pronder...I wonder how appropriate it is to wear sequined dress to my next job interview? ...What about with my powder blue gum-boots on mums alpaca farm? No? You Sure?.....Shame.
So where can you get your sequined fantasy? Choose your own shopping adventure, click one of the links below.
The Price Is Right
Money Is No Option!
Ebay Addict
Fashion Victims
Diamonds are a girl’s best friend, right?
Yes!
But nothing smacks of a glittering friendship more than a sequined dress, right?
YES! YES! YES!
Armed with the inspiration found in the sequined dresses that adorn the walls of Renata Muss, an Australian Comedian living in London, (she's pretty and pretty famous love her here) and the giddying heights of Camden Markets second hand sellers; I decided it was time I tried one on.... then immediately brought it!
Fatally love struck, I begin to pronder...I wonder how appropriate it is to wear sequined dress to my next job interview? ...What about with my powder blue gum-boots on mums alpaca farm? No? You Sure?.....Shame.
So where can you get your sequined fantasy? Choose your own shopping adventure, click one of the links below.
The Price Is Right
Money Is No Option!
Ebay Addict
Fashion Victims
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Issue 1/20100316 Everybody Is Buzzing About.....
Two Tone Tights for starters!
As worn by Pixie Geldof, SJP and anyone else who can afford the mere £300 for a pair of Chanel tights.
When I first saw these tights I feel instantly in love...but as I had just finished paying off a rather large credit card debt (due to my love of shopping) and was saving for a overseas trip, Chanel tights were crossed off the shoppig list fast..for now.
In the mean time; I immediately began scouring the net for cheap imitation knockoffs only to find no-one delivers to Australia (What? It’s 2008!) and the only Australian suppler of two tone tights, stocked two tone JESTER tights in red and green.
Two years on; while visiting friends in London, I have still bot lost hope for finding a pair of affordable two tone tights. Now in ne of the largest cities of the world, I begin again, a search for these elusive/exclusive tights.
Many a tight storsock shop was met with my egore face, only to myself be met with diapointment.
It was only when I resorted back to the interweb that joy was found, because now ASOS delivers to Australia!
You too can have inner peace...mine is in the post
As worn by Pixie Geldof, SJP and anyone else who can afford the mere £300 for a pair of Chanel tights.
When I first saw these tights I feel instantly in love...but as I had just finished paying off a rather large credit card debt (due to my love of shopping) and was saving for a overseas trip, Chanel tights were crossed off the shoppig list fast..for now.
In the mean time; I immediately began scouring the net for cheap imitation knockoffs only to find no-one delivers to Australia (What? It’s 2008!) and the only Australian suppler of two tone tights, stocked two tone JESTER tights in red and green.
Two years on; while visiting friends in London, I have still bot lost hope for finding a pair of affordable two tone tights. Now in ne of the largest cities of the world, I begin again, a search for these elusive/exclusive tights.
Many a tight storsock shop was met with my egore face, only to myself be met with diapointment.
It was only when I resorted back to the interweb that joy was found, because now ASOS delivers to Australia!
You too can have inner peace...mine is in the post
Friday, February 19, 2010
A Crime of Opportunity...
Just in case my mother is reading this, a ¨friend¨was asleep in a hotel room, two stories up in down town Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Before going to bed she locked the door and considered locking the window, as one could easily jump from one room to the next but no one was in the adjacent room and she needed some where to dry her towel.
After a long days travel, ´Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance´ had served as the perfect sleeping pill and by 9pm my friend was sound asleep.
For some reason at about 1.30am this peaceful sleep was interrupted.
There sitting on the end of her bed was a man of about 30 years old.
¨What the FUCK. Are you doing in MY room?
No answer.
A quick consolidation of my (I mean my friends) travel goods; purse, passport,money, credit cards, camera...ipod?
" Where the fuck is my iPod?"
She had left it charging on the bed head and now missing, was: the cable, charger and iPod.
It could have been a good score if her iPod wasn´t five years old and the clumsy fool hadn´t woken her up.
The same clumsy fool was now trying to get back through the window, but she wasn´t letting go and he was really scared he would would fall two flights below. She didn´t care but noted the smell of alcohol on his breath while he pleaded to be let go.
In the adjacent room sat the accomplice.
The two must have arrived shortly after mid night. When they turned the lights on, the light would have shone through her blind-less window and onto the sleeping face of a single white female (a sleeping beauty, if you must), a charging iPod, an open window and an opportunity.
Fast forwarded to her waking up and screaming profanities.
Too drunk and too stupid to hide the iPod properly, the accomplice decided to hide it in his hands, and it could be seen easily.
Pointing she screamed at him, "Give me. My. FUCKING iPod NOW! You, you..yooooou CUNTS!"
The guy in her room was now extremely panicked, he hadn´t looked in her eyes the whole time until now. "Tranquilla, senorita por favour! Tranquilla" And motioned hastily for the iPod to be passed back through the window.
Satisfied, but wanting revenge, she said with some sarcastic tones, "No! No, "Tranquilla por favour" I´m calling Policia!"
Now that she had her iPod back, she allowed him to go back through the window, which she locked after him and ran to the door to scream for help.
Management had heard the noise and was there to greet the shaking girl at the door.
Armed with air freshener (aka mace), the manager and his daughter began banging and yelling at the door for the men to leave.
The men were now hiding behind the bed with the lights off. (She could see them through the window)
The idiots were trying the old "If they can´t see us they wont know we´re here!"
It hasn´t worked since I was about five and small enough to actually not be seen but this 30 something and 40 something year old men thought it might just work, it didn´t.
Eventually the thieves came out, the older one jeering at her in Spanish, something about not doing anything to her or not having anything of hers. It was greeted with a push out the door my the manager. Good riddance.
In the end there was no policia, when you don´t speak the language it´s too much trouble.
Her Chilean friends, who she had travelled with from Sucre, explained to the manager in Spanish what had actually happened in her room, before they arrived with their air freshener to save the day.
Everyone agreed that me friend was very brave, no, no a legend, a real modern day heroine, she had taken on the bad guys and won!
Please don´t try this at home, it scares her to think what if they were armed, but she also realises that she was very lucky indeed.
P.s Please no one tell my mum.. I mean her mum!
Before going to bed she locked the door and considered locking the window, as one could easily jump from one room to the next but no one was in the adjacent room and she needed some where to dry her towel.
After a long days travel, ´Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance´ had served as the perfect sleeping pill and by 9pm my friend was sound asleep.
For some reason at about 1.30am this peaceful sleep was interrupted.
There sitting on the end of her bed was a man of about 30 years old.
¨What the FUCK. Are you doing in MY room?
No answer.
A quick consolidation of my (I mean my friends) travel goods; purse, passport,money, credit cards, camera...ipod?
" Where the fuck is my iPod?"
She had left it charging on the bed head and now missing, was: the cable, charger and iPod.
It could have been a good score if her iPod wasn´t five years old and the clumsy fool hadn´t woken her up.
The same clumsy fool was now trying to get back through the window, but she wasn´t letting go and he was really scared he would would fall two flights below. She didn´t care but noted the smell of alcohol on his breath while he pleaded to be let go.
In the adjacent room sat the accomplice.
The two must have arrived shortly after mid night. When they turned the lights on, the light would have shone through her blind-less window and onto the sleeping face of a single white female (a sleeping beauty, if you must), a charging iPod, an open window and an opportunity.
Fast forwarded to her waking up and screaming profanities.
Too drunk and too stupid to hide the iPod properly, the accomplice decided to hide it in his hands, and it could be seen easily.
Pointing she screamed at him, "Give me. My. FUCKING iPod NOW! You, you..yooooou CUNTS!"
The guy in her room was now extremely panicked, he hadn´t looked in her eyes the whole time until now. "Tranquilla, senorita por favour! Tranquilla" And motioned hastily for the iPod to be passed back through the window.
Satisfied, but wanting revenge, she said with some sarcastic tones, "No! No, "Tranquilla por favour" I´m calling Policia!"
Now that she had her iPod back, she allowed him to go back through the window, which she locked after him and ran to the door to scream for help.
Management had heard the noise and was there to greet the shaking girl at the door.
Armed with air freshener (aka mace), the manager and his daughter began banging and yelling at the door for the men to leave.
The men were now hiding behind the bed with the lights off. (She could see them through the window)
The idiots were trying the old "If they can´t see us they wont know we´re here!"
It hasn´t worked since I was about five and small enough to actually not be seen but this 30 something and 40 something year old men thought it might just work, it didn´t.
Eventually the thieves came out, the older one jeering at her in Spanish, something about not doing anything to her or not having anything of hers. It was greeted with a push out the door my the manager. Good riddance.
In the end there was no policia, when you don´t speak the language it´s too much trouble.
Her Chilean friends, who she had travelled with from Sucre, explained to the manager in Spanish what had actually happened in her room, before they arrived with their air freshener to save the day.
Everyone agreed that me friend was very brave, no, no a legend, a real modern day heroine, she had taken on the bad guys and won!
Please don´t try this at home, it scares her to think what if they were armed, but she also realises that she was very lucky indeed.
P.s Please no one tell my mum.. I mean her mum!
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Bolvia; Dust, Salt and No Showers!
In Boliva now...wow it is backwards here! But so, so beautiful and different every minute.
Arrived a few days ago at the boarder of Argentina and Bolivia, we walked crossed the boarder (I attached myself to some other English speaking tourist who were headed in the same direction), walked through a very slow customs (which advertised bano´s but they were locked (crossed legs for a very long time!)), then waited in line for 8hrs for the last five tickets for the train to Uyni.
We arrived at Uyni about 3am (2hrs late) and quickly sorted ourselves out with a hostel.
Introducing the hostels of Bolivia; no toilet paper and you have to use a bucket to flush (understandable in the desert but in the city???), toilets (banos)/showers are locked until your allowed to use them, you pay extra for a shower (if they have showers) or you pay extra not to have a cold shower but the rooms are cheap and clean, the staff have been friendly (even if they have to put up with me not speaking Spanish) so far the beds have been comfortable and warm, so I`m just going to suck it up and hope my attitudes improves.
Last night I paid $30 bolivianos; aka the BOB ($4.85AUD) and got my self a hotel room. I wanted to pay $50 BOB ($8.09AUD) for a single room with bano but they didn`t have any left.
For the last three days I have been on a tour to the salt fields, hot springs and Bolivia’s largest desert. It was a lot of driving through a hot, dry, and dusty (salty in the salt lakes) but impressive country side.
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More photos of the three day trip are available by clicking here
We stayed in hostels all the way, they were as above clean and comfy beds, but the last one didn`t have showers, electricity was available after dark only and my iPod, I think it´s broken! (cry cry cry) I need to charge it up and see what happens; hopefully it is ok... pray for me!
I have been suffering from altitude sickness for the last few days, out of breath, dizzy and dry lips from breathing through my mouth but mostly headaches and wanting to throw up. I have been to the “farmacia” today. She didn`t speak English but I mimed a headache and she said "Ahhh..?Latitude. Sick?"... "SI! Senorita" and she game me something in tablet form for the headaches and the occasional wish to vomit.
Latitude sickness didn`t take my appetite away though...
Today I am going to Sucre on the 7pm bus (12 hours of bus, no bano!). They have an artist market there and I`m hoping for cheap presents and handmade goodies to take home.
After there I will probably head to Santa Cruise and into the jungle. If I have time I`ll head to Copacabana and Trinidad for a couple of days before heading to La Paz (to do the "Death Road Ride" it`s ok Mum, I won`t die but I will get a free t-shirt at the end!).
On the 25th of Feb I have a flight to Mexico from La Paz
Fin. Now go look at some photos.
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