1950s Party

On Tuesday at work, my department hosted a 1950s party for the rest of the library held at lunch. This follows a tradition, where a teddy bear is passed around to different departments and they have to organise a themed party during the year.

I was in the event committee, along with a few coworkers (although I think me and one other coworker did most of the work). I planned the music, made a film, and made some decorations. I also contributed some food for the lunch.

This is the stairwell leading to level 7, the staff room. Over the weekend, the rain caused the ceiling to collapse a little bit, so it we were not sure we could hold the event on level 7. Luckily, they temporarily put up these unsafe looking wooden beams to hold the roof up...

The door to level 7. I created the open sign, and the diner sign up the top.

Loads of food! Ignore my coworkers.

Here's a photo of the other direction.

Here is the bear that gets handed to each department each year, my coworker made a cute 50s outfit for it!

I created a looping film of dancing and movie clips from the 1950s

Some table decorations.

Here is my outfit!

Shirt: normal black shirt

Skirt: Domino Dollhouse

The event went really well, everyone was sending praises via email to our department. I was so exhausted by the end of the day, I left early and went to bed at 8pm!

Today I'm heading to the airport, to go to Melbourne and visit the David Bowie exhibition. I've never been to Melbourne before, so I'm excited, but also a bit nervous. I've been planning this trip since last year!

Incursion Sci-Fi in July

Over the weekend was Incursion Sci-Fi in July club event. I got two DJ sets, which I always appreciate. Both my sets went well, with lots of people dancing to both.

Here is some photos of my outfit for the night. I was a bit lazy and didn't dress up for the night, didn't even wear a corset.

Shirt: Ebay

Jacket: No Future

Skirt: Asos

Winklepickers: Underground Shoes

My hair is growing fast, it wont be long until I can have my death-hawk back again!

What's Up With Me

So what have I been up to lately? I've been pretty quiet, and I'm dealing with a lot of depressive thoughts at the moment. I don't want to bore you guys with that sort of thing, but it's hard to do anything because life seems pointless. I don't feel like I have a support network here, and to be frank if I disappeared it would take quite a while for anyone to notice and the first person to notice would be someone in New York, on the opposite side of the planet to where I live. Bit sad to think about.

I do have some photos from limited outings I've had. I'm smiling, but that doesn't mean much at the moment (gosh, I sound like a mope).

Having breakfast in the city centre. Wearing a Hell Bunny Ouija cardigan given to me for my birthday last year, finally being able to wear it now it's colder.

Finally finished my sisters blanket!! Here it is displayed on my messy bed. I think she really liked it!

So many squares.

My younger sister turned 18, and we had a little family gathering.

Wearing the Hell Bunny cardigan again. I love the winklepickers I'm wearing, they're black suede with western buckles. I don't know what brand they are, but I don't wear them often because they cause blisters :(

Here is the birthday girl, I can't believe she's 18 now!

My friend/co-worker wanted to go out for her birthday, so we ended up going to a pub. I didn't really know what to wear, so I went a bit trad goth.

Lovely matte purple lipstick from Fyrinnae

I bought a few vinyl albums lately.

I got the Hairspray soundtrack from ebay for $15 from Germany. I love Hairspray, and I love John Waters. He's such a cool guy, and I really admire his films and his quest for filth.

In the middle is the new LP album from Rule of Thirds, a post-punk sounding band from Adelaide. It's a great album, but I wished they included a MP3 download with it. I believe it cost $30 including a band t-shirt.

Lastly is Pinups by David Bowie. I purchased it for $20 from a second hand vinyl place near my dads house. This album is a collection of some of Bowie's favourite artists/songs resung by him. I love the cover artwork with him and the supermodel Twiggy.

I'm slowly collecting Bowie vinyl, I really need The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, but it's hard to find cheap. Luckily, I already have my favourite album of his, Young Americans.

Bring me cold weather!!

I love the cold weather, and it's finally starting to turn wintery in Perth. Yesterday morning was a chilly 5 degrees celsius (that's 41 fahrenheit for you yanks) with a day temperature of 18 degrees (64 fahrenheit). It probably doesn't sound cold for my readers in other countries, but Perth doesn't really get cold.

I got to wear my punk jacket for the first time this year, along with a scarf and gloves. More weather like this please!
Lots of people at work ask me if my head is cold because of my hair. I don't really notice it, I'm sure I had less hair when I had my mohawk.

Jacket: No Future

Scarf: ?
Cardigan: ?
Skirt: Big W
Tights: We Love Colors

This is my early morning 'just woken up' face :)

Photograph of Three Sisters

Last year at the Halloween Incursion I won a photoshoot with NVS Photography. I decided to use this opportunity to get some photos of my sister and myself to use as christmas presents for my relatives.
My step-mum cried when she opened the framed photo :)
Here are some of the unedited shots!

Here's Heather. I don't know how I'm related to someone so pretty!!

Still can't get over how pretty she is!

Day Trip to York

Two weekends ago, I went on a spur of the moment road trip with my sister Kirsty. We went to York, which is a small town around 1.5 hours away from the Perth. Because we got there so late in the day, there wasn't much to do apart from quickly visit a sweet shop, and the local cemetery. We stopped at an observation point on the way home, but it was a bit dark to see anything.

Small towns kinda of freak me out, I always wonder what they actually do out there. Especially because the internet is pretty bad outside of Perth.

My sister took some nice driving photos, while I was at the wheel. Please excuse my dirty windscreen. I hope you like the photos, I think they really show what country Australia looks like :)

Lots of photographs after the page break!

Incursion Masquerade, April 2015

On Saturday, during the Easter long weekend, I got to DJ at Incursion. It was a masqurade theme. I was very stressed during that time as I had two university assignments I hadn't started, luckily I only had one DJ set at the start of the night.

I was feeling a bit lonely and anxious too, so it's good I was able to leave early.

Here's some photos of my makeup, and professional photos from Vespa Photography (at the venue)

I purchased this bat mask from Ebay for around $2. Luckily it arrived in time.

I glued it to my face using eyelash glue.

Here a close up of my makeup, I used eyelash glue and glitter for the lips. I used a silver chrome along with lots of holo glitter for the eyes.