I’m on my way to New Zealand my lovelies! After possibly the most uncomfortable bus ride I’ve ever experienced I’m now sitting pretty in the Qantas lounge courtesy of Mr Smaggle who has some pretty cool airline connections. That means free internet so I can blog for you all! Yay!

* Pants from Target (cotton and linen – it’s like walking around with a cloud wrapped around your arse)

* Top thrifted from Material Pleasures (double the pleasure though because I almost bought this full price from Country Road a year ago)

* Shoes from Marco Gianni

* Clear plastic bangles from Equip

* Bowling ball bangles from Bowling Arm

* Red leather cuff made by a friend

These are my travel outfit rules – elastic waist, nothing tight, natural fibres and no metal jewellery. You guys know that I have to wear SOME jewellery because I don’t feel right if I’m not jangling a little so I stick to materials that won’t set off the detectors.

So… anyone wondering why I’m holding Cosmo?

Squeal!!!!

Take a peak yourself on page 235 of February issue. 

Love Lady Smaggle

P.S Welcome to my new readers! 

Look. I’m on summer holidays. I have absolutely nothing to complain about. The sun is shining both literally and proverbially and there is happiness and glee oozing out of every pore of my body. Yay for me. My bloody wardrobe is a nightmare and it’s RUINING MY LIFE!!!

For the last fifteen years of my life I’ve lived in a house that my parents built. They were well equipped with knowledge of their pack rat daughter when they built the house and my room was custom designed with twice the wardrobe space of any other room. In the world. You may remember that I moved from this blissful chateau a month ago and into a bedroom that is not only the size of a double bed with absolutely no room left over, it also has this weird failure of a wardrobe. It’s like it’s trying to be a place where you can store clothing but it’s falling short of this seemingly easy function.

For a start there is about 30 centimetres of hanging space about one metre off the floor. This means that I can hang around 10 VERY short skirts and nothing else. All of my dresses are bunched up on the floor because the dumb arse twat that designed the wardrobe clearly didn’t think about the fact sometimes people wear clothes other than business shirts. It has sliding doors so you can only see about a quarter of the contents at any given time. This also means that I can’t cram a whole mess of stuff in the wardrobe and then slam the door shut. There are plenty of drawers. I couldn’t possibly ask for more drawers. The issue that I have with the drawers is that they are more like shallow trays than drawers. I can fit a very thin layer of underwear in them and that’s about it. My winter coats are in the garage and my shoes are under the bed. My scarves are artistically draped all over my bed head so it looks like a gypsy threw up in my room.  

It’s making packing for New Zealand really annoying.

So my love what’s got your goat this fine afternoon? Share a rant with Lady?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

I spent the day watching DVDs and making jewellery. I just got back from an Ethiopian dinner with my parents which was delightful. I got to snuggle the most beautiful baby. The little one belonged to the owners who are Ethiopian and this child looked like he was made of chocolate. I could’ve just eaten him! Mama Smaggle abducted him for a few moments and made us all have a cuddle. She has a strange habit of going up to complete strangers and asking if she can hold their babies. I swear that woman will disown me if I don’t give her grandchildren one day. 

* T-shirt dress from Just Jeans

* Singlet top from Supre

* Necklace Smaggle Made

* Bow ring Smaggle made

I’m also wearing my Sass and Bide rip off gathered tights but you’ve already met them before so I thought I’d do an accessory shot today for those of you that demand details all the time! 

How are your holidays going? Anything special happening in your lives?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

It’s Boxing Day already here in the Southern Hemisphere and although I said yesterday that I’m taking a break from the blog it turns out that I get bored about a nano second after Christmas day is over so I’m back! 

Yesterday was rather spectacular. I woke up early, exchanged presents with Mr Smaggle (I received a new Moleskin Diary, a Morrocan tea pot and a gorgeous leather handbag that I’ve had my eye on for ages – clever boy!), and then I headed back to Mama and Daddy Smaggle for a delicious breakfast of tropical fruit salad and yogurt.  We then packed up our car and headed down the road to spend the day with my extended Smaggles.

Here is how the day panned out…

The day started off with eating homemade spring rolls under a canopy of green leaves and coloured lanterns. My cousin Tim is a bartender and dutifully stood at his make-shift bar mixing delicious icy cocktails with mangoes and strawberries. I don’t think my glass was empty for around three hours. 

Daddy Smaggle spend most of the morning cooking a christmas turkey. I swear he must have basted that bastard around thirty times. He was so proud and it was delicious!

Daily Outfit shot. I’m laughing because Daddy Smaggle was saying ‘Work it, work it baby! Work it! Own it!’

Christmas outfit - 

* Dress from Lair in the Canberra Centre. (I managed to squirt spring roll juice all down my front and a dirty little grub fell from a tree and left a big brown spot right on my left breast. I’m just not the type of girl that should wear white.)

* Shoes from Big W

* Bangles collected for years

* Bird decoration from Harem in Melbourne attached to a head band from Equip

We then sat down to turkey, ham, crunchy nut salad, roast vegetables and garlic! Allow me to introduce you to some of my family…

My cousin Alice

Cousins Harry and Lucy 

Mama and Daddy Smaggle

My brother, Baldren Smaggle. (Ladies he’s single… just in case you’re interested!)

Nanny and Poppy Smaggle

Then in the afternoon we all jumped in the pool for a few hours and our bartender continued to top up our glasses while we splashed around. At 5pm my aunty Janice (the one in red and white below) distributed caftans because according to her 5pm is caftan time. Here we all are lounging around in caftans in the afternoon sunshine… bliss!

And guess what? I get to keep my caftan! It was the best Christmas ever! 

How was yours???

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

P.S Sorry to bore you with pictures of my family but they are just to gorgeous not to share!

Merry Christmas my little angels! I’m taking a break from the blog for the next few days to spend time with my family. And drink copious amounts of Christmas cocktails, lounge by the pool and eat my own body weight in prawns. I’m sure you understand.

Right now I’m watching the Victoria Secret fashion parade while Mr Smaggle makes me organic soup and salmon cakes for dinner! Yum! 

Hope you all have a rip roaring, pressie scoring, gin pouring, Christmas porking, wobbly walking, slurry talking day! 

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Photo

Just a few tips to keep you sparkly and gorgeous through out the day…

* Get up early and sneak out for a brisk walk. It’ll get your blood pumping and will keep you glowing and sprightly for the whole day!

* Eat a VERY light and healthy breakfast. And resist drinking anything alcoholic before midday. Mama Smaggle and I make this mistake every year in the form of champagne and orange juice. We are being grown ups this year and resisting alcoholic temptation… until midday. 

* Wear something comfortable. You don’t want to be pulling at your clothes or sucking in your stomach all day. 

* Stop eating when you’re full. Sounds obvious I know but I’m such a little piggy that every year I stuff my face so that I can do little else but loosen my pants and moan on the couch all afternoon. Just remember – it’s not your last meal. It’s only Christmas lunch and you get to have one every year so don’t be all over it like a fat kid on cake. 

* Wear minimal make-up. Just enough to highlight your features for the inevitable photos but not enough so that it smears when you fall asleep in a pile of coats mid-afternoon… 

* Be pleasant. There’s nothing more unattractive than a Christmas Diva. Unless you’re on the dance floor and in that case all bets are off.

Have happy days my little ones!

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx 

On Monday 29th December Mr Smaggle and I are packing our little (eh-hem!) bags and heading off on a two week holiday to gorgeous New Zealand!

We start our trip in Auckland (I’ll be wandering around there for three days so keep your eyes peeled and come and say hi! My relaxed face is naturally quite bitchy but I promise I won’t bite!) and are there for New Year’s Eve and then we pick up our big old camper van and start driving South!

My question to you dear ladies and gentlemen is this – What is the poo of New Zealand? The really awesome stuff that you would only know about if you lived there? Is there a man with a beard of bees? A maze that’s filled with chocolate and bunny rabbits? A gin factory with free samples? An adult sized pool of toy balls? Adventure and animal related activity suggestions would be most appreciated. Art and shopping too! And architecture… Just to keep both of us Smaggles happy!

Oh and is there a place where you can pat monkeys or similarly adorable bite-sized creatures? I get that I’m going to New Zealand, not Bali, but Mr Smaggle loves tiny, fluffy animals and I’d hate to miss any baby petting zoos that he could frolick around in… that was a serious question by the way.

I’ve also had several offers from my delightful readers suggesting a catch up! I would love to… BUT as we have no defining plan it might be a little difficult to arrange so far in advance. So I propose that if you’re in New Zealand and would like to meet just email me at lady(at)smagglestyle.com with your location and I’ll see if we end up in the same place at the same time!

Please feel free to email any suggestions as well! Thanks in advance my little fancy dancers!

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Today was rather lovely. We woke up early-ish and went out for breakfast with Mr Smaggle, Mr Squiggle and their parents. The three of us then went shopping… pretty much all day. Then I had coffee with friends, went to the gym and went out for Indian food for dinner. I’m ridiculously tired and full! Oh and the reason why I look so horrified in the photo is because I was holding the ‘door open’ button for a really long time and this smooth, firm, female voice came booming out of the speakers and said ‘PLEASE REMOVE THE OBSTRUCTION FROM THE DOOR!’. Scared the shit out of me. 

* Sass and Bide rip off gathered tights from Itrip Iskip

* Knit dress from DFO in Canberra

* Shoes from Gertrude Street in Melbourne

* Black bangles from Diva and Melbourne 

* Arm cuff from Diva

* Snake bracelet from Eyeliah over at Style Symmetry. Seriously. It’s the coolest thing EVER! Thank you so much! It’s so Claudia Kishi from the Babysitters Club.

This little piggy is off to bed! How is your weekend going my petals?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Photo from Verhext – my girl crush.

Why don’t you…?

* Wear a long cream maxi dress that shows off your shoulders? Wooden bangles up to your elbows? Tan wedges with a wooden sole? Berry hued lipstick and tousled hair?

* Pin a Christmas ornament in your hair?

* Slip into some delicious white linen sailor pants? With a navy and white striped boat neck t-shirt? Pin a natty pill box to your head? Paint your nails in shiny red varnish?

* Ban black?

* Wrap yourself in a silk caftan? Low cut at the front to accentuate your milky tan? Bare feet? With an ankle bracelet? Wrap your hair up in a printed scarf? With shoulder-duster earrings?

* Wear the silly paper hats that come in Christmas crackers? Realise that there is nothing more stylish than a sense of humour?

* Wear a knee-skimming lace dress? With massive chandelier earrings? Your hair in a bee hive? With open-toed court shoes?

Here are a few Christmas posts that I did last year if you feel so inclined to go digging through the archives!

Christmas style tips 1

Christmas style tips 2

Christmas style tips 3

Christmas style tips 4

Posing for Photos

Christmas shopping rant

What to wear on Chrismas Day

I was a keen little Christmas elf last year wasn’t I???

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Photo

Just a few things to keep you busy on the last few days of the year….

Chiclooks shows us some rockin’ knitted jewellery.

Coco shares the 50 Best Dresses of the year. Awesome.

Daddy Likey finds the ugliest shoes in the world on ebay. And pays the shit out of them.

How the hell does Rumi make this dress look so cool?

Renee is gorgeous. As always.

So is Fashionfake. Man I wish I could do casual cool like this girl.

Ranna introduces the Fashionist. Total  fashion chocolate.

Kafferepet does a tribute to Betty Page. If only I were gay…

I have never seen so many wrong items thrown together to look so right.

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx