Smaggle

Super busy day! Just finished my photography unit (thank god!) and handed in my final assignment. I just have gem setting and silver casting to finish and I’m then off to Canberra for the summer. Just drinking my afternoon vegie juice (carrot, celery, apple and ginger) and then I’m off to the gym. I’m doing my lame work out today – 20 mins on the stepper while reading Vogue. Then Roomy Smaggle and I are off to the movies…

* Jeans from Jag in Canberra

* Shoes Doc Martens from DFO Melbourne

* Shirt thrifted in Canberra

* Earrings from Girlprops

* Wheelie bin necklace by Roomy Smaggle. Will show details once she has her bloody website up! 

Oh and a massive thank you to everyone who replied to my What Do You Want post. I’m slowly but surely replying to all of you. I really appreciate your lovely feedback! 

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Etsy

Lady loves…

* That I’m going home in one week for the summer. ‘Home’ being Canberra. I’m seriously jack of Melbourne this week. Then when Canberra starts pissing me off Melbourne will be home. I delight in being fickle. It’s one of my many charms.

* My juicer. It ANNIHILATES fruit and vegetables. Right now I’m drinking carrot, celery, apple and ginger juice. Hear that cheering? That’s my body celebrating. 

* Cleaning out my cupboards. Obviously not the act of doing it but waking up in the morning and diving into ironed racks of clean dresses and neat stacks of colour coded tops… sigh! 

* Planning a Saturday night celebration with my Melbourne family. That’s Roomy Smaggle (my house mate), Co-Dependent Smaggle (my wife) and Oadie (our collective faux boyfriend and the token salami of our family). Can’t. Freaking. Wait. 

* Getting back to the gym. I’ve been in the Berra for a week and although I’m fond of the Wii Fit there is nothing like a crazy pump class to get me feeling tops. 

* Regretsy. 

Lady loathes…

* Being asked this question – ‘Is there a reason in particular that you don’t want to be paid in cheques?’. Yes, because it’s not 1985. Heard of internet banking? It should be illegal to pay people in cheques. It’s like being paid in foreign currency. 

* That 90% of people that I came into contact with today told me they have diarrhoea. Excellent. I look forward to the next few days. 

* Trying to go dairy free. I have been having HORRENDOUS women’s monthlies recently and I read that going dairy free can really help with cramps so I thought I’d give it a go. The problem is that I’m so freaking stupid that I keep forgetting and eating really dumb arse things. I’ve got the soy latte down pat but then I go and eat a bowl of yogurt. Honestly. I haven’t gone one day with out dairy since I went dairy free a week ago. It’s not like I keep ‘giving in’ to dairy I just go blank when I eat cheese and then later I’m all ‘Oh… cheese is dairy. Shit. Did it again.’

* Wanting to go out for dinner and a glass of wine and not having anyone to go with! Everyone is sick or busy. Bloody Melbourne. Grumble, grumble. 

* People over-sharing on Facebook. In particular, medically. Shudder. We know I don’t censor things here at Smaggle and when I’m suffering an affliction (such as menstrual cramps) I will mention it, but I draw the line when it comes to medical details. 

What about you angels? Anything to share?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

P.S SO SORRY to my Squiz card winners! Your emails will be coming next week I promise. The Squizies are on it!

Spent all day in the workshop making cast rings and my fingers are KILLING me. I’m one of those people that test if objects are too hot to touch by touching them. God I’m brilliant. This evening I’m having avocado and sun dried tomato salad for dinner and then I’m off to a Body Pump class. 

* Dress from that cheapo shop on Swantson St but I bought it like, ten years ago.

* Cardigan from Supre.

* Boots from Joanne Mercer (which look tops in real life but always make me look quite midgety on the blog).

* Earrings from Girlprops.

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Back by popular demand! 

* The picture above is from My Parents Were Awesome blog. It’s rad.

* Vegie crisps are disgusting. It’s that time o’ the month in Smaggle land and I was craving something salty so I bought a bag of those ‘vegie’ crisps in French Onion flavour. I rarely eat packaged food and now I remember why. FYI vegie crisp company, you are not supposed to taste food for five hours after you’ve eaten it. Now I have nausea AND menstrual cramps.

* This actress from  The Craft and Empire Records is underated. She is awesome. 

* The a-hole that is late for the flight that you’re on and delays your arrival will ALWAYS get his bags first at the luggage carousel. 

* ‘Beer can’ said with an English accent sounds like ‘bacon’ in a Jamaican accent. (From Az)

* George, one of Roomy Smaggle’s fish has changed from black and orange to completely orange. He did a Michael Jackson on me. I think she thinks that he died while she was overseas and I replaced him which is completely understandable but I swear he just, like bleached his scales or something.

* Carrot juice is filthy. Carrot and apple juice is naked Johnny Depp. Actually in my head that’s quite filthy too… Oh Johnny, you stop that! 

* I thought Sarah Von from Yes and Yes had a New Zealand accent. She doesn’t. She thought my name was Sarah Margaret, hence ‘Smaggle’. It isn’t. I freaking love the way our brains gap fill like that.  

* Your knuckles is the WORST place to get bitten by a mosquito. Ankles and toes suck arse as well. 

* It’s ‘key lime’ pie, not ‘ki-lime’ pie. I’ve never seen it written before but in my head it’s ‘ki-lime’ like a kiwi and lime pie. Which I now realise is really stupid because kiwi fruit in America is a chinese gooseberry. So… what the hell is key lime?

* Apparently it’s okay to fart in public, sans embarrassment, in China. Sweet. 

What about you pumpkin pie? Anything to share? What did you discover in this crazy world today?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

I’ve been in the old Can-Berra for the past few days hanging with the Mr and getting some work done. The reason why I am wearing three quarter length track pants under my dress is because I’m a fool and thought that Canberra would stay 30 degrees plus like the weather man predicted so I didn’t pack tights. Idiot. Just saw a movie with Mamma Smaggle and I’m just about to head back down to Melbourne…

* Dress from Tree of Life

* Trackies from Bonds 

* Cardigan from Valley Girl

* Scarf from Sportsgirl 

* Shoes thrifted

* Earrings by Bouvier from Bijoux

And thank you so much to the awesome ladies who have already commented on my What do you Want post. Please keep the lovely and constructive feedback coming! 

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

P.S Oh and a massive shout out to all the people who have been recognising me this week! Thanks for saying hello and also for letting me know you saw me out and about. Loving it! Me thinks I have to be a wee bit more careful when leaving the house these days… Clearly I have a reputation to uphold.

Smaggle – What do you want? from Lady Smaggle on Vimeo.

Click on the video above and answer my questions for a new and improved Smaggle. 

Who are you? What do you want?

Lets make Smaggle more about you! 

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Etsy

Lady loves…

* Dates with Mamma Smaggle.

* Cruising around the city driving Mr Smaggle’s convertible. Although, bizarrely, I find it really difficult to drive an automatic. My foot keeps searching for the clutch. 

* Soy yogurt. 

* Curb Your Enthusiasm. Best. Show. Ever.  

* My first ever list being on The Secret Society of List Addicts. It’s a list of things that should be awesome but actually aren’t. Please add to it! 

* My Vera Wang DIY being featured on page 32 of the December Australian Cleo magazine. Do buy it and laugh at my giant foot and tiny midget hands. Also it comes with a free One Teaspoon watch! What have you got to lose?

* Working on a new plan for Smaggle… stay tuned! 

Lady loathes…

* SEINFELD REUNION – Curb Your Enthusiasm. Screw you Channel 9! Season 7 of Curb Your Enthusiasm is NOT a Seinfeld reunion show. Stop showing random episodes of the season that happen to have Jerry Seinfeld in them. People who haven’t seen the past 7 seasons don’t understand what the frick is going on and people who HAVE seen the past 7 seasons hate you. Hate to burst your little corporate bubble but there is not actually going to be a Seinfeld reunion. The show is just about them making one. We will never see it! Mwah ha ha ha ha ha! 

* Stifling hot weather. I literally cannot think. 

* Sixteen year old shop assistants that call me ‘babe’. I will hurt you. 

What about you love? Anything to share?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Etsy

Lady loves…

* Writing lists. 

* Working in new places. 

* Making fruit and nut summer slice for Mr Smaggle.

* Summer picnics on warm nights, drinking cider and playing board games. 

* Planning body maintenance weeks of juice drinking, exfoliating, moisturising and exercising. 

* The end of year wind down… manic days trying to get everything done while constantly sabotaging yourself by regularly dropping everything to lay in front of a fan, drinking iced water and reading bad novels. 

* Living with Roomy Smaggle. She is dynamite. 

Lady loathes…

* The weather. I cannot function. Too. Hot. Hence the lame blogging week. 

* Not announcing my competition winners from last week! Bad Smaggle! Coming soon… I promise!

* Tiger Woods being in Melbourne and everyone driving really slowly in front of me all week to see him. Who cares? Golf sucks. 

What about you little one?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Etsy

Lady loves…

* Having the perfect Melbourne Cup Day. A backyard BBQ, with champagne and an evening of playing board games with my Melbourne family. 

* Spending a ridiculous amount of money on underwear, socks and singlet tops. 

* Looking forward to Friday night karaoke with the girls.

* My beaded ring collection for the National Portrait Gallery bookshop COMPLETELY selling out. Henceforth, I buy shoes. Natural progression. 

* Thrifting. Sometimes I forget how spectacular it can be to find bargains in Op shops.

* Sunny afternoons, lying on my gorgeous bed, chatting to Mamma Smaggle on the phone.

* Body Pump. I have a three month love affair with this class every spring and I feel that this year it’s getting pretty serious. I’m considering a monotonous relationship. 

* My competition! Please enter it! Closes midnight Friday… dun dun DUN! Don’t forget to comment.

Lady loathes…

* Having had a headache for what seems like days. Just can’t shake it.

* ‘Dear Blogger’ emails. Note to impersonal, money focused corporate sites – My name is Lady Smaggle. Not Smaggle Style. My blog hasn’t even been called ‘Smaggle Style’ since 2007. Oh and FYI, I know that you don’t ‘love my blog’ because if you did you would know that I wouldn’t want to promote contact lenses, fake tan or dog outfits. 

* Having a just little bit too much spare time this week. I nearly bleached my hair. This is precisely why I should never be kept idle. 

What about you pie face? Anything to share?

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx

Put your hands up if you love Vera Wang?  Thought so. Here is a quick and easy way to copy cat her gorgeous black wrap heels.

What you need - 

* A pair of open toed black stilettos

* A metre of black felt 

Step One 

Measure and cut 2 metre long pieces of felt 8cm wide. Pull each piece so that they stretch a little. 

Step Two 

Place one piece under the sole of your shoe with one side longer than the other. Keep the short side vertical against the inside of your leg. 

Step Three

Take the longer piece and wrap it forward around the top your foot and then back over the heel of your shoes. 

Step Four

Take the remaining length of the long end and wrap it around your ankle, tucking the end in when you’ve finished. 

Not too shabby for a piece of felt and an old pair of heels! 

If you try this please send me photos or links! I love to see it when people try my DIYs! 

Love Lady Smaggle

xxx