Stella McCartney for Target

Holy Shit, if I was wondering lately whether there was a God I well and truly recieved an answer yesterday in teh form of an ad in Vogue informing me that a little designer by the name of Stella McCartney will be releasing a new line for Target on October 29.
Well thank the Lord!! It wqas about time really. I think the last desinger for Target was like I dunno Josh Goot, or was Zac Posen after him, come to think of it I think it was Zac Posen, which was released 2008 which I only know because it was the day after my 21st.

I love Stella McCartney, not least of all because she is the daughter of my favourite Beatle but because she makes fantastic clothes that women love and want to wear and are so stylish yet minimalist and generally fabulous!!

I have about 20 things I want to buy which I worked out would cost me about $1100, which is a little much so I've whittled the list down to 4 with a few other things I wouldn't mind if the others don't look good on me.

These being:

• the rouched panel dress in grey
• the tulip shaped trench in off white
• the rouched panel top in ivory and
• the frame clutch.

While the pirces aren't generally target prices still it's Stella McCartney and is much cheaper than buying off Net-a-porter.

I am a little pissed that none of the stores on the coast will be stocking the whole collection thus forcing me up to Brisbane to do battle with all the fashionistas up there. It would be awesome if they specified which styles were going to be at which stores although I'm certain, having grown up on the Coast, that a lot of the Gold Coast girls will just rock up at the stores here assuming they'll get the whole collection.

And I know there will be pandemonium at the stores so I'm hopeful that I can enlist some help so I can split my list so I don't have to run around like an idiot and hopefully maximise my chance of getting what I want.

I can't tell you how excited I am that this is happening!! Her clothes are so amazing and you can tell that they are Stella McCartney, they're so here and I'm stoked that she has dones this collection, I wonder if Ebay will go crazy with people scalping the collection again?

Confessions of Gen Y

I was having lunch with some friends of mine on Monday and we were having a nice old time talking about guys and general stuff when suddenly the tide turned slightly and it the conversation turned into the old 'you'll never get a guy if you...'

While I appreciate their general advice these two ladies are both Gen X, although on one of their behalves she didn't really partake in this particular vein of the conversation.
Not that I mean to have a go at Gen X in this blog, I merely aim to point out the differences between the 2 generations.

I have been single for forever pretty much and as such have had the time to really think about who I am, what I like and what I am looking for etc etc.
I know what I'm like, I'm not the easiest person in the World to get along with, I'm picky and critical and at times brutally honest. And I'm not dumb enough to think that these are qualities men regularly list on their list of top 10 desirable traits in women, just naieve enough to hope that someone finds them cute.

But as I said I've been on my own for a long time. I've built up the person I am over these years after having who I am handed to me, forced on me, ignored by the people I love and stripped by people I now hate. For a relatively short life I have been through a lot, a lot more than I would wish on anyone my age and when it comes down to it, if you don't know who you are then what good is it to try and get someone else to love you?

I guess what I'm getting at here is that I won't change who I am or how I go about things just to snag a guy. I've worked hard to be me, without constraints and I won't hide this from anyone for any reason. It's hard finding out who you are and to give it away, or change it to impress someone is not only short changing them, but more importantly you're shortchanging yourself.

Chanel App

A big congrats and thank you to whoever is in charge of the Chanel app for iPhones and iPod touches.
I may not be able to use it properly yet but what I can see, the Autumn 2010 Haute Couture Collection was very pleasing to my culturally deprived eyes!!
Traditionally Haute Couture was reserved for the rich and fabulous and was not seen by the little people except for a few stand out garments in the pages of Vogue and Harpers Bazaar.
But with this updated app we can now see the Haute Couture collection, and while it doesn't really have the stand out dresses that one would expect from Karl Lagerfeld, it was so exciting to see the show in full.
I read an article now that said Haute Couture shows are just for that, that the real clients don't like to be seen in public and while this app has proved it correct it feels nice to be included.

Macca's ads

Is anyone else really pissed off with the Macca's ads that mispronounce the French words?
To me, who I'm quite sure is a snob but that's another issue, this reeks of ignorance and stupidity. Seriously it sounds stupid and boganish and I can't see how anybody would be proud of hearing such dribble...
Honestly it's not funny, it's not cute, it's goddam annoying and I can only imagine what the French think of us right now... So ashamed...

Because 2 blogs is not enough

Just letting you all know that I now have a third blog, Confessions of a true Sainter http://strengththroughloyalty/blogspot.com with all things relating to our mighty St Kilda Saints.
Basically it's just me waxing lyrical about all things Saints but I truly think this much passion is dangerous to keep within myself so check it out!!

Some more things that have caught my attention

Ok so here are a few random things that have caught my attention lately and I thought I would let you all know about them.

1. Jez and Kris Smith.
and by these two I mean the photographer and Australia's Next Top Model judge and Dannii Minogue's partner and Football Superstar host. Anyone else think that they're related?
I'm a little devastated because for once Wikipedia let me down.
Jez barely has a profile which has about 4 lines on it all about ANTM which I'm sure is great for the show but like I care about what portraits he's taken.
And Kris doesn't have one at all which surprises me because of his rather high social profile here in Australia, and let's not forget that he is a former rugby league star in the UK. Whatever, I'll figure it out somehow, I just wanted to know but if I can't...

2. Gold Coast bashing.
Now I like to partake in quite a bit of this myself every now and then but I think i'm allowed to coz I was born here and I actually live here and I don't just see it from the outside.
I've noticed that Gold Coast bashing is on the increase and I have to say that i don't think it's cool.
Yes I know that as a tourist town, and it is a town despite what people may say and think, that naturally we have a daggy label, but we're not country. God we have Prada and Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Burberry and Tiffany here so we can't be too bad.
I don't even think that what we're being portrayed as, ie country bumpkins and bogans, is even representative. Ok, bogans in Nerang and Palm Beach but not anywhere else. If anything we're more surfie drop out kind of.
And yes I know there is a tacky, wear all labels all day everyday tendency in the more "upmarket" suburbs but I think that's more from being a wanker rather than any thought of actually thinking it's fashionable.

3. Winter or lackthereof
Is anyone else noticing the distinct lack of winter that is going on around here lately? Or not even lately, just in general?
Now I know I spent last winter in Melbourne where it was quite on the cold side but seriously this is getting out of control, I haven't even really had to wear a jumper during the day when i go out, it's ridiculous. I think I can safely say I've been genuinely freezing 2 days this winter and they were when I was in Melbourne, ok so they don't really count but point made yeah?
And what's with the heat these past 2 days? 26, 25 degrees? This is not winter by any stretch of the imagination...
Oh and as for all those people i see walking around the shopping centres with scraves on, it's not even cold enough for a jumper let alone a scarf, yes I know they look cool, but on the Gold Coast you don't look cool, you look like an idiot and everyone is laughing at you...

4. Term deposit rates.
Can I say that as someone who doesn't owe any money to the banks, I really look forward to interest rate rises in the vain hope that the banks might lift their savings interest rates as well as their borrowing interest rates. Alas I hope in vain.
So i put some money on a term deposit in February, in that time we've had a few interest rate rises. The rate was i think 6.5% or something like that.
You want to know what you can get now for a term deposit of a simillar length, like 6.2, 6.3%.
Now if my maths is correct, and it is, if the interest rates are going up then shouldn't that rate also be going up, not down as is the case.
I think it's a disgrace to the banking industry that I can get more interest on a no-fee savings account with Virgin Money than I can through a long established bank on a term deposit where the money is theres for say 6 months whereas with Virgin it's on call.
So thank you Sir Richard, glad to see the title hasn't made you useless, from the bottom of my bank account I salute you Sir!!

This is why men don't cook here

So having a Kiwi for a father is problematic in many ways, today i'll focus on one and the lead on effects of that...

So Kiwi's like lamb, i say lamb and not sheep with lamb being of course dead sheep, let's keep it clean people... anyway the idiot (that would be my father for those of you who are having trouble keeping up) picked up some lamb shanks on the weekend at Coles because apparently they looked lonely.
Now I do all of the cooking around here, remenants of when I was young and stupid and fell into the job, but one of the few things that i do not cook is roast, of any kind, i hate it, it's slow it's boring but requires a lot of attention.
So upon spying afore mentioned lamb shanks in the trolley i steadfastly refused to cook them.
Now the idiot has wednesday's off so it was suggested he could cook them then because most likely myself, and my mother would be working and since he would be doing nothing and never cooks he could cook. Lately he has taken to criticising my cooking so personally i like this idea after never really being nominated to do the cooking and having come back from Melbourne and stepped back into the role.
Continuing on he had spied a recipie for lamb shanks in the paper a couple of weeks ago which he wanted to cook today, but did he get the recipie out of the paper? No, I did it for him. Does he know where said recipie is? No, did he look for it? No.
So at Coles they have slow cookers on special, $49 for a sunbeam which i think is quite good, and as a daughter of someone who likes slow cooked food i thought it would be mighty nice of me to buy idiot features one so he could cook his lamb shanks and various other casseroles in it. Yes i know I am a credit to daughter's everywhere.
I also bought a lamb shank recipie mix in case (as i had every thought was the case) he neglected to look for his lamb shank recipie and therefore had no idea what was needed.
Now he was going out this morning for a doctors appointment, at 10, he knew we like to have dinner at say 7ish because i have to get to work at 8 and if he had bothered to check the recipie mix he would see that it requires 8 hours cooking. So did he start dinner before he went to the doctors? Of course not.
Naturally he gets home and asks me what is required even though he knows that I am in no way responisble for this meal.
Now he knows that it is a slow cooker meal, that generally means it takes a long time to cook, usually with slow cookers people put them on in the morning before they go to work so they're ready when they get home, apparently my father is not one of the many people who know this.
Regardless he begins to cook and starts to brown the shanks even though it's not neccessary but only creates more dishes which he will not deal with. I point this out to him and am told that he knows because he can read.
He then asks if the shanks need to be seasoned and i tell him that since he just pointed out to me that he can read surely he should know... apparently that didn't go down too well since i was then unceremoniously thrown out of the kitchen...
But it is for this very reason, that he gets all snooky, that he doesn't cook more and that i do it simply to keep the peace.
Oh Lord let dinner time come quickly and end painlessly...