BLACK MARKET BABY SPRING 2010

Some new items have arrived at Black Market Baby!

Before I go on about the clothes, Black Market Baby have a new website : www.audreycantwell.com. It also includes some styling and older collections which are worth browsing through.

I am most pleased with the leather panel leggings, as they are higher than the ones that Black Market Baby had before. And most importantly, they are the cheapest ones of their kind available online anywhere I've seen, at $92 US.
Another interesting addition is the triple rabbit's foot necklace. I like it, but I think I would prefer either just a single one, or many bunched together to form a necklace on their own, but still, it's the kind of jewellery not many people make so I am thankful that Black Market Baby does :)
My other favourites include; the sheepskin vest, and the cape dress, shown below.

Images : blackmarketbaby

DIY NECKLACE #2

I went rummaging around Bunnings (my local hardware store) and I fell in love with two aisles; plumbing fittings and wall fixtures. I got a little excited and made these two necklaces. At this point, I favour the silver one. However, it does weigh about a kilo and a half...

To make the silver one, I used:
 - a length of flexible irrigation tubing
 - 20 x 20mm nuts
 - 12 x 30mm nuts
 - 3 x 45mm nuts
 - plumbing pipe fastener (to hold the necklace together at the back)

And the gold one:
 - 5 meters cheap gold chain from a craft store
 - 2 x "some random piece of plumbing pipe thing"
 - 1 x "some slightly larger piece of plumbing pipe thing"
 - excuse the vague there, I don't know the right name for those things..

ALASDELSUR

I randomly came across Alasdesur's etsy store. I like the thick braid-like quality of this piece. It would be interesting having something like this but made completely of human hair.

N/A/EU/T/U/RAL

The necklace I made a while ago, and some new summer footwear additions to my wardrobe.

MATTA FACT

I found this amazing printed dress in an opshop last week, so ive cut off the bottom to wear as a skirt, and I cut the sleeves off the the top to make it a bit more wearable.

(DIY floral necklace, Sportsgirl highwaisted shorts, UO studded belt, vintage top)

DIY NECKLACE

I was feeling a bit summery and floral today so I made this necklace.

HWEEN PREP

Some pictures from the weekend past...I made this necklace for halloween, and cut the top off these Levi 501s. For the necklace, I wrapped black string around a bunch of fabric and tied on some sticks, bits of gravel and some hair I had lying around from back when I had Japanese hair extensions.

Pretty excited about halloween to be honest. AND looking forward to this summer...it will be so much easier to get dressed in the morning. Although i have grown to like the heavy jackets and layering, I still prefer being able to wear whatever I want without fear of spending the day miserable and cold.

(diy necklace, Topshop loose crop top, VPL bra, cut off Levi 501s)

La Planete Sauvage

La Planete Sauvage (The Fantastic Planet) is an animated sc-fi French film from 1973 Directed by Rene Laloux. Apparently there is a remake planned for 2010, I really hope so. I remember seeing it on SBS a few years ago and thinking it was awesome. Here's the beginning of the movie.

I've come across it again because Planet Sauvage is the name of the new season of P.A.M. which includes some amazing jewellery.

I dont really know if the new season was influenced by the movie or not, because the name Fantastic Planet on its own without the aspects of the film is enough to describe the new season. Here is a pic of the P.A.M. "Rock Necklace" I'm quite fond of.

And on the theme of fantastic planets, I really want this digitally printed "Glory Scarf" from Trust Fun. Apparently the (I assume digitally printed) scarves' patterns are mathematically valid fractals that they have created, each one uniquely different. I love fractals. When I was younger my Dad always used to show me pictures of different ones in his New Dawn and other alternative science magazines.

Trust Fun is run/creatively saturated by Shane Sakkeus and Jonathan Zawada. They are the same peeps that did Petit Mal of which the first issue is now available to read online.

As far as I remember, my limited understanding of fractals was that it was a geometric shape that on its edges had smaller versions of itself and then those smaller shapes had even smaller versions of themselves on their edges and so on and so forth. So they appear pretty often in nature, eg snowflakes. Snowflakes have ever decreasing scales of themselves repeated throughout the form. Apparently Jackson Pollock (the artist) used fractals in his artwork. Here is a fractal.

BACCARAT

I just discovered Baccarat, they are a French design company that deal mainly with crystal. I'm usually not that into crystal related things but I found a bunch of things on their site that were actually quite nice. The little black furry looking thing is a backpack made from rabbit fur.

JEWELS BETTY!! JEWELS!!!

Now. My favourite jewellery. If you're interested. OF COURSE YOU ARE!

Clockwise from top left:

GROUSE FOOT PENDANT - a grouse is like a bush chicken of some sort. And this piece of jewellery was originally a brooch that is a scottish traditional thing. It is meant to be given to a loved one if you will be separated for a long time, on the back it has engraved the word "MIZPAH" and two small hearts with an arrow through them. Mizpah means watchtower I think. Anyway, I bought it for $6.00 from an op-shop. 

GOLDISH LOOKING RING - this is from diva. CRAZY! it was $15 and it reminded me of old civilizations and incans and mayans and so on. It also looks like the buddhist healing mandala. Awesome.

SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL EARRINGS - these were pricier, $90, but theyre great. They dress up any outfit without being too fiddly and garbage looking.

BIJOUX DE SOPHIE - I bought this in Japan, it was about $280. She is a french jewellery designer. It has a thermometer, first aid cross and pill as pendants.

ELKE KRAMER - this necklace is from Australian designer Elke Kramer. I had to get it as soon as I saw it, it just has such a symbolic significance to it. It looks...powerful. This was $190 I think.