Today is our favourite city’s birthday…Melbourne is 180 years old! Settlers sailed from Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) in search of sheep-grazing land, and on this day, August 30, back in 1835, their ship Enterprize moored off what is now William Street. It is this landing that is officially recognised as the founding event of what […]
Although I am very much into vintage fashion…both the hunt for and the wearing of…I still keep an eye out for labels that have a vintage vibe. And by that I mean great colours and a style that will suit my short, curvy shape. This label I found by accident during a “down the rabbit […]
A few weeks ago, we bought Laneways of Melbourne and with the aim to work through the book and visit as many as we can! On the weekend, we ticked one off the list…actually, technically it was two… We went to explore AC/DC Lane which I have been wanting to check out for ages…it runs […]
We love living in Melbourne…well, it is the most liveable city in the world! And we love discovering local businesses such as Melbournalia…a shop that is about all things Melbourne! Founded in 2011 by four Melbourne creatives…Michael Brady, Jenny Brown, Dale Campisi and Alasdair Mackinnon…Melbournalia was originally a temporary concept store, appearing in various locations […]
We always love discovering new places to indulge in a properly made cup of tea or two, and Assembly has been on my list for a while. On Saturday, we found ourselves in Carlton, so dropped in to check it out…it is located just off the popular Lygon Street shopping strip. Assembly is a similar […]
Since I began writing for this blog, we have have had great fun exploring this amazing city we live in. And despite both us living in Melbourne most of our lives, we are still finding things we never knew existed…and one of these is the fact that there are so many laneways…some well known, some […]
It was with sadness that we heard that one of our favourite vintage shops is closing it’s doors, so we popped past today to say farewell. We first met Amy back in March 2014 when we visited her beautiful shop, Minette’s Vintage in Richmond… In fact, Amy has been one of the main reasons that […]
As the weather improved, and the sun was shining, we thought we would head into the city to go to market that we had heard was worth a visit…as it turned out, it was a bit of a saga to get there and home again. We had to negotiate roadworks closing streets, a rally that […]