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 […]
Three years ago, my husband had just passed the five week post liver transplant mark and was well onto the road to recovery. Fast forward to today, and he has completed another goal on his list. He participated in the Run Melbourne 10km run, and despite being somewhat nervous, he did it easily…looked like he […]
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 […]
Last weekend, we checked out another very cool vintage shop in Melbourne…and we loved it! Yesteryear Vintage Clothing was originally open as a pop up shop at this location in Carlton, but has now taken up permanent residence…the newly renovated building used to be the Carlton Moviehouse. As soon as we walked in the door, […]
I have been looking forward to visiting this vintage shop for ages, but then found out that it will be closed this week, so hotfooted it into the city to check it out before it was too late! The shop is Circa Vintage, owned by Nicole Jenkins who is a well known costume designer and […]
For the second weekend in a row, we stumbled over another market being held at Federation Square in Melbourne. We parked in the bottom of Fed Square car park as usual, and walked up the stairs to find this… Turns out it was the Melbourne Design Market, which was foundedback in 2004 as a forum […]
Located on the 1st floor of the Cathedral Arcade in Melbourne CBD, Retrostar is one of the largest vintage stores we have ever been to! Similar to nearby OTC and Vintage Sole, Retrostar is more your “cheap and cheerful” kind of vintage…a place where you can find everything from 1960s dresses, to cowboy boots to […]