welcome to the family

This is Carlos i adopted him today! no I'm not going to have him at my house I'm just sponsoring him. He is my 2nd favourite animal and I think more people should sponsor them because because there is so much logging, soon there will so little place for them to live. Well I like to make differences and I think that should be the greatest trend and fashion statement.

Madames et messieurs, les jeux sont faits!

Let's start of with a little quote I saw on a postcard, oui?

Can we? Shall we? Call in sick one day and travel to the sea and hold hands all day.

 Can we? Shall we? Eat our sandwiches on the train, get drunk on fresh air

 and come home tired  and never tell anyone...ever."

-Rob Ryan-

Bonjour Lovelies!

Well it has been a while since I last posted something.. and I'm not going lie, I was just plain lazy therefore my procrastination got the better of me. 

But after reading Briony's marvelous effort at keeping zee blog going and not abandoning the dear little thing.... I must say I am inspired.. ***Kudos to Briony***.. so I decided to come up with a list of books and bands that brightened up my September! 

Enjoy!

Books

Lolita- Vladimir Nobokov

[Ah! First of all, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you to one of my dearest friends for buying this book after I mentioned how

I wanted to read it a couple of times!]

Even though 'Lolita' is about a psychopathic pedophile who pries on young girls (or 'nymphets' as he likes yo refer to them),

It is one of the most lyrical and engaging books I have read in a long time. Although some parts caused me to wince in horror.. I adore this book! 

Nabokov's imagery and descriptions are vivid and simply amazing! 

The Catcher in the Rye- J.D Salinger 

This book, pretty much made my month! 

The protagonist- Holden Caulfield- a teenaged boy is witty, amusing and absolutely hilarious with his

peculiar way of thinking and his logical yet strange take on life. 

The book has marvelous quotes which I adore.. here are a few:

What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by.  I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them.  I hate that.  I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it.  If you don't, you feel even worse.  -Chapter 1-

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down.  That's the thing about girls.  Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.  Girls.  Jesus Christ.  They can drive you crazy.  They really can. - Chapter 10-

Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up.  I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something.  Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery.  People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.  Who wants flowers when you're dead?  Nobody.  -Chapter 20-

She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dieson you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something. Jane was different. We'd get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we'd start holding hands, and we won't quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.
-Chapter 11-

As for bands, I decided to listen to a a whole batch of songs I hadn't listened to in ages. 

Most of the songs I listened to reminded me of Summer- (perhaps that was the last time I listened to them? I don't know..) and others

reminded me of those subliminal things I used to 'link' to those songs when I first heard them.. trippy stuff! HA! 

Well, zhese are zee songs!

Seaside- The Kooks

Gravity's Rainbow- Klaxons

Twist and Shout- The Beatles

Kissing the Lipless- The Shins

Crystalship- The Doors

Divine- Sebastien Tellier

Playground Love- Air

A cause des garcons- Yelle

You Only live once- The Strokes

Comic Strip- Serge Gainsbourg

If I ever feel better- Phoenix

Stars- Brian Jonestown Massacre

Ocean of Noise- Arcade Fire

And in other news, my holidays have been quite brilliant I must say. My grand-parents are here from overseas and my dearest Nan is stitching me a marvelous floral frock which I drew, so photos of that shall be on shortly. 

Oh oh oh oh and i've finally mastered making cupcakes from scratch without making them taste like I poured a jug of sugar into the mixture.. oh you must try them one day! 

xx 

they made me smile

a door and a ball

ok so i like wrote about the books i love and i just had to say I have now offically read 8!! yay
and in other news i now adore shoes :) which just seems crazy as I have like tiny tiny feet but now that i can (most of the time) fit into adult shoes I think they are great! I brought a pair of heels and I'm like in love yes sad but they are just so cute. the problem is at the moment I own so many runners/sneakers whatever you call them! how many is to much?
2 pairs of actually sport pairs
1 pair of chucks
1 pair of volleys
2 pairs of boat shoes ( black and white)
is this becoming an addiction? should i ban myself from buying shoes?????

love always the confused briony

boy you're something else

ok ok well lately watching movie and looking in magaizines i have found some really cute & hot boys so i thought i'll tell you who i'm crushing on this month. well my top 3
1.
Channing Tatum- ok i think everyone loves him but oh well. i mean he's topless in alot of she's the man.
2.
that boy in step up 2 - Adam G. Sevani

3.
jonas brothers :) but not kevin! joe is the hottest then nick is cute

ok and special mentions to

Michael Cera for seeming so sweet and fred on youtube for being so funny

well ttfn briony

major excitment from briony land

howdy briony here!

ok so in year 8 i fell in love with a book series right? "The Clique" it's written by Lisi Harrison and it's American it 's based on 5 girls and most of them just happen to being extremely rich. Anyways in year 8 i only read it at the library and then it only went to 3. i was majorly bummed but i found them in book stores, maybe last yea,r but i never brought any because they only had 1 to 3 and i had read them i mean i want 4 and all the others that came after them yeah selfish but i want find out new sings not revise on what had happened! well anyway i ended up seeing more of the books at borders so i brought 1,2,3,5,7,9 and then massie's summer which like 10 (not all at the same time). But on friday i convinced my mother that i really did need to get the 4th book and i could not wait any longer so i went to booktopia and brought 7 more of them now i should have all them in like two weeks that means i will be able to read all 14 instead of just 3.

well just to make it seem like i have gone off fashion these girls have the most amazing sense of style and of course they are the best looking at their school( which of course is private $$$$$).

talk to you soon
maybe after i have read all 14 =]

harajuku girls you have a wicked style

isn't he just darling! today we meet Japanese exchange students who will be at our school for a week. they are just so cute :)
well this post is really just saying how i think they are so adorable that it makes me want to go to Japan this very second but of course i can't speak it and struggle with English and that's my first language. It's really amazing how people can come to another country that speaks a totally different language and be fine with it. i would be freaking out and thats for sure. i also love harajuku girls they have the coolest style and if i ever do go to japan i will want to get some clothes like there's.
well thats all take care
BRIONY xx

Oh-it'd-be-swell-if-I-had....

I've been trawling through magazines (a la Frankie, Yen, Lula, Oyster etc) and fashion blogs a fair bit lately seeing as schools out and all that jazz, and I came up with a 'Oh-it'd-be-swell-if-i-had......' list. I hope you enjoy!

xx

Oh-it'd-be-swell-if-I-had.....

Bow Flats

(another) Pussy-bow blouse

Siamese cat

A Teapot

A Victorian Parasol

these are a few of my favorite things

At the moment there is just so many things I love and well I plan on telling you all about them! Well at least a couple.

Firstly my major love is bracelets

This is a picture of the bracelets I am wearing today. These are some of the main bracelets I wear each day.
1. Is from diva
2. I made myself
3. I also made myself
4. Is a bracelet I took from my sisters room but I do know she wore it when we wear in primary school.
5. Is from diva and is a friendship bracelet
6. Is another one from diva and came in a packet of 5

The thing I love about bracelets is they can make an outfit. They really do make school uniforms more you and less boring, which we all know school uniforms are. I love bright colours and I think my bracelets show that.

Another love of mine at moment is ruffles
Well they are called ra ra skirts but me and nashii call them ruffles!
They are hot in the luella look. And is the style which I just adore.

These skirts are from top shop

Tops from top shop

These tops are from 80s purple

I also love ruffle mini dresses in bold colours. They look great with basic coloured stocking like black or grey. Sorry but no pictures for these dresses at the moment.

well these are a few of my favourite things. lots of love briony xx
Be expecting to see a more of my favourite things in the near future.

new girls in town

Bonjour lovelies! We are Briony and Nashii, two year 10 girls from Melbourne who spend most of our Computer Tech. classes browsing through endless pages of international fashion blogs and going starry-eyed over the fabulous bits and pieces of clothing that we find. We'll be aiming to update our blog regularly, so keep checking for updates! :)

xx

B&N.

name- Briony

age- 16

interests- fashion, myspace, reading, making youtube videos, hula hooping, blowing bubbles, preforming, bracelets, looking up fashion blogs in tech, watching old tv series on dvd, traveling, different cultures, ribbon and finding colourful stuff

favorite places- the city, trimmings and remnants, diva and anywhere my friends are, with family, the stage, in front of the camera, the beach, AUSTRALIA, Auckland,

name- Nashii

age- 15

interests- performing, going to the city, theatre, writing, drinking coffee, hacking up old clothes and re-stitching them, traveling, visiting people, baking, collecting teacups, laughing, good movies, bad movies, french film, drinking soy milk, buying ribbon and lace,parties & 'get-togethers',hanging with fabulous people, watching fashion shows,reading magazines, pearls,cutting up magazines and just cutting up things in general, alice in wonderland, frocks, frocks and more frocks, embroidery, floral patterns, pussy-bow blouses, your grandma's wardrobe, hippies, heart-shaped balloons, cardigans, well dressed ladies and gentlemen, berets, musicals, french-inspired things, good grammar, my sewing machine, healthy food- a la avocado dip+ carrot sticks, cinemas, raspberry drinks, music.. good music, coats, swings, summer, presents, smiles, freckles, owls, flowers,cookie dough + linen, shakespeare and pretty much anything that inspires me and makes me go 'ooooooh!'. :)

favourite places- the city, london, tokyo, all the other countries i've visited, beaches, parks, fields with flowers, fire escapes, trimmings and remnants, op shops, tiffany & co., coffee shops, strange alleyways, lovely people's houses, my bedroom, tree houses, and paris! (i have never been there, but when i do visit, i know i shall have a wonderful time!)