Saturday, October 27, 2012

My Birthday Part Two



my actual birthday started with two of my closest friends coming to my house with a gigantic chocolate cake complete with candles and sparklers, which we lit in my kitchen while they sang happy birthday to me. the three of us spent the day op-shopping along the northern beaches which is something i really love because i don't go to the area very often, but there are three or four really big op-shops right near each other (and some other smaller ones too) and i always manage to find lots of wonderful things when i go to them!

luckily my birthday was no exception - i found LOTS and lots of clothes as well as a 3D puzzle of a globe, a video tape about nas & jay-z for 20c (i couldn't not buy it, despite not actually owning a VHS player..) and a little dachshund figurine because dachshunds are one of my favourite things in the whole world! then we had sushi train for lunch, i played with a super cute puppy and we drove to newtown for dinner with a few more friends at green gourmet. we were planning on having a night out but the weather was pretty miserable so we decided to get dessert at pie tin and watch movies instead. i'd never been to pie tin before but i was suitably impressed - not only did they have the biggest apple pie i've ever seen in my life, but they also had a chocolate peanut butter pie which, of course, is exactly what i got!















me wearing my lovely biscuit dress by caitlin shearer which she very kindly posted to me in time for my birthday. i'll definitely share some more photos of this dress soon, it's one of most beautiful things i've ever owned!






the following day was the helicopter ride and wandering around rozelle/balmain with my parents, so i shot the rest of my roll of film there.










36 comments:

  1. Wow these are amazing photos!! I love the texture of these photos it's so nice!!

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  2. Such a fantastic selection of pics, you packed so much in!

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  3. ah, awesome things. :D
    happy belated birthday x

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  4. I am glad you had such a wonderful birthday!! I love hearing about your thrifting adventures - I usually have a difficult time finding things I like at thrift shops (I usually have better luck at garage sales).

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    1. thank you! :) to be honest i never really go to garage sales much, probably because i never see them around. but i definitely would if i knew about more of them!

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  5. Happy birthday! The photo of your cake is so unbelievably lovely and it sounds like you had all sorts of lovely adventures with your friends. Sushi sounds absolutely delicious right about now, I haven't eaten it in awhile so you've now reminded me of it! And hooray for receiving your biscuit dress! It is quite a lovely dress, especially the silhouette. I can't find many reasons to wear it during my boring school week, but I suppose I'll have to find a lovely occasion at some point. Love you photos as always :)

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    1. thank you lovely! ^_^ & unfortunately i don't have that many occasions to wear mine out either, i'm always like that with my favourite dresses - i want to save them for special occasions which means i hardly ever get to wear them, it's a shame really. xxx

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  6. Happy, happy birthday! :) I'm soooo looking forward to thrifting more this year.

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  7. wow everything look so vintage I like it! If I may ask, how you do your pictures? it is action in photoshop or some other program?

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  8. waaaaaah that was the perfect birthday weekend :)) all your photos look lovely, as usual! that vhs tape sounds like a wonderful buy ahah XD and a biscuit dress, how luucky! I would love to have one of her dresses, they're all lovely <3

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  9. Your birthday looks amazing! Looknig forward to seeing more photos of the Caitlin Shearer dress - it is such a stunning print!

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  10. Oh geez, I am officially 100% in love with your blog. You friggin rock! Your birthday looks like a blast :)

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  11. <3 at all the photos. DAT PUPPY! + that's a super sweet photo of Peter.

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  12. happy birthday~

    -liv
    http://chocolivlovelaugh.blogspot.kr

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  13. Happy Bday Jess!
    I always love visiting your blog, it's so beautiful!!! > .<
    Thank you for your comment too I always appreciate it. Yea I love my cat headband too and yours sounds very pretty!!!

    Have a good one Jess!!

    xxx Romi

    ★☆Romiya Fashion Inspiration Blog☆★

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  14. Looks as though you had a spectacular day, happy birthday!

    Lauren
    http://tasteslikelove.blogspot.com

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  15. happy birthday! love these pictures!! What camera do you use?

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    1. thank you! these were all shot with a canon eos 300 (35mm) and a fuji instax mini 7.

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  16. Happy birthday to you, wishing more happiness & surprises to come. Loving all these pictures!! You have such a really great eye :) Suddenly, I miss playing around with my fuji instax wide camera by looking at this post.
    Anyway, following your blog now, can't wait to see more :)

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    1. thank you, that's lovely of you to say! i'd love to get an instax wide, unfortunately i've only got the mini but it'd be great to be able to take bigger pictures.

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  17. Ahh, I did not think your birthday could get and more fun or beautiful than part one, but it did! That chocolate cake look SO yummy, so nice your friends brought it over and you got to go shopping- sounds perfect :)
    xo Hannah

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    1. it was a really lovely day. i knew we were going op-shopping but the cake was a big surprise! :) x

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  18. Happy Belated! Your blog is so lovely!
    I'm a new GFC follower :)
    xo
    www.domesticsweetheart.com

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  19. and i die. i love these photos so much. all of them. what a wonderful birthday. it's like screen shots from a film. and the biscuit dress? i can't wait to see more. i'm jealous.

    <3 katherine
    of corgis and cocktails

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  20. so so many amazing pics
    I wonder how do you edited them? the color looks ah-mazing, also it seems like there's a bit texture there.. just like an old pic but with a modern twist..

    anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

    <3
    The Sweetest Escape 

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  21. Really amazing pictures, I enjoyed every single one of them!
    Also, happy belated birthday :) It seems you had a good one!

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  22. Happy late birthday! I love those photos of the cake with the sparklers

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  23. your pictures are always so beautiful! happy late birthday too, it sounds like you had an amazing time x

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  24. Biscuit dress sounds amazing, so does chocolate pecan cake- happy birthday! C:

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  25. love all of these photos! so vintage!

    lots of love from the c&p grls,
    casper&pearl blog
    xx

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  26. Happy Birthday, Jessica! Such lovely film photos here, too. Thanks for stopping by my blog. :)

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  27. what a lovely way to spend your birthday! and such beautiful pictures, so real and vintage at the same time! i love them :)

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  28. I love these pictures, and I'm very glad your birthday was as good as I thought it was. You and your friends are very awesome :))

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