Melbourne

so i actually went to melbourne back in november, but better late than never! i'm really slack with getting film developed but one of these rolls (there are photos from two) was developed by hand! a friend gave me a lesson and has also encouraged me to try making the change to black and white. i've got a couple of black & white rolls ready to develop now and if i like how they turn out i might stick with it instead of colour and start home developing (b&w is a lot easier to develop on your own), which would hopefully mean it won't take me weeks or months to develop my film like it currently does.

Catch Up

i have been incredibly slack on the blogging front lately, life has been so hectic but mostly in good ways. i have 5 rolls of film waiting to be developed and i've been taking a lot of photos with my instax mini & wide cameras. there above are all from my birthday and the below are from a from a picnic i had with friends, a few from around my bedroom and at friend's places, halloween this year where i dressed up as dorothy from the wizard of oz, and a whole bunch from hotel street which was a sailor jerry themed pop-up bar with a barber's chair and bands on four nights a week. it was only around for two glorious months but i have so many warm memories from it. the one just below is my friend's band on the night they played.

Weekends on Film

so before i started obsessing over make up and skincare i used to post other things on my blog too, how about that! i thought i'd just do one big catch up post on some of the fun things i've been getting up to on my weekends. it always takes me a while to actually get film developed once i shoot it so these are from 3 different rolls on 3 weekends. the photos above are from a record fair that was held at carriageworks. i think it looks reasonably big from the photos but they really don't do it justice, it was HUGE! so much so that i was too overwhelmed and only managed to pick up 5 records before calling it a day.

the below photos are from a rockabilly event called Throttle Roll. let's be honest, i know -5 things about motorbikes but the event had a great atmosphere and i was surrounded by good people and there were bands playing into the evening so i had a really great day.

and the below are from a great day i spent with one of my best friends. she got married at the start of the year and she and her husband live about 40mins away so i don't see them very often because i'm really busy all the time, but one weekend i went to her house and she'd made muffins and sandwiches and we drank rose tea and i played with her puppy and we went op-shopping and i found an amazing vintage faux fur coat and then we watched the hobbit and it was the best.

Not Your Typical Hen's Night

a few weeks ago one of my best friends in the whole world got married! i do have photos of the wedding for future posts but for now here are some photos from the hen's night which was a few weeks before that. the bridal party was only the three of us - hannah (the bride), her sister prue and me, but their mum joined us for the afternoon as well. being the maid of honour i booked us a beautiful high tea at the victoria room which is not to be confused with the high tea at the queen victoria building's tea room, although that's really easy to do as they have basically the same name. i've had high tea at both tea rooms and they're both lovely, though at the victoria room you get to choose your own flavour from their dedicated scone menu. i went with cranberry, lemon and pistachio and it was delicious!

rather than go the tacky strippers-and-penis-shaped-straws route, hannah wanted a much quieter evening, so after high tea and a bit of shopping we went back to hannah's parent's place where we built a fort out of beanbags and doonas (or duvets/quilts for non-australians) and stayed up until 4am watching our favourite disney movies involving princesses who get married on VHS. aladdin was first up of course (he's both hannah's and my number one disney crush), followed by the little mermaid, beauty & the beast and cinderella. hannah and prue also broke out their onesies and i would have too if i owned one, and they drank lots of prue's homemade sangria.