We took a day trip down to Nowra on the South Coast. The South Coast is serious dairy country covered with cows and studded with lots of little seaside villages that are currently filled with people making summer holidays.
I kept my wardrobe very simple. 
The jeans are J Brand (the style is Steve), the Birkenstocks came from eBay, the white blouse was on the five dollar rack in a local hippie store. The bag, which is hard to see but nonetheless sitting on my right is a Vivienne Westwood and one of the great thrift store finds of 2008. It cost me $12.00. My swimmers (just visible under the blouse) are from the Land End catalogue, a document which brings me great joy now that our dollar has parity with the US dollar.
I'm chilling in black and white next to the old Culburra lighthouse. Sadly this lovely building is abandoned; the trash inside suggested that it provides privacy and shelter for local teenagers.
For me it provides a bit of fuel for the imagination wherein I somehow magically inherit the old building, restore it and spend the rest of my days preventing shipwrecks.
Oh, and here's a better look at the bag. For those of you who love Vivienne Westwood, note that she even gives a waist line to the simplest messenger bag.
I have those same fantasies about abandoned buildings, be they warehouses or lighthouses or barns. I love this bag! I hope you had a great trip. I forget that it's summer, somewhere in the world...
ReplyDeleteI forget it's summer too when I read the Northern Hemisphere posts! And isn't there is enormous hope in old buildings - so much potential? They're better than a blank canvas, more of an outline just waiting to be coloured in.
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