Swimwear shopping

I had a great weekend chilling out at the beach house with my family and it's nice to catch up with them over good weather and food, and I returned home late last night.

T and I spent the weekend apart, he traveled into a country town to be taught some tricks of the trade in machining on the Saturday and on Saturday night, he and two of his other friends rode their motorbikes to his Phillip Island beach house for the night. T returned home at 2pm yesterday and had the cleaned the house by the time I got home.

This morning on my way to work, I was going to do a quick blog post outlining my weekend and my outfit of the day. Unfortunately, I got a bit sidetracked by an email I received. JETS swimwear sale. Say what?! Perfect, I haven't purchased new swimwear in, like, a year and a half. I tried this summer, I really did. I usually love Seafolly but I wasn't loving anything from their range this summer. The Seafolly pieces that I did like, were the exact same style and cut as the ones I had, just different colour. So I gave up...until now.

By the time I got to work, I purchased two pairs of JETS bikinis.The first set is the Coastline wide band tie black halter with ruffles in the indigo and white colour. The RRP is $79.95 and I picked the top up for the sale price of $35.99.

JETS Coastline Ruffle top

The matching bottoms are the Coastline ruffle tie side bikini pant in the indigo and white. RRP is $69.95 and the sale price is $31.50.

JETS Coastline ruffle bottoms

I also picked up the Riveria Chevron striped Bandeau with piping in Maritime. The RRP is $119.00 and purchased at the sale price of $53.50.

JETS Riveria Chevron Bandeau

The Riveria stripe one tie side bottoms in Maritime have a RRP of $74.95 and they were purchased at the sale price of $33.70.

JETS Riveria bottoms

Whilst we are on the topic of sales, I headed out onto Smith Street to pick up some lunch this afternoon and I did a double take as I was walking past one of the jewelers. They too had a sale and the CC Skye pieces that they had on display caught my eye. I couldn't help myself....

CC Skye

 

CC Skye Double Wrap Woven Bracelet

 

CC Skye Bronze Double Wrap Woven Bracelet

The bracelet was on sale, reduced from $350 to $99. I couldn't NOT buy it. It's gorgeous and the reduction was over 70% off. Well, that's what I keep telling myself to make me feel better about spending the cashola.

Today I am wearing a pencil skirt from Cue, aboutthislabel top and my new Tony Bianco wedges.

OPI fail (for me) and how do I store my shoes?

Last night, I took the hot pink nail polish off and felt that I wanted a light pink on my hands and feet instead.
I prepped my nails as usual and wanted to use Pink-ing of You. I purchased the Princess Mini's a while back and Pink-ing of You is part of that set.

OPI Princess Mini's

OPI Pink-ing of You

  It looks like such a beautiful colour in the bottle and on the OPI studio app but I was really dissapointed with it. The consistency was all wrong, I did three coats and it still did not look good at all.
 I woke up this morning and was about to tidy up the edges of my nails of polish and my nails were ruined. I think quite possibly it was due to the polish being too thick and it probably didn't dry in time. I have never had this issue with my other OPI polishes and I wonder if it was due to the mini? It is much more awkward to put on compared to the full size brush. So I had to quickly remove the polish this morning before I left for work.

Three coats of OPI Pink-ing of You

Nails ruined this morning.

At lunch time, I had to pop down to Safeway on Smith Street to pick up a few things. From there, I figured it wasn't too much further to walk to the Tony Bianco Outlet as I wanted to check out what they had. Much of the shoes are on sale in the Smith Street store and there was a further sale (20% off I think).

Tony Bianco Salena Peep-toe Wedges

Tony Bianco Moscow Ballet Flats

The Tony Bianco Salena Peep-toe wedges were originally prices $129.95 and as you may perhaps see on the sticker, they were reduced to $60.00. Then, at the register, they were further reduced to $48.00. The Tony Bianco Moscow Ballet Flats were originally $99.95 and you can't see the sticker price in the photo - so they had a reduced sticker price of $80.00. At the register, these babies were further reduced to $64.00. So all up, I purchased two pairs for $112.00. I was very happy with that.

Whilst we are on the topic of shoes, how does everyone store their shoes? I originally had them stacked in the wardrobe in one of the spare bedrooms and I didn't like it that way. Not all my shoes fit in that wardrobe. I have asked T if he can build me a shoe shelf, something that I can stack my boxes on. He said he would do it, but I know how crazy busy he is and his priority is building the workshop, so it will be on my/his to do list for at least the next 12-18 months. For now, this is how I'm currently storing my shoes.

Shoe Storage

The boxes in the far left contain my sandals and many of the sandal boxes contains two pairs per box.

Boot Storage

These are my boots. I do have a few of those boot boxes and I can fit at least three pairs of boots in each box. In winter, it was a pain to get the bottom pair of boots out as it meant that all the contents had to be tipped out. Instead, I just used my adjustable shoe stand to store my boots and I'm much happier with this system.




In the hallway, we picked up this sleek shoe storage, which T put together and bolted to the wall. My sneakers and thongs live in there and most of T's shoes.

Ikea Shoe Storage

Today's outfit:

Silk and lace top purchased in NYC, Country Road knee length shorts and Tony Bianco Wedges

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In case you haven't noticed, I love wedges. They are almost like a heel and are oh, so much more comfortable. The above photos were taken prior to the application of make-up. I then added this to my outfit.

It's a head band by Lady-Jayne I think and it was recently purchased from Priceline for about $12.00.