Bought! Typo Haul

Christmas is less then two months away, confronting much? This year has utterly flown by like so many of them do and we're already gearing up for a great holiday period.
Hey... I know I may be early in some peoples eyes but at least my decorations didn't go up at the start of September *coughDavidJonescough*.
So I've been off to stalk my favourite gift shop, Typo, and picked up a few early presents, but also check out these cute as ornaments I got for my tree!

Also bought these little gift tags, I never seem to have any when I want some.

So now if everyone could just tell me what they want for Christmas without actually telling me, I'd love you.

Eyebrow Threading at Winkbar

Have been reading about this technique for a while now and thought I'd give it a try, a bar opened up at Carindale recently, Perfect opportunity!
I've been a little lazy with my eyebrows lately so I had a really good base for my beautician to work from. I just haven't had the time lately.
My eyebrows are nicely shaped after a ten minute session but I have to warn you, the pain factor is quite high, eye watering in fact. That would would probably be the only real negative though, I found my girl's work to be very accurate. They also have a frequent customer reward program with every sixth session free.
All in all, it's a good option over waxing because it doesn't strip the skin the way that wax does (as the only thing the threads grab hold of is the hair, not the skin as well.) After years of waxing your skin can get weak and crêpey, not the look we should be going for at all.
Just make sure you bring your sunnies to cover up the redness!

Book Review: Minxy Vintage by Kelly Doust

Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting Kelly Doust, and she is every bit as lovely as you'd hope she'd be in real life. She has been doing the rounds lately signing copies of her latest book Minxy Vintage and yesterday I bought and had my copy signed. <3
The book itself is awesome, brimming with ideas on how to restore and transform items you would see in a thrift or vintage shop. Items that a less discerning eye would pass up she takes and applies a few tricks and ideas to make them into something totally wearable and completely unique.
It was also quite a long read, not something you could pick up and chew through in an afternoon, this is a great thing to me, as not only is it a very pretty book, it's full of care tips for all of the items in your wardrobe.
Kelly takes your hand and walks you through various items she has transformed in her wardrobe, using different techniques such as dying, and embellishing to create new items. One of my personal favourites featured being the union jack denim jacket, I would steal it if I could.
Now if only the thrift stores were open on a Sunday, I want to go shopping!

Why I'll never shop there ...

Wow, ever have one of those shopping moments where an assistant puts you off ever shopping there again? In this current retail climate where stores are fighting to compete with online retailers, you would hope that they assistants would at least be polite. Not always the case.
Don't get me wrong, more often then not I find places have amazing customer service. But it can be that one bad egg that outs me off ever shopping there again, and I mean ever.
This afternoon on an adventure to see what goodies I can score in Myer Brisbane, I happened to walk past a skincare brand's Promo girl, You know promo people, they always lead with 'Hello, how are you?' To drag you into checking out their wares. So she tried it on me and I respond with the two words I know stop a promo person in their tracks 'No thanks.' She turned around and snapped 'I didn't offer you anything!' I know the words look harmless written down, but the tone she used snarled with 'well fuck you bitch' undertones.
I just kept walking, but I wanted to turn around and challenge her to deny that she wasn't about to ask me to sample whatever she was handing out.
I had another bad experience with a girl at a clothing store, who refused to listen to a problem I had or take my details down to give to her manager when she came back from lunch. I ended up coming in another day and telling the manager what happened and had the problem solved smoothly. But the damage was done, and I have never shopped in that particular store again. Of course I still shopped for the label elsewhere, the clothes are just too cute not to buy. I later found out that the problem assistant was fired for having too many similar incidents with customers.

Don't forget! Kelly Doust book signing this weekend

Just a reminder about a previous post, The crafty minx herself Kelly Doust will be signing copies of her latest book; Minxy Vintage at the Brisbane Craft and Quilt Fair This Saturday at 10:00 AM. Entry can be bought at the door for $16. Brisbane Exhibition centre.
Check out her book here.
The rest of the fair is worth a look too, great for broadening your horizons (learn to sew will ya?!)