Hello again! I've just gotten over a pretty bad week of bronchitis so I am pretty thrilled to be back to blogging. And I was even more excited to bring you this awesome collaboration with Pretty Dress! You might remember that I've worn one of their beautiful retro-inspired dresses before (to a hot rod show, no less) and this particular dress from this post will be styled up by a bunch of other Perth bloggers as well.

It's a really nice, unfussy dress by itself, but I really wanted to pair it with a skirt. This beautifully printed one felt very Roman Holiday! Or maybe that's just me. I think this dress will be perfect to wear on summer picnics, or out to brunch, or to outdoor cinemas... clearly I have a very specific list of things I want to do when the weather gets warmer! I really love the bow at the neckline. Because it has an empire waist that is probably meant to sit under the bust but for me sits in the middle of my boobs, I think I'll definitely stick to wearing it as a dress so I don't get the little pouf of fabric around my middle. I mean, it looks like a pouf of fabric but is actually... more boob. Geez.




I'm living out of a suitcase at the moment (and when I say suitcase, I mean pile of clothes that have been unceremoniously dumped in a pile) while my house is getting re-wired. For some reason I brought a flamingo-printed skirt, a pie-printed dress and a Halloween themed cardigan, but forgot the essentials like another pair of shoes. And a toothbrush. And pyjamas. I guess you can see where my priorities lie.

Oh and I do have to say a huge thank you to my friend Ana in Pigeonhole Shop 9 for taking my photos! It's always a bit awkward having to ask someone to take a photo of yourself for your blog which is filled with photos of yourself. Oh well.

{This dress was sent to me for a collaboration with Pretty Dress; however all opinions are my own}

Hello! So these aren't the best pictures but I did want to show off my new hair colour! Or I guess it's my old hair colour. WHATEVER THE CASE, it's not purple/blonde/ratty roots any more and is back to a beautiful glossy brunette. I also decided to bring back the short fringe because I really do love it. To be honest, I didn't like it that much after it was done - not because it was a bad colour or anything, just because I felt so... normal. No more purple. No more crazy hair. But over the weekend I fell in love with it and today, well, today I loved it so much I took crappy Photobooth pictures just to show you.

Sorry for the lack of regular posts lately, I've been running around like a madwoman trying to keep my store looking pretty, celebrating birthdays, and of course organising a totally rad Halloween costume.

{ps my hair is tied up in these photos, not all chopped off!}

If you will excuse me getting a bit mushy on the blog, I just wanted to wish my boyfriend Aidan a HUGE happy birthday!

He only makes sporadic appearances on the blog but he does take almost all of my outfit photos (you can tell which ones, they're the good ones) and has been such a huge support. We've been together a little over a year now and it's been one of the happiest years of my life. We also recently moved in together (!!!) which is very exciting, even if he does have to remind me to clean up after myself and wash a dish occasionally. Plus he has the exact same name as a certain Sex and the City character so I get to live out my fantasy of being Carrie Bradshaw (am I the only one who thinks she should have stuck with Aidan instead of Big?! YOU CRAZY CARRIE! Anyway, I digress).

He makes me laugh every day, he's my best friend and I love him very much. Happy birthday Aidan! x

So, as I mentioned a while ago, the wonderful company I work at recently celebrated five years in the biz and we had a very big party which quickly turned into a lot of out of control Pigeons. BUT amongst all the melee, we had this staff portrait drawn up by the absolutely amazing Able & Game (I'm sure you would have seen their adorable cards before, Aidan and I have many lying around!). I sent the picture that's in my 'About Me' on my sidebar and I think I turned out quite recognisable (I have a party hat and pigeon on my shoulder if you still can't pick me out! I wish I'd sent in a picture with purple hair but ah well).


Isn't it great?! I have loved Able & Game for YEARS so getting the chance to be drawn by them is pretty extraordinary. I love it!

This was another bike-ride-and-brunch outfit. I really love that they're a tradition now... it definitely gives me something to look forward to after a week of work! It's been beautiful spring weather this week so I thought I'd wear the most colourful dress I own. I bought it from Etsy a while ago, and I love it because the first time I wore it out, a woman came up to me and told me it reminded her of dresses that her mum used to make for her and her sister and that seeing it had made her day! Which of course, then made my day.

I haven't done a review for so long, so I was pretty thrilled when Firmoo contacted me to try out their fancy frames. I do actually have a prescription for reading glasses, and since my Oliver Peoples frames were stolen I was in need of some new specs! Here's my experience with Firmoo...

I seriously can't believe that September is over already! I feel like I was just celebrating my birthday and now it's literally a month later and I'm left bewildered. BEWILDERED. Anyway, here are some little photos from the past couple of weeks. If you want to see more, pop on over to Instagram and follow @gininateacup.




♥ Listening to: I just discovered Spotify so I've been listening to EVERYTHING! I love making playlists so I have been obsessing over creating the perfect ones. Also, my dad bought me a compilation album called Boogie! The Best of Australian Rock'n'Roll in the 60s and 70s and it's so good. I listen to it all the time. I would recommend it if you're into the bluesy, rockabilly kind of thing.

And this song is my guilty pleasure. I LOVE IT but it's SO cheesy!

♥ Watching: SNL! I'm so glad it's back. The first two episodes haven't been fantastic but the Seth Macfarlane episode did feature a pretty great Psy parody, so there's that.

♥ Reading: Shamefully I have not picked up a book in ages, it's been such a busy couple of weeks! So instead I'll share some of my favourite blogs at the moment: Little Chief Honeybee, Sometimes Sweet, Yours Truly, Scathingly Brilliant and Fancy Fine.

♥ Wearing: Um... I've been really naughty with online shopping recently. In the past month I've ordered this ASOS dress; and this cardigan and these two dresses from Modcloth. Oh, and two shirts from Threadless. WHOOPS. I think I done gone and caught the fashion fever.

♥ Eating: Aidan and I went on a dinner date to one of my favourite restaurants a while ago, I cannot recommend it enough! So cheap but such good Thai food. Other than that I have just been making super easy food because I am LAZY. Can someone please direct me to some good cooking blogs?

{p.s - I don't think I mentioned this last time I did a 'Little Things' post but I got the idea of adding 'Watching', 'Listening To' etc from Sometimes Sweet's Currently posts. I just thought it would add a little something to these posts so they weren't all Instagram pics! Thanks to Danielle for the inspiration x}