fashion find it for you: birthday dinner and MARKET MAGIC bumper haul!

Okay so… WHAT A WEEKEND! Really – had to be one of the best.

SO I shall pick up where I left off Saturday morning. Off to the hairdressers for a quick snip and blowy.. all ready for my super exciting birthday dinner extravaganza that night. Tried out a new hairdresser in the Rat – haven’t loved one particular one yet and was getting rather desperate. Had been heading back down to Melbs for colours and due to the 1.5 hour travel time it is not a super long term workable idea. BUT – this place was great. Unlike other salons, my ;stylist’ was from Melbourne and had previously worked at Heading Out in the GPO – so she was rather up with the fashion hair times. Walked out with a treatment, cut and bohemian GHD waves – fab.

Raced down to Melbourne in the bf’s big rig; packed to the brim with market goodies. Spent the next hour or so getting ready – sometimes I like this part of the night more than the event itself. End result:

LOVE this White Suede peach lace dress, not so love the Witchery nude mega heels. Cute – but so not walking, sitting or even wearing friendly. The oh so familiar burning sensation kicks in after about OH an hour.

Fast forward to 8:30 pm that night – and I was starving. Apparently there are two sittings for the Langham buffet bonanza.. and the 5:30 pm one was hardly appealing. Still – I was starving. Hunger + me = one hell of a grumpy birthday girl… I needed some food stat. We were finally shown to our table, and then the feasting began. Hit up the Indian station – HELLO garlic and cheese Naan; followed by a seafood extravaganza. Two platefuls. The bf was in his element – elbowing the old nans out of the way to get to the roast station for the new cut of pork belly which had just been served. Already not feeling well – it was then time for dessert. Bread and butter pudding, custard, cream, strawberry cheesecake and 2x strawberries dipped in the chocolate fondue fountain later I was well and truly done. Over and out. I was almost falling asleep at the table; my body was rather angry (and working overtime digesting) I dare say. Fell asleep in the car on the drive home – and slept like a log.

Here are some action shots:

SEAFOOD!!!!

The log-like sleeping continued until the bright and early buzzing of my alarm at a wonderful 5:30am. Market time!

As there are no reserved spots – Round She Goes is first in and best dressed stall possie wise. I had a fab position last time right near the doors; was primed for maximum customer capturing. So – I wanted to get this again. We arrived at 6:30 am; and unfortunately were 12 back in the queue. Bummer – last time I was fourth. Doors open at 7:30 – so I has a lovely and cold wait for the next hour. This was my view:

Doors open – and its go time. Sign in and race up the stairs – ‘let the spot be there’ ‘let the spot be there PLEASE’. No. The spot was reserved. God damn. But, the next possie was free – so I snapped this up instead. BF unloads the big rig and takes off as soon as he can – leaving me to do some valuable visual merchandising, last minute pricing and mannequin dressing. By 8:45 – I was all set. Pity the market doesn’t open for another 1.15hours – there was a bit of a wait. Ate my oats, had a quick look on eBay and fluffed the stall some more – and then the customers arrived. All systems GO!

By 12:40 I had raked in more money than I had made at a market to date; and the racks were looking bare. BF arrived for a toilet break; armed with sushi, a banana but minus coconut water (one request!); leaving him to mind the stall is a bit of a disaster so I have to be as quick as humanly possible. He takes off again and is back to selling.

Three pm rolls around rather slowly – the afternoon was much less busy than the morning (plus I had no good items left so felt rather embarrassed for people looking through my racks). BUMPER haul – managed to nab a huge $1400. Minus out the car rego and I have almost $1k spare. Guess who is going shopping this weekend? That is correct – MOI.

Action shots:

Yep - that is the LATOPIC gold sequin blazer as seen on Ricki Lee from the Voice. Got TONS of compliments... Love it! Left quite a few sequins behind also... like Hansel and Gretel you could follow my trail to my stall!