early mornings, Sth Melb and a house in the sky.

Today started at 4:40am.  No, unfortunately that is not a joke.  Alarm went off bright and early; well - certainly early, but was definitely more pitch black than bright.  Today was a Melbourne day, and as the bf is currently working in Northcote I thought it would be 'nice' to having some quality time together in the car (plus catching the 6:15am train had little or no appeal whatsoever).  Sadly, 'nice' is not a word I would use to describe two people sharing a car at 5:30am.  Especially when one gets up with five minutes to spare and heads straight out the door, whilst the other takes a minimum of 45 minutes to get ready and was then rounded up, rushed and virtually pushed out the door.  Nope, I was not a happy passenger. It was a long trip.

By the time the sun finally woke up, we had hit Melbourne.  This was 6:45am.  I still had an entire hour to kill before someone would remotely head anywhere near the office, so I requested an inner city drop off.  Turns out it was a gorgeous morning; blue skies, birds singing, glorious sunshine.  My bad mood melted away as I strolled through South Melbourne to the office - it was just what I needed to pep me up for the day ahead. South Melbourne is one of my all time favourite suburbs; the market, the architecture and quirky cafes lurking around every corner combined with the galleries, bookshops and amazing homewear stores.  I was pretty much skipping down the street - as much as you can in half a size too small peep toe Tony Bianco wedges.  Life is grand.  Here are some shots of my morning jaunt:

I think the highlight of my morning (apart from the amazing coffee) was this:

Hmm so obviously it didn't come up super clear (I-phone camera is good, but magnification is not its strongest quality) but it is actually this:

A HOUSE hot air balloon.  For REAL.  Super cool.  Definitely made my day.

Now - today's outfit pics are not great.  They were taken at 5am, which I think excuses their poor quality. And yes, I forgot the flat lay shots.

Yep, they are blurry and altogether BLAH; but hey.  There they are.  In all their crappiness.

SO the outfit.  Today, we have a black and latte spliced silk sleeveless shirt from Country Road ($60 in store CR.  REALLY wanted to go to their cardholder sale today, but unfortunately meeting ran late and bf was staying in Melb which meant pooch was home alone.  Guilty much); worn under the beaded black ponti Tibi jacket (yes okay so I know this outfit looks suspiciously like the one I had laid out for yesterday, which was then ditched for other options.  Obviously I was totally hanging to wear this combo.. as it was the first thing I thought of this morning).  Paired with the Sass and Bide wet look Husley Straits and black leather peep toe Tony Bianco wedges.  All covered up in the super snuggly Gorman early birthday present camel cocoon coat.  Done.

Speaking of Gorman - almost bought these today:

Gorman polka dot 'Swiss Miss' jeans.  Buy it now $70 - eBay.  Was umming and ahhing over them for a good 1.5 hours, was told no by three separate people and then someone else went and bought them from right under my nose.  SO of course that made me want them even more.  Bummer.  Cheated out of two pairs of jeans in the space of 12 hours (yes I was outbid on those Reiss Birkin jeans - and there are NO MORE pairs on eBay.  I want those desperately now too).

Don't think doing a post on denim helped my denim depression... seems like that is all I am thinking about.  Whilst I think of it, there is a pair of Rag and Bone neon pink jeans ending soon.. think I heard somewhere these were Ricki-Lee's favourite jeans....

FFIFY xxxx

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