Yesterday I worked at the annual Southbound Music Festival and earned myself a free ticket! ...by checking people's bags and kicking them out if they had any drugs or alcohol on them.
That's right, not a mere "oh, no, you're not taking THIS with you!" and confiscating of found items... these people were 'evicted' by security and had their ticket cancelled, their only option being to purchase a whole new ticket ($160!!) to get back in. Harsh.
I didn't feel so bad at first, because I thought we were only confiscating things. Any glass, flammable equipment, knives... drugs and alcohol. We searched thoroughly through bags and eskys, unrolled swags, and twisted off caps of all bottles before smelling them to make sure... I unzipped zips until my fingertips were throbbing. We took away people's salsa (probably five or six of them!) and energy drinks contained in glass bottles.
The first real 'controversial' find was two packets of weirdly coloured capsules we found in a guy's stuff. Each packet had the same combination of capsules - a couple white, a brown one, then hyper coloured ones including a half blue/half red one, and a neon orange one! The guy said that he'd come from the mines and had been given them there so he didn't mind if we took them. We didn't actually establish whether they were any sort of mind altering drug or not, but we just took them and threw them in the bin and let the guy go on.
THAT was when we were barely supervised rookies at the beginning of our shift... Later when we told our supervisor that we'd found pills and they were in the bin, she was pretty concerned and asked could we please put up our hand straight away if we found anyone with incriminating things and she would take care of them.
I think we still didn't quite understand that [just] alcohol was such a super offense, because later, when I found a really nice guy to have a JD & coke filled flask in his swag, I just told him he couldn't take it in. He seemed fairly gutted that I'd found it. I even told him I'd let him pour the alcohol out and keep the flask. He started doing this, but who should see the brown liquid pouring out? Miss Supervisor. I don't mean to refer to her as a feared and obsessive authority, she was really nice. She came over and said "Oh did you catch another one?" and then she told the guy: no, sorry, he had to be evicted from the festival. Whatttt! My bag checking team was astonished.
From there, our table was responsible for around two more people being kicked out and forced to pay an extravagant penalty to get back in. One girl cried. She had told Jess about one miniature bottle of Johnny Walker, hoping to get let off lightly for her honesty. Jess was just about to chuck it away and let her in, but again, our supervisor noticed and came over. Eagle eyes, hey? It turned out this girl had bought 'VIP' tickets so they would have been much more expensive than the regular day pass or 2 day camping pass... but luckily we decided she was allowed to just pay the $160.
...So yeah! Other than those few bad incidents, the 7 hours of bag checking wasn't so bad. I made a few friends, really enjoyed talking to the high spirited festivalgoers and learnt heaps about them by rummaging through their underwear!
The funny thing is I didn't even go in to the festival yesterday after the shift, thereby missing awesome shows like The Grates, Regurgitator, GroupLove, and Arctic Monkeys, because I felt so tired. One boyfriend had been waking me up at all hours during the night before, vomiting out excessive amounts of alcohol while I had to hold his head up and clean up afterwards.
He had to bail on his own volunteer shift in the morning :( so I did feel sorry for him. But guess who's working at Southbound right now instead, while I'm curled up on the couch and looking up bands who are playing today, getting in the mood to go back and partay? Yep. Good outcome of events. Tom will finish at 2pm and we can run around like mad dogs to see the likes of:
Alpine
Fleet Foxes
The Vines
Pnau
Josh Thomas and Friends
Missy Higgins
John Butler Trio
The Jezebels
The Kooks
and hopefully a good deal of new sounds that I'm yet to discover from the bands I don't really know!
xZ
Look at those melons!
So, just to clarify, I am partly referring to YESSSSS, boobies! But also, the gorgeous creations that you could cover them with, such as these:
Simply amazing, hey? They're so bright, almost borderline ridiculous... so frickin cute! And Vivetta's 2012 summer collection brings much more along these lines...
Lemons!
Clouds!
Tablecloth-like plaid!
- Haha, don't let my comparisons on this one lessen the glamour in any way. That's just what it reminds me of...
...Ahhhh, super summery.
My genius friend has pointed out that there is a lot of inspiration to be drawn from fruit this summer... check out her photo montage here: Fruit Salad...Yummy Yummy which shows there can be a sophisticated edge to all this fun, fruitful styling.
Reckon you'll get on board?
xZ
***You can find more pics at the credited image source - BunniPunch.blogspot***
Ps. Feel free to share some links to any fruity fashion pics you can find! I'd love to look.
Simply amazing, hey? They're so bright, almost borderline ridiculous... so frickin cute! And Vivetta's 2012 summer collection brings much more along these lines...
Lemons!
Clouds!
Tablecloth-like plaid!
- Haha, don't let my comparisons on this one lessen the glamour in any way. That's just what it reminds me of...
...Ahhhh, super summery.
My genius friend has pointed out that there is a lot of inspiration to be drawn from fruit this summer... check out her photo montage here: Fruit Salad...Yummy Yummy which shows there can be a sophisticated edge to all this fun, fruitful styling.
Reckon you'll get on board?
xZ
***You can find more pics at the credited image source - BunniPunch.blogspot***
Ps. Feel free to share some links to any fruity fashion pics you can find! I'd love to look.
Stray dogs love ice-cream
Meet Silky Mutt, the sweet doggy we made friends with over a huge - luckily - icecream treat this afternoon. He seemed hungry so I invited him to help clean my messy hands.
Those icecreams were super soft, dribbling faster than we could handle! Delicious flavours of Snickers + Marscapone & Fig, and Honeycomb + Whiskey.
I wish I could adopt ol' Silky. Wondering if he's still out there at the park now... wondering if he's tricked the whole neighbourhood into feeding him pity scraps.
I wore:
Nothing particularly exciting, but I do think the tassels on this tank top are fun! Both it and the frayed denim shorts are recent scores from a sale that I can't seem to stay away from (but why would you, when it's crammed full of bright, exotic, silky and flowy, unique things?!!).
Maybe I'll dedicate the next post to all my 'Poco Loco' buys... a total of nine hahah.
Alright, time to love and leave you! I'm feeling rather sleepy after a gorgeous meal out with the fam at the local 'Arc of Iris' [key words to describe: pork belly, duck, sticky date pud, wine, new incidental friends due to rain pushing diners closer together...].
I treated Mum & Ond (my stepdad) in order to celebrate both their new cleaning business ownership, and just their general love & generosity towards Tom & I since we've come to live with them. Nawwww. :)
Good nighty! xZ
(Oh and ps. I joined Chictopia today, after seeing that one of my fave bloggers recommended it... not sure if I'll use it consistently, but I noticed you can earn free stuff - like literal pretty bags and stuff in hand! - through gaining comments and followers! Oooh. And of course there's plenty to look at in terms of street style! Some amazing efforts out there.)
What I wore...
Don't know about you, but I love what can come out of an emergency clothing crisis. On one unexpectedly hot day last year, I realised that I had only packed winter clothing for my week at Uni in good old Adelaide town. I thus had to raid all wardrobes in my grandparents' home, and I came across this stunner of a watermelon shirt! I had guessed at the time that it used to belong to my aunty, but nup, wrong! Actual fact, my dad used to get around in it.
I dig it for the subtle yet still very outdated print (sorry you can't see it in pics) & the on-trend 'coral' colour. (I will continue to call it watermelon - I even matched it with my juice!)
[vintage shirt, Miss Shop jeans, Target crochet vest, Forever New flats, Big W belt, necklace watch from a newish jewelry store in Rundle St that I can't remember the name of...]
I dig it for the subtle yet still very outdated print (sorry you can't see it in pics) & the on-trend 'coral' colour. (I will continue to call it watermelon - I even matched it with my juice!)
[vintage shirt, Miss Shop jeans, Target crochet vest, Forever New flats, Big W belt, necklace watch from a newish jewelry store in Rundle St that I can't remember the name of...]
Unexpected Thunderstorms
Hay guise!
Although I didn't expect to own an umbrella by the end of today, I now have a lovely one that I can't wait to use... when it actually starts raining again. You see, Margaret River's weather is so up and down that only your grandparents would be able to keep on track with it lately.
Loverboy & I were running some necessary tasks (and shopping) on the main street, when suddenly, BOOM! (thunder) and shhhhh (rain) hit. We ducked into a few places, hesitating to buy the regular black umbrella that most stores had going on. I know, they look classy; they'd probs scream style along the lines of Chanel in some black and white snaps, but really.. gloomy weather is enough without depressing colours as well...
THEN we stumbled upon Lloyd's (ha! I lie - it wasn't by chance, I love that store!!) and spotted these beauties:
I went straight for the middle one, printed with a cute portrait of old school London & men in top hats.
Pity the sun had chased all the rain away by the time we came out.
But-it wasn't time wasted-
I really adore this mirror and all the ones that are painted/printed similar but in different colours and patterns. A lot of the stuff in Lloyd's is really bright & exotic like this, attracting me like a bee to honey. Wait. Is that a saying? Bee to nectar maybe? That doesn't sound quite as exciting. Maybe like a Pooh Bear to honey. Honey is yum and Pooh Bear is delightfully amusing. Yeah.
*Photo credit: just-pooh.com
So can you spot anything great in there? Really, I couldn't capture it all, there's so much! Definitely worth checking out.
Peace for now.
xZ
Although I didn't expect to own an umbrella by the end of today, I now have a lovely one that I can't wait to use... when it actually starts raining again. You see, Margaret River's weather is so up and down that only your grandparents would be able to keep on track with it lately.
Loverboy & I were running some necessary tasks (and shopping) on the main street, when suddenly, BOOM! (thunder) and shhhhh (rain) hit. We ducked into a few places, hesitating to buy the regular black umbrella that most stores had going on. I know, they look classy; they'd probs scream style along the lines of Chanel in some black and white snaps, but really.. gloomy weather is enough without depressing colours as well...
THEN we stumbled upon Lloyd's (ha! I lie - it wasn't by chance, I love that store!!) and spotted these beauties:
I went straight for the middle one, printed with a cute portrait of old school London & men in top hats.
Pity the sun had chased all the rain away by the time we came out.
But-it wasn't time wasted-
I really adore this mirror and all the ones that are painted/printed similar but in different colours and patterns. A lot of the stuff in Lloyd's is really bright & exotic like this, attracting me like a bee to honey. Wait. Is that a saying? Bee to nectar maybe? That doesn't sound quite as exciting. Maybe like a Pooh Bear to honey. Honey is yum and Pooh Bear is delightfully amusing. Yeah.
So can you spot anything great in there? Really, I couldn't capture it all, there's so much! Definitely worth checking out.
Peace for now.
xZ
Coloured ceilings
Good morning all,
I wanted to post a pic of what we call the 'bungalow' - the subject of our operation makeover.
It's a little shabby at the moment, but that's where the fun comes in!
What do you think? Can you see its cozy love-shack potential?
Boyfriend and I are in the middle of discussing which colours to paint with, and as I'm currently fixated on coloured ceilings, these are the kinds of images I'm googling & holding in front of his face:
The only thing is that these rooms all have particularly high ceilings, so I'm not sure the effect would be great in our little space. Maybe if the colour is lighter, like the light green, which I think is nice & earthy.
I'm interested to know which colour you would pick, please share!
Once we're done painting, I plan on throwing in all sorts of coloured decorations to go with the ceiling. Here's a drawing that we were playing around with:
And yep, that is a pair of underwear in place of the ceiling! Nice rich green, no?
xZ
I wanted to post a pic of what we call the 'bungalow' - the subject of our operation makeover.
It's a little shabby at the moment, but that's where the fun comes in!
What do you think? Can you see its cozy love-shack potential?
Boyfriend and I are in the middle of discussing which colours to paint with, and as I'm currently fixated on coloured ceilings, these are the kinds of images I'm googling & holding in front of his face:
The only thing is that these rooms all have particularly high ceilings, so I'm not sure the effect would be great in our little space. Maybe if the colour is lighter, like the light green, which I think is nice & earthy.
I'm interested to know which colour you would pick, please share!
Once we're done painting, I plan on throwing in all sorts of coloured decorations to go with the ceiling. Here's a drawing that we were playing around with:
And yep, that is a pair of underwear in place of the ceiling! Nice rich green, no?
xZ
When my camera does trippy things...
Off to a family barbie down the road. After a day in my pyjamas, I thought I'd better spend a little of New Years Day feeling refreshed and deodorised!
First time wearing this dress (a bargain from "Tarjay"*), and actually one of the first maxi dresses I've ever worn. Before now I've always sworn I'm too short for them? But suddenly, in one shopping trip, I now own three.
[Wearing: *Target maxi dress, Factorie faux leather jacket, custom sandals from Vietnam, glass ring from a market, Forever New clutch]
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