Temporary Portfolio

I came across this cute website called Carbonmade that lets you do up a quick and easy online portfolio. I'm in the developing stages of miannscanlan.com as an online body of work that will have a big "HIRE ME" button! No joke. The economy is awful and we're all looking for work, right?

Anyway they're fun to browse through not to mention totally lucrative! Click on the image below to access mine.


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Buying Blackouts

Am I the only one that experiences these? Like a literal black out?

I bought and paid for a dress about two hours ago and just got an email saying "Thankyou for your purchase."

"THANKYOU FOR WHAT? WHAT PURCHASE?"

I actually had no idea what I had bought.

Thankfully, it was this dress:

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images: American Archive eBay

Play date

My friend and I had a play date with black lipstick. However, we were forced to substitute our lack of lipstick for a liquid black eyeliner. Quite effective. Tasted horrible though. I do not recommend.

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My Boyfriend's a Stud

These slouched, slashed and studded babies arrived in the mail today. I ordered them from PAWS ON ANNIIEEMAL. Celine studs the shit out of everything and it's fantastic.

Look forward to an outfit post feat. my studded boyfriend shorts. They're just so damn slouchy!

images: Paws On Anniieemal

Style Icon: Kate Lanphear

Just in the middle of my regular Kate Lanphear style stalk looking for some winter inspiration.

images: Stockholmstreetstyle, Jacandjill, Sartorialist, Facebook

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Dame Edna Chic

So I had this absolutely adorable neighbour when I was younger. Nanna Dott I called her. She always had a "blue" rinse - even though it was purple - that I always wished was mine. It was the 90s, so what if I wanted purple hair?

Anyway, with the saturated influx of the pale hair trend I can't help but wonder what all the little old ladies and their darling blue rinses would think.

Do they feel involved in fashion? Do they feel fabulous? Or do they think we're copying the one thing they have their signature on, afterall, they've lived through all the fashion we're wearing these days?

I'd love to sit down and ask Dott, but lord knows where she is these days. Bless her.

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Pow-wow

For now I'll skip the pow-wow and let this picture do all the talking.

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Steak-and-Kidney Wrap Up

No this isn't a post about some kind of culinary disaster. This post is designed to bypass my lack of consistancy and mend my broken promises of day to day updates on my trip.

Prepare your selves for one hell of a compact, concise and photo-fuelled post about my internship and social activities during my time down in Sydney (or Steak-and-Kidney as my mum likes to call it. Bless).

Gail Sorronda poncho, vintage boots, DIY cross earing, Diana Ferrari bag worn throughout, Mecca nail varnish in Dionyza worn throughout

Shakuhachi dress, vintage boots, Diva ring

Supre maxi, Diva vintage and DIY jewellry, Kit nail varnish in Jump Start

Emma Rea silk dress, rabbit fur stole, vintage boots

Decjuba silk cami, Sass & Bide ratz, no label flats, DIY cross earing, Rachel Gilbert silk cardi.

Jac&Jack tee, Country Road pants, Wittner flats, Dianna Ferrari bag, DIY necklace

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Jail Bird Escapes to Sydney

So I've been totally running around in Sydney. It's been absolutely non-stop, just the way I like it! I've been doing the touristy thing every afternoon: Face buried in map with the high-fashion stores highlighted, I feel like I know this city already (which is a gross generalisation but makes me feel less like a tourist and more like a Sydneysider none the less).

For the most part I've been so excited to see the street style, but all the while I've been bitterly dissapointed. In a city of 4,000,000 people, I've noted about three truly stylish people on the streets. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, or maybe my expectations are too high. But for Brisbane - the seemingly too-small-to-be-fashionable city - the saturation of stylish people in comparison to the population is something to be said for.

To avoid boring you to death with my overtones of egotism and ramblings of a girl discovering a new city, this post will be cut short.

This is a dress I bought while shopping in Paddington, specifically in this boutique called Museum on Oxford St - one of the places I spotted one of those hard to find stylish Sydney girls. It's kind of bat-winged, and because I'm inlove with swamping my frame in oversized cloaks and the like, the stripes made this dress even better.

It's by Backstage and to update the stripe trend, I teamed it with a Balmainesque velvet blazer and my vintage battalion boots.

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No no no no no no no!

What the fuck! No! What are we supposed to do now?
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