Family Time at the Bay!

I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas with your family/loved ones!  I certainly did, I had a lovely three days off, enjoying the Christmas weekend with my family. 
We ate, opened up all our gifts, relaxed, kept busy with the children, played a board game and ate some more!
On Sunday morning we all drove down to a beach-side town called Hervey Bay.  Where we looked and walked around the local botanical gardens, then had an icecream by the beach-side and the kids played on the playground.

I also bought my camera to take some family snaps and some photos of myself.  In these photos I'm wearing my new 50's Santa Rosa tee from a brand called Atomic Swag  http://www.atomicswag.com/  which was ordered through Your One Stop Pinup Shop and was given to me on Christmas day from my sister.
I've been eyeing of these retro tee's for a while now, which I've been seeing on instagram. There are quite a number of different prints. I think they look so cute yet have that retro style to them.

I decided to wear a pair of yellow shorts with this tee for a comfortable/casual look.  I accessorized with a pair of flats from Payless Shoes  http://www.paylessshoes.com.au/   a retro yellow hair-scarf from a vintage market stall and my 50's cat-eye faux glasses from an ebay seller.

The next event/celebration to look forward to is New Years eve, I'm going to a 1920's Gatsby theme party at a local sporting club with a follow pinup friend and vintage blogger,  I'm really looking forward to the evening! I have my outfit planned,  it's just my hair I'm not quite sure what to do with, as 1920's style is quite new to me, but hopefully I'll come up with something!

Anyway hopefully I get some good photos to show you all on my next blog post!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Christmas Roses!

Well just a few days left to it's Christmas day, all my shopping for gifts for my family is now completed! Yay!!  I just have to wrap some presents and do some Christmas baking over the next couple of days.

I received the most gorgeous dress in the post today, which I've been eyeing off for a while now and then finally came the opportunity to pay this beauty off and own her for myself!

This beautiful frock is by an Australian reproduction clothing brand Retrospec'd, although I actually ordered this dress through Ms Katt's Kustom House  http://www.mskattskustomhouse.com/
Retrospec'd is one of my favorite brands to own and wear http://retrospecd.com/ 

This dress is called Elizabeth English Rose and the material is made out of 100% cotton, the skirt part is pleated like most of Retrospec'd dresses and is very light to wear, so great to wear in the summer!
I adore the pink and red rose print, the length, the bust line and how well this dress is constructed.

I'm so happy I received this dress today as I knew I wanted to wear for Christmas day (after I finish work) and post another Christmas related blog in this dress!
I've accessorized this dress with my faux beads from Collectif , bangles and hair-clips from pre-loved clothing and accessories boutiques, and my red tiki-carved heels from Lucky Lou Shoes.

 I have to work on Christmas day until 1:00pm, then I can enjoy the rest of the day with my family. After I get home, I will jump in the shower and slip on this gorgeous frock. Then the family and I will have a lovely hot Christmas dinner and open up all the presents!  Yay!!!

Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you all have a lovely day with your family/friends!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Christmas Party Time!

Only a week and a half until Christmas....wow!! Where really has this year gone?
On the weekend I attended my work's Christmas function and this is the outfit I decided to wear for the occasion!
My velvet poppy print wiggle dress by the vintage reproduction brand Tatyana http://www.tatyana.com/

  I purchased this dress of a ebay seller late last year, so I do believe this dress was discontinued of the Tatyana website a while ago.
Also on the weekend my sister and I attended our local community Christmas carols in the park, which was really enjoyable to listen and watch both the carols and the fireworks afterwards. It was also such a wonderful turn out with a lot of families attending the event.

I decided to accessorize this gorgeous dress with a new vintage style black cocktail hat I found at a vintage garage sale, a pair of earrings in a shape of red lips and my Lucky Lou tiki-carved heels.

I hope to blogged about my new Retrospec'd dress hopefully before Christmas next week! As I should have it by the end of the week, fingers crossed.

Sorry these photos aren't the best quality as my good camera is currently get fixed, so I had to use my basic camera for these photos.

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Red Roses!

I've been eyeing of this dress since before Christmas last year, but Retrospec'd had run out of my size on this gorgeous dress! Until a few months ago I found this dress on ebay for a really good price, in my size and never worn...score! I snatched it up straight away. This is the Gidet Empire rose dress.
I love the red roses and green leaves print over this dress, the cute and summer style and the light cotton. It's also a very Christmas style dress with the red, green and white.

I love Retrospec'd clothing so much I currently own three dresses, with another gorgeous dress arriving hopefully before Christmas. Here is the link to their website: http://retrospecd.com/ 
Retrospec'd is an Australian based vintage clothing reproduction website and boutique.

These photos were taken a couple of weeks ago at a local gardens, with a follow pinup friend and vintage blogger.  So many photos turned out really great, so I was quite pleased about this!  I'm looking forward to meeting up again with my friend in the new year to take more blog photos.

I decided to accessorize this dress with a red hair-flower, my faux white beads from Collectif, a pair of red floral earrings and my red tiki-carved heels from Lucky Lou Shoes http://www.luckyloushoes.com/

 I'm just about done with my Christmas shopping I've just got a few more gifts to buy for some family members...yay!!
Last night I attended my work Christmas party, we all enjoyed a delicious meal and desserts, had a few drinks, played some Christmas games and took home a secret Santa gift each.
I did end up taking some photos of myself before going out in my outfit, so I'll blogged about this during the week!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Summertime!

Here is part 2 of this gorgeous play-suit/romper I had especially custom made.  I decided to take off the detachable skirt for these photos.
I wanted to take picnic style photos in this awesome outfit, my pinup friend and follow blogger Miss Vera Gin Vintage this is the link to her blog: https://veraginvintage.wordpress.com/ took these photos of me and she also set her camera on timer so she could jump in and take a couple of photos with me - it was such a fun afternoon!

I just adore this vintage style picnic basket, it's so cute, it;s lined with a sunflower fabric print and comes with yellow plastic cups, plates and cutlery.
I hope to wear this play-suit/romper a few times this summer and more summer's to come!
My flamingo sandals that are from Miss L Fire UK and my Daisy Jean Floral hair-flower http://daisyjeanfloraldesigns.com/  goes so well with this outfit!

My friend and I hope to take some more blog photos of each other again, in the near future!

It's currently summer here in Queensland, Australia, which means hot and humid weather. This also means wearing summer dresses/skirts, light fitting tops/blouses and of course shorts. 
In this photos I'm actually wearing a pair of shorts over the Bettie swimsuit by Pinup Couture. I've never actually blogged about this swimsuit before, even though I've owned this gorgeous swimsuit for over a year now!

I love the style of this swimsuit with the halter neck straps, the gathered bodice, the skirt bottom (which you can't see in these photos) and of course the cherry print.
The red shorts I'm wearing are by the discontinued brand Bettie Page, that I recently bought of ebay. Unfortunately I think these are a size to small, lucky though they are made of a very stretchy fabric so I'm still able to fit into and wear!

I decided to accessorize with my red retro cat-eye sunglasses, cherry necklace from Sourpuss Clothing and a pair of cherry print Mary-Jane shoes by the brand Hot Chocolate which I purchased from Beserk   http://www.beserk.com.au

 This weekend it's my work Christmas party, which I'm planning on attending so I hope to take some photos of myself wearing the outfit for the party for my blog.

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

 

Feeling Tropical!

On Sunday afternoon myself and a friend whom also is a vintage fashion blogger meet up for a couple of hours and took photos of each other for both our blogs!  This in the link to Miss Vera Gin Vintage blog    https://veraginvintage.wordpress.com/
Do feel free to have a look she has a great blog!
We both had such a great time and ended up getting some really awesome photos in many different background settings.
Here is the first round of the photos my friend took of me!

I have totally fallen in love with the play-suit/romper and matching skirt that I recently had especially custom made.  I knew I just had to blog about this outfit as soon as possible!
I just adore the Hawaiian/tropical style fabric print, the pink hibiscus flowers and the green plants, the light cool cotton material, the style and the design...love, love, love this!! So great for summer.

I decided to accessorize this gorgeous outfit with my flamingo sandals from Miss L Fire UK http://shop.misslfire.co.uk/  
bamboo bangles and a pink wooden bangle I bought from local markets and my new double rose hair-flower from Daisy Jean Floral Designs  http://daisyjeanfloraldesigns.com/ 
I borrowed my friends parasol for some of these photos and my bag in the top photo I bought recently at a local market store for only $1.00.

I'm slowly starting my Christmas shopping, so far I've bought a couple of little items online, I have so much to do though!  But I'll get there by Christmas I hope.
I'm actually expecting a number of packages in the post over the coming weeks before Christmas both for myself and family, I'm very excited about that.  Especially a few dresses that are coming my way...Yay!!  So expect upcoming blog posts on these!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Fashion Show!

On Tuesday this week, a couple of friends and myself did a little 1940's and 50's fashion show for the elderly residents I care for at a Aged Care Home.  We  paraded around three dresses each to show off to the residents, one of the dresses I wore was my Mary Blair umbrella print dress from Pinup Girl Clothing  http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/

I wanted to do this for the elderly residents I care for because I thought it would bring back some good memories and reminiscing of days gone by. Also something different for them to enjoy, instead of the same old, same old, everyday activities.

Sorry in the above two photos I had to block out most of the background, due to privacy reasons! 
I received great feedback from both residents and staff that I work with.  Hopefully I'll be able to organize another one in the near future!

Here is another dress I wore to the fashion show on Tuesday my cherry print dress from Collectif https://www.collectif.co.uk/
I decided to take some blog photos in this dress, that same day.  A friend from work found this old vintage suitcase in a store room at work, so I took it for future props for blog photos/fashion parade's etc. I decided to use my Mum's replica vintage phone for the above blog photo.

 I accessorized this dress with my red cloche hat, Luxulite brooch, white faux beads and a simple red bracelet.
The night before I curled my hair using a wet-set with sponge rollers, I find this way works really well for me to curl my hair. As my hair is so thick and stubborn at times to do anything new/different with.

I'm looking forward to this weekend, catching up with close family members and hopefully meeting up with a follow fashion blogger and friend and taking some photos of each other for future blog posts!
By the way for all that's buying up big this weekend in the Black Friday sales...yay for you!!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Birthday Picnic and Vintage Fashions!

On the weekend (Sunday) I went to my friends Birthday picnic/BBQ at a local Botanical Gardens, after we all had finish our lunch, I asked a few of my friends if they wanted to take some photos together in the gardens. Which of course they said yes to if was just us ladies who were dressed up in "pinup".

After having some lovely photos taken together, a few of us girls went to see an Australian movie called The Dressmaker this movie is set in the 1950's and stars Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving and Judy Davis.  I really loved this movie, especially the beautiful 1950's costumes...just stunning!

For these photos I wore my sunflower Hell Bunny dress,  my new sunflower hair-flower from Daisy Jean Floral http://daisyjeanfloraldesigns.com/ 
Betty Jo sparrow brooch from Erstwilder http://www.erstwilder.com/ 
and a pair of white peep-toe shoes from Target Australia.

 I really enjoyed the day, it's so good to "hang out" with girlfriends whom dress similar to myself and enjoy having photos taken!

For my day off from work today I decided to wear this gorgeous 1950's Atomic print dress by Love ur Look Clothing  http://www.loveurlook.co.uk/
and to take some photos for my blog.
This week apart from working, I've been trying to organize a few girls that live locally and who also wear's pinup/vintage style clothing to help out with a little 1940's/50's fashion show I'm organizing for next week for the residents I take care of in an Aged care facility I work at.

I've asked the girls to bring along at least two outfits to parade around in and that are inspired from the 1940's and 50's.  Hopefully I will have enough girls for next week, as I really want the fashion show to be enjoyed by all!
Today was a really hot day here in Queensland, Australia. Apparently though over the next week, it will be getting hotter. Summer is here in Australia!!

I'm accessorizing this dress with my retro sunglasses by Collectif  https://www.collectif.co.uk/
a Betty Bo necklace, a red printed hair-scarf, a couple of bangles and a pair of red floral earrings.

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Pinup's Picnic and Pinup Posing!

Last weekend I went to a pinup picnic by the sea, which included a lot of us "pinups" meeting in a park at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
I actually live a few hours drive away from the Gold Coast, so I ended up staying in a hotel the night before. I arrived at the park where we were all suppose to meet at around 11am.
On the day there were a few professional photographers on location to take pinup style photos individually of us "pinups" at the picnic.
The photo above is by Phil Kustom Photography I love this photo it's so fun and playful.  The photo below is by Chrome-Plated Photography. This one I find is more sultry and serious. Both photos I really love. I actually hope to view some more that was taken of me in the near future.

 On the day I decided to wear my new pineapple print wiggle dress by the brand Collectif  https://www.collectif.co.uk/   
I accessorized this dress with my bamboo tiki-style bangles, a pineapple printed hair-scarf, my cocktail brooch from Deerarrow  http://www.deerarrow.com/  and a pair of sandal wedges from Williams Australia.

Here are some other photos taken on the day, with some lovely "pinup" friends,  I had a great day of getting photos taken, saying hello to friends, meeting new people, having some lunch and laughs.  By 2:30pm I knew it was time to say good-bye and drive the long trip back home again. I look forward to attending another "pinup picnic" in the near future!

 I'm trying to change and experiment with my posing for my blog photos a bit and make them fun and more interesting to all that read/look at my posts.
For example in the above photo I'm trying to sell that I'm loving what I'm looking at in the retro magazine!

In the above and below photos, I'm both happy and shocked of the "news" I'm listening to on the telephone!

I don't know some readers might perceive these photos differently to what I'm trying to sell or portray, please feel free to let me know your thoughts!
For these photos I'm wearing the peach gingham Dee Dee dress by Pinup Girl Clothing  http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com
I've accessorized this dress with my Peachy Keen brooch by Atomic Mingo  https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/AtomicMingo 
a peach colour hair-scarf and a peach colour petticoat from retro market stalls.

This weekend I'm hope to go on another picnic for a friends birthday if it's a nice day and there are no storms or rain about, which we have been getting lately in sunny Queensland!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo