Stingy Stitches - by HeatherL

Sorry it's been so long since I've updated my father has been very ill! anyway just a quick update to let you all know that www.threadless.com are still running their ten dollar tshirt sale for another five days! this is a FIFTY PERCENT saving....

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1: Never actually set foot into a real clothing store or even an upmarket vintage shop, Instead go to Saint Vinnie's and buy anything that even remotely fits. 2: Wear it all together and I do mean ALL OF IT. Wear straw hats with evening dresses and over sized sunglasses, ski boots with mini skirt...

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Although normally I focuss on clothing my boyfriend has informed me that Guitar Hero the infamous video game is being sold for the very cheap price of 99 dollars at ALL BIG W STORES. I KNOW WOW RIGHT? These include editions for playstation 2 and WII consoles. ...

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Last night I was informed by my boss that starting this year my office will have a mandatory Melbourne Cup day tea party WITH race course dress. I panicked, I've never been to any races before and yet like a modern cinderalla I managed to win the best dressed prize. On a budget of thirty dollars. ...

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One of the things I've always loved about Newtown is that if you go away for two months you'll come back and find at least five new fly by night outlet stores. Of course they'll be gone again within a month or two so you have to act fast. Yesterday I went on an epic journey to find my mother a birth...

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Recently Kate Moss appeared at Fashion Rocks a worthwhile benifit wearing a crystal covered flapper dress worth $92,000 dollars. Lets hope that the entire 92,000 will be donated to charity....

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So like all big name stores Big W has jumped on the bandwagon by launching its own exclusive label " Carasoul" what are my thoughts exactly. It's a mish mash of the good the bad and the ugly. The style tends to travel from the fun bright colours and whimiscal nature of the seventies to the sheer wha...

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So where can a person by a quirky necklace made out of tiny orange crabs floating in clear glass or a ring made entirely out of clusters of sardine heads? No not the garbage but rather Jason Bell designs. Jason Bell creates his designs by preserving them forever in resin creating some one the weird...

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Just a quick update because I've discovered the holygrail of thongs. Years ago I saw a girl wearing a pair of thongs that had a fake weaved bamboo affect and I lusted after them instantly, how beach chick! of course it turned out you had to buy them in bali. However today I discovered Kmart is curr...

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Every single chick magazine Ive read this month has bombarded me with shout outs to www.lovemeandleaveme.com the website where you can apparently rent designer items at a fraction of their cost. The website is simple, members can rent a designer item on a weekly or monthly basis then send it back o...

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One of the major problems in life is trying to find a place that sells comfortable affordable underwear that doesnt make you look like you're wearing a pair of Bridget Jones panties. After years of searching and failing I've finally narrowed it down to three choices. 1: Coles, previously Coles u...

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Normally its not my place to bitch about stores here but instead give helpful advice. However today I had the most horrific shopping experience at the MYER City Store in Sydney and I've been forced to share it all with you. I went in with a simple mission to buy a handbag advertised as being on sal...

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For a writer its important to expand ones horizons which was why I was super psyched to head off to Canberra and explore its apparent shopping malls. I was horrified however when I discovered that Canberra was a design only area filled with Hugo Boss and Witchery without a single stingy bargain in s...

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It's been a quite week stingy wise however considering I've been nothing but positive in my blog I've decided to share with you my BLACK LIST OF DOOM. These are the stores and areas you should always avoid if you really want a bargain. 1: Newtown, yes its very coloufull and VIVA LA REVOLUTION but...

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When I was a little girl I dreamed of being a ballerina, of course I also dreamed of being an archaeologist and a fashion designer and we can all see how that banned out. My ballet dream was the one I pursued with every fibre of my tiny chubby being and I lived in my ballet shoes. Ballet shoes wer...

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