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TODAY’S LIFESTYLE: Jealousy, the Green Eyed Monster, is back!

I know you’re waiting for this, aren’t you!

A few months back I received four very ridiculous comments from someone who I could only say hated the fact I bought and made goods she couldn’t afford, and she even had a go at Kmart for God’s sake.

I find it strange how she commented on old blog posts, they were from July 2 and 23, and August 6 and 11. Yet she commented on them on August 16 and 17, over a month after the first two, and jumped so many posts in-between. It’s like she picked which ones she wanted to shit on and then did.

She didn’t bother coming back to those original comments of hers but for some reason waited two months (God knows why she bothered) before returning on October 23 to leave comments on the September 23 post where I could only describe her ranting as jealousy, and September 25 post, where I showed that I am a designer because she attacked me on that level. Both were already a month old, plus she commented on a third post where I showed the two books I had written and self-published in primary school on October 21.

The way she attacks certain blog posts is intriguing, but why wait over a month to comment on them? Clearly she must be scouring my blog for some reason. Picking certain posts and leaving others. Strange!

Her new comments are laughable (and have been trashed as I said they would be) and ironically, she claimed to be laughing at mine.

Here’s her comment on my post, “TODAY’S LIFESTYLE: Jealousy really is a curse!”

“Wow this is laughable. To go on this massive rant is not only incredibly unprofessional but it makes you look worse than how you’re trying to make me look. Jealousy? Oh goodness I had to laugh!! Truth hurts perhaps?”

A massive rant? All I did was tell everyone what she’d said and give my reply. I could only guesstimate at her behaviour it was so ridiculous, and once again it’s a hater doing the hating and continuing the hate by once again insulting me. What is the point in her even commenting?

How am I being “incredibly unprofessional” by calling out an incredibly rude poster and trying to figure out what’s wrong with her? The mere fact she used the term “massive rant” shows she’s talking more about herself than me, and “incredibly unprofessional? Hardly!

I had also talked about cancer affecting me and my family and she said the post was laughable. She’s the one who attacked me about my “tiny little cancers” and here she is laughing over my parents having cancer. Wow!

You want to talk truth. The truth is you couldn’t deal with the fact I wrote about cancer in a way you didn’t like.

The truth is you couldn’t deal with the fact I buy clothes, jewellery and accessories and post often about them.

The truth is you couldn’t deal with the fact I eat food you probably can’t.

If you didn’t have a problem with these things you wouldn’t have felt the need to attack, be petty and jealous in your insecurity and immaturity.

The truth is, you hate yourself and can’t stand what other people, think, do, say and have.

The truth is you hate yourself and are taking it out on others.

Yeah, the truth hurts, and that’s why you attack others, to make yourself feel better.

And now another person has commented on this post, again, two months later, and said pretty much the same thing, “Wow… How very unprofessional of you. Take it on the chin, ignore & move on rather than fuel the fire.”

First off, not fuelling anything since the first person never comments on the original posts, and two, again with the unprofessional? I ACTUALLY DON’T have to take abuse on the chin and ignore it, I have every right to reply and defend myself, and showing the haters for what they are. 

I am wondering if it’s the same person just using a different name to attack. Funny how the comments were the same.

Her second comment was on my post, “IN MY LIFE: I AM A DESIGNER!“

“Wow another massive rant, can you get anymore unprofessional? Good “designers” take it on their chin and don’t let critisism get to them, they simply brush it off and don’t give the commentors anymore airtime so to speak. But thanks for another laugh, when I am extremely bored you’re entertaining so perhaps you could add “entertainer” to your list of “professions” ??”

Seriously? Where is this “massive rant”? Once again she has shown her true colours by having a go at me, and again, using the word “unprofessional”. Apparently people and businesses aren’t allowed to discuss such things without being “unprofessional”. She insulted me and other designers because apparently she “knows” that other designers take it on the chin. I know for a fact a lot don’t and have a problem with snarky haters. Many designers don’t always stop giving their commenters air time either; many get into stoushes and go for it. In her case, I’ve sent her comments to the trashcan as I said I would on my original blog posts. Which she didn’t bother going back to read or she would have known I was going to trash her future comments.

And I’m already an entertainer, so no need to add it. Jealousy is a curse my dear and you bringing up my list of “professions” proves it. Clearly, to you, no one can have so many professions and be so many things. Clearly this shows that she has no professions herself and can’t do anything like I can. Seriously, constantly bringing up the same things and finding new things to attack me over simply shows you have a massive problem with it, them, and me, and that’s your problem, not mine.

And thirdly, she commented on “BOOK STYLE: The Golden Key and Junky Joke Book“

“I don’t get it? What’s the actual point of this blog post?”

I don’t get it? What’s the actual point of you commenting?

If you don’t like my blog don’t bother, go away and don’t come back. What don’t you get about that? What is it within you that you have to attack people? I doubt I’m the only one. What did you think when you read the blog post, that I was talking about Mars and aliens, the blog post is self-explanatory, clearly you don’t have the ability to figure that out and that makes me think you don’t get what blogs are about in general due to the immature nature of your comments.

If it’s not jealousy then seriously, what is it? If you can’t tell me that then you are either in denial or so low in self-esteem, self-confidence, self-respect and self-love that you believe attacking someone on a personal level will make you feel better?

I not only know it doesn’t, I also know that it’s not my fault or my problem.

I really don’t get the point of attacking someone on a personal level. The only reason you do it is because you have a problem with that person and it generally comes back to jealousy. It can’t be anything else. If you don’t have a problem with someone you don’t have a need to attack. What I buy, have or do is no one’s business, especially those who are going to attack me on a personal level. I have no idea who she is or what her problem is but I’m not interested.

Go and live your hate filled life away from me, because, once again, you’re not welcome here and all future comments will be trashed but turned into blog posts for my and others amusement.

Thanks so much for being the fodder for my posts.

Here’s a list of things she hates so far:

1 – me

2 – my blog

3 – my style

4 – my clothes

5 – my jewellery

6 – my accessories

7 – my books

8 – the food I eat

9 – my “tiny little cancers”

10 – my unprofessionalism

11 – my professions

12 – the truth

13- Kmart

14 – other people talking about cancer in a light-hearted or different manner

15 – definitely herself

That’s a long list and clearly getting longer with each comment she makes, so in the words of Jem and The Holograms, “Doesn’t it hurt, Jealousy baby, doesn’t it burn, Jealousy, doesn’t it consume your soul, making you lose control, Jealousy.”

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MY STYLE: WHAT I WORE

OUTFIT #1
TOP: Crossroads pineapple for $24.95
PANTS: Millers for $18
JEWELLERY: Jewel Divas Fly Away and Fleeting Moments bracelet stacks and necklaces, Lovisa earrings and rings
SHOES: Spendless Shoes for $30

OUTFIT #2
TOP: Kmart for $3
PANTS: Millers for $18
SHOES: Rivers (old)
JEWELLERY: Lovisa earrings and bangle (old)

MY PERSONAL COLLECTION: Spring clothes, jewels and shoe bargains

With the year coming to an end along with Spring I thought I’d better get these in now as I will stop blogging for December and January for a holiday, and have a set of special posts coming for the last two weeks of November.

So here are the last of my Spring Bargains, clothes, jewels and shoes.

MILLERS!!!!!! I cannot stop shopping at this store. They have great pants and tops for summer and when they’re constantly on sale who can stop at one.

left: tropical for $15 | middle: green leaf for $18 | right: paisley for $15

I almost didn’t buy this pineapple top but thought it would be something different for summer. It was $24.95 from Crossroads. The sequin, as you can see, was only $15 from Kmart. About ten to twenty years ago sequinned tops like this would have been $50-$100. My how times have changed.

All of these earrings came from Lovisa. Loving the geometric look in this year.

Green: $9 | Pink: $7 | Gold: $3

These earrings came from Lovisa for $3.33, and the pyramid bracelet came from Colette for $6.50

Colette had a sale and I couldn’t stop at one, so I bought the set. The cuff was $12.95 and the ring was $5. There are many variants in this cuff which I’ve seen online alot.

These two bracelet sets I made. when I was making new sets for sale (you’ll see them in more detail next week) I loved these two so much I made my own. I changed them slightly from the ones for sale so no two are identical. Oceanic is on the left and Fly Away on the right.

LOVING these sandals for summer. I was in desperate need of decent summer sandals as all the ones I had had finally lost their way. With broken souls, dirty bottoms, ugh, they were gross. The other issue is I have flat feet, which means lots of aches and pains and sadly, I have never found a pair of sandals I could wear my arch supports in. Along with a similar version I have from Kmart, these are great for walking hours at a time. When we go shopping I’m on my feet for at least four hours straight, which isn’t much I know, but most shoes can’t even get me through that. They have small wedges, rubber bottoms so I don’t go slipping, and comfy straps. For $30 each on sale from Spendless Shoes, I’ll definitely be living in them over summer.

IN MY LIFE: My Sparkling Style and Obsession

I’m not exactly sure when my love for jewellery started; there’s a photo (left) of me at six or seven wearing plastic jewellery from the one and two cent machines outside of supermarkets in the seventies and eighties. Plastic was enough at the time. I was a kid; it was all I needed.

As I grew so did my collection, although not until I left high school and had some money to spend. After 1994 my collection grew bigger, going from being hung on a pin board to being stored in a tallboy and now, twenty years later, living in two huge five drawer roller cabinets.

I wish I had the space to display it all but unfortunately at this time that’s just not possible. I’d set up a room of glass cabinets and shelves and buy a hundred busts to display all of my favourite pieces, but I also know that wouldn’t be the best for them.

I have no idea why I’m obsessed by sparkle, bling, jewels and gemstones. It could be the rainbow spasms of light that flash in shafts of lightning around the room as surely as a disco ball. The colours and shades catch not only my eye but my attention and capturing it, hold it for that few milliseconds of time in my never-ending dull day. Sparkle makes me happy, whether it’s from jewellery or disco balls, or simply watching a double rainbow appear in the sky outside my window.

I’ve occasionally wondered if my deceased Grandma had something to do with it. She had left each of her grand-daughters a tapestry and piece of jewellery. I ended up with the tapestry, one I didn’t choose but is nice enough, and never got the piece of jewellery as it was stolen from me due to selfishness and disrespect of the dead. I have no idea what I was supposed to have got. I was a teenager when she passed and never got to go to Perth for the funeral or the reading of the will. So I’ve often wondered if this was her way of making up for me not getting the piece she wanted me to have. She pushed me into buying, making and creating so I would have more than enough to make up for it.

I love it to obsessive death and really don’t get how people who design it barely wear it or wear just a couple of pieces. I love drowning myself in it when I get dressed up and I’m never without a big pair of earrings and big funky watch even if I’m just running to the doctor.

If you love jewellery, then go ahead and live your life drenched in it! It hurts no one, let’s you live like a disco ball and is an easy way of getting sparkle into your life.

WANT IT WEDNESDAY: KITSCHY KAWAII, The NEW Collection

Introducing the kitschy new collection from Jewel Divas, KITSCHY KAWAII!

This collection came from my own necklace that I had remodelled a few months back. I was doing a bunch of Acrylic Crystal bracelet stacks for sale and had so many beads left over and was not sure I wanted to do full coloured sets again. So I raided my kits and found some charms I could use and out came KITSCHY KAWAII, named so because they are kitschy and considered kawaii. The rough translation of kitsch and kawaii relates to cute, colourful, quirky, things you think only kids would like but kawaii is HUGE business in Japan.

This, like the WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN and POLICE OFFICER sets is known as a capsule collection due to only a few things being available. There are four sets in all, all with Japanese names.

Below is the AKANE set. AKANE is Japanese for red. I used these names to add to the kitsch and the kawaii nature of the jewellery. AKANE has Strawberry Shortcakes, bubblgum, crayons, lollies, hearts, bows and green keys. Available now at Jewel Divas.

Next is AOI. AOI means blue in Japanese and is named for the blue beads and charms such as the rollerskate, bubble gum, crayon, boots, bows and hearts. You also get a keys and care bear charm. Available now at Jewel Divas.

KIN SAKURA means golden (kin) and cherry blossom (sakura) in Japanese, named for the golden and light pink beads. With care bears, Strawberry Shortcakes, bubble gum, roller skate, keys, boots, lollies and bows, it makes for a sweet treat for summer. Available now at Jewel Divas.

Last is MIDORI, yes it’s an alcoholic drink but it also means green in Japanese as green is the base for this set. Roller skate, bubble gum, crayons, keys, boots plus a care bear all hang from these acrylic beads in some summertime colours for this coming season. Available now at Jewel Divas.

 

Welcome to KITSCHY KAWAII by Jewel Divas, hope you have as much fun wearing it as I did making it.

 

HEALTH & BEAUTY STYLE: Make-up and travel purses

I have so many purses it’s ridiculous. I think if I counted them, I do have a list somewhere, I’d be shocked, but, like with so many other things, I just can’t stop buying, especially when they are pretty, and cheap.

All of these are from Kmart. The bird and music ones could be used for anything. Glasses, pencils, ipod electrics, that’s what’s so versatile about purses. The birds are colourful with a little bird charm on the zip, and the music has pockets all over it. They were on sale for .75cents each, and when you raid your stores at the end of the season, usually every two or three months, you can grab some bargains.

This next set I featured in my book, HOW TO BE A JEWEL DIVA: Tips and Tricks to Buying, Wearing and Caring for your Costume Jewellery. When packing to go overseas purses like these are really great for accessories. You can pack your jewellery in one side, your glasses or scarves in the other. While these two pieces came separately, the small purse was $2 and the large two-sided was only $7.50, you can buy many as two, three or five piece sets to cover everything you’d need to take, from make-up to hair and jewellery.

Below are some of the pictures from my book – HOW TO BE A JEWEL DIVA, to demonstrate it’s usage. The bag is used for transport, and the purse comes in handy for using through the day to store glasses, scarves and bits and pieces.

 

I have many addictions, and purses are one, tell me, are you as addicted as I am?

MY STYLE: WHAT I WORE

OUTFIT #1
TOP: Ice Designs
KIMONO: Millers
PANTS: Millers
SHOES: Spendless Shoes
JEWELLERY: Jewel Divas Black Skull set

OUTFIT #2
TOP: Millers for $10
JEWELLERY: Jewel Divas Bracelet stacks, chain store everything else

STYLE & IMAGE: What do books have to do with style?

It’s a book week here at JDS and I’m here to talk about more of them.

What does style have to do with books and vice versa?

A lot, considering there are so many out there telling you how to dress, how to walk, how to talk, how to present yourself to the public. Put your best foot forward and all that.

I have raided my local library and borrowed every book on style, jewellery, bags, shoes and all matter of clothing and accessories. Raid your local libraries, antique stores, op shops and any other places for books on your favourite passions too.

I have found some real prizes amongst the hundreds I borrowed and ended up buying many from eBay, Fishpond and Awesome books. They contain the most amazing pieces, from well-known name brand shoes to simple Chinese made slippers, antique jewels to modern handbags, old fashioned bodices to today’s trend.

If you’re like me and love all of them, then the list could be never-ending as each book is released. That’s why getting them from your local library or standing in a book shop to have a look through is so important. It gives you a chance to see if it covers the details you want. Do you like the book? Does it provide you with that you want? Does it cover the subject in its entirety or just the basic parts?

I have read many books on fashion that are really just for the clothing designer in you. Ones are for the lover of designers, and others were an insight into fashion from the decades. I can be rather picky when it comes to things I love. I can like it all or only half, only some or none at all. It all depends on whether it peaks my interest on many levels, and many don’t. I’m not into designers themselves, so I leave those books behind.

Style, shape, colour, uniqueness. That is what these books I have read or bought in the last few years have got. I am a very visual person. If I love what I see I want it. And I loved the pics in these books which is why I bought them. I absolutely love the pieces photographed for the books. Especially the jewellery, bags and shoe books. They are artistic pieces of art within themselves and are amazing to look at.

As for the style and fashion books, they cover a variety of areas from shopping your own closet to detailed lists of what each term means in clothes and accessories, with photographs and how, when and what to wear. Now that I’m talking about them, I will definitely go back and read them. Compiling a list and then having those books on your shelves is rewarding, especially when you love just looking at the pretty pictures. And it always pays to have a few books around that you can reference and get advice from.

There are also fashion design sticker books, journals, notebooks and such a wide variety of designs it’s hard to keep up with such a broad list.

 Here’s just a few of the books I’ve bought.

Accessory books

Fashion books

Jewellery books

Shopping and style

Style. Even from Benetton!

Fantastic colouring in books

Fantastic style files and work books

Gotta love a Moleskine!

TRAVEL STYLE: Movie World

The first time I went to Movie World it was 1995. I can’t remember when it opened but I went back in 1999 and haven’t been back to Queensland since. Of course I do want to move there and am trying to figure out how to do so.

Just like with Dream World and Sea World, so much has changed. Now there is more DC Comics influence with more rides featuring members of the Justice League when there wasn’t before.

They now have more rides for kids, with the Road Runner Rollercoaster and Scooby Doo’s Spooky Coaster

The only ride they’ve kept since I was there is my favourite, the Wild West Falls ride.

They also have special events now with Fright Night, Carnivale and White Christmas.

I’d love to get back there again and see what it’s like. I am a little sad that things from our childhood don’t stay the same as we remember them. They had some great rides back then and now they’re gone.

Head on over to their website, their Facebook page, their Instagram account and Youtube.

BUSINESS STYLE: Nobody puts Baby in a niche!

I’m working off the Dirty Dancing line, so go with me here….

When you ask someone what niche they’re in it’s almost like telling them to walk into a room and choose which corner they’d most like to sit in.

Why do we need to be in one corner? Why can’t we be in every corner?

I do more than one thing. I cannot be confined to one niche as I do so much. Design jewellery, write, blog, commentate, publish. I do so much across two businesses I cannot and will not be defined or confined to one niche. Why should I be?

Why should anyone be?

Why can’t we be and do whatever we want to be and do? Why do we need to narrow our choices down? Why can’t we be across more than one thing?

Trying to find the right words or phrases to cover everything is hard but doable. It’s the same as a tag line. My tag line for this blog is ‘where life, style and sparkle collide’. My tag line for my author website is ‘author, blogger, social & media commentator’. My tagline for myself at my main webpage is ‘designer, creator, collector, consultant, stylist, author, blogger, commentator, publisher, producer, star!’

For a niche, it’s the same thing. I have no idea how many niches I’d be in, or how to use words or phrases to cover it all, but what I have chosen for each will suffice for now.

I am across many niches and I don’t know about you, but nobody puts this baby in one niche!